3, 2, 1...HOLIDAY
my holiday started today - after work. i felt at the same time awkward and cheery. i was working on a project in june that i was quite invested in and althought we went to production last week as planned, there is still more development to be done and its like my baby - i would like to be there to look after it. there is other work too that i'd like to be involved in. but i also realised that other than bank holidays, i have not had time off since December 9th. thats when i took a day off because we had just moved that weekend (in hindsight i should have also taken off the day before the move). but since i dont work full time i dont get so tired and ... just don’t have that urgent need for a holiday. but anyway here we are and im sure its good for me and i will enjoy it.
Soydan visited us last weekend. we had a lovely time, working on the puzzle, at the park, just chilling. i really enjoy his company. he is moving back to turkey now so it was unfortunately a kind of goodbye. we watched the Eurovision movie altogether, to be honest i was interested and suggested it, despite not liking Will Ferrell. i felt like the movie was pretty bad. the opinion i shared in a facebook group:
"...i thought especially the first half was insufferably bad. 2nd half better with the references to past songs and the shows, but still... i think my main beef was that i was expecting it to be more funny or amusing... but the (in my opinion) stupid/slow main characters were not likeable. he was a selfish plain idiot, she was cute but her goal in life was just a baby with him - or so it seemed as thats what she asked from the elves. and she was just going along what the man dreamed of - also annoying for me as a feminist. so i dont like how she was portrayed in such a stereotypical manner. i just wasnt rooting for either of them, which i wanted to. and un-surprisingly i thought Ferrell's character could have been played by any male actor, preferrably someone slightly younger.
the most interesting character was the russian singer imo."
i was alone with my negativity, everyone else loved it. or english people are just polite enough to share their opinion only IF it's positive? the OP said they enjoyed the film, could be semi-rude to bluntly disagree? im never going to fit into their mold of good behavior (i've been reading the book Watching the English and while its fascinating, its also depressing in this respect). but i started wondering and googled reviews. NYT, BBC and Guardian all agree with me, its pretty poor - although not horrible. (BBC review)
i decided to watch a documentary about Dr Ruth, she seemed like an interesting character. has been through a lot, but always positive and always on the move. very likeable, well, just based on the docu. then i watched The Family I Had about the Bennett family where Paris killed his sister Ella, and it's about the whole family and how the try to go on from that. can u still call them a family when one is dead, one is incarcarated and one is left alone? plus her mom? anyway. also interesting.
i was just thinking, London is not the most beautiful city in the world of course. which is ok. istanbul though, that is such a beautiful place. i do miss that. london has something else, its has another kind of character and life. i appreciate both, just noting the differences.
Soydan visited us last weekend. we had a lovely time, working on the puzzle, at the park, just chilling. i really enjoy his company. he is moving back to turkey now so it was unfortunately a kind of goodbye. we watched the Eurovision movie altogether, to be honest i was interested and suggested it, despite not liking Will Ferrell. i felt like the movie was pretty bad. the opinion i shared in a facebook group:
"...i thought especially the first half was insufferably bad. 2nd half better with the references to past songs and the shows, but still... i think my main beef was that i was expecting it to be more funny or amusing... but the (in my opinion) stupid/slow main characters were not likeable. he was a selfish plain idiot, she was cute but her goal in life was just a baby with him - or so it seemed as thats what she asked from the elves. and she was just going along what the man dreamed of - also annoying for me as a feminist. so i dont like how she was portrayed in such a stereotypical manner. i just wasnt rooting for either of them, which i wanted to. and un-surprisingly i thought Ferrell's character could have been played by any male actor, preferrably someone slightly younger.
the most interesting character was the russian singer imo."
i was alone with my negativity, everyone else loved it. or english people are just polite enough to share their opinion only IF it's positive? the OP said they enjoyed the film, could be semi-rude to bluntly disagree? im never going to fit into their mold of good behavior (i've been reading the book Watching the English and while its fascinating, its also depressing in this respect). but i started wondering and googled reviews. NYT, BBC and Guardian all agree with me, its pretty poor - although not horrible. (BBC review)
i decided to watch a documentary about Dr Ruth, she seemed like an interesting character. has been through a lot, but always positive and always on the move. very likeable, well, just based on the docu. then i watched The Family I Had about the Bennett family where Paris killed his sister Ella, and it's about the whole family and how the try to go on from that. can u still call them a family when one is dead, one is incarcarated and one is left alone? plus her mom? anyway. also interesting.
i was just thinking, London is not the most beautiful city in the world of course. which is ok. istanbul though, that is such a beautiful place. i do miss that. london has something else, its has another kind of character and life. i appreciate both, just noting the differences.
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