When I leave Bar for a long time, at first I don't miss anything. Over time, I start to miss the Bar habits, the walks by the sea, and some of the people.
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It will remain recorded that in early January 1878, Bar was liberated from the Turks, but also that in mid-January 2019, a cypress tree was cut down in the courtyard of the Bar High School, followed by protests, at which, uniquely as rarely in recent history, all three faiths of Bar spoke out.
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When people talk about their education, they always point out that they were students of some “famous high school”. Everyone had a famous high school. And only a few were truly famous, like, for example, the one in Berane, which produced many doctors of science, when that academic title was achieved through hard work and enormous knowledge.
That's why, as a former student of Bar Gymnasium, I am very pleased that two of its former students, Igor Marojević and Vladimir Vujović, have been shortlisted for prestigious literary awards - the NIN and the Belgrade Winner, with Vlado, with his novel "Conversations with the Witch", making it to the shortlist, out of six, for the NIN Award!
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January is a month that reminds me of good, the best possible people - my godfather Mić, an optician, and Dr. Dule, a gynecologist. We knew, in the evening, when Mićo closed the shop, that we would stay in the optician's shop and go for a "karasevdah", with a few drops of homemade plum. The easiest way to touch another dimension was when we played the entire Tozovac concert from the "Sava Center" on our laptop, from YouTube, on November 28, 2012. No one in this region sang more easily than Tozovac. At that concert, he forgot the verses and stanzas, but his charisma, despite the fact that he was 76 years old at the time, was such that all of this gave his performance even more charm. True, he had the support of the powerful RTS choir. Three songs in particular knocked us off our feet: "Jesen u mom sokaku", "Oči jedne žene" and "Tražiću ljubav novu".
Dule has been resting on Gvozden Brijeg since 2020, and Mićo since last year...
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Neither Dule (nor Tozovac, a little later), nor my other dear friends (Noco and others), nor twenty million people in the world, could have guessed that a sinister virus from the Far East would cost them their lives. Canadian scientist Alina Chen, from the Broad Institute in Cambridge, very quickly publicly questioned the official version that the coronavirus passed from wild animals to humans, at a market in Wuhan, China, but rather that it got out of control at the Institute of Virology in that city - in the only laboratory actively experimenting with closely related viruses. A few years later, she is finally convinced of her claim, with many now leaning towards the laboratory origin of the pandemic.
Alina Chen says that a recent review of all publicly reported laboratory outbreaks and infections during the first two decades of the 21st century found more than 300 cases of laboratory infections and more than a dozen laboratory escapes.
I'm inclined to believe the Vancouver-born scientist, but the real truth will never be known. As with many other things.
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I don't know what irritates me more about him: his entire appearance, his appearance, his tone of voice, his intonation, his gestures, his head position, what he says, his acting...
And you, find in these words "your" politician who annoys you, in your country or in the world, add something and, like me, ease your soul.
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When I realized that betting was harmful to me in many ways, I never went to a bookmaker's office again, nor did I gamble online. Now I realize that hours of scrolling on my mobile phone is damaging my health (both mental and physical), but I still don't have the strength to resist the temptation.
I'll let you know if I manage to reduce it to a tolerable hour or two a day.
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Since February 2011, I have been writing blogs on the website “Vijesti”. So, for a full 15 years. I write, on average, 18 blogs a year, or one every twenty days. In today's time of short memory and even faster forgetting, 15 years is a valuable anniversary. However, it obviously means nothing to anyone, maybe just a little to me, and that is why I intend to publish a book composed of one selected line from all 270 blogs.
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