forty and a day

amir, today you are forty and a day
and each time you leave we have the same dream:
that you'd be back and play with us
all day long
you were here only three months ago
but to us it seems like years
when you arrive the room fills up with joy
and we love you
very much

nice, optimist and considerate
smart, successful and loving
and you will stay forever young
at heart

amir, 40 years have passed so fast
and you're still... picking your nose!
i didn't know how to end
so i will simply say happy birthday and
mazal tov

beam me up

a moment of panic in the Hammetschwand Lift way above the lake of Lucerne.

cease fire side-dish

Hanoukah is long gone but it's never the wrong moment to light a candle, some would say.
here (december 2007), Christiano is lighting the hanoukiyah in miss universe style.

vus hertzach?

last friday in Liege airport, 14 hours after departure time.

speechless

we, too, were wondering what he was saying to our camera. but in fact, he's saying nothing, and still, it was so important for him to say it!
shot in the outskirts of bujumbura when we visited the Batwa people.

That's right folks, it is very easy to be old

well folks, the title for this post does not necessarily mean that i think this way.
it is just a nice title of a song played by The Violent Husbands, a Belgian group that we like a lot and decided to give them the speech in this week's post.
Effi is in Romania giving another One Minutes video workshop and I am in sunny Brussels and it is the longest day in the year and i am sad because this is the day winter starts taking over.

א פערדל

a ferdl hab ich a recht

zitzn iz af im nit shlecht
vi fart men aber avek
az fun farnt iz der ek !

א פערדל האב איך א רעכט
זיצן איז אף אים ניט שלעכט
ווי פארט מען אבער אוועק
אז פון פארנט איז דער עק

to translate, try here

tip of the day

from our (non existing, but maybe future) series "tales from under the burning sun". shot in august 2004, in israel.
another tale from the series can be seen here.