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| Sunday, May 30th, 2004 |
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Thanx to everyone who wished me happy birthday :) Thank the Gods I’m not a bloke, otherwise I’d currently be stuck in an army barrack somewhere I don’t think Americans understand how bad their obesity problem is. Obviously, most of them realise that a 5 year old who weighs 9 stone (I actually threw up when I saw that picture) is not a good thing, but according to the Americans I’ve spoken to, they don’t see a problem with a size 18 (UK 22). Don’t see the problem?!?! And dear Kirsty Daniels (from Atlanta, who unfortunately I’ve had to entertain in the past week) thinks that the UK ‘are infringing on basic civil rights’ by enforcing laws to stop junk-food ads. Pardon? I’d much rather have that form of censorship than have a bunch of kids believe that McDonalds is ‘nutritious’ |
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| Friday, May 14th, 2004 |
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I’m gonna be 19 soon… I feel old…. Where’s my life running off to? Come back! (There’s probably 20-somethings on here going, “oh, shut up!”). Syttende mai in 3 days. Out with the Sølje and rød, hvit og blå! Woooooooooh, Norge… (Herrer Guder! Faen ta meg!) Like it really means all that much to me, but hey… And I would like to point out – Switzerland DOES NOT equal Germany. Swiss chocolate is not German chocolate, Schwyzerdütsch is not Hoch Deutsch etc. I would appreciate it if people thought about this before they (particularly non-Europeans) talk to me about Switzerland. |
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| Monday, May 10th, 2004 |
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Things I want to write about - Middle Eastern politics, silly girls who wear low cut tops and then say that they're not doing it to attract men, people who can't cook, the pointlessness of christianity and atheism, americans (again!), people who claim to be 'clinically depressed', people who know nothing about anything, people who speak less english than I do and DON'T CARE, people who think Varg/Tyr/Haldor/etc are gay, black music, Bollywood, stupid self-mutilators (that'll be all of them then... me included), people who claim there's no such thing as happiness, manga porn, womens magasines, people who think they're german b/c they're white and racist, and heavy metal Things I can write about without some half-crazed bleeding liberal having a go at me - possibly about people who can't cook I'll shut up for the moment then... (Don't LJ/DJ people drive you MAD at times?!) And I finally updated my lj. Ooh |
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| Thursday, April 8th, 2004 |
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Deyr fé, deyja frændr, deyr salfr it sama, ek veit einn at aldrei deyr: dómr um dauðan hvern. Ordene har ment aldri så mye for meg Til Adolph Hedgun Stefanson – Gid Gudenes skal gi til deg en trone i Valhalla. De var en god mann med et godt hjerte. De trodde gjorde De som var best til å forsvare rasen Deres. Barna Deres var heldig Til Adolph Hedgun Berg – Hvis du bli bare en brøkdel av din navnfetter, vil du bli en god sjel. Lykke til i liv, og Guder være med deg I don’t want to have to repeat this week for a loooooong time. Young people shouldn’t need to bury someone who died at a relatively young age Why do people make a fuss or even bother to care about the death of a celebrity? Which famous actor/singer/model etc actually made the world a better, more moral place? Which celebrity actually acknowledged each individual fan? If Britney Spears died tomorrow (å, Herres Guder! For Deres skyld!), all these little kiddies will be ’distraught’, but they’d be much better people if they grew up without her as a role model. Most celebrities are just a concentrated form of all the bad things in the world – immoral, megalomaniacs and egocentric. |
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| Saturday, March 27th, 2004 |
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Sometimes I just want to go to some public place and scream my (supposedly racist) opinions for all to hear. I know I'm not a racist, I've never judged a single person purely on their colour of their skin or their religion. But some people just seem to be desparate to go out of their way to make a bad name for themselves, and then say its part of their religion or culture. There's a lot of things that are a part of my religion which I make sure to tone down in very xtian parts of Norway, and so should certain ethnic minorities. I don't hate the Norwegian muslims b/c they've got dark skin or they practice Islam. I hate them b/c they constantly refuse to adapt to Norwegian society. I'm not asking them to eat pinekjøtt, drink mjød and praise our heathen past, but they can bloody well learn Norwegian, go to Norwegian schools and stop living with the whores. And what I hate even