Poor bodies of ours...

Thank God the final is tonight and we all leave in a day or two, 'cause we couldn't possibly continue like this, our bodies are so saturated with fast food and alcohol, it's really taking a toll at this point! But hey, guess what we're doing tonight!!! :)

Anyway, last night was the Fashion Party at Euroclub. Christina, Jonas and I decided we would dress very "fashioney" and I basically ended up looking like a pink-and-purple school boy, Jonas was Amy Winehouse, and Christina was just a crazier version of her fierce self.

We were the talk of the entire party, I have tosay. Everyone was looking, pointing, shouting good stuff at us, giving us the thumbs up, and there was even some laughter. But we were as confident as we could be, strolling around, knowing we looked the best there. :)

But we left the show a bit too early I think, right after the catwalk was done - we all agreed we should have stayed around a bit more, just to mingle and get noticed some more, cuz there was loads of people there that did not get the chance to see us. :)))

Anyway, we went to Eurocafe and met up with the regular crowd there and had another crazy alcohol night.

Came back to the apartment oh, around 4... and we woke up at around 13:30 today. Whoooa, this adventure is almost done and it's been great throughout!!!

Bosnia to the final! (but did you really have any doubts!?)

In a terrible, terrible semifinal, a bunch of good songs thankfully were voted into the final!

It was actually a boring show, well, the first half anyway.... The most annoying and boring thing was all the fans being there just so that they can be seen on camera, not to see the show. I mean, I did not even make any efforts and I managed to be on TV a few times. Ahahaha, well, I guess I did make an effort for the Bosnian performance and the opening of the Bosnian envelope, but it's not like I had to run for the camera... the guy was right there, pointing the camera at me and all I had to do was look back at it. :)

Oh and I have to tell you about this Azerbaijani guy that was sitting right in front of me... He had the HAIREST butt-crack I have ever seen on a human... it was like an ape, ewwwww. How did I see it? Ahahaha, well, low-rise pants plus short shirt - voila, butt-crack exposure! Giannis and I were dying of laughter... it was very entertaining during the first half of the show.

Anyway, it was fun times last night again - more partying, more dancing, more wine.

Today we decided to spend the day by sight-seeing. Geert and I were a little late to meet everybody, but I did appreciate the extra sleep I got, I felt a lot better, and feel a lot better today!

We ended up at the Bohemian quarter - Skadarlija - a cute little neighborhood with lots of expensive restaurants and cafes. Good food, nice scenery, fun people. Ahahah, we ended up ordering a plate of mixed meat for everybody and Jonas and I told them to put the chicken and the beef on a separate plate, since neither one of us eats pork meat. Well, they really did separate the two, but the chicken was wrapped in bacon!!! Ahahahahah...

Laughed a lot, fed some cats and then it started raining. Went to buy some wine to use in the press center whil we watch the rehearsal for the 2nd semi and here I am!

Stay tuned for more exciting stuff I guess! :)

Mmmmm sooo much wine soooo little time :)

What a fucking day yesterday!

Well - first, I realized that I lost my photo camera, my brand new one... boo hoo hooo... but well, I didn't let it get me down, cuz I'll just buy another one. :) Good thing is that I've been uploading pictures continuously!

Anyway, yesterday.... started off with the Turkish party at 6 on one of the many river boats. Lots of free Turkish food and local alcohol mmmmm, except the wine was piss warm ahahah... I still have two glasses, who cares. :)

The Turks also organized an outside concert kind of thing, where the public could come and watch as well. They had a lot of the other performers come, such as Sweden, Czech Republic and Serbia, so it was lots of fun. Outside, breeze, no stuffy indoor spaces.

But we couldn't spend a lot of time there as we wanted to go to the Icelandic party, which was a whole town away, ahahaha.

Oh and yes, I have to say, I have been acting like the personal taxi-getter for these foreign friends of mine here. :) But I enjoy it really and it's good cuz this way they don't get ripped off and lost.

So, off we were to the Icelandic party - which I have to say was the best party so far! Regina and Fridrik sang a dozen Eurovision hits and the crowd were very entertained.

