Sex and the City of Prague

Czech-French-Swiss-American/Armenian Connection

2006-12-09T14:40:00.000+01:00

now who has the nicest smile??? (clue: me!!!)

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providing mutual support to each other:-)

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Me and my flatmates = handsome foursome:-)

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the cigarette was put in my hand just for the photo purposes...plus it was a chewing gum that looks like a cigarette anyway (remember those?)

2006-12-09T14:33:00.000+01:00

little SOAS get-together...was clearly shocking to some people!

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the German connection

2006-10-25T14:06:00.000+02:00

Chci Petra nebo Alese???...O nebo dokonce i me?!

2006-10-25T14:05:00.000+02:00

wow even a foursome...should we just rename our ECP hardcore to a swingers party?

2006-10-25T14:04:00.000+02:00

probably one of the oldest ECP couples

2006-10-25T14:03:00.000+02:00

Polo, Evicka is spoken for! plus, she is actually real, not imaginary hence you should give up those flirtations right now!

2006-10-25T14:02:00.000+02:00

there were threesomes too...exactly how difficult it is to look into the camera for a second?

2006-10-25T14:01:00.000+02:00

Zuzka was clearly shocked she made to her birthday alive, having adopted such a bad lifestyle

2006-10-25T13:59:00.001+02:00

Lesy cheating on Eva with Kolon

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the tall, dark and handsome couple

2006-10-25T13:58:00.000+02:00

ok some people are eternally single (the fake dates and fictional girlfriends don't count) and they keep sabotaging the ecp drinking session because apparently they need to help a girl who is home alone (and whom they happened to meet for the first time on the exactly same day) with some sort of assignment...on Friday night....Polo,honestly, how much more bullshit do you think we will take from you, huh?

2006-10-25T13:56:00.000+02:00

oh men and their wandering eye...the new-to-ecp-hc-drinking-sessions-couple

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the "redneck" couple, now living in Hostivice

2006-10-25T13:54:00.000+02:00

the evil couple...ignoring the surgeon's general warning...and no, cigarettes won't make you look like an adult or a sophisticated woman, Zuzko!

2006-10-25T13:52:00.000+02:00

somewhat unexepected couple...Slepy and Ivanka please note that if Ivanka's boyfriend is sitting next to you (just out of this picture) such behaviour does not constitute cheating

2006-10-25T13:51:00.000+02:00

obviously some people are still single, older and none the wiser!

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the best girlfriends couple

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the legal couple...

2006-10-25T13:49:00.000+02:00

the party (celebration of my graduation and Zuzana's ??th birthday) took place in Wigwam as usual and it was overloaded with couples (as usual)..so here's the medical couple

2006-10-25T13:48:00.000+02:00

so this was my graduation ceremony...and all I got is this one lousy photo (and lots of flowers, great gifts and of course, the diploma in the blue tube)

2006-10-13T20:39:00.000+02:00

spot the difference between this and pevious photo!

2006-10-13T20:38:00.000+02:00

Kitchen party 12/10/2006...dominated by Germans and Americans

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Me and my flatmates at our kitchen party yesterday...Michiko, Hanah, Saro, me and Daniel

2006-10-13T13:56:00.000+02:00

Ladies and man of the hour...actually the first occassion ever when anyone saw Andre dancing to contemporary pop tunes!

2006-10-13T13:55:00.000+02:00

Me and Michelle out clubbing in Reading...if you wondered why our faces have this artistic shade all over them then, my friends, be aware that it's not chiaroscuro but just Andre's fingers accidentally covering the flash light...

2006-10-13T13:52:00.001+02:00

Michelle and her boyfriend

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stuck in the elevator...this time slightly happier after eating these horrible "magic mushrooms" (mushroom shaped marshmallows from Marks and Sparks) and before we left the elevator James Bond-style, climbing through a narrow space between the elevator doors which were pulled apart by these hunky Polish guys (who laughed at us and then just went away)

2006-10-13T13:48:00.000+02:00

yet another unphotogenic picture of Michelle...photo taken while we got stuck in the elevator in her apartment building.we spent like an hour between floors - me, Michelle and her boyfriend...every man's fantasy, right? Not so, with me and Michelle moaning about starving to death the whole time after being stuck there for five minutes

2006-10-13T13:44:00.000+02:00

Somebody finally texted Zuzka...halellujah

2006-10-13T13:43:00.001+02:00

Ivan practising his irresistable smile

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you should have heard that...so hilarious!

