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2012-03-28

Bettervision 2012: Switzerland

Allowing yourself to express yourself even if it is against the current social norm is one of the freedoms of self empowerment. Without such liberty, you have individual suppression, which in turn may cause individual psychological and physical illnesses. En masse, we get epidemics, and we hear psychologists today say that we're currently experiencing an epidemic of psychological illnesses. The message of self empowerment is therefore good both for the individual and the world at large. I therefore nominate Switzerland's contibution to Bettervision 2012.



“Unbreakable” Lyrics:

You can do everything you want
It doesn’t matter how hard it is
You can do it, you can do it

So please don’t mind, close your eyes
Take a trip outside your head
You can give me more

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Unbreakable, unbreakable
Unbreakable, unbreakable

Don’t stop rock, rock this place
Don’t stop tryin’, try your best
Don’t stop, don’t stop movin’

Today is all allowed, a good vibe is in the crowd
You can do it, you can do it, you can do it
Unbreakable, unbreakable
You can give me more

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Unbreakable
Unbreakable

So please don’t mind, close your eyes
Take a trip outside your head

Unbreakable, unbreakable
Unbreakable, unbreakable
You can give me more

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
(You can give me more)

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
(Unbreakable) Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream

Swim against the stream
Following your wildest dream, your wildest dream
Unbreakable

2012-03-27

Road work, house work

Road work. I got this reminder today, of why we moved. Not just for more square meters, but also for less road work right outside the window.



But definitely not less work. There's plenty of digging outside, and neighbours have been helped ut cutting down the boards that were crowding the top floor hallway and lift the unused floor boards up to the ceiling.

It is now possible to walk around and move things upstairs, which is key to get the required space everywhere to build the required closets for clothes and everything else we've got.



There used to be a platform here, for the trash cans. It was old and far from level, so I removed it, and started digging. I need another 20-25 cm at the deepest side before I level it out. On friday, this is where they will put the outside portion of the air-to-air heat pump, before I build a new platform on top of it.

2012-03-25

Bettervision 2012: Montenegro

I am looking up songs competing in the first round of Eurovision. Starting with the first entry, Montenegro. This song is a definite nominee for Bettervision 2012, propagating tolerance and easy living through catchy lyrics, though the start of the entry is "slightly scary". Lyrics and video below, you be the judge.



Eurosceptic, analphabetic
Try not to be hermetic

Euro Neuro don't be sceptic
Hermetic, pathetic, analphabetic
Forget all cosmetic, you need new poetic
Esthetic, ecletic, dialectic

Euro neuro, don't be dogmatic bureaucratic
You need to become pragmatic
To stop change climatic automatic
Need contribution from the institution
To find solution for pollution
To save the children of the evolution

Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Monetary break dance
Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Give me chance to refinance

(Blaue grotte ausflug do Zanjica, heute habe hobotnica)

Euro Neuro I don't like snobism
Nationalism, puritanism
I am different organism
My heroism is pacifism, altruism
I enjoy bicyclism
Liberalism, tourism, nudism, optimism
It is good for rheumatism

Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Monetary break dance
Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Give me chance to refinance

Euro neuro, I got no ambition
For high position in competition
With air condition
Different mission, different school
I got only one rule
Always stay cool
Like a swimming pool

Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Monetary break dance
Euro Neuro, Euro Neuro
Give me chance to refinance

Project: Bettervision

As we are drawing closer to Eurovision 2012, I must repeat what I said after ESC 2011: If we look at the impact a song may have as soft power, then we, the voters, should vote for the song that helps propagate thoughts and actions for a better world. Let's make Eurovision a Bettervision!

2012-03-19

Looks chilly outside

4/42 Valuste. Looks deceive. It's actually quite warm. Snow is melting.

2012-03-17

Tall order

3/42 - sometimes, this is exactly what I feel like. Pärnu mnt southbound, driving 90 kph.


At the photographer

2/42 Visited the photographer, who oddly enough wasn't me.



2012-03-15

Living in small spaces

1/42: At a hair dresser in Lihula, Estonia. Small room, full of stuff, and this window decoration mirrors the room very well.