FALLING. This time for real.

Allow me to remind you this song I fell in love with few weeks ago.
It turned out to be a prophecy!



This is what happened.
I had a bike accident.
Looking back, it is actually a miracle that I survived so long without having any:

After coming home by bike at NIGHT with NO LIGHT and listening to music really loud, which basically means biking blind and deaf at night (with some blood in my alcohol..)

After having had come home safe in many many rainy days...

After having had 3 bikes stolen...
(well,this is irrelevant but still to give you the idea about the dynamics of the bikes market over here...)

After speeding like Schumacher on the bike lanes, crossing red lights, ALWAYS listening to music really loud and breaking all rules what so ever

...

All that until THE DAY X
when it came out of nowhere-daylight, not breaking any rules,no music!, in a tiny street with no traffic and just a tiny bit of rain

I JUST DROPPED OFF.

And suddenly I found myself lieing on the ground, not feeling anything.
I saw parts of my bike flying around.
I saw stars and birds circling around my head too..
Just like in a Mickey Mouse episode.
I totally lost any idea of time and space...

First thought:
"Oh, shit. I gotta go to Berlin for a shoot today.I have a train to catch. How am I gonna go there if I broke something now?!?!"

First thing I did: I touched my face to see if it is still there, since the job was supposed to be just a face shot.

(I know what you think: "Models")

Once I made sure my face seemed to be normal, my teeth were there and I was not bleeding-NO PANIC!
Then, some girl, who eventually saw my "piroutte" came up to help me, collected some parts of the bike, lifted me up and pointed the way to some doctors.
Oh, and there approached this guy I passed few seconds before that happened.

I am sure he jinxed me!!!

Because he looked at me, but I didn't pay attention as well behaved princesses flying around on bikes are expected to do. Anyway, once he approached the place of the accident, he just LAUGHED OUT AT ME, gave me the meanest look with no sign of compassion whatsoever, and walked away. Jerk!

Only then I felt how much my arm hurt and suddenly started crying.
(I am a girl I am allowed to cry in public)

Eventually I managed to pull myself together and went to the doctor's building on the same street pointed by that girl. "Go to see a doctor!" Easier to say, than to do...

WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR DO I ACTUALLY NEED?!?!
From 5 different types of doctors, nobody saw themselves responsible for cases like mine. They told me I should go to see an "Unfallarzt"(accident doctor).

Great. So where do I find one of those!? I have a train to catch and pictures to pose for. Can't just somebody pleeeeaase tell me if my arm is broken or not? It hurts like hell and I can't move it.

In absolute despair and total pain I called two of my closest friends.
Both had some stuff to do.
The one even kindly offered to send me the address of some doctor close to her place.
I thought that was NIIIICEEE.
What else would you expect from a best friend when you think you are DIEing ALONE ON THE STREET- to send you the address of the doctor on their street, right?

I went home. Put some ice bags on my elbow. Suddenly a not-so-close-friend called unexpectedly. After I told her what happened, she didn't even wait for me to ask and suggested to take me to the hospital. Finally some decent humanity! Yeay!

And we went to see that UNFALLARZT.
First thing, the lady at the reception asked me: DID IT HAPPEN ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL?

School? Excuse me? Is this a doctor or a police station?
I had an accident.
Did she think I bailed school?
I didn't see any connection? Or did I hit my head that strong?
For other 10 mins she kept insisting and repeating the word:

SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL

After overcoming all bureaucracy she finally let me see that doctor. Hallelujah!
He looked at my poor arm, started bending it in all directions, which, needless to say, was extremely painful and said: IT'S GONNA BE FINE IN 2-3 DAYS. GO HOME.

AND THAT'S IT?!?!? (I thought) I ALMOST DIED DOWN THERE. 2-3 days? That pain is gonna last a month AT LEAST.
And you need to x-ray it and bind it!!! (me still thinking)...
Didn't he ever watch EMERGENCY ROOM!?! Jeeez!!!!

And by the time, this felt really painful.
And just when I started thinking: What should I do with Berlin now? my agency called to inform me that the photographer just postponed the job. Nobody knew about my accident. And yet, the "universe" arranged everything. What are the odds?!?!

