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Published On: Feb 11, 2008 02:30 AM
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Published On: Feb 11, 2008 02:30 AM
Fri - February 8, 2008
Friday 8th Feb
A Quiet one
Well, today after waking up at 4-15 am ( I was
convinced I had the jet lag beaten) not so, I resigned myself to the fact that I
wasn't sleeping again and watched some Tv, Mostly Romanian talk show re runs and
BBC/CNN/SKY news cycles.
Amy Winehouse was refused a visa, shame, but she should get cleaned up before she goes on stage again so as not to embarrass herself, she has an amazing voice and I love her but she should calm it down a little.
No ALex the driver this morning, new guy , very quiet, nice and polite, had the Romanian look, jet black hair ,pony tail, black leather car coat, you know that look.
Met with our Project supervisor/construction co-ordinator this morning, Magdalena she rocks, it was like having your mum or your aunt talking about construction for an hour, I have to say I can see that she will be the boss of the construction teams.
MG and I fired up and old FPD tradition today, the beer lunch on a Friday, we had the driver take us off site to the local pizzeria, Romana Pizzaria definitely the locals spot, full menu, good beer and tasty food,
see look.
I believe we will know all the waitresses by first name by the end of the show,they seemed amused by our accents and our attempts at Romanian, might be the only place around here ( Buftea) that you can get a salad and giant calzone!.
Still having face plant issues could have something to do with the above images and stella for lunch, but I know its jet lag really.
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Took a ride in a golf cart today to look at some stages, brrrr chilly out there,
super duper tired, got to go.
Amy Winehouse was refused a visa, shame, but she should get cleaned up before she goes on stage again so as not to embarrass herself, she has an amazing voice and I love her but she should calm it down a little.
No ALex the driver this morning, new guy , very quiet, nice and polite, had the Romanian look, jet black hair ,pony tail, black leather car coat, you know that look.
Met with our Project supervisor/construction co-ordinator this morning, Magdalena she rocks, it was like having your mum or your aunt talking about construction for an hour, I have to say I can see that she will be the boss of the construction teams.
MG and I fired up and old FPD tradition today, the beer lunch on a Friday, we had the driver take us off site to the local pizzeria, Romana Pizzaria definitely the locals spot, full menu, good beer and tasty food,
see look.
I believe we will know all the waitresses by first name by the end of the show,they seemed amused by our accents and our attempts at Romanian, might be the only place around here ( Buftea) that you can get a salad and giant calzone!.
Still having face plant issues could have something to do with the above images and stella for lunch, but I know its jet lag really.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,zzzzzzzzzzzz,zzzzzzzzzzz,zzzzzzzzzz
Took a ride in a golf cart today to look at some stages, brrrr chilly out there,
super duper tired, got to go.
Posted at 05:40 AM Read More
Thu - February 7, 2008
New Day
Thursday 7th Feb
Well a couple of notes from yesterdays report, It
turns out that the cute Lamb in the bag trick is employed by many panhandlers in
this part of the world, so while not uniquely Romanian it was however a first
for me, still very white and cute
though.
And Ceausescu well yes he does have a lot to answer for, I did however realize he was put up against a wall and shot and killed, so thats something.
Today we got a coffee machine, we did ask for one and I expected to get a good old Black and decker drip number, but low and behold we got this bad boy,
whilst walking back from the commissary today after some fine cuisine, polenta and some cabbage/beef sort of baked thingy, which was actually pretty tasty,
I noticed that here at the studio, trumpets are banned .
so there, take that Wynton Marselis
I asked one of the locals, what's up with the trumpet rules,
he had no answer, just gave me this look.
had my usual 5-15pm chat with L&L who were just waking up, both MG and I were having trouble not doing face plants on the desks today at around 6-30pm, the jet lag is just wicked sometimes.
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And Ceausescu well yes he does have a lot to answer for, I did however realize he was put up against a wall and shot and killed, so thats something.
Today we got a coffee machine, we did ask for one and I expected to get a good old Black and decker drip number, but low and behold we got this bad boy,
whilst walking back from the commissary today after some fine cuisine, polenta and some cabbage/beef sort of baked thingy, which was actually pretty tasty,
I noticed that here at the studio, trumpets are banned .
so there, take that Wynton Marselis
I asked one of the locals, what's up with the trumpet rules,
he had no answer, just gave me this look.
had my usual 5-15pm chat with L&L who were just waking up, both MG and I were having trouble not doing face plants on the desks today at around 6-30pm, the jet lag is just wicked sometimes.
