Payment rise

Well, I was expecting that my payment won't be raised, but fortunately our leader is a man, who keeps his word and I received a higher salary. However, while making me happy, he told me that he wants to toalk with me tomorrow about my work and he seemed to be unsatisfied with my work, though I am working real damn hard. Now, we'll have to see, what he has to say tomorrow. Another good thing, is that our local coordinator left to Greece today and he won't be back for about 10 days and this is good, but our Greek Team Leader stays and this is not that good. Anyway, we have to see, what our Greek head is going to do, while our Uzbek head is away, time will tell...

Staying up late

Guess what, today or actually yesterday, we worked until 3:30 in the morning. Right, we came to work at 9:00 in the morning on 26 of May and came back home in the morning of 27th May. The thing is that we were preparing materials for the international conference, which was to be held on 27th. Of course, all the European staff went home at 18:00 sharp, plus one has to take into account that they arrived to work at 14:30. So, eventually, one can see, how devoted they are to the project and establishment of democracy in Uzbekistan. We were all pretty damn tired, but our local head was pressing us, I myself translated so many documents, that by the end of the day I was going slowly crazy. Finally, I arrived home and slept until 6:30 in the morning and went back to work. You can't imagine the way I was feeling when I woke up, my legs were stiff and I could hardly stand on my legs...
At work I helped guys to load all the handout materials to cars and went back to the office, since I was left in the office and had to answer the calls. Well, I was still tired, but I enjoyed my time in the office, watched two movies, worked on my website. On the whole, all I did was surfing the net, answering the phone calls and writing some special letters. Finally, everyone arrived from the conference and we went to party!!!

So-called EU experts

Well, in this post I would like to criticize some of the EU experts from Greece, who are working on a short-term basis in our project. The thing is that instead of arriving at work on time, they come in the middle of the day, especially taking into account that on Friday we are to hold an international conference, their early arrival is required. However, no one seems to pay attention to this, I even hinted today in the meeting, that the Eu experts should prepare their speeches for the conference on time, so that we could translate them on time. But, as usually they're giving their speeches to us, just a day ahead of the conference. Of course, I understand them, they have a booze party till the middle of the night, or even till the morning and then sleep until 12 o'clock and also during the working day, some of them go to sightseeings and unfortunately this busy life prevents them from prepapring their damn speeches. Just because of some stupid Greek's being late, I had to stay until 21:00 and translate his text, I think this is a real European democracy, when "big borthers" are having the time of their life, you just have to do your work and, of course, get paid much, much lesser then they are. Tomorrow, I am damn sure, that our another expert from France will give me his speech somewhere in the middle of the day and I would have to stay until 12 in the night this time to translate his wise words. Well, this is life, some people think they are better than you, that's why they have a right to work less than you, and you are nothing but a robot or even slave, and just have to do what you are told to do...

Independent commission on investigating Andijan events

I translated some articles from the Uzbek state newspaper Xalq So'zi on creation of the independent commission on invetigating the Andijan events. Firstly, i'd like to give you a piece I combined from several articles into a brief one and then will give you two original pieces from the paper:

Lower chamber of the Uzbek parliament created independent commission to investigate Andijan events on 23 May, Uzbek paper Xalq Sozi reports.
As earlier reported, the group of armed guerrillas organized criminal acts in Andijan on 13 May, which resulted in death of some 170 people, the paper says.
The commission will investigate all conditions of Andijan events, determine reasons and conditions, which led to tragic events. The commission included 16 parliament members, including representatives of Senate of Oliy Majlis (upper house).
Uzbek MPs ordered to commission to analyze actions of the government and law enforcement bodies, give their legal assessment and regularly deliver reports on course of investigation to parliament and population through mass media. Apart from this, those who participated in the session noted that the recent events caused tension and uneasiness among the population and society in the whole country.
The session resulted in adoption of the decision of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on setting up an independent commission to study the recent events in the eastern Uzbekistan. The independent commission comprises representatives of all political party factions and senators, who were proposed by the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan.


