Dorky Unsexy kinda... Scary

Pics from Ireland trip!

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:22:44 GMT

Ireland, we're coming!

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:17:52 GMT

Officially on holyday!

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:52:26 GMT

YAY!!!!! Exams are over.. 28/30 is the final vote!
not bad ;D

exam.. the day after!

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:09:10 GMT

It should have gone quite well.. 20/20!
20 answers needed (over 27),
20 answers given

I just hope that the answers are correct :P

back to study now.. time to simulate (and maybe emulate) teaching :)

the day has come..

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:34:02 GMT

today I have my 1st year final exam.. *scared*
as everytime I must be "evaluated"..

r.

Tom McRae + Tori Amos + Nick Cave - Neapolis Festival 2005

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:28:34 GMT

Nick and fans rocking the stage

Tori

Carlo and Steve

Me and hubby

Napoli, Italy
July 8th, 2005

SETLISTS

Tom McRae
For the restless
Border Song
A & B song
Walking 2 hawaii
The boy with the bubblegun
Language of fools

Tori Amos
Original Sinsuality
Crucify
Yes, Anastasia
Little Earthquakes
Amber Waves
Improv - Sweet The Sting
Purple Rain (Prince cover for her Tori's Piano Bar)
Blood Roses
Cars And Guitars
Improv - Northern Lad
Improv (tubular bells) - Spring Haze
Barons Of Suburbia

Nick Cave
West country girl
Abbatoir blues
Red right hand
Wonderful life
Baby you turn me on (dedicated to his wife)
The weeping song
Cannibal's hymn
Rock of gibraltar
Messyah Ward
Henry lee
The mercy seat
Hiding all away
God is in the house
Tupelo

The lyre of orpheus
Stagger lee (sloooow version)
Jack the ripper

Tori Amos - Live @ Fiesta - Rome, Italy (July 7th)

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:36:59 GMT

Original Sinsuality
Crucify
Take to the Sky
Mother Revolution
Cloud on my Tongue
Amber Waves
Playboy Mommy

piano bar
Father Figure (George Micheal cover)
Imagine (John Lennon cover)

Blood Roses
Liquid Diamonds
Seaside
The Beekeeper

1st encore
Leather
Sweet the Sting

2nd encore
China
Hey Jupiter

PS: Happy Birthday again, Claire! :o)

13 bombs in London Subway

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:03:16 GMT

6 Blasts Rock London, Killing at Least Two
By JANE WARDELL, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Half a dozen explosions rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, police said. At least two people were killed and nine injured in the nearly simultaneous blasts, and officials shut down the entire underground transport network.

Movies to see

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:11:20 GMT

Sin City	Madagascar	Batman Begins

	(coming soon)

post Live8

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:58:45 GMT

Sales increase at HMV between Sunday June 26 and Sunday July 3:

1 Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd : 1343%
2 The Who - Then and Now : 863%
3 Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits : 500%
4 Dido - Life For Rent : 412%
5 Razorlight - Up All Night : 335%
6 Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits : 320%
7 Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul : 309%
8 Sting - The Very Best of Sting & The Police : 300%
9 Travis - Singles : 268%
10 Madonna - Immaculate Collection : 200%
11 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters : 174%
12 Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits : 170%
13 Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta : 166%
14 The Killers - Hot Fuss : 131%
15 U2 - Best of: 1990-2000 : 116%
16 Elton John - Greatest Hits: 1970-2002 : 111%
17 Keane - Hopes and Fears : 101%
18 The Beatles - 1 : 71%
19 Snow Patrol - Final Straw : 69%
20 REM - Reveal : 50%
21 Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other? : 36%
22 Coldplay - X&Y : 3%
23 The Libertines - Up The Bracket - : (minus) 35%

Movie Premiere

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:16:50 GMT

Me and hubby were supposed to be at "The Howl Moving Castle" Premiere (directed by Hayao Miyazaki), but we entered the wrong place :P and got to see "Lords of DogTown" Premiere.. it was fun anyway..

A day in History..

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:50:06 GMT

1981: The last year Pink Floyd - guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, keyboard player Richard Wright and bassist Roger Waters - had appeared onstage together before Saturday.

Pink Floyd
July 2nd, 2005
Live 8 live in Hyde Park
London, UK

more pics from Ljubljana..

