MAFUKA

today's wonderful surprise: i was invited to the theatre.

to THIS theatre:


to THIS play:


oh what are the swedish people so melancholic and pessimistic.
WONDERFUL! (at least on stage)

DOTTERN
Säg far, varför växer blommorna upp ur smuts?

GLASMÄSTAREN
[fromt] Därför att de icke trivas i smutsen, skynda de så fort de kunna upp i ljuset, för att blomma och dö!


Oh, don't forget to watch this: There is no hope of a single lasting happiness in this life as we're already in hell ... :D

Neulich hatte ich åbrigens Korinthenkacker:



Und die waren lecker ;)

(Sorry, it's only funny in German.)

this week started with a lecture about cognitive science. a quite exciting field of science i think! and then i worked a long time with my team on our design project ... now tired, exhausted and still busy.

i don't like mondays!

yesterday i took a little break from the never-endling reading/learning and went with some french and german friends to tivoli (gröna lund). i did some very scary rides and even the "free fall" - even though the probably most funniest thing about it was to look at the pictures they took of me at every rides. haha, no, i'm not very photogenic when i scream :P




my company: tomas, vincent, henrik, amelie and her sister

after gröna lund tomas, vincent and i went to a jazz festival at musikhögskolan. as tired and freezing as we were after our entertainment park fun it was unbelievably nice to sit in a hall and listening to calm jazz songs. mmmmh!

and today i'm tired and stay at home. but it will be fun anyway as we'll have a boring party tonight to eat pizza and watch the eurovision songcontest. what a pitty that dj bobo wasn't qualified for the final ...

i went to the streetwaves releaseparty together with my french neighbours. we were too late and only saw the last song :( but i got a cd at least. a good one in fact :) so keep an ear open for "the pleasure to end all pleasure". and of course you can also listen to some songs in the next modul modal on the 9th of june!

after the concert francois, tomas, benjamin and i had boring party. this time we watched "hot fuzz", a really funny british movie.



of course i went to bed far too late and i was goddamn tired at university today. nevertheless i managed to go to the hairdresser right afterwards. so now i look like this:



Song of the day: "Dirty Business" by the Dresden Dolls

... i've been bad with posting. the excuse: i've been busy. ja ja, as always. but i'll change that. and write at least one sentence a day. plain to the facts ;)

today i got into the literature of my new university course (design and construction of interactive systems). i liked the quote in Dix et al. "Human-Computer Interaction": "Emotion influences human capabilities". and besides i listened to the Dresden Dolls. Later I'll go to the releaseparty of the Streetwaves.

My friend Christophe is concerned to help me improving my Swedish so he recently send me the link to an e-mail service called "om ett ord". If you subscribe to this then they send you every day a bit of linguistics and history about one swedish word. Cool! If Mischa spoke Swedish, he'd definately love it ;)

Anyway, yesterday I was sent the explanation of "bra", the Swedish word for "good". I knew quite from the beginnings of my Swedish studies that there must be something special about this word. It's definately one of the most used words and from a grammatical perspective it's special because it's never inflected: en bra tjej, ett bra hus, några bra skämt. (A good girl, a good house, some good jokes.) But why? Well, now I know. It is another remaining of the thirty years' war when Swedish soldiers marched towards central Europe and imported the German word "brav" (brave, good, honest) into their own language. Weil nur ein braver Soldat ein guter Soldat ist ;) (Because only a brave soldier is a good soldier!)

Well, to be honest I think it's pretty interesting to see how many tracks in every day culture are still left from that war in the 17th century. In Vienna there are still some streetnames that (should) remind us of that. And how about the expression "Alter Schwede!"? Not that we actively think about it when we use this expression, but hm, I wonder if this will be the same for all the horrible stuff that happened during the last 60 years ...

my head is full of trigonomerical equations and other mathematical stuff after i sat all day long in front of the computer and modified the bresenham algorithm to get a "sexy" line printed out on the canvas of an java application. i feel kinda proud :) and it feels kinda good to be so productive after a VERY lame sunday. the most exciting things i can tell about that day were that i woke up at my friends erik, aron and ploff's place after their moving out party and that i watched some hollywood lovecomedy with kate hudson on tv.

jag fick stryk. direkt i knäet. au!
i was hit. directly into the knee. ouch!

After a weekend like that it's nice to have a monday like this:
Sun shine, no appointments, time to think and get the head clear.

I had breakfast in the kitchen and talked a lot with my neighbour Bernd. It was a conversation about everything. Starting from love and heartache, going over to language learning problems and identification with a more and more globally working society and ending with the power of the internet and political stuff. When one is sad about something, the best way to get better is talking with friends and see the small, nice things about everyday 's life :)