Heroneya

In pain (but this is positive!)

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:03:57 GMT

Went to Ashtanga class yesterday evening - dear Lord, that was hard! One and a half hour of the torture that my body will thank me for very soon. Today I woke up in pain, and the worst is with my back, which means that I've really gone too far with sitting too much and no exercising. I hope that I won't stop doing yoga again, as I did so many times before (reminds me of my friend who constantly quits smoking).

Discovered a good Danish band (Entakt), they sound different, they write wonderful lyrics and the singer's got amazing voice. And (thank God!) they sing in Danish! I am so tired of many musicians that do it in English (without even being good at it!). Looking forward to get a chance to see Entakt live.

Trying to cheer myself up

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:39:34 GMT

What the coming days (should) consist of...

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:04:27 GMT

8 hours sleep
yoga
long walks
work
reading books
following the current elections
library project
checking out the new exhibitions
cinema at least two times a week
making "autumn dishes" (season for root vegetables)
drinking chai
going more out in the evening

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:22:29 GMT

I have difficulties to find a proper female magazine that will satisfy all my needs. There are couple of them in Denmark that are readable, but nothing that makes me wanna buy them each month (not to say impatiently wait for them!) and go "wow" about the articles and their monthly suggestions when it comes to music, books or movies. Only couple of them ever mention/write about exhibitions or theatre. Recently I got two numbers of Croatian Elle and I was positively surprised. There was something to read, there was something to see, and they definitely suggested some music and movies that I feel like cheking out. But how am I to get Croatian Elle next time, unless there is somebody travelling to Cro accidentaly? Sad, sad...

Sunday I went to cinema and watched two movies (spent more than four hours there!). Michael Clayton and Eastern Promises. Usually I am not a huge fan of Viggo Mortensen (so overhyped!), but I think that Cronenberg gets the best out of that man. He was simply amazing! The movie itself of course, but I am not surprised.

Last night I went to visit my sister, who recently became mother for the second time. Little baby girl is so lovely and looks pretty much as Filippa (her first child) when she was born, only darker hair. I wonder what she grows inot one day. Filippa is extremely jealous, it was almost funny to watch.

Apart from that, I've been so lazy lately. So many things I have to do, even more things I'd like to do. But something doesn't let me. As if I am sleeping throughout the day, never really waking up.

An important date

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:59:01 GMT

On this day twelve years ago, I met one of the most important persons in my life: Mr Tomsky. Ever since the number 1410 has meant a lot to me and became a symbol for many things and a part of every password I've ever used. We met at the club/bar Kransnapolsky which once was a cool place for cool people, but which today is really a trashy place that I only still fancy because it stands out as something special in my memories.

I went for a walk downtown and saw that COS finally opened. And I already spotted a great bag that I simply have to buy and use for my new laptop (special care of MacBook!).

Tonight: dinner at Les trois cochons, looking forward.

Lost and found

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:44:59 GMT

Long time no see. I completely forgot about this blog. I guess I am not that much into blogs anyway. After being away for so long time, and updating myself with what has happened here meanwhile, I find it impressing to see that Evalien and Yhanick were so active all the time, keeping my Livejournal friend blogs alive. So the question is: Where in the world do you find the inspiration - I envy you so!!!

Listening to Nouvelle Vague: Bande à part

So what is going on in my life? I moved to another flat, really huge one and very central in my favorite part of the city. When I say huge, I mean huge like, there is a billiards (pool?) in the living room and there is american kitchen. And enormous dinner table for 12 people eating comfortably with lots of space for the food in the middle, not disturbing any body's plates. Long ago, that living room used to be 4 rooms, but the the walls were removed in order to make a huge room out of the space, because Maersk had their sewing ladies here back in 1970s, sewing uniforms for the company - how cute!

Also, I bought MacBook, so I said goodbye to annoying PC that stood for everything I hate and I am not :)
Good morning to my new lifestyle.

I read an amazing book just recently which I definitely have to recommend to all: Wally Lamb's "I know this much is true". And also (but who hasn't read it yet?) Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" - nothing recently touched my soul like that book.

Hey friends, where are you and how are you doing?

Night

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:46:03 GMT

How can you sleep with my heart so loud???

Summer on Durmitor

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:48:53 GMT

There's an drawing office right next to us and they've been ranovating the rooms for two months now, which means that an incredible noise is waking me up each day at 7 am, and there's nothing I can do but get up and run out of the flat and first get up when they've got break at around noon. I'm getting chronically tired the last weeks and the dim winter weather is not making it any easier.
Last night I dreamed of my summer on Durmitor. God knows how much I miss it and how I fell in love with mountains. My first trekking ever, pretty unexpected and spontaneous. I just realized I never posted any photographs from our summer on Balkan. So I am going to do it here and now.

Tom and I at Bobotov Kuk (the peak of Durmitor, 2500 m above the sea level)

Somewhere on the way down from Bobotov Kuk

And almost down again...