The following is the decision of the Uzbek Parliament on setting up an independent commission translated from Xalq So'zi paper:

Decision of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on creation of an independent commission to investigate Andijan events

Tragic events that took place in the city of Andijan on 13 May 2005, have caused a huge concern and anxiety among the population and the public throughout the whole country. During gatherings and meetings of deputies of the Legislative chamber with their electorate, which are taking place in all places, citizens are giving one question: how could have these events, that have entailed human victims, posed a threat to the peaceful, stable and constructive development of our society, taken place.

With a view of all-round investigation of the circumstances related to events, which took place in the city of Andijan, the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopts a following decision:

1. To set up an independent Commission of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on investigating the events, which have taken place in the city of Andijan, the composition of which will include representatives of all factions of political parties, according to the appendix.

2. To pass a request to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan to define members of the Senate for including in the composition of the Commission.

3. To place to the Commission of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on investigating the Andijan events the following tasks:

A thorough investigation of all circumstances of Andijan events and a profound and all-round analysis of a course of their development;

Revealing the reasons and conditions, which have led to the tragic events of May 13,05;

To pay special attention to revealing basic cause-effect relations of these tragic events, and the forces, standing behind these criminal acts resulted in human victims;

The all-round analysis of actions of the government and power structures, their legal treatment.

To involve for this purpose a highly skilled professionals.

4. Commission of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on investigating the Andijan events, is to regularly inform Parliament and the public on the course of investigation, including through mass media.


The speaker of the Legislative chamber
of the Oliy Majlis
of the Republic of Uzbekistan, E.Halilov

Tashkent,
May 23, 2005

ANNEX

The composition of the independent Commission of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on investigating the Andijan events

1. Yuldashev Mahamadilhom Mamayunusovich - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-governing bodies (The chairman of the Commission).

2. Abdullayeva Muhabbat - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-governing bodies.

3. Ahmedova Sorakhon Tolijanovna - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of defense and security.

4. Botirova Zuhra Baratovna - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the employment and social issues.

5. Jabborov Sobir Vahabovich - the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the legislation and judiciary issues.

6. Karimov Hayatkhon Salimovich- a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-governing bodies.

7. Kozlov Anatoliy Mikhaylovich - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the budget and economic reforms.

8. Saidov Akmal Kholmatovich - chairman of Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-governing bodies.

9. Tolibov Izzatullo Ibodovich - the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlisa of the Republic of Uzbekistan on democratic institutions, NGOs and citizens’ self-governing bodies.

10. Umarova Shoira Akbutayevna - the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on employment and social issues.

11. Usarov Olim Avalbayevich - a member of the Committee of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of the information and communication technologies.

12. Vohidov Erkin Vohidovich* - chairman of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of science, education, culture and sports.

13. Iminov Bakhtiyor Mirzajonovich* - chairman of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of the budget and economic reforms.

14. Rustamboyev Mirzayusuf Hokimovich* - the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the legislation and judiciary issues.

15. Sabirov Ilgizar Matyakubovich* - chairman of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of defense and security.

16. Usmanov Maruf Agzamovich* - the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the issues of defense and security.

* The members of the Senate defined by the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan who were included in the composition of the Commission.

Uzbek leader awards head of Eastern Military Region

President of Uzbekistan awarded head of Eastern Military Region with Shon-Sharaf order of second level posthumously.

The Uzbek leader signed decree “On awarding Djuraev B.U. with Shon-Sharaf order of second level” on 23 May.

The decree said that Bahrom Djuraev, head of Eastern Military Region, awarded with Shon-Sharaf order of second level posthumously for courage and selflessness in protection of national security of the state and peace of Uzbek people.

