Friday, June 15, 2007

When to ditch the friend?

Hmmmmm.. I guess the answer could be: the moment you think about it? When you move you meet new people, some are very nice, but somehow when they ring you dont take the phone, and occasionally after meeting them leaves you a bit unsatisfied.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Political correctness v freedom of speech

Is it politically correct to make assumptions on where people come from? Living in Denmark and (having in my view a very obvious UK accent) it took my office mate 3 months before he asked 'where in India to you come from?', to which I answered 'London.'. Yesterday, in the middle of a Danish oral exam I was told that i looked like a Bollywood star....I had to stress that I was from the UK. So should I get offended? well no I did not, but did find the naiveity of the Danes to make such stereotypes annoying, and it does explain the political mess they landed themselves in. At the same time, it is a bit refreshing- political correctness can get so over the top, so where exactly is that border line. I remember back in Cambridge having to change the name of a xmas party to 'a winter party' on the request of some North Americans who felt it would offend/exclude those not celebrating xmas.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

PMS

PMS- what a pain. Sorry did not manage to think of a sarcastic enough and deserving heading for the acroynm PMS. Having realised (at the age of 13) that crying when someone in 'neighbours' missed their wedding is not normal.. did i discover PMS. And yes, I tried the vit B, the milk thistle, the vit E, the primrose oil. and I cant saw that anything works. For me the best thing is to try to have a good sleep, not be too stressed, eat well, and also just accept that it is PMT ..and no I have not lost the plot...

Honesty and the poker face.

I have discovered that noone reads this blogs- thats great it means I can be more honest and anonymous, yet as I have given the blog website to a few people already I still have my guard up. Writing somehow makes you more exposed. But the blogging thing is great- short entries about nothing in particular.I hope it will get a focus. I wonder what bloggers do- are most of them completely anonymous?

Monday, June 04, 2007

Motivation- again

I have started reading about motivation- apparently the problem is not time management. Tricks seem to be to do the 10 min thing. That is decide that you will do a task for ten minutes, and hopefully that convinces you to keep doing it for longer. Well I tried that and it seems to be ok, but when you analysing transcripts for 10 minutes you dont feel the sense of achivement gained when you see a result. But you do feel the sense of achievement of having done it, and that is worth holding on to.