Went to see Smilers on Friday. Some of their songs don’t sound good any more but there were some that never wore out. That’s the thing with songs: some of them last for long time, the others you just like for couple of months and then forget about them. But better than the Smilers itself was a cappella band Noorkuu. One of the songs was so great but I can’t remember its title :( Heard it for the first time. If any of you know the title of especially good song of them that is neither in Estonian nor in English, please, leave a comment here.
There were some more performers. Chalice performed the same song he did on Mother’s day concert called…I believe it’s “Teise planeedi saladus”. It’s a typical Chalice-type song in my mind. It has interesting words and catchy melody. And since I’m here writing about it, it might start to hunt me as well. Or maybe not because I know only some phrases and there’s no lyrics available on the net, weird, I know.
Otherwise I’m waiting for my state exam results which they promised to start making public from 10th June but so far nothing for me. May I say that makes anxious. I want to know!
And yes I’m still learning Oracle. I checked and when I finish learning I can take Oracle Certified Associate exam.
Eurovision and theatre play “Terrorism”
So after about three hours there will be the final of Eurovision Song Contest. I can’t really say that there are very good songs performed. Most of the semi-final songs were terrible in my mind and even if the song was not so bad then performing was. As to finalists I seem to like 7 countries more than others. These are: Armenia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Russia and Switzerland. Though Russian’s accent disturbs me slightly. This time I’m not sad that our song didn’t make it to the final, it was not good and there were better songs in Estonian final to choose from. When I try to think about it, I can’t even remember the melody of Sandra’s song. However I remember the one of “Mr Right” sang by Meribel.
On the 13th of May I went to Viljandi with my friends and we were also celebrating one girl’s birthday since it was in the middle of exam period and she didn’t have time then. It turned out just great. We went to some shops and afterwards had a picnic at the ruins of the castle. The view at the lake from there is marvellous. I’d post a photo but it isn’t as good as to really be there so I think I won’t. In the evening we watched “Terrorism” written by brothers Presnyakovs and performed by Ugalas actors Hilje Murel, Carita Vaikjärv, Kadri Lepp, Aarne Soro, Meelis Rämmeld, Tanel Ingi, Martin Algus, Ott Aardam and Arvo Raimo. Since it was the last time they played it the director itself played an episodic role too :).
The story was about terrorism in everyday life, for example how parents treat their children badly because it’s the only way they know as their childhood was horrible. All that was very farcical. There was this story line about how man found his wife with another and then opened the gas not doing anything else himself. But there was this little boy pressing door bells just for fun and when he did it at this door there was a sparkle and everything exploded. Alltogether there were at least three people who died for stupid or silly reasons. And just four days after someone I knew died also. Not because of health or anything like that but because of someone’s stupid behaviour. So what may look not real and farcical might actually happen. No of course not the same way but for the same reason. Sad.
Digital camera and other pieces on my mind
So I finally have my digital camera. For exactly a month already to be exact. It’s Powershot a610 just as I planned and the day before yesterday I bought rechargeable batteries for it as I was using alkalines so far. I haven’t used it very much yet but even so I’m convinced that it was right decision to buy that camera. It is easy to use automatic mode and just a bit harder to use manual modes. I feel that I need to learn the basics of photography more, since I sometimes feel that the camera could do better if I could set better combination of aperture and shutter speed. I’ve uploaded some of my pictures here. I especially like the one at left.
Otherwise I’m busy with school. In biology we have to make a presentation about greenhouse effect at 15th, it couldn’t have been better day than my bday.
I like math better. I participated in county olympiad and got 1.-2. place :). However I believe that exercises were in some way simpler than they have usually been. Another thing is that many talented students from our county study at Tallinn’s schools so competition at county olympiad isn’t so hard.
In Informatics we learn to use Gimp which is great because I know many things already. For others it seems to be difficult to get used to with Gimp windows and the way of handling layers.
Also sparknotes.com is a lifesaver. Sure I almost always read the books we have to for literature but some books like “The Trial” by Franz Kafka are hard to understand and it makes it easier to write an essay after reading sparknotes’ summary and commentary. So I’m rather relieved after noticing that next book we have to read “The Plague” by Albert Camus is also listed there.
There’s this song “Lõpulaul” performed by Evelin Pang on the cd called “Rändamine” that I really want. It sounded very great live in summer 2004 but I’m afraid that the cd is too expensive to buy since I only want one song. Oh well a cd with Tallinn City Theatre songs is supposed to come out soon and I won’t miss that one. And… I managed to get 3rd row tickets for Ugala’s play “Lõõmav pimedus” at 3rd March so I have something to look forward to. I like that feeling.
Now off to clean my room and read through biology material.
Theatre impressions
On Friday last week I visited Tallinn City Theatre. I’ve never been there before and I liked it very much. I went there to see concert named Estonian Theatre Songs (Eesti teatri laulud). It consisted of songs from Koidula’s era to Olav Ehala’s music. Songs were performed by Hele Kõre, Evelin Pang, Argo Aadli, Andero Ermel, Mart Toome, Indrek Ojari, Riina Roose, Jaak Jürisson and Indrek Tiisel. Four of them are graduates of Estonian Higher Drama School from 2002 and that is the group of actors whose performing I always enjoy. Once again I was convinced that I like singing actors more than singing singers. Actors just do it so much better because of all movements and facial expressions. And these actors sing very professionally in my opinion. If they only wanted I believe they would be successful singers by now instead of actors. Fortunately they chose acting and I can see as many of their plays as possible. I’ve been humming all melodies I can remember throughout the week :)
From theatre’s homepage I read that they have a plan to put this music on cd, so thumbs up because this is the disc I must have.
Other than that there’s school keeping me busy enough so I’m writing this week later. Now I really should go on with learning oracle so this is the end of this entry.