After Paddy’s day

I know it was two weeks ago, but, to be honest, I don’t really know when I’ll recover from that. I worked six days, five of which we saw numbers of visitors going over 5 thousands….yes, you get it right!

The climax of the week reached on the 18^th when we welcomed 6.500 people.

The result of all this was a Franny really, really, really tired, who would have killed for a hug (I don’t know, this happen when I’m tired!) and who had a great idea to dream, guess what? a huge queue of customers on the 6^th day night! I was dreaming about this endless queue, and I was waving my arm to tell people to go in a certain direction, and when I opened my eyes I saw my arm still moving…I hope it’s not bad as it seems, otherwise I won’t survive trough the summer!

Plus at the moment I’m at home sick and I cannot speak! I really think this is due to the hot breeze from the entrance that day!!! Aaaaaaaargh!

Said that, I feel to share with you a couple of interesting things I learned during those busy days:

-According to a customer the best city in California is San Francisco. He was from there but that doesn’t count!

-In case of emergency you learn to know better people who work with you…even who have your same shoe size! Whatever they say I’m a teamwork person!

-Being a human kiosk is funnier that I thought! I was giving ticket in exchange of reference numbers and I was immerged in paper!

-Receiving hugs when you’re knackered is without price! I’ve always loved hugs, they make you feel better, but I suppose they’re mandatory in these cases! They should put as routine after a day so busy!

-The busiest is the place the number of stupid/rude/impolite people raises….actually I already knew that! I don’t know why and nobody knows! It’s just to confirm!

- I have nice…hum…trousers. That was told me by a guy, I suppose the stag! He was dressed in a lady outfit, giant pink curled wig and giant red rimmed sunglasses. Actually I hope he dressed himself alone! I was so tired that I just said “Wow, nice dress!”. Hence the answer!

-I could confirm that Dutch have the most weird glass frames. I love them, I’ll use some of them for my stories sooner or later!

-It doesn’t matter how many times you see something and how tired you are, there are a few things that are just funny. So I’ll share with you:

It seems that one of the biggest problem people have is with the machine where you can buy tickets with credit card. You go there and you see two buttons on the touch screen: Collect Ticket and Buy ticket. I suppose that now you tell me “Ok, that’s not difficult!”. What I can say to you is that:

a- Loads of people just press Collect ticket and try to enter their credit card number in the line for the reference number!

b- Loads of them, just swipe the card without even choose one of the two options!

Once you manage to press Buy ticket, you should choose what you want and then swipe your card. Unfortunately the majority of people just stay there and keep swiping the card as they think that the computer sooner or later would read their mind!

Then you get your ticket and you go, skipping the queue, straight into the tour!

Now, leaving on the side all the people that apparently prefer queuing for a good half an hour instead doing that and leaving on the side also those ones that try to swipe the card into the door with access the staff lockers, or the ones who try to swipe it on the image of the touch screen, I’ll tell you the scene who won that day!

A man (not telling you where he was from because, really, who knows me and the job, already guessed right!) was sent to buy his tickets on the kiosk. He was between the last two machines, one with the two buttons, Buy and Collect and the other one with just Collect. Of course he was trying to buy on the one saying just Collect.

Me –Can I help you?

Customer- It doesn’t work!

Me- Yes, this is just to collect tickets! You…

Customer- It doesn’t work!

Me- Did you book on line?

Customer-….

Me- So let’s try the other one!

Customer -(tried to swipe his card without pressing what he needed)

Me- Why don’t we choose something first?

Customer- (looked at me, completely lost)

Me- Ok.. (I pressed Buy for him. I was really worried for his little son looking lost. Maybe it was a family matter!) what do you want to buy?

Customer- Two!

Me-Ok, so one adult and one child, right?

Customer-…

Me-Ok… Now you swipe your card….

After this I sent them inside, but believe me, I was so tired that my effort to not laugh in his face was really hard!