more is when white people have a go at me for the above thought, like those darling American liberals. I'm not a 'racist asshole' (sic). I hate it when white people abandon their own cultural past so they can become a left-wing 'love everybody except the rich whites' creature. I'm a firm believer in white pride. I have no interest in asian and black culture, and I don't care if they have no interest or even dislike my culture. We're different races, big deal. I do admit that I have certain sympathies towards white imperialism and 'survival of the fittest' theories, but thats not racism, its purely scientific. Compare the typically white countries to the ones that have black/asian majorities. The white ones are geographically better located for things like a good rainfall etc. Scandinavia has almost the highest standard of living in the world. African countries have virtually the lowest. (Of course, that doesn't give people like Hitler any excuse to bump of the races he felt where 'inferior' b/c of that theory). And I don't understand why the muslims moved to Norway in the first place. Its almost the equivalent of a jew moving to Germany in 1939 All of the above is common sense. So I really don't understand whats going through the heads of the UN-style officials when they start pandering to all these troublemakers. Are they just worried of another suicide bombing or have they seriously gone mad? The world would be a much better place without the liberals |
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| Friday, March 19th, 2004 |
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Random bits of songs that are flitting through my head and driving me mad. They can go and irritate someone else now... God is a DJ, I'm a bitch I'm a lover, all I have to do is dream, requi-em, you're no good for me, people hold on ooh-ooh, honey bring it close to my lips, you're toxeeeeeec, I think that I want you back, you're the one that I want, say a little prayer for you, crazy in love, I'm the bitch you hated, I can't get no sleep, love me for a reason, don't want to let you go, don't you know that we could go far, ain't it funny, saaaaaave me, 24 hours with the king of snakes, lust for life, I need sugar I need a little water sugar, don't you want my lovin', sometimes you just need somebody, we are a blaze in the northern sky, who do you think you are, mamma-mia, bye bye miss american pie, give me your politik, you don't even know me, the weekend starts here, we've come a long long way, I'm spinning around, I believe in a thing called love, psychadelic vibrations out here, here in my car, something like a mother, she had lipstick boy, ooooh tonight, a friend with weed is better, explore the pathways of the brain, don't worry if the sun don't shine, does it feel good to you, gonna get ya, yeah yeah yeah, swastika eyes, when you see your mum at the weekend be sure to tell her SATAN!, I was born to wear a nappy, remember me, my lover has no money, burn hollywood burn, take me dancing naked in the rain, light shine off light shine on, choose life Please note that a lot of the above does not reflect my actual music tastes |
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| Monday, March 15th, 2004 |
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With permission from Julie... ;) I'm not a big fan of tattoos and piercings. I think the body is generally a naturally beautiful thing, and doesn't need to be supposedly decorated with garish colours and lumps of metals. I know the psychology behind this form of 'self-expression', but in my opinion, someone who has a whole load of non-conservative piercings (anything other than the ears, for me) and tattoos is either an attention seeker or desperately trying to hide their real persona behind the mask of an 'individual'. I know plenty of people who have all these tattoos etc, and claim that they're not trying to be anyone else, but they are, even if they don't realise it. A persons real personality is shown through the way they act and speak - if they can't do that, for lack of maturity or self-confidence, and instead have to express it through completely superficial means, then that is not their true persona. If a person has a tattoo of a skull or a snake, do those images define their personality? They just symbolise a phase that the person went through, or an interest or someone they wish they were. Although they might still like that tattoo in 50 years time, that artform is never an expression of what they really are, but just the image of themselves they wish(ed) to project to the world. All the above specifically refers to the modern idea of tattoos. I have nothing against the style of tattoos used by Amazonian tribes etc - its their culture, not mine. BUT I do have a problem when ritual tattoos are twisted to compliment modern culture (I really don't mean to offend anyone here!). In my religion, there's a whole bunch of symbols that have deep, spiritual meanings. They