The Final Frontier...

Complete reconstruction

2007-09-27T00:24:00.000+02:00

Hey all

Sorry for the recent lack of new posts but the blog is under re-construction and after that back into life :).

Talk to you soon.

International Biker's Festival

2007-06-11T07:59:00.000+02:00

Hi people

This last weekend (the effects of which are now fading because of the intense studying) was kinda special. There was a special even on the 8th and the 9th (Friday and Saturday) near the Belvi Hotel just outside of Skopje. It was the International Bike Festival, which is turning out to be a tradition, organized by the Night Wolves.

During the two days there were a lot of activities, bands and impressive sights (imagine a 2km long convoy of bikes riding through Skopje - now that's a site). Here are some photos from the event on Saturday. Enjoy

That's all folks...c ya

My Visual DNA...try it yourself....

2007-06-07T03:19:00.000+02:00

Hello my friends,

I recently discovered this "test" if it can be named like that...and I found it to be quite amusing. If you think that you know me well...check again...you never know if things have changed. This is my Visual DNA.....

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

My beer personality :)

2007-03-18T16:53:00.000+01:00

Hey friends :)

Thanks to Emi I stumbled upon this various tests...just for the sake of FUN.. :D

What you see below is MY BEER PERSONALITY :)

You Are Heineken

You appreciate a good beer, but you're not a snob about it.
You like your beer mild and easy to drink, so you can concentrate on being drunk.
Overall, you're a friendly drunk who's likely to buy a whole round for your friends... many times.
Sometimes you can be a bit boring when you drink. You may be prone to go on about topics no one cares about.

What's Your Beer Personality?

Wisit www.blogthings.com for more tests and other things you can integrate in your blog...or whatever purpose you can think of.

C ya

Simply magical...

2007-03-15T02:56:00.000+01:00

Hey Friends

I just wanted to share with you, a song, actually a video....that is, after all, one of my favorites :)

Enjoy....

"Klizaci" :) At the Scating Rink

2007-02-16T22:16:00.000+01:00

Hallo friends,

Another happy event worth memorizing. A lot of smiling faces...or even more....see.read for your self...

The story goes like this...

One day the members of AIESEC Macedonia decided to visit Skopje's "modern" skating rink and spend some time trying not to fall in the cracks on the ice. After all, we wouldn't like to damage the "best" ice in the world....

Anyway... w were so happy...at least some of us...

...others preferred to sit and laugh to the others...or maybe making a complete fools of them selfs...just for the sake of fun...

Other did what they were supposed to do..skating...at least in a way... :)

After a while our lively observing squad decided to break the ice and get in the skating rink instead of just besides it...the problem was...that although some were trying to beak the ice and TRY in the conventional manner...

...others took this, breaking the ice, quite literally...

...after a while....all of that had to come to and end...and again...some were extremely happy to finally get away from the cold...

....others...were very, very sad....

...that was it from that event...

Stay tuned for more....

Hope you enjoyed this episode :)

Iron Maiden in Belgrade... :)

2007-02-14T10:52:00.000+01:00

It was some time ago, when I opened the official Iron Maiden website, that I was surprised beyond my wildest expectations. It was something I read the made me very, very happy...

"Maiden confirm Belgrade gig
Published: January 15, 2007

Iron Maiden have confirmed that further to last weeks announcement of an additional show in Athens they will be playing a headline show in Belgrade on Wednesday March 14th 2007 as part of a short run of dates in mid March.

The venue is the 18,000 capacity Belgrade Fair Indoor Arena and tickets for the show will be going on sale on Wednesday 24th January.

Says Steve Harris 'I'm pretty sure in saying that this will be the first time we've been to Belgrade for just over 20 years back on the Somewhere in Time tour so I'm sure many of our fans in Serbia will be very excited at the news that we're making this visit that some would say is long overdue! As we said a couple of years ago we would try and visit new places and cities where we haven't played for a long time when the opportunity to do so came up and this is just such an occasion. And we are very much looking forward to it' "

Oh, you have no idea how I count the days till the 14th of March....The ticket + transport is "only" 3500 den. but what the fuck... I don't think that I'll have the opportunity again...at least not this close to me!

Source: www.ironmaiden.com

Gene Roddenberry - A man ahead of his time

2007-02-12T02:32:00.000+01:00

Personal Life

Gene Roddenberry was born in El Paso, Texas and spent his childhood in Los Angeles, California where his family moved so that his father can pursue a career in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Following his father’s footsteps he attended the Police studies at the Los Angeles City College.

After changing several universities he transferred his interest in the field of aeronautical engineering and qualified for a pilot’s license. Roddenberry joined the US Army Air Corps where he flew many B-17 Flying Fortress combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.

After leaving the service he spent the following years flying for Pan Am as a commercial pilot. Soon, he left Pan Am and went to pursue a career as a TV series writer. Gene also served in the LAPD from 1949 to 1956.

Gene was married twice, first to Eileen Rexroat and later to Majel Barrett, whom he later casted in various Star Trek roles.

Ahead of his time

Gene Roddenberry is commonly known as the master mind behind Star Trek. He was the one initiating the ideas for the, now, legendary Star Trek Series. As he firstly introduced his ideas in 1964 as a material to rival Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, he was criticized and rejected until finally accepted by Desilu Studios. Star Trek: The Original Series premiered in September 8, 1966.

After the cancelation of the series after only three seasons, Gene struggled until, in 1975, Paramount offered him to develop a sequel for Star Trek. Soon things changed and what was firstly meant to be just a sequel to the series now became a plan for a Star Trek featured film. The result was – Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Although the film was criticized, it turned out well in the box office and it resulted in plans for new featured films as well as for a new season for the series – Star Trek: The Next Generation, created in the 1980s.

