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Jun 22

What part of a fairytale are you?

Posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Fandom, Other


You Are the Magic Wand


You are imaginative and idealistic. You believe that anything is possible, and you don’t leave room for doubt.You think that there is too much hopelessness in the world. People need more optimism and hope in their lives.

You know that change isn’t as easy as the flick of a magic wand, but you also know that amazing things can happen if you let them.You aren’t sure if you believe in miracles, but you do believe in yourself. And that’s almost as good.

May 21

Two new places

Posted on Friday, May 21, 2010 in Other

The other day when i was out for a walk, I found two streets I’d never been on before. If you live in a big city, that might not seem very strange, but I live in a small town of about 20 000 people. It’s also an island. The streets in question were short and insignificant, but still, I found two new places within a ten minute walk of my home. It almost seems unreal. What’s more, my mom, who’s lived here all her life, hasn’t been on them either. Where were they hiding all this time?

Apr 30

Tibet – Heaven or Hell?

Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 in Other

Tibet

Apr 11

What was that all about?

Posted on Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Other

Yesterday when I was out walking, I heard the church clock strike eight… at four! What was that all about? After the first four, there was a fifth sort of halfhearted one, then three more. Weird.

Apr 9

Facebook or not?

Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 in Other

The other day a friend of mine invited me to join Facebook. People have done so before, one of them relatively recently, and I haven’t felt the need to join yet another social network  Besides, apart from being a major timewaster, there are things about Facebook that I just don’t like. For instance not being able to upload any photos. Apparently Facebook will own the rights to whatever material I post.

So… Despite all that, there are reasons I might feel I should join Facebook anyway. It does seem to be a good way to keep in touch with my friends, but on the other hand, so far I haven’t had much luck with that. It seems most of my friends (and the majority of them are online friends) are quietly working themselves to death. Most people seem to be doing that. Working themselves to death. I blame my boyfriend-less status on that. It’s either that or I’m ugly, boring and weird. Which is it? LOL.

Here‘s another reason I find myself reluctant to join Facebook:

What do you think? Should I join or not?

Apr 5

From one phone provider to another, then back again

Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 in Other, Whining

Phone providers, internet providers… providers of digital tv… For years now we struggled to switch away from one to another, and now suddenly, we’re going the other way. Twice in just a few months, salespeople from the provider we’re leaving, called and bullied mom, who is severely depressed, into signing up for new expensive services, that we might not even be able to use here, in my name or using my info, and her name. I’m surprised that’s even legal, quite apart from the lack of business ethics, not that people like that have morals.

So, my sister and I decided to move our phone subscriptions to the old provider. Back to them, you might say. In any case, we’re stuck with them for everything else – internet, digital tv, landline… So we thought why not move our mobile phone subscriptions to them too? When we left them they were more expensive than the ones we left them for, but now they’ve changed their prices.

I have to admit that I wanted this switch primarily to get back at the phone provider (the one we’re leaving). No one treats my mom that way, no one treats us that way and gets away with it. Besides, no matter who gets treated this way, it’s something that needs to be confronted.

Anyway, my sister called to give them a piece of her mind and fortunately, she was able to make them tear up the agreement, which probably wasn’t valid anyway.

I suppose that should make it alright, but grrr I’m so angry with them. That makes the third phone company we don’t like, for various reasons. Sigh. Maybe in a small country like ours, you can’t afford to be so picky, but at least so far, I don’t care. I’ll do as I like. (And don’t even get me started on salespeople in general…)

Apr 4

Shaggables

Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 in Fandom, Other

Found this meme on another blog, but I felt the list was too long and unwieldy. Worse, most of the characters I’d only barely heard of so I couldn’t decide which ones I liked enough. So, this is my list of shaggable (or not so shaggable) male characters (note that it’s about the characters, not the actors). I chose to add only characters I like to this list. There are none of the ones I can’t stand to see at all. You do as you like. In fact, if you prefer, use any character (female too). Whatever you like.

This is how to do it:

Make your own list.

1. Bold the names of guys you’d definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don’t do anything for you alone.

