Moonrise Kingdom

Darjeeling Limited was the first Wes Anderson movie I've ever seen. Also this was the first movie I've ever seen together with John when we first met at my place instead of the usual pub dates we'd been doing for a few weeks. He still refers to it as "the movie that got me laid". I liked it a lot. The film was also quite good...

So the director's new movie, the Moonrise Kingdom, is in the cinemas now.

Set in 1965, the film tells the story of two teenagers who fall in love and run away together.

They do this in the beautiful New England, in soft, golden tones and faded, retro atmosphere.

I love the clothes too...

Boring

There are two possible scenarios in the office.

I'm either so busy that I have no idea where the time just flies away and everything is happening at the same time, or it's so boring that I don't even mind when some of my weird colleagues show up at my desk with something silly to ask. Normally I would just give them a funny look but on boring days even this seems more interesting than the greenbean recipes I was checking out today just to pass the time.

How sad...

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The older I get the less I want to do something special on my birthday. So this year when John asked how I want to celebrate I didn't say anything for a few days. Eventually I told him yesterday that I just want to spend the evening at home, eat pizza, drink beer and watch a movie.

At the end we watched How I met your mother, because I couldn't make up my mind on movies. I must say the last episode of season 8 was kind of a facepalm one but on the whole it wasn't a bad season.

As usual John gave me awesome presents. It's like he knows me or something. So he got me those pie dishes (the very patriotic pie dishes as I was referring to them) I kept pointing out to him in the last few weeks every time we walked past the shop, and also the latest George R. R. Martin book, called A Dance With Dragons, which is on my reading list for this year.

Aww...

The time traveller's wardrobe

If I suddenly found myself in the '70s somehow (weird lab accident, black hole, strange space-time continuum), I think I could totally blend in wearing my new vanilla dress. I would just hop on my pink bicycle, with a book in my bag (Breakfast of Champions maybe) and would just cycle away in the sunshine.

Your laugh is... by mnory featuring clutch bags

Call me Roy

John says I look like Roy Orbison...

 

Heh...

Good morning

Picture: Globaldish

A Feast for Crows

I finished reading A Feast for Crows a few days ago. Took me a while, mostly because I just simply couldn't stop being online and messing around on the internet, playing MMOs, or just staring at random pictures on Pinterest. Ehh...

As George R. R. Martin said at the end of his book, this one was a bitch. Indeed.  

Where's Tyrion? What the hell is going on with the dragons? What is up with all these zombies, seriously...

I'm just glad I didn't have to wait 5 years for it, and also don't need to wait for the next part. I started to read the Song of Ice and Fire books only last year, right before the TV series had started. Although I'm taking a little break before jumping into A Dance with Dragons.

I remember last summer we were at the airport, waiting for our flight to Hungary, just a few days before the official release. The bookshops of course had the book already in stock, haven't even tried to hide it too much. John spotted it under the till and started bargaining with the shop assistant. Needless to say, it didn't work. Still, he was adamant to get a hardcover copy, but had no luck in the bookstores in Hungary either. Eventually he broke down and got the Kindle edition.

So up to this day we don't actually own the physical book yet. It's on my whislist, but I need to finish other books before I order it. Knowing myself by the time I start reading, I will forget half the things that had happened before, even if it's only a few months waiting.

I suspect I'm not the only one who have marshmallow instead of brain. I just found this website, called Tower of the Hand, with summaries for all the chapters. Yay, I'm saved. But to be honest I think this will also take ages to read through.

Discovering...

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This is not Wonderland

I explained to one of my clients this morning that the first phase of our project is now done and we need 8 hours to prepare phase two, so get ready, we are starting tomorrow.

Two hours later he dropped me an email,"So, we are ready to start, right?". He was truly surprised when I replied, "No."

Just hanging

... after taking the snack from our hand this little fellow just simply climbed back to his tree, and started munching. Hanging upside down.

Isn't he absolutely adorable?

Inspired by Arya Stark

Inspired by Arya Stark by mnory featuring slim jeans

Secret World

I pre-ordered Secret World so could participate in the beta weekend that started on Friday.

From the three factions this time I could try the Templars. So far the Illuminati were my favourites but I think apart from the faction story line there won't be a big difference in the quests. Although I must say I haven't read much about this. I try to avoid spoilers.

The atmosphere in the game is a little bit depressing. Like a combination of the Walking Dead and an oldschool detective story.

The Templar's headquarter is in London.

