Beer corners update

Today is Friday, so I decided to meet with few old friends for a pint or two. First place to check was Rio Bravo (about 200 meters down from the K-Cineplex, Limassol). I’ve been here few times before and didn’t particularly like the place. This time it was much better. They started to make their own chips instead of serving some ugly 30 cent stuff. The music wasn’t shouting until late into the evening. It was also a birthday party of the bar (4 – 6 June), so they had an offer of all the drinks for only 1 CYP under the condition that you will go and get them by yourself. That didn’t work for us though, but, somehow, we managed to get few free pints, baseball caps, and some other useless items.

Around midnight we went to check another place – Molly Malone’s Irish Pub & Restaurant. It’s a nice place 100 meters to the left of Chesters Bar. It’s huge, but quiete. We liked it there mostly. I’ve also heard that there is nice food also, but it was too late to order anything, and the kitchen was closed anyway. We’ll be back. :)

Movie schedule by SMS from K-Cineplex

News from “What’s new” section of K-Cineplex website: movie schedule for specific theatre can be sent to you via SMS. Instructions for recieving such SMS are simple.

  1. Send an SMS to 99 33 30 77 with the word KCLIM, KCNIC, or KCLAR for Limassol, Nicosia, and Larnaca respectivly.
  2. Recieve an SMS with the list of movies
  3. Choose a movie that you want to get the schedule for (1,2,3, etc) and SMS it back.
  4. Recieve what you the schedule SMS.

I just checked it and it seems to work fine.

Buy or rent DVDs online in Cyprus

Good news! Internet is winning the hearts of Cyprus companies slowly but firmly. I’ve came across DVDcy.com today which both sell and rent DVDs online. Price tag of 10 CYP per DVD seems a bit low, but it’s low enough to try it out. :)

The site seems to be new. I’ve checked the Top DVDs section and found only 4 DVDs there. All of them are porn. No surprise here. :)

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

I was in a mood for a movie, but all theatres were occupied by “Day After Tomorrow”, “Troy”, and “Van Helsing”. But when I have to go, I have to go. :) The best IMDB retated film that I haven’t seen yet that was in the cinema, was “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!“. Considering the quality of comedy-romance films recently, and the amount of them pushed down to us from Hollywood, I didn’t want to go too much, but had to anyway.

The film turned out much better then I expected, but not better enough for me to call it’s IMDB rating of 5.6/10 unfair. It is a typical, predictable, light movie as many others. The guy behind this film is Robert Luketic, who has less then 5 movies under his belt, with “Legally Blond” being one of them. You get the idea. Most of the cast was also new to filmmaking and acting business alltogether. There were only two people who pushed this film up from 2/10 to 5.6/10 – Topher Grace (Pete, the guy who’s silently in love) and Ginnifer Goodwin (Cathy, blonde’s friend). If it wasn’t for them, the movie would have been a total disaster.

Quest for GPS device continues

Magellan GPSGarmin eTrex LegendMy quest for handheld GPS device continues. I have acquired a better picture of the market and of what I really want and need in the device. Currently, the best two candidates are Magellan GPS (picture on the left) and Garmin eTrex Legend (picture on the right).

These two devices are very similar in make and functionality. Forums and reviews that I’ve read split aproximately 50/50 in recommending either one of these. The price difference is not that great also. Garmin’s Legend seems to be $20 USD or so cheaper. Froogle prices for Magellan GPS are here, and for Garmin eTrex Lenend – here.

My previous favorite was Garmin eTrex Vista. Vista is about $100 USD more expensive then Legend. Both devices have the same make and functionality with Vista having some extra memory (24 MB vs Legend’s 8MB), altmeter and compass. I am willing to sucrifice these for 100 bucks though. :) By the way, Garmin website has an excellent product comparison page.

I still haven’t made my mind yet, so any information that can influence my choice is mostly welcome.