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This is not the best girl-pulling face, Slepy!

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Slepy trying to mingle with the girls

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I was leaving Prague for God's sake...why is everybody so happy???

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Kolonovi

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Lesovi

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Beer or Coke? That is the question

2006-10-13T13:37:00.001+02:00

Polo was so excited to attend my leaving party...Zuzana at least bothered to fake the smile

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Meditating about the meaning of life...

2006-10-13T13:36:00.000+02:00

Apparently no one explained the difference between an iPod and a mobile phone to Zuzana...

There are...

2006-09-12T14:31:00.000+02:00

5 types of relationships:
1. regular (there's love and sex, both parties interested)
2.platonic (one-sided, feelings only)
3. potential (both parties have feelings but there are obstacles to handle)
4. impossible (at least one person is interested and/or there are obstacles that cannot be dealt with e.g. wife that he loves)
5. imaginary (there's love and sex, both parties interested...in your head only!)
which category do you belong to???

2006-09-09T01:21:00.000+02:00

first photo in ages where I (dare to say) look semi-decent:-)btw these are all the people who will attend an ecp reunion in ten years time...everyone else will be busy getting married, divorced or giving birth

2006-09-09T01:18:00.000+02:00

this time it was zuzka's good twin who turned up and drank Coke and no cigarettes whatsoever...btw apparently our first lesson was civics with Mr.Robson; Ivan got to know Kolon by offering him an empty seat on a bench during the assembly; zuzka wore a shirt on her first day at ecp; lesy bought newspapers every friday, came to school with a kufrik and probably wore green on the first day; jarda wore his cute harry potter glasses and "podle hrnce" haircut s ofinkou; kabelka brought his red tea in a plastic bottle and home made cake every single day; Ivan had the best svacina ever aka gumovy rohlik with tavenak and salamek and has supplied me ever since with chewing gums!

2006-09-09T01:13:00.000+02:00

so this was our reunion...10 years together...bylo nas sest (ostatni maj deti nebo chudy vymluvy)

2006-09-07T22:55:00.000+02:00

theres a waiting list for this beauty:-)sign up now, it's the new Hermes Birkin bag!

2006-09-07T22:53:00.000+02:00

shiny, happy people...aka newlyweds no.2 and my third wedding I attended this year...

2006-09-07T22:52:00.000+02:00

first comes the baby, then comes the wedding...thats how it goes these days!

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newlyweds dancing - shake it, sista

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alles gute

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jekyllovi slipy (aka jekyll's briefs)...totally rocks, highly recommended

2006-09-07T22:48:00.001+02:00

best tombola since Hori, ma panenko

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ultimativni kuchynsky pomocnik

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I won a kluzak na snih and vazani na bezky z 80 let v puvodnim baleni...still better than lozisko or 2 kilos of peanuts

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no wonder nobody stole these prizes!

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great prizes indeed

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magic mushroom

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common boo, gimme kiss

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wedding crashers

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too many dogs, babies and baby bumps at this wedding for my liking

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wedding no.2 - yet another happy couple (whoever said men were scared of committment???)

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irish dance as a wedding gift? I prefer the irish liquoer

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Me, myself and I and newlyweds and my mum

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there's no way back from that little terrace above the water

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wedding no.1 - happy groom and bride and not a hideous bridesmaid dress in sight

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Wedding - couple no.1

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Warning! There might be a kadibudka in the forest!

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Warning! there might be a deer in the forest!

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the only bad thing about it being that they dont accept regular credit cards in supermarkets and Burger King (I still miss that whopper)

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We (heart) Dresden

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cool city huh

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dresden doll 2

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dresden doll 1

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latest trend: miniskirts from a hoodie jacket...to be seen in vogue soon

2006-09-07T22:29:00.000+02:00

remember that hill we had to climb up few pics ago...well that's the hill few kilometers later and higher...

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yep, we have to walk up there too!

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but I made it to the top yet again...it was worth the blood, sweat and tears

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you see that thing on the top of the hill??? well that's where we had to get...after having walked 15 km already and with 15 km (uphill) ahead of us

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what's up gangsta?

