Alexandra Leaving

My daughter's sleep-over party extravaganza went much better and easier than I expected. Girls did sleep quite a bit of their sleep-over time (8 hours !!!! Weee!) and the rest of time they were happy without big fall outs or any other drama. May be I can do this again. :D

London trip I am off to London tomorrow. About 2 months ago we applied for Russian citizenship for my daughter and this was successful. Now I need to apply for a Russian passport for her (as in a piece of paper sense). Hopefully this should not take too long. But still Russian embassy in London is on of the most unfriendly places that have ever existed and it's officers like to shout at you unduly. Plus they like to change their rules and make many difficulties for the applicants. I will be glad when it is over.

But because this time I am going on my own and hopefully should have some time to enjoy London.. It would be fantastic if you could recommend some interesting places in London to visit?

Fannish bunch of things: Supernatural and La Femme Nikita

Supernatural finale was great, much better then I expected. ( the rest of glee is hidden because it is spoilery )
Yes, it was a fabulous end of the season with some very nice special effects. My wish list for the next season – Please, please, please dear creators, can you write some interesting romantic interests for Winchester brothers? Pretty please again..

La Femme Nikita This is absolutely marvellous! I started watching it from miss_dian's recommendation and – OMPH! SQUEEE! Why haven't I watched this before????? I really like it. It absolutely deserves it's own post with pictures but for now I am just going to squee some more for a bit. Both Nikita and her handler Michael are very cool and amazingly attractive and they are already prepared for a passionate forbidden love story. He was kissing her hand in the episode 4 !!! And Roy Dupius who is playing Michael has some very sweet accent! I just have read that he was born in Canada. Is this how Canadian accent sounds?? I am moving to Canada ASAP!

Dorama land: This is where I am going to eat my hat. :D I watched some more of "Proposal Daisakusen" and "Sapuri" and I am really liking them both.

Sapuri
In the episode 2 we see more of the inner-world of both Minami and Ishida Yuya and I am starting to like both of these so different individuals. Ishida Yuya seems to have that child-like wonder in him that is very endearing. Also there is something in the tone of the drama that is reminding me of "Anego", it is light and deep at the same time. But feel I am such an old lady because I can't stop thinking that Kame needs a haircut and a big roast dinner. Desperately.

Proposal Daisakusen Second and third episodes were lovely. My eyes went misty a couple of times, especially in the second episode. The story with coffee milk was cute, sweet and wonderful. I think I like the main message of this drama – our destiny isn't ruled by one or two important events but it is built day by day in a chain of daily insignificant occurrences. But again! I am finally turning into an old lady for sure ** weeps ** because I think Yamapi needs a haircut too! Or may be he needs to dye his hair as scottishlass suggested. But something is not quite right. ** sigh **

Mawang I can't wait for the new episodes to be subtitled. I scouted in the soompi forums and spoilers are driving me crazy!!

( Mawang screencaps and videos. I desperately want to understand what they are saying to each other in these gorgeous scenes! )

Have a good Monday everyone!

OK. Terrorist threats. But not today, when our Russian friends were going home by plane, PLEASE! The ladies went home with the delay, but our pastor (he was supposed to fly to visit Russia today too) had to stay behind.

I am starting to feel affected about this situation. I am largely politically dumb generally but some immediate questions come to my mind:

- What do terrorists want? OK - I think I know what they want - Palestine, etc., etc. But surely they can't think that western countries will just change their policies because of the terror? If anything, actually the opposite is more likely to happen. And DO the terrorists actually want the GLOBAL war? Hmm

- Or is it elaborate government propaganda and the government mean to make everybody feel afraid so that they can propose some crazy laws? Hmm

- No, I don't feel good about the cause which has to be proved with terror. At all. Opposite is true and makes me swing my opinions against Palestine.

But to the happier things - EEEEEEEEEE!

We are having our mandatory Staff development festival soon. It is usually a pain but this year we have reading and writing festival as the part of it. And the book to be read and discussed is - "A short history of tractor in Ukranian!!! I just have received my copy. FREEE!!!

Plus I am reading Sabriel And loving it!!!. It is infinitely better for me then I–have-a-bee-in-my-bonnet trilogy of “Northern lights” by Pullman. Which I liked very, very much at first.

Plus - This is the time of children’s holidays. I am looking after Sasha and her friend Ben during the days I am not working. His mother looks after them when I am working. They are hilarious, because Sasha is a mastermind and Ben is her faithful hand and does all the naughty things she tells him to do. When they don’t argue, that is. But we went to see Garfield 2 and it was the great fun.