C'est La Fête!

As i said from my last post, I went to the Fête de La Musique in Nice. There wasn't any big difference compared to last year's. Oh, only thing, this year my friends performed somewhere in front of Negresco Hotel at the Promenade des Anglais.

Hoho! My fwens performing a song. I dunno if they have a name for their band.


They were not bad at all singing uncomprehensible lyric but catchy nonetheless..


Another rock almost-heavy metal band somewhere in Vieux Nice.


Actually, there were lots more. Last night they were lots n lots of ppl in the Vieux Nice. Bands were performing at all corners of the old, minuscule road of Old Nice. I didn't go see em all. We went also to the newly finished Place Massena, supposedly it should be happening n lively coz i believe bands would perform there. but nope, there was only a group of kids doing break dance.

I almost got squashed while trying to get passed a crazy crowd screaming and wallowing in a gile rock song performed if I'm not mistaken by a band imported from the UK in front of Wayne's Bar in Vieux Nice.

that was it..this by no means a detailed account of what really happened there. i'm just to lazy to write everything. haha.

When there's nothing else to do, there's always a hundred other things to do..

:P
Suddenly I remember that I have a blog! ahah. yeah, so since the exams are over and I'm counting my days to go back home, here I am at 3 o'clock in the morning, updating what need not necessarily be updated.
Anyway, today is 21st June, meaning it's La Fête de La Musique here in Nice and all over La France. This is where musicians, bands, singers, dancers, drummers, saxophonists, guitarists and all those people who play music and also those who enjoy them get together and have fun. but it will not be until tonight. The festival also signifies the end of spring and the start of summer! wee~
It'll be held mostly in the centre ville and a lot in Vieux Nice too. It's really cool coz everytime you walk, you'll see the crowd watching bands performing and hear loud musics. The ambience's really fascinating! hehe, i know la coz i went last year.
Oh, and what makes this year more interesting is that my friends here in Nice, will be performing tonight! haha, how coolness is that! yeah, another reason to look forward to!
Hopefully, i'll remember to update this blog again tonight after the event. now, i need my sleep. toodles~

The Pirates say 'Aye'

Last weekend i watched the sequel to the first Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Dead Man's Chest. Yeah, somehow France is so decelerated when it comes to Hollywood movies showing in local cinemas. ..worse, some movies (like Scary Movie 4, and 666 or whatever the name for that movie) were only released in french version. Luckily those are the kind of movies which you don't mind watching em on DVD or cilok from someone who downloaded movies illegally..hehe
but anyway, The Dead Man's Chest wasn't so bad nor was it that fascinating. Maybe i said this because i was extremely hungry as i didn't have time to eat anything before watchin it. The film started reaally slow eventhough i missed the first few minutes of the show. and Keira Knightley was invisible for the first hour of the movie! because the plot has her imprisoned by a corrupt provincial governor who bribes her fiance Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) into capturing pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his magic compass (it points the way to riches, or something). What we get instead is a snootfull or Bloom, which is great news if you're a 12-year-old girl.
All infusions of humor and spirit come from the dippy pirate Sparrow; Depp plays him with that slurred and comically bad continental accent, it's funny often as not, but absent any kind of narrative propulsion, his digressions and inventions seem like decoration to disguise what looms as an increasingly obvious and unpleasant fact: The movie is going absolutely nowhere.

As the pirates say... AAAARRRRGGGHH!

All I want to see is Knightley make out with someone, and that doesn't happen until towards the end of the movie.
At least, the computer generated characters aren't so bad, the Kraken - bunch of mutated human: slimy, marine-like, cartilaginous body. They are suppose to be scary but they look daffy at times.

Whatever it is, i'm still gonna watch the third and the last (i think) next year. The Dead Man's Chest is still a fun summer movie to watch.