Here's another one

Hey there gang, it’s 4 30 am and I thought of dropping a line before I go to bed, so as to be reassured that I am addicted to the inter web.

So, after waking up at 3 in the afternoon after getting drunk in the city that I dissed and with the people I praised in my last entry, I spent most of my time until now trying to write a 1,500 words essay.

Well I’ve written 500 words till now the rest can wait until tomorrow but that’s not the point. As I was inhaling some of my 5,80 pounds nicotine, this thought hit me and I said that it would be a good idea to write it down, maybe put it out there, not only because I want to share it with any one who reads this but also because most of the time I forget what I was thinking the last night while I was staying up instead of sleeping.

All the things that I was taught that were wrong when I was younger they still seem to be wrong, but the bad thing is that some of them that I was considering as being right is worse than the wrong things.

Here’s an example: “it is wrong and irresponsible getting drunk.” Well on the one hand it is wrong getting drunk everyday cause obviously it leads to alcoholism and to addiction maybe, I’m not an expert so I’ll shut up talking about what it leads to, but I wonder what is better drunken sincerity or sober lies? Yes you shake more and act like an idiot but think about this: would you say the things that are in your mind today and on the spot or they’d be drowned in the sea of sobriety and you’d wish you would have said them?

Bottom line and point of this blog is not to praise the alcohol or dish what I was taught by my family, but say that I believe we’re already lost and closed in our own little worlds so as to take into consideration rules that will make us “appropriate” and what some people called “normal” for this perfect world. And if I ever have a kid the first advice I’d give him/her once can understand is to spill chocolate ice cream on the sofa, drink from the bottle and make his self and the people that surround him/her happy by always saying what’s on his mind right on the spot.

Part 2:

Essay handed in and here's a question for you all: Why everyone has a blog today?!

“The Magazine Guys”

So, where were we folks? Yeah, I was making some comments on my present Uni life, but I believe that opinionated 20 –something year olds that think they've learnt everything about life over 3 years in University is the most amusing thing and making a magazine is another amusing thing. But let's take things from the start.

3 years of University, can apparently teach you everything about politics. About what is right and wrong. I thought that the University years are for making up your own mind, make your own ideas and make your own set of right and wrongs.

Right wings, left wings, chicken wings and what not, everyone became a political analyst and everyone is an intellectual journalist in the pass of 3 year time. I wish I was half the genius that these people are.

So after they have learnt BBC is bad, left wing sounds cool and most importantly the corporations are taking over and someone has to tip toe around it searching a solution for the problem while wearing a Tommy Hilfiger t-shirt, drinking tea from Starbucks (nothing personal with you Tommy I actually like your designs keep it up) they decided to launch a magazine.

Music critics that know everything about music gathered, with the boarders of the term “music” stopping at Cold Play, fat sport critics that knew everything about sports and they had a sharp pen in their hands attended too and last but not least the funny witty guys were there too. And they all decided to make a magazine.

Well, me on the other hand, not witty, average weight and definitely knowing very little about sports, I thought that it would be a good idea to try and launch an online magazine too. After discussing it with a friend of mine, we agreed that the criticism and analysis on their criticism and analysis on the subjects that they discuss on their magazine would a funny and entertaining thing to do not only for us but hopefully, for other people too.

Nothing is certain yet, we’re still building the foundations. Hopefully if everything goes right we’ll have our first issue in a month or two. If not, well, I guess then there won't be a magazine from us. I don't know, time will tell. Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope there will be an update from the progress of this little project of ours.

P.S: The picture has nothing to do with anything. I just liked it and thought of putting it up.

Univeristy Life And Rainy Days In A Boring Hell

Hello once again to whoever reads this, from another rainy day in a boring hell. Here’s an update, grasping from the exciting uni life and my rainy days in Sunderland UK.

Well whoever said that it never rains in hell and it’s really hot, I guess that he’ll have to give the whole concept a better thought. It’s raining again and it’s freezing cold. Plus, nothing much have changed since my first year apart from my drinking options and, oh well…let’s say knowledge on the journalism sector.