Talking point on Uzbekistan

A whole day I've been waiting for this programme to start. And finally it started, it was really interesting to hear these interesting comments from different parts of the world. I also wanted to call or at least to leave a comment on the net, but I was pretty late. Anyway, there was one call from Germany made by the American, who said very wise words that the west and especially the USA is using us for the military base and for geopoliticla interests. I totally agree with this guy, since the west as usually does only the talking and no action. Even if they would take any, it might have really bad results for the local people, since no one knows what our rulers may be up to and even if they replace them, I do not see any possible candidates who might be placed into their position. And, I am totally against the interim government, as another caller to the programme from the USA suggested, this will not help to solve the problem, it will only aggravate it. Plus, there are Islamist factors and I am afraid these are quite dangerous and it would be really hard to stop them if anything goes wrong. There was also a call from the Hezb-e Tahrir representative, who said that they always follow the peaceful means of achieving their tasks and frankly I don't believe them, cause if they would come to the power in this region, there will be a real bloodbath...

Some interesting items from the Beeb and a new Greek history

I received some interesting itmes from the BBC to translate and one of them is quite interesting. It;s a report ofthe Freedom House in Kazahstan about the free press in the country and they put their press alongside with ours and of Turkmenistan. Well, I was thinking that they have quite a liberal press, but this is what the official report of this respected organization says. As always, the US organizations are telling us what to do and how to live. The same can be told about our project on deepening democratic processes in Uzbekistan, which is being run by the Greeks and funded by the EU. The funny thing is that Greeks are teaching us how to work with the bicameral parliament, while themselves have a unicameral one. Especially, I am going mad, when I hear them speaking that before there was no Parliament in Uzbekistan, hello... in this case how you are going to call an existing builidng called Uzbek Parliament? I am not saying that I am against the foreigners coming to exchange experience with our professionals, but I am against this tendency to send so-called experts from a country, which cannot be set as a model democracy for Uzbekistan, in this case this is Greece. I have lots of frinds in the West, but even they have some thought of superiority and I don't like this, I think that to assist this country to achieve a true democracy, one has to have a deep respect for its people, its culture and customs. Well, this is all I can say for now...

Army?

Yesterday evening I recieved a special paper from the local military registration and enlistment office. I think this is some kind of mass mobilization, but I decided to ignore it. I was to go today at 9:00 in the morning, but I stayed home and instead translated some items. I hope that I won;t have any problems for staying at home and failing to appear there...

She said no...

I was still thinking of her, even though I could feel that she doesn't wants to continue talking to me. However, I felt that I have to still clarify the situation and to know where are we now. I spoke to my colleague and she told me to call her. That's why, I called her today and spoke with her for a while and she told me that she doesn't wants to coninue our relationship, if you may call it so and I felt a little bit sad, since I was sure that she'd accept me, but seemingly we are different...

I feel pretty sad now and I can say that my heart is broken, but what can I do now, this is life :(
Of course, I am not saying that I am deeply in love with her, but there was and still is a strong affection towards her, but since she made such decision, and I respect her decision, there is nothing I can do about this. I gotta move on...

UN & Uzbekistan

I hope that there is no need for translation, but if you want just leave a comment, it'd be highly appreciated!!!

A girl with a lamb

We were coming back from work with my dad, when suddenly I noticed a little girl in the middle of the road who was trying to catch a lamb and at the same time to stop cars that were coming in high speed, our car stopped right in front of her. I was scared for her life and also it was sad to see that she wasn't even thinking of her life, but was trying to save a lamb. It's really sad, it shows that hardships of life were forcing her to do this. I was relieved to see that she managed to do so.
At home we watched some news and I read some of the latest Russian papers, but there was nothing interesting, since these papers were published here, that's why I suppose they removed all the criticizm and replaced it with some different items. There were news that Qorasuv is now in the hands of the state troops and that a local leader is arrested. Well, he had no chance...
Also, in the office I just couldn't translate and thus, I read the latest news and analytical materials. I was even surprised to see my friend Alisher's name, who works for the BBC World, in one of the articles. An article was about people who gathered in one of Tashkent's sqares to commemorate those who were killed in Andijan. Well, if I knew I'd also go there, but I couldn't find any news about this.
Also, I want to say that these last two days I was downloading lots of Latin Rap from CNet Music and listening to their lyrics made me think that there are lots of similarities between us. Especialmente, some of the songs were just written for the current state system of our country, particularly, these groups as Bolo and Espadasofia have really strong and actual lyrics.
Well, this is it for now, your comments if you have any would be appreciated very much ;)