My character, Susie, started there and was soon sent to Kingsmouth, New England. This little town with the nice little houses, white picket fences, an old diner and a lonely lighthouse looks like a place from a Stephen King book. Apparently it's mostly based on Innsmouth, a fictional town created by H. P. Lovecraft. So yes, it's quite creepy.

... and they have zombies.

Hell, yeah.

Unlike in other MMOs, we won't level up in this one. (Why I don't have a girlfriend? I'm a level 80 paladin...) Instead we get skill points to spend on powers and abilities. No restrictions. We can choose to master a specialization or learn multiple at the same time.

We can learn to fight with swords, guns or magic powers. I usually play spellcasters, healers in other games so decided to spice things up and train for assault rifle. After half an hour realized this is still not something for me. Heh. I want to toast people with lightning. Simple.

Anyway, I'm glad I bought the game and can't wait to find out the theme of the next beta weekend.

The Hun

Inhaling jalapenos is not really a good idea. Thanks to Rob for demonstrating it to us yesterday. He was taking out the pizzas from the oven when caught a whiff of the stuff, started choking, almost dropped one of the plates... Well, probably this is not the first time he is doing this... In a few second after some swearing and fighting everything went back to normal, we opened a few Banana Bread Beers and were happily munching our pizzas like nothing happened.

Melinda and Rob invited one of their friends I never met before.
"I think we are still waiting for someone", I said to John. "But I don't know him."
"Yes, Rob told me." he replied. "He's called Attila. With a name like that he must be a hun..."

Heh...

Apple crumble and coffee

I made some apple crumble for breakfast. Then I was just waiting, waiting and waiting for John to finally get up. Even brought some coffee for him to bed... He just mumbled from under the covers that I'm more than welcome to start eating without him.Sure, like I could stop... Seriously, sometimes I think he doesn't even know me.

Café Nori

Oh, these Romans... They named a coffeeshop after me. How sweet.

Well, that wasn't the only reason we went back every day while staying in Rome. Even though Italians are proud of their coffee, in the hotel we only found some weird mud in the jugs every morning.

Lucky for us, we discovered Café Nori on the second morning and became regulars. Not only the coffee was great, and the pastries delicous but the staff was also very friendly and that wasn't that common either in other places. Polite, yes. But in a weird, unfriendly way most of the times.

Our barista was also the chatty sort. "Are you from New Zeland?", he asked.

"No...", we said, looking at each other raising our eyebrows.

"Then you are from Scotland", was his next guess.

"No, we are not", we had to smile even more.

"Ok, ok... you are English", he was getting desperate.

"No, not even that..."

"... so you said you are not Scottish. Are you sure?" he asked while staring at us in a very suspicious way.

"Well, yes, quite sure..." we were laughing by then.

Finally he gave up. Without actually finding out the truth. Poor him. Maybe he honestly thought that Scottish people forget sometimes where they are from.

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Bar Nori - Via Tuscalone, Rome (near Termini Station)
Images: by me

See you on Tatooine

We are moving office in June. The new place will be nicer, bigger and we will have three new meeting rooms. The Boss sent us an email a few days ago asking for name ideas. I choose the nerdy way and suggested Tatooine, Nar Shaddaa and Alderaan.

It would be so great telling my clients "See you on Tatooine".

Anyway... I bet they will choose something boring. They always do. Our current meeting rooms are named Don't worry and Be happy.

Images: Justin (flickr)

I can see again

With my new glasses finally I can see again. At first it was quite shocking. I felt dizzy and weird. The trees have leaves, the people have faces, and even the colours are livelier.
It's almost like in the cinema when I put on the 3D glasses. The things actually stick out from the background.

Now I just have get used to my new look...

Inspiration - Glasses

I spent almost one hour trying on different frames in the shop before I finally decided to get a classic frame, and another little bit funkier one.

 

The shop assistant tried to convince me to try on one of those big 80's style frames too, but I'm not brave (or cool) enough for those...

Maybe next time...

Can't see it - can't get it

On Saturday I finally went for an eye test. Got fed up that I can't see anything. Mostly because every time I ordered food or drink I kept picking the usual. I just couldn't bear the thought of staring at the menu, blinking like a mole while the queue is just getting longer and angrier behind me. It was quite annoying at the airport too, or anywhere else where they have big boards with important information.

My new glasses will be ready tomorrow.

I think I will have a whole new world to discover...

Sometimes...

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