Kitty's Corner

I heard a song on the radio that caught my attention. The tune was catchy and I loved the words. The message this band was sending, just makes so much sense! The band is called "Melody club", and the song is "Girls don't always wanna have fun", from the album "Goodbye to romance".

Melody Club was formed in 2000 and its five members are from Växjö, Sweden. Their music can be described as a mix of Synthpop and Glam rock. I got their album now, and I love it. Listen for yourself to hear if you like it!

Check the video out on Youtube here.

Link for the phonies

Lyrics to "Girls don't always wanna have fun":

Some girls go crazy on the dance floor
And that's all they wanna do
So boys
Lay low
Some like to sex you up hardcore
Yes some of them really do
But boys
Lay low
Because girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun

Some skirts are shorter than others
Some skirts are really tight
But boys
Lay low
Some dress in a million colours
And some dress in black and white
But boys
Lay low
Because girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun

You think you're gonna get it
You think you're gonna get it tonight
But just because she's teasing
Doesn't mean she's easy

Girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
Girls don't always wanna have fun
No is no
No fun

Lay low
Lay low
Lay low
Lay low

I went to see the second part of the Twilight Saga, namely "New moon". I haven't read any of the books, so it's not that I'm a big fan. I've seen the first movie, so I thought I'd give this one a go as well.

New Moons picks up from where Twilight ends. Bella is left nursing a broken heart after her beloved vampire boyfriend Edward leaves town. He was fearing he was putting her in constant danger, so he broke of their romance, leaving her childhood friend, Jacob Black to pick up the pieces. As their relationship grows increasingly complicated, Bella is amazed to discover that Jacob is harbouring a secret of his own.

So, all the mourning about Edward leaving, it felt as if that went on for the entire first half of the movie. And that's more than one full hour! At some point I began to fear that there were no more to the movie than mourning!

The acting... well, I was not impressed. It's as with some of the artists who sing: It's as if you don't need to be able to actually sing, as long as you either look good or have big boobs. In this movie it seems that the actors just have to look good. Which they do, of course.


I was surprised about how badly the werewolves were made. I mean, the first one that appeared looked just as artificial as King Kong in his first movie. I couldn't believe that they weren't looking more real than they did! And what's with the size of them? Why did they have to be so huge?

I do have sort of a problem with Bella, the main female character. She mourns so much over Edward leaving her that she wishes to give up her life, her soul. She is about to graduate and she shows no interest in school or a career path at all. She doesn't plan for college. She has no hobbies. She makes no plans at all, apart for the near-suicidal thoughts of giving up her life to be next to a vampire. It seems that in this teenage world a girl can only be happy while she sits idly next to a guy watching him fix a motorcycle.
I'd like the message to all the teenage girls out there to be a little more: "You can do what you want to do!" instead of "You're only something if you're with a guy!". But perhaps that is just me.

Weren't there any good things about this movie? Oh yes, the audience was very entertaining. Imagine one hundred girls go "Ooooh" and "aaaah" when Jacob takes off his shirt and shows his (very well looking) abs. And the same audience almost fainting because of the way this movie ends! That was very amusing.

out of 6.

When I was a little kitty my grandmom sometimes made me rice pudding. I love rice pudding, but the best thing was if there were leftovers. Then she would put the rest in a little box and store it in the fridge till the day after, where she would turn it into what can be translated into Blob cakes or Rice blobs - my grandmom called them Klatkager, but I've learned that in other areas of Denmark they are called Risklatter. Anyway, that's another story.

It's a simple desert, it tastes good and therefore I decided that I'd share it with you.

ZRS (Zaphira's Recipe Service) proudly present:

Zaphira's Grandmom's Blob Cakes
(Makes 12 or thereabout)

You'll need:
Approximately one plate of rice pudding (if you don't have leftovers, make it from half a litre of milk and 0.75 decilitre rice - cook for an hour while stirring all the time...)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 egg
Half a teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons flour


Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.


Put large spoonfulls of the paste on a warm frying pan.


Fry for 4-5 of minutes on each side.



Serve with maple syrup, jam or just plain sugar.


It is sooooo yum!


Here's one with sugar and home made raspberry/blackberry jam.


*sends happy thoughts up to grandmom* ¤¤ I love you and I miss you!! ¤¤

Polar bears - or Ursus maritimus in Latin - they're one of my favourite Zoo animals. We call them isbjørne in Danish - which can be translated into Ice bears.

The polar bear is the biggest of bears, an adult male weighs around 350–680 kg (770–1,500 lb), while an adult female is about half that size.

The male was in a very playful mood the day I was there. He had a little piece of bone that it played with:


He stood on the shore and tossed the bone into the water, and then jumped into the water after it
I know the pic is a bit blurry, both because of the movement in the picture, but also because it took me totally by surprise! But it can at least give you an impression of how playful the bear was:


Then he dived and got the bone up, swam around with it, dropped it to the bottom, dived down after it again... Here he's splashing around with the bone on his giant paw:


Then he got back up on the shore, shook the water off himself...


... and started all over again.