Ahhhh... The undeniable life...

I know, I know… two posts in one day… What gives? Right? That is what I love about having this blog… There are no rules... :P It’s no secret to anyone that has ever read this blog that I have experienced and witnessed some weird and/or crazy situations in Israel. I am a firm believer that, that are some things that only happen here… From the fact that you can’t turn left (driving I mean…), there is no u-turn to the simple fact that, by walking around Tel Aviv you can be audience to innumerous kinds of odd people and behavior… I have come here and shared with you some of my stories regarding that aspect… However, I have to admit I would post so much more little quips if I only remembered or wrote them down when I though of or witnessed them … I promise to try it from now on, for this humble blog’s sake… I have two little stories to share with you guys today... After coming back to Tel Aviv from school, I went to the mall to grab a bite to eat before heading home… There I am, enjoying my double Mc Royal (yeah, I know… Shut up… lol) When I noticed that something out of the ordinary was going on… This elderly couple (in their 70’s) was pouring coke from a McDonald’s cup to an empty bottle of water… Next thing I see, the old man goes to the trash can, throws out the cup, comes back with another one and starting pouring the coke from the “new” one in the bottle… Ok, granted that I might be wrong… but, what the hell was that… it continued like that for while, a little later a kid that finished his lunch stops by their table and gives his unfinished cup of coke to the couple and later on the woman comes back from another trash can with more empty bottles… By that moment I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to feel sorry for them or disgusted… I mean, am I crazy or that was simply weird? You guys might say that they were just “hungry” and all… I’m from Brazil… I’m used (unfortunately… honestly you can never get really used to it… which is a good thing) to seeing hungry people look for food in trash cans on the street… but people that are nicely dressed, in a shopping mall? That was a first… The other story is just another example of thing that you can only go through in Israel… I was at school, waiting for a group meeting with my TV teacher when my phone rings… on the screen I see that it is an undisclosed number… I pick it up and it is this guy I went out with once, about 4 months ago… The guy disappeared for about 2 months… called me in February saying he saw my number in his phone and didn’t know who it was… after explanations I never heard from him again… who cares? Well, today the guy calls me… asks how I am and blah blah blah… then he asks: “do you have cable at home?” I say: “what?” Him: “do you have cable tv at home, Hot or Yes?” I say: “Yeah, I have Hot…” Him: “Oh, it’s that I’m an agent at Yes and I was wondering if you would be interested in signing up...” The rest of the conversation really does not matter, it’s enough to say it didn’t last very long after that… WTF??????? Are you serious??? Seriously? Is the guy actually calling people he dated to sell cable TV?? I swear, after that phone call I was in shock for a while… I even told what had just happened to my teacher (He is very young)… His response was perfect, he said: “send a message to him NOW, telling him to NEVER call you again” Hahahahhahahahhahahahahhaha I swear it made me laugh so much… That is just another tiny bit example of why Israelis are simply Undeniable… :P Song of the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNS4lTzOFU "Mat Kearney - Undeniable" - again, embeding was disabled again.... check the link out...

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Just another Tel Avivian tale...

