Bang Bang

Woke up on my birthday and thought I'd write a post about the things that are happening so that'd be interesting to read in years to come but later that day something far more interesting happened... 

First things first: This year on my birthday, the Malaysian flight is still missing, Russia has taken over Crimea (Krimm) region in Ukraine because the ethnic russians there are discriminated and being hurt and whatnot and they want to be part of Russia not Ukraine... A couple of days ago Moscow reportedly had concerns about the situation in Estonia as well... we'll see what happens with that..

Siim Kallas turned down the role of becoming the prime minister because of the media digging up old things over and over again...

Now to my day: went for a field trip with the tourism crew, they had a group project to do and had to go check out a bicycle trail and later do a presentation about the dangers and all that, didn't really understand to be honest :D but tagged along anyway and every now and again Jasmine look at this, do you know what this is, do you have it in Estonia :D so cute. It was good, got to see a little bit of Corsica that I haven't seen before because we went by car. The main event happened right after we had parted and started making our way back to Corté. There were 5 of us in the car, music blasting spirits high and suddenly someone screams, I notice a car in front of us and the next thing I know we've crashed into it... OMG what just happened?!? I've never ever been in a car accident before so I was quite shocked, everyone got out of the cars and luckily were fine. The cars looked horrible though. And then all the girls started crying apart from me... Guess I was in too much of a shock and din't quite understand what's going + they were calling their parents and the lecturer to come pick us up etc. So I was just sitting there trying to understand what people are saying, now a couple of cars had stopped and people came out to see if we were alright. And after they had eventually filled in all the insurance details, the cars were towed away we made our way back home. So I walked out of there with a bruised left knee - the skin had come off, nothing too bad and a huge bruise on my upper right leg - now that hurts.

Oooooh a funny observation, because Corsica is so small, practically everyone knows everyone so when our lecturer came he said HI giving cheek kisses to everyone there (not the students)... I don't know seemed a bit bizarre to me :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

My holiday in a nutshell

Pearls from my holiday week to Italy

• Mr. Special had gotten to Pisa before me and therefore was in charge of getting us from the train station to the hotel. About 20 minute walk but since it was dark and I had my luggage we decided to go by bus. So he randomly went to a bus asked the driver if he goes to the tower and voilà we were on a bus. Only a short ride, bout 5 minutes... 15 minutes later when it looks like we're in the middle of later I start to panic a little inside (I'm totally cool on the outside because I always believe that things will work out). I've made Mr. Special properly panic thought because I wouldn't let him go and ask again :D It's just not me to ask someone the same question every 5 minutes :D Especially in front of everyone else and in a language the bus driver does not speak very well :D And it turns out we were on the right bus, saw the Leaning Tower late at night and got to our hotel :)

• "The bells you can hear every hour from the leaning tower of Pisa actually comes from a hidden cd-player!"" Wait what? A cd-player????"" Yeah you see I read from the internet that this is electronic now..."" OMFG you can't be real, that means that instead of someone running around hitting the bells manually it has been automated and you can still here the actual bells ringing not some stupid cd."" Oh.. oops..."

• We had bought train tickets in advance and in Italy there is a ticketless option in Italy meaning you have to have your booking number. Now I had sent him the link explaining how things go beforehand and specially said read it!!!! And he did... Then at the train station going down to Naples another freak out moment: where can we get our ticket, I'll go ask at the counter, omg omg because you have to get a stamp on the ticket from the machine before getting on the train blahblahblah well... if one had read the link I had sent once upon a time... Well that resulted in me having to pay for the fine if we get it for not getting that stamp on our ticket :D So to calm him down we went to the information to be sure (I was already sure but we had loads of time so why not). In front of us in the queue was a lady asking a thousand questions... haha you should've seen how Mr.Special was twitching, trying to get out of the queue and practically yelling right I'm done we'll go ask from the ticket office. I made him stay though :D and finally he got to ask his question and guess who was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tip we had the ticketless booking ;)

