Apr
30
The Divine Child
April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
The Divine Child is a novel proposing a new point of view, a novel of choices. Pascal Bruckner offers us in this book an answer to the question “What if I could decide not to be born?”.
Madeleine Barthelemy decides to give a good education to their children before they get born. Starting with the [...]
Apr
24
Is it a boy or a girl?
April 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
On Thursday we will finally find out if we will have a boy or a girl (of course if he wants to show his/her face). Meanwhile I wanted to see what the Old wives would say, as I have some suspicions that he will be a boy (maybe because since I’m pregnant I have became [...]
Apr
23
Sant Jordi post no. 2: The Photo Session
April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I really wanted to take some good photos today as until next year I will not see the city so full of flowers and books, but it seems Gods were against me. I have even lost my last chance to take some good photos of the Sant Jordi bread, as until I got to take [...]
Apr
23
Sant Jordi post
April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
La Diada de Sant Jordi is a Catalan holiday celebrated on April 23, something similar to Valentine’s Day. It is also known as el dia de la rosa (the Day of the Rose) or el dia del llibre (The Day of the Book). In this day lovers use to exchange gifts: the boys give roses [...]
Apr
18
News from the bump
April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
Week 18:
How’s the baby?
According to the scientists the baby should measure up to 15 cm now and should start to do that particular activity that babies most like: sucking their thumb. I still think he’s a boy even if in the last two scans he turned his back to us shamelessly and we could not [...]
Apr
18
The rise of the “misery memoirs”
April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
When I was little I remember there were a lot of magazines in which people told their sufferings (My story, Real stories, etc.). You could see on three or four pages the story of a girl that was abussed when she was little: that made her feel better (it’s always good to share) and lots [...]
Apr
16
Borat and Coelho give Romania a gypsy semblance
April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
After Borat made a Romanian village look like Kazakhstan and Romanian sound like Kazakh, it’s Coelho’s turn to have a Romanian main character in this latest novel, The Witch of Portobello.
The fact that Borat was filmed in Romania was not a reason for happiness for the villagers in Glod, the village where Borat was filmed [...]
Apr
13
A new star in the East
April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A few days ago the Telegraph published an article about Bucharest, about all the changes it suffered in the past years and about it’s actual image. Actually, yesterday when I was in Bucharest I got the feeling described in the article walking through the wide boulevards, admiring the old&new building, the newly appeared flowers, and [...]