a new mantra - an old blog
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via Sole on fbSo hey, I put my skinny pants (so cheap, so comfortable, so from Cork ;-)) and my sneakers on and the world is mine again.
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Resolutions for 2010 – be well, curious, and keep growing
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There’s a new category of „friends“, the kind of acquaintances from work-context that I probably wouldn’t go have a drink with, but it feels good to have some familiar faces and funny personalities around at those work-context dinners and drinks and other events. Yay to managing a coherent conversation after a few glasses of wine.
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Ideas for passionate things: because they charge my batterie
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I guess it’s true what they say: The difference between the people who write a book, and the one’s who say „oh, I could have written that book“, is that the first ones actually did write it. Hm.
Why is it that when it’s about receiving people at an event, or booking hotels, or getting coffee, it’s always the „girls“ - women actually, and respectable, succesful ones at that - who get asked to do it? That’s how close we are to real equality. Then again, I don’t think I’d like to abolish gender roles completely. Especially if I can’t have my „I’m a cute young girl with a crazy cool background and I’m rocking my career, b******! Yeah, now you’re looking surprised“-bonus. So of course, gender roles or prejudices will never cease to exist, so they better work for my advantage than against me. Plus in the end, what probably worries me more is to make sure I can actually deliver on the expectations put on me. Phu... tomorrow’s another day for that.
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written 19.11.09, when there's no internet connection but space to think
Labels: blurb, inside my brain, Introspective
"I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try."
I'd first go visit the lifefair.2009, the exposition for sustainability, where restaurants, magazines, environmental protection organisations, the airport (?), networks, tourist offices, tofu producers, university institutes and the administration and many more are presenting their products and services or maybe their efforts in the area of sustainability.![]() | New Fellows Announcement August 24, 2009 | ||
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Hellmann’s - It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo.
(...) A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are, that is snobbery. And the dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter it within minutes at a party when you get that famous, iconic question of the early 21th century, "What do you do?". And according to how you answer that question, people are either incredibly delighted to see you or look at their watch and make their excuses." (...)
(...) So what I want to argue for, is not, that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough, not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along. (...)
"Nur noch konkret reden, gib mir ein ja oder nein.
Schluss mit Larifari, ich lass all die alten Faxen sein."
THIS IS: a personal logbook, capturing experiences, rencontres, thoughts and ideas; a way to stay in touch with family and friends, letting them know where I am, what I'm doing and how I feel I AM: a swiss farm girl, back home after having travelled a little bit of this world, curious and awake, enjoying every breath I take and the moments that take my breath away. I LIKE: my family, cats, Lindor chocolate, books that make me forget the world around me, connecting with people, experiencing other cultures, going out of my comfort zone, playing around with html, other people's trust, getting hugged, drinking milk coffee, meeting new interesting people, tea with honey, acting on my gut feeling, early mornings and late nights, talking to friends and living life consciously I DON'T LIKE: if you don't remember me, coca-cola, feeling inefficient, confrontation, lost opportunities, zero-sum games.