are most definitely not just a form of decoration. In fact, the only tattoos my ancestors had were Odins Knot, and the style that most people consider 'Celtic' (interweaving ropes and chains - symbolises Wyrd). The majority of people who now use our religious symbols to decorate their body are the neo-nazis in Scandinavia (which is horrible). These symbols are in fact not allowed (by my religion) to be used on the body. They're too sacred for that. In Old Norse times, when the runes were carved, they were made to be eternal, which is why 2000 years later, they are found virtually perfectly intact in archaeological digs. Skin is definitely not eternal - ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Its an insult if those holy symbols are just allowed to crumble into dust after 80 or so years - kind of similar to how an xtian would feel if a crucifix was burnt |
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| Saturday, March 13th, 2004 |
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What a wedding... In no particular order I: threw up, cried out of sadness, cried out of happiness, recieved 3 marriage proposals, had a slanging match with a random cousin and pretended I only spoke Norwegian so I had an excuse to not talk to certain people. I also had a maid, which I thought was a bit ridiculous. I hardly needed someone to help me get dressed. I was wearing a Victorian 'babydoll' - not exactly too difficult to put on. The only thing she was useful for was helping me decide which bra to wear, and I could have asked my mum about that (if my mum hadn't been on the other side of the castle - I HATE Grizelda for that. I felt so pathetically alone) I don't know what to do about uni. If I wanted to just do plain chemistry, I'd have to re-apply, which will be VERY annoying, and waste another year. Plus, the only decent London uni that does it is UCL (I can't go to Imperial, b/c I haven't done maths A-level). My Dad wants me to go to Cambridge, I almost told him to fuck off (I can't be that rude to my parents!). I'm really tempted to do something stupid like Scandinavian Studies, just b/c I know I'd get a 1st without doing any work. *sighs* German? Biochem? Engineering with Forensics? (?!?! What kind of useless combination is that?!) I think I'll just marry Varg and forget all this career crap. (I think it's quite funny that me and Varg have barely touched, while most other couples in our position would have shagged by now) |
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| Wednesday, March 10th, 2004 |
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Gudruns getting married tomorrow. Like I care. Sure, its nice that my cousins found the 'one', but what exactly is she now going to do with her life? Raise lots of little nazi brats like her dear parents? And all the usual suspects have descended on Germany for the wedding. My family aren't arriving until the last minute, so I don't have anyone to properly talk to. Its all very annoying I've just read an article about glutamate. Interesting but its going to be completely abused, just like serotonin and dopamine (particularly in America). Unless someones brain has completely 're-wired' itself, there's no need to mess around with it like that. Serotonin just has an LSD-like effect on normal people who don't need harsh chemical treatment, dopamine turns a person into a retard. If glutamate (once its finally passed clinical trials), is abused in the same way, it'll turn people into psychos (the noun, not the adjective). And the worse thing is, that all these, 'oh, I'm so depressed' people will jump on it, b/c they'll think its a miracle cure. 20 million American Psychos... that'll be fun |
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| Monday, March 8th, 2004 |
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(Feel free to ignore this if the subject matter doesn't interest you - its just something I've wanted to write for a while) A few years ago, I started wondering why gothic had come to mean a girl who dyes her hair black and wears too much make-up. Originally, I thought it was to do with the morbid nature of Victorian Gothic literature, until I realised that I was starting to define the term 'Gothic' wrongly. A lot of novels that I had then considered Gothic, were actually little more than basic horror stories. So, after a couple of years of reading around the horror genre in general, I came up with a bunch of ideas about what exactly 'Gothic' entails (I've never formally studied this area, so the opinions are my own). Lets be systematic about this... 1. What is the definition of a Gothic novel? According to the dictionary: "An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror." I think the key word here is 'atmosphere'. A Gothic novel is one where there is a sense of something scary and unknown throughout the whole novel, not just confined to specific incidents. But it is not one where there is a constant stream of horror-filled dramas. For me, one of the ultimate Gothic novels is Charlotte Bronte's, 'Jane Eyre'. Whether it is to do with the TB in her school days or the mad wife in the attic, there's always a sense of sadness and fear. This is despite the fact that Jane is sometimes happy and that the mad woman wasn't discovered until half way through the book (in fact, the late discovery is a useful tool with which to install a sense of mystery). Even when Jane leaves Thornfield, those few chapters before her return don't stray away from the Gothic atmosphere Charlotte had previously created. 2. What is the difference between a Gothic novel and other horror novels? A basic horror novel is obviously scary. Although whether an individual would find a book scary or not is entirely subjective, the aim of the author is to scare. The authors might use different techniques to create this atmosphere, but only one of those techniques can be considered 'Gothic'. This is where the horror is subtle and permeates throughout the whole book. There are very few sudden 'shocks', there is a sad and mournful atmosphere and historical-based surroundings are often used to set a background for the novel (e.g old English buildings, German forests etc). The book might not even obviously be part of the horror genre. A perfect example of this is Elizabeth Gaskell's, 'Strange, if true'. The plot is very surreal and could almost be comedic, if wasn't for the grotesqueness of the characters in it. The story is very short but entirely unnerving and contains the key element of the unknown. 3. Gothic elements in stories A lot of books, although are not considered Gothic, do have elements of this genre in them. This is often attained through having only one aspect of the Gothic novel in them, usually through the setting, and the rest of the novel being written in a variety of other styles. An example of a book would be 'Sleepy Hollow' and an example of an author would be M R James. Some books don't even have to be part of the horror genre to utilise a Gothic style. My favourite example of this is William Golding's, 'The Spire'. I wouldn't even know what genre to place this book into, but Gothic is definitely not one of them. Yet, there are certain aspects of the book which would even make Bram Stoker proud. This is seen in the strangely violent and sad imagery that is sometimes used (sunlight smashing through a window, red hair trickling down a face) and the authors ability to turn perfectly normal people into scary mysteries. I'd also like to add a note on Poe - a large majority of his stories are basic horror, not Gothic. I feel that he wouldn't have written any Gothic stories if it hadn't been for his education. 4. 'Modern' Gothic A lot of modern authors have attempted to escape from the norm of the horror genre by going Gothic. Most fail miserably, as a Gothic style does not come easily to most people, especially those living outside of North-West Europe. Imagine a Victorian novelist, who when looking out of his or her window, would see medieval castles, ancient forests and the dark skies of England. Its not difficult to comprehend how they managed to invent this form of literature. Most people now do not live in these surroundings, so that source of inspiration has been removed. Also, Gothic novels heavily rely on subtlety, which through modern living, where people want action and drama, most people find difficult to achieve. A brilliant example of how wrong someone can go is Stephen King's, 'The Eyes of the Dragon'. It reminds me of a badly written 'Dracula' - all the sensitivity and lacrimose style has been removed and replaced with crude action scenes. Its purely a trashy horror/fantasy story. (I recognise that he might not have been attempting a Gothic, but the setting and basic plot point to it, and it has been misinterpreted as one) 5. The difference between Gothic and gothic The 'G' makes all the difference. Gothic is associated with Goths (the German tribe), medieval Europe and the Victorians, gothic is the associated with metal-based music and people who have a penchant for black hair dye and PVC. There have been many novels written in both categories (Anne Rice = gothic, Bram Stoker = Gothic). Please do not confuse the two. 6. And to round it all off A list of books to do with all of the above; The 4 Essentials Bram Stoker - Dracula Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hounds of the Baskervilles (despite the ending) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 4 of my favourite Gothic novels: Elizabeth Gaskell - Lois the Witch Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Bram Stoker - The Iron Maiden (the full version, not the one aimed at kids) Robert Louis Stevenson - The Body Snatcher 4 of my favourite Gothic-element novels M R James - The Stalls of the Barchester Cathedral William Golding - The Spire The Chronicles of Narnia (believe it or not) Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher |
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| Saturday, March 6th, 2004 |
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Whenever I go to Norway I always take out way too much money from my bank there. I never bother to convert it into the currency of the country I'm currently living in, b/c it just ain't worth it. I usually am sensible, and make sure that I don't carry it around with me (b/c I don't want to be mugged b/c somebody saw I had a bank-note with lots of 0's on it, before they realised its worthless), but this time I forgot. I was on the train, sorting out some loose change, when I accidentaly dropped two 1000-kroner notes (it really is worthless 1000NKR = about £75, or in american terms, $130). The two guys who were sitting opposite me just kind of stared at them, and after I got off the train, they started following me down the road. I felt like the Pied Piper! I eventually got so nervous, that I phoned a friend to pick me up. Maybe next time I should tape a note to the money - something like, "WORTHLESS CURRENCY - will get you nowhere, even in Norway" And b/c Tom likes it when I rant about stuff... ;) I don't get Dasani. After realising that the whole of England were laughing at them, they come out with a statement along the lines of, "we're not saying that tap water isn't pure, its just that there's different levels of purity". WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!! Thames Valley purify their water until they're 101% sure its safe to drink. If they purified it any more, it'd become distilled water, which a. tastes horrible and b. isn't as healthy as normal water. Besides H20, all the traces of Mg, K, Cl etc are vital for neurological processes in the body. Why don't Dasani admit that they're trying to sell English people their own tap water, at 100 times the price? And according to my brother, it tastes exactly the same as Thames Valley. (Actually, Dasani are probably relying on everyone buying a bottle to see if it 'tastes the same') |
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| Friday, March 5th, 2004 |
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This sandwich I'm eating is disgusting. There's too much black pepper and its drowning in mayo. Thats the last time I buy a shop made sandwich. Neway... I know I've touched on sycophancy before, but SERIOUSLY...! Why do people feel the need to suck up to others? And why do the recipients of this type of attention allow it? There seems to be so much of it on this dj thing. For every trite post someone makes, there's always a comment (usually from a female), along the lines of , "oh yeah,... man... I feel your pain". WHAT?!?! How can you feel someone elses pain if you haven't a clue what they're talking about? A load of abstract comments about 'skies clouding over' blah blah doesn't actually seem to refer to any particular misfortune in that persons life. If somebody wants to express their feelings in that form, its up to them, but why do sooooo many people feel the need to act 'understanding'. Are they desparate for a boyfriend for something? And then they make these twee comments like "I'm here for you. We'll be great together, babe" (babe?! *vomits*). Its all rather sickening |
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| Thursday, March 4th, 2004 |
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Me and my dad like to send each other stupid e-mails during the day, and he by mistake (Gods know how) managed to copy and paste one into the middle of a 40 page progress report. So, in the middle of a meeting, one of the accountants began to read something off one of the pages, and came out with, "Referring to the final figures for February well, he is a bit of a plonker... WHAT?!". My dads PA said it brightened up the meeting. But what was wierd that soon after my dad told me about the incident, I got a call from John, then Ian, then Reese... I was worried the whole finance dept was going to call me! I phoned my dad and he told me that I got all the accountants worried that I was referring to them in the e-mail, which they thought meant my dad was going to sack one of them, so they're trying to stay on my 'good side'. I find that hilarious - I'm just the financial MD's daughter, I know nothing about accountancy and yet I managed to make 18 accountants nervous! Oh, the power... |
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| Sunday, February 29th, 2004 |
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| Varin had a girl! (well, obviously he didn't - his wife, to be accurate). 1 month premature, but still healthy :) I'm soooooooo insanely happy for them. Her name is (drumroll) Sibyl-Signe Vika-Haugen. She'll probably end up being relegated to Siri, the poor parents! - all that work over what name to choose, and she's going to end up with the standard 'Sig' nickname. I managed to book a flight tonight (why are last minute flight about 100 times more expensive?), so won't be back until Wednesday (sorry Tom that I keep on abandoning you!). I can't wait to see her. (Varin said she looks like his Mother. How he can see that in a 3-hour old baby, I don't know!) | ||||||
