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pan pipes from hell

25 Thursday Jun 2009

Posted by azahar in music, weird, yoga

≈ 13 Comments

panpipesAs usual I raced into yoga class yesterday just as it was starting, with everyone lying on their backs and doing a little deep breathing and relaxing. It wasn’t until I’d lain down and got comfortable that I noticed a rather drastic change in the usual music. I thought to myself … could this really be Unchained Melody being played on pan pipes? It was. And it got worse. Next up was Feelings and I almost sat up and asked our instructor Ana if this was some sort of joke or what. By the time the third song started we were well into the “sun greeting” and as a group we all groaned. I mean, it was ABBA fer crying out loud. On pan pipes! At which point Ana fessed up that she’d left her music at home and had borrowed a couple of  “easy listening” CDs from the gym. And as the pan pipes crescendoed into the chorus of Chiquitita  (aiiyayaiiyaiiii) we all burst out laughing and sniggered our way through the rest of the our first routine.

After which Ana put on the second CD, which was more typical easy listening stuff … Pachelbel’s Canon, Enya, etc.

But for awhile it had been like doing yoga in the world’s largest elevator. 🙂

the wallet

22 Thursday Jan 2009

Posted by azahar in life stuff, musings, photos, sevilla, weird

≈ 18 Comments

lost-wallet

On Tuesday, just before I was about to go out to meet Pipocas for a lunch meeting, I got a call from Nog saying that he had lost his wallet. He was between classes – actually, going from his class with Dr A to an interview with a prospective new student – and when he got to the bike station and felt for his wallet to take out his bike card … it wasn’t there! The curious thing was that he remembered having it when Dr A paid him (because he put the money in his wallet) but somewhere between there and the bike station it had disappeared. So not only was he out 75€, but his credit card had to be cancelled and his Spanish residence ID card also had to be replaced. Because there was no way he was ever going to see his wallet again, right?

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for raincoaster

19 Sunday Oct 2008

Posted by azahar in photos, spain, trips, weird

≈ 9 Comments

Memories of Málaga . . .

It didn’t occur to me until much later (ie. too late) to ask WHY this was even there.

~ more road trip stuff mañana ~

when biologists learn to knit…

13 Monday Oct 2008

Posted by azahar in friends, humour, silly, weird

≈ 15 Comments

*Note to Sara … a scarf will be just fine, honest!

~ from Why Would You Knit That? via Nag On The Lake ~

la tomatina

27 Wednesday Aug 2008

Posted by azahar in culture, food & drink, spain, video, weird

≈ 7 Comments

According to this Wikipedia article…

La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest.

So today is the day, and here is a video of it from the Grauniad…

Pulp Friction

Does this sound like fun to you?

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