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Friday, August 28, 2009

OMG!!! Vulturi Cast Pics are released!!!!











I have just stumbled across these pics on Yahoo movies



ok so for the past few days i almost choked my lovely brain to help me come up with something to write. As usual I cant keep my thoughts on a straight line ..THAT can be annoying as hell.
I mean sure I want to let you guys now how much i love Twilight , but like i said my thoughts keep flying , and in this case they fly straight at Edward ( i suggest some ducking ), but since he can read minds , he would probably see my thoughts before he gets hurt.
I just added two more posters to my wall colletion. So now i only have four and im planning on staying at four..i think!
dont want to risk it with the hubs because he just might get tired of my Twilight blabering someday and send me off looking for Edward, in Forks. I wouldnt mind it that much since, he is the one that told me to throw myself in Edward's arms:)and i would go back to my beloved Washington state!
Sometimes i stop and i think :"what the hell happened to you ?". As you all might now by this point I AM ROMANIAN. Many of you would ask :"so what?"
well here let me give you a history lecture !
Since that bastard of Bram Stoker came up with Dracula , everything changed!

His Romanian surname "Drăculea" means "Son of the dragon" and is derived from his father's title, Vlad the Dragon (see Vlad II Dracul); the latter was a member of the Order of the Dragon, created in Serbia prior to the battle of Kosovo (1389), and re-instituted by Emperor Sigismund in 1408. The word "Dracul" means "the Devil" in modern Romanian but in Vlad's day also meant "dragon" and derives from the Latin word "Draco", also meaning "dragon".

The people of Wallachia gave Vlad II the surname "Dracul". His son Vlad III would later use the surname "Drăculea" in several documents. Through various adaptations ("Draculea", "Drakulya") Vlad III eventually came to be referred to as "Dracula".

His post-mortem moniker of "Ţepeş" ("Impaler") originated in his preferred method for executing his opponents, impalement, as popularized by medieval Transylvanian pamphlets. In Turkish, he was known as "Kazıklı Voyvoda" (pronounced [kɑzɯkˈɫɯ]) which means "Impaler Prince". Vlad was referred to as "Dracula" in a number of documents of his times, mainly the Transylvania Saxon pamphlets and "The Annals of Jan Długosz".


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Woodblock print of Vlad the Impaler dining in the presence of numerous impaled corpsesWhen he came to power, Vlad immediately had all the assembled nobles arrested. The older boyars and their families were immediately impaled. The younger and healthier nobles and their families were marched north from Târgovişte to the ruins of Poienari Castle in the mountains above the Argeş River. Vlad was determined to rebuild this ancient fortress as his own stronghold and refuge. The enslaved boyars and their families were forced to labor for months, rebuilding the old castle with materials from another nearby ruin. According to tradition, they laboured until the clothes fell off their bodies and then were forced to continue working naked. Very few of the old gentry survived the ordeal of building Vlad's castle.

Throughout his reign, Vlad systematically eradicated the old boyar class of Wallachia. The old boyars had repeatedly undermined the power of the prince during previous reigns and had been responsible for the violent overthrow of several princes. Vlad was determined that his own power be on a modern and thoroughly secure footing. In place of the executed boyars, Vlad promoted new men from among the free peasantry and middle class, who would be loyal only to their prince.

Vlad Ţepeş's reputation was considerably darker in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe and Romania. In the West, Vlad III Ţepeş has been characterized as a tyrant who took sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing his enemies. The number of his victims ranges from 40,000 to 100,000.[7] According to the German stories the number of victims he had killed was at least 80,000. In addition to the 80,000 victims mentioned he also had whole villages and fortresses destroyed and burned to the ground.[8] These numbers are most likely exaggerated.[9]

The atrocities committed by Vlad in the German stories include impaling, torturing, burning, skinning, roasting, and boiling people, feeding people the flesh of their friends or relatives, cutting off limbs, drowning, and nailing people's hats to their heads. His victims included men and women of all ages, religions and social classes, children and babies. One German account includes the following sentence: "He caused so much pain and suffering that even the most bloodthirstiest persecutors of Christianity like Herodes, Nero, Diocletian and all other pagans combined hadn’t even thought of."[10]

Impalement was Ţepeş's preferred method of torture and execution. His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim's legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock. Normally the stake was inserted into the body through the anus and was often forced through the body until it emerged from the mouth. However, there were many instances where victims were impaled through other bodily orifices or through the abdomen or chest. Infants were sometimes impaled on the stake forced through their mother's chests. The records indicate that victims were sometimes impaled so that they hung upside down on the stake.

