Beauty of Madrid Airport

Airport buildings are usually guite ugly and the same could be said about that one in Madrid until the new Terminal 4 was built and opened in 2006. I spent there some time this Friday and was amazed by its architecture. It is airy, futuristic but still natural. Just have a look:



Note: the pictures are not done by me (because results from my mobile are rather poor), taken from Wikipedia.

Protest against violence in Tibet

Apparently, there is no protection of human rights, no fundamental freedom in Tibet. If you are based in Prague, join the protest demonstration today.

Plastic soup

Imagine sailing in ocean, jumping into water to cool off and...realizing you are swiming in the middle of a plastic waste. Well, it seems to be a reality now. After reading of this article, I'm stunned and crushed. There is a debris of plastic floating in Pacific ocean in size of a continent!
I'm used to sort waste at home/office and now will be doing even more consistently.I don't want to meet my Danone yougurt twice!

Bodies - the exibition

You may have heard about the exibition of human bodies. I visited it last Sunday in Prague and have very miscellaneous feelings. Well, it is very interesting from a medical point of view - you can see every inner detail directly on a dead human body which is conserved (all the liquids are replaced by a silicone rubber). Every bit of entrails from different angles. But, you still know it is a dead body. It is a strange feeling if you imagine it might be your friend's body or yours! I know the people have agreed their bodies will be used for this purpose, but still: do we need to present the human entrails in such a way? Isn't it possilbe to create absolutely authentic models eg. from plastic?
You may ask, why I went there if don't agree. Well, I was curious. But now I see I very much believe our spiritis, souls and bodies are interconnected and we should not split them and exhibit.

Building up a house and company

Two years ago I was laughing at all the stories of my friends how big nightmare can be a house raising: left-handed workers, overpriced services, breached deadlines. Now, I'm experiencing almost eveything, probably because of the recent unbelievable construction boom in Czechia and thus lack of skilful workers. Enough of complains: we are very much looking forward to move to Libcice, where our house is located.
And to fullfill the heading of this post, you can guess what is more difficult: to raise a house or set up a company. Let's see after several years, how the house and the company will stand :)

Never stop swimming

Participating on a project in Copenhagen, I often go swimming to strech a bit after the whole day sitting. There is a wonderful swimming pool there, it is elliptic so you can swim for ever. One round is about 100 meters. If you have a chance, pay a visit to this place.