Thunder or Explosion

4:30 I was woken up by a very loud noise, which was similar to a thunder and both to explosion, since one could even hear a sound of the cars' antitheft devices. My mom, rushed in to my room, she was excited and at the same time worried, she thought that a bomb went off somewhere. But, I was sure that it was a thunder. However, one could be mistaken I told myself and noticed that the whole house was awaken, all the people thought that it was a real explosion. I was still sure that it was a thunder, I even went online to check for the latest news and when I heard that it was raining outside I was sure that it was a thunder. Well, people here are so worried, that even a sound of the thunder would make them think that a bomb went off somewhere. Man, this is crazy...
I checked my email and noticed that I've got a letter from my Argentinian friend, Eduardo, who sent me some articles from IWPR, these were the stories from witnesses, who gave an account of what has happened in Andijan. I could hardly read these stories, man it is so horrible, I was very mad and just didn't know what to say to all of this...
I arrived to the office and told them about this. We watched the latest news and sat discussing what'll happen next and what to expect. Olya told that some uprisings were taking place in Gulistan, a town near Tashkent, however she might be wrong. I hope she's wrong!!! Anyway, I did all my translations and at the same time watched the news and read news and articles on the latest situation in Andijan. On one of the websites I found lots of pcitures of dead bodies, that were laying scattered on the ground and I also saw that some of them were taken to the central square of the city and laid on the foot of the monument to Babur [one of the greatest conquerors of India]. I couldn't watch this pics easily, you know it's different to watch pictures of dead people in some distant country, but when you see pics of your dead fellowmen, of your compatriots, it's really hard. Because, you know these people and you feel their pain piercing through your soul... I also visited some interesting blogs, like Registan.net and was quite surprised to see my blog among the list of the CA blogs, this is great. I read some of the latest stories and I have to tell you that I was quite mad at waht's happening in this place. Also, yesterday there were news that diplomats are going to visit Andijon today, it'd be interesting to see in the local news what they have to say.
I went back home with my dad, since it was damn cold outside, man it's the middle of the May, but it still raining and it's pretty cool outside. I remember that I have read about changes in the climate of Central Asia in the beginnning of the 21 century, it was in a Russian language book, called "Alpha and Omega".
Well, we arrived home safely and the first thing we did was to watch the news and the president's news conference, which he gave yesterday. He spoke a lot, however I don't think that there is anyone who would take his words for granted today. Of course, there were lot of wise things he said, like that the US and the West, in the whole, first help to moderate Talibanis and then fight against the terror. He is totally right, I think that the US is using the policy of double standards. Also, I am surprised that the UK is harbouring such an extreme organization as Hezb-e Tahrir, the whole world brands that as terrorists, but the UK is keeping mum. I think that the West has special politicla interests for such groups operating in the Islamic states, so that there was unrest and they could interfere and "save the world from the evil". Also, our president has blamed the Kyrgyz ombudsman, who was claiming that the flow of refugees will reach million people. The president said that this was done to collect more money from the West, since the Kyrgyz are in need of money, well I totally agree with what he said. Also he blamed the media for a flase information, especially he was mad at the Russian media, particularly NTV and RenTV. I was surprised to hear another Russian journalist from the Itar-TASS taking the side of the Uzbek president. It was a very interesting news conference, one could see that the president was tired and was trying really hard to regain the confidence of the international community, the media and his own people, since during the conference he appealed to the Uzbek people in Uzbek language, but it's too late...
In conclusion, I want to express my condolences to the people of Andijan who lost their realtives and the loved ones!!!