But now it’s over….oh no, summer ahead! Poor Franny!

Talk to you soon!

New Pirates

Why have people always hated pirates?

Because they were dirty. Because they were criminals. Because they were violent. For all that, they were told dangerous for the society.

And yes, for a certain point of view they were all this. Well, they were all of this, but not only!

I know that probably you wouldn’t believe me because everybody who knows me a bit more is aware of my love towards those mythical scurvy dogs and the golden age of piracy. But this is not the moment or the place where I’ll try to explain my fondness! I’ll do in one of the next posts.

What I’m here to say is that piracy is not gone! It still exists in the world, in our everyday life. And don’t tell me “Oh, yes, what a news! We all know that! We all read the newspapers!” because I’m not going to talk to you about the facts happening in the Middle East or that kind of stuff!

I’m going to speak about those pirates that live among us and that usually are thought cool by the most.

They are not even true pirates, they are more like privateers. They’re allowed to behave like that by the established power.

For those who don’t know anything about the privateers let me explain. They were basically pirates, like the others. So they robbed, killed, destroyed villages, raped and kidnapped, all for the vile money! BUT (because it is a big but!) they were allowed to do that by the governors and trough them by the king himself who, to be honest, sit on his throne in Europe hardly knew what happened in the new world for sure. They paid the governor a percentage out of the booty or slaves to ensure their freedom in action.

Can you imagine whom I’m talking about? No, no it’s not the politician….they actually are included in the category, it’s obvious. What I’m talking about it’s something you don’t think immediately at: the management class (let’s be honest, you cannot define them otherwise) in every big company.

The biggest is the company the worse and more violent are the pirates.

I’m saying that because they behave like them, kidnapping our neurons, destroying and robbing our brains and raping our way to be.

But there is a huge difference between these new pirates and the legendary ones. And you mind, I want neither you agree with me nor that you think I totally justify the old ones.

But the matter that counts is that the old pirates and maybe the privateers as well had a moral code. Yes you heard correctly!

Although they were immoral for the most they had a code and most importantly they respected the code between them, no matter the grade you were wearing or your race or your credo. They were really the same for the code.

Apparently you have the same thing among the new pirates, but this is exactly what I hate with all my heart: appearance!

They eat each other no matter what. And everywhere is the same because what it counts is the money….but no rules, no rules in sharing the booty…nothing!

And now just do answer: which one do you think is worse?!

Talk to you soon

PS. I was editing this post when I watched this video by mistake. I think it could fit the cause.

Those are pirates too, but the worse kind. They seek kids and prevent them to think with their heads from such a young age. This is just disgusting.

But, you see, it’s not just Christians…after the last post you might thing I’m sticking on them. Here it is another nice one! (for the few who didn’t got it, the last bit was ironic!)

2011

Here we are again, on my good old blog. A new year started, the holidays are finished, my guests are back to Italy and the house is quiet again. I kind miss the mess to be honest!

Usually, at the beginning of the year, I do a list with all the things that I want to do, all the aims of the year.

However a recent happening caught my attention forcing me to complain with you right from the beginning. I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way!

A part from the high number of unlucky things that are happening to me for some unknown reason, the recent happening I’m referring to is the end of the world.

No really, it’s the end of the world!

Do you remember the prophecy told by Mayan calendar? They forecasted that the end of the world will be in 2012. There is a film also and I’ve even found a literary competition on the matter. Everybody seems to get ready for the event!

But a genius, one engineer now member of one of the million Christian churches existing in the world, says that the end of the world is this year indeed. Now if you surf on the web there are so many different dates about this, but certainly the one the most of them agree on is the 21^st of May, which for them will be the Judgment Day.

A few days ago I was in work and literally a pamphlet rolled in through the door. I thought it was about a museum I hadn’t seen yet, but when I opened it the title read “21^st May 2011….Judgment Day!”. I laughed immediately, really people believes it?

