Month: May 2004

Victory Day

Victory Today is a big holiday in Russia – The Victory Day. On May 9, 1945 Soviet soldiers put the flag of USSR on German’s government headquarters – Reichstag, signalling an end of the Second World War.

59 years passed since that day. Most of the people who survived that war are dead now. But there are still a few. And it’s sad to see how they are living their last years. My father’s parents were teenagers during that war and they are still alive. But it seems that noone cares. The country is greatful to these people. That’s why my granma has a penssion of 12 US dollars per month and my grandpa has 13 bucks. Some appreciation, isn’t it? This is ugly as hell. :(

Anyway, I congratulate everyone with this huge holiday and I hope those who were envolved in any way have the chance to celebrate.

Trip to Omodos

Omodos Today Olga, Vladimir and I went to Omodos village to warm up our summer travelling habbits. It’s the second time I’ve been to this village. First time was together with Lev about 3 month ago when it was cold and dark. This time around it was rather warm (+25C). It was also very sunny. The village itself is small and there is nothing particularly interesting about it except for a church being in the middle of it and a number of narrow streets going up and down in every possible direction.

Omodos appears to be very attractive for tourists since we’ve met few crowded buses leaving the village while we were entering it. And there were still a lot of people. Some of the tourists prefer to live there in rented apartments. There are few caffeterias, but I haven’t seen any tavernas.

It took us about 1 hour to drive there from Limassol, we’ve spent another hour walking around and one hour driving back to Limassol. If you have about three hours to spend on a sunny weekend day, you might as well like to go there. ;)

I’ve made a number of photos while walking around. I was rather surprised to find some harsh shadows, although it was about 5:00pm. The colors and contrast are good though. Check them out here.

Heat

Somehow I ended up watching “Heat” on DivX today. It’s a very fine movie and I’ve seen it few times before, but for some reason, the title doesn’t stay in my memory.

The movie has a nice dramatic story underneath, while having a lot of crime action with bank robberies, shootings, fights, and the like. The drama part is very well delivered by Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and a few other well-known actors and actresses. There are few boring and overdone places (like the dialog in the caffee between a cop and a leader of the gang), but overall everything places nice.

There is no way that Hollywood will ever produce a film without happy ending, so there is one here too, but it is as dramatic as it could be. :)

Recomended watch if you didn’t have life for the past 10 years. :)

Metallica S&M [Live]

I’ve finally got my hands on a couple of CDs with Metallica’s S & M, which they recorded live together with San Francisco symphony orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen. After listening to less then half of the first disk I had a terrible regret that I didn’t get this masterpiece earlier. Maybe I am too emotionally attached to Metallica songs or maybe this recordings are really that good, but my head was blown off few times. :)

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Big and Good news for Hazard

Today is a big holiday in Hazard’s life. He has received his pink slip (aka Cyprus temoporary residence permit). He has spent the good part of the last two years fighting to get it and waiting for it to arrive, but today his waiting is over. I forsee great celebrations in the nearest future. :)

Congratulations, Vladimir! I hope it will be much easier to renew it in 2005 then it was to get this one.