Escape from boredom

Yesterday I got stuck in the middle of Oslo due to an electrical breakdown, so both the subway and the trams stood still for about two hours http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/oslo/article2020354.ece

So I took the bus from Nationalteateret down Prinsens Gate where I got off due to traffic jam and walked down to Oslo S. From there I took the bus to Munkegata in Gamlebyen where I stood waiting for 15 minutes on a bus which I could not get on, it was full. Then I walked up to Helsfyr and got there just at the same time as the next bus would have. Then I walked to the bottom of the hill up to Tveita where Elin came and picked me up in the car. So finally I arrived at home, over 2 hours after I had left Lysaker…

Cruising Vålerenga, and one of the buses I wised I would be on, but could not, since I was not allowed since it was not a city bus

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Another view of Vålerenga, at least I got to see parts of Oslo in another way…by foot…I was about to stop at Vålerenga Vertshus and grab a beer…http://www.nattguiden.no/utested/154

Then later passing by Etterstad. Did not know that the high school had a “Delikatessebutikk”, good thing the electricity went away…

In the last issue of Ny Tid they had an article about the movie Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi Nothing extraordinary about that article, but in the last issue of Ny Tid there is an article written by Najmeh Mohammadkhani. Found her blog http://nasininaes.blogspot.com/ but it has not been updated since December 2006. Anyhow, the article she wrote is published here http://www.nytid.no/index.php?sk=9&id=4342 And now to what I want to say:

My opinion is that the content of the article backfires on Najmeh. She criticize the movie for not telling the truth. She says that Satrapis focus on the hijab http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab and asks why do not people also focus on the Indian sari or the Japanese kimono. As far as I have been able to find out there is a major difference since the hijab is so tightly related to Islam and the Korean. Women should carry the hijab so the moral of the society should be strong. There is no such connections as I know of related to the kimono and sari. In my opinion the article is written by a muslim feeling hurt because someone dares to challenge Islam and Iran in any way.

I have not seen the movie, but now I would like to, just because Najmeh’s criticism of the movie made me angry… http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/

I might agree more on Najmeh’s criticism of 300, but then again, why put so much effort on a movie that anyhow is just fiction http://www.nytid.no/index.php?sk=7&id=4133

Last Saturday Elin, Anders, Kikki and I went to see Raga Rockers live in concert at Rockefeller. My opinion is “Raga Rocks!!!” You can listen to their new album at http://www.ragarockers.no/

Memorable quotes from Fawlty Towers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/quotes

Mrs. Richards: [standing next to the window] And another thing: I asked for a room with a view.
Basil Fawlty: [aside to Manuel] Deaf, mad, *and* blind.
[to Mrs. Richards as he makes a show of inspecting the view]
Basil Fawlty: This is the view as far as I can remember… Yes… Yes, this is it.
Mrs. Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect to see something more interesting than that.
Basil Fawlty: That is Torquay, madam.
Mrs. Richards: Well, that’s not good enough.
Basil Fawlty: Well, might I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically…
Mrs. Richards: Don’t be ridiculous. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil Fawlty: You *can* see the sea. It’s over there between the land and the sky.
Mrs. Richards: I’d need a telescope to see that.
Basil Fawlty: Well, might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea.
[sotto voice]
Basil Fawlty: Or preferably in it.
Mrs. Richards: Now listen to me. I’m not satisfied, but I’ve decided to stay here. However, I shall expect a reduction.
Basil Fawlty: Why? Because Krakatoa’s not erupting at the moment, or…

At least I had a room with a view today when staying the night at Sognefjord hotel http://www.sognefjordhotel.no/

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I shed light on different issues in my blog, my last posting touches a very important issue – female discrimination in Iran and other Muslim countries. Todays issue is not as important on a global basis, but for me it certainly was important when back from Leikanger in Sogn og Fjordane wanted to have some food. I sliced my bread and prepared my eggs, all ready. Then I opened my Boston Gurka, just to realize that the taste was…different. Then I read the text printed in small letters on the glass. “Gurkmix with jalapeño”, this is cucumber mix with jalapeños. No wonder it did different, and I do not want “different” when eating Boston Gurka…doh, I think I must throw away all, and buy a new one…

• A female testimony is worth half of a mans
• Females get only half of what a man get paid after an accident (insurance) and when a female dies the insurance payment is only half of a mans
• A female will only inherit half of what a man does
• A female is not able to travel to another city or abroad without a man giving his ok
• Females are expelled from certain jobs
• Men can have up to four wifes (Muhammed had four wifes…)
• The fathers decide who their daughters can marry
• Females will almost certainly never get a divorce
• By few exceptions the man will always get the parents rights over the children-s

Found in the latest issue of Amnesty Magasinet. Just confirms what I’ve read in the book written by Hege Storhaug, sharia sucks! http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia

Can’t remember the last time I went to a museum when not at holiday and such, must have been a few years ago when at Teknisk Museum with my brother Jonas. Anyhow, due to the book King Leopolds Ghost which I read earlier this year …2007/07/05/king_leopold_s_ghost_adam_hochschild
I decided to go to the museum when I saw that they had an exhibition called “Kongospor – Norden i Kongo”. So today we went to see it, first surprise – free admission, why don’t we go to museums more often? We had a bit of luck since just 5 minutes after we came there a guided tour started. To much to read at the exhibition made that an excellent choice. At the end of the guided tour, the guide told us about a son of a Norwegian pilot who had been missing after a crash for 29 years had been there just a few weeks ago. When finished telling that an elderly man raised his voice and said “It was I who flew that plane to Kongo together with Martin”, so then we got 5 minutes more of his story from Kongo. The story about the plane, read it here http://www.tbve.no/nyheter/kongo-mysteriet-oppklart.html

The exhibition http://www.khm.uio.no/utstillinger/kongospor/

George Bush slip-ups http://www.slipups.com/tree/12.html

May 27, 2004—Nashville, Tenn.
“I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill, first for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me”

Due to the fact that I had no other book available I had to search the book shelf at home. Between all the books I have read before and other books with poems and such stuff I don’t read 🙂 I found this quite thin book http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkymisten Supposed to be one of the most read novels – anyhow, a simple and easy story, not so much more, but nothing less at least