My knowledge on the matter is really limited, I admit that, but I couldn’t help to read the paper and think about a couple of comments.

First, it seems that they want to get more people for the Church just scaring them, they count of the people’s fright of the death. I quote “As you read this pamphlet, please carefully consider the verses quoted from the Bible, for they are the Word of God, and as such, posses absolute power and authority. Our only salvation is through the reading of the Word of God”. Now the question is: how can loads of people believe in such prehistoric book? Something that was put together during a council of human beings choosing what they preferred most? It is something to brainwash people, that’s it. But still there are a millions of people of the world who believe in it.

And just to scare a bit more at the end they reinforce the idea repeating “As you read this pamphlet, please carefully consider the verses quoted from the Bible, for they are the Word of God, and as such, posses absolute power and authority” …again, do they know that something called science does exist? I wonder what they do when they feel sick…go to the church or to the doctor? That’s tough!

Secondly, they say that now the words are clear and they can read it properly. What does it mean? Was it written in a different language before? Did you read for once in hangover? A Book is not alive or better, it is, but not in the way they think…something that is written before it will be written after still…it doesn’t change the words, in particular if you say that it is written clearly!

Immediately after, there is a list “Timing of important event in history”. I’m sure that other dates were important in that period, but it seems that only a few of them are taken into consideration. Why? Because after only one page, the dates are used to make a calculation according to which the date of the judgement day is given. Not only, they also give us the date of the end of the world which is on October 21^st. It’s like you’re scheduling the appointment with the doctor in a way! 21^st of May, the Judgment, check. The 21^st of October, the End, check. Just consider that they reached this conclusion using the Hebrew calendar or so they say…what? In hundreds of years did nobody think to this solution? Again, I think they want just to put panic amidst the people, a real Deus ex machina!

The more I read into the pages the more I felt angry. The things I was thought when I was younger are all lies. I thought he was the God of benevolence and he was fair and good and loved his creatures.

Here they talk about someone who’ll destroy what he’s done to kill us all if we don’t like his principles. It’s like a parent who kills his child because he or she misbehaved… Where is the love? Where is the mercy? Also I quote again “He is giving us advanced warning to what He is about to do”… From May to October five months of terrible things will happen. So, He loves his creature, give us the warning, because he love us…right, BUT if we don’t do what He “says” he’ll made us suffer in the most unimaginable ways…where the hell is the mercy? It seems more sadist. Mercy would be:

“Stay with me?”

“No”

“Instant death then” and puff, we don’t even realize it!

Than it is written that people will rise from their graves. The good one are ascending while the bad are staying here and wondering around like zombies.

Well, if all the people who don’t believe in Him are zombies, in China they’ll be packed! So it says the pamphlet “Death will be everywhere”…no seriously…Mr. Romero, do we want to do something about that? Let’s do that, come on!

After all the quoting there is a web site address. There is no way to speak with other people and exchange opinion as far I could see. It’s a website full of things to download.

But as they say “Read the Bible with your family (especially your children) and along with your reading, pray for mercy”….that’s the perfect example of brainwash and early recruitment!

I’ll leave you now, from the next time the posts will be again the usual standard, I hope.

I just want to say a last thing. 2011 is the year of the rabbit, and it is supposed to bring lucky….well, if the year keeps going like this, I’m going to get that damn rabbit and cook it!

Lists before Christmas

As I promised to a friend of mine, this post will be full of lists and bullet points. I should put a new tag like “Lists” or something like that, as lately I’m prone to do that anyway!

I’m happy when I meet new people, and to be honest, since I’ve started to write and, in particular, I’ve started to write in English, the quantity and the quality of people I’ve met improved and I’m so happy for this! I’ve never thought I could be happy and satisfied so much by something else other than meeting my partner!

Among my new friends there is Estrella Azul, a very nice and sweet blogger who writes a very interesting and (very often) useful blog. The following lists are ideas coming from her. I think this could be a light and nice way to leave you for a couple of week’s holiday!

