Archive for December, 2006
See movie for only 50KC
Written by cd on December 9, 2006 – 9:25 am -Starting next week, Palace Slovanský shows all movie for a mere cost of 50KC.
Name: Palace Cinemas : Slovanský dum
City: Prague 1
Address: Na Prikope 22
Zip/Postal Code: 110 00
Phone Number: 420 257 181 212
Site: palacecinemas
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Vietnam is hot for Czech investors
Written by cd on December 8, 2006 – 11:59 am -
Here is why:
- Agreement between two countries preventing double taxation.
- Vietnamese government’s protection of Czech investment.
- Fakes are not produced in Vietnam compared to China although they can be bought fairly easily by crossing the China border which is only 3 hours away from Ha Noi.
- Easy to register a patent or trademark.
- The Vietnamese government imposes high import tax on markets of Vietnamese made brands to support domestic production.
- Favorable weather condition for assembly line operation.
- Little difficulty in hiring Czech-speaking work force. Less bureaucracy compared to India.
- Transport Infrastructure and energy industry look promising.
[Read the rest of the article here.]
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Czech Idol
Written by cd on December 7, 2006 – 7:50 pm -I felt like right at home watching the Czech Idol on the Internet. (No, I don’t have a TV at home.) It came down to four contestants when I watched it yesteday. It was a shock to both J. and I as the girl we thought the best, Barbora Zemanová, was eliminated. Earlier in the competition, she sang one of my favorite song “What If God was One of Us” by Joan Osborne.
See these Czech idols in action.
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Saint Nicolas Celebration - Saint, Angel and Devil
Written by cd on December 7, 2006 – 6:14 pm -Saint Nicolas Celebration
Last night I took a train to Prague to meet up with Honza and Sarka to celebrate Saint Nicolas Day. According to tradition, a trio of St. Nicolas, a devil and an angel walk around the city and distribute candies to good children. For some reason, every kid become well-behaved on that day as everybody ended up with a handful of candies. Devils are seen at each corner of the street since all they need are flashing horns on their heads or disguise their faces with scary makeup.
(See more costumes)
Three of us had a light dinner at Hybernia where I discovered an typical European craving. Can you believe that Honza ordered a cheese snack comprised of few slices of cheese, three cubes of butter, five slices of toasted breads, three pieces of baby tomato, and a lettuce leaf. He savoured his plate as if he had never eaten any real food before.
Friend’s comment:
Ahoj
Reading your articles about Prague, some latino dancing is on the roof of Kotva building, my friend wen there to dance Salsa.
Cheese craving - if you were a daily whiteness of something adoration from your youth, you would do the same, for me was funny that many Cape-Verdians hate garlic and eat it with only deepest bravery. When I was cooking some Placki - something like creppes du tomato for them and added there garlic they yelled at me that I must be mad. When I replied that in my country it is normal to make of it a soup and that it is delicious, their faces deformed by psychical suffering. To hate and love mostly is not the matter of personal experience but just prejudice.
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