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Posted at 01:19 PM Read More
Wed - February 6, 2008
Really....its 3-30am?
Wednesday
Yup , knew it, 3-30am wide awake, happened last
time, oh well, at least I have CNN- Wolf Blitzer and "the best political team on
television" to keep me company, Its still Super Tuesday in the US and well its
sort of interesting for ten minutes when all you want to do is
sleep....................three attempts to return to the land of nod, no success
back to Wolf and yes Obama has Delaware and Idaho, how did he win
Idaho?
what's funny is both Sky and the BBC have their own Super Tuesday shows with Pundits who sort of know what they are talking about but not really, they of course wish they had "the best Political team on television" . I can only assume that in Wolf's contract its states he has to repeat that phrase every 5.5 minutes. Enough.
Two more chapters of Cindy's book, Girls 101 and the alphabet, very interesting. now its 6-30 am, ok time to get going.
Meet MG ( art director) for some brekky in the hotels buffet dealio bistro,
pretty good, almost the full english, Romanian style.
7-45am overcast grey and cold outside the Centreville ( mini apartments) apartments built for small people, enough said.
driver is late.....Traffic no doubt, I call to ask where he might be, he shows up,it was traffic,
8-15am, hit the rush hour traffic, not too bad, Raging Romanian disco on the radio....big euro beat.....
Ceausescu
images.jpeg
has a lot to answer for he pretty much destroyed this place, giant ugly concrete apartment buildings blocks long
and the general raping of the country, remaking it in his own vision ( whatever that was) It seems the Russians helped a lot too.
this place ( below) is some kind of factory industrial facility , which makes or produces.............?
Speaking of the Russians they built Media Pro studios, to make Happy Russian movies in the 50's and now we are here to make our movie.
Paramount Pictures its not,
It looks a bit like it ....? maybe.......well at least its white.
Everything here has a "patina" , except stage 8b, which is brand new and super duper nice, and stage 12b will be like that too ( when they finish it) hope they finish soon as we need it.
we took an office today, and got internet, and coffee, and a phone, whoo hoo and it works too.
walked around a bit checked a few things out, just like the airport there are lots of men in big coats and funny hats standing around, these men however are not looking for taxi work , they seem to be watching other men work, its the norm as far as I can tell, three guys working and four watching, I think its shift work, that way they all get to play.
Lunch time, Smoke filled cafeteria, odd looking sample dishes, not ready for that stuff yet, need to get my immune system up first,
stick with the sandwich and "chicken" flavour chips much safer......oh and of course the 2 litre bottle of Orangina,....because when in Romania.........
back to the office, actual work taking place today...........schedules..........schedules and more schedules, and some insights into the inner workings of the studio,
for instance, Alex our driver, who as you might remember was late this morning, traffic, he is the subject of an "incident file" a nasty looking sheet of paper with all sorts of boxes with check marks and times and dates and potential torture measures written in Romanian.
I was asked to sign it !! , I balked of course and wanted to know what was going to happen to him if I did, the presenter of the paper said it was policy and that they had had some trouble with drivers lately, Alex has been nothing but punctual every time except this morning ( traffic). I was told I had to sign it and I asked if it was the call that I made this morning looking for him that had prompted this "incident file" and yes he said thats why, but I had to sign it and he was adamant, so I did and immediately got on the phone to the "boss" who said that he was not going to be in trouble, or tortured or persecuted in any way,
Michael thinks as we have not seen him since this morning and he is tied up in the basement with cigarette burns on his arms.
Lets hope hope shows up to take us back to town.
There are lots of stray dogs in Romania, Bucuresti has many, the out lying areas have lots, they all seem to be well fed, and just get along ok, they are of course a bit dirty, and have their own territory, they don't harass you if you dont harass them, at the studio there are many, I think by the time we are finished we will have one of our own as we are dog lovers and they will figure that out and this building will be popular, we also have a house cat, who is a bit shy right now but will come around I am sure.
and the final animal note of the day, last night when walking back from dinner, MG and I were hit up by the customary street "panhandlers" , an only in Romania moment happened when a young girl carrying a lamb in a bag ( large purse size bag) asked for money, well the lamb was white as snow and very real and cute too, I am not sure if her name was Mary but she was persistent, but as I said before we were told not to talk to strangers or give them money, I was tempted.......
still no Alex, MG is going to the basement to look for him
7-45pm
Alex arrives to pick us up, no scars or burns, turns out Alex was outside the hotel bistro at 7-45 am, but parked across the street.......Not Traffic at all.
power nap in car, hit the market, supplies, good to go, back to smallville.
what's funny is both Sky and the BBC have their own Super Tuesday shows with Pundits who sort of know what they are talking about but not really, they of course wish they had "the best Political team on television" . I can only assume that in Wolf's contract its states he has to repeat that phrase every 5.5 minutes. Enough.
