See The Sun

Wedding party

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 | Friends, Personal | No Comments

I’ve not been my usual sunny self lately but I’m starting to see the sun again. Well, not that I’m of a very sunny nature usually but in general I really do feel content and happy and can deal with disappointments really well. One day, or maybe two days at the most, and I’m no longer behaving irrationally. Well, these past 2 weeks I’ve stared enough at certain pictures, written enough in my diary, which I only rarely take out, and on this blog so let’s move on.

Keeping busy has always been of good help and indeed I have so much to do I hardly have time to brood. Last weekend my friend had her wedding party. I was a bit hesitant about going because she isn’t that good of a friend after all and weddings in general always leave me with mixed feelings. But the actual wedding had already taken place in the US last month so it really was just a party. And I had lots and lots of fun!! Danced like crazy, like never before actually, since I’m usually not the dancing kind of person. Just a shame I haven’t taken any pics and I think my close friends who were also there didn’t either. But it’s definitely been a night to remember lol.

Pain is hard to swallow

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Friends, Personal | No Comments

She’s a mess
Like never before
You couldn’t care less
She cries even more

All those years
Of selfrestraint are gone
All the salty tears
Prove it’s been undone

You cannot realize
You cannot know her
She lets you see but lies
It’s really all just a blur

She was immediately lost
Remembering chances are dim
It was anything but frost
When she first met him

Feeling his absence is pain
She used to mock melodrama
Not feeling worthy but plain
She can’t get ouf of her pyjama

Her only wish for tonight
Is to grab a special seat
Not to give away her plight
Her heart is full of deceit

Having had her way she is torn
Between satisfaction and remorse
Sitting that close she was forlorn
Human touch is a powerful force

Visit is the doctor’s order
She studies the route
crossing five borders
Is it really as acute

She googles his name
Finds him on facebook
But it is not just a game
She can’t forget that look

Somehow reality prevails
No email nor friend invite
It is time to set the sails
It seems not worth the fight

Wallowing in self-pity
Is all she wants to do
Why was she being witty
Instead of just being true

She conquered it before
Thinking positive and all
Three times if you keep score
This time too she’ll stand tall

Life is unfair and hard
Till the one day arrives
She’ll always be on guard
And do her best to survive

Her heart is safely locked
Her glance often lowered
So as to not get mocked
Pain is hard to swallow

Tri orísky pro Popelku

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | Film, Personal, Sites | No Comments

Apparently that’s the original title of my favourite winter movie - also known as Three Wishes for Cinderella. This is just an unbelievably gorgeous film. Every single time I watch it I fall head over heels in love with it again! Of course I have a German dubbed version and I think it works nevertheless. I remember it took me a while before I figured out it wasn’t original audio. Found it in Czech yesterday and downloaded it. Usually, I’m always all for original audio no matter what the language (given that it has subtitles) but in this case, I don’t know. Maybe I’ve just seen it one time too many in German but I found the Czech language seriously distracting. It was still nice though and I got used to it. But then, there it was, the first scene of Cinderella galopping across the scenery, I was already looking forward to hearing that lovely dreamy music, but then, oh my! in the original there are lyrics! In Czech! Not nearly as nice as the music I’m used to. Even bought the soundtrack a few years back. I think I’ll burn the Czech version on a CD just in case I like to watch it again sometimes but my feeling is I’ll be sticking to the German version!

Haven’t done as much for my sites as I had planned to but that’s ok. At least the group podcast for the Sophia site went over well. It was quite the experience! In the end I edited the whole thing to 38 minutes (it was 72 to begin with), we had lots of technical difficulties lol

I washed my car yesterday. I felt so proud - one of those things I rarely muster up motivation to do - until I realized that the temperature was below 0° C which caused the whole car to be covered in ice. So I had to scratch the windows before I could drive back home again.

People have been wanting to invite me or include me in their excursions today. But I only felt like going back home and continue watching movie after movie. So I had some lame excuses and a narrow escape. And anyway, I’m the one who’ll have to go to work tomorrow and face my crazy boss and do all the last minute work.

p.s. The 1973 Czech Cinderella movie counts as period drama, right? Not that there’s any indication as to when it’s set but it’s definitely not in the present time. I will be able to make caps for Fragment of Light

Ice Blue

Monday, November 24th, 2008 | Personal, Songs, TV | No Comments

Been meaning to write about this yesterday but then I felt not motivated at all… I went for a traditional ‘Sunday walk’ shortly after lunch, something I started to hate when I hit puberty. It’s something I’ve only done maybe a handful of times since living alone - and it was the first time at my ‘new’ place. I enjoyed it a lot though and I will definitely have to make time for this more often. I’m always out & about during the week (and even on weekends) that I rarely muster up the motivation to walk just for the pleasure of it on my time off.

It snowed a number of times during the weekend and then around lunch yesterday we had the most pleasant sunshine. I dressed warmly, put on a cap (I looked not very fashionable, I guess) and walked to the top of my village. Up there the view was great, though I missed seeing the Alpes behind the hills (they were all wrapped in clouds), and I loved the combination of clear blue sky with single clouds. However, the wind up there was ice cold - which gives the word ice blue a whole new meaning I guess! Only half an hour after I returned home the sky was almost fully overcast again so I was glad I hadn’t postponed my walk - it was definitely the achievement of the weekend and I felt really proud of myself.

Later on I listened to the Spanish version of Laura Pausini’s new CD - it’s absolutely fantastic - and watched the first episode of The Devil’s Whore. This is actually really good! I loved the windswept parts and the overall look, John Simm and Andrea Riseborough are great actors and I liked the story development so far a lot. Only thing I don’t like so much is that it’s about war… True Blood’s last episode aired yesterday I guess - so after I’ve seen that there’s one less series I will have to keep up with, which I’m glad of because I don’t really have the time to download so many different series. But then it also makes me sad. I only hope they ended the season well. Oh, and Pushing Daisies got cancelled. How sad is that?! Even if they have plans to release comic books and even a movie (I’ll believe it when I see it…) I’ll definitely hate the cliffhanger the series supposedly will end with.

Sweetest Sadness

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | Personal, Songs | No Comments

Since I didn’t get to use it for my new site

Mel, I’m going to see A Fine Frenzy live too!!! A week from today, on the 20th, she’s actually coming to my hometown. How cool is that!! Not Zurich or Basel, but Bern! I (luckily) still was able to get tickets and just hope my expectations won’t be too high :shrugs: I hope being able to go to her concert will make up for the fact that I didn’t make it to any of Amy Macdonald’s gigs this summer

My nephew really is the cutest baby :heart: Babies are always often cute, but I guess when it’s a really good friends’ (which my sister is) baby just that fact makes it even cuter!