Dreaming of living in NYC

Today, I'm dreaming of living in NYC. I visited the city in July 2000 when I travelled to the USA as an au-pair. It left a mark in my memory and, although I have returned to the USA several times for short visits since then, I never made it to NYC again. Of course, I'm a moderate follower of SATC and love how SJP lives in her little apartment near Central Park.

I never used to like big cities. I grew up in a small village in Eastern Europe, and only started enjoying the city life when I moved to London several years ago.

NYC is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, with over 20m people speaking 800 different languages. A real melting pot of cultures.

Images of beauty in media

Very interesting article on images of beauty in media.
http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/unattainable-beauty.html

Nowy Jork - czyli co mi w duszy gra

Bardzo ciekawa relacja z Nowego Jorku - miasta, które odwiedziłam 10 lat temu, i które ciągle jest żywe w mojej pamięci. Po kilku latach spędzonych w Londynie, planuje wybrać się do Nowego Jorku aby porównać doznania.

http://kolumber.pl/photos/show/golist:142015/page:33

Globalisation of mental illnesses

Globalisation of mental illnesses: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.200-how-the-us-exports-its-mental-illnesses.html?full=true

The programming of the mind

A very interesting article from Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/233778

Cross-cultural marketing mistakes

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/cultural-services/articles/crosscultural-marketing.html

Chinese Fish & Chips and English Chinese take-away in the middle of Essex

I was visiting a friend who lives in Essex and we decided to do Chinese take-away for dinner. Based on my London experiences of such establishements I was convinced that it would be run by Chinese people. How wrong was I! The girl taking our orders was as English as could be. I was even more surprised when we went to a fish and chips restaurant across the road from the Chinese take-away and discovered that it was run by Chinese people. Funny. And it all happened in a small village in the middle of Essex.