Slowly back to normal life...

Today is Sunday and the situation in Tashkent and the whole country is still tense. By tense I mean that there is still uncertainty among the people, but on the whole the city is quite calm and no one is sitting at home behind the closed doors. People are still uncertain as to what this situation might lead to, will there be some unrest or will it calm down. I think that the situation might become even worse, if there will be another uprising in another city of the country. I really hope, that I am wrong, but one may never know. That is why, I am closely wathcing the latest news and reading online media materials to see whether there any changes with the situation. I hope that our leader will take wise steps to resolve this problem and life will be back to normal. I have to tell that there are some small signs of coming back to normal life, we are able now to watch the Russian news and the BBC World channel.
Well, back to my daily life. Today my cousin was to fly back to the UK, the house was again full with the relative who came to see him off. I worked on the PC for a while with the project translations. My cousin, Zafar, did a very nice thing, he noticed that I have a cd on my table in the mail and aksed me about what I am planning to do with it. I told him that I want to send it to Argentina, to my friend Eduardo, but there are problems in the post office. They are telling me that to send a cd, one has to get a permisson from the Culture Ministry, isn't this ridicilous?!
Anyway, he offered his help, he said that he may take it to the Uk and send this cd to Argentina from there, well I was damn happy to hear that. I hope that he'll do this :)
Well, at 1400 they all went to the airport to kiss him good-bye, but I had to stay home with another guest who came to see my mom. Anyway, I just sat watching the telly and the news on the Beeb, well this is it for today folks...

Still uncertainty...

The situation in the eastern Uzbekistan still seems to be not under the control. This is the impression one gets from reading online media resources. However, I hope that soon it will all calm down. I read on the net that our president was to hold a news conference today, that's why I was constantly checking the Uzbek state TV. Finally, I was able to watch a part of the news conference, however there were some minor problems and they had nothing to do with the TV. The thing is that my cousin and aunt finally arrived today, that's why the house was full of guests and it was really hard to listen what the president was saying. However, we had a real fun, all the relatives in one house and the reason for our gatherign was a simple one, that is my cousin is leaving back to the UK and they all came to wish him a safe travel.
I also discussed the issue of Iroda with my aunts and I received different advice, but one thing is for sure for me, and it's that she is not interested in me. That's why, I think I'll have to stop my beating heart and come back from the heaven of so-called love, back to Earth...
The most sweetest guest was my little cousin, Vafoxon, who is about four years old and man he's so smart and cute. We all enjoyed his little pranks, if you may call them so. Anyway, I'll soon post his picture here too. Well, this is all I have to say for today, I keep praying for the positive outcome!!!

Is it the beginning of an end?!

No one was expecting any kind of upheaval in the eastern town of Andijon, I myself was surprised and even shocked, when I heard what has happened there. Instead of working we spent the entire day watching news and reading on the Internet what's happening in Andijon. The most interesting and at the same time stupid thing was that we were receiving all the latest news from the foreign mass media and not from our own. Some informational website were blocked and we had to find a way out, in order to get the latest information. I was really worried, because one may never expect what would happen the next moment. There were also some unconfirmed reports that bombs were disclosed in some governmental buildings in Tashkent and were in time removed to the safe location. Anyway, all we had to do is just listen, read and wait for the positive outcome of this grave situation. I myself couldn't work in such a situation, I kept thinking of what might happen if those fundamentalist Islamists would come to the power, man I don't even want to think about this. I still hope for the peaceful resolution of the problem.
Even at home I kept watching the news, I was thankful that we had the BBC World chanel, otherwise we would've been left without any information, because when there were news on the Russian TV, our cable channel would be intentionally blocked and instead you'd see a blank picture. I think this is the most stupid thing our athorities were doing. Maybe they thought that by blocking the news they would prevent unrest in the city, but instead all they did was a growing dismay and uncertainty. I really hope that soon everything would calm down. Anyway, tomorrow we'll see.
Now back to my presonal life, I received a reply from Iroda and apparently she has no feelings towards me, well I am a little bit sad, but I repsect her decision. Also, our stupid-ass boss told us to come tomorrow to work, even thought it was Saturday and the Uzbek Parliament is not the safest place to sit and work, however I guess I will have to go to work. Well, we were also expecting my aunt and cousin from Samarkand, but they didn't arrived, well, I don't konw why and I am a little bit worried. Ok, folks, this is it for today's "wise" ramblings...

