stress release nr. 1

Today's recepy for stress releasing:

2 cups of rollerblading down by the lake
2 cups of sushi and teriyaki salmon
1 cup of swimming in the lake, facing the mountains, forgetting about the world
1/2 cup of reading a book while drying in the sun
1 big fat yellow sun
optional: a sprinkle of small thin clothes

Temperature approx. 25-30°

Mix it all up and shake before heading back to the office. Miam :))

Today...

I want a new job. A new life. To win a couple of hundred thousands on the lottery so that I can leave everything and go travelling around the world. I want to be happier, freer, have it easier, more passionate. I want a change - is it really too much to ask for?

a picture says more than a thousand words...

For explanation: Ingvar Carlsson, former Prime Minister of Sweden, hand in hand with the currently very actual Robert Mugabe. Quite shameful although Mugabe was quite popular among left-leaning intellectuals in Europe at that time. Shows if nothing else how many of the oppressing leaders out there that have been supported by very well-known 'democratic' countries earlier on (Hussein’s support by the US earlier, only one of many other examples).

why geneva?

Just read the latest update on my friend Kinitry's blog and she managed to express why I enjoy life in Geneva so much!! rather than repeating her words, i invite you to read her entry yourselves.

Perhaps just this short input from my day to give an example of the joys of this city - the summer is here, finally, had sushi from mikado down by the lake with a friend (no swim today at lunch, but probably next time - it's so nice to have a quick swim and then enjoy lunch all refreashed drying in the sun), got an ice crem on the way back at a new place right next to work, melon and lemon miam (dangerous! just found this place today but will probably go back there once or twice more during the summer... or a hundred times...), back to work for the afternoon but with the plan to finish the day down by the lake with a dip and some sun before perhaps having a drink at the lakeside or going for a rollerblading tour and then off to dinner somewhere on a terrace :) having some great friends, my cousin and her beautiful and lovely kids (who i babysat saturday with great joy) in geneva of course helps as well!

paris in...september

one always hear about paris in spring or in april - and i have already visited paris in april and yes, indeed it was very beautiful and romantic!!! now however i will have the opportunity to visit this great city in september and hope that it will be as lovely as in the spring! what do you think?

am so happy, as always when i'm planning to go somewhere else, to travel and see, smell, hear new places :)) bought my train ticket there a few days ago and managed to find a real good deal at 20 EUR one-way. have to go to paris in order to catch my flight to china and decided to start the china trip off with 2 days in the city of painters, writers and cherry flowers. a change also to meet and stay at my friend v's place. hmmm although 3 months from now, buying the ticket brought a big smile on my lips for the rest of the day :))

so september paris watch out!

change???

wondering if it is not about time to look for a change... there does not seem to be any trip to africa on the planning anymore, at least not for many months to come and probably not for me and i'm a bit tired of the old... perhaps it's spring, one feels like getting rid of the old and in with some new things... perhaps i just need a vacation - another month to go and then some vacation filled months are here yippie!!

dear Africa friend

thank you for commenting on my blog and for thinking of me :)))

i'm sending you lots of sunshine back from Geneva and wish so that you were here with me!!!! when are you coming for a visit?

i have been booking tickets for my summer trips and hope that i will still manage to see you. this is the plan:

- end of july, beginning of august: stockholm
- end of august, beginning of september: portugal (lisbon and algarve - scary as it means meeting my BFs family for the first time...)
- mid-september: beijing :)))

a couple of crazy weeks....

wow, it's been a couple of crazy weeks with organising a conference in Geneva for a group of Kosovars (one of the more complicated conferences I have yet organised) taking up a big part of my time at work, my dear friend S coming for a 3 days visit with an outing to Annecy and a bit of sunshine in the middle of rain followed by a 5 days visit of my mum, and half my family in town for the baptism of my, I'm proud to announce, god daughter and the daughter of my favorite cousine who lives here as well.

Half the family in town meant a lunch with my aunt, mum, 2 cousins, and their families on day 1, dinner with mum, aunt, 1 cousin and her family on day 1 as well, day 2 spent with my mum, a visit from my aunt and yet another cousin and her daughter plus my god daughter on day 3, the baptisme with around 40 people followed by a smaller gathering at my cousin's in geneva for about 15 people on day 4, a calm day with just my mum ending with dinner with mum, BF and a friend on day 5, and back to work after mum's departure on Tuesday.

But did calm restore after that? no. with the Eurofoot ongoing it has been games games games (with a nice victory first by sweden and then by portugal) until i said stop, 5 games in 3 days is enough - let's have a break... that was yesterday though, tonight i'm normally meeting up my BF for the second game and then out... luckily the weekend is here with some calm and some not-calm = the Swedish game tomorrow night!

HEJA SVERIGE!!!