OK - quick update because I can tell that you're all just sick and tired of being stared at by Vampiress. 
Or maybe it's summertime and no one bothers to update or comment anymore. Or it could just be sunspots, global warming and a terrorist plot - stealing all your comments away before I get to read them. Fine. Whatever. 
Yay! Happy 230th birthday to the usa, mostly because it gives me a day off. And I don't have to sing.
Excitement, you ask? I reply, where? Actually I plan to spend time at a leisurely alcoholic brunch, maybe a nap, watch some futbol, maybe another nap, and probably do some reading. I like holidays without big plans for fun. I'll just let the spirit of relaxation wash over me.
My summer reading project is to read (in most cases reread) Nabokov's novels, approximately in the order he wrote them. It'll probably take more than the summer, because I don't plan to stop reading other things while following this obsession. Just finished "Mary" his first, and clearly not his best. But so many of the stylistic elements are already present - including the playful and creative use of language - although the translation to English was done much later.
Non-Nabokovian reading material includes "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (also author of the wonderful book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" on the middle east).
Film you should see = The Lost City, Andy Garcia's tribute to old Havana.
Travel update: I'll be visiting my little brother and his family later this month. Wisconsin, here I come.
Meanwhile, he'll be on his way to Bangkok again soon, and returning just in time to see me for a couple of days. Hope he takes lots of photos.
Can't resist adding a joke too.
A husband was in BIG trouble when he forgot his wedding anniversary.
"Tomorrow," his wife angrily told him, "there had better be something in
our driveway that goes from zero to 200 in two seconds flat!"
The next morning, the wife looked outside and saw a small package in
the driveway. She brought it inside, opened it and found a brand new
bathroom scale.
Funeral services for her husband have been set for Saturday.
Ok, I'm done boring you, for now at least...
Or maybe it's summertime and no one bothers to update or comment anymore. Or it could just be sunspots, global warming and a terrorist plot - stealing all your comments away before I get to read them. Fine. Whatever. Yay! Happy 230th birthday to the usa, mostly because it gives me a day off. And I don't have to sing.
Excitement, you ask? I reply, where? Actually I plan to spend time at a leisurely alcoholic brunch, maybe a nap, watch some futbol, maybe another nap, and probably do some reading. I like holidays without big plans for fun. I'll just let the spirit of relaxation wash over me.
My summer reading project is to read (in most cases reread) Nabokov's novels, approximately in the order he wrote them. It'll probably take more than the summer, because I don't plan to stop reading other things while following this obsession. Just finished "Mary" his first, and clearly not his best. But so many of the stylistic elements are already present - including the playful and creative use of language - although the translation to English was done much later.
Non-Nabokovian reading material includes "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (also author of the wonderful book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" on the middle east).
Film you should see = The Lost City, Andy Garcia's tribute to old Havana.
Travel update: I'll be visiting my little brother and his family later this month. Wisconsin, here I come.
Meanwhile, he'll be on his way to Bangkok again soon, and returning just in time to see me for a couple of days. Hope he takes lots of photos. Can't resist adding a joke too.
A husband was in BIG trouble when he forgot his wedding anniversary.
"Tomorrow," his wife angrily told him, "there had better be something in
our driveway that goes from zero to 200 in two seconds flat!"
The next morning, the wife looked outside and saw a small package in
the driveway. She brought it inside, opened it and found a brand new
bathroom scale.
Funeral services for her husband have been set for Saturday.
Ok, I'm done boring you, for now at least...
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fatal:
lol blame my mate who took the pic for the red eye =p xx
salome:
Nabokov is brilliant. I am currently trying to find which books were written in which language originally, and then trying to read each in the original. This is hard.