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:35:58 GMT

Ljubljana pics.. finally!

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:13:42 GMT

Nick Cave (solo) Live @ Krizanke - Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 17th, 2005)

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:30:23 GMT

What a great weekend!! :D
Just got back home.. I'm quite dead..

01. West Country Girl
02. Abattoir Blues
03. Red Right Hand
04. Nobody's Baby Now
05. Wonderful Life
06. Lucy
07. The weeping song
08. Cannibals Himn
09. Rock of Gibraltar
10. Strange Days

11. Henry Lee (dedicated to fucking Micheal Jackson; he changed the ending part, cut off a pair of verses, and sang a new different one (new to me but maybe not for you) saying "don't do like mister henry lee"..)

12. The Mercy Seat (rocked as always!)

13. Hiding all away (after the end of which he reprised the ending "there is a war coming" changing the lyrics into "there is a mother fucking" or something like that Laughing crazy!)

14. God is in the house (he asked for the odience to sing along, but just the chorus and not the verses.. he even explained the meaning of both saying that the chorus is that catchy part, easy to remember, while the verses are more lyrically complicated.. or something like that, not the exact words ;D and when it came the part of "Alleluja", we all were so quietly shouting it that he laughed his ass off!! LMAO!!!)

15. Jack the Ripper

FIRST ENCORE
16. People ain't no good
17. Let the bells ring
18. The Ship Song
19. Tupelo (but he made a lot of mistakes)

SECOND ENCORE
20. The Lyre of Orpheus

Then they had to go away. He said he would have been back (hope with someone else on sound system cause it sucked)
Me and hubby were on "spodaj desno", the red chairs, second row on the right. quite good seats, but then everybody stood up as Nick asked us.. Nick was hilarious all the time, saying fuck here and there, fuck to the man on sound, fucking micheal jackson, oh fuck.. He even whispered some of the song "requested" cause he seemed not to remember their tune (lol)..

Great night, afterall :)

And Ljubljana is a fucking amazing city!! :o

4 Parties in 2 days..

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:24:41 GMT

That's kinda crazy, but i did it!! ;D

Me and Hubby

Monterotondo Sky

R.E.M. live @ Stadio Olimpico - Roma, June 10th 2005

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:56:22 GMT

Stunning!

Setlist:
I Took your name
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
These days
Ooutsiders
Driver 8
Bad day
Leaving New York
Leave
Animal
Everybody Hurts
Electron Blue
Electrolite
Me in honey
Orange crush
Final strow
The one I love
Walk unafraid
Losing my religion

Encore:
Imitation of life
Get up
The Great Beyond
Wanderlust
Nightswimming
DJ
Man on the moon

Big Red Button - Based on true events

Sat, 21 May 2005 10:16:35 GMT

"Is there something in me meant to be?"
Music has always been an important part in my life as it helped me to express feelings and emotions i couldn't or wouldn't tell.

"In her eyes was Mexico"...
This cd has definitely entered in the house, in my little world.. It has a certain power to depict images in my mind.. foreign landscapes, a glass of something strong, a wooden room, a warm hug around me and a sunrise in front of me, with nothing in the middle to bring me away. And the warm voice of the singer, Christine Mourad, empowers the melancholy notes of the acoustic guitars.

"I will tear the sky, I will burn the sea.."
But from time to time everyone needs to be shaked from apathy.. And i know for sure that love has this power.. A love that brings you up..

"And I'll fall in love again.."
The only song lyrics written and sung by guitarist Jason Orme, fall between joy and desperation, all at once, to celebrate one of the moment-key of everybody's life. Words quite whispered, notes calm and floating in the room as a lullaby. A love that brings you down.. on the opposite she sings

"Something it's breaking"
The eternal round of falling in love and falling over.. The rage for the n-th defeat in the war of love can be felt on the higher chords..

"as I run this desert, will I uncover my treasure?"
It's always hard to start again after a defeat, to build up the houses and the bridges with the world outside, to start to smile at life again, to let someone else enter our little world..

"frozen in time"
Happiness can break you down as much as the defeats.. since the fear to loose everything in a moment is too strong and sometimes overcomes the joy itself.

"I'm a flower in the darkness"
Fragile but strong, ethereal but determined..

