Not a bad idea, not a bad idea at all...

I am going to share something with you. A secret of sorts... This wasn't really something I came up with but an idea that my mother had. For some uncanny reason she finds this blogging adventure I have embarked in during these past few months quite exciting. She reads some texts in the greek blog and she finds particularly intriguing that her son communicates with people from all around the world while his writing has some luring effect to people from various ethnic backgrounds. Personally, it feels quite natural to have this sort of "interacial neighbourhood" to interact with day in day out because I lived in London for 5 years or so, thus I am used to such a diversity of communication. Still, blogging has made the experience more creative and interesting, plus it seems that most people are more easily "themselves" while blogging, without the hypocrisies and conventional behaviours they employ in their every day lives.Anyway I am getting slightly off-topic now so let me restart...

How can you NOT love this woman! LOL. Helena Paparizou, first place, Eurovision song contest 2005. Just a "greek appetizer" to begin with :) Enjoy!


I noticed that the post about Greece had some really great reception by the readers of this blog. Maybe not in the number of comments it gathered but in the enthusiastic reception of sorts it had. It is a little known fact that in the worldwide scale modern Greece is a bit of an unknown quantity to be honest. Some people don't even know where it is I am sure. From your comments, I realised that what may seem ordinary to me because it is my life and part of my upbringing may seem interesting to other people since it brings them in contact with a culture and mentality they are not well aware of, if at all. Thus, I kinda of thought that now and then I could infuse this blog with a bit more of greek related things in the sense that it will give you a "window" into the psyche of the nation plus it can be "an informative jolt of all things greek" for anyone that is curious to know more. I won't be writing such posts on regular basis just now and then, but they will provide a good insight on how Greeks perceive the world around them, some greek every day habits and favourite past times, some cool places for one to visit etc. Anything greek related goes really :). I have to warn you that I dont consider myself to be 'an average greek person' in the sense that I have lived outside the borders of my country and have broadened my horizons as many other of my compatriots (e.g. for example my friend itelli) have as well. Thus, I may appear to be a bit too forward and kinda of harsh sometimes with my viewpoints. Still, if I wasn't, I wouldt be Deadpoolite but any random Greek "malakas" so to speak, LOL!




In that respect, my mom had a great idea, I think, about a first handful of posts in this topic area. She told me : "Dont you think that it would be interesting to showcase to your readers what Greeks think of the treatment of some of the most priced pieces of their ancient heritage mythology and history by pop culture?". Essentially, this means that I am going to provide some insight on how we perceive this transition of our ancestors creations and achievements or even modern greek life, onto popular media like the silver screen or TV and how "loyal" those transitions are to the original material they derived from. I won't bore you with many meaningless details, besides I don't know all about the origins of all greek myths and historical facts but I am going to give it a shot.

For that purpose I am going to create a new topic area/label under the name of "It's all Greek to me...". Essentially this is going to be more of an informative humour infused topic area about the country compared to the already existing label "Dissecting modern Greece pass me my scalpel please" which is more of a case of "DP taking the piss at his daily life within the madness of modern greek society, pulling no punches in the process, LOL".




Let's slice those misconceptions about Greece in half... Off with the heads of the interlopers and the sycophants I say!!! LOL



Anyway I hope I find the time to do this idea justice sooner rather than later because I realise that for you this concept forms a bit of an uncharted terrirory and that is always exciting. So, then, big hug to my mom for such an original idea (after all she gave birth to me she can't be all that bad and unoriginal right? LOL) and on with the festivities in this blog:)



When you think that Helena Paparizou can't possibly get any hotter... She goes to the 2006 Eurovision song contest to sing during the voting, as the winner of the previous year's contest... By default, all hell breaks loose:)


Take care and talk to ya soon!