Sunday, August 17, 2008
Rroke mandolinen, bjeri ciftolise ..., cdo gje mund te jete rokenroll
Te ndegjosh Bregovicin te kendoj shqip kete nuk e prisja. Per anekdoden, e ka mesuar shqipen ne ushtri, ne kapanon duke ndegjuar ushtaret kosovare duke kenduar. pas kesaj kenge ne rruget e sarajeves, nje byrektore i ka ofruar grupit byrek falas per tere jeten. Akoma han byrek qyl ata ... Nejse e meritojne se kenga eshte e bukur.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Newton's Laws of Graduation are really really ringing loudly ...
Come here, good words, come... I will take you home, and I'll treat you right and give you a place in my thesis... you don't want to be in her thesis; you want to be in mine...
Lovely Pasadena and Rose Bowl arena flea market
The Rose Bowl flea market in Pasadena (It's on the second sunday of each month) is one of biggest in the world (that's what LA weekly thinks) and definitely the biggest one I have ever seen. I love flea markets, you can get lucky and found cool, rare, unique stuff for a few bucks. There is also, good food and when the weather is also good like it was today is perfeto for cool stuff hunting. This time I just bought a cowboy hat, another hat in my collection.
Pasadena city hall
Also, I had to admit that is nice to hang around in Pasadena cycling. You feel so good after having experiencing LA dowtown. A real nightmare, traffic-speaking but also because is so uggly and dirty. I have also reached the phase where people would stop me in the road (even while I'm cycling) and ask for directions three times. Pfff tourists are so annoying some time. This is a clear indication of integration in the californian lifestyle. Who would ride a fat-tire, in beach shorts, with flip-flops and a t-shirt "California pipeline"?
After being in El-Centro (AZ) this is the second time riding the mitique "Route 66".
Pasadena city hall
Also, I had to admit that is nice to hang around in Pasadena cycling. You feel so good after having experiencing LA dowtown. A real nightmare, traffic-speaking but also because is so uggly and dirty. I have also reached the phase where people would stop me in the road (even while I'm cycling) and ask for directions three times. Pfff tourists are so annoying some time. This is a clear indication of integration in the californian lifestyle. Who would ride a fat-tire, in beach shorts, with flip-flops and a t-shirt "California pipeline"?
After being in El-Centro (AZ) this is the second time riding the mitique "Route 66".
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Once upon a time in the East ...
A a fine bbq , a few beers. By the way this thing is addictive don't even try it.
http://www.hoppsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/miller-chill.gif
Ok, back to the bbq, after a couple of Miller lights and the last drops of Power Rangers holy water people start playing with the old vinyl J has in his closet. One of them was a golden edition of "Pet shop boys". Second song was this one:
It's weirs how under the effect of alchool you are either in a total black-out (90% of the times) or, or you start having some weird flashbacks. Start laughing like crazy but It's not the whole flashback but only some snapshot of it :
1)First years of high school and the disco-boom area had just started (or maybe had started a couple of years before but that's about how far my memory can go now). There were so many of them and so strategically situated around the school. We were actually surrounded by them. this was one of the mos famous song back at that time. this was a slooowww song. This was THEEEE SOOOONNNNNNGGG. Anyway, I'm still a big fun of 80s.
2)We had to skip school classes, and those were "non important" classes: literature, gym, english (that's one of the reasons behind my poor grammar). Between 10 a.m and 2 p.m the ratio was 1 hr in the disco and 1 hr in the class. there were still important subjects like math and biology (still hadn't figure out how to draw oignons losange shaped cells). But we were still in the disco ...
3) Poor math book!!! Math was the biggest book we used to have. all the nootebooks and the other books would go inside the math book and the math book would go under our shoulder. Cowboy boots, jeans(Motor jeans) ,leather jacket and the math book under the shoulder walking to school, a picture framing this, that would be worth a lot of money.
Tryed to explain this to the gang and they didn't get it. Whatever Trevor!
http://www.hoppsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/miller-chill.gif
Ok, back to the bbq, after a couple of Miller lights and the last drops of Power Rangers holy water people start playing with the old vinyl J has in his closet. One of them was a golden edition of "Pet shop boys". Second song was this one:
It's weirs how under the effect of alchool you are either in a total black-out (90% of the times) or, or you start having some weird flashbacks. Start laughing like crazy but It's not the whole flashback but only some snapshot of it :
1)First years of high school and the disco-boom area had just started (or maybe had started a couple of years before but that's about how far my memory can go now). There were so many of them and so strategically situated around the school. We were actually surrounded by them. this was one of the mos famous song back at that time. this was a slooowww song. This was THEEEE SOOOONNNNNNGGG. Anyway, I'm still a big fun of 80s.
2)We had to skip school classes, and those were "non important" classes: literature, gym, english (that's one of the reasons behind my poor grammar). Between 10 a.m and 2 p.m the ratio was 1 hr in the disco and 1 hr in the class. there were still important subjects like math and biology (still hadn't figure out how to draw oignons losange shaped cells). But we were still in the disco ...
3) Poor math book!!! Math was the biggest book we used to have. all the nootebooks and the other books would go inside the math book and the math book would go under our shoulder. Cowboy boots, jeans(Motor jeans) ,leather jacket and the math book under the shoulder walking to school, a picture framing this, that would be worth a lot of money.
Tryed to explain this to the gang and they didn't get it. Whatever Trevor!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
Body worlds - Human body exhibition
Body Worlds is a fascinating traveling anatomical exhibition of preserved human bodies.Entire human bodies, including soft tissue, muscles, organs, and blood vessels are preserved by a process called Plastination, invented by Gunther von Hagens.The exhibit of 200 bodies and body parts gets rave reviews. In fact, people love it so much, they want to be IN IT and there is a waiting list of donors (which is of course anonymous).
Once considered controversial because of the use of real human beings, who may or may not have given their consent, and a few bodies found disturbing to some, such as the body of pregnant woman. This whole experience was awsome. I'm usually the kind of person who would turn his head when an trash scene would appear but pushed by the gloomy weather down in SD and the lack of sunshine this last two weeks decided was time to migrate north and check the exposition. Anyway, considering myself very sensible to bloody and trash scenes of human bodys etc I still managed to get throught the whole exposition. It's not what would you think, at least what I was affraid it would be ...
Totally worth it. As a student you get a reduction of 50% so I'm going again tomorrow to see a show they have realised to show muscles working LIVE.
For interested CaliforniaScienceCenter
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