LUMES 2006 Batch becomes an old batch...

I lately remembered the Little Witch (forgot her name) on tv. when she touched her forefingers she was stopping the time. I really hope I was her especially when I realize some times of my life are gonna be over but I want to keep it forever.
We will keep this blog at least forever for the next sustainable generations..
However, I am pretty sure that this blog will be safe and we will come back-read+write-when we remember or have time(I have no worries especially when we have our Oleg). LUMES 06-08 has finished it's 1st year on their Programme. We are already getting mails from the new batch (we are looking forward to see, yeahh!) asking all the necessary and concerned stuff that cause them to scratch their heads. No worries Lumies we are here!
It is like yesterday, I remember entering the class with Åsa being 2 weeks late because the Sweds taking ages to give Schengen Visa to someone who wants to study (and drink snaps,). There you were all staring at me with big smiles on your faces, clapping hands (as we mostly do to everything we like, makes me feel happy being with all of you in such a lovely class). First thing I watched that day was presentations (not surprised, eh?) of people while sitting next to a very beautiful girl with long blond hair and eyes like I have never seen that deep light blue (I thought my love_ grandmother has the deepest blue ones!) called Adrianne. Next to her someone who tired to help me by giving the hand outs he has (that time I understood that person someone must be who is living close to me, we, neighbors always hold up for eachother, right Theo?).
It is not a long time ago, but I remember every bit of this LUMES which I'm just so proud to meet all of you. We are a good team and hope we will always be wherever we are in this small 'fragile' world.
Have a prefect summer holiday and don't forget to read Callinicos (just kidding!).
See you all on August 20.

A little high, a little low!

Is this real life ..
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality ..
Open your eyes..
Look up to the skies and see …
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go!
A little high, a little low!
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me ………

9 months! Thats 270 days n odd. Is this how a slow down version of a time machine would be ? (**scratches chin, wondering**) Come on, its not me tripping again!! But the drift that sweeps through Lund, continues to take me along with the seasons it blows through .. With the red leaves that I was welcomed with .. later, it blew hard around me that I shivered while I struggled for warmth and care … It was just yesterday, I thought I did that, but no, it was not yesterday .. Days have passed and the change: I never thought that I would like to get baked brown (ier?) in the sun and would yearn for the cool breeze … some days I wish it didn’t ‘breeze’ at all .. What do you call all those tiny flowers that bloom in the grass .. Oh God! I could sit there, whole day just gazing at them ..


I didn't know who Linnaeus was; guess even then I was daydreaming when nomenclatures were taught, but didn’t know it would matter. Didn’t know that Jimmy Hendrix was God; ignorance could get you out caste-d, I kneel before thee in penance … Enlightenment can come as a shock, worth it? Time will show. But then where is the drift heading - Rome, India or some far away land across the 7 seas, dragons and mountains ( ahemm?? Hahaha) I don’t know. The senior Lumes folks seems to have rubbed some of their blues on to me. Suddenly I am wary of time - the number of days or is it too much of sun - can an overdose of Vitamin D cause PMS syndromes? Dunno, gotta google.

Folks, if I havent told each n all of you, how much I love you, esp during my delirious state at our birthday party, well, today with no sun and being my normal self, want to tell you that, I really truly deeply appreciate each Lumie. I think I have expressed my happiness for being the person you are in different ways - only question: did it come across wrong - if so, noo .. It wasn’t meant sooo ..

Hugs, extra mushy !

Alloooo is there anyone here?

Hmmm i came around many times, and after a while i considered this blog kind of dead (therefore, "kind of RIP"). It's quite surprising to me, especially when i remember the discussions and enthusiastic comments of the people around concerning this site on which everyone could (should?) write a little something. I know we have much to do in class. I know many who don't feel like writing about anyting. But still.Shall this blog survive? Is there anyone visiting like me, hoping that it goes back to life? (amen)
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Love,
Marie

The COOLing Song

Hey, to celebrate the end of Project 2 in ‘System Analysis’, here’s a piece of climate action music: The Global Cooling Song by Raffi (maybe you were jumping to his Baby Beluga tune, when you were kids), featuring David Suzuki (a bow to my Canadian friends and to Yo personally :-))

Systems Analysis

After all the hype we have been hearing about this course... Is it living up to our expectations? We've been warned that Systems Analysis may be the catalyst to break up the great friendships we have already made, and deliver us to the dark side. I'm not sure I'm buying it. So far, the professors have been entertaining us with impromptu joking around, filling our bathtubs with beer at the friday pubs, and most notably keeping us to a mandatory 9-4 class schedule. I was expecting some kind of psychological dismantling (as this is a course to make us think differently). Where's all the drama and excitement? Maybe it will start to happen when we get into our group work and start mentally dismantling each other. Now don't let me fool you into thinking that I crave the drama, or that I hope we will no longer be friends. I guess I'm just realizing that you can't believe all the hype. Although I have been having dreams in stock and flow terms... That has been a little bit creepy and they told us it would happen. What is this some sort of brainwashing?

Well, I guess its all about "working hard and having fun"...

See you at class!

The Fool.

Speaking of quotes, I came across this quote which struck me with happiness and sorrow in a single blow; it took me 31 years to realize this....

Theodore Rubin: "I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."

1970s Animated Music Video - Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

Hopefully this little ditty will cheer us all up...Some good old Canadian tunes