Monday, September 29, 2008

A piece of my summer

Where I worked...
At a concert... stupid kids!


On the train...

From the bus on my way home from my sister, both of the photos below...


If it doesn't have this, you're eating BAD FISH!

Can I make it any clearer? Fish with this symbol on it is ok, the rest is most probably close to extinction and/or fished in a environmentally unsustainable manner. If you still don't know why you should chose this, ask yourself if you would ever eat giant pandas if someone served you or pulverized tiger penis. If yes, eat on the close to extinct fish, if not, why on earth would there be any difference between you and the people who kill giant pandas? A crime which by the way is one way to get the death penalty for in China.




Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Compliments

People are so different when it comes to giving others compliments. Some think something and say it to the person it's about and others never say a word. Either they have nothing positive to say or they just don't say it of some other reason. I like giving people compliments, if I think there is something to mention, partly because it's appreciated and partly because I'm usually not able to keep it in anyway. Maybe the person who said that it some countries it seems to be so much easier for people, men as well as women, to give each ofther compliments is right. Maybe it is a little easier for people from another background to feel free and confident enough to do it. What do I know...

Do you want to donate your organs?

Let your will be known, whether you want to donate or if you don't. It is really easy to do it when you have decided what you want. It's never too early to do it.

You want something? You can do it!

by Svenska Akademien.

My father said that he thinks that this group has good lyrics so here he has some more to read. This is also a song that makes me think of my mother. One of her mottos was a thing she said to me during my entire upbringing, "if you want something, you can do it"

Du vill så du kan
Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan (Det är klart du kan)
Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan

Dom som styr vår värld är inkompetenta
Varför be om tillstånd varför lyda vänta
Varför slösa tid vi har väl velat klart
Uppenbart något måste hända snart
I en rasande fart har dom tärt på vårt klot
Dom har gjort drömmar till aska och sot
Å den som lyder idioten är själv idiot
Fäster boja runt sin egen fot
Så käfta emot och finn kraft i ditt inre
Dårarnas drivhus gör människorna mindre
Så rädda, blåsta missledda
Styrda bevakade men aldrig sedda
Påtvingat oss inget verkligt vi
Styrd av någon annan inte verklig fri
Hög tid sluta vänta, gör gjort av det tänkta
Tanken håller dörrarna stängda.

Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan
Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan
Våga vilja våga fråga, känn din egen förmåga

Ja sa vafan lägg av å gnäll sluta snacka, prata massa skit
Du e ju alldeles för bra för att ha gnat å klagan som gebit
Gör dig av med dina ok o kedjor å ana känn hur stark du e
Skriv din egen bok å bygg smedjor för varje god idé
Protestera kritisera sjung skrik prata diskutera
vråla måla initiera glöd för vatten å bröd för flera
Tänd eldar där du ser mörker för du orkar för du blir aldrig trött
Vänd när du fastnar vattna där det torkar skrik när du ser rött
Gör egna konstruktioner i auktoritetsfria zoner
Egna legioner kärlekssoldater med kanoner
Å glömmer väderkvarnar å miljoner illusioner
Sprider glädje skjuter toner verklighet av visioner
Din egen tanke var god så gör verklighet av den
Låt din känsla ge dig mod och gör din nästa till din vän
Bäst du gör det nu, för din tid är nu och inte sen
Bästa att du är du och du kan göra det igen

Så många måsten är dom verkligen dina
Många tar andras och gör dom till sina
Stressade jäktar för nån annans skull
Som aldrig finns när du faller omkull
Å behöver stöd bara tar över glöd
Gör den till sin lever i överflöd
Lev inte död samla sånt du aldrig hann
Du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan

E enda jag ser e stängda dörrar där
För oss som vill mer än att bygga karriär
Sök i dig själv för de e lögner dom lär
dom leker med eld å låga begär
Så vägra stå still
Vet vad du vill
Sträva i kärlek med vännen intill
Du kan och jag kan tillsammans kan vi mer
Fram som en brand av hettan blir vi fler

Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan
Det e klart du kan, klart du kan, klart du kan göra drömmen till sann
Jag sa du kan om du vill, du vill så du kan
Låt dom se du har fan mer att ge

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I just fell in love!

