15-IX-2018.
Another annual maturski of IV5pp in Čankovo. Slightly fewer people (Dragana, Mjedac, Bajlo, Čombe, Staša, Mandža, Mima and me), but we finally had guests from the 'hood - Žuca, Borko, Gavra and later Jozda.
Staša, Čombe, Dragana, I.
Started off early, i.e. before 9, so I managed to get to Roda to buy beer, wine, mineral water, more plastic glasses, toilet paper. Then went to promes (our favorite meat shop, where Carp's ex works and where they know us) to buy the essentials - the mix for ćevapčići and some steaks (pork neck but they had only 1,5 kg of it, so I took as much of krmenadla, which I later learned, finally, that the word originates from carbonada... retrofitted into sounding like it's of german origins, plus 'krme' means hog). Called Dragana to meet me right there, but we managed to miss each other, because I exited via the rear door, having parked in the side street, where gate to Zmaj is. Well, that cleared quickly and we drove off to Čankovo. Once there, I was checking my memory whether I forgot anything... and so forgot to hear the beep, saxo warning me to turn off the headlights. And we were very much on time, the others having arrived almost an hour later.
News... Mjedac has lung cancer but outwards looks just better than ever, except a swollen tooth. Picked a plaintain leaf for him and told him to chew it and keep it near that tooth for 20 minutes. Don't know whether he did it, but on latter pictures there's no swelling. He brought a liter of his own quince brandy, and I brought a liter of our cherry and the liter of Jaca's husband's quince (hoping someone would drink it... I drank one when they brought it this winter, and one today, it's good but still somewhat odd... must be those ketones and aldehydes). He drank his bottle, during the day, with some help from others, and didn't even sound half drunk. A real hero.
Gavra, Borko, Žuca, Mjedac
Mima's mother is not just senile, she's bedridden, and that's for several years now. She still works (in MPSŠC - Duca retired this summer), and takes care of mother, which is the main reason why she couldn't come since 2012. Seems to be she graduated even later than I (same with Žuca) so retiring before having enough staž would slash the retirement badly. Plus she had those eleven years of working in that construction company, with the latter half of that being on half salary or worse, while waiting for bankruptcy to become official, and now they don't calculate your retirement from the best five years from the last twenty, but from total average. Bummer.
Jozda had his fifteen minutes of asking to play "Black butterflies" over and over, which is not just his favorite song, it's, I think, the only one he knows/remembers. Didn't change a bit since his 18th birthday, from which I only remember that song running tens of times. His car ran out of electricity, so we debated for about 15 minutes whether a push would do any good, and then it took just two minutes to perform a push start.
Mjedac's wife and sister-by-aunt came to pick him up and drive him back to Novi Sad. It was quite obvious that they just admire him. Not a word of objection on how much he drank.
I was praised as a cook. Well, at least as the barbecue guy. It all worked just right.
Mandža, Staša, Čombe, Dragana
They left shortly after 20:00... even though there was some mention of blankets and sleepovers. Well. At least this time I didn't really get drunk, just sipped the remaining quarter bottle of wine until the slight breeze brought a bit of a chill. So I went inside and moved from hand rolled cigarettes to the old Laki Straki, which we bought who knows when (happens less than once a year that we run out). Luckily, the laptop I brought to run music and my fes was the nanovo from 2012, so it had lots of videos that Lena loaded, so I tried to watch some. Tried "IT crowd" for about six minutes... guys, if this is your idea of comedy, you should learn to act, then find a writer. So I switched to the rebooted Sherlock, and it wasn't bad. Had some trouble understanding what they say, as the sound is made for either home theaters or headsets, not simple tiny speakers. Well at least it got me to my sleeping time.
Mentions: 01-XI-2018., Čankovo, ćevapčići, Dragana Vitas (Dragana), Dušica Tošin (Duca), fes, Gavrilo Taroški (Gavra), IV5pp, Jasmina Sentović (Jaca), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Joško Čobzanin (Čombe), Jovan Zdanić (Jozda), Mališa Borkovski (Borko), maturski parastos, Merima Tabarski (Mima), MPSŠC, nanovo, Nenad Bajlo (Bajlo), promes, saxo, Slavoljub Mandić (Mandža), Stanoje Serdarević (Staša), staž, Tasa Radenkov (Carp), Zmaj, Živana Armatović (Žuca), Živko Mjedenica (Mjedac), in serbian