Oh course! That explains it. He’s a government worker. No wonder he’s tried, anything past three o’clock has them falling apart – so Thursdays for them, when they finish at 5 or 6pm (normal home time for the rest of the world) is like running the Marathon backwards dressed as a chicken.
I hate to say this, but my dislike for government workers has only grown since I moved to Nicosia. Government workers have to be laziest people on the island (I’d say on the Earth, but I reserve that for ex-Eastern bloc gold diggers). They do the bare minimum, work basic hours and make about as much money as Britney on tour. If only the services they offered were just as good as Britney’s*.
But what’s more is that they seem to be tired all the time. They finish work, return home, have a nap, eat, go for coffee, go home, eat and sleep. What a wonderful (pointless?) existence. Then they’d call me up at 6pm, and invite me to go meet them for a coffee. When I say that I’m stuck in traffic on the way home, and I have to cook, clean and finish off a project they call me a party-pooper! Well if I worked 3.5 hours a day for €4.000 of course I’d be up for going out all the time. Although believe me, the don’t make for good part-people. Because we all know that the harder you work the harder you play – and government workers barely have put together eight hours of work in their life. So the conclusion is; not good party-people! Sorry guys!
And that’s what drives me insane about these people – the young ones of course. The ones with families are right to work the fewest hours they can to spend with their children, but the fewer hours they work, the fewer cash they should get. But the younger ones, without kids and an over-bearing mother-in-law, who work until three do nothing. It’s as it they stop functioning when they go home and merely exist. Then when I’m busy they call me a party-pooper. The irony is that I go out more then they do. I return home at 6, eat, do sports and then go out around 10. I’m in bed by 12.20am and ready to get up at 6.30 the next morning. Oh dear dearest government workers… you have so much to learn! Too bad you’re too tired to do so!
I think that what you dress up as says a lot about you. In the case of Cake as a vampire… well she obviously wanted to devour all the cakes… and more. Laverne and her nerd outfit? I’m sure Freud would agree that she wants to be seen as smart. More like a smart-ass!
My friend Party-Animal went last week to a party dressed as an elephant. Does he want to tell us that he never forgets? Now he wants to change. I told him to go as a Womanizer and wear gold shoes with white clothes. He just said ‘hmmmmmmm’ maybe he forgot what I told him.
This year I am going for the third time as a devil. I was a devil at Halloween 02, Carnival 08 and this year. But of course I always have variations. 02-devil was dressed in black. 08-devil wore a t-shirt saying Prada and 09-devil will feature a tail that took me two hours to make, an open red shirt and a bow-tie and to top it all off and look totally ridiculous, I will wear boxing boots! So it’s totally trashy. Oh yeah and I’m totally smearing my face with boot polish! Hahahahaha! Loves it! This friend of mine was like 'you always go as a devil'. And I was like 'yeah, it's the only thing that suits me!'
So this same friend who is always moaning, well I asked him what he will dress up as and he wants to go as a toilet. Is his outfit made of porcelain? Does it include the smell? I wonder what that means, you know, dressing up as a loo? Low self-worth perhaps? Maybe he smells? But it turns out he can’t be bothered. Let’s just hope he can be bothered to flush at least!
I think these guys look hilarious! Good concept! Very LA!
My crazy ex wanted to meet up. I agreed because I was bored and knew she just wanted to meet up for one thing. Then I remembered that I found her repulsive and decided to cancel. But I said it in a way that made it sound that I want a relationship from her.
‘Dear Skunk-face. I would lto meet with you but only if you want a relationship. Love me!’
Then I press send!
I could feel her going crazy in her room all the way in Strovolo. 45 minutes later she replied: Your loss babe xx
So I did the mature thing of replying: Actually it’s your loss since you ended it xx.
Then she text something so rude I won’t even write here and I replied by saying: what’s your problem? Why are you behaving this way?
Of course she didn’t reply. I guess she used up her free texts!
But the truth was; she had to go. My friend Barb warned me to stay away and end it, which I did, but not completely. We still kept texting. This time, it needed to be a clean break. No text. No nothing.
I didn’t like her energy. I didn’t like her attitude. I didn’t like her family. I didn’t like her friends. So when it came down to it, I didn’t like her either. Plus, she ‘dated’ some really skanky guys and I’m the kind of person who judges you by your ex and what they were like.
Now. This part is not meant to offend anyone, and for this I will be impartial. For some reason Nicosians dislike to see that Limassol is doing well and cannot resist to add into the conversation how much they hate Limassol. Why? It’s still in the same country. They talk about how amazing Nicosia is and yet, the first opportunity the get, they run to Larnaca’s beaches. For me personally Protara is an extension of Nicosia.
On the other hand (which is pointing the middle finger) Lemesians (as I call them) insist that Limassol not only should be the capital of Cyprus but the centre of the world. Okaaaay…Whatevverrr! I know it’s more developed than the rest of the island but damn are some people trashy there! I know that LMS has done well, but that’s because of the Russians and Arabs and because of the beach, not because Lemesians decided to radically alter the image of the second-city. Maybe Lemesians feel smug that LMS looks nicer than Nicosia – but that’s not reason to knock Nicosia down. Nicosia, with some planning and investment could easily be the best city in Cyprus. Yet due to mismanagement, no tram or bus system and the division which divides the city means it falls behind.
Instead of bitching about each other, just admit that each one offers different things and are great in their own way. LMS has a great beach front that will get better but nothing can compare the feeling of walking in Nicosia. You feel that it’s the capital and the nightlife is great. Cyprus is a tiny place in the world – it’s a great thing to be able to say how diverse our island it; we have the city-life, the beach-life, the mountains, the resorts, etc. The only other place in such a small space is Tel Aviv/Jerusalem… if you go there, you’ll understand what I mean.
So get over yourselves and your ego and stop going on about how much you hate each other’s city. Understand that diversity is a good thing. Support each others’ development and realise that together we are stronger. And stop telling me about it because I’m from Limassol/live in Nicosia. I really don’t care what you think. If you intend on pointing out where I’m from/where I live I will gladly point out the cave in the village where you came from… and where you should return to sooner than later.
Oh… and one more thing – if you don’t like Nicosia/Limassol, then don’t go there. Don’t drive up/down for an afternoon, have your frappe and then bitch about it to your friends and to people of that city. It’s really annoying – and by bitching, it just shows that you went to the bad part of town and don’t know that particular city well. I on the other hand love both cities so I go wherever I want. Maybe it’s because, like some of you said, I’m AngloCypriot/English/Martian/whatever and I enjoy Cyprus as it is without feeling the need to bitch about the good places in order to make them look bad.
Also, when there’s a new song that you like, you listen to it constantly. And then you stop, maybe because a new song came along or because you got bored of it. And then you hear it a few months later and it takes you back to that time in your life; you know, the song becomes yours and it carries the memories of the time you listened to it. I love stuff like that. I guess music really is the soundtrack to our life with different tracks representing different time periods.
Right now my fave tracks are: Living in a world without you by the Rasmus; Breaking Up her Heart by Good Charlotte. That song from the Cadbury’s advert called ‘wouldn’t it be nice’ you know, one of those oldies but goodies. And I also came across ‘Laura non c’e’ on youtube, which is an Italian song by Nek with 1000 different version is about 28 languages, which is so Euro-pop marketing-let’s-make-money-attitude, but it’s a good song and currently top 2 on my Ipod!