DEDICATION

This little book would be inscribed with the name of a dear friend and colleague, if I did not feel how little worthy are my best efforts to be compared with his fine genius, his delightful wit, and surprising learning.

So CUTE!!!

This is Eustace Clare Grenville Murray writing on "Embassies and Foreign Courts: a History of Diplomacy" in 1855 - I'm reading the book as part of my research for the essay I'm currently working on: "When should one date the origins of diplomacy?"

I just really wanted to Share The Awesome :)

And given that I'm here on the blog already, I'll add a handful of random pictures I took a couple of weeks ago in the area surrounding Marylebone Station...mainly because I was walking to the station from Hyde Park, and I got lost, haha.

Have a good day peeps, hope to have time to come and write soon again!!!

TATE MODERN

is a fantastic place to be. I mean, it's all free apart from one or two exhibitions that you can usually watch a video about for free anyway (it was Gauguin this time, and the video was EXCELLENT, I can tell you) so basically, you have 4 floors of freedom and fun, 1 restaurant floor with an excellent view, and one extra interesting floor if you happen to have money in your pockets, which lots of people do, in this country.

How AWESOME is that?? That above is a freely, funly (just invented this word I think) -chosen selection of the most coolest things I've seen when I last went, last weekend. Thought you might like them, whoever YOU are!

To be honest, I'm not even sure what most of these kinds of modern artworks are meant to tell us in the opinion of the person who made them up, but this thought is already quite refreshing, don't you find? I LOVE not understanding what I'm looking at, I think it wakes up the brain cells at least as much as non-sense does. Oh wait, maybe that's because modern artworks EQUAL to non-sense according to my brain cells. Hahah. Nice one. I love non-sense.

Ok, now you might need an explanation of some kind. These are fake hand-made and hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds. Tons of them. They're the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and you can even send a video to him with a question or something like that, if you like. I did, I asked him why did he want to work with something so grey. I always thought that yellow, orange, pink and so on were prettier colours, and CAN YOU EVEN SLIGHTLY IMAGINE how spllllendid it would've been to have the whole room filled with happy colours?!?? but anyway...I wonder if he'll ever reply. It must've sounded like a stupid question to him...
...and there wasn't even just ONE layer of them...it was like four layers, and so huge!!!! oh my gosh, I've gotta go now but the Tate series hasn't finished yet, you're warned!! x

MORE STREET WORKERS (they are just so fascinating!) AND OTHER STORIES

Wow, this is officially the longest post title everrr!!!! On my blog, of course. Some other people might well have longer titles...well I don't mind. Everything's relative, isn't it? Oh, such an exciting thing to think about!! :)

By the way, I know, one of those guys up there isn't exactly a 'street' worker...I'm talking about the sumo-salad guy of course -I also got a photo with him in the end, it was SO FUNNY honestly!!! I couldn't help to getting close to him, under the amused eye of my boyfriend, and starting to pose with him showing muscles and stuff...hahahah NO, you are not gonna see that one! If I had more money, that is to say, if I managed to spend less money on chocolate, I would DEFINITELY go eat at that sumo-salad place in St Paul's shopping centre just because of the funny guy in the costume! Aww, I love him.

Anyway: I wanna write about something else now, so I'll make a new post. I know there might be no readers at all, but they say hope is the last to die and nobody else has died yet, so hope has certainly not either. I really feel like writing today, I have to add, so WHO CARES if no-one reads me!!! :D

p.s. I've had chocolate and vanilla cheesecake AGAIN. This time it took me even less than 15 hours to finish it...I felet so guily, so stuffed, but it was soooooo delicious!!!! Two pounds well spent, if you ask me. I'll just have to try and restrain myself from buying another one this week...

WERTHER

Irene Negri

Che libro ti rappresenta maggiormente?
Risultato: I dolori del giovane Werther (J.W.Goethe)

Sei una persona estremamente romantica. Romantica, nel senso classico del termine: perennemente alla ricerca di qualcosa, senti dentro di te una forza e un impeto che a volte ti stanno stretti, e che vorresti esprimere scontrandoti però con un senso di “finito” che vorresti trascendere. Ti emoziona sempre lo spettacolo della natura, di cui di tanto in tanto vorresti forse sentirti parte, per assumerne la libertà e la potenza. Quando ami, lo fai con immenso trasporto, provi sensazioni uniche al solo pensiero della persona che ti fa battere tumultuosamente il cuore, al solo vederla, al solo udire il suono inconfondibile della sua voce. In quei momenti, c’è qualcosa che ti fa esplodere il petto, che sale e scende nelle tue viscere, che vive, pulsa, grida dentro di te. Attenzione a non cadere in una insoddisfazione da cui sarebbe difficile uscire. Non c’è dubbio: il tuo libro è “I dolori del giovane Werther” di J.W.Goethe.

WOWEE

New month, how exciting is that?!

Oh well, I just felt the need to write something today. Sorry I'm not organized with photos...

Hey, cool, look what I just found out!!! Sounds terrific, doesn't it?

Which Historical Leader are you?

GENGHIS KHAN

A very cruel man who is a believer in himself. Although he is a very underestimating man of others.

Ok, maybe that's enough for today. Wowee :P