Archive: October, 2009
Today is Friday and the acronym TGIF comes to mind – Thank God It’s Friday! There’s a corollary that often goes with it: OGIM – Oh God, It’s Monday. The idea, of course, is that the weekend starts on Friday evening … tomorrow is Saturday: a day of rest and relaxation, sport and parties … [...]
It is one of the curious features of Bishkek’s cultural life that there are lots of things are going on – but it’s almost impossible to know about them before it’s too late. “Mouth-to-mouth” propaganda seems to be the most widely used channel of announcing events and often it’s only sometime after an event has [...]
The other day I was talking to an English speaking Russian and she wanted to impress me with how well she spoke English and started telling me jokes in English. Now humour and poetry are two of the hardest things to translate. Poetry, because you have to worry about so many different things:, rhyme and [...]
