NordenBladet – I started writing this blog already in the beginning of January but then my work and home life took full speed and the blog was postponed. So I’ll sketch a brief overview. Due to covid restrictions I have not been able to travel abroad, my longest trips have taken me as far as Tartu 🙂 hahaaa. In January Raido (my elder sister’s husband) celebrated his 36th birthday. We went to visit them and as we were in the neighbourhood, we also visited V SPA. The shopping centers Kvartal, Tasku, Tartu Kaubamaja department store as well as SPA hotel were all still covered with Christmas decorations.
While the first week of January began with a new painting for the children’s book “His Highness Mouse the First” and was largely humanities-based, then the rest of the month was rather deliberative, analytical and finances-centered. As usual, there was a lot of work with NordenBladet sites, then Airobot Technologies IPO and the sweet recognition that on January 24th and 27th we had just enough cash to invest in the bleeding Baltic and US stock markets. Regarding brokers’ board, there is a sad news, namely Marat Kasparov has announced that he will stop blogging via his page StockFanatt. Since he is an active person with a stronger than usual temperament, then I hope that he will change his mind.
What else? January also accommodated a major cyber attack that I will not thoroughly cover here, but which still ruined mine and Allan’s planned ballet night “Louis XVI – the Sun King” and quite out of the blue created a week of extra work. In conclusion it still had a positive effect because we now reviewed the servers’ security settings with a new pair of eyes. We always have several backup copies of everything in a different cloud and on hard drives, and hackers will accept bunny-pictures instead of money
(You can read about February’s events after the gallery)
I wrote in the October blog HERE that Estella Elisheva applied via AIS (American Councils for International Education) programme to be an exchange student in America. She didn’t pass the last part of the contest which retrospectively is a good thing. Now she is 100% devoted to the violin. This year she will graduate from the 9th grade of Tallinn Jewish School and she plans on continuing her secondary school studies in MUBA, the Music and Ballet School.
February started off with super good news! Estella Elisheva was selected to be the main soloist for Georg Ots Symphony Orchestra GOSO in three performances, playing H. Wieniawski’s piece Legende Op. 17. Me, on the other hand, I completed yet another mice series painting!
There have been even more cultural events during February. In the beginning of the month we went to the Centre of Russian Culture to see Ott Sepp’s comedy show Jokker and yesterday we went to Saku Suurhall to listen to the finalists of “Eesti Laul 2022” song contest. Speaking about the latter, I am really sorry for Elina Nechayeva that in her competing song “Remedy” she could show her voice just so little and thus was placed eighth in the competition. With a different song she would have been able to give more vocal energy. All the performers were actually really good, but my yesterday’s favourite was Andrei Zevakin’s and Grete Paia’s song “Mis nüüd saab” (“What’s gonna happen now”). The winning song “Hope” was of course also really great. Stefan Airapetjan has such a big warm aura that why not send him to represent Estonia at the contest.
To conclude the blog, here’s a tasty oven roast!
Place chopped broccoli, cauliflower, onion, meat and blue cheese into oven mold. Add spices, a pack of sour cream, and cover with water halfway to top. Then for one hour to the oven and 65 minutes after that everyone will be moaning with pleasure!
That’s all for this time!
Hugs!
Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)
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