Zalexandra's Weblog

a portrait of a friend

zalexandra — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:37:41 +0000

do you see the friend over there?

I’ll be back:)

zalexandra — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:44:58 +0000

Yes, I know I haven’t been here for ages. Starting to write now is like starting a new blog. Probably later I will speak, but now I just want to show these pics.

My great brother giving a concert-

And my student

this picture was taken in the middle of academic year

these ones were taken just before the summer holidays. Can you see the difference?

Princess Winter’s house

zalexandra — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:54:54 +0000

Here are the pictures from my recent trip to Odessa.

I was crossing the equator in order to get next door…

I’m totally in love with winter Odessa. The little boy Kay from the famous fairy tale must have got exactly to this place when he was kidnapped but the Snow Queen.

just some landscape pics

zalexandra — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:38:34 +0000

Hi again.

I found some more photos and I’m leaving them here with you while I myself am going away for about a week.

Enjoy your winter and I hope to see you soon!

The pics are from Scotland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Switzerland and the last one is Spain again

Abdulov died

zalexandra — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:27:21 +0000

He was one of those soviet actors who stayed with us since our childhood. It was not that easy to get on the screens during soviet times so those few who did were famous and usually loved.

He was diagnosed with cancer 3 months ago, today he died.

the extract from one of the most famous soviet films, in russian

Chess theatre

zalexandra — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:26:52 +0000

that’s what can happen if you have time, chess,a magnifying glass and a camera.

some more Animal pictures

zalexandra — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:57:20 +0000

some are funny, some are just cute, some might look interesting for you in any other way

Santorini pics, the sequel

zalexandra — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:45:31 +0000

these pics were rejected at stocks as belonging to an “overabundant” category. There can be too much beauty:)

But I still wanted to share, although they do look similar to what you’ve seen here:)

Good 2008 morning!

zalexandra — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:53:08 +0000

So I see people started waking up after the new year celebrations. Russia was celebrating a lot as usual and just waking up right now.

Ice age. It’s the name of ice skating show where professional skaters perform together with famous actors. the main rule, actors don’t know how to skate before the show.

That’s how far they can go after some training. The winners of the show, Chulpan Khamatova ( actress) and Roma Kostomarov ( famous ice skating champion)

unfortunately there is some russian speech in the beginning and the end

and lots of russian talking here after 3d minute, but do watch the first part, especial after 1 min 47 seconds:)

these guys took the 2nd place according to judges and 3d according to viewers votes.

she is Alisa Grebeschekova an actress, he is Alexey Tikhonov a professional ice-skater

(I tried to pick up video with as less russian speech on the background as possible )

the song for the next one is sung by Alla Pugacheva, an “eternal” singer, she’s been singing for about 35 years, which means she’s been a singer for longer than I or my friends have lived for so it’s hard for us to judge her objectively. She is just there as a piece of culture. And I don’t think I’m the only one who thinks so. Each day of the show was based on various music themes, like disco, music from films etc. This one was based only on Pugacheva’s songs. You can see her just after the dance, a claping woman with lots of hair.:)

some extracts from this song are ” every break up is a little death<…> there where you are would be no place for me and there is none for you next to me”

Happy New Year!

zalexandra — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:45:52 +0000

I couldn’t leave that without saying.

It’s almost 5 pm Moscow time. Vladivostok will celebrate New Year in 15 minutes, Magadan did this 45 minutes ago , Petropalovsk- kamchatskiy has been living in 2008 for 1 hour 45 minutes.

That’s a big country indeed here!

Amazing:)

Happy New Year!!!