Here comes the rain again...

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:32:46 GMT

For many years now I've hated the Danish weather, specially from November to April. Too much rain and too much slush (and very little snow!). I always throw couple of shoes or boots in the garbage beacuse they are of no use after one Danish winter. This time i decided to invest in a pair of Ilse Jacobsen rubber boots (yes, 125$!), but I still manage to look cool and I can walk in the streets filled with rain (and slush!).

Ilse Jacobsen

Poem of the day

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:19:50 GMT

WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND ?

BY: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling

The wind is passing thro'

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads

The wind is passing by.

Nostalgia

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:20:17 GMT

I try to close my eyes, but I'm afraid of the dark
I see you everywhere
I see you everywhere

"Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!"

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:16:12 GMT

I've tried it before, but you never get used to such things. To lose somebody you love. In the worst, most definite way, with no chances of getting back. I've tried it with Natasha when I was only 16. It was the first and the most shocking loss. There were some other ones meanwhile, never as shocking as that one.
Some days ago I met Maja, common friend of me and my friend Tove. The coincidence of our running into each other on the exactly that day was so extreme, it made me believe we were sent to each other by angels. She tried to reach me all day long (on the old cell phone) only to let me know that Tove died. But she couldn't, of course, because the number is in no use anymore. On the other hand I took the bus I never take, only because Agata was freezing and we decided to take 6A two stops and that's where and how I met Maja. And heard the disturbing news I didn't want to hear.
Tove was my first Danish friend. I met her in january 1993. and we've been close friends ever since. So many memories popping up in my head these days.
Her laughter.
Her huge ring on the right hand.
Her small art pieces.
The way she's analyzing the paintings on the exhibition.
Her French, which she loved to speak.
Her jazz, her Bach, her African music.
The way she would put her hair behind her ear.
The way she would smile saying "Hey Monika!"
All gone.
Too gone.

Crazy Japan

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:02:47 GMT

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:48:44 GMT

why couldn't a mosque in denmark look like this? placed somewhere in jutland for instance to attrack tourists?

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:22:35 GMT

I love the fact that there are many aereas and places around Copenhagen yet undiscovered. Tom took me yesterday to Raadvad kro for lunch, in the forrest near Lyngby and I really loved the place and the food, although I think it was a but too expencive for a brunch (23 euros for what you see on the plate). Glass of wine 6 euros and a coffee 4 euros. But the view was amazing and the atmosphere too.

Brunch

Waiting for the brunch

Afterwards I met with Tanja and did some shopping after we had something to drink on the top of Illum, where we updated each other with the latest news (goes all the way back to December 2005). She's an amazing girl and I think it is pity we don't see each other some more often. The evening was such a waste, and the night was even worse - Mr Insomnia visited again.
Got up at 10am, still haven't had anything to eat and feel horrible. Will go out and re-fresh.

Walking Zombie

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:45:51 GMT

Had wonderful dinner at Egebjerg last night.
Got caught by rain on the way home.
Dropped by 7-eleven and bought the new issue of Cover magazine (the only Danish fashion magazine that look down on women - here you won't find recommendations for movies a la Bridget Jones or reviews for Shakira's latest cd). Well, some bad/annoying features like "What has Kate F**g Moss bought this week and which part of her body has Paris Hilton shown this time" are not to be avoided here neither, but what the heck - I just skip those pages. Why would I be interested in how many grams of Kate has sniffed or who is copying her newest trend?
Went to bed at 2am, utterly tired, but couldn't fall asleep. I hate insomnia!
Had to take a sleeping pill and managed to fall asleep around 6 am, got up at 1 pm and feel like shit.
Spent the day so far reading Cover, did feet massage and got showered.
Now to the Churchyard and then dinner at Knud (father of our friend Jonas who died 5 years ago).
Tempus fugax et irreparabile.

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:59:40 GMT

Today's dinner at Egebjerg Restaurant:

*Tuna fish, green tomatoes and
soya almonds.

*Norweigan lobster, new carrots and
bacon from Skallebækgaard.

*Tenderloin and breast of veal with
morels and peas.

*Comté from Fort st. Antoine with elder flower.

*White Valrhona chocolate with apricot and crisp,
served with sorbet of fromage frais.

Leonor Fini

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:06:59 GMT

I was surprised to see that Statens Museum for Kunst had a wonderful book about Leonor Fini for 5 euros, which I of course had to have home with me. Usually I am not so much into surrealist paintings, but she is very different from the painters from her period and the colours are somehow more intense, because she keeps them to minimum.
Here are some of my favorite paintings of hers.

Dialogue impossible

Les apatrides

Métamorphose d'une femme

Went to Fælledparken to watch my friend Liv dance samba at the carneval. She should always walk around in that samba costume :) There was really great atmosphere, pity it was so cold outside. Better luck today - the weather is finally great, almost no clouds on the sky and the wind's not too strong.
I might go there again with my parents, I hardly spend time with them lately. Some picnic would be great - have to phone them.

