Sunday, 8 January 2012

"Románia"- Magyarország, Jégkorong (a három! Himnusz):)

After the Romanian and then the Hungarian national anthem was played, the audience started singing the Szekely (or Szekler) Anthem.


The Hungarian minority of Romania is the largest ethnic minority in Romania, consisting of 1,431,807 people and making up 6.6% of the total population (Wikipedia)
Most ethnic Hungarians of Romania live in areas that were, before the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, parts of Hungary. These areas are today known as Transylvania, where Hungarians make up 19.6 of the population.

Hungarian
Ki tudja merre, merre visz a végzet
Göröngyös úton, sötét éjjelen.
Vezesd még egyszer győzelemre néped,
Csaba királyfi csillagösvényen.
Maroknyi székely porlik, mint a szikla
Népek harcának zajló tengerén.
Fejünk az ár, jaj, százszor elborítja,
Ne hagyd elveszni Erdélyt, Istenünk!

English translation
Who knows where destiny takes us
On a rough road on a dark night.
Lead your nation to victory once more,
Prince Csaba, on the stars' path.
Handful of Székely being crushed like the cliffs
On the storming sea of the battle of nations.
Our heads are, oh, a hundred times covered by the tide,
Don't let Transylvania be lost, Our God!

Monday, 19 December 2011

Saturday, 10 December 2011

50 word story: Soul searching

She knew she needed a vision. She was staring at the blank screen, trying to find the one thing she really liked doing and she was passionate about. She realised the answer wouldn’t pop out of her head. She needed to seriously take stock of her skills and her interests.

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Friday, 2 December 2011

People Are So Outraged At Coca-Cola's Holiday Cans That It's Abandoning Them After Just One Month

Is it just me, or this is really that funny?? (and textbook material on ‘brand building, what not to do’)

Coke released this:coca cola polar bear can

And got this:
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I can almost see ‘the confused person’, opening the can, taking a much considered first sip, savouring it, savouring it, and finally concluding that ‘this stuff definitely doesn’t taste the same’…oh dear! Coke, bring back your signature brand colour.

Bring it back fast. And so they are doing exactly that after a month of the failed, silver polar bear packaging. Milk is white and coke is red (on the outside at least). And no more funny business please.

This is a brand we know and trust.

Yes. In (red) Coke we trust.

People Are So Outraged At Coca-Cola's Holiday Cans That It's Abandoning Them After Just One Month