Playing the movie critic

On my trip to San Francisco last week, I had the chance to watch a new movie, The Painted Veil (Ed Norton and Naomi Watts). I could have read the documents about the meeting I was going to attend, but couldn't resist Ed Norton. He is not 'hot', actually sometimes he aggravates me with his capricious characters, but he is attractive...don't try to find logic on what attracts me as you will not achieve anything! Naomi is unique as well, Aussy beauty, doesn't try hard to be sexy and picky on her characters. This movie is also produced by these two, so I thought I will read my docs at the hotel before I fall asleep.

Don't want to give away the movie, but in short is the story of a new couple where the wife has an affair very shortly after wedding and the husband decides to handle the situation in a very unique way by moving with her to an infected remote village in China. It is amazing how nicely they thought of making the story so intense, elegant, modern and fit it in 2 hours. If you really want to know what love is, this movie will show it. Everyone can be in a situation like that. Everyone has his/her own way of dealing with it. In this movie, he decides to make her love him. It is the most difficult thing to do if you know your partner is thinking of someone else. And yet, seems like you CAN do it, make him/her, really and truly fall out of love from the other one and fall in love with you!
Although some reviews are kind of skeptical about this movie, I will put it in the list of my favorite ones. At the end, is a love story and I like them!

New wheels

It feels so good to drive my new Volvo C30!



Till late, I used to be a "from A to B" person when related to cars. And then my husband kept talking about how good it feels when the car drives nice and fast and people actually turn their heads to look at your car, so I became one of "enjoy the driving" people. As you can see, this car is very catchy, sporty and (wrongfully) gives the idea that the driver is a single person. Someone told me that from behind, it looks like some kind of animal. I have actually noticed Audi and BMW drivers getting behind to look at my car's ass :)) Or some do see the car from behind and then they get in front and check me out from the mirror to see if the driver matches the car. Driving games you learn when you spend 2 hours a day on the High Way! I wish my behind was that attractive after the birth :)
When you drive it, it gives a sense of accomplishment. I have also prepared a CD with some songs with a nice beat that give extra energy. My work mates can understand from the way I say "good morning" if I drove my car to work or not. It's just sweet and fun to own a car like that!I have also ordered a customized license plate that will tell everyone what city I was born. Very proud about that, and very proud to have a car that matches how I feel :) .. altho' not many people will understand my license plate unless they know the city I was born.

The best salesman

John starts a new job in a huge supermarket where you could find anything under the Sun. The manager takes him a side and explains to him that in order to succeed in this position, he had to be prepared to take the customer's attention and although the customer might be there to buy something small, you have to make him buy more and bigger. Let's see how you do today and if things go fine, you will be hired full time.
At the end of the day, all the sales assistants get together to see how they did. The first one had 11 customers and made 30000 Euros income, the second one had 9 clients for 20000 Euros and so on and so on. What about you- the manager asks John. I had 1 customer and I made 350000 Euros - he says. How come -asks the manager.
Well- says John- this guy wanted fishing hook to go fishing in the lake. I sais: Look, the fish in the sea tastes better so you might want to go there. But to get there, you need a boat. To get the boat to the sea, you need a truck. And so he bought them all.
The manager, very existed, turns and tells to the others: Look what a great example, he came for a fishing hook and bought a truck!!

Actually - says Johh - he came to buy Tampax for his wife and I said:
Since you are not doing much next week, why don't you go fishing?!

My latest favorite lyrics

The new song of Bon Jovi
.....
If you leave now
I understand
but if you stay
hey, I have a plan
...
we'll make memories!

It's just a very fine line to change the story of a life. You can give up and start being friends apart, or you can stay and get closer, maybe for better... you hope for better!

Voyage,Voyage

April was a vivid month. Started with a week in Dominican Republic and then 3 days to San Francisco.






Dominican is an interesting country. I understand poverty as I come from a country that has been poor for long. The common thing that poor countries have is bad roads, have problems with electricity and running water, they make strangers feel un-secure while if you live there it's all fine, there is always a guy responsible for messing things up and bring the country in the status it is. Simple people are friendly, middle class wants to rip you off in a nice way, rich people ... they are the same everywhere! I have the feeling I was not in the best resort Dominican has. They kept things clean but not much facilities for children and not much variety in the buffet menu. Was nice not to cook for 1 week but not nice to have choices like banana pie (some kind of Shepard's pie where mashed potatoes is replaced with mashed bananas), pre-sweetened french toast, skimmed milk... They also had an area where for half an hour a day was a competition on target shooting and arrow sling. I tried both. Arrow was the first time and kind of hurt myself trying to get to the target, failed "crapy-crapy" as the guy there kept saying. But on the gun... I had to bring back the memories of military training from high school and I did much better than some big men there. One of them actually asked me "Are you a police officer?" :))) Anyway, if I go again to Dominican, I will try to pay some more and go to a better place.

San Francisco in the other hand was NICE! Because work payed for my trip, I stayed in a very nice hotel, with a king size fluffy bed just for me! A little chilly when I was there but much warmer than the place I spend the rest of the year. Getting this picture of Golden Gate was almost like taking it from an airplane. The wind was so strong, I could have felt down the hill. But it was all worthy! The downtown is very cute. Loved the streets that start at the ocean and like a ribbon stretch to the top of the hill. The houses are all well kept, with personality and I'm sure I can't afford one! Spent most of the free time I had by Pier 39, main tourist area. You could see Alcatraz from there and there were a lot of store selling jail clothes, even baby jail clothes!! One thing I will not forget from that trip is the size of sandwiches. They are HUGE! I order a turkey sandwich and I get half a loaf of bread, a whole turkey breast, 2 tomatoes... I ate it in 2 portions in a 3 hours time difference. Same with a veggie sandwich next day...My work matte started having fun with me "You and your big sandwiches"!
I don't want to live in America, but Cali can change my mind... ok there are also a handful of other cities that I can live in States but they are colder than California so they fall lower in the list. I am ready to have a lower salary but live in a warm and sunny place. I feel smarter, stronger, sexier when the weather is nice. It's not fair the way Canada and States share the continent. The border shouldn't divide North with South but East with West. In that way, each country can have a share of the sun and snow. I guess these are things we have to blame our predecessors for the wrong decisions they made.

Au dessus des vieux volcans,
Glisse des ailes sous les tapis du vent,
Voyage, voyage,
Eternellement.
De nuages en marécages,
De vent d'Espagne en pluie d'équateur,
Voyage, voyage,
Vole dans les hauteurs
Au dessus des capitales,
Des idées fatales,
Regarde l'océan...

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient.

Sur le Gange ou l'Amazone,
Chez les blacks, chez les sikhs, chez les jaunes,
Voyage, voyage
Dans tout le royaume.
Sur les dunes du Sahara,
Des iles Fidji au Fujiyama,
Voyage, voyage,
Ne t'arrêtes pas.
Au dessus des barbelés,
Des coeurs bombardés,
Regarde l'océan.

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient.

Au dessus des capitales,
Des idées fatales,
Regarde l'océan.

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient