putumayo world music

a short post about my favourite music brand. putumayo music collection started with my friends bringing me the very first cd from holland. it looked like this:

and had absolutely amazing music in it. my collection went further and further, being filled in with french, latin, italian music, jazz, salsa and many others. you have already noticed what a big music fan i am, and in the case of my putumayo collection, music not only gives you great feelings, it also makes you travel all around the world.

a romantic post

this is a short romantic post about my friend tamuna, who got one of the best proposals in the whole world. her now-fiancee hired a plane that flew around the beach of st.tropez several times with a banner 'tamuna, marry me'. tamuna was shocked and happy, people on the beach were smiling and clapping and we, girls, were listening to this story with a great feeling that there still is a romance in this world.

          

one of my friends proposal looked like this: he put arrows and hints all over moscow so that his girlfriend would go to the place they had their first date and get a hint to a second place, which all ended up in a park with him on his knees holding a ring.

my other friends future husband ordered thousands of roses, filled a terrace overlooking night tbilisi with them and appeared suddenly with a magician's hat holding an amazing diamond ring.

a recent proposal was made by my friends brother, who's friends were standing alongside the road  holding big banners asking questions and telling about the love he had for his future wife, with him on the end dressed in a t-shirt saying 'that's me'.

i love such stories, and i feel like collecting them. in the long run, it may lead to creating a book of such sweet memories.

huggin up the big monkey man

i have always thought Amy had a fantastic voice, it's just that i was not a very big fan of her music. i would listen to some of her songs but none of them did i want to put on the repeat mode.

yesterday, being a little bit down, my friend suggested i should listen to Amy's 'monkey man'. wow, that song made my day! her live performance made me want to dance to this song, which i actually did all around the office. looked weird, but felt great :)

best things in life are free

l o v e

s u m m e r

f r i e n d s

f u n

s m i l e

b e a u t y

le cordon bleu

my friend, who was visiting me in tbilisi last month has done lots of interesting things in her life. she is interested in all kind of stuff: design, architecture, fashion, cooking. speaking of the last one, she took a two-month course in Paris in famous Le Cordon Bleu, of which she told me the other day. Le Cordon Bleu is the school which julie&julia visited, and exactly the same school which makes greatest chiefs of the world.

i was looking through the courses it offers and have chosen a very nice mix of courses for me. most of all i like the Paris location with Patisserie Course which offers:

Artistic decorative skills
Ice cream & sorbet
Variations on restaurant desserts
Savoury petits fours
Introduction to bread-baking
Mastering bavarian creams & mousses
Caramel & nougatine
Introduction to chocolate : hand tempering & dipping

And this subject from Superior Patisserie Course is my no.1 choice:

The Art of Chocolate: Mousse cakes, tempering of chocolates, hand-dipped & moulded chocolates, mixing different chocolates and textures, chocolate boxes and flowers, sculpture & display

Oh, what a wonderful way it is to spend 2 months of my busy, crazy life.

marvin the greatest

marvin gaye is amazing. his music, lyrics, and the feelings it all gives you. i have long been a marvin gaye fan and this fanning will stay for long time. his songs are used in many movies, novels, plays, because they can create the most sensual scenes. in one of my favourite books by anna gavalda, 'ensemble, c'est tout', camille and franck are listening to 'sexual healing' on their first date, in the recent italian movie 'manuale d'am3re', robert de niro and monica belucci are dancing striptease to 'come get to this' - all the romantic scenes are becoming amazing mostly because of marvin's music played in them.

and how many artists have tributed to marvin gaye? out of million versions, i am sharing with you the one i love most: Maceo Parker playing 'let's get it on':

enjoy marvin gaye, and i'll go listen to mercy, mercy me for hundredth time

ps. on my last.fm profile marvin is number three in my top artists chart. about my #1 and #2 i'll talk in my next posts

summer thoughts

this summer season made me forget about my blog. its not that i'm somewhere at the seaside, having tan and having fun and not having time for the blog. no, im still in tbilisi, at work and with no holiday perspective. it's just that in tbilisi the degree outside is so high, that all the thermometers have crushed. and so did i for several days.

speaking of summer, what are you guys doing now? which countries are u visiting? i would personally fly to portugal now. i have no certain idea why is that i chose portugal over all the other countries, but i have never been there and it's time to check the flights to lisbon, maybe i'll have a chance to take few days off.

please do share with me your ways of spending this summer. maybe only reading about seasides and tans and funs will make me feel more summery?