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Interesting bits and pieces about life as a journalism student at Winchester University:)
Cheerios
/Mads
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Tuesday 28 April 2009
UK goes Oink
Last night it was confirmed. It has now reached the UK. The fearful swine flu.
The Times tells that 152 deaths has been linked to the flu, and in the UK 24 cases are being investigated at the moment - with fear of being carrying the disease.
So is this really anything to worry about? That's always my first thought when a 'big event out of nowhere' appears in the newspapers. Is it something that might develop to something as gruesome as the 'Spanish flu' pandemic in the 1918-19? Any similarities to the H5N1 'Bird flu' that scared people all over the globe some five years ago? Or is it just the world that has gone attention seeking?
I'm afraid I do not have the answer the world's population would like to have. I'm afraid the WHO hasn't either. Nor the media. Absolutely not the media. But until we will know for sure the actual outcome of this frightful pig disease, we will just have to wait and see.
And, yeah, by the way - Now I'll be able to take a football break without my boyfriend going mental cause of his team not doing well enough! Nottingham Forest will still be in the Championship next season, thanks to Reading-Barnsley 2-0 last night. Thanks Reading! You guys saved my summer!
Oink
/Mads
The Times tells that 152 deaths has been linked to the flu, and in the UK 24 cases are being investigated at the moment - with fear of being carrying the disease.
So is this really anything to worry about? That's always my first thought when a 'big event out of nowhere' appears in the newspapers. Is it something that might develop to something as gruesome as the 'Spanish flu' pandemic in the 1918-19? Any similarities to the H5N1 'Bird flu' that scared people all over the globe some five years ago? Or is it just the world that has gone attention seeking?
I'm afraid I do not have the answer the world's population would like to have. I'm afraid the WHO hasn't either. Nor the media. Absolutely not the media. But until we will know for sure the actual outcome of this frightful pig disease, we will just have to wait and see.
And, yeah, by the way - Now I'll be able to take a football break without my boyfriend going mental cause of his team not doing well enough! Nottingham Forest will still be in the Championship next season, thanks to Reading-Barnsley 2-0 last night. Thanks Reading! You guys saved my summer!
Oink
/Mads
Monday 27 April 2009
Everything flows..
..therefore we cannot step twice into the same river. When I step into the river for the second time, neither I nor the river are the same.
This is weird. Strange. Quite scary. And true. I guess? According to Heraclitus (540-480B.C.) this is true. According to him, everything flows. Even us.
Philosophy makes me go crazy. Different theories that assume and point out different features in our ordinary daily life that- if you spend time thinking about it- actually make some sense. Sometimes. Before I go crazy from thinking to much.
The same goes with his theory about the world being characterised by opposites. If we never were ill, hungry or in war, we would never know what it is feeling well, being full or appreciating peace. I can much easier apply this theory to my own life. I think everyone can. Especially when it comes to appreciate your own family when you've missed them for quite a while. If I always was surrounded by them I'd never feel as grateful and happy as I do nowadays when I go back to Sweden or have them over here for a week or two.
The same goes with everything we (me anyway) are able feel for and appreciate with time. I think. But like I said, I always go weird and crazy thinking to much, so maybe it's me speaking old Greek now?
Anyway, back to reality now. Monday morning and Uni starting up again. And I guess the same theory goes with this, I've appreciated my Easter holiday so much this year, since had a very busy time leading up to it... Or something.. Oh God.. Better stop before losing my mind..
Cheerios
Mads x
This is weird. Strange. Quite scary. And true. I guess? According to Heraclitus (540-480B.C.) this is true. According to him, everything flows. Even us.
Philosophy makes me go crazy. Different theories that assume and point out different features in our ordinary daily life that- if you spend time thinking about it- actually make some sense. Sometimes. Before I go crazy from thinking to much.
The same goes with his theory about the world being characterised by opposites. If we never were ill, hungry or in war, we would never know what it is feeling well, being full or appreciating peace. I can much easier apply this theory to my own life. I think everyone can. Especially when it comes to appreciate your own family when you've missed them for quite a while. If I always was surrounded by them I'd never feel as grateful and happy as I do nowadays when I go back to Sweden or have them over here for a week or two.
The same goes with everything we (me anyway) are able feel for and appreciate with time. I think. But like I said, I always go weird and crazy thinking to much, so maybe it's me speaking old Greek now?
Anyway, back to reality now. Monday morning and Uni starting up again. And I guess the same theory goes with this, I've appreciated my Easter holiday so much this year, since had a very busy time leading up to it... Or something.. Oh God.. Better stop before losing my mind..
Cheerios
Mads x
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