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i will no longer write on this blog. i have a new blog now.
update your linxxx!!!. my blog has moved to bardhihaliti.com/blog

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this blog ends here...with this post. im in the process of transferring to another blog and will let you know more about it when that process is done. cheeeerrrrsss.

this blog will soon stop existing...

my good friend nita salihu finished her undergraduate degree in graphic design from university of prishtina, and now is doing her masters in multimedia/graphic design also at the university of prishtina. She works for ogilvy in kosova, and as part of the independence celebrations, she designed the huge steel type that reads "newborn" set in DIN bold. This typography sculpture went in the center of prishtina, the capital of kosova, where the independence celebrations took place. the whole project took around 10 days to finish. most of the people celebrating the independence got to sign their names on the letters, including the president and the prime minister.

click here for more pictures

i got sagmeister's new book in the mail today. comes with 15 different covers. very neat.

So, my country, Kosovo (official name now Republic Of Kosova) became independent this past sunday. It's been very surreal and a great feeling. Surreal mostly because we never used to celebrate something of our own...we always celebrated other countries independence like Albania's and Americas...and since we weren't a country we did not have our own national soccer team playing in the world cup either so we always picked other european countries to support during world cup.

Anyway, everyone I have talked to at home has been feeling great about this "thing", this whole "thing" they have been waiting for too long. I personally didn't know how to celebrate. Well, I wasn't even in Kosovo...so instead I just spent the day playing ping pong and feeling great. I still continue to feel great for many reasons. I'm very excited to see my country on the map. I'm excited to be a citizen of a real country. I am excited that I will no longer confuse the people at the airport when they check my "passport".

Thanks to all the countries that have recognized our independence so far; Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Costa Rica, United States, France, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Albania, Turkey, Australia, Senegal, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Belgium, Finland, Lithuenia and Austria. And as for the countries like Russia, Spain, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus who won't recognize our state I dont really know what to say. I'm not gonna say anything about Russia, cause i never care what they think. But, as far as Romania goes, shame on them. They are the poorest country in Europe so they should know what it's like to want something better. They were crying like little babies until they joined European Union. Im also very disappointed at Spain. Just disappointed that they continue to stand by the Serbian government on the Kosovo issue, a government that still to this day hasn't apologized the the people of Kosovo for all the pain and suffering they have caused them. A government that has denied the war and the killing in Kosovo. It's beyond my understanding.

I wish all these countries would understand. I wish they'd understand that we can't go back to someone who has raped us, tortured us, killed us, taken all the basic rights from us, abused us, massacred us etc. Imagine your father raped you, killed your mom and your siblings, would you go back and live with him? You probably wouldn't. That's how we feel about Serbia. We never wanna be part of it. We like being on our own more than anything now...and there's nothing that will stop us.

i just finished the second issue of resource room. you can see more pictures on my flicker, and if you are interested in writing on the next issue please contact me at bardhi.haliti@gmail.com

i took this image from my friend vigan's blog. this is the sunday cover of a big daily newspaper in kosova. p.s. yu stands for yugoslavia.