It used to be exciting but now it got a bit boring. Sitting in on a Thursday or Friday afternoon discussing where we should go out to and always ending up at the same places. We used to go out to have a good time and get drunk, but now we’re getting drunk before we go out so as to ignore and put aside the dullness of the same scenes that we all see for the last 2 years here when we go out.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re all having a good time, and the people are great, but the scenery is a bit repetitive.

This is what I am talking about. Same messy room, with empty plastic cups of coffee lying on my desk, same last minute wake ups 30 minutes before the class and same chain smoking is going on as the first year and the year after that.

I shouldn’t complain though as the whole experience is quite astonishing. I learnt a lot about people, relationships and journalism. I’ve made some friends, and gained some useful knowledge but still this town after living in for 2 years, it’s like the most predictable town I’ve ever seen. I now understand what a friend of mine means when he says “I wanna go out and away from this town.”

From a legal immigrant from Greece in UK, studying in this town gave me a mixed of the greatest feelings, knowledge and experiences I have ever had but also some of the most boring and dull moments I have never imagined facing when I started my course.

Iraq Body Count

As much as I want to stay away and stop rumbling on and on about the so called “freedom fighters’ ” murders, I always stumble upon something that would make me write something new but at the same time make my stomach turn.

I should be thankful as things like this, give me “food” for writing and keep me going on after a long time of absence. But, seriously this is beyond a bad joke or the worst farse ever played.

The worst thing of all is that we have learnt to watch from a distance and do nothing to whatever they do and whatever they tell us. Now watch this and I hope you all have a wonderful day. Enjoy.
Iraq Body Count
86,609 – 94,490

“We don’t do body counts” General Tommy Franks


Oh and before you close this page visit this site, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/, thank you.

Ben Kinsella- A predicted murder or just an unfortunate coincidence?

The news, lately, never seem to fail to shock me. I was browsing the news online when I read about a teenager in London that had written an essay for the creative class describing his murder and the feeling of being stabbed, some weeks before he was killed by a gang. That was when my jaw dropped to the floor.

The attack, the 16 year old, Ben Kinsella, suffered was similar to the one he described in his essay and when it comes down to me, the victim, even though the young of his age, had fully understood what this world we’re living in has turned to.

He refers in his essay that he fell victim to “the monstrosity the society has become.” Were these words the words of a young prophete or just a really opinionated young man that lost his life in the most unfair way?

Some might say, that the victim was just another smart kid that became another number in the statistics of victims of youth and street crime.

Kids holding guns and killing each other from the age of 13 or 15 is not extraordinary for our western so called civilized society. It is something normal.

Well what’s left to say, let’s let the numbers rise and be more concerned about the profits that guns or other things that our society produce than the citizen’s lives. At the bottom line people can be reproduced and numbers will always be numbers. In a few years we might all be mesmerized by the words of another talented person that lost his life in the most unfair way.

Here’s a video that I found on youtube, originally from sky news, related to Ben’s murder and the rise of youth street crime

GreeceLand and Siemens- An affair full of secrets and money

Main topic of discussion in the media these days all across “GreeceLand” is the bribery of political parties, by the multinational company “Siemens”, that took place back in 1999 and it was in the “dark” until the present.

Let me give you a feedback, for those that are not familiar with the subject. In 1999 a representative of the famous multinational company “Siemens” visited a member of a Greek political party and offered him an amount of money, 240.000 Euros, in order to support the party’s political campaign.

Theodoros Tsoukatos, the member of the party that I referred to earlier on, accepted the money (he couldn’t be rude and offend his guest) for the best of the his party.

I don’t know why everyone keeps criticizing and asking for answers though. These people (politicians) are the ones who fight and care the most about us regardless if everyday a different one seems to know what’s best for a whole nation.

As we all know politicians are good people and they don’t want to make other people’s lives difficult, and when Mr Tsoukatos was asked by the “Siemens” representative for the money to be put in an account number outside Greece, he gladly agreed and he gave his account number for the best of the political campaign.

The world is cruel though and unfair, as we all know, and the political party removed him from a member because of this so called “scum”. He is also going to go through a court case that is due on Saturday, 28^th of June, to defend himself and proudly prove that pure deed he did for the best of his party and our country.

It was not a scum, it was a fundraising campaign with the help of a multinational company that donated 240.000 Euros to that party, and maybe others as well that haven’t brought to the light yet.