Gene Roddenberry was a man ahead of his time. In the Star Trek saga he spoke about things which, in that time, were difficult even to imagine. He created a whole new culture, dozens of civilizations and many legendary characters. He created the United Federation of Planets, a diverse world that, opposite of the current reality, was living in unity and cooperation. Racial discrimination and war on the Earth were far behind in the past, money was no more, people were not living with the greedy need for material assets but were co-existing and helping each other for the greater good off all mankind.

The technology in Star Trek is a story for it self. Things like, the communicator, the transporter, Warp engines, Photon torpedoes etc, were things new to the common man, with or without imagination. All though all that seemed impossible to comprehend, people liked the series. This resulted in the integration of Star Trek in the everyday life. Scientists began to draw ideas from the series. The communicator from Star Trek was the gadget that initiated the discovery of the cell-phones, the pads (that replaced paper in the series) gave the idea for the today’s pocket PCs, and even the transporter gave some masterminds of the present day an idea to experiment (There is a story here as well). Star Trek is so well know that even NASA honored the Series and named a Space Shuttle – Enterprise.

Never the less, the biggest benefit from the idea that one man had, are not the gadgets that we use, but the change of the mindset of people regarding possible and impossible things. If you consider it from that perspective, if we are now using the cell-phones and pocket PCs, maybe in the future (near or later) we’ll be using Warp technology and transporters to travel from planet to planet and outside our Solar System. Maybe even sooner than we think, we’ll be discovering the strange new worlds and traveling The Final Frontier...

Gene’s work of art contributed to the change of a lot of things. He was the first to put a Russian character in the “good team” in an American movie. He put a female character in the “Captains chair”, he helped us break the stereotypes and the limits of our minds. This is why Star trek is appreciated all over the world. He did a lot more controversial things during the airing of the series and the movies, things today commonly accepted in the film production and the everyday life.

The Saga Continues

Following the initial success the saga continued. With his health now getting worse from day to day, he was forced to gradually give control to Rick Berman and Michael Piller who later, based upon the Star Trek written by Gene Roddenberry, created Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Gene was the executive consultant in the creation of the next four films as well - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The last film based on the Original Star Trek series Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was actually made in memory of Gene Roddenberry, as it is known that he saw a version prior to the final one in the last hours of his life.

Based upon the original ideas few other films were made – Star Trek VII: Generations, Star Trek VIII: First Contact, Star Trek IX: Insurrection, Star Trek X: Nemesis. Star Trek XI is due somewhere in 2008 with no official release date announced.

After Gene Roddenberry’s death his estate allowed the creation of two more long-running series based on unfilmed ideas and concepts that Gene had - Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda.

Gene Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991 at the age of 70. After his death, a lipstick-sized capsule of his ashes was sent into space to orbit the earth for just over five years (after which they burned up in the earth's atmosphere). He was a pioneer ahead of his time.

Enjoy!

Source: www.memory-alpha.org

Star Trek on Macedonian TV Stations

2007-02-10T23:35:00.000+01:00

Hey world…

The Star Trek fans in Macedonia need your help! By now almost everyone knows what Star Trek is and how important role the Series had and still have in many aspects of our modern life. You have no idea how many useful gadgets that we use everyday have their origin in ideology and the technology from the series.(But I’ll write about that in another occasion).

From a couple of months ago, Macedonia has its own Star Trek fan club – MAKTREK. The Star Trek fans in Macedonia have an issue in terms of persuading the National TV Stations to buy and show the series. Some time ago we initiated a petition that should help us in resolving this issue.

Click on the image to sign the petition

MAKTREK is inviting you to sign it and help in the distribution of the Star Trek Series. Let’s not allow the “show” to end with us…the next generations deserve a chance to know what Star Trek is all about.

At the and I'd like to apologize for the fact that the explanation text in the petition is in Macedonian but the petition is meant to address the Macedonian TV Stations.

Thanks

Moments to remember... :)

2007-02-10T22:06:00.000+01:00

Life is just too good to just let it fly by your side. Now, some will say that this is a thing that an old man would say, but if you ask me, it’s never too early or too late to start appreciating what life’s throwing your way.

Once in a while, there comes a moment or maybe more of them that are worthy of saving, moments that you wished to last forever, moment which will have a spot in your mind and heart for the rest of your life.

What follows are some moments that I will never forget. But why wasting words…picture’s worth a thousand words. So see it for your self…

The EB Team of AIESEC Skopje 06/07 at EuroCo Opening (What a sight ha :) )

Actually, some time before this event (EuroCo) the EB team went to Ohrid, to plan the term and spend a vacation after NPM (National Planning Meeting). Now, this is a story worth remembering... :)

We even got into some crazy things....like "making" commercials..... :) or some other wild things.... Anyway, I had the best time of my life. Unfortunately all of this had to come to and end...and it did..

Yup...we had a great time....but I'd like to think that there will be even better moments and a lot more fun ahead of us. Actually I'm sure of it!

That's all for the moment...C ya all soon :)

New voyages....

2006-11-20T01:36:00.000+01:00

Captains log, Stardate -317885.1...

Welcome, my friends.

This is only the first chapter of what I want to call, The Captain's Log. The captain, aka me, aka Rogi, wants to welcome you on this journey of continuous adventure.

Let us explore...everything! In here there are no known limits, there are no boudaries and obstacles...only our unlimited imagination and our will,strong enough, to discover starange new worlds...to know more...to achieve rather than aspire...to succeed!

So, my firends...without further delay...

Take us out Mr. Data! 1/4 impulse...engage!