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I hate young people. The majority of them are just so pathetic. Its painful to see how they're wasting their lives, acting incredibly selfishly or just generally being idiotic. And I'm not just talking about the obvious ones who spend their teens having casual sex and drinking. Even the ones who appear to superficially be doing something useful with their lives are extremely irritating. For ease of reference (and b/c I'm a supposed intolerant right-winger who likes categorising people), the ones I most regularly come across: The voluntary helper - volunteers in every charity going b/c they just love being helpful (nothing to do with the fact that it looks good when you apply to uni, of course). Note the sarcastic comments about old and disabled people when they're not in front the interview panel The nature lover - how dare anyone eat meat or wear leather! Can't we all understand the pain of all these poor animals?! So what if vital medicines need to be tested on a bunch of primates. An animals life is obviously much more valuable than a humans The random subculture - will follow anything as long as it makes them 'different', and the stranger the better! Who cares if their chosen topic of interest is absolutely pointless and is a timewasting load of shite ('Qabbalah' anyone?), just as long as people think they're alternative (read: 'weird') The political trend-followers - change their opinions as often as they change their underwear, all depending on whatever political stance is currently considered 'radical' The neo-pagan - so determined to promote the long-forgotten religion of their ancestors that they somehow forget along the line that the religion doesn't include acting like a superior prat b/c he/she believes they can perform 'magic' The pseudo-intellectual - has an unbalanced, unsupported, nonsensical opinion on everything. Forget the fact that the person never progressed beyond junior school physics and has never read a decent book in his/her life, he/she will always be ready to contribute their worthless opinion to any discussion The lost soul - writes crap poetry, believes that no-one understands them, has a 'mental disorder', talks about suicide but doesn't have the guts to carry it out and thinks they're 'special' for some odd reason. Closely linked to the gothic department of 'the random subculture' The 'new-woman' - they're probably is a male equivalent of this, but I haven't discovered it yet. The kind of woman who doesn't believe in marriage, kids, bras, morals, long skirts etc. However, she does believe in careers and sleeping with the boss. The permanent teen - although they might physically look like they're in their 20's, they have never mentally aged beyond 15. Act, dress and think like immature teenagers. The neo-nazi - not always obvious, this one, as they often claim they're not racist. Obsessed with white power and being aryan. Will often bleach their hair in an effort to look more 'pure'. The irony is that their grandfathers probably fought in the war against Hitler Of course, when I'm 80, I'll probably look back at the first 20 years of my life and think I was such an immature, naive idiot, but hopefully I won't think I completely wasted those years. Its such a shame that people just throw away 1/4 of their life b/c they're too busy being 'depressed' or worrying about their love-life. |
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| Monday, February 23rd, 2004 |
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The problem with learning a language at school or even at uni is that people are rarely taught the phrases that are actually used. For instance, the phrase 'thank God'. Too many people think its 'danke Gott' in German and 'takk Gud' in Norwegian, when its actually Gott sei Dank/Gudskjelov. There's no point in learning long lists of vocabulary if you're just going to translate a phrase word-for-word. It sounds stupid. And on the subject of languages... I wish people would stop having a go at me when I sometimes hesitate when speaking in German/English. I'd like to see them quickly piece together sentences with long, unusual words in their second or third language. And I wish they wouldn't think it so amusing when I accidentally slip back into Norwegian. Its instinctive for people to swear/complain in their first language when they hurt themselves or have an accident. When I drop a 50-tonne file on my foot, my brain's not going to start working out what "Au, fordømt Hel!" is in the language of the place I'm currently in |
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| Thursday, February 19th, 2004 |
