Ok, I have to post this. Remember a couple of posts back where I was talking about QI, the BBC show that Stephen Fry presents? (No? Well, you should, it's a great show !!!). Well, a few days ago the last episode for this series aired and it contained unseen footage from series 5.

The whole episode (Series 5 Episode 13) is very funny (as they almost always are) but the last clip called "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is" is simply and utterly tummy-hurting . The always perfectly poised Stephen Fry has an adorable and complete laughter breakdown and the boys there only make it worse (starts around 1:30)!

So, go on and enjoy it and ... ladies, be forewarned : it will be a major cause for wrinkles !!! At least it has been for me every time I've watched it!!

PS the title is something Stephen Fry managed to utter at some point ...

I like boys. I mean adult boys (don't get me wrong!!!) in the general sense of adult male humans! But I will change to "guys"; just to make sure that we are on the same level!!!

So... I like guys! A lot!!! All my relationships were with guys and some of my closest friends have been guys. But I don't just like them because they are (potentially) warm, strong, rugged, sexy and charming! I want them in my life because they bring another point of view, different from mine. Even when a guy is close to your personality and idiosyncrasy, I find that his way of thinking and approaching situations will definitely be quite different than the one of a girl's/woman's (which is of course natural and can only be expected for many reasons).

There is one other reason for which I like guys: I learn a lot of new things from them. I love to learn and with guys I get to come in contact with things I would not have met or known otherwise. Like one of their favourite toys: cars. And a TV show that talks about cars. A show that is featured in my tv.com favourite shows list among House, CSI, QI, Sex and the City, Star Trek: TNG, The Black Adder and the X-Files: BBC's Top Gear .

For those who do not know, Top Gear is a BBC show about cars, currently in its tenth season. But it is so much more than a show about cars. It's a very entertaining, very amusing, very laugh-out-loud show. There are three presenters: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Each one is very different from the other in every single aspect, but they have great humour and the kind of great chemistry and "complicité" that you get among people that know each other very well and really like each other, even if they do not agree on anything.

I really enjoy watching Top Gear but not because I want to learn the latest news on the latest models or watch super cars. After all, not only I do not own a car, but I do not know how to drive as well (I am planning to get driving lessons and my license within the next months). No, I like Top Gear simply because I really have a good time watching it. I mean, I have laughed more while watching some Top Gear episodes than I have laughed watching blockbuster comedies. Take for example an episode I watched this weekend - they decided on taking a short caravan holiday so as to explore why so many people (850.000 in UK) like going on holidays in their caravans. I cannot describe what happened but it was truly hi-la-ri-ous.

I know that it is not something for everyone and that many people dismiss it as too superficial and uninteresting. Just a show from three guys overindulging themselves. Three boys talking about their toys. And maybe it is so. Maybe it is even worse/less than that. Nevertheless, it is good fun to say the least. And this is not something to dismiss that easily.

PS each week they have a "celebrity" as a guest - Stephen Fry has been a guest too!

PPS Jeremy Clarkson has been a guest to Stephen Fry's QI quite often as well!

I have avoided so far posting anything too personal. Why should/would I anyway? But why shouldn't/wouldn't I? It goes both ways, doesn't it?

So here is my first personal-oriented post. Yesterday (11/11) it was my birthday! Which is I suppose both in some ways and in some others!! But nevertheless, one thing I did this year again and loved it is to (kind of) celebrate my birthday for 2-3 days in a row !!!

So Sunday it was my birthday and I went out with my closest friends and my brother for a Sunday brunch in a very nice (and unfortunately very expensive... ouch!!! ) hotel. And it was a day where I had a very nice time with my friends - a day full of "Happy Birthday to you / Wish you all the best / May you always be happy" and a few very nice presents. But the day before (Saturday) I had been to my parents - where my mother had cooked the meal I had asked for and gave me my present and wished me in advance Happy Birthday! And then today I went to the office with some sweets and I had some more "Happy Birthday"s. And then, tonight, I went out for a drink (from which I just came back and now I am writing this post) with this guy-friend of mine (which I wished he was more than just a friend, but that is another story) where I had a really, really good time (as we always do when we go out), three Jack Daniels (which I had not had in a very, very long time) and a very interesting and intriguing conversation (about power and dominance in relationships). Oh, and one more present, which was the book 1984 by George Orwell which I had not read and I will certainly do now.

So, all things considered, it was a very nice 3-day birthday celebration which I aim to totally surpass and excel next year !!! It's only fair after all to have a great time as you're getting old(er), isn't it?

And so here is a totally personal post with no real aim or reason for existing whatsoever !!!! Isn't that totally indulging?

PS Did I mention that I still have to receive my brother's birthday present???

PPS Could you guess that I like presents????

PPPS Did I mention that I have had three Jack Daniels (no ice, thank you)?