Tuesdays and Thursdays are my violent movie nights. Mónica doesn't like (unnecessary) violence in a movie, so I watch the more violent ones on the nights that she has got her dancing classes.
I watched Kill Bill Vol.2 yesterday. Well, about half of it.
Never in my life was I ever this bored watching a movie!
I had been told that it was a little slow and that it didn't have that many fighting scenes like the first volume. But I saw the first volume about a year ago, and I was a little curious how it was going to end. I have been watching the last half hour at double and quadruple speed, thinking: just kill him and get it over with. What a pity.
But Uma rocks. That's a fact.



It's Friday again, and I'm ready for a long weekend. But it seems like a transition weekend. On Monday it will be november, so the cold will probably start kicking in. And on Saturday night the daylight saving time comes to an end, and we have to change the time. It will be dark early, but I comfort myself with the thought that starting next week I can get up an hour later then during the daylight saving time, and maybe I won't feel so tired by the end of the week.

Yesterday a new computer store opened up near to the mall in Oviedo: PC city. It's the first big specialised computer store around. Because a cousin and a friend of Mónica's found a job there, we decided to go take a look after work. It looks promising: you can buy everything from a screw to a motherboard to fully assembled computers.
The employees were happy the store finally opened up, after a month of training in Madrid and working hard on arranging the store prior to the opening.
I bought a new keyboard for my computer. You see, my Belgian keyboard was different from the Qwerty keyboards they use here in Spain. So now that I'm used to working on a Spanish keyboard at work, I typed many mistakes whenever I typed something at home. So it was time to get a Spanish keyboard.

Busy day on the job. I had a meeting that was scheduled for 9 am this morning. So I got up 15 minutes earlier then normally this morning, just to make sure that I would arrive on time. The meeting however didn't start until 10:15. Now that makes me a bit cranky.
In the afternoon, I had to do a security inspection. To make sure everybody understands the security rules on the job, the inspections have to be done every 2 weeks by 3 randomly chosen employees. So today was my turn.
You have to know that security is very strict where I work. You can't have anything on your desk that doesn't belong there, file cabinets have to be closed at all times, you have to lock the computer whenever you leave your desk, things like that.
So what the inspection comes down to is that we have to tell on our fellow workers, and make a list of all the security rules they broke.

Yesterday I saw that movie I spoke of the other day: Battle Royale. It was fairly good, if you like your movies disturbed and Japanese. Some scenes were great, but some great scenes don't make a great movie. There is a twist at the end that doesn't make much sense. That kind of spoiled it for me.

We bought 2 goldfish yesterday. You see, Mónica never had a pet, until a few months ago we won a goldfish on the fair. She was all excited about having a pet for the first time in her life. 2 weeks later however, the fish died in misterious circumstances. I think it must have been sick already when we got it. It stopped eating, and started losing all of his scales.
After the fish incident, we were going on holidays, so we decided to wait until after the holidays before buying a new fish. So yesterday we finally bought our 2 new pets. We bought a small 10 liter fishtank, because I read that the fish go crazy in a bowl, and a waterfilter because the water pollutes very fast without it. And because 1 small fish looked a bit ridiculous in a 10 liter tank, we bought 2.


But actually, we both would like to have a small dog. When I was living with my parents, we always had dogs. But now that Mónica and I are living in an apartment, it's a little more dificult to keep a dog. Also, if Mónica would find a job, the dog would be home alone all day. And that's no way to keep a dog.

My girlfriend, her name is Mónica by the way, wanted to get out of the house on Friday evening, so we went to have dinner in a new Chinese restaurant in the shopping mall "Parque Principado". It's an 'eat as much as you want' buffet restaurant, which seems like a good idea, because not many people in Spain are familiar with chinese meals and their names. The food was good, and for the first time Mónica was enthusiastic about a chinese restaurant.
After dinner we went to the movies, to see "the forgotten". I had only seen the trailer on television, and didn't know much about the movie. It started out good, but turned into a way to easy science fiction story, with plot holes the size of Canada. I was a little disappointed.

Saturday was one of those days that we lacked energy to do anything useful. We slept until the afternoon, went to the mall again to visit some shops, and called it a day.
Yesterday we went to the tourism fair that was being held this weekend. We went there because we couldn't think of anything else to do. But we picked up some ideas for places to visit whenever we lack inventiveness again.

I've been discussing movies with one of my colleagues, and he recommended me the Japanese cult classic 'Battle Royale' (Batoru rowaiaru). I had never heard of the movie, but I have been reading about it all morning, and I'm intrigued by it, to say the least.
The story may sound a little strange (42 15-year old high school students are forced to kill each other on an uninhabited island) but almost everyone who has seen it, seems to love it. This is a movie I must see.



Finally it's Friday. I really need a weekend. I'm tired, and the air conditioning in the office broke down at the beginning of the week, so we had temperatures up to 29°C/84°F on the job.
We don't have any plans for the weekend yet, but the weather is going to be great, so we will think of something.

The sport store Decathlon is having a sale of second hand sports equipment this week. We went to have a look yesterday evening, and I bought skis, boots and poles, all together for 45 euros. And it all looks like new.
Now we're just waiting for the ski season to begin. Officially it starts on the 8th of november, but I doubt that we will have any snow by then.

I feel like I have moved to the perfect place. I can be at the beach in 5 minutes, and when I go south, I can be skiing the slopes in an hour and a half. Only the weather could be a little better. We have the worst weather in all of Spain.

Because television programs in Spain are pathetic (one Big Brother spin-off after the other), my girlfriend and I have been watching many movies lately. The last few weeks we have been watching around 6 movies every week. I search the internet movie database for good reviews, and we watch every movie that we think might be good. You can say we are searching for the ultimate movie experience.

Last week we watched one of my favourite movies again: Donnie Darko (if you haven't seen it yet, make sure you do). What I didn't know until a few days ago, is that you can find an explanation of the complete movie by the director on the internet. You can even read the book mentioned in the movie: 'the philosophy of time travel'.
Only, the explanation they offer is a little far fetched. You better stick to your personal interpretation. If you know a movie that you think I should see, please let me know.

First post

Welcome to my new blog. This is the first post. So you didn't miss anything yet.
I have another blog online, but since that one is written for my friends and family to read, I feel that I can't express enough of my thoughts on that one.
You see, I recently moved from Belgium to Spain to be with the one I love. So my friends and family back in Belgium only want to read how I am doing, what the weather is like in Spain and what we did during the weekend.
No problem, but there is more to tell than that. And that is what I will post here. The thoughts in the margin.