...in this song. Some have called me stuff because I don't like certain type of music, music that in my ears feel noisy but I don't care, either music speak to me or it doesn't. This song and the music to it is soo simple and at the same time so powerful. It's speaking to me. If I had been at a dance place and this song was played in the dark room, loudly playing, pounding in my ears, full of people around me that I couldn't care less about, I'd go crazy. Not on the outside but on the inside.

The Garden by Mirah

European Social Forum - Another world is possible


They don't match very well, obviously. I have been quite busy volunteering for Amnesty at the European Social Forum (ESF) which was placed in Malmö this time from Thursday to Sunday. It was a lot of fun and I met quite a few new people and maybe even made myself a friend. It was some time ago since I had so much fun.

One of the things we did was laying on the stomach on the ground, wearing a very orange overalls with forhead getting gravel marks and having a guy stepping on our backsides. With the orange overall you should be able to guess what the action was about... Another thing I did was getting tortured by my beloved dad...och some other people I know. It was a bit odd to have people you know try to "break" you but it was an interesting experience to try the torture tent. The three people on the left came all the way from the International Secretariat in London. Very nice people.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bruckheimer is a big republican fan

"[Jerry] Bruckheimer is one of the few Hollywood personalities who supports President Bush outspokenly. He has donated funds to John McCain's 2008 presidential election campaign. In 2007 it was reported the he donated 29% of his $20,700 in political contributions to Republican candidates [13]. He gave $5,000 to a joint fundraising committee on John McCain’s behalf."

"His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, and The Amazing Race. His best known movies include Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, and National Treasure." To mention a few...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Betner & Ebba von Sydow

This guy is GOOD! Look at the entire thing and don't forget that it's real stuff he's talking about. It's so fun because of it. Probably his little daughter is quite lucky, yes, lucky despite his vocabulary ;-)

Albin 8 years old

Martin Timell can't stop laughing! Neither could I when I saw this.

Bloopers on the news

Start 30 sec into the clip.



Friday, September 12, 2008

A thin red layer, with a metallic taste


From a chat with a friend:

[16:22:59] Chiquita levererar dom finaste bananerna
[16:23:16] Dom brukar alltid ha en liten röd hinna, med en metallisk smak
[16:23:18] mmmmm
[16:23:30] gott med järn ^_^

...and that is correct. I've taught my friend to never buy Chiquita stuff for a few hundred reasons.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Lecture

That is what I am spending my time with at the moment, preparing for a lecture, parallel with job searching. Even if speaking in front of a group I don't know isn't my favorite thing to do, it is a lot more fun than writing job applications. It's about something I know, the death penalty, both in general and in some countries. I hope o be able to teach the young and new people who'll be there usefull information and the tools to meet people who think they know so much based on their feelings so that they'll feel more secure. Now I have to figure out how to do a detail in the Power Point presentation.

Monday, September 08, 2008

Who are your friends?

I am currently thinking about friends in various aspects but the one I will mention here now is background, educational. To be honest, most of my friends have an education, is working on it or planning to get one in the future (ok, one person) and it's ages ago since I had friends that are actually interested a little in the same area as I am. Most of them have eg. technical interests and hardly politics and human rights. I HAVE had those kind of people around me before but they're just not here any more. I miss them, of course not only because of their interests but because they challenged me and stimulated me in so many ways and most important of all, they were simply very good friends. It really isn't easy to get friends that actually stay friends with you, no matter where they live or what might they might be busy with, who don't "forget" about you, get "better" things to do or have others reasons I don't feel like mentioning. Hmm...ok, this changed into one of the other aspects of friendship.

Jag brinner - I'm On Fire

by Svenska akademien

I'm not the person the lyrics speaks of but I feel the pressure from some people sometimes that I ought to be. That "it's useless" to try to change things and that I pretty much should just accept that people and society etc. Having visions and willing to work for it (not the same as expecting it to be so) are by some just seen as weird and a waste of time. I can't stop wondering though, if at least some of these people really think so or if they just want to cover up their own lack of visions and interests? I will never know.

