quotes

'Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them'
W. Shedd

Again...

as a reminder...

...

«Бабушка гадала, да надвое сказала: то ли дождь, то ли снег; то ли будет, то ли нет»

Pepper Keibu

A generation long Japanese hit song 'Pepper Keibu' by Pink Lady was recorded and released in 1976.
One can say it is a symbol of the generation - the symbol of Japanese 70's.
Here's the recording of 2004 version of 'Pepper Keibu' by Pink Lady (both singers were 46 at the moment of recording):



But present generation likes version of 'Pepper Keibu' by Morning Musume, a pop band of *many* girls with doubtful singing capabilities:



But I do like the old version better.
I do.
They remind me of ABBA actually.

Alice

I liked the pun.

A Song of Ice and Fire

Recently (in a week or so) I've been reading George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'.

By now I finished reading 1st book and read about 2/3 of 2nd. 

Still I have no idea why I keep reading it.

I hate to spoil your fun if you're planning to watch 'Game of thrones' TV series, but seriously... in TV adaptation there's almost nothing but boobs. Oh yeah! They occasionally show cocks too... Thus the rating yeah?

The book itself started to get on my nerves after I ruled out their little secret of 1st book (prince's) and read why Kingslayer is STILL alive. Or rather ... *why* king Robert's court is like it is. 

That was almost enough to make me stop reading.

I hate stories for children. 

I bore with it and waited for interesting parts to begin, because less than half heroes had interest for me. I bore with twisted balance between historically correct medieval world and 'magic'. I bore with children, yes, with children, who were either too old or too young for their young age. Meaning I didn't buy children's parts of the story. Except for Arya maybe. And Jon is not a child in a full sense of this word.

...but... 1st book lacks common sense more than anything.

I often had an impression that author sat in his chair and thought: 'we need an unexpected twist here, so he/she will do the least likely thing now'. There're times when you read something you didn't expect and think 'yes, I see it happening', though not in this case. Some events were planned as story turning milestones and have no logical connection whatsoever to other actions of heroes. Or so it seemed to me.

Well, that pretty much spoils it all. They story turns and twists, but I lost most of the interest in how it all ends in the first half of the book.

So I persisted on reading it only because we started watching Game of thrones and it had even worse storyline. I think scenarios for TV series were made by someone who never read the book. They took main event of each one chapter and filmed it, leaving most of the book behind the scenes. Motivations, secondary events that led to main events, etc. Also since series are low budget they cut out most interesting scenery.

And characters... became paper dolls that speak. 

Therefore an answer I posed to myself at the top of this post is... I'm reading it because I'm bored and I have to fill my head with something.

I can't cook all my free time.

Also... it is kinda educating to read something you don't like, but you know that it has commercial success. Makes one think.

Oh yeah... I laughed at a miss in first episodes of Game of thrones. When Jon speaks to Jaime near blacksmith's anvil he starts his speech with one beard and finishes with another one... makes one wonder who's filming it.

요즘 불행합니다.

지난 주에 전 수입이 없었습니다. 고객이 주문을 할 때 마음에 들지 않아 후불을 거부했습니다.
가끔씩 그들은 그냥 나가 버려요. 때때로 그들은 말해 내 일이 나쁜이며 둡니다.
대부분의 경우 그들은 더 작은 돈을 지불하고 쓸 수 있는 동업자를 찾습니다. 몇 몇의 사람들은 단지 돈을 절약하는 것에만 관심을 가집니다. 하지만 보통 적은 돈을 쓴다는 것은 나쁜 품질과 동일한 의미입니다.
우크라이나에서 많은 사람들이 작품을 가치를 이해하지 못합니다.
디자이너들은 일을 하고서도 돈을 받지 못하곤 합니다.
내 사전에 전체가격을 지불하는 고객을 본적이 없어요. 내가 스케치를 만들어가면 그들은 그것을 보고 가격을 결정합니다. 그런데 내가 스케치를 완성하는 동안 그들은 다른 디자이너를 찾기도 합니다.
이러한 경우가 생길 때 마다 속이탑니다. 벌써 이번주에 두 번이나 일어났습니다.


요즘 불행합니다.

... #2

Bad things usually come in three....


Now I'm thinking of leaving what I'm doing now and reverting to my official work.
Maybe it'd be less vexing.

Maybe.

...

В очередной раз убеждаюсь, что сытый голодному не товарищ.
А вы понимайте, как знаете.

This song

Now this song has even more meaning for me.