happy 2011!(i)
we greeted the new year here in turkey in the good company of a visiting friend. a bit like christmas -- even new year was a rather quiet affair in izmir...just some music and fireworks at midnight in the nearby square + loads of people strolling by and packing the usual cafes and restaurants along the sea...which, in truth, is what happens every weekend - if not every evening!
anyway, nothing close to the grand parties and concerts we could only see on tv - broadcast from american, australian and european squares.
anyway, nothing close to the grand parties and concerts we could only see on tv - broadcast from american, australian and european squares.
(ii)
read my horoscope for the new year and apparently there are ghastly times ahead! -- which does not surprise much, after all. am not an expert, never intend to become one and would never want to sound like a "know-it-all"...but usually the first months with a newborn are everything but happening...it is like a stand-by / slow motion type of thing... so, i guess being horoscopically challenged matters less than zero, really -- doesn't it?
and it is january now - which reminds me of that song "june in january" sung by bing crosby in 1934... and later performed by dean martin too. being a fan of the oldies... i kind of like mellow songs like this one and being january "my month" - i smile whenever i hear it.
A clouded moon creeps across the clouded sky
Winds of January sigh and moan
And yet it's June.
I can see a sky of blue
Dear the miracle is due to you.
Just you.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love
It always is spring in my heart
with you in my arms.
The snow is just white blossoms
that fall from above.
And here is the reason, my dear,
Your magical charms.
The night is cold
The trees are bare
But I can feel the scent of roses in the air.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love.
But only because I'm in love with you.
Oh the night is cold!
Won't it be to bear?
But I can feel the scent of roses in the air.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love
But only because I'm in love with you.
A clouded moon creeps across the clouded sky
Winds of January sigh and moan
And yet it's June.
I can see a sky of blue
Dear the miracle is due to you.
Just you.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love
It always is spring in my heart
with you in my arms.
The snow is just white blossoms
that fall from above.
And here is the reason, my dear,
Your magical charms.
The night is cold
The trees are bare
But I can feel the scent of roses in the air.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love.
But only because I'm in love with you.
Oh the night is cold!
Won't it be to bear?
But I can feel the scent of roses in the air.
It's June in January
Because I'm in love
But only because I'm in love with you.
(iii)
not many new year's resolutions that come to mind at the moment... am just taking notes on what movies and books i want to check out as soon as i can. in particular -- have included the following films in my wish list:
-- never let me go (based on the uber famous novel by kazuo ishiguro - and adapted for the big screen by genius author alex garland... am sure this one will give me the creeps... but did read plenty of promising reviews on it...)
-- jack goes boating (first movie by philip seymour hoffman as a director - watched the trailer and am already sure it must be an incredibly odd cookie)
-- blue valentine (much talked about in the states. already praised for its acting and criticised for the inconsistencies of its script...starring ryan gosling and michelle williams)
-- la bellezza del somaro (italian byopic that was reccomended as "genius" by many friends - especially for the peculiarly accurate portrayt it offers of the so-called radical-chic middle class italy swarms with)
-- cosa voglio di piu' (another italian piece by director soldini)
(p.s.)
went for one of my final check ups before delivery last week and as we were leaving the clinic - asked by my husband whether he could be present at the moment of birth - the doctor informed us with a very broad and genuine smile "it is turkey here, ...you know?" - which was comedy to say the least... and a very quick reminder of how very un-romanticised labour and birth still are here. truth be told... i kind of find this reassuring.
went for one of my final check ups before delivery last week and as we were leaving the clinic - asked by my husband whether he could be present at the moment of birth - the doctor informed us with a very broad and genuine smile "it is turkey here, ...you know?" - which was comedy to say the least... and a very quick reminder of how very un-romanticised labour and birth still are here. truth be told... i kind of find this reassuring.
as mentioned earlier... i am a big big fan of the oldies - ...and the "oldie" ways, i figure.
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