Month: August 2003

Fridge hunting and random bits

Since I spent the night in the NOC, most of the day was up to my disposal. Of course, until the evening, when I had to get my butt back to NOC.

First few hours after awakening were devoted to moving around the town trying to make a picture of what shops and offices are already closed, which will close in the next few hours, and which will close in the next few days. It’s holiday seasons, so most of it was either closed or preparing to get closed.

Since we (me and Olga) were already moving around the city, we decided to do something useful. Like buying a fridge. :) Apparently, all midium sized fridges were sold out to other normal families who would need them. Shops were left with small to extra small sized fridges for children and bachelor students and large to extra large fridges for, I suspect, families of no less then 40 people. Seriously. I could fit three times in one of those fridges, and I no small guy. :) Anyway, we wondered around and did some research. Finally, we set on a silver colored midium (rare size) Hitachi. I don’t have a picture at the moment, but here is something that looks similar (although I am not sure about the size of this one, and the color is totally different). Since there are all these holidays around, it will get delivered only next week. But, we can survive. Oh, and if you are interested, it totals to 260 CYP.

Back to NOC where I do another round of coding. And that reminds me that I haven’t mentioned any of the perl modules that I was using recently and liked in particular, since the time of Class::DBI. Well, here is a nice and easy HTML::FromText for you, which makes it easy staff like text to HTML convertion. Soon enough, I’ll have it in the new version of this site too and you’ll be able to enjoy better formatted posts.

Trip to Nissi beach, Agia Napa

Saturday aka trip day again. This time we are off to Agia Napa. Cyan sea, white sandy beach, lots of bars and restaraunts. That’s about all there is in Agia Napa. Anyway. We went to Nissi beach, which is behind, guess what, a Nissi Beach Hotel. :) Some food in the beach restaraunt to wait for the sun to go a bit down. A pint, of course.

The sand is something. The view is magnificant, but the water is full of some green shit, which is probably because of the tourists dumping all sorts of crap into the water. And the water was hot. Not warm, not chealing, but hot.

After couple of hours on the beach, we went for another pint to the only nice place that we all know in Agia Napa – Jasmine. It’s a huge pub with food and drinks and nice design. It looks like you are sitting in the huge tree. Refreshing, after Limassol pubs.

Trip back home with original plan to watch a movie, but noone is in the mood, so we play a game of poker at my place. Olga won. I took the second place and Hazard did the third. Lev was outta game with way too much bluffing. :) And showing his cards.

That’s about it. As usual, waiting for Hazard to put out the pictures.

Fargo

In the afternoon, I’ve met with Lev for a pint and some beer shopping. Not much action anyway. In the evening though, Hazard came, we picked up Lev and went to Bavarian which is a German delikatessen shop with few tables to serve those delicatesses and beer. Service was awful though. But food and beer were very nice. We had an excellent time with Hazard being a guest star comic. :) Then we picked up Olga and went to Hazard’s place to watch a movie. “Fargo” this time. Supposedely a good movie. Everyone liked it. I liked the first 1/3 or even 1/4, but then could help myself off falling asleep. Now, I don’t mind when it happens while watching something boring, but when there is a good film screening – that’s becoming a problem. Maybe I need more sleep. :)

Dangeons & Dragons


It’s 8th day of 8th month today. Whatever. Since I was on the night shift during the night, the rest of the day was all mine. So, I’ve watched “Dungeons & Dragons” in the morning. Actually I could stand only like 2/3 of it – then felt asleep. Very boring movie. And something is totally missing, but I couldn’t get what it was – good acting, nice plot, or background music. Defenetely – not recommended.