"Does anyone remember their life?"
In its entireness, the album "Based on true events" tells the truth and tells it with class, passion, romance and rage. The words and chords coming straight from the heart are the door to reach the inner soul. The grand combination of acoustic instruments and a sweet raw female voice is the key to open it. No useless adds.. just this. In a world lead by technolgy, a step back to the pure thoughts of 4 passionate persons can bring you back to the real jewels of life. Thanks for this pearl.

Official site: bigredbuttonmusic.com

budapest... part 3

Fri, 06 May 2005 09:32:30 GMT

Pic from the stage.. me and Claire in front row, Aggy on our left, Danijel on our right and... Daddy in the forth row (the man in red shirt) ;D

budapest.... part 2

Fri, 06 May 2005 09:11:52 GMT

where i was...
The concert wasn't still begun.. Claire had still the bag and suddendly Jason came on the stage to adjust something at his guitars. So i waved and him and asked him to come! Claire was writing down something and when she raised her face and find out that Jason jumped down the stage was like

lmao!! So we saluted each other, Jason said "Oh! You girls look cool with your scarfs "and then Claire gave him a guitar pick. Jason said "Oh thanks! Ususally I'm the one that throws picks to the others! It's really cool! Thanks!". And then Claire gave him a bass pick (a really cool one! u rock girl!) for Cedric (with her sign on it ) and other gifts for Alanis and a card for Boogs . Jason thanked and then went away.

Claire was like "OMG I can't handle all of this in just few moments!! "

There was a support act, a really cute girl. I loved her music, even though she sang in hungarian and of course i didn't get any single word! But i saw that Jason was on the right of the stage and listened to her all the time.

As she ended, the stage was rearranged for the main show. As Vince was going to stick the Alanis setlist next to her microphone we asked him to have a look at it.. and he said "Now? Are you sure?" and we said "YEEEEEEES" and i saw "A man" with something else written next to it..
Aggy saw "Perfect" and Claire fainted...

after some minutes... the music ended, the lights went down... "Relaxation is an art..." and the audience exploded in claps and shouts!! but only after few seconds we saw Vince making signs to the guy at the end of the hall asking him to cut the music.. they forgot something... like Alanis tea and something more.. lol!! We looked at Vince and he make signs as Alanis was sleeping LOL!! obviously that wasn't true!

few more minutes the show finally began.

Particulars? Surely Alanis talking in Hungarian to salute her granny that couldn't come. Me and Claire were like What? and i think we just waved at the camera!

During the show, Cedric was looking at me and I called Claire cause i supposed he wanted to thank her for the pick and so it was. While he was playing he took the pick out of this pocket and showed it to us!! CUTE BOY!!!

We also showed a paper with something written on it.. i don't remember exactly, was something like "Rosy and Claire from Rome to Budapest with Love" LMAO!!! and i had another one for Jason: "Big Red Button rocks!"
When he saw it, he shaked his head like saying "noooo...." underexstimated man!

At the end of "Thank you", Cedric asked us to sit up and so we did but then came the security gorillaz (how rude was he!) and asked us to sit down, so i shaked my shoulders and said "sorry, we can't".

When all the other bandmates went away, Cedric came back with a camera and made a pic at us!

What a Great night!!

More to come soon.. The Backstage.

to be continued..

budapest....

Wed, 04 May 2005 08:39:48 GMT

let me see if i can start writing something now.. slept 12 hours tonight but i'm still

so.. apart from the travel, the day before the concert (May 1st) me and Claire visited the Palace of Arts. We were astounded! There was a cool photographic show in the inside and there we met a cute hungarian girl, Carolina (right Cliare?) who showed us the whole Palace, and of course let us saw the soundcheck of a group playing there that night. Our tongue was on the floor... The sound was incredibly amazing, with few speakers..
Claire kicked ass again and got the poster @ the ticket office!! u rock girl!!

soon after we finally met Aggy!!!!!!!!!
I guess she was shocked since we took pics of everything on our way.. the telephone, the taxi, the goulash, lol... but everything was so different from Italy and so cool!!
this is just the tourist behaviour!

We 3 spent some time together and it was great and actually a bit hard for me to communicate since that was quite my first time for an english conversation Indeed i really didn't talk too much, since I often couldn't find the words... my english isn't so fluent

Day of the concert (May 2nd)

Me and Claire met Aggy and her friends at the Palace. Had a trip around and in the Palace trying to catch someone.. but noone showed up so we just looked at the photos once again (there were some i missed the day before). Few hours ago also Danijel (Danchy) joined us. You're too cool boy!!!