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and I wasn't alone...

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I made it to the top...well Pravcicka brana at least

2006-09-07T22:10:00.000+02:00

Green is the colour of Lesy, so take that shirt off Slepy!

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Mickal trying his forehand

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chcete me???

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Jarda sporting his then new hairdo aka The Baros...fail-proof way to pull women

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Miso, we miss you

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baddest chicks

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bad bad girl...in fact the evil twin again (got a new nickname for the twin: sin twin)

2006-09-07T22:02:00.000+02:00

2 signs that Zuzka is drunk: she lies on the bench and falls asleep AND she spills everyhting about her ex-bf (e.g. that she almost slept with him recently if he didn't play heavy metal music, didn't have a TV remote wrapped in a plastic foil, didn't have pictures of kittens all over his room and if she DID have a bottle of Fernet inside her)

2006-09-07T21:57:00.000+02:00

Michal I won't tell on you...all the crazy things you said...

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Polo neargumentuj...proste TO je tak velky (holky: HA HA HA)

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alcohol makes you lose inhibitions...see next picture

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women just don't do it for Jarda anymore...

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after show is the after party and after the party is...cleaning up!

just one little FYI

2006-08-15T14:38:00.000+02:00

previously published story is also known as the Story about Men who Love their Gf's and don't Cheat which I promised you while ago, along with the Edita story and two others which are coming soon. In fact, I don't think the other two are worth publishing anymore so I will stick to zuzka's Mr.XY story...in case you haven't read enough stories about failures with men and relationships already...watch this space!
Oh, and keep your thoughts and comments coming! It's my only motivation to keep this blog running...

The story about that asshole...