Thinking of you...

I don't know what is happening to me, but after my trip to Samarkand and meeting with her, I am slowly falling in love... or is it something very close to love. I am think of her every single moment and there is nothing of interest to me now, but a thought about her. I am feeling something, I think that she is the one, my destiny and I am sure that something positive should come put of this. There are such moments when thinking of her and my possible life with her makes my heart go like this:



This all may sound crazy to you my dear reader, but this is how I am feeling for the last four days. I want to see her, talk to her and know her, what's she's like and I really want her to have some affection towards me. I dunno how it all end up, I mean will she say yes to me or will I find out something unpleasant about her, that might prevent me from marrying her, but now I am positive about all of this. I feel that something good has to come out. I even read her horoscope, and I have to tell you that her sign - Cancer - seems to be a very good sign, but time'll tell as she told me during our last meeting. I have to go to Samarkand again, in order to meet her and try to understand her inner world and her expectation. Well, dear God, all I want is that she'd be mine and that she'd love me. Well, I just couldn't keep all these feelings inside of me and wanted to share with y'all these feelings and thoughts. And yeah, since I wrote her an e-mail on Monday, I constantly many times a day check my inbox to see, whether she had answered me or not, and I dunno how long will I endure this or when she'll answer me. Well, folx wish me a good luck in such uneasy times for my mind and soul...

Back to Tashkent

We woke up at 4 in the morning and collected our belongings, since we were to go back to Tashkent on my aunt's car. It took us 5 hours to reach Tashkent, also on our way we stopped in Chinoz District of Tashkent Region to have some fresh fish. But, instead of going straight home we went to Alisher Navoi trade zone, because my aunt wanted to buy some nice washing machine. After wandering around in search for the best machine we settled on LG and finally bought one. But, there was still some business to do, my cousin, Zafar, wanted to buy some golden chain and we went to Oloy market. So, when we finally got everything settled down we went back home. The first thing I did back at home is that I cheked my e-mail and message board. I received some unpleasant letter, which I had to follow, it was from some author of one of the books I placed on my website, he was demanding to remove this book from the site. I replied him that I will do so immediately, since I respect the sense of ownership and copyright, and I had to remove this book. However, the interesting thing is that i took this book from another website, where i am sure this book is still remains intact, but there is nothing else I can do but to follow author's request. I also downloaded some books and uploaded some more to my website. Well, even back at home I am still in Samarkand and I am still thinking about this girl...

A date

Early in the morning I went to see my grandma and on my way back to my surprise, I saw that my dad has also arrived to Samarkand. There was also another reason for my arrival, a reason number two, participation in a commemoration activity, which was organized in memory of my granddad. But, apparently I won't be able to be there, since I am going to date with Iroda.
My uncle took me to her institute, where we were to meet. I arrived 15 min earlier and had to wait for a while. Well, at 12 o-clock she came out and we went to have some pizza and to have a nice chat. We ordered a biggest pizza and received a gift for doing so :) We spoke about life and I told her about my divorce, what was the reason behind all of this and who was guilty. She also told me about her "perefect man" and I even started to worry that I might not fit her concept, but time'll tell. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed our interesting conversation, but she had to go and I took her home.
At home, everybody started asking how went our date. But, I didn't wanted to talk about this personal and intimate issue with everyone, I just confided this to my mom and aunts, who are very close and dear to me just like my mom. I came when this activity was already over, but there was a preparation for another one. So, I helped my aunts to prepare the table for another group of guests. Well, this is how I spent my interesting day!!