Finally at 7pm we got in.. Big surprise.. As we arrived, we were asked not to bring in ANY bags.. but Claire had one with some gifts for Jason, Cedric and Alanis.. Knowing we would have been in the fourth row, it would have been quite easy to leave the bag on the stage.. but the girl didn't want to let us in.. so we called Vince prentening to know him very well.. fortuantely another girl promised to give it to Alanis so for the moment we could enter. And she showed us the front row.. me and Claire looked at each other and said "You're wrong, it can't be. We were told we have row 1 which is 4th row", and she said "No, it's this one" pointing the front row...

and we saw Aggy, Danijel and the others on the second row.. I was shocked.. I was aspecting to see them all in the front row.. I didn't know what to say... Of course they were all mad at the organization, and they had the right to. Me and Claire have felt so guilty about it

After few minutes, Georgia and Alan came in the second row and i called Aggy and said "there's Georgia!" and she sat up and came to her and start hugging and talking in hungarian she'll tell you what has been said.. The important thing is that Georgia reminded Aggy and remembered she met her on the bridge, at
Salizburg

to be continued...

not along with polly..

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:07:40 GMT

As I previously posted, the Rome gig of Polly Paulusma was cancelled for respect-towards-the-Pope-funeral. It's going to be postponed.. but not before one or two months.. Indeed, here is Polly's reply:

just got home, sorry, no internet or email in italy...
wow we just had three lovely gigs... i was so excited to be playing with our new band member, sam...
sorry about the rome cancellation. i put it up on the website as soon as i could, but with flights in/out of USA it was hard to get the news out in time, i'm sorry. things change very fast, i guess.
the new date is being deliberated. i believe that any tickets will either be refundable, or transferable to the new date. i'll let you know more as soon as i hear. it won't be for a month or two though.
more later, after sleep!

GMail ---> to infinity + 1

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:06:15 GMT

On the eve of Gmail's one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.

The result?... starting today, we're beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

Write, don't worry. You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

The gift that keeps on giving. 1389.480793 (<-- the counter goes on!!!) megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.

No complicated equations. No tough algorithms. Just this one graph:

with ribbons undone...

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:57:14 GMT

I've been listening to this album for days, on and on... And though hubby says "this is not Tori", I'm in love with it. Expecially "Ribbons Undone" is so touching.. when she sings:

A look in her eyes says
the battle's beginning
From school
she comes home and cries
I don't want to grow up
Mom
at last not tonight

my first teaching experience!

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:17:43 GMT

ok.. it wasn't planned since I had only to watch the teacher and his class for this year, and at the end of the next year i will have to teach for a total of 20 hours.
but, surprisingly, yesterday morning i entered the class (5 mins late!!) and the teacher (a really awesome man!!) looked and me and said

"Well, let's start this active apprenticeship. Today our Rosy will talk to us about HTML"

I was "WTF?!?!" scared!!!!!

I know HTML, i use it everyday, but the idea to talk to the class scared the hell of me out!!! So the teacher started to talk about the meaning of HTML, and i wrote it on the blackboard. Then started talking about the various tags.

At a certain point, the other teacher I'm with (but he teachs a different subject) entered the class and ask the teacher to go with him and take a coffee.. again NOOOOOO!!! Where the hell are you going!!!!

Indeed, as soon as they exited, the class started making loud noise, launching everything each other, god it was a MESS!!

I tried to go on with the explanation, but only 3-4 guys were listening to me. the others kept asking every single minute (how long was every minute, hell!), "what does it mean? what does it do?"

after the 3rd time the asked, i blanked the blackboard and waited silently next to it for the teacher to go back in the class. And so they asked "No, why??"
I simply maked a "no" with my head and said nothing.

The teacher got back, and together started again to explain the meaning of the tag <a>.

God... it was so... I'm so disappointed towards myself... but well, i should have expected such a behaviour from the pupils. They don't see me as a teacher, but as an allied, as a student.. They don't recognize me as the power holder. kids!

well kids... they are all 17-18

That's it! Anyway, this won't affect the final judgement the teacher has to give to my activity at the end of the two years. Instead, the teacher was happy to see i knew the subject.

thin consolation.