Summer so far... (and some songs)

The sun is shining, the weather is sweet (ignoring the occasional thunder storms)...

Summer's up and running here in Sofia; as the streets get hotter by the day, people take to the parks to enjoy some shade, a cool breeze, and chill time with friends, kids or dogs, where applicable (for the record, there's nothing like a chill afternoon in the park with friends). Weekends are especially nice around here, as a large portion of Sofia's excessive population migrates to the countryside, mountains, and other cool places away from the city. This leaves the S-town to the select few who by choice or obligation stay behind. Lately I've been spending my weekends here, totally by choice :) Perfect opportunity to hang out with friends, drive around rather empty roads, and live a timeless life. Amazing.

Chilling is just what I've been doing here. Plus partying. What more could I ask for?! Yeah, well, it is starting to feel very weird not having ANYTHING to worry about.. come on, a healthy dose of stress could come in handy to take me out of this awesomely lethargic state... Since I came back home, life's been too chilled compared to the final weeks at Richmond. I'm hoping to find something exciting to do for the rest of the break to keep my brain going - or else there's a chance all my brain cells will melt in the sun :) I'll let you know as soon as I've found something thrilling to dedicate my time to over the next 3 months. Wow. That's a lot of time!

In the mean time, here are some more summer hits (aka songs that are either overplayed on the radio here, or are stuck in my head for one reason or another).

1. Inna - Love -> certainly one of the tunes I've heard the most here in Bulgaria. Honestly, at first the only bit I liked about the song was the funky beat, while her voice didn't quite appeal to me. Now, after hearing the song about 1 000 001 times, I'm all used to her voice and am even tempted to sing out loud. Anyway, main reason why I like the song: awesome slow-mo video :) I love slow-motion; it simply makes everything incredibly graceful...


2. Akcent - That's My Name -> Akcent have delivered some pretty nice tunes in the past. Here's one of their latest pieces, also featuring amazing slow-mo effects :)


Also, is it just me again, or do 1. and 2. sound sort of similar ... Could it be that both come from brotherly Romania, from the same music label (Roton), and the two videos were probably directed by the same person (my research didn't get that far, but you'd assume that too, right?). Either way, keep 'em slow-motion videos coming :D

3. David Deejay ft. Dony - Sexy Thing -> not from 2009, but just as popular as the other songs, another sexy summer hit. Hooray.


4. Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow -> yes, too much boom boom pow... this song is overpopularized, but still entertainingly danceable once you get into the boom boom pow mindset :)


5. Hadise - Dum Tek Tek -> my friend played that song to me, and yes, it's catchy, and I wish I had stupid sound on this stupid laptop so that I could actually listen to it again, but anyway, I thought it would be a nice Eastern European transition from Boom Boom Pow to Dum Tek Tek. Hehe.


6. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You -> this goes out to all my friends back in Bulgaria, back in London, anywhere over the world, really... While in a different context than that of the song, I can absolutely say that my life would suck without you all :)) So Thank You All! :D


Alright! So now that I'm all happy, having written this shortish post mainly for the sake of updating this blog, and having danced around a bit mainly for the sake of dancing, I can go to bed with a smile on my mouth and a hand on my... huh! Almost forgot the song which I listened to the most today, while road-tripping (aka driving aimlessly) around Sofia with my friend:


Good times, good times... what more could I ask for? ...

Oh Jubilee...

...What will Michael Jackson do?...

Back on May 2, my friend and I had to endure the biggest transport fails of all times ... almost. As we struggled to make our way to the Pink concert at the O2 using virtually every means of transportation short of boats, we learned that when the Jubilee line is down on concert dates, getting to the O2 arena becomes nigh impossible a task...

The O2 is probably the most famous entertainment venue in London.
The only tube line that goes to the O2 is the Jubilee line.
On concert dates, thousands of people try to get to the venue.
No Jubilee line = hell.
TfL (Transport for London) have decided to bring hell to London by closing down the Jubilee line almost every weekend this summer. Wham!
Michael Jackson's 50 concert dates at the O2 starting in July will basically suck, transport-wise, for the most part, as there'll be no tube to transport all the crazy fans! Well, isn't that the best time to do tube repairs? Over summer, when the O2 is pretty much fully booked?

