Origamad

Every once in a while I discover some kind of handcraft that soon becomes an obsession until I get tired of it.

Just the other day I dropped by a japanese store with a work coleague where, a pack of brightly colored papers with various patterns caught my attention. Origami paper.

At first I thought I could use it for anything, pretty paper is so pretty you cam make up anything just to use it, to cover boxes, notebooks, just to keep it and look at it... but then, back at the office as I waited for our server to come back to life (not surprising but totally nerve-racking), I googled ORIGAMI and, oh surprise! Welcome to a new world.

I started with a simple shirt, easy, then I went on browsing and discovered you can use origami to make useful things, like toothpick cases or clip stands (cause of course everyone has a pocket full of toothpiks in every pair of jeans they wear). And then I went completely crazy. I crafted a very cute tie, a tropical fish, and discovered you can make balloons with paper and blow them!

I realised then this was the kind of silly little thing my sister would love, and just then, I could easily see the kind of madness I would unleash if I showed her my origami paper. And I did!


There's this very cute origami website where they have all kinds of origami categories with instructions and diagrams...they have a page for everithing, and... oh, look! here it says Accessories, lets click here... Oh! you can WEAR origami, WEAR it, as in origami bracelets, origami rings, origami necklaces... and then and there I decided I could leave my sister the difficult parts and go for fashion. I may have done twelve origami bracelets in the last two days (lol) and next weekend: Origami beads for an  origami bracelet!!


I went out on friday night on friday and found myself being "that crazy girl folding paper", I made some more shirts and ties, and fish while at dinner, and wished I had sticky tape to make some more bracelets, but of course, that couldn't be. Crazy girl folding paper was seen again on Saturday afternoon folding paper at a cafe while having lunch with Agnes, wearing her super fashionable paper bracelets, which, by the way, are not waterproof, the rain in Madrid made that veeery clear.


Anyway, just as I had anticipated, as soon as I told my sister about origami, she went crazy too, and soon became the real origami master in the house, she made an amazing cactus and she has announced she is working on a car which may take her a while but will be awesome.

Origamad as we are now, I had to, HAD TO, get origami paper to fill a whole house. I got tons of origami paper from the same store on Saturday afternoon, of course, couldn't wait any longer. Our plan is to fill a huge box with them, or maybe we can decorate rooms, houses and castles with our origami creations.

Or maybe we'll get tired in a few days and will have just tons of colour paper we use for nothing (a very likely option).

Of course there is a dark side to this silly story. My hands are full of papercuts, and they sting like crazy.

Such is Life!

Postcards from... Budapest for Blackberry

Crisis over, Bb functioning perfectly and time to look back to my holiday in Budapest.

Some facts about the city include the oldest metro railway in mainland Europe, the third largest Parliament building in the world and the place of birth of the inventor of the "biro" or ballpoint pen, Sir Biro László József.

As I walked about the city I came up with some very impressive sights and others not so interesting but beautiful. Truth is, as I went through the pictures just a minute ago, I realised most of them were taken in a 60º angle with the ground, if not 90º, therefore, I've spent most of my holiday looking up.

And these, appart from some serious losses of balance, are the results, I've been trying to decide whether I should explain every caption and bore you with the details of the pictures, but finally concluded I want to gain readers, not lose them, and considering what I missed just the other day in Budapest (read below) I might as well keep you all happy.

So here are some of my favourite takes at Budapest with my Bb camera:

The Danube bank, city of Pest:

Buda Castle district:

 Liberty Bridge:

 Anonimus:
 Fun fact? If you touch this guy's pen you become a better writer, guess when I found out? Five minutes ago when I was looking up some fun facts about Budapest (just like the thing about Mr. Biro). Of course it didn't pop my mind to touch the shiny pen just for fun and thus improve my writing skill not even wishing to...

Detail of scary horse in Heroes' Square:

The dome of St. Stephan from below and in between:

Applied Arts museum, an unexpected surprise:

Also, here's is the proof that, just like Sheldon Cooper, I would have made an excellent elf:

Just as I announced in my "Hungarian update", this is my first attemp at Archery (Second target from the right, arrow in the white zone).

Just for the record, yes, all pictures are mine, which is a novelty!

Hope you all had a great time on your Easter holidays (if you had any).

I shall enjoy a last day of freedom before going back to my quest of blue narnian donkeys fluent in chinese.

Such is Life!

This proccess may take up to 30 minutes

So I'm back home from Budapest, transfering my pictures to my laptop and I have a brilliant idea: "Let's update my blackberry software and see if I mess the whole device up"... Hadn't updated the thing in months so there was a lot of stuff to update, and 12 steps to complete.

Step 1 to 7 seem to go on easily, 8 to 10 are a bit slower than I am comfortable with, and then I got to 11, and for the last 37 minutes there is a screen on my computer which reads: "This proccess may take up to 30 minutes"...

Why do I bring doom to myself so easily?

Humpf.

Such is Life

Hungarian update!

Hey there!

Greetings from Budapest!! Beautiful city, full of corners ready to be captured by my bb camera. I'll start posting as soon as I get back.

In the meantime, I'll tell you just how good I was today with a bow and arrow. All that wii practice and LOTR replays has finally paid its result! And I am ecstatic.

I certainly have a gift. Such is Life.
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Dear passenger, we are going to make your holiday total crap

I really wanted to get out of Madrid for a couple of days. Really really wanted to, but I guess someone has a different plan for me, cause here I am, three hours after the departure time of my flight and still here.

Not only did I wake up at 5:15, but I had to put up with more crap than desired on a four day holiday.

Flight delayed, three hours and counting, and it doesn't look like we'll take off any time soon. Worst of all, I'm stuck in the plane, with some very annoying passengers wishing to stuck the seatbelt down their throats.

Of course, the crew's help in a scale from 1 to 10 is something between minus 12 and zero. No explanations, no information and no kindness either. Damn you Malev. Crappy airline...

Being my sister's assistant to help her with her broken arm doesn't improve my humor. I may have to dedicate a whole post to this issue.

Patience is a Jedi virtue I do not posses... Such is Life.
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Making my life easier

Hey there!

Still trying to find the blue narnian donkey, but in the meantime I found a way to make my blogging life easier, and thus, yours more miserable.

This is my first email post!! Such is Life has become part of my Bb's phonebook and now all I have to do is email my posts to a very secret address any mediocre hacker could find in less than I produce my blue narnian donkey. But this is a huge step, one which I hope will let me keep posting on a regular(er) basis.

See you around, such is Life.

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The short second life of...

Life is hard... and then you graduate.

In the case of a junior lawyer, life is hard... and then they suck your blood completely, make you believe you owe your life to the firm, squeeze all your strength, push you to the limit, make you wish you had studied something else, make you wish you hadn't studied (at all), take your money, your time, family and friends, make you look for (and find) a blue donkey fluent in chinese directly arrived from the magic land of Narnia, and then at the end of the day, they don't even thank you for the effort (and right now, a blue narnian donkey fluent in chinese doesn't seem so hard to find...).

Why?

Cause they are making you a favour so that you can become like them and suck someone else's blood come the right moment.

And so you cling to that hope, the hope that some day you won't work as much, won't have to sacrifice your holidays, your personal life, and your feet (cause you make yourself believe high heels are going to make you a better lawyer, of course!) and enjoy an average evening in which you leave the office before 11pm...

Oh, and then you die young.

If anyone asks, I'm officially on holidays, unless of course, you need a blue narnian donkey fluent in chinese, in which case... just leave me a comment.

Such is Life.