Boris Purushottama Grebenshikov

I have been to the Aquarium’s concert lately. The Aquarium band with their leader, Boris Grebenshikov, were performing in the famous Albert’s Hall. Albert’s Hall is the most famous concert hall in London. No I am not their big fun, their tickets were free so why not to go ?

The performance was great ! I liked the music because it was so different and challenging. For example, they were playing very heavy guitar one then changing to a simple piano solo and then to something like a Scottish motive. Hilarious !

The things I did not like about the concert are that the singed words were hardly recognizable and most of the songs were in the Russian language. Why to perform in London and do only Russian stuff?

The funniest experience was about the seating places. There was a very complicated process of exchanging coupons to tickets. The coupons were sent by post while exchange for the tickets started three days before the concert. The funny thing was that the most fabulous places were released just a couple of hours before the show and the only time, luckily us, we had to exchange them was just before the show. We were sitting on the second row from the stage! Wow !

By the way, my famous friend Jan refused coming. He has simply announced that he hates their music. Even the always working stimulation of a chance to meet nice girls did not work this time.

p.s
Purushottama is Borises middle name and was given to him by his buddist teacher. The same person is actually sponsored his London's concert.

perfect house

People, I have found a concept for a perfect house !

I have come to conclusion that the only thing at home which should be perfect to make the life shining is THE SHOWER !

Come on, you have to agree that one of the most important things when you come to a posh hotel after a triple bed is a shower ! but why dont we have it at home with the same level of comfortability ???

These days .. when I come home ... and I am not living to my home at the moment ... I am taking a shower ... they have a perfect one ... with a hotttt water ... strong current ... ufff .... I could stay there for long :)

rain

Is it is a global worming already?

It has started two weeks ago, just out of the blue … raining!
Two weeks ago, nothing was suggesting of a weather change. It was so worm and nice ! I changed my shirts to short sleeves and it was simply great, the spring is here.

And then suddenly it has started raining .... and raining .... and raining …

For the last 4 days it is raining non-stop, can you believe it?

Anybody please turn this bloody tap off :)

Invigilator

Invigilation ! What a boring profession ! ufffffffff !

So the person who looks after the students during the exams and distracts them from cheating called invigilator. It is couple of hours per exam and it sounds nice, that’s why I have decided doing it. By the way, the job is paid, 10quid ish.

(for the people not familiar the word “ish”, it has a meaning of “more or less” and it is very common used… for example, I went to bed 1 o’clock ish.)

It turned out to be one of the most boring hours I have ever spent ! you just walk around and do nothing … and the poor students are trying to solve the exams ! have a look at the students, this is the way it looks like here in Imperial. Sitting on a chair behind the wooden desk and almost nothing there on the table.



Nobody is cheating here. It is so hard punished that I think I would not do it myself if I was studying here. If somebody is caught, automatically without any discussion the whole year is zeroed and the person needs to retake it. I think it is inhumane punishment but it is very reasonable and and forces people to study.

Have you ever cheated during the uni ?

Iranian New Year

I have just finished another writing piece for an english class. You probably know nothing about the topic, enjoy the education post :)

This particular English class is based on the presentations and writing. This time it was a student from Iran who gave a presentation about their New Year holidays while all the rest were asked to summarise it to a letter … Roy is the teacher of our English class … :)

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Dear Roy,

Its very pity you could not make it to the last English class. There was a fascinating lecture by Babak about Iranian New Year.

Apparently Iranian New Year is totally civilian happening rather than religious tradition. It comes to symbolize the reborn of the nature and its continuity. Their calendar is sun based and a new year celebrations are corresponded to the beginning of spring. The most interesting detail is its precise celebration timing. The new year’s celebrations are starting exactly at the time of the end of the winter and start of the spring, with an accuracy of seconds. The preparations time phase is mostly spent on cleaning, rearranging, shopping and buying new clothes. On the day of the event it is very common for younger generations to visit the older ones, exchange gifts and have a formal dinner. The celebration event is managed as a big meal with many relatives. There are seven particular dishes served on the table. All of them symbolize the life reborn, health, happiness and wealth. All their names do start with the letter S, therefore it is called the table of seven S. The celebrations least for thirteen days with public holidays at the fist and the last three days of the period. Most of the people use this holidays to visit each other, take a vacation and the most important is to go out to a nature showing their respect.

Ahh, one more thing, this tradition relates only to Iran and its historically empire countries like Afghanistan. Rest of Muslim countries do celebrate the new year by a different timing and traditions.

See you soon,
ya

p.s
it took me 40 minutes to write it.

Bank holiday

Nothing is happening in this city. It is raining and the weather is so so ...

Last monday was a Bank Holiday. It is named Bank because all the Banks are closed but actually it is a full time holiday. British people have decided that they don't have enough holidays compared to other countries, so they made two days a year for holidays and called them Bank Holiday.

I was at home, studying ...

the party, the last part

I am feeling discouraged, do not want to write about this story any more, so I will just post the morning photos ...

8 ocklock the police has arrived, and stopped the party.
Here you see them just before getting inside .... I have counted around 20 policemens ...


this is the photos, just after the party was stopped ... its morning and the people are still there ... unbelieveble ...


here you can see all the people after they were forced out



and here have a look at that rat, stealing my vynil records !!! the photo is done throught the window glass, and police done nothing about it !!!


ahhh ... by the way, anybody to recognise the silver van ?? :)

robbery = party ! (part 3/4)

He he he, its so funny ! As I see the story was well written, just after publishing the story, it was early morning my mom called me and woke me up with the question of what has happened !

So back to the story, that bloody day at half past three it was the owner of the house calling me. He has asked me on how could I make a party in my house without letting him know !

I could not understand what is he talking about. Party in my house ? no, I have no party ! I am a sleep ! Still thinking that he is wrong, I put the training pants, my eyes still half open and myself almost a sleep went down to the street.

He was right, there was a party !!! In the next building, which is also our responsibility was a huge party ! Lound music, drunk people everywhere, 300 – (three hundred) people ish inside jumping !

Can you imagine my face ? In the house I am taking care of, there is a huge party !!!
They have frustrated me from getting in, asking 5 quid as an entrance fee ! BASTERS !

Checking around, I understood that something is missing. IT IS THE FRONT DOOR WHICH IS MISSING ! so, they forced the door, connected the electricity power and called everybody for a squats party !

Do you remember I have mentioned squatters ? this is them ! they have their own rights !!! they have found a free place, forced the door but nobody saw it happening, this means that they can live there till the court will make them out, which can happen in a year time !!!

Police ?? yes we have tried, but nobody has arrived, it seems that nobody cares !

Eight in the morning, the party was still on, people coming and going … who can come to the party at 8 in the morning ??? I don’t understand it ….

Will tell the rest later … but please … no calling me because of this, I am fine !