Mohinder Suresh (Heroes)
Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
Hiro Nakamura (Heroes)
Spock (Star Trek)
Dr Julian Bashir (Star Trek)
Captain Julian Bashir (Star Trek)
Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
Will Riker (Star Trek)
Harry Kim (Star Trek)
Worf (Star Trek)
Jake Sisko (Star Trek)
Boromir (LOTR)
Faramir (LOTR)
Aragorn (LOTR)
Legolas (LOTR)
Mitchell (Being Human)
George (Being Human)
Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Archie Kennedy (Hornblower)
Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower)
Robin of Loxley (Robin of Sherwood)
Robert of Huntingdon (Robin of Sherwood)
Guy of Gisburne (Robin of Sherwood)
Peter Pevensie (grownup Peter) (Narnia)
Mr Tumnus (Narnia)
Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Cal McCaffrey (State of Play)
Dan Foster (State of Play)
Dr Daniel Jackson (Stargate)
Jack O’Neill (Stargate)
Max Evans (Roswell)
Michael Guerin (Roswell)
Alex Whitman (Roswell)
Kyle Valenti (Roswell)
Fox Mulder (X files)
Alex Krycek (X files)
Walter Skinner (X files)
Cade Foster (First Wave)
Crazy Eddie (First Wave)
Joshua (First Wave)
Quinn Mallory (Sliders)
Colin Mallory (Sliders)
Danny Taylor (Without a Trace)
Martin Fitzgerald (Without a Trace)
Dr Greg House (House MD)
Dr James Wilson (House MD)
Dr Lawrence Kutner (House MD)
Richard Moser (Rex, a Cop’s Best Friend)
Alex Brandtner (Rex, a Cop’s Best Friend)
Peter Höllerer (Rex, a Cop’s Best Friend)
Fritz Kunz (Rex, a Cop’s Best Friend)
Nathan Muir (Spy Game)
Tom Bishop (Spy Game)

Mar 31

Top Ten Male Characters

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 in Fandom, Other

1. Spock (Star Trek: Zachary Quinto – ok, a movie, but anyway…)
2. Peter Petrelli (Heroes: Milo Ventimiglia)
3. Mohinder Suresh (Heroes: Sendhil Ramamurthy)
4. Mitchell (Being Human: Aidan Turner)
5. Robert of Huntingdon (Robin of Sherwood: Jason Connery)
6. Guy of Gisburne (Robin of Sherwood: Robert Addie)
7. Archie Kennedy  (Hornblower: Jamie Bamber)
8. Robin of Loxley (Robin of Sherwood: Michael Praed)
9. Boromir (Lord of the Rings: Sean Bean)
10. Jack Harkness (Torchwood: John Barrowman)

Honorable Mentions: Alex Krycek (X files: Nicholas Lei), Aragorn (Lord of the Rings: Viggo Mortensen), Michael Guerin (Roswell: Brendan Fehr), Dr Wilson (House: Robert Sean Leonard), Cal McCaffrey (State of Play: John Simm) Dan Foster (State of Play: James McAvoy), Mulder (X files: David Duchovny), Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt: Spy Game – ok, not a tv series, but I’ve seen it on tv, so…), Adam Carter (Spooks: Rupert Penry-Jones), Danny Taylor (Without a Trace: Enrique Murciano), Scotty Valens (Cold Case: Danny Pino), Casey (Veronica Mars: Jonathan Bennett), Quinn and Colin Mallory (Sliders: Jerry and Charlie O’Connell)

Mar 31

Meme: Which ones have you read?

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 in Fandom, Other

The BBC predicts most people have only read 6 out of 100 of these books.

01 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (seen the movie, tv series and read the book)
02 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (of course)
03 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
06 The Bible (assorted chapters…)
07 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (read The Golden Compass. didn’t like it)
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (maybe, don’t remember)

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (seen the movie)
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot (seen the tv series)

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (yes, had to for school, but liked it)
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens (seen the tv series, great)
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (saw some of the movie, hated it)
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (had to for school, hated it)
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (maybe, don’t remember)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (and the movie.)
34 Emma – Jane Austen (and the movie and/or tv series)
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen (one of my favorites)
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis (and the movie.)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (had to for school)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (sort of for school, hated it)
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (will read some day)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (liked it, except for one chapter at the beginning and one at the end)

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (don’t remember, maybe)
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (and at least one movie.)
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (seen the tv series)
80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (probably saw it as a movie)
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (had to for school, didn’t like it)
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (most of them)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton (no, but many others)

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams (and the movie)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Mar 25

Martin Stenmarck – again

Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Fandom, Other

More Swedish. 🙂
Martin Stenmarck – Hundra år från nu (Blundar och håller andan lite till)
The title means A hundred years from now (I close my eyes and hold my breath a little longer.)

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