City of Pikava

Since the introduction of the multi-party system, for the first time I don't know the majority of councilors in the Bar Municipal Assembly or who the MPs are in the Parliament of Montenegro. Nor do I particularly care. And I would also say that the quality of discussions, from one convocation to the next, is declining.

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The waves did what they do best – they destroyed the King Nikola Promenade on the bend that bends towards Žukotrlca. The power of the waves is indescribable, but people manage to restrain them. All that is needed is to carry out construction work in accordance with the potential strength of the waves. Just as the Port of Bar, with director Petrašin Kasalica at the helm, financed a quality repair of the breakwater at the beginning of the 21st century and solved for a century the long-term battle with stormy weather and waves that reach heights of up to six meters.

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The sidewalks around the Cultural Center and Three Towers have been renovated and look really nice, but some of our (ugly) habits have come to light. Until now, I have not noticed any cigarette butts on the corners of the sidewalks. Now everything is clean and washed, so the cigarette butts have come out and "shine" in the sun. It is disappointing that most of them are under the benches for rest, next to which, a meter away, there are concrete trash cans. All it takes is for arrogant and ill-mannered smokers to reach out and throw their cigarette butts into the bin, not under their feet.

It seems that even the "municipal workers" do not consider the pickpockets to be garbage or do not have appropriate brooms, only Bar is increasingly becoming a "pickpocket city".

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The easiest thing a man can do is to deceive and deceive himself. If he does something he is not proud of, it bites him and does not leave him, neither by day nor, especially, by night. Then someone he does not appreciate and avoids tells him that what he did was the right thing. He clings to those words convulsively and the flatterer is no longer a scoundrel and no longer a slave to him.

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"We are looking for a half-week without news of accidents and wars. We are looking for friends, even if they are worn out, all of them who have disappeared, displaced, died, lost, married - we are looking for all those who have torn us apart piece by piece, part by part: parts of our time, of our love, we are looking for them to return the love."

16 years ago, on March 3, Momo Kapor passed away. If he had lived until April 8, he would have turned 73. He wrote more than 40 books of different genres, including about twenty novels. Of all the novels, I have not read only "Una". I watched the film of the same name with Rade Šerbedžija and Sonja Savić and since it did not "impress" me, I did not want to read the book.

But I did enjoy the play "Una", by the Zvezdara Teatar, a few days ago in the large hall of the Cultural Center. Nikola Ristanovski, a Macedonian actor born 57 years ago in Ostrava, Czech Republic, excelled in the title role, and the masterfully directed (Dejan Projkovski) erotic scene in the bathroom will also be remembered, in which there was not even a "v" for vulgarity, only the senses spoke... The young actress Magdalena Mijatović was also very impressive.

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“This book is no good. It should be destroyed,” Gabriel García Márquez told his sons Rodrigo and Gonzalo before his death. At the time, he was struggling with memory loss and said in despair: “Memory is my tool and my basic raw material. Without it, there is nothing.”

His sons, however, did not listen to him, and it would be better if they did. The unfinished novel of about a hundred pages, "See you in August", is a quick and easy read, but at times it gives the impression that it is a weekend romance novel...

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A few years ago, Maša was in Seville, visiting her friend, Mar, with whom she studied in Edinburgh. She spent five unforgettable days in Andalusia. Mar had a grandmother in her 90s. The old woman said to Maša as she was leaving: "Now, my child, you know where we are, so don't let us call you, come yourself!" The Spaniards, it seems to me, are similar to us. In general, the Spaniards are good people...

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Montenegro really does have many “pearls scattered all over the world”, as Bajaga sang. Divna Ratković, the tenth generation of Ratkovićs in Bar, studies and plays tennis at the prestigious “Rice University”, in Houston, Texas. And she excels. This year, Dina received the “Scholar Athlete” award, which the University gives to a student-athlete who demonstrates “exceptional results, leadership, character and dedication to their sport and the university community”.

Divna, to put it simply, received the award because she is an excellent student and a top tennis player.

As a high school senior, she won me over when she easily defeated all the boys we were training for the school chess competition, and she never attended chess lessons. Besides, she was a very talented athlete.

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My friend told me he couldn't wait for me to come back. I thought he wanted me because of the walk and the "teferič".

"When you're not here, there's no one to count the people of Podgorica, on the weekends, on the Bar promenade!"

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I am sorry that the people of Kotor did not stick to their decision not to play water polo matches outside their city and the Zoran Džimi Gopčević swimming pool as hosts. In Yugoslavia, World War II ended in the early 1970s, so after 25 years, in Croatia, the Homeland War did not end even after more than three decades.

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I don't bet, but I still follow the European football leagues. And I think that, traditionally, the clubs I support will be the ones to win the title, except for Red Star in Serbia. And these are: Mornar in Montenegro, Hearts in Scotland and Arsenal in England. Rijeka in Croatia has already been eliminated.