today's recipe

Ingredients:

7 pieces of different kinds of salmon sushi
4 pieces of 'gras' tuna sushi - really yummy
4 pieces of fried eel sushi - surprisingly good
1 cup of miso soup
a good friend
1 small ice cream including 3 flavours: passion fruit, pineapple & basil, milk & lime & coconut - miam miam

= One lovely lunch. SO nice that Mikado has opened again!!!

Tell me why I don't like Mondays....

Should I start thinking about perhaps changing my job, changing careers, getting something more meaningful, something more motivating, something which does not involve me searching the web for anything interesting to waste my time on in the mornings as I don't have the motivation to start working. Should I start thinking about taking this step when my creativity this morning (low as it was at the start of the day) had me turn the well-known song "Tell me why I don't like Mondays" by Bob Geldorf and the Boomtown Rats, also song by Jon Bon Jovi, into a "Tell me why I don't like Mondays, tell me why I don't like Tuesday, tell me why I don't like Thursday, tell me why I do like Fridays, tell me why I do like weekends, tell me why I do like vacation...."? My boyfriend, overhearing this beautiful morning creation, somehow linked this song to my job... ;)

On another note, googling a song (or actually using ethicle since someone told me that just using this search engine brings profit to NGOs) sometimes give you a surprise as was the case with this song - I had no idea that it was about a 16-year old girl who used her new rifle (she had just received it from her dad for her birthday or something - this can only be the US!!) to shoot at her school, hurting several kids and killing 2 adults. Her comment when asked why she did it was that she didn't like Mondays....

Don't worry though - I'm far off from such a state of mind.

Bush's criticism of China's HR crimes...

It's a good start and a good thing that Bush brings up China's different human rights crimes and that he emphasises that the people in China deserves the basic rights that are all persons' rights. However, this is only a first step as there are many other countries out there who deserves the same criticism, especially perhaps Israel who have Bush and the US full support, and the US itself where Guantanamo has showed how far from this thinking of basic rights being universal the Americans really are. As the Swedish expression say, you should not throw rocks when you're in a glass house... meaning, that before criticising someone else's behaviour look into your own to make sure you're not engaging in similar behaviour yourself.