2006-08-15T14:29:00.000+02:00

…whom I will call Mr.XY for the purposes of this story (nickname – courtesy and copyright of Zuzana). (Zuzana’s got her own Mr.XY too, but her story is coming up some other time).
So once upon a time, at an unnamed university a girl who was just like me, happened to go to the same class with this guy XY. They always talked to each other in the fag-during-a-lecture-break-in-the-uni-yard way and their subjects of conversation usually didn’t get beyond uni work, politics, etc. That wasn’t until they went to a pub with a whole bunch of other students after they passed their final exams. It started off by him thinking that I was 25, me getting upset in the fake way (do I look that old???) and him trying to make up for it by saying how I caught his eye the moment he saw me in one of our seminars, that he thought I was good looking bla bla bla…you know the smooth talk. Then he said if he wasn’t with his current girlfriend, he would have been going out with me, that he likes the kind of girls like me, etc. (save the thought: WHY, WHY, WHY did he say all these things to me? for later when more information is revealed)
Then I slept over his place cos his flat was close to the pub (and he offered it to me – but also to other people so there was few of was sleeping there). So nothing happened obviously but I was kinda hooked….
Few weeks later, getting bored during the holidays I decided to organize a little uni reunion so I emailed him and his flatmate (whose happens to have the same name, apparently liked me too and is single…anyway you don’t want to get involved with more than one Mr.XY…in fact any Mr.XY after you finish reading this) so that they would contact the others and we would go out to a pub (I didn’t have the contacts for others although if I looked for them really hard, I might have found them...but why would I do that?).
It turned out that all the others couldn’t make it (which I was secretly hoping) so it was just the two us. And inevitably, after talking about work, politics, universities, impossible to get student loans, his circumcision etc.(you see totally common topics to talk about with a semi-stranger) we got talking about that stuff again - that we would be really compatible as a couple, the effort he made to get my number from a lecturer at the beginning of the school year (yet he never managed to text me or email me anything more exciting than some coursework stuff) and just more and more smooth talk (while I was getting more and more excited that this is actually leading onto something).
He also happened to talk a lot about his gf, giving me details of how he picked her b-day present, how she is different to all the previous girls he was with, etc. He also didn’t forget to say that before this gf, he was quite a ladies man, cheating on gf’s and swapping them more often than socks (he actually compared himself to the Clive Owen character in Closer if u saw the flick). But with this gf it’s for real, he calmed down, wants to be faithful, etc. (talking about mixed messages, especially when juxtaposed with what he said before – btw Mrs. Bardova or Mrs. Gault would have loved me for using “juxtaposed”).
Then I said how much I liked doing spontaneous things so he suggested we walked up the hill above the pub to see this great view of Prague (did I say it was a terribly romantic view too???). So we were standing there, watching Prague at night and I was just waiting (or dying) for him to kiss me. All he did was that he offered me a cigarette (booo!) and then touched my waist and leaned me towards him (hurrah!) to show me the lights of the Czech TV building which I couldn’t see before as I was standing 2 metres ways from him. He, again, offered me to sleep over his place, saying his flatmate was away (I mean - hello! could this be any more obvious?), only to add that I can sleep in his flatmate’s bed (what the F???).
So we walked to his place, he said that he liked the smell of perfume and instead of being over the moon, I was just the most confused girl in the world. I mean on one hand I was convinced he was hitting on me, on the other hand I got the impression he loved his gf and we were acting just like good friends/old flames who can get above the physical stuff that spoils any male-female relationship sooner or later…
In his flat, we lied in his bed (again two meters away from each other) and watched Closer (how symbolic!), then he fell asleep and followed shortly afterwards. During the night he moved to this flatmate’s bed (I still don’t understand why). Then we got up in the morning, had tea/coffee, we said good-byes and I went home.
Oh and did I say that I drank 6 mojitos, he had six beers and I was wearing a low-cut dress that night??? So you see I was still confused as ever (plus whoever said that alcohol makes you lose inhibitions was clearly lying).
That’s until I met with my mates later in the week who reckoned he was indeed hitting on me but he was just scared to make the first move (apparently the fact that he’s bit younger explains it all – apparently in his eyes, I was this older, more experienced hot goddess of sex who seduces man “jak Bata seka cvicky” or something – I mean, does that sound like me???). In my defense, I was scared too! Especially after all this gf talk plus in the film Hitch, it’s the guy whose supposed to go 90 percent of the way and the girl 10 percent and he clearly went 0 percent. Not that I used Hollywood fiction as the guide for my life but you know….
But I was getting more and more mad at myself for not doing anything that night (I couldn’t understand what I was scared of??? Even if he rejected me, yes it would be embarrassing but I wouldn’t have to see him ever again afterwards so I wasn’t risking anything…still). So I decided to give it another shot (all I really wanted was sex, not to break-up his wonderful relationship with his wonderful gf…afterall, I’m leaving Prague in few weeks…and I never ever had sex with a circumcised man:-).
So I thought it would be best to use his birthday (which was luckily one week after that incident) as a pretext to text him (pun unintended). I happened to find out about his birthday on icq (official version) but in fact it was when I googled him (and I know you do it too so no judgement please!). So after much thought and discussion I decided to go for the “funny” birthday message which would hopefully spark off further sms conversation. It said something like: Hi, my icq has been flashing at me like mad for ages that it’s your birthday today so happy birthday and celebrate in a way appropriate to your age (he was only turning 22) smiley face.
Apparently, it’s only me and Zuzana who thought it was funny. (and I’m never using Zuzana again as my sms advisor: a) she’s still single and never managed to get a bf through text messages – mostly cos she never texts the guys she’s interested in, b) she thought a funny way to invite a guy she had crush on to a party was to text: Hey it’s the 16th anniversary of unearthing bone remains of a T-Rex called Sue in South Dakota so that deserves a drink…I mean, that screams boring, nerdy, desperate!)
Luckily she never sent the message. As for me, so far I got no reply from Mr.XY. Not even thanks for the sms and now f*** off…absolutely nothing.
So at yet another drinking session in Wigwam, my male friends suggested the b-day sms was OK but not obvious enough (basically, unless you say “f*** me now” in a text message, guys just don’t get it) so I should text him again. This time I used this garden party at my house as a pretext (which I only organized in order to have a pretext to invite him) and sticked to what my male friends thought works best on male species. It said something like: Hi there, I’m throwing a barbecue party at my house this Wednesday from 7 so it would be great if you could make it. Bring some drinks, sleepover provided (in my bed – OK, I didn’t say that:-).
And guess what?! So far no reply and I’m still counting…(Slepy, you're a dead man!)
I mean could you believe it??? Whatever happened to good manners? It wouldn’t hurt him to make up a lame excuse or just to ask me to stop bothering him or whatever but this???
I’m so glad I didn’t start anything with this asshole…as if I needed yet another bad experience with men!