• Arriving to Naples after another freak out on the train because the train was 25 minutes late (overheard from a conversation) and they didn't announce the stops... again if we miss our stop it will be my fault because I wasn't overly worried and freaking out :D In the Naples train station we were looking at the map and trying to figure out where our hotel is and how to get there when a man approached us offering help... We were warned about pickpockets and thieves and all that. Alarmbells, turns out he was a taxidriver, not a proper licensed one though and his car had several bumps so we politely refused to get into that and he tried every trick in the book to convince us - stupid tourists - to go with him, even gave his drivers licence to Mr.Special to keep for the journey to hold on and phoning the hotel. Mr.Special started to freak out (again :D) and tried to run away, me tagging along trying not to laugh too hard. It resulted in the taxi driver demanding money for phoning the hotel and following us around the train station. Mr.Special tried his hardest to run away but we found the proper place for taxis and there was queue so I stood in it but he was tring to jump the queue just to get rid of that dodgy driver :D so you can just imagine him running away trying to get me go with him and me stubbornly just standing there like Chill Out and relax dude. The driver wasn't harrassing me because I kept my nerve and I generally don't give a shhhhh - you're not getting anything from me. In the end we got a proper taxi :) 

• Everyone knows the Italian Mafia - the most notorious out there in the world - because of Hollywood probably and apparently the southern part of Italy is infested with them... So you are forbidden to say the word Mafia in Naples because then you draw attention to them and they will come and beat you up or whatever. Well with Mr.Special cringing and telling me to shut up for gods sake I said the unforbidden word multiple times pretty loudly on the street and I'm still well and alive with no bruises...

• During breakfast in a nice little family-run hotel Mr.Special was chatting to the owner when he said that yeah they only have 10 rooms on the ground floor and his family lives upstairs but it's enough to live on and he works to live not the other way around and asks Mr.Special if he lives for work. Mr.Special's face drops in a minute and I thought that the owner had dropped some food on the floor and then picked it up and put it for guests to eat or something disgusting like that was occurring behind me. But oh no turns out that Mr. Special had been asked to work for the Mafia in that conversation and now he was scared. What? When? How? Why? Apparently he had said his FAMILY (all the stupid hand gestures and fake accent) lives upstairs and you know what Family means! And because the owner obviously didn't speak perfect English Mr.Special interpreted his next sentence as an invite- a demand to work for him... Are you out of your mind? Jeesh, no, no, that was not how the conversation went!

• In Pompeii Mr. Special started whining that he was hungry - but only if I wanted something to eat too, just as we had passed a cafe a couple of minutes ago. So we were there arguing for a while that I do not need to eat but if he wants we'll go back and get something but no no if I don't want to we won't go etc etc etc :D Finally I got fed up and started marching towards the stupid café with him tagging along: "no we don't have to go, I'm not coming" he did. We got there and guess what! By that time it had already closed!!!!!! He promised never to whine ever again :D

• Time to go home from Pompeii and we needed to find the train station and hope that the trains run now (it was a strike day so we were lucky to get there in the first place because normally there aren't any buses from Sorrento to Pompeii but one driver was kind enough to make a special stop just for us :)) in addition it was raining as well and we weren't quite sure where the train station was and yet again we heard someone shouting at us: where do you want to go? Another taxi driver... long story short he said that the train station closed about ten minutes ago (just my luck) and there are no buses but he would give us a lift to Sorrento for ONLY 75 euros... khm khm khm what? 75??? Yeah I know it's about a 45-minute ride but it's only 4euros for the both of us on the train... so no thank you (for now) we'll go check the train station just in case - he said it's a kilometre away in the rain but go ahead if you want in other words it's too far and pointless going come with me instead. So we walked a couple hundred meters and guess what... yeap the train station was open and trains were still running and there were other people there... what a stupid f''''' liar trying to get money from tourists...

• An important part of our holidays is always take-away food :D because I'm too lazy to go anywhere to eat properly :D and this time we decided to share a ham and cheese crepe and a waffle with nutella. The lady took ages preparing them, seriously could you hurry up please and she gave us the waffle first. Sweet before salty food? No mkm me no likey but oh well wadewa, she had already cut the waffle into little pieces so it was quite easy to eat, I ate my half, gave it to Mr. Special then and kept on waiting for my beloved crepe. Next thing you know I heard I loud scream, turned around and saw Mr. Special covered in Nutella and no I'm not talking about a little smudge on his belly, no he was literally covered in it because Mr. Special wanted to cut the little piece into smaller pieces, the knife broke and voilà, I'm surprised he didn't drop it on the floor... Funny as hell :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Music

The last two months have been filled with music and this time for the first or maybe for the second time it's hard to pick out 5 because I'd like to put here more and not because I can't think of anything to post. That's probably because I've started listening to Sky Plus morning program again.