Ahahah and yes, we ended up sitting in the VIP section, cuz nobody was checking. We had our own bar, our own food that just kept coming and coming and coming. The Danish singer showed up and I think he was expecting to sit where we were sitting ahahah, but we were not going to give up our nice little abode. :)

After mmmm like 4 or 5 glasses of wine and tons of finger food, it was time to check out the Portuguese party, which again, was on the other side of the town - taxis are our best friend!! :)

We arrived at Portugal late, so we were just able to see one performance, which was good anyway. I was at the bar, ordering the drinks for everybody, and the bar lady took out her phone and started recording the Portuguese performance ahahah... She just stood there, and when the performance was over our drinks came ahahah...

After Portugal, we went to Eurocafe, just to unwind, or so we thought. They ended up playing some nice upbeat Eurovision stuff, so we had some drinks there too and we danced as well. And then we spent some time on the balcony and soon enough it was time to go.

That's it for now. Blog ya later!

Christina, Jonas and me - the stars of Serbian shopping centers YAY!

Yep! We were really stars last night at the Karaoke show at the shopping center Delta City.

20 local people (and a couple of fans, and two delegation members) sang Eurovision songs, trying to win some nice ticket packages.

Christina, Jonas and I took it all very seriously of course! :) It was actually a very, very fun show that was very well attended! And there were some good singers too.

There was a girl who sang Marija Magdalena perfectly and with stage presence, all the while she was sooooooo nervous. We thought she did a fantastic job considering how nervous she was and awarded her the perfect score - 12 points from each of the three us! She was soo happy, poor thing. But I would be too - she won 2 tickets for each of the nights!!

But the real fun started for us at the end - ahahahah... Jonas ended up on stage singing Hero with the host ahahaha. The girls loved Jonas, let me tell you!

And THEN - the show ended and all these people, the contestants mostly, wanted to take pictures with us, as well as wanted our autographs!!! Such a bizzare feeling, let me tell you! And all we wanted to do after the 3-hour show was piss, smoke and eat!!! :)

Fun, fun show - pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/mnbajric/Beograd2008

Laka performing at Greek party (video)

http://picasaweb.google.com/mnbajric/Beograd2008/photo#5201328743903879762

Greek party - best party yet!

Well, I've only attended the Macedonian party and now the Greek party, but we had the best time in Euroclub last night.

150 pictures (+ video of Laka performing) at http://picasaweb.google.com/mnbajric/Beograd2008
:)

Kalomira and the Cypriot lady started off the performances, after mingling for an hour and being followed by various reporters, photographers and the fans of course. Kalomira is such a typical American it's quite sick!!! :)

Anyway, once the Greek and the Cypriot bitches were done, they started introducing other performers - including Morena, Dima (who was, once again, desperate as fuck for attention!), Mor ve Otesi and of course Laka!

Laka had absolutely the loudest and most welcome reception as well as applause after the performance. They were once again fantastic - see the short video I've uploaded!

After they performed, I had to run and take a picture with both of them. Of course, they were both fucking crazy!!!!!! And of course they were happy when I told them that I will be sitting in the front row and will have a flag shirt on :)))

Once all the performers finished, the GREAT DJ who was Greek played Eurovision songs for the next 4-5 hours and oh my god, it was all so great. He didn't let the songs play all the way through, but he'd mix them halfway through with very nice transitions.

I think some of us danced for 2-3 hours straight! By 2:30, some people were leaving, including Jonas, Roger and Christina and Bibi and Rastko a bit later. I stayed until closing with Miroslav and some other OGAE Serbia members.

We got to Miroslav's place around 4:30 and I was in bed withing 2 minutes. The end! :)

I'm on a jury!!! :)

OGAE Serbia and the biggest company in Serbia, Delta City, are organizing a karaoke show at the biggest shopping mall in Belgrade today. It's supposed to be for locals and prizes include ticket packages to the semifinals and the final.

Well, Jonas, Christina and I were picked to be on the jury. So, we're gonna be listening to about 20 performers who will sing Eurovision songs and then we will judge each by giving them 1-12 points. :)

It's gonna be tons of fun I think! :)