The first one is the more recent, it’s about something you believe in. Ten bullet point. I’m not sure it will make any sense at all, as I always have doubts about everything.

Ten things I believe:

1. Friendship is the most important thing you have. Friends are your personal treasure so it is right to give all yourself in the relationships.

2. Love exists. There are many forms of love; it could be friendship, it could be passion, it could be staying together with another person, it could be family.

3. Talking with people is useful (although lately the facts are proving me wrong!). All the relationships, anyway, suffer if it’s only one of the people involved to do his or her best. If you are in any kind of relationship you should give yourself 100%.

4. At least four people in the world love me very much no matter what. I’m sure my boyfriend and my two little sisters and my brother panda love me like I love them.

5. Everybody has a good side (I know that the experience is going against me on this too but I still think that!). It’s almost impossible that a person is completely evil. Although I’ve met so far lots of people that behaved towards me like serial killers, they maybe had feed a puppy in the street at least once in their life.

6. You don’t need to be perfect or be exactly like the others to be appreciated and accepted by people. You have to be yourself no matter what (although this could be easier said than done!). One day someone will love you for what you are.

7. You don’t need to follow the flock! You can be the black sheep and be lovely anyway!

8. Animals are more human than human beings themselves. Penguins are lovely and have a sense of group and community. Wolves and eagles are faithful and loyal and dogs are just full of love. I’ve just mentioned my favourites but I’m sure there are more examples. And to all the people who treat badly their animals, train them to fight or abandon them when the “puppy magic” is gone, I’d like to say “You’re the real animals!”

9. There are good and bad people everywhere in the world. It doesn’t matter the race, the sex, the religion, the education. We all should stop with the stupid racism.

10. Money and religions are the ruin of the world. We should love each other even if a religion doesn’t tell us so. We should help each other even if we’re not gaining anything. Only in this way we could hope to begin a nice revolution, which will change the world in better.

The following list comes from Estrella’s blog again. It was a game following the “Creative writer blogger award” she gave to me. Thanks so much, Estrella, even if it’s so in late! Now, I’m going to list my six outrageous lies and one outrageous truth like the game requests, even if I’m not passing on (just a matter of time, really!).

Her creepy version would be my Christmas version, considering I’m doing it now:

1. Santa called me yesterday telling me that he needs some help during the 24^th night due to his age.

2. I’ve decorated a 20 feet high tree in my back garden.

3. I have a new pet now, a penguin puppy I’ve called Peppy

4. I’m preparing a Christmas dinner for 30 people.

5. The snowman I did the other day is alive now and he’s tiding up the house for me as a Christmas present.

6. I’ve sent a seal as present to my little nephew.

7. I’m going to use fairy powder in the Christmas cake, so it would be a happy day!

You find the one outrageous truth among these 7 sentences!

And with this I’m just wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let’s hope that the 2011 will be a year full of (good) news and also ideas and writing!

I’ll see you on these pages at the beginning of January with many posts and much more!

Talk to you soon!

Books and lists!

You know? I was wondering what to write next and here is the idea! Thanks Dap Dap!

Now this is a note I was tagged on Facebook! The note says that BBC confirms that the majority of people have read only 6 out of the hundred books there are in the following list. Then the note says to put in bold the ones you’ve fully read and in cursive the ones you’ve started to read…at a first sight I had problems because I thought I sucked in this field. There are some of this book that I’ve read at least twice if not four or five times, like “Promessi sposi” or “Il nome della rosa”!

As a writer I’m aware I don’t read a lot and that I have to work on it….ah, ah, ah work on it!!!! That’s nice….if only I had time…

Now, considering that I’m paranoid enough to feel the more stupid on the world’s surface and to ignore my inner voice that is telling me “Hey do you know that you’ve read loads of books that aren’t even listed in this list?!!”, I’ve decided to divide this list in Books I’ve read once, more than once, started and then the rest….Oh boy I really suck!!!!

