Haha, YouTube really rulez! While surfing it recently, I came accross a wedding video of my neighbor in Aravan, whom I havent seen for ages! I remember we grew up in the same mahalla, studied in the same school, and were members of the same football club. His name is Yodgor, cant remember second name.
Watch and enjoy Uzbek wedding in Aravan, Osh oblast (Ferghana valley) 
Video by Artur Valiev, a guy from Aravan, who is studying (or working) in US at the moment, if I am not mistaken.
Isnt it cool? Oh, how I miss traditional Uzbek weddings…
To be exact, we are going to Karakol city. A promising trip, as I will be doing trainings on new media and blogging for a group of local youth. My Pentax K10D will be with me, so I will try to publish in the blog some nice pics from the trip.
My friend noticed a very interested fact. When he was searching for my blog via Google with a key word “Толкун” (my name spelled in cyrillic), Google search bar automatically suggested him several options.
He noticed that all suggestions are related to Valentina Tolkunova, a famous Russian singer born in 1946. However, when he clicked the button “I feel lucky”, Google forwarded him to my blog directly.
How does it work? I thought Google’s “feeling lucky” function directs searchers to the site that is searched more then others via the entered key word. Or it is because of my domain name?
Have never been there yet. They say Batken is one of the least developed regional centers of Kyrgyzstan. I will write a detailed post if its true or not. Anticipating the trip.
Just like a year ago, when taxes were raised several times, the Kyrgyz government again suprised everyone by skyrocketing the prices for electricity and heating! Starting January 1, 2010, all customers must pay 1.5 som per one kilowatt/hour of electricity, twice more than before (0.7 som). Beginning from Junly 1, 2010, the price for electricity will be rised up to 1.9 som per one kilowatt/hour!
But this is nothing compared to prices for heating and hot water. Now, customers are paying 507 som per one gigacalorie. Beginning January 1, 2010, we start paying 1050 som, and starting July 1, 2010, it will rised up to 2.5 thousand som per one gigacalorie! click here to read more
Surely Odnoklassniki.ru is one the best examples of success stories of how a social network must work online. For three years they have changed their interface several times, and every time including smth new. And they have gathered more than 30 million users!
However, one thing that kills me about Odnoklassniki is that they have become too much commercialized. In order to close your profile from non-friends user pays $2.5, to increase the photo limit in “personal photos” and “albums” user pays $2.5 for each category, to turn the invisible function user again pays $2.5. And even smiles cost money at Odnoklassniki…
Recently, Odnoklassniki became Jacobized, i.e. filled with small icons of Jacobs Morach coffee next to profile pictures of users that says that “a friend … invited you for a coffee Jacobs Monarch.” They say Jacobs Monarch paid hell a lot of money for that free function.
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As the function is free, people started using it immediately. For two days, half of the people in my friends list were already invited for a coffee online. Some even started posting statuses asking not to invite for coffee cuz they do not drink it.
Effective way of advertising, dont you think so?
Update: I am Jacobized too! 5 minutes after I published this post, I was invited to drink Jacobs Monarch coffee online with my friend in Germany
Общественная Организация
«Центр Информационно-Коммуникационных Технологий»
объявляет о проведении молодежного форума «Цифровая молодежь ЦА», который состоится 5-6-го декабря 2009 года в г.Душанбе.
Цель мероприятия: Развитие межрегиональных связей молодежи Таджикистана и стран Центральной Азии для активного применения ИКТ в решении социально-экономических проблем. read more…
After a long and sometimes even boring process of finding “pros and cons” of different internet browsers, I finally decided that the best “user-friendly” web browser for bloggers and people addicted to social networking is Flock!
Why is it cool? Cuz Flock has amazing features that allow social networkers and bloggers post on different social networking sites and blog platforms from one single interface. Plus, it has installed “feed reader” that makes your life even easier saving your time from visiting each single web site or opening your “google reader”. Media Bar, Web Clipboard sidebar, Peoples sidebar, Accoutnts sidebar, etc, etc, etc…
Click read more to have a look at videos that show how blogging becomes easy via Flock. read more…
G0-0-od, it seems I will never recover… 
Maksim Bakiev Source: Diesel
Hm… Yet another mistake by the president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev. He recently appointed his son Maksim Bakiev to head the Central Development, Investments, Innovations Agency, a state organization formed after the recent large-scare reforms in government system of the country, initiated by the president himself. Experts say [ru] the Agency is a key organization in future economic development of Kyrgyzstan.
It seems Bakiev did not learn from the mistakes made by his predecessor Askar Akaev, whose family-based way of ruling finally caused his failure.
Maksim Bakiev short bio:
Finished high school in Kazarman village, then entered the Kyrgyz-Slavic University. In 1999 graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law of the university.
The first professional experience was in the international law firm “Interpravo”. Was a member of the Advisory Board under the rule of the British holding company BCB Solution Limited.
The last five years – an international consultant, expert in strategic planning, geo-economics, marketing, logistics, quality management, legal and financial issues.
Until recently, a member of the Board of Directors of a multi Latvian holding Maval Aktiviti.
He headed the Wrestling Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic. During his leadership of the Federation Kyrgyz athletes won silver and bronze medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Owns shares of the Blackpool Fooball Club, playing in the British Chamionship League.