MORAL OF THE STORY:

1. You can't plan anything because all that seemed easy, and set up and so sure can change just within a second in a way you never imagined.
(ok, this is something everybody knows)

2. When it comes to friends- you might be surprised by both: who is there for you and who isn't.(not new either, but always good when you have the opportunity to test it)

3."Falling is the easiest thing in life, me myself I've done it a thousand times, getting up seems to be the trickier action" Oscar Wilde


-THE END-

The Joneses

Movies...distracting, entertaining, keeping your mind away from reality or making you think...

Well, in my case killing time when I can't sleep and don't wanna think about any of my problems ANYMORE. Cause seriously, how is it possible that for a day, an hour, no, a second...everything turns in 360 degrees...TWICE. And things you never thought were possible start "manifesting". It's good when those things are GOOD. But sometimes they are not exactly what you've always wished for. And you thought- If this ever happens to me I will..."Pass out" or "lose my breath" or "my heart will skip a beat"...or "I WILL kill him" or "I will never talk to her AGAIN" or...fill in the blank

but they just happen and...you are still there. Speechless.
You feel a huge emptiness and darkness. For a second you don't hear anything. Until the empty spot starts filling up with light again, It might take a few seconds...or years..depends on the "things". But point was- YOU DON"T DIE, as you thought you were if this hypothetical thing ever happened to you. Or at least- I never died so far. Actually, it might turn out this was the best thing ever happened to you. But you can't know it yet.

But this is a good one(erm ...movie...) The Joneses. Bulgarianprincess says everybody should see it! Not because of the consumerism shit. We're all in the trap of consuming anyway. Things, things, things...things we want, things we have, things we wish for, things others have, thing we envy them for...

I saw different thing in that movie though. I saw FAMILY.
(test assigment number 1: count how many times the author used to word "thing" so far and suggest some synonyms to improve her style)

Maybe, because recently I've been thinking about those stuff. About my family. And how much I really miss it. And how much I've neglected it in the last few years, because there were "more important" things at the time (keep counting)...more important than an anniversary, than somebody's birthday, than a holiday with the family or...just a family dinner... JUST...

there is no just.

I mean- what could have been more important than that? Looking back I don't even remember the occasions I've missed all that family stuff for. I remember what I've missed, I don't remember WHY. Oh, I know why. Because I thought- FAMILY is always gonna be there no matter what, other things might not. But...it seems like, guess what- at the end,THERE ARE NO OTHER THINGS. Like what things could make you happier??? I can't thing of any. At least not right now.

When we are on top or at the bottom, we are always alone. That's a quote from that other movie I saw yesterday by the way. The Solitary man.



It was about some other stuff. But about a family too. Well, a broken one. And a guy who thought there were so many more important stuff.

So, thank God for movies. To wake me up a bit. I mean...I've been woken up, that's why I saw them the other night. But to remind me again, that everything I am now, here, wherever that is, is because of my family, because of their love and support and care and because even if I was never there, they were always there for me. And my family, of course, is THE BEST FAMILY. :p

Families. They don't make them that strong anymore. No, no, no.
Soon, they might not make them at all. Make sure you get a vintage one.
But this is part of the evolution, isn't it.

Soon pupils will have to google the meaning of the word "family". And this might be an approximate possible definition:

"The 21st century was characterized by the transition from the post-globalization to the new age of teleportation. The method of teleportation has been introduced in the 22th century and become a focal element of modern society, substituting economy (see article economy).

A human's life in the early 21st century was seen as a permanent struggle, that one was supposed to go through blindly, since the sense of life hasn't been known yet.

Human beings were grown up in social entities, called families. A family was formed by a male and a female. They created their offspring and thus automatically changed the role they occupied in society and gained additional social status of parents-a mother(female) and a father(male). The results of the reproductive cycle were called children and their number could vary, depending on many factors. (social, cultural, financial, and in some countries such as China, the biggest empire known before the age of teleportation, a legal factor).

A family was based on mutual approval from both individuals and would ideally be based on a sentimental feeling called love (see article Love). The family as legal social entity was certified by the church in the earlier periods (see article religion) and/or by the state in the latest periods of its existence as a social entity.