jag har blivit vuxen jag har kommit till sans
jag har slutat längta någon annanstans
å jag har gjort mig av me alla illusioner
dom jag kallat visioner
nu e de cyniska toner som gäller
såna e kraven dom ställer
å man vill väl inte sluta som nån föredetting heller
så lär av dom som var me setxtiåtta
ska man va radikal bör man va de me måtta
ungdomsrevolt e nånting alla har vatt me om
dröm man senare sålt i förhoppning om å ble nån
så ge dom ett förflutet å gräva i
då du kämpa å förde ett jävla liv
då du gick mot framtid rejäla kliv
sen lät du jobbet ta över å stjäla tid
men vägrar bli den som bara minns de som var snälla
låt mig få ha drömmarna kvar

Ref
hallå jag brinner så ge mig nåt å bita
i utöver korrumperat fack å elitparti
ge mig vilja, glöd, inte drömmars död
där andras nöd e nånting man kan skita i

jag va besviken såg mig omkring
bitter blev jag för det stämde ingenting
me mitt inre simmade i otro, tankarna i oro
svor på att gro till nåt friare finare större skinande
inte tagande givande, livet så betydelsefullt
var sekund i ett nu i ett vi
jag du men ingenting blev bättre
jag ville ha lättare me tömmar istället för drömmar
fann jag någon inte mig själv men någon ingenting blev bättre
jag ville ha allt lättare
me än fler tömmar istället för drömmar
fann jag någon inte mig själv men någon

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Chinese refusual

This is what happened to the almost 20 000 signatures against the Chinese government's way of handling the Olympics when it came to human rights. The Chinese embassy refused to receive the signatures etc. that Amnesty had worked all summer to gather, including me. It is a very odd behaviour, just as the general secretary of Amnesty says, Lise Bergh, since embassies are supposed to enhance positive connection to the country they're in.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Get wikid, people!

I just added a gadget for you that I think promote common knowledge in just a few seconds. Do as I do, satisfy every question, look it up, get wikid! :-)

"Tänkande människa"

by Svenska Akademien feat. Storsien



Svenska akademien å storsien representerar
(till alla tänkande människor)
Håll huvudet på skaft, tänk och finn din inre kraft…

Alla tänkande människor som är värda en bättre värld
Håll ut ett tag till och följ med på vår kärleksfulla färd…
Den går så:

ref.
Tänkande människa håll ut det kommer en morgondag
Tänk på glimtar av hopp så orkar du ännu ett litet slag

När dom som vill vårt bästa är en girig drös,
Världsförbättrarn verkar samvetslös (dom)
Dödar alla spädbarn när en frälsare föds (dom)
Bygger sin kyrka släpper djävulen lös (dom)
Produktplacerar och jagar patent (dom)
Skriver historien som om ingenting har hänt (dom)
Bygger sitt rike, mellan broarna dom bränt
Ställer portarna till helvetet på glänt

För vår framtid, för vårt hopp, det är dags att tänka själv
Hålla ut, spotta ut, när smilarna sär svälj
Glöm aldrig din kärlek, sluta aldrig vara rebell
Låt dom aldrig, låt dom aldrig kväva din eld
Så håll ut, snart är mardrömmen slut
Jag sa håll ut, nu när läget är akut
Jag sa det själv, (håll uuuuuut), håll ut
var sekund, var minut
föds nått nytt, sär nått nytt står på lut

Säg, säg, säg när den markknarkade marknaden har sparkats
Och den demokrat hatande staten förevigt har ratats
Då är inga fattiga, vi är alla ganska rika, alla jämlika men alla olika
Inga skeva nuormer som förvrider våra skallar
Alla fördomar kallnar, när vi kapar alla mallar
Och Babylon ska falla, och det med referens
Till profitkvotens fallande tendens (är vi överens?)

Babylon ska falla, och jag vill det ska falla nu,
och här och nu och här och nu
Alla för en, en för alla, jag och du vi slår itu vi gör det nu

Lies are hurtful


I spent the weekend in Eskilstuna (1 hour outside Stockholm) and Stockholm, celebrating a one year old little boy (his birthday, congrats Elijah!) and playing with my best friend laugh machine and in the capital I attended a death penalty course. I have also tried to clear out a missunderstanding that a person who has never met me or know nothing about me caused (accusing me of the weirdest things), at the expense of her own brother (and my friend). Hopefully the people involved have understod that I am not a problem to them because that would make me very sad! My friends are important to me and I am keen on keeping them whatever problem might arise and I just want them to be happy. Good friends don't grow on trees!