nonxmas

still... thanks for all the wishes!

earthquakes and ambiguity

quite an alarming and confusing article in our calabrian newspaper Calabria Ora today. the National Head of Civil Protection Franco Gabrielli  cannot sleep at night because his fears for an earthquake in calabria. he told this to Famiglia Cristiana, the newspaper for the christian italian family. reading the article brings me in quite an ambiguous situation raising a lot of questions. what is the real problem here, his sleeples nights or the upcoming earthquake? is the article part of a serie about sleeping problems or about earthquakes? what is the relation to the christian family? when you are the Head of Civil Protection shouldn't you do other things than giving interviews about your sleepless nights? a plan for calabria maybe? what about us people living in calabria? does the Head of Civil Protection has any tips for us when the earth starts moving? or should we also have sleepless nights? does it help to be a christian family when there is an earthquake?

then somewhere in my head there is this thought that it's all about something else. the man who had this job before Franco was Guido Bertolaso. he became a hero in this country after the earthquake 2 years ago in Aquila. he was leading the whole operation rebuilding the place and in the meantime organising the G8 meeting in Aquila. incredibile!! but then one year later he had to resign because strange things had been going on with the companies who were hired to rebuilt Aquila and the girls that were hired by these companies to give massages to Bertolaso and his friends... which were a kind of full massages...well...very complex...but still...end of the hero.
anyway the conclusion could be that in that job you can become big when there is an earthquake. so maybe that causes Franco's sleeping problems... this secret hope for earthquakes and fame...well and maybe also the massages....

google lips and world peace

googled myself today. it's always good to get to know yourself better. amazing what google knows and i already almost forgot. such a pity that google wasn't there yet during the first half of my life. now people in the future will think my life started only half way. 

annoying are people who have the same name. not so many but still. there is this dutch football player who is mentioned a lot in all kind of articles mostly because he is quite unpredictable... one week he plays great and next week like shit. then there is an austrian guy who does workshops on yoga, meditation and world peace. i think it's a bit strange that his name is written in the same way as me... as an austrian he only needs one o but then 2 n's. probably it's the thing in his life: shouting 2 o's and 1 n!! poor guy...and still going for world peace... respect!!

anyway happy to have myself archived!!

i want to make a strong statement here. we should make a deal on being honest to women who do their lips. in the last days i was confronted a few times with ladies who blew up their lips. it's terrible!!! the only thing you think is: 'oh god she has her lips done and its horrible'

the problem is that they have the idea that they look gorgeous... they even paid for it!  the good thing however is that after a while they shrink again. and that's when we should come in!! before they have them redone again. be friendly but clear! let's be honest to the big botox lips women!! 

probably also good for world peace!

open and closed

my hotelroom is extremely small. a single bed fits in and be honest a single bed is not big. what on the other hand made me happy was the size of the bathroom. enormous! meaning it has a bathtub. i was so ready to take a bath... with loads of foam and my book. but now it turns out that there is no cap to close the tub....the water just runs out as fast as it gets in. which doesn't help. probably because of the financial situation here in brussels. took a shower.
had to get up at 5:00 this morning which i think is early...very early. but 6 hours later almost 2000 km up and 15 degrees down.  the 2nd flight from rome to brussels had one hour delay. the pilot couldn't start his computer. after half an hour he announced that we would probably be asked to leave the plane. but ten minutes after that he managed to start the thing and we could stay. it made me feel a bit uncomfortable. or there is something wrong with the computer... because functioning computers just start when you push the 'on/of' button..or there is something wrong with the pilot... i mean if you even cannot start up a computer how do you want to fly a fucking plane! and both options made me worried.
well... in the end we landed in brussels.
for very good reasons which i'm not going to explain but believe me...very good reasons... i took my video-camera to brussels. haven't filmed anything till now because my very smart camera closes the lens automatically when you turn it off and opens it again when you turn it on. well...that's the basic idea anyway. but not today... doesn't open when you turn the thing on! and filming with a closed lens gives a very limited result.
so here i am...with a bathtub that won't close and a camera that won't open... in brussels

cleaning and conception

in the last 2 days i've been cleaning my office. almost ready now. the initial idea was to put things in 'the right place'. many things were not...they were all over the place. so..in order to find things again...to structure my life at least a bit...cleaning the office would help.
however it turned out into a 'throwing away activity'. my office looks almost empty now! why to have printed versions of documents that you might need to read one day again? most of them are in my computer and if not somewhere on the web! why to keep your cute little tape-recorder? what to do with your box with overhead sheets? all these publications on shelfs which you anyway have to download when you want to copy and paste a quote from? do you really need a printer in 2011? all these boxes full of CD's? throw it away!!!
well...you can overdo it of course. a bit risky when you get too much in such a mood. so...kept my printer! just bought it 6 months ago! but see all these emptiness!!

tomorrow 8th of december so immaculate conception!!! to be honest it took me many years to be now only confused with the dates. it just never crossed my mind...but today it did. i'm just not very good in all these religious days. but still today i concluded that this pregnancy was very short! i think even a mouse takes longer! wiki-pedia explained it all. seems many people have this 'short pregnancy' thought. that's why they explain it. that's what wikipedia is for. to be honest i think the explanation is lousy. i'm not gonna put it here. look for yourself. (maybe you already knew...most people turn out to be much smarter then i am)
it leaves me again with the same question: how it it possible that the excuse of a simple carpenter for having sex without a rubber still keeps us busy after more than 2000 years?