Police, Adjective

Politist, adj.

Interesting socio-political commentary. People familiar with the recent history of Romania would probably relate better to this film.

This film reminds me deeply of Johanna Billing’s project Magical World, where she filmed a group of Croatian children singing Sidney Barnes’ wistful & somewhat cynical song. I saw the video in a Viennese art gallery in 2007, & have never forgotten it since. Incidentally, Romania became part of the EU in January 2007. Police, Adjective brushes upon several aspects of a society still in transition after communist rule & integration into an expanded democratic partnership directed by Western European values. Croatia is a current candidate of the EU and is expected to be accepted into the EU in the next two years.

Thure

Haven’t been here for a while.

This is going to be a rather rushed & disorganised entry, but I recently revisited one of the films Thure has starred in & looked up his more recent projects.

I’ve always wanted to see him play a gay character and I just discovered that he has done so. (With Nicolas Bro in it, too. Could it get any better.) He’s mostly played heterosexual characters (bisexual in one case) & I just wanted to see how it is for an actor who’s gay in real life to actually play a gay character. Would it be different from a straight actor playing a gay character? It’d be interesting to see.

Mangia! Mangia!

Never underestimate the pizza maestro.

Some enthusiasts from the Botany department built a cob oven next to their greenhouse. So today a group of random people (some from the department itself) gathered to bake pizza in the tiny but AWESOME oven.

It was so friggin’ cold today! Even the dough was cold as ice. My hands were freezing over as I desperately tried to knead the dough. After vigorous efforts, I was finally able to soften and flatten it, afterwhich I scavenged for toppings to make it look somewhat decent.

I thought it would be difficult to “maneuver” a thin crust (with the huge shovel thing), but my crust turned out too thick, and under all the stress of doing everything for the first time, it was really difficult to get the middle of the crust to cook well before the outside gets burnt. Once the pizza got tossed in, all was in my hands and no one was able to help with anything other than to verbally boo and cheer. I laboured long and hard, chiselling that little thick-crusted pizza in the cob oven, relying only on my unreliable intuition in Italian cookery.

So in the end, I think I ended up eating a lot of raw dough. But the whole experience was akin to taking an instant trip to Naples and back.

Later in the evening, I got rung up by a cute guy at the local grocery store. By cute I mean: I’d so totally paint him in a 14th-century setting. And his name was Geoffrey.

To All

You tell me what you think it is –
I am nothing but a doll to you.
When will one take me as I really am?
My pleasure is not for trial.
I give all to only one
Who tames the falcon that is my mind;
And one who is able to see
The colour that my heart doth bleed.

Depose the godi!

Sweethearts! What cute little Vikings!

 

indifference

I do not mind
a travesty of love
even if I look for love
that is real

you don’t know
and you will never

Because I Knew You

 

 

Caught the Wicked musical today. I couldn’t stop crying when they were singing this scene.

Queen In Training

My niece — currently 4 years & 10 months old.

 

Sister-In-Law: See, darling, I washed your shoes promptly.

Niece: Yes, it is prompt. But it would be more “prompt” if you bought a new pair.

 

she lived her life full of risk and full of play

 

 

In an intangible sense, life is insane.

I don’t know, but when will the flowers blossom?

I’m always going on about “I’ll do so next time. I’m not feeling up to it today. Besides, the weather is no good today. Besides, blah blah might be blah blah blah.”

Maybe I should scrap that altogether and seriously DO what I’ve been dreaming to and wanting to do when I see a chance! And stay a second longer.

*shakes fist*

 

TA: I suspect that some of you did not check your preliminary report with me, such that you went down the wrong path.
      *glances at me*
Me: *glances at TA*
TA: Please make sure that you do so this time, so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes.
      *glances at me*
Me: *glances at TA*
TA: Alright?
      *glances at me*
Me: (OK, YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THAT SO MANY TIMES.)
      *nod nod*
TA: *nod nod*

Styrbjorn knows what you’re up to every time.

 

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Baby don’t give me s**t.

Due to the lack of data & all, things didn’t proceed all that smoothly today. While I was stirring the stuff and spraying everything onto my gloved hands, I knew then that I am not going to do that for the rest of my life. But I will go on for now and I know I am in love with         .