16th May 2012 Eurovision Song Contest - With A Difference

When today's singers are all expected to be young, beautiful and sexy, whether they can sing as well is almost of secondary importance, Russia is letting a group of grandmas from the small village of Buranovo, to represent the country to enter the annual Eurovison Song Contest Festival which takes place from the 22nd of May this year.

The group is simply called 'The Grandmas of Burannovo'. the oldest member is Natalia Pugachova who is shortly to complete 77 years. The song is called 'Party for everyone', with the text in the local dialect, written by themselves and with translation into English by Mary Susan Applegate, who had worked with the Australian star Kylie Minogue.

 

One of the group members, Olga Tuktareva who is also the artistic director of the group, stressed that 'We are not clowns. We sing with sincerity about what's important to the people. We do not seek fame or riches, with our only objective of getting some money to build an orthodox church in our village.'

Three Cheers to the high-spirited old girls, and to their father country which values and supports their true talent and worth.

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16th May 2012 Humorous Quotos On Love & Marriage

** "I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid." - Dorothy Parker.

 

** ''Women are cursed, and men are the proof.'' - Rosanne Barr.

 

** "Women with pasts interest men ... they hope history will repeat itself." - Mae West.

 

** ''My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to." - Rita Rudner.

 

** "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up." - Barbara Bush.

 

** "The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead." Ann Landers.

 

** "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house." - Groucho Marx.

 

** "Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." - Mickey Rooney.

 

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16th May 2012 The Map - My occasional fiction story

Two tired faces in a compartment of a train. The old man lost in the many stations of his life past; the young woman lost in the maze of the provisory future.

A sudden jolt of the convoy brought their errant looks to briefly cross each other. Deep in jumbled private thoughts, it took a few seconds before both noted that they are walking on life's path entangled. The many accumulated years of his and the few years of hers both claimed to return to their individual space. Her face so young, smooth and fresh, seemed to smell of perfumed soap; and his was like a lined and creased treasure map with aroma of wood and rum.

He took a second glimpse at the young woman and felt himself slipping from that clean forehead all the way down the smooth checks like gliding in the snow; and she ran down the hundreds of tiny footpaths and imagined the countless trails of all sorts, each leading to something new and different bestowed by life.

Another jostle of the wagon woke them from each's construction of the other's life. With self consciousness, or something like an apology for the silent intrusion, they exchanged sort of an acknowledgement, sort of a Goodbye, half like a Good-luck, then they both let go of their imagination. They didn't look at each other again for the rest of the journey.

They never saw each other again. With the past of years, the old man will die. The young woman would substitute smell of the perfumed soap with the gradually thickening aroma of wood and rum. One day, two tired faces will meet in a train, he, an adolescent with fresh and smooth skin, carefree and innocent and she, an old lady.with wrinkled up face like a creased map. She finally understood and quietly smiled at the boy.

It's the Slide, the helter-skelter, disorderly side of an orderly life.

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