Year: 2003

New fridge arrived. No pictures yet. :)

Trip to the mountains in hope of finding and visiting Gabriella’s Check restaurant. We found it, but unfortunately it was closed and we were hungry enough to wait until it would open in about 4 hours. Fast trip to Kakopetria village for the Old Mill restaurant. Everyone enjoyed it. I did less of all, I suppose. I defaulted to eating pork chop which was way overdone, dry, and crispy.

Hazard had to depart from our company due to some unknown business of his own. We, though, continued the day with shopping, staffing the new fridge, defrosting the old one. Lots of beer, whisky, and talking.

Then we decided to watch “A Beautiful Mind“. The greates dissapointment came when we found out that the DivX we had was only one out of two. The guy who did the ripping didn’t noticed it and put no marking upon it. So, not to get completely depressed, we signed it off as watching a long trailer. :) I’ll rent the DVDs tomorrow and we’ll watch the whole thing. It’s worth it. Olga and me have seen it in the movie long time ago.

A somewhat interesting discussion of Japanese and Chinese cultures followed which culminated by watching Jet Li’s Tai ji zhang san feng” (aka “The Tai-Chi Master”). Olga couldn’t stand the idea, so she went to bed. Lev and me though enjoyed the movie, which was way better then we expected. Actually, we didn’t mean to see the whole thing, but rather a five minute fight or something. :)

Gave Lev a lift home, picked up a hot dog on the way and went to bed. Holidays are over. :)

Again a new beach. I was freezing again for some strange reason.

It turned out that niether Lev, nor Vladimir had seen “Saving Private Ryan“. This had to be corrected immidiately. :) Although the DivX that we had was a DVD rip on to a 700MB CD disk, which made the quality really really bad. Frames were skipped, details – pixelized. I wish we had a better copy.

Discovery day. We started of with the visit to the new beach, which Hazard read about in the Internet. It was kind of OK, but the water was freezing. Noone agreed with me on this though, so it might have been something wrong with me. :)

In the evening we decided to find a new food point. Limassol eating and drinking guide suggested a couple of places. Italian restaurant in Akrotiri was all booked and they couldn’t find a talbe earlier then in one hour. Taurus steak ang grill house looked and smelled ugly, so we decided not to stay there for more then two minutes. Some more driving around and we end up in “Old Vienne” restaraunt. Overall it was OK. Mussles were kind of nice. Grilled mushrooms were ugly since they were in bread crunches which dried them out. Meat was no good too, and I suspect again because of the crunches. It was also a bit crowded which explains the slow service.

Today is a real holiday, but for some reason, Hazard and I took one shift in NOC each. Guess we are tired of resting. :)

Hazard also managed to publish the Nissi Beach pictures, so I’ve downloaded them and somewhat annotated them, but the mood was wrong, so I might change the annotations in the near future.

Watched the “Requiem for a Dream“. The topic of drugs is not new to me, but I was deeply moved by the movie. Excellent piece of work.

Kind of a sleepy day. Olga couldn’t move out of the flat. I was barely walking so I picked up sleepy Lev and went to Hazard to wake him up. There was no mood for much driving around, so we stayed home and watched “Life of Brian” (Monty Python’s). It was kind of funny, but not as much as was expected. And it seemed like I’ve seen it some time before. Anyway, since we missed some fun, we watched the “Holy Grail” thing once again. For some strange reason it was not as funny as yesterday, but still we had some nice ones.

Off to sleep some more.