Death by impalement was slow and agonising. Victims sometimes endured for hours or even days. Vlad often had the stakes arranged in various geometric patterns. The most common pattern was a ring of concentric circles in the outskirts of a city that constituted his target. The height of the spear indicated the rank of the victim. The corpses were often left decaying for months.

There are claims that thousands of people were impaled at a single time. One such claim says 10,000 were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (where Vlad had once lived) in 1460. Another allegation asserts that during the previous year, on Saint Bartholomew's Day (in August), Vlad had 30,000 of the merchants and officials of the Transylvanian city of Braşov impaled for breaking his authority. One of the most famous woodcuts of the period shows Vlad feasting in a forest of stakes and their grisly burdens outside Braşov, while a nearby executioner cuts apart other victims.[11]

Vlad Ţepeş is alleged to have committed even more impalements and other tortures against invading Ottoman forces. It was reported that an invading Ottoman army turned back in fright when it encountered thousands of rotting corpses impaled on the banks of the Danube.[4] It has also been said that in 1462 Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, a man noted for his own psychological warfare tactics, returned to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of 20,000 impaled corpses outside Vlad's capital of Târgovişte. Many of the victims were Turkish prisoners of war Vlad had previously captured during the Turkish invasion. The total Turkish casualty toll in this battle reached over 40,000. The warrior sultan turned command of the campaign against Vlad over to subordinates and returned to Constantinople, even though his army had initially outnumbered Vlad's three to one and was better equipped

So here the little history that he, Bram Stoker should have researched before, totally making Vlad Tepes a freaking vampire. If there was something as close to a vampire , there was Elizabeth Bathory (Hungary history which i dont like going into ), she used to kill all her servants, mostly young girls , drain their blood and then bath in the blood. Well, you can draw your own opinion from that.

So with my history lecture all done , I can go on with my Twilight, please? i dont really have a patience for many things , but ill try and post more , since now, I am , declarying myself a hard Twifan!
and to prove it to you , that my thoughts are crazy , I almost forgot i i gace you all that history lesson.
I dont know about others , but movies, plays, books , that involve vampires, especially "Dracula", kind of dont hold an interest for me. I just see it as distorsioned history! Sad ,but true!
Thats why i was saying " what the hell happened with me?". I used to hate those movies , even thought i would watch them to see just how creepy they would portray Vlad the Impaler, and now I am crazy about a love story between a human girl and a vampire. How ironic is that?!?!?! or better can it get more ironic than this?:) I hope not!

P.S. Don`t get mad Edward. You would probably make me believe all the stories about Vlad Tepes with just a few winks!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Ay Dios!

Another week! Or should i say another boring week?!..this is driving me crazy! I might as well just build in my office a little space where i can bang my head on, out of boredom!:)
I keep thinking about getting another job , but i am scared s***less, since the job field is so bad, i am going a little nuts , in here all by myself.
If i didnt had people working on my floor ,i would feel like i was being punished :)) , all day long i am here by myself, since this freaking air station base, in the hate-able Yuma is not as big as it should be so that i can make some extra hours and keep me busy all day. Anyone wanna trade places with me?!:D:))

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Imagine that i were...

I sometimes let myself fly away. I let myself imagine, if my life would have been different if i was born under another name, nationality or even personality.
If I had to chose , I would prefer to be Greek. Not in particular for their beauty , but because of their history. We all know that Greeks are our treasure. I see that way. Greek history, culture, traditions, music and even dances fascinate me , for some reason. I love their language, and a plus if i was Greek , guess what , obviously i didn't have to learn it from scratch! I love their food, even if not all of it.
They just fascinate me. And lets not talk about Greek guys! While in Thessaloniki , many years ago.., if we barely saw an ugly guys! Those boys are GODS!!!!
I also think about me being someone I am not. I am very content with who i am , but sometimes it is just funny to put yourself in someones shoes.
Other than this, humpf, not much . Just waiting for New Moon to come out sickeeeeeee!!!
I was also thinking about finding another job, but with the lazy and very "not upsetting others" being that i am , i kinda don't have the guts to leave my job. I already got it, and its a very nice job, but sometimes i really want to get back to my old job. And i also like my boss and right now it would be really hard to leave him with no one to cover for me...ah man, this sucks.
the only thing that keeps me going here in Arizona is the fact that , i know where my life will go after these 4 years in the Marine Corps. I am so over with not knowing what to expect. the fact that were going back to Washington , keeps me alive in this freaking dessert . Military life isn't for me. I hate it. Hate being chained to something that doesn't allow you to do anything.Blah, two more years.Not even that. A years and 11 or 10 months!!!

Sunday

I never liked sundays , but sundays here in Yuma are the most boring days ever. I might just go back in the pool and tan :) At least make the best put of it ,right?