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On the train the other day (coming back from Leipzig), there were 4 black teenagers sitting near me. They were talking really loudly in English about how they don't like white people and that they think we're all worthless. After about 15 minutes, one of my friends from England called me on my mobile, so now they knew I spoke English. One of the girls turned to me, and asked, "why are all white girls ugly?". I felt like saying something really immature, like 'why are all black girls ugly', but I just said something along the lines of how would they like it if I was racist like that towards them. They just laughed, and after 5 more minutes (by then the whole carriage was glaring at them), a girl who was sitting next to me (called Sabina), went up to the one who had spoken to me, and gave her a slap across the face. I wish I could have done that! They got off the train soon after that... Having said all that, I still don't like the racist bigots in Germany (or anywhere else). They're just so arrogant. Who cares if you're white and have German ancestors? That by itself doesn't make one a better person |
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| Monday, February 16th, 2004 |
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What is it with Americans who declare that they're 1/4 Norwegian or 1/3 Scottish or whatever? If you're born in America, and your parents are American, you are not a percentage of anything. You are AMERICAN. "Oh, but my grandmother is from Germany". And why does that make you German? Do you speak German? Do you even look German? (note: blond hair does not automatically make you 'aryan'). All these people who claim to have connections with other countries do not speak the language of that country nor do they have a clue about its culture, so why are they so desparate to have some vaguely European roots? A realisation that their country is crap? I don't consider myself Swiss even though I speak fairly good German, look German, have a Swiss father and have Swiss citizenship. I was born in Norway and thats the only country I associate myself with. And can Americans learn the non-homosexual meaning of 'fag'? It'd make things a lot easier for everyone... |
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I got such a cute forward from my dad. Its a program on Excel, where you type in a name and it comes up with your 'ideal' proffesion. Freya Mathilde Veig is a mad scientist :) (except that now I might not even go to uni *pouts*) I'd really like to know what is wrong with normal sports? Instead of keeping in shape with stuff like running, people have to attend wierd 'spiritual' yoga classes or use hundreds of odd machines at the gym. I went to a traditional english school. For excercise, we played 3 hours worth of hockey and lacrosse per week. My brothers also go to traditional schools, and they have 2-5 hours per week of cross-country and rugby. And at all those schools, there is not one single overweight person. Thats about 2000 teenagers who have never dieted and have never done yoga etc in their lives and are perfectly healthy. Who needs Atkins and Kabbalah when you can be normal? |
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| Thursday, February 12th, 2004 |
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I want my English friends back! I need someone sane and sarcastic to talk to - not all these Germans who don't know what 'humour' is or the Americans who are just completely OTT. And I'm really tired of talking to people who haven't a clue about the style of my educational background. It can be annoying that most people seem to think that the middle-upper class English educational system is only for gays/lesbians. Its such a warped view. It is possible to have a single-sex boarding school without all the pupils shagging each other. And Oxbridge isn't purely for snobs. At least in Switzerland they understood the system a lot better And onto my favourite bitching topic... one thing (out of many!) that confuses me about Americans is why do they have to support anything thats liberal and left-wing? I don't support gay marriages, which is my opinion and I'm entitled to have it just as someone is entitled to support them. In England, no-one has ever had a go at me for that, but hundreds of Americans have literally slaughtered me for daring to have such an opinion. Supposedly I'm 'intolerant', 'homophobic' and 'cruel'. But, by them not allowing me to possess my own thoughts on the issue, they are by default, intolerant. I'm the tolerant one for not having a go at them for supporting the issue! Liberals ought to be shot, to quote millions of people. Which, incidentally, is another reason why North-Western Europeans find Americans 'amusing' (and 'Battle of Britian' parodies - "of course there's some English actors in it! They're playing the Germans") |
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content.
bouncy.
blah.
sad.
angry.
cold.
working.
confused.
worried.
curious.
drained.
cynical.
giddy.
contemplative.
excited.
aggravated.
bored.