Category archive for ‘Fun’ 
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Biathalon? Who Cares?
Global Voices Online has a report up on the reaction to Kazakhstan’s silver medal. Citing the post on Adam Kesher’s LJ (RUS) about how Kazakhstan seemed to be indifferent to the silver medal we won this year in Vancouver, Global Voices reviews some comments. Is it indifference to our country, indifference to the Winter Olympics, [...]
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Happy Valentine’s Day: You’re Under Arrest!
Missed this cute little story: On Valentine’s Day, policewomen handed out flowers and cards instead of tickets [RU] to traffic law violators in Kostanai province. On the back of the Valentine’s Day cards were explainations of the traffic laws.
The head of the traffic police section in Kostanai was quoted by zakon.kz as saying, “Today, [...] -
Seriously, We Need to Empty the North of this Country
A teacher who comes from Pavlodar told me that school there has basically been canceled since January because of the extreme cold. In Kazakhstan, they close school when it gets too cold, not when it gets too snowy–call them frost days instead of snow days, if you like. The idea is that children can get [...]
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Sting Gets No Slack
from Eurasianet.org, Sting gets in trouble for performing in Uzbekistan for the president’s daughter. Meanwhile performing for Kazakhstan is still okay in the world as Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez came to say Happy Birthday to the president’s daughter and no one hates them.
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Clean Up Your Act
I only post this Reuters story from Russia because it’s so funny and because it gives you an insight into the post-Soviet mentality. When a big man is coming, see how painstakingly people go over their city or school or home.
Theater posters proclaiming “We await you, merry gnome” were taken down from a Russian town [...] -
Dear Kazakhstan Olympic Commitee
I went to your website to find out more information about Kazakh athletes. I hoped to find some interesting facts about them so I could write about them on my blog. I wanted to try to get an idea of who the stars were and generate some interest about Kazakhstan Winter Olympians in the world. [...]
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First Medal
Elena Krustaleva took the silver medal Thursday in the women’s 15km biathlon. She had a perfect shooting record and was just a little too slow to beat Tora Berger of Norway, who came in 20.7 seconds ahead.
Khrustaleva is from Krasnyorsk, Russia and until recently raced for Russia but Kazakhstan apparently bought her and the [...] -
Learn How to Drive Like a Kazakh
Kazakhstan has its first video game! Astana Racer is a racing game set in Astana and apparently features a variety of cars from the Mitsubishi Lancer to a BMW. You can race all over the city from the Left Bank to the old center of town. The game is for sale at Meloman stores [...]
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Twas the Night Before Rozdestvo
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land/Not a single soul cared, for this was Kazakhstan/No stockings were hung by the fire at all/For fear they would burn if they would fall.
Great parody of A Visit by Saint Nick by a Peace Corps Volunteer, K-Chuck -
Merry Christmas!
The 25th December is of course Christmas in the US and Europe, as opposed to that heretical Orthodox Christmas who messed up their calendar and therefore have to wait until the 6th of January to get presents!
So Merry Christmas to everyone. May Santa bring you everything you want! May there be peace on earth [...]