Hello my dear Samarkand!!!

Finally I am here, yesterday I succeded in asking my boss to let me go and in the evening we were en route to Samarkand by train. The train was really nice and comfortable, nice food and speed, I was lucky enough to finish one of the most boring books I ever read in my life "At swim two birds" by Flann O'Brien.
So, early in the morning, we met with almost all of our relatives and I prepared myself for the evening, since the only reason I came to Samarkand was to meet a very interesting young lady and maybe strike a relationship with her.
Somewhere around 7 o'clock in the evening I was already in her house, her name's Iroda and this is the first time I am seeing her, there were also my mom and my other aunts, who were sitting in the hall with Iroda's parents. Well, I have to tell you that the first time I saw her, I felt something towards her and now we were sitting in her room and talking. We talked about different things, we laughed and spoke about our interests. The first thing i liked about her was not only the way she looked, but the way she was speaking, I noticed that she's very open person. Anyway, It was a real good beginning and I was looking for a continuation, that's why we decided upon meeting tomorrow at 12 o'clock. I have to tell you that I am very, very excited and am looking for that meeting. I came back to my aunt's place, where are we staying now, all the evening I was full of thoughts... thoughts of what may come out of this... will there be some positive outcome from these meetings... will she like me and accept me as I am and will she respect my parents and relatives, the same way she respects her own parents... and etc...

Even harder to breathe...

Nothing has chnaged since yesterday in the office, it's still hard to breathe, that is why I decided to remove my tie, plus I am very sleeepy today...
However, the most unpleasant thing was when I wanted to download the rest of the books, which I have put in my favourites, but there was nothing. I said what the f***, but all I could is just look for them once again, of course it took more than one hour, but I needed these books. so I found them and finally downloaded them.
Anyway, there was a lot of work to do, I had to translate about 18 pages into English, so I buckled up and started my work. But, it was really hard, just imagine yourself, sitting in an airless room without windows, it's hot and plus you're very sleepy, I even wanted to ask my boss to let me go home to finish the translation, but then decided no to.
At 1830 I was already on my way home, at home I started doing my another Beeb translation, which was as important as the office work, so I did some of this translation too. Well, this is it...

Hard to breathe...

It's really damn hard to breathe in the office, when outside it's almost 30 C hot and inside it's not cooler, becuase we have no windows and all you can just sit and breathe in the hot air. That's why, the whole day I was very sleepy, it was really hard to conctrate to to translate anything. But, anyway, I have to sirvive this airless environment and carry on with my translation, so that I could finish it by Thursday, otherwise I'll be forced to forget about my trip to Samarkand, for which I am longing for. Well, of course apart from this sad sitatuion, there were some happy moments today, that is I found a very interesting webiste, where you may get tons of great eBooks and warez, placed it on to my favourites folder:)
Another happy moment was when our boss left at 18:30 and we all decided to play some Lan-Game, i.e Counter Strike 1.5. I should say, we had a real fun.
I came home with Muzaffar's car and then spend my time in front of the PC, I had to check my mail. To my suprpise the heating system was still working in my room, man will I escape from this hooot air, I dunno :(
Well, this is it for my today's ramblings folx!!!

Back from the UK

I was woken by a call from the UK, my other cousin, Sanjar, was calling and asking, whether Zafar arrived safe and sound to Tashkent. We spoke for a while and then I logged to the net, in order to see how things are with my message board and website. After a while, I recieved a call from my uncle, Erkin, who told that it's time to come to his place, since Zafar was already there. So, we went to his place.
I was very happy to see him, and the interesting thing that apart from becoming more mature he didn't changed a lot, we sat for a while, speaking about the hard life in the UK. He said, he'll be here for about two weeks. I hope to see him next week, if of course I go to Samarkand. Anyway, after having a beatiful plov we all went back home, my aunts back to Samarkand and we to our place.
At home, I just spent my evening in front of the telly and the PC, this is it for today's ramblings...