I live in the suburb of Almaty. Usually I leave my home at 9.30. It takes me about 10-15 minutes waiting for the bus. My first destination is a railway station where I get another bus to my office.

 I prefer to get a taxi if it’s available, but at this time it’s difficult to get the taxi to the railway station cause people usually go to work before 8.00 am. 

So I have no choice than to go by bus there. To tell you the truth, It’s not a comfortable one. But at least I am always…

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When something terrible happens to me I start panic, crying, getting in to depression, loosing any interest to do something. And this kind of “something terrible” could paralyze me for a few days. And I understand that I’m getting week. I just waiting for something good when it happens… Even if sometimes I think that I don’t deserve anything good, that I am the worst person in the world I still waiting for something good. The most fear I feel…

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Here is an oriental parable which I read in one Russian self-help book and tried to translate it for you. Hope you will like it.

One merchant and his servant were sailing together on the ship. It was servant's first trip in the sea. He was sitting on the deck of the ship, yelling, complaining and crying. They tried to calm him, but nothing helped. The doctor, who was on the same ship, wanted to heal him and offered his services. The merchant agreed. And then the doctor ordered the…

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I am very glad to invite you to make a virtual photo trip around Kazakhstan. There are many beautiful places, which are worth to be seen. I wanted to show you some of them.

I live near Almaty city, and I tried to gather photos of my favorite places of this city.

Here you will see pictures of Astana, which is the capital of Kazakhstan since 1997. This is amazing city, very new and very modern, it’s developing so fast. Also you will see our beautiful nature with its lakes, mountains and… Continue

By writing this blog I am trying to understand what multitasking is. I think it is an interesting theme and it will be useful to know better about it.

"Multitasking refers to the ability of an individual or machine to perform more than one task, or multiple tasks, at the same time."(http://www.answers.com/topic/multitasking) But does it really work?

Here is an example from my… Continue

I have found MyEC from the website www.listen-to-english.com there the

author advised to visit www.english.com.

First of all I was shocked really of finding so many interesting discussions and useful information and I wanted to start as soon as possible from visiting blogs and groups and share my opinion there.

But I felt a bit of scare to begin, I thought that it would be very difficult for me to… Continue

Fear has a great power. Fear is a natural instinct. It is good when we feel fear before a real danger as it's warn us to avoid a bad situation. For instance if we touch a hot frying pan we feel pain and take out our hand off it quikly.

But sometimes fear has no base to feel it. Another words fear can be an imagination only. In that case fear destroys our mind, our health. Very often we raise an invented fear in ourselves and become it's hostages. Constant fear is the first step to paranoia… Continue

My dear friends,

I was so touched by your interest of A.S.Pushkin's poetry and this encourage me to write more about him.

Recently I saw a TV program where one student said that he doesn't understand the big sense of Pushkin's poetry and that the poet wrote in a ridiculously simple way like every child could do. I was shoked by that statement...And even more when I realised that some others students were thinking almost the… Continue

Dear All,



Sometimes love could be only from one side: you love someone but she/he doesn't feel the same. What do you think about love without answering?

Please see below translation of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's rhyme "Nightingale and it's rose". Of cause it not precisely correct as his, but I think the meaning is the same.

Nightingale and its Rose



At spring the gardens glooms,with dark silence.

The… Continue

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (06.06.1799-10.02.1837) is the greatest Russian poet and writer. Today I translated one of his poems to my friends at EC.



If your life would deceive you,

Don't be angry, don't be sad!

Calm yourself when you meet troubles:

Day of joy soon you will get.

Heart lives only in the future;

Boredom just is having you:

Everything is a small amount,

Don't be angry don't get shout;

Everything will go away,

What have gone… Continue