I have finished with blogging my Pafos adventures. I planned to create a list of links to all new posts here since I’ve created them under appropriate dates, but they turned out so many that I think it will be much faster for you to scroll down through the archives for August and read the posts that you haven’t seen before.
If you are interested only in pictures from the trip, then I must warn you that there are a lot of them – more than 500 images. The photo albums are here.
I watched “The Full Monty” on DVD. Somehow I missed this film when it was going in the cinemas and since than I wanted to see it. But every time I was updating my ToWatch List I miraculasly forgot about it. Today I finally remembered and since the rentals were still open, I grabbed it and… enjoyed it.
It is a nice comedy which is very realistic and routine, but that has a whole bunch of English humour. It changes paces all the time – at times it is slow and boring and at other times it is as fast and funny that you don’t have enough time to laugh through all the jokes.
It is does not fit into a family kind of movie, but it is great to have fun at during the slow and tired evening. I’ll rate it as 8 out 10 for a good average density of jokes.
If you have noticed a slight slowdown in posts to this blog, that is because I was in Pafos on vacations since Sunday the 15th. All the updates you’ve seen in the period of August 15 – August 24 were there because I prepared them prior to my vacation leave, so that you had something to read and come back to.
I have returned today with a whole bunch of stories, reviews and photographs and I will be posting them here in the nearest future. I have been keeping notes during the vacation, so don’t worry – there will be plenty of stuff. I just need some time to go through it and organize it.
If you are wondering why I haven’t warned you – that is simple. Security. If there are any bad guys around all they need to know are the dates that noone will be home and the home address. And since the home address is already published on this site, I decided to keep the vacation dates a little secret. Now that I am back, that is secret no more…
Things People Said collects all those funny things people accidentally say in every day life. Courtrooms, excuses, kids talk, and stuff like that. Some of these you have heard already, some of these you haven’t. And some of these you said yourself. :)
“Akira” is a 16-year old animation we have seen today. There are some pretty neat drawing techniques which make it feel more like a movie and not an animation. The story is a somewhat usual Japanese twick with an almost executed global trouble. By “almost executed” I don’t mean something that almost happened. I mean that there was alsmot nothing left of Tokyo and that happened very fast.
I am not a huge fan of Japanese movies and animations. They are too sad and depressing for me. This one started off as something much lighter than I expected, so I decided to watch. Somehow it was getting bigger and bigger towards the end. And the result was as usual – I was unable to stop watching it and ended up with shocked and depressed mind. And I was feeling glad when the animation finished. For some reason I do feel glad every time I watch Japanese cartoon or film. Maybe I am broken…
Anyway, I’ll give a 7 out of 10 for the excellent graphics techniques.