Thursday, July 30, 2009

Reality check at work

Suicide attempt, depression, cancer, self mutilation (cutting), rape, dysfunctional families and relationships, theft, abuse, alcoholism, lack of food, racism, miscarriage, inappropriate jobs, teenage pregnancies, very wrong men... I don't envy some of the women at work. Some are barely 20 years old.

This is what I call an entrance!

Weddings should be joyful and this is certainly a joyful wedding! It would be great having an equally fun entrance at my future wedding,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0&feature=fvw

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Vovo Moca

Good bye grandmother!

For your child

A friend to her little daughter. A beautiful poem.

Jag önskar dig inte guld, mitt barn, ej heller pengar och makt.
Jag önskar dig modet att vara dig själv och stå för det du har sagt!
Jag önskar dig inte en stenfri väg, men kraften att vägen gå.
Jag önskar dig kärlek i rikligt mått och vänner att lita på!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Okunskap

by Svenska akademien. The world is full of knowledge but sometimes it feels like the amount of ignorance is even bigger. Some is more or less chosen, some isn't. Even though I am a person who feels passionate about adding some knowledge to people, I have also realized that sometimes the time and effort just isn't worth spending since it is pretty much useless. I can't decide what people should think, I can only give them facts and another perspective.


okunskap, när man inte riktigt vet är det så skönt att ta till lite
okunskap, kan förvandlas till fakta om man bara vill ja
okunskap, en iskall fasad när man är ensam och rädd

okunskap, oj
okunskapen styr i våra institutioner
försvaras med kraft, befäster positioner
okunskap har aldrig några nya visioner
okunskap tar plats i alla texter och skrifter
rädsla och hat som våra starkaste drifter
bland alla droger och gifter

okunskapen styr och sprider kvacksalvarkurer
skeva perspektiv bygger skeva strukturer
okunskap tar liv och hindrar kärlekskulturer
att fortsätta med sånt vore dumt och förryckt

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

"I read it for the articles" - yeah right...

"Jävla lesbiska surfittslödder! De där fanatiska veganerna och anarkafeministerna har ju knullat in sig i hela medieröven! Och nu skiter de på en fembarnsfar som sliter ut sig för att göra en oskyldig tidning för vanliga normala hetersexuella grabbar!"

This is what the creator and owner to a Swedish magazine called Slitz has said (which guys say that they buy to "read the articles"...everybody says it and everybody knows that it's just a lie) . What he says is very offensive things about lesbians, vegans and feminists and that the magazine is for "ordinary, normal, heterosexual guys" (nothing about the articles as you notice). How do I know this? I quote what his oldest son wrote in a section of his mother's book about her life. The book is good and it's called "Boven i mitt drama kallas kärlek" by Unni Drougge.

More women, and men for that matter, should read it...

Höganäs

From a visit at my parents place. I took some photos and some are taken by M.
























































Sunday, July 12, 2009

Svenska Akademien! Again.

Can't help myself, just have to write about today.

Waking up beside M, spending the afternoon with my family (birthday party), listening to very good heavy metal music in my brother's car on our way to the carnival in town. That was just the beginning of a great day. Can you get high on music? I think I can. I jumped and danced like crazy when Svenska Akademien played and it was the best concert with them I've seen (I think this was my fourth time). Good music in combination with lyrics that catch the political part of me (which is quite big, as you know if you know me) makes me high. I must say that Svenska Akademien knows how to get a crowd started!

Now I have to go to sleep, all my energy was spent on M, family and loads of music!

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

In the summertime

by Mungo Jerry.

It is summertime and I am trying to enjoy it as much as I can, both at work and in my spare time. At work I try to finish my tasks quickly so I can sneak away to chat with one or several of the nice guys there. They and the independency is the two good things about work. The good things are many more in my spare time. The people around me and the things I do with them Eg. last Friday I had a BBQ in the forest with some of these people, followed by frisbee playing, ice cream outdoors at 10 pm followed by some Sing Star. I really don't know how to sing by Alicia Key's "Falling" actually went relatively (!) well ;-)

Saturday: shopping for some hours then dinner in the sun followed by a several hour long walk through a larger city down to the ocean and back. It is something special to first have a pineapple ice cream and then a cold beer while enjoying the sunset by the sea. Seagulls quietly flying above your head. Yesterday my parents visits from Brazil came and had some "marängsviss" at my place. They are really nice people and I sure do understand why my parents have been so excited about they coming to visit for a couple of weeks. Five people in my living room and three languages in constant mix, well, mostly Portuguese and English. So for you Gustavo and Kamila, a big kiss!

Walks by the ocean, dinner with special people, thousands of pictures, celebrating kid's birthdays, laughter in loads, the warming sun and just an hour ago, heavy rain with thunder to even the balance between heaven and earth again.

What can I say? Life is good!

Imagining facts

It is interesting how some claim to know things, without anything else than an opinion and imagination to base it on. In some cases the lack of facts doesn't have much actual affect but in others it has. In some cases fact free people just have to blame themselves if they don't like what they think and claim things to be.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Sisstörs inn inglisch

Nat: Vass wollen her sun wannt?
Sis: doont noo
i doont noo watt to bay majself
diffikulllt
hehehe
Nat: Jor inglisch iss väri bääääd!
Sis: joo dont saj
Nat: Majn iss ån di odder händ väri godd
Sis: hehehehe
rajt!
dont tink so
Nat: Bääääd sisstör, dass nått supårt miii!
Sis: jooo ar bääd too den, jo insolt maj inglisch
jörman/inglisch

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Austria, Canada, Ivory Coast, France, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Peru, Senegal, South Korea, Turkey, USA

I am so excited! I just can't hide it... ;-) In August I am going to Turkey for almost two weeks to work as a volunteer (even deputy team leader) during Amnesty's big international meeting. No salary, hard work and I couldn't be happier. Imagine 40 volunteers and 400 delegates from all over the world, all with some basic values in common, all interested in the same thing. Just the volunteers are from: Austria, Canada, Ivory Coast, France, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Peru, Senegal, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey and the USA. Those who knows me also knows how happy I am to be able to do this. Meeting new people from all over the world , work for human rights, get new experiences and to travel. I just wish I could do it for a living.