Notes from a Boring Life

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22. Juli 2004, 23:59

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Another Thursday - another museum's visit!

This time I was in the Gemäldegallerie (Painting's Gallery). I haven't been there before because it was newly reopened in 1998.


I was quite impressed - first of the paintings of course, but also of the marvellous architecture and interior. But what masterpieces of art: so many works of the most world-famous painters: Rembrandt, Rubens, Cranach, D?rer, Bruegel, Vermeer van Delft, Canaletto, Caravaggio, Rafael, Tizian, Botticelli and many, many more! I haven't known, that there can be looked at so many paintings of so many famous artists in Berlin.

I have been in this gallery almost three hours and I was surprised, when a voice informed, that the museum would close in a few minutes at 10 pm. And I had only seen the half of it! This means, of course, there will be another visit of it in the near future - for the rest of it.



Above: Lucas Cranach d.Ä., "Der Jungbrunnen" (источник вечной молодости), 1546

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20. Juli 2004, 02:22

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"Дарёному коню в зубы не смотрят!"

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19. Juli 2004, 16:21

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I added today some pictures about my neighborhood, where I live. I hope you enjoy it! Have a look!

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16. Juli 2004, 21:59

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After several weeks of a lot of watching football and cycling on TV I thought it would be time again to see anything else again, anything cultural and so I decided to visit a museum again.

And so I was yesterday in one of the most famous museums of Berlin after a long period of time I haven't been there - "The Pergamon Museum" with its world famous Pergamon Altar (see the picture). On its walls one can see sculptures which show the very dramatic battle between gods and giants, e.g. Artemis, Oceanus, Herakles...

In this museum there are also very famous and overwhelming exhibits about the culture of Babylon and Assyr. First of all the Ishtar-Gate and the Processional Way from the time of King Nebuchadnezzar.

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15. Juli 2004, 20:27

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Okay, I have finished another book at last. I've read the first half of it before the Euro 2004 has begun and so, I have read the second half of it the last two nights. I really wanted to finish it now.

Oh, I forgot - the title of the book : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera ("Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins", "Невыносимая легкость бытия").

Well, after over a months not having read it I, unfortunately, had forgotten much of the content. And, actually, I thought the book wasn't as bad - but now, I see this differently. I have suffered to read especially the second half.

Some parts I liked to read, especially when it came to the relationship between the main persons, Teresa and Tomas. Their doubts and concerns in their real true love, although he had a lot of affairs with other women.

But my difficilties already began, when I needed over ten attempts to read the first page of the book and to understand. And it went on like this. Always had to read several paragraphs or sentences many times before I have understood them. He wrote some pages about the meaning in life of shit! Oh my god! And so there were a lot of other philosophical excurses of the author's view to the world. Hard to follow, hard to understand (for a normal intelligent human being like me).

I don't like authors (and their books), who always have to show the reader how intelligent they are. I don't like to read a book, which I have to have studied Philosophy or Ancient Greek Mythology for.

But there is a pro, too: I really like the title of this novel.

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4. Juli 2004, 15:55

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2. Juli 2004, 20:11

On Wednesday I was at a friend's home and together we watched football like we did it one week before and together we were happy to see the Dutch lost the match! "Schade, Holland - alles ist vorbei!" :-P

After it, I had a long discussion with him, his girlfriend and another girl, acquainted with him - I think it was 3 am when we decided to stop and everyone went home. Could it be, that girls are not able to have straight discussion?

What was the discussion about?! Well, it began with how to live with foreigners etc., then what one think on the death-penalty and it ended how social our society might be, if everyone in our system is free to become everything he wants, to reach everything he wants, if he only tries hard enough.

Well, this weekend I will not be at home, I am visiting my parents again. Haven't seen them for some months - it is time again to do so, I think.

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27. Juni 2004, 04:26

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Well, if you cannot read anything new here, then nothing new, nothing spectacular has happened in my life. You should read more often the headline of this diary above! ...

At the moment I spend (or waste) my time, as I have already mentioned below, with watching a lot of football on TV. So, I don't have much time to do anything else.

We are losers?! Well, you might be right. But as far as I can remember we haven't lost against Latvia :-P. - It was a 0-0 draw. But yes, it was like a victory for "small" Latvia and a defeat for "big" Germany, when I consider Latvia has 2.4 million inhabitants and in Germany there are alone 6.2 million organized footballers.

But without strikers you cannot win a match, with no one able to shoot a goal. I think, the "glorious" days of German football has been over at least since 1996 anyway. So, it isn't a big victory anymore to beat Germany. It has happened a lot within the last months and years and it will happen the next months (and years?) again. We can be glad to be the host of the next World Cup, because we are already qualified. In the future we can be happy to qualify for championships at all like Latvia.

At this tournament in Portugal Germany hasn't really deserved to be in the quarter-finals. But I hoped for it just because I wanted to see Holland out. I don't like it and England. When they win, they are not happy because of their victory, but because they beat the other nation, because they can laugh on it, because the always want to win the Second World War again and again, because they think "Britannia rules the world".

I yelled when Beckham shot the ball into the black Lisbon sky and hopefully Holland will suffer that fate next, too. I hope for the Czech Republic to win! They really deserve it!

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19. Juni 2004, 22:09

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WHAT A SHAME!

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12. Juni 2004, 23:59

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The Euro 2004 has begun!

So, I will not have much time in the next weeks...

(..and after it the Tour de France is starting...)
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