Thursday, September 20, 2007

Ocean's 13

There was 11, 12 and now there is 13. The difference is that the casino is bigger, price is higher and the danger as well.
It's a fun movie to watch and relax. It's 11 and 12 combined and it's simply great. If you liked 11 and 12 you will enjoy 13 too.

Dark Resurection

A movie from Star Wars world created by Italian fans of Star Wars. It's Italian but it is good. This is just the first part and it opens the story about a planet where a man can get invincible powers, but he falls to the black side of the force.
There is a young student that the proficies are saying will save the universe. More of it we'll se in the next part. It is a low budget movie, but it is made very good and the play of characters is on a really high level.

Live Free Or Die Hard

Another movie from Bruce. But this time he is saving the world for the fourth time. Yes this is Die Hard 4. And it's great. Bruce is searching for his successor because he is tired of all that shit. And yes it's about money again. And yes it includes all hi tech that is available today. The most work is done by bes hackers and the network shows its true potential.
Die Hard again.

Perfect Sranger

Movie with crime story that just blows. I won't be writing anything about the story. You just have to see it. And there's Bruce in this one.
The story is so twisted that you just can't tell it. A must see.

How Much Do You Love Me

I wanted to watched this movie ever since it was out, but I just couldn't get my fingers on it. It's comedy about a French man that won lottery and was in love with a prostitute. She accepted his offer of living together for much money a month.
There was however her pimp that just didn't want to lose her. And there was another thing: She was prostitute by heart and couldn't get rid of her habits. She was still sleeping with other men.
Nice comedy.

Universe

I haven't watched a good documentary about space for quite some time before I ran into the new scientific series of Universe. This one was really great. In 14 parts takes you on the crazy journey from planets in our solar system to the explanation of how sun works to the creation of galaxies black holes pulsars and many other strange things out there. It also explains latest theories about creation of universe and how scientists have imagined it through the centuries. There are many famous guests in the show like Brian Grenee, Martin Reves and much more.

It was about time that good documentaries were made after a long pause.