Now I can’t wait to see what will come next because this seems to be interesting. All the political parties are pointing fingers, putting the blame on each other asking for the truth to be brought in the light and justice to replace this corrupted case. There is no such thing as corruption in the world of politics, GET THE STORY STRAIGHT. It is just a man’s (dirty one’s) world.

This is an ongoing case and everyone, from all the political parties, is looking for the “light of the justice” but I’m afraid that all of them have seen the light and it was too bright that turned them blind. All we have to do is sit back and see if and how this whole “pointing fingers show” is going to end.

God Bless America (a military act that John Wayne would be proud of)

The Peacemakers seem they had some “killing”(literary) time in Iraq, according to the latest news (59 minutes before this post) of the Times online page.

The attack is condemned as “cowardly and unprovoked” by the Pakistani army spokesperson.

Eleven Pakistani troops and an officer were killed in this attempt of the U.S.A to show, how civilized people act in their effort to face and solve a problem effectively.

If this is what it takes for peace and unity, and if this is what one would do to bring a better civilization to the people of another country then what would that one do in case of desire of killing some people?

The news article on the website reads: “According to senior Pakistan army sources, the incident began when its soldiers noticed that Nato forces and the Afghan National Army were constructing a military outpost on a mountaintop inside what Pakistan regards as its own territory.”

It’s interesting, yet funny, how the U.S soldiers kept a neutral (if that was neutral I am a flying donkey) attitude and solved another problem, of course, by the old fashion way. The way that John Wayne or Clint Eastwood (in his movies) would use to give an end to a problem, and the solution is simple; lock and load.

Let’s give it up for the excellent American Air-Forces’ excellent job to maintain the peace and spread the joy of civilization and unity.

Here is the link of the Times website with the whole article. Enjoy.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4111277.ece

Epic List- "What do you want to do before you die" documentary

Four determined guys, that have 100 things to do and one plan with only one common goal, to draw a path and inspire the world to live their lives in the fullest, are in the process of launching one the most interesting documentaries I have ever seen.

“The Buried Life” is a project that will be showing the attempt of 4 friends to cross off all the tasks from a list with 100 things they want to do before they die.

The four Canadians, are armed with goodwill and determination but they also want to help others and motivate the world to follow the path that they drew and chase their wildest fantasies. With every task they complete from their list they will help a stranger to fulfill one of his/her dreams.

I watched their trailer on youtube and I was hooked straight away. I believe, that apart from an interesting and fun documentary, the “list” idea, is something that we all should do and try to achieve at some point of our lives before it is too late.

I believe that as it is right now, the world has lack of people like these four guys, as life is too short for not living it the way you want it, and we are all lost, in a way, in our own obligations and everyday life routines.

Here is the trailer.

George W. Bush VS Golf

I was killing time reading the news and checking the newest issue of the “Time” magazine online, when I read a quote on the magazine’s site that its wittiness and brightness gave chills on my spine (not really) and I thought that it would worth sharing it.

The quote is by the “planet president” and it reads, “I think playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal.” That was the explanation of Mister George W. Bush on why he quit the game in 2003 and decided to focus on playing war…sorry making decisions to protect and serve the world and the United States of America.

Now we must admit that quitting a favorite activity is a big sacrifice on every man's, and Mister Bush's everyday life routine. He cannot work on his swing and drink beer while he has sent soldiers out there to kill or be killed in the name of peace.

This might be another useless, for some people out there, and a non significant blog, but to me writing it out and pointing this out, it is like a relief and nothing new, but another clumsy naïve comment on Mister Bush’s behalf that shows how someone can put the moc(k) in the democracy, and the hip in the hypocrisy..

Five years after this quote, even though Mister President stopped playing golf, everything is the same, and some pessimists out there might say worse. Maybe some people should stick at playing golf. It's better for everyone. Maybe if people acted more like they do when they get annoyed by their dog saying "Go play boy...go" maybe we would be better?Maybe we should throw a golf ball and say the same. Or maybe the world is a golf ball?...

I posted the video of the same interview, as it is more entertaining hearing someone saying something like that. I would like to thank “Time” magazine and “The President” for giving me the opportunity of writing nothing different that points out what kind of “geniuses” are leading our planet