What a wanderer could wonder about...

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Forever Hand in Hand

Windmill, Windmill for the land,
Turn forever hand in hand,
Take it all in on your stride,
It is ticking, falling down,
Love forever love is free,
Let's turn forever you and me,
Windmill, windmill for the land,
Is everybody in?

--Gorillaz / Feel Good Inc.
(source)

Forever Hand in Hand

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

There is this group called Digital Ethnography working under the supervision of Michael Wesch at Kansas State University. They have produced this fantastice piece of video called Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. It is worth seeing.

You can see it on YouTube, or you can download it from here (WMV, 55MB).

Friday, March 23, 2007

Haft-Sin at KTH



Do you recognize the Sabze in the picture? It is the very lentil sprout dish I had posted the photos before! :)

Happy New Year!

Monday, March 19, 2007

The walls

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Run Run... or Stand and Stare!

This Run Run... post seems to have been quite controvercial! I can't say I totally agree with what I quoted there, but I found it an intriguing way of thinking about the whole race of life thing (which indeed was!).

Anyway, among the comments was:

"Life is a marathon, not a sprint! And sometimes you need to stay a while and look around carefully. ...".


It is so true, but I don't know why I have this tendency to forget it from time to time! It reminded me of this beautiful poem by W. H. Davis:

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep and cows
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Die Deutschen und die Arbeit

These are some common German sayings:

"Arbeite nur, die Freude kommt von selbst." (Work only, the joy comes automatically.)
"Ohne Arbeit früh bis spät kann dir nichts geraten. Neid sieht nur das Blumenbeet, aber nicht den Spaten." (Without work early until late nothing can turn out for you. Envy sees only the flower patch, but not the spade.)

Lately, I've been trying to to follow this model. Yet "Arbeit ist das halbe Leben!". So, I'm living a half life!

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Sprout




Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Run run Rudolph, Reeling like a merry-go-round

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens knowing that it must run faster than the fastest lion in order to survive. Every morning a lion awakens knowing that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle in order to survive.

It makes no difference whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun rises, you must run or you will die. This is the race of life...