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Do you listen music while you work?

I do. And I need to admit that I always try to listen music. Always when I can. I listen music, when I wake up, when I shave, when I bath, when I go in the bus to University, when I walk, and definately when I work.

As my favourite music is hip-hop, I always try to listen to it, as much as I can. I try to understand the words, feel the pronunciation of rapper and his mood. I have a lot of favourite artists and I do not want to mention all them here, cuz it will be long list.

When I do mechanical work, I listen to hip-hop. But when I do intellectual work, hip-hop is impossible to listen. I invest my mind resources in understanding text and it makes me work not so productive. So, I choose nice music without words -- esp. dance and hip-hop instrumentals. I like David Guetta, Tiesto, Sinclair, Paul Van Dyke and lot of others not so famous DJs.

So, this is my choice. One more thing I am really curious about is online radio. It is a great tool. You listen to the music you like and do not have to think about downloading it. Personally, I like Russian on-line radio -- 101.ru . They have "NRJ RnB/Rap". "Russian Rap", "NRJ Dance", "Office Lounge -- soundtrack for successful business", so I really like that. We can also mention Last FM, it is also great thing to use.

I invite you to think about music in your life, as Robin Sharma said: "Music makes our life much-much better". And I agree with him.

Now I am listening to song Common - "The people". Truly great. I have no wonder that this guy won Bet Hip Hop Award for best lyrics of the year. He thinks just as I am. Soooo.... Mooving forward! Upgrade!

Inside peace mixed with beast seem to breed me
Nobody believe, until I believe me
Now I’m on the rise doin business with my guys
Visions realize, music affected lives
A gift from the skies, to be recognize
I’m keeping my eyes on the people, that’s the prize

The day, has come
Now we, are one
Just take, your time
And then, you’ll find

p.s. you can listen to this song on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkDRewPqtk&feature=related

and find lyrics on
http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/131431/Common+-+The+People.html

Have a nice day

Yesterday was a party day! Party called "Bal Znajomstv" ("ball of meeting") was finished. Proudly to say, I was a main manager of this show and I really can say, that it rocked :))) I got a great pleasure from work of true manager. I invited people to team -- real professionals, whom I can trust. DJs, person responsible for PR, for partnerships, for logistics, security and MCs, consulted them, made negotiations with administration of National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", solved some problems.

In general, there were several moments, which were bad, like awful perfomence of one of faculties, problems with microphones, too many jokes about sex etc. Still, it was first perfomance of fresh's, so we can forbid that.

By the way, I was also on this concert as rapper, perfomed song "Thank you" about poetry and people said that it looked great. I have many nice feedback from people, who do not know about me, saying nice words.

Mooving forward!!!!

Guess who's back? I'm back in online and a bit reupgraded. What my life looks life? I am constantly trying to develop myself in my social life skills. Remembering, that development is only there, where you get out from comfort zone and do something you afraid of, I always try to seek for new communication with other people. I met people whom I know visually, but am not acquinted a lot. This often happens in the queue to Marshrutka 192, where people who live in Troeshina Dormitory of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Step closer, saying "hello", trying out to find out what is that kind of person, what's her goals and dreams -- this stuff I'm interested in the most.

That's how I am constantly trying to develop my network. One more thing about that is account at Facebook.com and Vkontakte.ru . So, guys, click on:

Я в контакте

to stay in touch.

and just cheer

Latest news. Summer ended. Very tough summer in terms of emotional feelings. Now I feel much better, looking forward to better development and nice feelings.

How my summer feels? First. Nastya, my beloved niece. I love her so much, that she is one of the most motivative people for me. She is 1 year old now, make first steps and says first word. AAAAAAAAA!!!! I want children :) If you have some propositions, approach me. Second. Laptop in Maryanovka: great nature, forest, river, clear air, laptop and work ;) Third. Comedy Club (http://www.comedyclub.ru/). This guys really make a lot of people laugh in all russian-speaking world. This new movement and idea makes revolution in Russian humor and are the real symbols of new and free Russian world -- freedom, what is Comedy Club. I watched a lot of programmes and it is part of my year.

Now. Projects? I have great team in Student College in NaUKMA -- people who make life better, people who are my second family. I respect everybody and you know, it is great feeling of working with such great people in one team. Second. AIESEC Musketeers -- great honor for to work in this great team, looking forward to new task. MyWay.in.ua. This project I connected lately helps me to develop in area I would like to develop in -- web-development.

I have changed my hairstyle. Now I have short hair and make make "crew-cut" (jozhyk) plus sometimes I wear glassess, especially in moments when I want to feel more intelligent. I have also bought ADIDAS "Superstars" shoes, I dreamed of from 11 class of school, so it's new time :)

1 September. I've participated in project "Educated Youth" -- TV bridge of President of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko with students of Ukrainian Universities -- National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", I have a great honor to study in, Harkiv University of Law, Simforopol University of Tourism and Lviv National University. During this TV programme President have answered questions from students and he was sitting in new library of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, so I had a pleasure see our President in the same room. It's a pity that I haven't an opportunity to ask him a question, but I had autograph and shooted Viktor Yushchenko on my mobile phone. You can see this photo here.

That's all for now. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks for visiting my blog.

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This day I was on Academic Conference in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as a representative of active students.This month we have really important date for our University, cause we are electing our new President. Our old president Bruhovetsky is retiring. This person is really a great man, who created and reestablished our University from 0. He made the name of our University and gathered a great team of teachers, who made our University one of the most prestigious in our country. Today on Academic Conference I got to know that currently we have 2 Candidates for President of NaUKMA: Serhii Kvit, who is now dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Volodymyr Morenets, who is Vice-President of Study Process. It is a great honour to be the one, who will vote for this desicision. Nice to see that we have the same situation as in AIESEC -- we are going' to have 2 Presidents: Old and Elected for 2 month. And this will be a time of transition for them. The new President will oficially gain his responsibilites from New Srudy year.

Haven't written in a blog for a while. I had very tough and hard study during last term. I guess it was the hardest term in all three years at "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". But know I'm ready to take new challenges.

Being introvert and geek, I, as always, participate in many projects. Muski Education Campaings, National Support Team in AIESEC (which I am very passionate about), MyWay.in.ua. Plus very new interesting study term.

The weather outside of window is just amazing. I guess it is the best time in all year in Kyiv. Not very hot and warm. Just right time for life :)

You know, I finally got my Rap recordings! It is so great to listen to your voice singing cool emotional song. I've got two of them: "Hip-hop rhytm" and "Thank you". This songs made together with Vanya. The first song is about Hip-hop and that it supports us in hard times, it is made for people to have nice mood and look at music as a friend.
The versus looks like this (translation from Ukrainian):

This hip-hop rhythm supports your spirit,
This hip-hop rhythm is good for your ears,
You can do everything when you hear this bit,
this is our world, our coloring, our rhytm.

The other one is dedicated to listeners, for whom we are writing our songs. It's about art in general and the main message is "Thank you for being with me". Of course, we have a lot of work on making better our songs, but that's why we are working, right? :)