Its role was to live together in a group, reproduce, extend/ exchange knowledge about life and pass the knowledge already gained, to those ones coming after. At the end of 21st century the family lost its popularity. A form of dis-functional families characteristic for the last phase of the post global economy era could be observed only in some societies on Papua New Guinea"

Kind of sad, isn't it?

But isn't it called evolution. Nobody liked evolution anyway. EVER. Eventually, they started liking it afterwords, but they were always against it in the process of becoming. People were always against something they didn't know. Fought and struggled, like cockroaches. Don't ask me examples, I can't think of any now. It's 2 am again. But I'm sure they fought. Such as that, that the earth is flat, for example. Somebody, who suggested it was not flat and had the guts to stand up and speak, eventually had to die. SO that they thought: Ok, this dude died for that. It might be round after all. (there was this kind of story, right. They believed the Earth is flat. Come on. Really?Everybody knows it isn't)

So with family too. It might die.

One thing about cockroaches: You never know, if they are gonna die or live. Some need one hit, some don't die, no matter what you throw at them or spray them with,or how loud you scream or jump around, kind of immortal cockroaches. Others, are really fast and escape. Hey, I don't have cockroaches at home. I've seen them in Japan. And in Singapore. Huge ones. And besides, they mutate. So that...they don't die out so easily.

Ok, so watch those movies. Call your family to tell them you love them.
Not the movies, the family!
I don't need to call mine, they read my blog...
And have a good night/day!

ART or PRECISE SCIENCE

Have you ever had this: WOW!-GOOGLE-HAS-GOTTEN-SO-INTELLIGENT-feeling!*

(*"google" in sense of searching for anything online, sometimes involving even youtube, wikipedia or other search tool, but always refer to it as "googling"...or at least I call it so)

Well, it has, hasn't it.

I mean- can you think of anything possible that you couldn't "youtube" or "google" or look up in wikipedia?!?!?!Ha? Can you?

I CAN'T!

Ok, how about this: months ago, back in Japan, my flatmmate had this melody stuck in her head. Underline MELODY. It wasn't even a song. It was just a

Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Laah-laah-lah-lah

So,

All day long she sang that thing. At the end I was singing with her, cause I knew the melody, but we both couldn't remember where did we know that from. No lyrics or anything...Just:

Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Laah-laah-lah-lah

Finally, she went on googling it. (she was like 5 years younger than me, my generation or someone a bit older wouldn't be so genius...) but she typed in:


Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Laah-laah-lah-lah

AND SHE FOUND IT. SHE F... DID! SHE GOOGLED THE SONG.


You wouldn't probably ever think of it if we wrote it to you as a note or sang it to you...and asked you for the name or the singer

BUT GOOGLE DID! It was exactly this one:



And then you can youtube it and watch it and learn the lyrics and go to wikipedia and learn everything about the singer...

Subsequently we made a video about that specific day in Japan..and we laughed a lot...and we went to karaoke sang nothing else but:

Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Laah-laah-lah-lah

and everybody thought we were terrible but we got the best applause...And then I went to Paris and sang that song at a dinner party and my friend who had to hear that terrible

Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh

went playing soccer on Saturday and apparently started singing

Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh when running after the ball (this is what guys do, right, I mean when they play football and think of girls)

And this is how we DO.

And this is how, when already back in Hamburg, my friend and I learned to make maki rolls and this is how we made pina colada...and this is how I watch tutorials about...anything you could possibly imagine starting from "how to create a password protected file", going through "how to make a maki roll" and wrapping up by "how to make a hotel bed"(cause hotels bed are always so perfectly made...)

WHO NEEDS EDUCATION?!?!? Who needs books??? Who needs anything at all?!? It is all there...uuhhhhm I don't even know where it all comes from, some kind of new-age-common-sense...or new age ...

Ok, after this post I completely lost all my subscribers...It officially sucked...But it's august, everybody is on vacations..and it's 2am...on a Sunday...nobody reads stuff...

Besides, it was worth sharing! So now you know- if you ever wanna make a maki roll or google Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah Lah-lah-lah-lah
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh...it works!

Concerning the title-apparently it's neither ART nor SCIENCE...the AGE WE LIVE IN..

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