To Kill A Mockingbird

It is a big pleasure at last to reach the book you wanted to read for a long time. And it is a bigger pleasure when the book apeears to be delightful. This time it was 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It's been awhile since I have read a book like this one. It reminded me the books from my childhood: kind, warm, cozy atmosphere that teaches you a lot. Unfortunately we don't understand the message quite well when we are kids. So I highly recomment to re-read it as an adult to get the whole story in details and more clearly, because it is definitely worthy. There is the whole point of mockingbird that unfolds in front of you throughout the whole book. It is impossible to put it into few words or sentences. The feeling after the reading is hope and joy. Hope for a better life, for better people, for better world. Joy because you start believe that you can be a better person. The way that a little girl understand the world and interperts it is amazing. You remember yourself as a kid and your fears, games, happiness, tastes come to your mind. Doesn't it worth to go back in time and feel yourself a child reading 20th century american classic novel?

'To Kill A Mockingbird' delivers some important messages. Let me put them into quotes from the book:

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men evry day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine family he comes from, that white man is trash."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it"

Oxford

Soo here we are :) three silly weirdos singing embarassing songs on the streets of Oxford.

Meet my groupmates: Turan and Ruslan.

The trip was all about fun. Oxford, its universities, the beautiy of the city, its historical splendor, rainy weather and everything else was a background to a 10 hour hilarious conversation :) But I didn't forget to take pictures so I could share them here. 

I loved this place. The calmness in some parts of Oxford attracts a person to take his time and live here for a couple of months. A place to come back some time for sure.

Dirty Dancing. Movie and musical.

           80's romantic movies are considered the best. But the thing is you just need to forget about logic while watching, because the only thing that rules here is love. I like movies about dance and the most popular and unforgettable 80's dance movie without a doubt is Dirty Dancing :) It's a part of american pop culture with the whole genration on the other side of the ocean this movie is special for. There's a boy that can dance, really dance. And a girl which is full of hope in this world and has dreams about making a change. Of course they will meet and he will teach her how to dance. Oh, and they will fall in love with each other <3



           I've always loved reading a book and then watching a movie based on it. Now I had a chance to watch a movie and see its musical on stage. That's quiet impressive. Maybe first of all I love musicals(besides movies) and second of all there're talented performers out there. This musical was more about dancing rather than singing, I didn't expect that because I got used to big songs and great voices in musicals. But the only thing that was a little bit disappointing is the actor who played the main male character. Of course, no one can beat Patrick Swayze from the movie, but his problem was that he didn't act quite naturally. Other than that he is a very good dancer indeed. Everything else and especially dance performances were amazing. They tried to make everything like in the movie, the lift rehearsals ;) Additional funny moments were good and fit in. And the last scene... it was perfect!

They don't let take pictures during the show, so I can only share some from the movie.

Gowns on Net-a-Porter.com

Lookin through dresses on Net-a-Porter.com is heartbreaking and enjoyable at the same time. Gowns are so beautiful that they make your heart race...

Alexander McQueen

Duchess silk-satin gown

Summertime Barça

             Barcelona... A perfect place to feel summer in its full. The city of the sun, the sea, palms, football, flamenco, Gaudi, sangira, paella, balconies with curtains and ideal perpendicular streets, where all crossroads seem the same. You can be lost easily and get found even easier :) Just 3 days and you are full of energy for months coming. With the people that can make you laugh and mad within two minutes, I mean siblings you can go wherever they say, but still Barcelona is the best.

            The background music of our trip was the soundtrack of Vicky Cristina Barcelona movie :) Two Woody Allen fans couldn't chose anything else than this. I think it is perfect for my blogpost too.

Soo here we go....

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion? Art? It's more like genius mix of two. Any woman who has a chance to wear an 

Oscar de la Renta 

gown may consider herself lucky in all fashionable and unfashionable ways... Just look at these and you will understand what I mean.

'I heart London' or 'A Day Off'

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

— Samuel Johnson

London <3

What can I say? I love London...

Roman Holiday

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
— Audrey Hepburn


I want to belive in pink, in the fact that laughing is the best calorie burner, in kissing, kissing a lot, in being strong no matter what life gives you, that happy girls are the prettiest, that maybe tomorrow is another day and in miracles...

I'm sure lots of us want to believe in love, in beauty that Audrey Hepburn brought to this life, in her eyes of Bamby that shine through her characters in movies, in Gregory Peck with his smoldering appearances, in their chemistry in Roman Holiday (1953)...

A fairytale with an ending that is not expected in a black and white movie of 50s. A brief and pure love that grow in front of your eyes and that goodbye in front of eveyone's eyes but with feelings only for two...

Marilyn Monroe

After a long talk about iconic women with my life-long friend in this lovely summer evening  I decided to post these pictures that I had on my computer. Even though we mostly talked about Monica Belucci, that I consider the most beautiful woman of our time, this picture set is about Marilyn Monroe...

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't." - Marilyn Monroe

She is an icon. After so many years people consider her as one of the most beautiful women of all time. It is not just about her look. It is all about her that she could represent in a way that no one would dare to. A woman, that seemed fragile and weak on the outside but had a whole different world on the inside. A woman that has been admired for decades. A woman that has been imitated. A lot of people talked about her, many books were written. I just wanted to share my personal favourite photos of her. Maybe not the most famous ones, but still.

random 3

It is a tiny country on this big planet, and there are a lot of beautiful places out there but for us, the one that we call home is the sweetest. It is a place where we grew up, where we made our first steps, where we said our first words, where went to school, where we understood what motherland means and nurtured great love towards it inside of us not even being aware of it. The place you want to be when you're sad or happy, pictures of which comes to your mind while missing it, where you are surrounded with the ones you love. The nature, the weather, the wind, the sand, the sea, the sky of which is the best in the world for you and you will never find a place better than that. You will never call another place your real home. Maybe temporarily but not forever. It is precious, it is a part of you, it defines you...