I've actually gotten over my first love for this song but I'm gonna share it with you anyway :)

Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty

British girl band that I actually quite like and this time two of theire songs are competing to be uploaded on my blog but I'll make a tough choice and only pick one, maybe you'll see the other one in two months ;)

Little Mix - Move

My latest craze is surprisingly Katy Perry. Surprisingly because I normally don't like her songs very much :/

The video is beyond weird I think :P

I don't know how to introduce the next song... I'm pretty sure I like it because of the female rapper - girl power :)

Le Youth - Dance With Me

Lastly a song from our Eurovision preselection, it probably won't win and go to the Eurovision but I like it the most I think it's just fun... although this year there are quite a few songs for my liking :)

Traffic - Für Elise

Heavy-heartedly I've left out Beyonce's new album ( you can't really get the songs that I like on youtube - stupid copyright) and Angel Haze... but there's always next time :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

TV

About 4 years ago I couldn't imagine living without a TV, there was always something to watch. Then the last year of my high-school I kind of got tired of it, missed all the last seasons of Desperate Housewives, Lost and whatever else was big back then. Great tragedy I know lol :D

Since then I found ways to watch some shows on-line, back home it was quite easy to find links that worked: often I watched some shows on the official American pages (no not allowed in your location back then). Then when I went to Uni naturally I wasn't going to buy a TV so I relied completely on internet and that was before the huge drama of megaupload when a lot of sites were shut down - a couple of days of searching and I found my shows again :) went through all the seasons of How I Met Your Mother (given up on the last season lol :D), the Big Bang Theory (still watching that), the Vampire Diaries etc. Everything was working perfectly and then Mr. Special came along: I didn't have any time anymore so all my precious shows. Tears. And whenever I tried to catch up on Home and Away the links had been deleted, all Pretty Little Liars' links showed the same episode although it said it should've been different ones. So I gave up for a while.

This January I started looking for Home and Away links again - I had last seen it in July and now I could find episodes from November, went to ask Emma what had happened and then a couple of days later found those episodes exactly where I had left off in July and that Emma had described to me lol got to watch them pretty much til November episodes and another wave of deletion left my stranded yet again :( Now I'm watching current episodes as soon as they are uploaded. Luckily Home and Away is a show that you can just skip a couple of months or years and then pick up again without pretty much missing a thing :)

Right now I have a lot of time in my hands again so have taken on watching TV shows again - even watching Estonian ones like 2 stubbrons in India, Our life in Siberia :) New seasons of the American shows: the Originals, Justified, the Vampire Diaries, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls and the Real World every once in a while :D Been watching the Amazing Race seasons one after the other - very recommend :)

Yeah I know this is a pretty pointless post but a little skit at the end from Saturday Night Live that is now available on Youtube :) I remeber when I was frantically searching for those episodes and skits because they are hilarious (not all of them lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWmuzkOB7LM

can't get the video to play on this site for some reason :(

Oooh actually I wanted to say that here in France loads of the usual sites where you watch shows are blocked like putlocker and sockshare and vidbull :( so that makes it harder to keep up with all the shows but on the other hand makes you more creative in finding new links and sites to watch stuff on :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Valentine's

Valentine's Day has never been of much importance to me. When I was a kid it was called an celebrated as Friend's Day in Estonia meaning that you made cards to all your friends (and yes, that also included an anonymus cards from secret admirers) and little gifts (chocolate bar, random valentine's day crap - yeah sounds awesome I know ;) etc) for your besties. There were a couple of years I put such effort into gifts and then forgot them home -.- and since I lived about half an hour by bus away from school I couldn't just quickly pop home and get them... so yeah... I'm sure I wasn't the only one. Ahhh the good old days :D

Now it has kind of lost it's meaning: I'm not too fussed about the Americanized Valentine's gifts and blah blah blah. Who actually needs those little heart figures that they sell in stores by the bucket. In UK it's obviously a big deal nearly every restaurant and pub has a special Valentine's Day menu not to mention all the shop windows. In France it doesn't seem that important but maybe it's because I haven't actually been to town for a while because when I asked about it the French said that yeah it's big here if you're in a relationship.