I could ask myself which are the criteria used to form this list too…but I still suck!!! There are a lot of classics I’ve never read…even if I wish I could…damn spare time!

Listen, I’ll leave you with the list, free to paste copy and giving me a lesson how it should be a normal reader, and then I go to bury somewhere, maybe with a couple of volumes…..

Original List:

1. Pride and predjudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of The rings – JRR Tolkien
3. The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran
4. Harry Potter – JK Rowling
5. Se questo è un uomo – Primo Levi
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. 1984 – George Orwell
9. I Promessi Sposi – Alessandro Manzoni
10. La Divina Commedia – Dante Alighieri
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Lessico Familiare – Natalia Ginzburg
13. Comma 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Shakespeare’s complete works
15. Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini – Giorgio Bassani
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Il Nome della Rosa – Umberto Eco
18. Il Gattopardo – Tommasi di Lampedusa
19. The Trial – Franz Kafka
20. Elective Affinities – Goethe
21. Gone with the wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Odyssey – Omero
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Cuore – Edmondo de Amicis
36. La Coscienza di Zeno – Italo Svevo
37. The kite runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Il Mandolino del Capitano Corelli – Louis De Berniere
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. Da Vinci Code– Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Il Barone Rampante – Italo Calvino
45. Gli Indifferenti – Alberto Moravia
46. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
47. I Malavoglia – Giovanni Verga
48. Il Fu Mattia Pascal – Luigi Pirandello
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli – Carlo Levi
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
53. Don Quixote de la Mancha – Cervantes
54. The Sorrows of Young Werther – J. W. Goethe
55. Pinocchio – Collodi
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
60. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. Jules Maigret – George Simenon
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67. La luna e i Falò – Cesare Pavese
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Buddenbroock – Thomas Mann
77. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
83. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. The red and the black – Stendhal
89. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
95. Un Uomo – Oriana Fallaci
96. The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Book I’ve read once

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. Odyssey – Omero
3. Emma – Jane Austen
4. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
5. I Malavoglia – Giovanni Verga
6. Il Fu Mattia Pascal – Luigi Pirandello
7. Il Conte di Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
8. The picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
9. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
10. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

Book I’ve read more than once

1. Harry Potter – JK Rowling
2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
3. I Promessi Sposi – Alessandro Manzoni
4. Il Nome della Rosa – Umberto Eco
5. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
7. La Coscienza di Zeno – Italo Svevo
8. Il Barone Rampante – Italo Calvino
9. Dracula – Bram Stoker
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Little Prince– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Book I’ve started

1. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
2. Se questo è un uomo – Primo Levi
3. La Divina Commedia – Dante Alighieri
4. Shakespeare’ complete work
5. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
6. Da Vinci Code– Dan Brown
7. Ulysses – James Joyce
8. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

The rest

1. The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
2. The Bible
3. 1984 – George Orwell
4. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
5. Lessico Familiare – Natalia Ginzburg
6. Comma 22 – Joseph Heller
7. Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini – Giorgio Bassani
8. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
9. Il Gattopardo – Tommasi di Lampedusa
10. The trial – Franz Kafka
11. Elective Affinities – Goethe
12. Gone with the wind – Margaret Mitchell
13. Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
14. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
15. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
16. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
17. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
18. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
19. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
20. The Chronicle of Narnia – CS Lewis
21. Cuore – Edmondo de Amicis
22. The kite runner – Khaled Hosseini
23. Il Mandolino del Capitano Corelli – Louis De Berniere
24. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
25. Animal farm – George Orwell
26. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27. Gli Indifferenti – Alberto Moravia
28. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
29. The lord of flies – William Golding
30. Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli – Carlo Levi
31. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
32. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
33. Don Quixote de la Mancha – Cervantes
34. The Sorrows of Young Werther – J. W. Goethe
35. Pinocchio – Collodi
36. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
37. Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
38. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
39. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time– Mark Haddon
40. Love in the time of Colera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
42. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
43. Jules Maigret – George Simenon
44. The lovely bones – Alice Sebold
45. On the road – Jack Kerouac
46. La luna e i Falò – Cesare Pavese
47. Bridget Jones’ diary – Helen Fielding
48. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
49. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
50. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
51. Three Men in a boat – Jerome K. Jerome
52. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
53. The Buddenbroock – Thomas Mann
54. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
55. Germinal – Emile Zola
56. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
57. Possession – AS Byatt
58. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
59. The purple colour– Alice Walker
60. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
61. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
62. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
63. The red and the black – Stendhal
64. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
65. All quiet on the western front – Remarque
66. Un Uomo – Oriana Fallaci
67. The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
68. The three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
69. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Mickey Mouse and Co.