Makes perfect sense, right? Good luck catching all those 'Out of Service' buses, everyone! Just get cabs while you're at it, all other means of transportation to the Bubble are useless.

...and targeted marketing...

...tailor-made for Twitter.


I wonder what other twitter-related websites and services there are... Also, who the heck decides what 'the new big thing' in social networking is and how exactly did twitter become oh-so-popular when it's not even all that exciting? Hmm.

Celebrity stalking, anyone?

CelebrityTweet claims to be THE website for celebrity stalking... wow... seriously, where is this tw**ting world headed?


I do my fair share of celebrity stalking... but on the 'original' twitter... lol. One of my followees is MC Hammer (can't touch this). He's currently having a good time it seems; but is his son's name really Booby?! I really, really hope that's a typo...

Star Trek 2009

I have to admit, I've never been a particular fan of Star Trek; I'd only seen a few episodes of the show and quite a few spoofs of the show... On a scale of 1 to 10, my Star Trek IQ would probably measure up to about... 2.

However... all has changed now (among other things:). Several friends and I saw the new Star Trek movie at the theater a week ago, and it was AMAZING! EPIC even! All thumbs up! Why was it epic? (not necessarilly in order of importance)
1. Amazing cast; in my humble opinion, everyone played their part really well! Kudos!
2. Nice effects! Of course in the age when special effects are more important to a movie than the actual plot, it's understandable that a SciFi film would be full of FX, yet this one also had...
3. A cleverly twisted plot! Exciting enough for all the fans, explanatory enough for all people (like me) who had a very limited idea of the Star Trek concept.
4. The Enterprise - yeah, the word 'hot' can be used to describe that spaceship.
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7. Scotty and the Russian kid - gotta love comic relief characters :D
8. You know what, just go ahead and watch the film already :) I promise you won't be disappointed! And if, for whatever reason, you do end up all miserable and bored after seeing it, ... well, too bad. :)

Calvin's Twits

I was just telling my friend today that I love Twitter mainly because of Calvin Harris's hilarious twits! :D So I thought I'd give an example of his usual twit-style.

How's that for WTF :)

(I totally used Paint to highlight the image; no, I did not use Paint just to resemble Perez Hilton or whatever)

Beautiful Days

Every summer there are several feel-good songs that keep playing on and on and on, and just make you wanna sing along, while you're chillin' on the beach somewhere, sipping a Mojito or whatever your heart desires... Summer days are beautiful days! And here's a song to prove it. Though it's not a particularly recent song, it has been playing on the radio so much that I now associate it with summer times, good times, friends, fun, sun, and all the rest!



I'm still forced to live a mute digital life (i.e. my computer still has no sound), which certainly makes me a little bit sad (and increases the chances of me posting some video on here that I believe is a totally different video...)... But there's not too much I can do right now. I'll be on the lookout for a tech guy next week.

It's a lovely Sunday and I'll be out and about soon enough. I'll be listening to my ipod instead. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!!

Yay Home!

Back home.
Great start of the break - fun times, party times, danceful days and nights, driving around town, seeing all of my amazing friends, feasting on Bulgarian food, chillin' and occasionally getting bored due to excessive chillin'... life is good, wouldn't you agree?

I guess my only complaint is that the computer I'm on, the one that connects to the internet, has no sound = totally lame, so I won't be posting any fun sound-related things for a bit now... sigh. :(

Other than that, I'm waiting for life to unveil itself in all sorts of exciting unexpected ways :)

Hooray!

That's it, then...