Two more chapters of Cindy's book, Girls 101 and the alphabet, very interesting. now its 6-30 am, ok time to get going.
Meet MG ( art director) for some brekky in the hotels buffet dealio bistro,
pretty good, almost the full english, Romanian style.
7-45am overcast grey and cold outside the Centreville ( mini apartments) apartments built for small people, enough said.
driver is late.....Traffic no doubt, I call to ask where he might be, he shows up,it was traffic,
8-15am, hit the rush hour traffic, not too bad, Raging Romanian disco on the radio....big euro beat.....
Ceausescu
images.jpeg
has a lot to answer for he pretty much destroyed this place, giant ugly concrete apartment buildings blocks long
and the general raping of the country, remaking it in his own vision ( whatever that was) It seems the Russians helped a lot too.
this place ( below) is some kind of factory industrial facility , which makes or produces.............?
Speaking of the Russians they built Media Pro studios, to make Happy Russian movies in the 50's and now we are here to make our movie.
Paramount Pictures its not,
It looks a bit like it ....? maybe.......well at least its white.
Everything here has a "patina" , except stage 8b, which is brand new and super duper nice, and stage 12b will be like that too ( when they finish it) hope they finish soon as we need it.
we took an office today, and got internet, and coffee, and a phone, whoo hoo and it works too.
walked around a bit checked a few things out, just like the airport there are lots of men in big coats and funny hats standing around, these men however are not looking for taxi work , they seem to be watching other men work, its the norm as far as I can tell, three guys working and four watching, I think its shift work, that way they all get to play.
Lunch time, Smoke filled cafeteria, odd looking sample dishes, not ready for that stuff yet, need to get my immune system up first,
stick with the sandwich and "chicken" flavour chips much safer......oh and of course the 2 litre bottle of Orangina,....because when in Romania.........
back to the office, actual work taking place today...........schedules..........schedules and more schedules, and some insights into the inner workings of the studio,
for instance, Alex our driver, who as you might remember was late this morning, traffic, he is the subject of an "incident file" a nasty looking sheet of paper with all sorts of boxes with check marks and times and dates and potential torture measures written in Romanian.
I was asked to sign it !! , I balked of course and wanted to know what was going to happen to him if I did, the presenter of the paper said it was policy and that they had had some trouble with drivers lately, Alex has been nothing but punctual every time except this morning ( traffic). I was told I had to sign it and I asked if it was the call that I made this morning looking for him that had prompted this "incident file" and yes he said thats why, but I had to sign it and he was adamant, so I did and immediately got on the phone to the "boss" who said that he was not going to be in trouble, or tortured or persecuted in any way,
Michael thinks as we have not seen him since this morning and he is tied up in the basement with cigarette burns on his arms.
Lets hope hope shows up to take us back to town.
There are lots of stray dogs in Romania, Bucuresti has many, the out lying areas have lots, they all seem to be well fed, and just get along ok, they are of course a bit dirty, and have their own territory, they don't harass you if you dont harass them, at the studio there are many, I think by the time we are finished we will have one of our own as we are dog lovers and they will figure that out and this building will be popular, we also have a house cat, who is a bit shy right now but will come around I am sure.
and the final animal note of the day, last night when walking back from dinner, MG and I were hit up by the customary street "panhandlers" , an only in Romania moment happened when a young girl carrying a lamb in a bag ( large purse size bag) asked for money, well the lamb was white as snow and very real and cute too, I am not sure if her name was Mary but she was persistent, but as I said before we were told not to talk to strangers or give them money, I was tempted.......
still no Alex, MG is going to the basement to look for him
7-45pm
Alex arrives to pick us up, no scars or burns, turns out Alex was outside the hotel bistro at 7-45 am, but parked across the street.......Not Traffic at all.
power nap in car, hit the market, supplies, good to go, back to smallville.
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