Expedition England Scotland 2007

It's almost a moth since we're back from this one of the kind expedition. And I am writing something about it now.
We started on beautiful Tusday morning on a very well known meeting point in Velenje, that is in front of Red Hall. This was our third expedition of this kind and I must say it was a success. We had the same driver as on both past expedition, since he is the best bus driver in the world. But this year he had a suprise for us. He came with a brand new bus. A very nice coach from Neoplan.
After hit the road we had many kilometers before our first stop in south Germany.
Let me just go through the days:
Day 1. (Velenje - Nürnberg)
650km of road and two stops in Passau and Regensburg.
The first day was more driving less exploring.
Day 2. (to Waterloo)
Three countries in one day. Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium. This was a very joyful day. Luxenburg is really nice city. Unfortunately we had only 2 hours to see it.
Day 3. (to Dunkerque)
Brussels and Dunkerque are nice cities. Brussels was very empty thou. Especially new part of city. The old town was very beautiful. And the EU parliament was nice too.
Day 4. (to Cambride)
On our way to UK we took a ferry from Calais to Dover. Our coach driver was in UK for the first time and he adjusted well to driving on the wrong side of the road. First stop in England was an old town of Canterbury. This is a really nice old small town. At the afternoon we reached our base for the next 4 days - Cambridge. We know a scout group from there and we have contacts for more then 20 years now.
Day 5. (to Jamboree)
This was a nice experience. We had all day for exploration of Jamboree area. And it was not enough. The place was huge, and there were more then 30.000 people. It was just crazy experience. Meeting other cultures and people from all over the world. And they were all scouts.
Day 6. (to Duxford)
On that day we visited air base in Duxford. It is a really nice airplade museum. I saw Blackbird there and even B52. Nice experience. In the afternoon we went to pub to see how it is like to watch a football game in one of pubs. And it was nice.
Day 7. (to London)
I was there before, and I know that you just can't see it in one day. But it is nice city. I went in national gallery for the second time (because of my girl), I didn't mind that at all. I was in Apple store there. It was nice to feel the subway again.
Day 8. (to York)
We left our base in Cambridge and turn north to Scotland. We stopped in Lincoln and York. Two nice cities. I must say.
Day 9. (to Edinburgh)
We stopped in New Castle., the ugliest cities on out expedition. I don't know why but it was not nice and we all agreed it was the worst. We only reached the suburbs of Edinburg that day.
Day 10. (Edinburgh)
That was day of 25km long walk around the city. The city is just pearl of North. A really nice city to visit or to live in. Worth visiting again. This a half of the expedition.
Day 11. (to Loch Lomond)
We went on Wallace National Monument, dedicated to the greatest rebel of Scotland William Wallace. That day we also stopped in Pitchlochry. This was our most North point of our expedition. We concluded the day near Lake of Loch Lomond, but there was unpleasant surprise. A million of small bugs attacked us. Much like mosquitoes, but far worse.
Day 12. (to Chester)
We came to early to Glasgow so everything was closed and we went on. In Liverpool we visited renewed old docs with Navy museum, Beatles museum and Tate. In the afternoon we arrived in Chester, another pretty old town with nice wall and buildings.
Day 13. (to Cardiff)
On this day we visited ruined castle in Montgomery and ended out day in Cardiff, with beautiful parks and very fancy ruby field.
Day 14. (to Portsmouth)
Through Bath with the nicest today standing roman baths. We stopped by Stonehenge. Visited a beautiful cathedral in Salisbury and ended in Portsmouth, which is nice city with Spinaker tower, a sail shaped tower. There we got on ferry for France and had a party on board of that big ferry that took 7 hours to reach the France.
Day 15. (to Aromanches)
Back on the mainland. We visited the D-Day museum there where the allies have come to shore in World War 2. We also visited the monument for American soldiers there by.
Day 16. (to Tours)
The one and only St. Michel. A really beautiful monastery with small village on the nice little isle. Next was St. Malô. a nice small isle town with narrow streets full of people.
Day 17. (to Orleans)
The castles on Loire. They are nice. We visited two of them Amboise, where Da Vince lived last 3 years of his life and is buried there. The other castle was Chambrod. The greatest castle I have ever seen. Huge building with lots and lots of rooms.
Day 18. (to Mulhouse)
Mostly driving whole day. There were many kilometers to home.
Day 19. (to Insnsbruck)
Stop in Zürich. One of the most boring cities on expedition. Full with rich swiss people and very sterile. There was really nice view from our camp in Innsbruck.
Day 20. (to Velenje)
Visit of Innsbruck in the morning with golden roof, and ski jump site. Stop in Swarovski museum. Museum full of crystals all kinds and colors. Then the way back home pass the Großglöckner, with nice mountain sight.

There will pictures published in my gallery but I have to pick witch ones first. There are lots of them.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Eight Below

This one is really nice.
It's a movie about husky dogs that are used on Antarctica for sledge dragging. It's a story about how this dogs can survive in a really unfriendly weather at temperatures many degrees below zero.
It shows how this dogs survive more then 150 days on their own in the land of ice and snow. They must work together to survive. They have to hunt together and sometimes they must sacrifice themselves for the good of all the others.
Movie was filmed after the real life events and it says the story of real dogs and peoples. When you think that people are the one that you care about, you see that the animals are maybe even more emotional.

Cold Mountain (Mt. Mrzla or Mrzla Gora)

Well that is bunch of names for the same Mountain. They are combination of original Slovene name and translations to English.
One nice Saturday We (My two friends Marko and Uroš) decided to conquer this peek of our Mountains. It is just over the 2000 m high (2203 m to be exact) mountain in Kamniško-Savinjske Alps. But the way up is however not one of the easiest. It is very rocky and its good to have helmet with you (On the head off course).
It was really nice day. There are only few pictures that I took with my phone from the top.
You can view them all here.

Harry Potter And The Order Of Phoenix

It's been quite a while since I watched this one. And that is why I'll be short about it.
It is great. I wont write about the plot, since I want you to at least watch it. But if you are Fiction lover, then you must read the book.

My only minus is that the actors are much older then they should be. Sadly but they age for more then a year between movies and that is not good.

Away for the long time

Well this was really long time without blogging.
What can I say. I just had to do it and I did it with purpose and intention.
First part was because I was away on yet another expedition (I'll be writing about it later) and the other part of my "Off-time" was dedicated to "clean-up" of my last undergraduate exams.
And I must say I did it well.

You'll be reading from me more often now, I have much to write about and I'll have even more to write about in weeks and months to come.