Inspiration comes from the craziest places I guess... Today (yesterday already :P) I had a very bittersweet day, Vivi left and my life is sadder because of it. I don''t want to dwell on that today, but i have to say that thinking about all we went through these past 9 months and a half, puts an amazing smile on my face, it even makes me laugh out loud at times... Moving on... Last night was our last night out, a lot of alchohol involved, drinking from 6pm till 5am... bar/club hoping... It was definatelly a FUN girls night out... cut to today = major HANG OVER... But, come on... It's friday, and I was not gonna stay home on a friday night :P specially since now Im on my Pessach break from school.... YAY!!! - why do i always get side tracked? lol Well, sometimes staying home is the best choice, specially on a night like tonight... Hung over (meaning no alcohol was gonna make its way to my digestive system), tired for lack of enough sleep and simply lack of the "let's have fun" attitude (yes, i am human and yes, sometimes im just not in the mood to party... who would have guessed? Right?)... All that resulted in a dragged night a lot of walking and no patience at all for the whole "waiting for the club selector to stop being a douchebag and realize he is NOT the king"drama, and let us in... Which ended up in me and my friend coming back to the club we started the night in... 3am, Im done... Too tired, too cranky, too many jerks around... My friend gets a cab home and I wait for my ride (my sweet and amazing dad). There I m sitting on a window sill when I hear this dialogue (In english): Guy 1 -"so, what do I do now?" Guy 2 - "go back and talk to those 2 girls at the end of the bar" G1 - "ok" - and he leaves few minutes later... G1 - "what do I do now?" - Are you kidding me?? People actually do stuff like this? LOL G2 - "say you are leaving and ask for her number" G1 - "To which one I ask, th one I loked the most or the one I have been talking more to?" G2 - "The one you chatted most with" G1 - "Ok" - and leaves again Another guy appears and stands right next to me... which leads to this dialogue: G3 - "I dont know what to do" G2 - "Start a conversation with some girl, start one up with the one nex to you. Ask her how her night is..." - AKA me!!! lol, seriously,as if they were speaking a secret language or I was deaf... LOL ... G3 turns to me asks: G3 - "How is you night going?" - Am I being Punk'd? Where is Ashton? Seriously... Me - "It's over, Im going home" - no, I wasn't rude... I had a smile on my face... :P ... G3 turns to G2 and says: G3 - "She said her night is over and she is going home" - ROTFL G2, the dating guru... cof cof, takes over and talks to me... We have a quick but nice chat... He leaves and so do I... To complete the journey... Im at the sidewalk waiting for my ride and G3 passes by and says: "Need a ride?" and politely say no and he leaves... I have to addmit, the night WAS so over, but that whole situation totally saved it... :P A quick update In the best Murphy fashion, the whole visit from the radio guys never happened... hahahahahahaha The best thing about that?? The reason... Apparentely the RamFm radio station does not have the right permits to work (they have been on fr more than an year... unbelievable :P) so 8 of the people that work there were actually arrested the night before the day of the visit, including the guy that was coming... They were released, but put into house arrest... LOL.... I swear, these things only happen here....:P 'till next time :D

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Gay???

I have to say, i love going out in Tel Aviv. It's an amazing city. So alive, so many things to do. I am very proud to already have so many friends that I love here, it definately makes all the diference in my life and with them I have been through so much already... About two or three weeks ago (I swear, my concept of time has changed here... it is crazy) me and Helena (another brazillian here... lol... we are more then you might thought) decided we wanted to go to a gay club... I mean, It is so much fun, even though EITHER of us is gay... We love gay clubs... lol Well the first time we ended up at a gay party here was by luck and I ended up having to go to the ER (Not the series... lol) I will tell this story some other time for sure... The second time it was on purpose, we knew exactly when and where to go... So we were psyched for sure. There we went, as happy as we could be... lol We met up a friend of hers, that was so gay, that you probably could tell from space (just like the great wall of China). Nothing really interesting happened at the club... Besides we coming to the, already popular, conclusion that there are so many hot gay men out there that it is definately a waste... lol So, about 4am we left the club to go home. We had a ride with Helena's friend (the gay guy, remember?). At about 4:30 am we drop her off and I was next. Right after she leaves, the guy starts a very weird conversation, saying that he has never been with a woman, asking if I had ever been with one (no I haven't, btw)... Out of the sudden he says he needs to pee and stops at a deserted parking lot... I start to get nervous... He stops the car and simply doesn't go out. He starts saying again that he has never been with a woman and ADDS that he wants to experience it WITH ME... WTF... are you kiddng me???? I say I can't, that I have a boyfriend (cof, cof... lie... cof, cof) that i could never do that to him... He starts CRYING, saying his father hasn't talked to him in two years, and that if he "tryed" a woman, that he might like it and that his father would be ok... I tell him he can try with someone else, and he says: "If it's not with you, it won't be with nobody else..." I continue to say no, as I was totally freaked out at the moment as you can imagine... The guy was not the outgoing guy that he was earlier... he was creepy, and all I could think was that i need to go home... Finally he gives up, I ask him to leave me any where... I get a cab and go home... what a nightmare... I don't even trust gay men anymore... lol

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