Tatu - what they like... what they hateTime of publication: 06.04.2006 |
Lena, what is the favourite thing you do in your leisure time?
Lena: Reading. I love the Russian classics: Tolstoy, Dostojevsky, Gogol. At the moment I’m reading a satire written by Bulgakov.
That’s what I do all day long while waiting for my boyfriend to arrive home from work.
Do you live together?
Lena: For nine months. It works super. I clean up, Anatoly cooks. He is really good at that – in contrast to me.
But Yulia – you are able to cook, aren’t you? After all you have a daughter you have to look after.
Yulia: That’s right, but I have also two nannies and my parents with whom Vika and I mostly eat. I’m not that good at cooking. It’s no fun.
What do you enjoy then?
Yulia: Fast cars. I myself drive a Mercedes CLS with a damn lot of horsepower. Unfortunately, I had an accident one month ago. But nothing happened to me – it’s a rather safe car.
How did that happen?
Yulia: I was too fast and drove into the back of another car. It doesn’t matter though, in Moscow everybody drives too fast.
Why do you have two nannies, Yulia?
Yulia: I’m abroad a lot and they take care of my daughter 24 hours a day. Even if I have time off I am seldom at home. I don’t like to be alone, so I hang around with my friends.
You don’t have a boyfriend?
Yulia: Yes (smirkes) all right, but...
Lena: (laughs loudly) – The story of these two is somewhat complicated. They’ve known each other for eleven years, they fall in love with each other, they argue with each other,
they break up, see each other not for one or two years and then they get back together again. Now they have been being a couple for four months - their record for the last eleven years!
Yulia, what is getting on your nerves in case of men?
Yulia: If they need more time in the bathroom than women do. I don’t like vain men.
How long does it take your boyfriend in the bathroom?
Yulia: (laughs) Very, very long.
Lena, what do you dislike?
Lena: In case of men?
No, in general. What is getting on your nerves?
Lena: If people take hard drugs. That destroys people, kills their minds. People have no aims anymore. A few of our acquaintance have already died of it.
Oliver Koester
YAM (Germany)
Translation: little_polar_bear
March 2006 |
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