PS

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:25:06 GMT

I found some old photos of my hometown and it made me extremely happy. I have to share them with you.

I am so looking forward to go there this summer.

New sunglasses

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:43:17 GMT

Went out for a walk and bought new sunglasses. I think they make me look great, because they hide half of my face :D
Now I can go around with dark circles under the eyes, nobody will notice! Coffee on Østerbro (almost 5 euro, I hate this city).
Sandwich with mozarella, tomatoes and pesto at Kulinaris.
My hair is finally long enough so I can have it in a tiny ponytail.

Where have they been?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:33:18 GMT

Went to bed late, got up late. Have pain in my back. T made breakfast and coffee. This weekend there is Pinsekarneval in Cph. I got email from Liv who invited me to see her somewhere on the pedestrian street dancing with her group in costumes - looking forward (I missed it last year).

Talked to Vesna about going to cinema to watch Oldboy, but it turned out they don't show it anymore in Grand, so I have to see the late show in Gloria, if I want to see it at all. Damn. I bought a wonderful coat from Full Circle the other day, but still haven't had it on. It costed me 230 euro, but I don't regret it at all, I fell for it already when I saw it in the window in Münchhausen.

These days
Books I'm reading:
The Shadow of the Wind
Arkitektur DK

Music I'm listening to:
Band of Horses
Azure Ray
Boards of Canada
Fairuz
Sigur Ros

Clothes I'm wearing:
Tight black jeans from Lee
Different scarfs
Black shirts
Pointy high heel shoes

Dreams I'm dreaming
Walking through New York
Shopping in New York
Waking up in New York

Food I'm eating
Ceasar salat
Sandwich with chicken and homemade curry dressing from Salonen
Smoothies
Fresh made juices
Strawberries ad libitum

Desperate Librarian

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:21:05 GMT

I was in Grand yesterday to see The Squid and the Whale and I really liked it. I found all carachters extremely unpleasant, yet I couldn't really dislike any of them. The music was great and it was kind of a money that makes you feel good for many hours after watching it.
Afterwards lunch at Salonen, Sasha joined later on and we had a long walk through the busy pedestrian street, doing window shopping for at least one and a half hour. Spoiled ourselves with a fresh juice from Joe and the Juice (I had my favorite with passion fruit, apples and pinneaple). Walked all the way home, through theand down by the lakes and spent night in bed watching Without a Trace, several episodes.

Hotel Fox

Tue, 30 May 2006 21:41:29 GMT

Ok, this must be my favorite, after a very long analysis.

I would though remove that black thing hanging over there and the wall with the window is ugly. With this painting on the wall, pictures are unnecessery.
About the room and the designer:
Re-interpreting tradition. Simone is a great traveller and also loves the nomad life so he is happy to be working on hotel rooms that he himself would like to stay in and hopes too that his guests will wake up in them with a smile in the mornings. “This room is my own interpretation of traditional Japan seen with a modern western eye. I wanted to give a sense of freshness, a contemporary young design style, but minimal and peaceful as in the Japan of the past.”

Desperate housewife

Tue, 30 May 2006 19:18:36 GMT

Still haven't seen The Squid and the Whale, something came up again.
Instead, I've been out shopping, having tea at Circus and thai on the bench in Elmegade.
One of the days I will go out for dinner at Fox Kitchen (placed in a really cozy hotel in Copenhagen, with crazy rooms).
Watched two last episodes of Desperate Housewives and now I'll just read a book and relax.
So lazy.

Yesterday

Mon, 29 May 2006 08:50:01 GMT

Trouble with sleeping because of the coughing. But I had a great day. Met up with Tom and Mindy (his friend from New York) for lunch at FrisørSalonen (where else?!). Then a walk in the rain all the way to Statens Museum for Kunst, where we saw the exhibition French Master Drawings. The usual stuff: Picasso, Matisse, Rodin etc. but I was the most impressed by certain drawings by Forain (see below), Guys and Vuillard. Pity they are renovating the building, which means two of the floors were closed yesterday, but I hope Mindy had good time with us anyway.

Long coffee break at Props. On the way there Tom discovered the had a hole in his right shoe, so his sock and foot got all soaked. He sat at Props with one shoe on and one bare foot. Bloody camera battery was "exhausted", so I couldn't take a picture of that funny pair of feet under the table - one all dressed up and another completely naked.
Afterwards I went to cinema with Martin to see Haneke's Caché:

with Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. Good, claustrophobic and uncanny as always. So many other movies on my list waiting to be watched (Oldboy, Paradise Now, The Squid and the Whale, L'Enfant, Crossing the Bridge, Proposition etc.).
Anyway, time for breakfast.
Rain again.
It's another manic monday.