Belgrade 2.0: Serbian girls - hot or not?

cross-posted from my blog
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as the writer of the original post wrote in his piece - this had to pop-up sooner or later :)

How many times have I heard praises over Serbian women from fellow aiesecers and friends from all over the world that have visited Serbia? Jeez, who counts...

Or even when I'm abroad - people asking me if it's true that we have so many beautiful girls, asking how the hell is that possible and generally being envious that I've been born there (lol!). Some guys even asked me to find them internships here, so that they can spend a nice summer over here (and perhaps get married hehe)...

Anyhow, all the guys here are fully aware of this fact, especially those that have traveled a bit... And wouldn't be happy if they had to move to another country (not because we think there aren't beautiful girls everywhere, but the percentage here is simply remarkable...). Except maybe to Argentina, since they are quite good with this ratio too, plus girls there are latinas :)

And sure you'll hear all the guys talking about this all the time... But when you hear/read traditionally jealous women :) praising this particular phenomenon (among other), then it really becomes news... the author of the text below linked 2 nice articles there, to prove this... And I`m adding a link to a nice gallery of every-day girls in Belgrade, so...

Enjoy!

http://www.pbase.com/pavlec/belgrade_girls&page=all

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This subject had to come up sooner or later, you know.
But I was hoping that something else will trigger it other than your usual drooling foreign guys impressions you see on net or hear from various sources: “Dude, they have the most beautiful girls there, I swear!” or “Man, Serbia is heaven on earth as for the girls are concerned!” or stuff like that.

No, I had to wait for at least a couple of women to mention it in order to conclude that there just might be something in all these drooling guys’ claims. And here they are:

Maggie Alderson, of Sydney Morning Herald :

“The whole thing was like some kind of genetic experiment. It was clearly just the national body shape.”

and Rosmary on her blog couple of days ago:

“If Tyra Banks saw an entire town of women like these while scouting for her America’s Next Top Model show, the top of her head would pop off. It would be too much to choose from, overwhelming.”

National body shape? Too much to choose from? Something is clearly going on here. Is it even possible to determine in one nation or in one region, say, that the women are, even generally speaking, better looking than somewhere else? Or is it just another stereotype? Well, even if it is, at least it’s a good kind of stereotype. I think. And what about us guys? Nobody mentions us, I guess we have to conclude that we are average joes. Oh well.

Maybe it’s just the way girls dress and the time they invest in dressing up. I don’t know what to think anymore, seriously. You?

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Hand-made condoms!?!?!?

Cross-posted from http://peckopivo.nomadlife.org/

when you are coming from a small eastern european country, and especially from one that is not perceived so well in the world like Serbia is (so basically that little that people usually know about us is crap), then you are not surprised about different steretypes and prejudices people might have about you or your people.

- Some of them think that Serbs still live in communism (most of them don`t know that even when we were a communist country, we were in far better situation then other countries from the "eastern bloc");

- Some of them think that Serbia is still completely destroyed from bombing and that we still (!?) have occasional gunfights in Belgrade (I wonder whom did we try to shoot at in Belgrade - unless they think about WW2);

- Some of them think that we hate everything and everyone, especially muslims (a guy from the dorm where I live here in Istanbul actually asked me why I came to Turkey if we hate Muslims so much that we hunted them in Bosnia and Kosovo!!! - I laughed and told him to watch not to turn his back to me, or else... :));

- At the airport in San Francisco they checked me thoroughly and even used those little papers (which are used to determine trails of gun-powder in your luggage - usually by rubbing your suitcase) on my hands!!! - it`s ok if they think that we are a terrorist threat to the US, but do they really think we make bombs with bare hands? we have technology, dude! :D

anyways, I could go on listing all the stupid things I heard about my country and my people, but I guess you get the idea already... What this post is really about is what I heard last night from one german trainee here in Istanbul...

So, her friend was traveliing Eastern Europe and he told her about this weird thing Serbs have - old ladies in the streets are selling "hand-made, self-knitted" CONDOMS! And not only that he heard about it - he actually saw it! Well, WOW! I was trying whole last night to imagine how "hand-made, self-knitted" (whatever this means) condom looks like, and no luck... (can you imagine coming to an old lady in the street, taking off your underwear for measuring, then choosing the model from the catalogue etc. :D)

But good to know that my country is not only famous by Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic, but condoms too... Durex, beware of the Serbian Grand-moms!

Am'dam

Originally posted at http://bORIS.nomadlife.org/

Last week I went to Amsterdam again. I attended ABN AMRO training course about Turn of the cycle and Early Warning Signals [Risk related mainly for people involved in Credit Portfolio Management and Risk Management within the bank] and it wouldn’t be enough to say that I’m satisfied with it because I’m more than that. The course came in the right time for me, on the start of my career in this field and the knowledge I’ve gained there is really useful. Furthermore I was the most inexperienced one [logically] and it was a great opportunity for me to meet and get to know better people doing more less the same job in different countries [the Netherlands, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Germany, France, etc.]. It’s my pleasure to note that all of them are quite nice and interesting people! By the way, the course lasted two days and it was held in Duin and Kruidberg – amazing place [take a look at the picture].

After the course, on Friday afternoon, a colleague of mine from the Netherlands gave me a ride to the ABN AMRO headquarters where I met Zoka and bunch of other people already familiar from AIESEC, at the moment working or having their traineeships in ABN AMRO Amsterdam, and I was quite surprised because I had no idea that some of them were there. It felt really good to see them again. After the walking tour through the buildings we had couple of drinks in the bank [as I understood every Friday afternoon there is a drink in a garden of the bank] and it was good. Later in the evening we went out to some karaoke party and afterwards to café tour through the city. You should have seen Zoka performing on the stage – she was really cute! Nevertheless it wasn’t just Zoka, because when one of the ABN AMRO trainees is singing, all the others immediately join and make the crowd goes crazy and singing with them :)

Of course I stayed over Zoka’s place. She has been living in a really nice house with beautiful view from the living room and in the safe neighbourhood. There is a lake nearby as well as plenty of parks with nice bicycle and jogging paths. Saturday was sunny and it was a perfect day for Amsterdam by bicycle tour, arranged by ourselves. We were cycling the whole day through the city, having coffee breaks and enjoying live conversation with each other after more than two months. It was great! I didn’t want to, but I had to go back to Brussels in the evening…

Serbian community in Benelux countries is definitely growing :)

Ziveli. Bravo!

The story begins...

It all started during EuroXPRO 2006 conference in Prague, we met first forign Serbian , Dan Miljevic, originaly from UK, living in China, with Serbian blood and stamina when it comes to drinks :-)

We accepted him in our big family, and made him feel as a real Serb. This was the breaking point, the point where we realized, that no mather what colour of skin you have, or what language do you speak, or what is the citizenship you have in passport...at the end everyone of us is a little bit of Serb...you only need to find that vibe in yourself, and enjoy the ride!

Srba was the first one...then came Nikola from Spain, Bole from Norway, Pera from Turkey, Marinko from Poland, Zika from Slovakia, Milojica from Italy, Indira from Lithuania...

IC 2006 came...Nikola was there, Bole, Pera, Marinko, Zika, Milojica and Indira also...then our family got bigger!

This blog is dedicated to them and all of you Serbs, all over the world...post your adventures...your expirience being a Serb...and stay in touch!

Vidimo se!
seRGio

EuroXPRO 2006 Prague...the story started...our Serbian community grew bigger and bigger...now after IC 2006 Poland we decided to make it Live! and virtual.

So, this will be the gathering place of all Serbs in AIESEC and beyond, place where old friends can meet new...

Enjoy :-)