Tradition has it that I always write a blog entry right before I leave for home/London respectively. Also, tradition has it that these blog entries are written in the wee hours of the morning (like 4:30a.m.) As of right now, I have an hour before I leave for the airport. Then another hour before check-in begins (though as a good girl I've done the online check-in and now the only thing I have to worry about is all the excess luggage *and the carrying thereof*)... oh, and riding the tube at 5:30a.m. is always an adventure :)

Apparently 4 a.m. is a great time to start exploring the mysterious of physics, for example. Take my laptop as a case study. The charger I have has always been loud and obnoxious, but tonight it started heating up and got even louder while charging my computer. At the same time, my mouse cursor started playing up - the mouse freezes and does what it wants to do, not what I tell it to do. Totally out of control. Now... when I unplug the laptop, the mouse is all well again. But here's the funny part: the mouse only acts up when the laptop is charging and placed a) directly on my bed, b) on the desk; the mouse is perfectly fine when the laptop is charging and placed a) on my lap... or b) if I'm holding it with both hands. What does that tell us about the electrical currents and all that jazz? Here's my theory:

The charger is having trouble sending the right amount of electricity to my laptop. As a result, there is a very gentle, but disturbing electrical current which strikes my laptop and affects the mouse cursor. When I add my electric polarity to the already polarized computer, I take currents off the mouse pad and balance out the whole system. Provided my heart doesn't go arrhythmic because of all the electric current transfers, it will all be good and I'll arrive home in however many hours. Top of my agenda: buy a normal charger.

I love technology! I also love the mesmerizing effect Dr. House has on my brain impulses at 4:30a.m. I'm actually quite proud at my little laptop mystery solution act thing :) Now I feel accomplished and can go back to an episode of House which is quite fascinating!

The End

The next post will be from the land of the Bulgars :) unless I get really bored in the next hour and decide to post about 20 other things. But how could I be bored when the mysteries of physics and electricity are upon me? Ha, perhaps I can't fall asleep because of an electrical overdose... oh how everything's connected!

Meat Pete?

So, on a scale of 'WTF' to 'holy crap', how disturbing is that advertisement? Pete the Meat Puppet... the epic story of his life? What? And then.. it's an ad for Diesel jeans... What's the point of it? Is it supposed to brainwash people or send some subliminal messages? I don't know, for all I care, Pete can rot somewhere far away from me, and I certainly won't be buying Diesel jeans because of that puppet creature. He reminds me of Seed of Chucky or whatever that creepy movie was that gave me nightmares for 2 consecutive nights! Some ad campaigns probably shouldn't be released at all... Sweden...

Well, I guess what they were going for is a terribly catchy tune that won't get out of head until you buy a pair of Dieselwear.

(Have I mentioned how passionately I hate packing? - this comment was almost as relevant to this post as a meat puppet is relevant to jeans)

A Good Year

That's it then. YEAR 3 of UNIVERSITY is officially OVER! :D:D:D Wow, it was a long, long year! No, actually that would be lying.. the second semester especially passed by so quickly (though I must say those last few weeks were a bit of a pain:) But looking back, this was probably my most exciting year so far, full of all sorts of cool events, surprises, explorations, and so on and so forth. It was a year full of changes, some good, some bad, some amazing! :) It was a year of success stories and failures, of course, but we'll just have to focus on the success stories and leave all the fails behind (yeah, drama is strictly for people who like drama, not for al; of us folks who prefer awesomeness instead...) Looking back, looking ahead - you know what, it's all good, in the end! So let's do a happy end of the year dance!!! (or, you know, just do a Calvin Harris style dance oooh yeah!)

AAAH LONDON!!!

LOOK AT THAT!!! AGAIN! AN AMAZING EVENT BY T-MOBILE (THE GUYS WHO DID THE MASSIVE DANCE AT LIVERPOOL STATION) ------ THIS TIME IT WAS A MASSIVE KARAOKE!!! AND PINK WAS THERE TOOOOOO! and guess what... I MISSED IT AGAIN! :'(( WHYYYYY? Ugh I hate missing such stuff!! So I was on the tube yesterday and read '13 000 TO JOIN PINK FOR KARAOKE' and i really wanted to go, thinking it was 'TO happen' but noooo, it had passed THURSDAY when I was sitting at home bored out of my mind.... .... .... wow i wish i was there :( Anyway, I'm done complaining about my lack of 'foreseeing' when it comes to London surprises. Well, at least I'm gonna see Pink all legit and planned out tonight at the O2 woooooooohooooooo!!! It shall be... legendary!