Monday, August 28, 2006

You're just too good to be true

Really, one of my favourite songs.

It's funny how being out of my element makes me notice the smallest details about people and their effor tot blend in or not. This is one of those occasions where I assume the form of a wall or blend into the wallpaer to observe what people are doing when they think noone is watching.

Another funny, yet typical of me as well at least, is to almost forget about someone, and then be completely overwhelmed by surprise and mixed feelings when that person is mentioned. More suprising even is the fact that the particular person actually seems responsive from miles away...it is a hell of a rollercoaster ride! It's like when you give up waiting for someone at dinner, order some food, and they just turn up when the food has come...


Note to self:running gives me sore shoulders...unbelievable!

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Covent Garden

So here is the inside of the Royal Opera House. Been there again for the Premiere of Don Quixote by the Bolshoi.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Hang on, Irina! I'm being sued!

really, some people have a rich imagination!

CSI: Completely socially incapacitated

Ah yes I spent my evenings watching CSI for the past 2 days. I did miss watching it on TNT and Fox with all those Pizza Hut and Wendy's commercials..heheheh. But now I'm up to date and I can't wait for the next season. My social skills aren't improving and I suprise myself in preferring to stay indoors and watch a serie than go clubbing...yikes! am getting old!

Which reminds me: I need to train for the freaking 10k coming up in October.

I also suprise myself in not being worried about all the news at the moment. Maybe because I don't care anymore, or just because it really doesn't concern me for now. I'd pay attention to it if I was travelling...being self centered really does help not being worried to much and enjoy life as much as I can.:)

My cousin asked why I was working all the time. He's right, I need a holiday! I'm just trying to afford it so that I won't worry so much about how much would be left in the bank (if anything). Which reminds me of that dissertation I had to write in high school (philosophy class):' what is work and why do we work?' ...What i never understand is why they ask that kind of question to 15 year old kids whose only jobs were probably to wash the car, wait tables (with variable amount of clothes) and do other people's homeworks...ahem. How can you write a 4 page paper if all you can find is ' i do it for the money'? At least now I can add ' and also to kill some time otherwise I'll be so bored'...

Sunday, August 13, 2006

'Ring ring' by ABBA..LOL

I was sitting by the phone
I was waiting all alone
Baby, by myself I sit and wait and wonder about you
It's a dark and dreary night
Seems like nothing's going right
Won't you tell me honey how can I go on here without you

Yes, I'm down and feeling blue
And I don't know what to do, oh-oh

Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all
Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall
And I sit all alone impatiently
Won't you please understand the need in me
So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call

You were here and now you're gone
Hey, did I do something wrong
I just can't believe that I could be so badly mistaken
Was it me or was it you
Tell me, are we really through
Won't you hear me cry and you will know that my heart is breaking

Please forgive and then forget
Or maybe darling better yet, oh-oh

Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all
Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall
And I sit all alone impatiently
Won't you please understand the need in me
So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
Oh-oh, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call
So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call

Friday, August 11, 2006

Musical moment



Our sunday morning concert in Wien

Schonbrunn garden & zoo

So this is the castle where Sissi used to hang out in the summer..lucky girl

We visited the zoo with Caroline's Melman

Wien Rathaus

Last June in front of the Wien rathaus, they had a stage up for worker's day or something. Professions showcasing were hairdressers, fashion clothes makers, dancers, etc...



We just sat on the ground and hummed with them..ok, sometimes scaring the people around us as usual

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Codes, ciphers and languages

Ciphers

Am reading this litle book (10cmx10cm) on codes and ciphers at the moment, just hoping it is a good short version of the other serious 'intro to cryptography' book I borrowed for life from my prof. And in paralle, am also reading another book, also borrowed, on the English language. Made me realize some langugae actually express some thought sbetter than others...learned for example that in English there is 'home' and 'house' but only one word in French, 'maison'. I am sure there are words in French as well that have no direct equivalent in English (I can't think of any at the moment because am tired and I don't want to switch my brain to French). Mostly though, there are some things that are shorter to say in a language or other, so my lazy brain just picks that up.

The worst thing though is trying to quote or repeat someone, usually a line in a movie or book, then realizing I cannot remeber in which language it was...Follows a series of bactracking in time and space to figure out when where and with whom the episode was, and by the time I get the correct quote in the correct language, nobody is interested anymore!

This is why I am much more comfortable writing that talking. I have more time to think about each word, and to use it with its full meaning. I'd be interested if you have an example of the 'house-home' subtelty in French or Spanish though...

And to finish on a suspense, tonight I'll upload some videos about my trip in Vienna...

Monday, August 07, 2006

Ohayoo gozaimasu!

Darn, it's monday...and I'm not sleepy despite an all nighter.
Thoughts for today:
-happy and chilled: weather is rainy and I have to catch up on sleep!
-wishing to dream of flying. Well given my weight at the moment it'll be a welcomed miracle!
-I need to do more mental math exercises, because I can't multiply anymore.
-Am actually thinking in Japanese sometimes, thanks to all these animes I watch...sugoi!
-The radio keeps mentioning '6 weeks of summer'...how depressing...I wish there were 6 months of summer!
-A special comforting thought to Zab who must not feel very good these days. Life really sucks at times.

Alright, the God of my dreams calls me into sleep (ahem, Wentworth Miller)..MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

More seriously, someone told me once I am using comedy or laughter to mask everything and don't allow anyone to get close to me...maybe. I only feel I enjoy a good time in good company though, even if sometimes I also enjoy the silence of an early morning by myself.

Friday, August 04, 2006

A day in the life of -H-

This looks more and more like a diary entry:
Today, walked across London for an hour to buy shoes (yes, I needed a pair after I couldn't find one that satisfied my fancy from my cupboard). To afford these new ones I will have to sell my old clothes and shoes that bore me next week. Then went for drink in Notting Hill with a coworker (sorry I metion work). On my way back, saw a disgraceful woman in the bus: wearing a lycra top too small for her, and a pair of tight jeans also too small for her. It was so small she was showing her full black laced panties to the whole bus..beuark. Viva liberty of expression...

Thought about something I discussed earlier in the evening: I do envy people with childhood friends. I have great friends but I don't see them very often. Someone asked if our time spent together were fantastic, joyful, awesome, yet superficial moments as they are only blips in time. For me they are not, as I give myself heart and soul to that moment, forgeting how ugly and miserable life can be, rejoicing only in the time spent together. They may be mere blips in time, but they are happy blips that make it worth waiting for the next blips.

I'm not even sure how you spell that word: bleeps, blips, bleaps...

And there is no childhood friend for me to share the stories of the past.

Oh and i've been let down quite unexpectedly by a local good friend who decided to go to the beach with some other girls without telling me (let alone inviting me). I always expect so much of people and let myself be disapointed.

I'm afraid to be blue in a white rage, green hatred and red anger so I'll just get in my shell and stay brown and spicy

Until all is rosy again...(think of a happy thought)