After the latest happenings I think it’s right to show you a post I wrote a few months ago! I’ll keep for me the comment people wrote about it for obvious reasons!

Today has been another day that you’d rather dump in the farest bin!

How’s possible working in a place where two or three buffoons rule the entire world. Do you know what? On a certain point of view they’re helping me: I’ve never had so much self-confidence, but I start thinking that I’m not so bad! Even if the little squirrel inside my brain the most of the time is in hangover (at least he drinks) I can still think more that these people all together!

And you know another thing? I’m pretty sure that someone loyal to the dark empire, would report this post to the dark emperor, but I don’t care! Number one because it means that they fear the truth so much that they simply have you to shut up and number two because I want really having a fun in watching which is their limit! I mean, apparently you’re not able anymore to do whatever you please in your time off, but they should understand that the “7 years apprenticeship” thing is not valid anymore, we’re in 2010, you know?

So let me tell what I think!

I’ve always thought that you needed a degree to run a place like a tourist attraction, but apparently you don’t need one.

If it’s like that, I think that from tomorrow I’ll look for a place as a manager in another area.

I saw a few of the big bosses today coming in and I thought that all the hiring problem is explained.

Maybe they are managers in training but I wonder who took on bord Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse in the higher ranks.

Well, if the aim was to make people laugh is fine, but if it was to improve the image of the company probably they should think twice before they accept Goofy too!

Let’s be serious, in my workplace people who work hard can be counted on the fingers of ONE hand, and if you consider that we’re more than 50, just in my area, probably there is something that doesn’t work!

Anyway there is no way to speak with them because apparently Peter Pan and Cinderella decided that it is more important to help the three pigs getting rid of the bad wolf instead of helping the poor 7 dwarfs in the collapsing mine!

But I’m a writer and I will write!

Big News!

Hi everybody,
I'm here just a little bit earlier than you expected. I'm coming with good news! Remember when I told you I was thinking about some changes for my blog!?
Right, I' m going to start at this very minute. What I thought to do, in fact, was to put together my old blog, which is this one, and my nonsense blog, which I opened a few months ago.
I tried to keep them separated but after a wile I noticed that the ''serious one'' was a bit too serious and poor in contents.
Now reading again what I wrote in my old page 'Who's Franny’. It says
''I’m a writer, and that is my real dream and priority! I write every time I have a minute free, it doesn’t matter what! My only problem is that I was taking too seriously the matter forgetting the nice and funny side of it, and this is “inconceivable”, if you let me quote! This is why I opened this blog. You’ll find here the funniest (I hope), the most lunatic and the most human part of me!''
I even quote myself, so you understand why I tried to keep away from your sight these kinds of posts!
So, all the posts like this one will be tagged in ‘Nonsense’. In this way you'll be warned!!!!
I' m going to copy a few of the nonsense posts over here and the comments in the first comment, be patient! The good news, for who enjoy this side of me, is that I'll update this blog a little more often!
On the no side I have to apologise to my readers because those posts will be less grammatically correct than the other ones. But that's me, and I hope you'll enjoy it anyway!