Mr. Special sent me a huge card that he'd customized himself, meaning it has my name printed on it and a special message from him. But since he is always rushing and anxious about all this romantic stuff (he is a sucker for romance - a total opposite of me ;) ), I got the card last Saturday already lol :D And we were actually Skype'ing at the time so as soon as I saw a huge envelope I asked him: What have you done?! But it's cute and so sweet :) So I had to do something too and a card would've been too predictable so when it was 1 o'clock my time and midnight his time, meaning Valentine's Day had just begun I sent him a text asking if he'd be my Valentine :) obviously he was soooooo happy and surprised :) yay :) 

I also remember last Valentine's Day because that was the day I apparently ruined someone's Valentine's Day LOL. That is to say maybe a week later I found out that at some moment of time precedent to Valentine's I had promised to cover one co-workers Valentine's Day evening shift and then decided to be a total bitch and turned around and said hell to the no just to ruin their date :P Sounds just like me :) Just to clarify no one ever actually asked me to cover their shift (so how could've I said yes at first?). And the person in question was already covering someone else's shift so excuse me but why did you agree to that in the first place if you knew that you wanted to go out with your partner yourself? Anyway I find it amusing and probably will remember it forever :) An interesting change to my boring Aber life back then :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Asking, whining, complaining

Since I am a calm and collected person who rarely whines and complains about something that I'm not entirely happy with. And obviously I'm not talking about just whining to my friends or myself, that I do very often ;) but here I mean the actual complaining to a company or person etc. When I don't like something I just suck it up or leave without any fuss, no biggie. At the same time I hate and admire the people who dare to claim their rights loudly and who usually, due to that get upgrades and free stuff from the company to say they're sorry while I just get a verbal sorry. I feel like I'm missing out just because I don't go shouting at someone when things aren't perfect all the time. It's just not in my nature and I try to avoid confrontation with strangers at all costs. I can stand my ground when needed like in Vapiano once my card wasn't emptied before they gave it to me so my bill was bigger than it should've been and obviously I piped up and said whoaa this is not what I ate a quick sorry and explanation why that happened and I was on my way. Now I can only imagine that if that had happened to someone who dares to use more words (not the bad ones - that's just rude) would've gotten maybe some voucher or something :D

Been watching the EasyJet Airline tv show from years ago and the pattern is seen clearly there: you'll get a free transfer to another flight if you scream and shout there, kind of reasonably of course because if the staff feel that they were attacked they said no to even conversating with the screamer. But the people who demand they're rights more than the no-fuss-everythings-ok-I-understand-no-worries customers like me got free transfers and other stuff even when at times it was they're own fault that they were late for they're flight. How is that fair? Surely the policy should be the same for everyone not that the mouthy people get what they want and the quiet types have to suffer in silence and take what's given (the best option for the company that is).

What brought this post on? The fact that I finally gathered my courage and went and asked for a new mattress. Applause please :) My mattress had been old and knackered since I got here and I've heard people (already from Aber times) going and complaining and whining about every single thing that isn't perfect in their rooms or needing a special mattress and what not. So before I went down it took a long time for me to convince myself that my mattress is indeed in need of a replacement and I got it a new one :) Feels so different :D Feels good. Victory :)

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Little friends

Hey-hey-hey

I think my little friends deserve a post too :) And they are little birdies behind my window who sing to me quite often. Sing not shout like many city birds do. And every once in a while one of them comes to peep through my window and it is sooooo cute. Although I am a bit afraid too since when warmer weathers come I like to keep my window open but what if they fly in. How would I get them out, what if they shit everywhere? :D yes I like to create panics for myself. for now every time I see a tiny head peeping through my window I'm filled with a warm awwww feeling and when they sing - all the music I need :)

Another curious thing I'd like to mention is someone in this building who, now more often then before, shouts in Russian in the evenings. Don't know where he is but he is always angry and the things he shouts are almost always the same bad bad words... Why is he so angry all the time? And by his voice he seems to be an older man about in his forties or something so not a normal student in student halls... curious... I'm always too scared to go and have a look where he actually is, most probably a floor above me, Very curious...

The director of the student halls is also living here on top floor and probably in a lux flat not like the ones students live in. And he has two little chiahua dogs on black and one brown and they're so cute and nice and just make me so jealous because I want a pet (or ten) tooo!!!!!

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...