surprises

God surprises me, seriously.
Gives me unexpected opportunities. Shows ways out when my hopes are as tiny as the light of a candle. Opens the doors when I am climbing up to the window. Proves that there can be a happy ending, although I managed to bury my dreams and nearly moved on.
Nothing is promised, obviously. But nothing is to be taken away without a reason and without a fight, whether it is inside or outside us.

comedy night

The birthday celebrations have officially finished :) Tonight we went to see a stand-up comedy show and we had a great time.
I was very happy to see my beloved laughing so hard again. After several weeks of stress he really deserves a break from reality, which from time to time becomes too complicated, unfair and barely understandable and bearable...

birthday fun

We are in the middle of the birthday celebrations of my beloved. Tonight we went to 30 Seconds To Mars concert, for which we've been waiting for several weeks. The band was awesome on the stage, their performance created fantastic atmosphere... Some pics will come soon, now I am so tired I can barely see. Tomorrow just half day at work, thank God... :)

Okay, just a few pics from the amazing, rockin's evening with amazing Jared Leto :)

Fans on the stage singing the last song - "Kings and Queens" - together with the band. Such things only on 30 Seconds To Mars concerts :)

Cinecity Film Festival - half way through

So I watched four movies already - half of the movies I got the tickets for. And four evenings in a row spent in the cinema. Old style (it is actually 100 years old!), lovely, cosy Duke of York's Picturehouse. With a cup of green tea instead of popcorn (although you can get that too), and with a slice of delicious carrot cake on one occasion :)

I am happy to say that so far the movies I picked were really good - again, my movie-maniac intuition worked well ;) The one I liked the most, so far, was French "Of Gods and Men", which actually won Grand Prix on this year's Cannes Film Festival. Very quiet (but not boring!), very moving (but not sentimental or cheap), very real and simple in its form, but yet beautiful.

You can read a short review revealing a bit of the story here.


For the record, the other movies I saw so far were:
- "The King's Speech" - with marvellous Colin Firth as king George VI in pre-war Britain
- "Never Let Me Go" - beautiful and immensely tragic story of three young friends
- "Fleurs du Mal" - movie created in memory of the dramatic protests which arise after the presidential election in Iran in June 2009 - matters really close to my heart

Events

So many interesting things happened at work last week, that when my manager asked me about the bookings in my calendar for the next week, I was sadly surprised that there was nothing in it! Oh well, it cannot always be like that, but I so wish it was...
Except from getting involved - voluntarily - in different projects, I need to give myself some extra push towards changing my job profile for good... I know I can do it, probably I am somewhere half way already. If only I knew that in the end this could really happen! There is nothing "more" encouraging than a brick wall in the shape of budget cuts and no positions available in the role I aspire to...

Well, anyway, there's still perspective of some fun in the next two weeks - the competition about the childhood pictures has just begun! :)

I'm not here

Reading a 600 pages book is not an easy and quick thing to do... especially when it's so busy around! That's why I'm not here too much... I take part in a couple of interesting projects at work, which is good, because they keep me alive - before I die out totally and bring my resignation letter. I also try to keep up the gym rhythm and I am currently preparing - spiritually ;) - for the film festival which starts this week. And above all this it is inevitably the time of awaiting Christmas...
Lots of colourful lights outside, Christmas songs, decorations and gift offers in every shop. And I still don't know where would I be during those special days this year... but I have a feeling it would be nice, wherever I am.
Last weekend we bought a special Christmas tree holder and a white table cloth (yes, we didn't have any!). So officially preparations for Christmas began :)

Oh yes, the book - so I am trying to get through 600 pages of Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". I am somewhere in the middle now... Hope I can make it before December :)

A short story

Once there were was a Jewish couple who loved God with their whole hearts. They also had two sons, which they loved the most in the whole world. One day, when the father was praying in the synagogue and the mother was at home with the sons, the children got very sick and suddenly died. The mother put their bodies into their beds and covered with a blanket. When the father came back, he asked:
- Where are our sons
The mother said:
- Let's first have dinner, shall we?
After they ate, the father asked his wife again about their children. She replied:
- First I wanted to ask you about something. I have borrowed very precious items from someone and now they want me to return them. What should I do?
The father said:
- Obviously, you should return them to their owner.
Then the mother showed her husband the bodies of their dead children and said:
- God has given, God has taken back.