Johanna(my wife) and I had a 4 week vacation in Asia this summer, here are 3 pics from the trip. You can find more photos if interested at my facebook profile.
Abduls place in the Perintian Islands off the east coast of Malaysia. We stayed here a week.
Mong noi, a small village a few hours north [...]
In the far east for a month,so there wont be much stuff from me here. But if you know of anything I should not miss in Thailand, laos, Cambodia or Malaysia let me know.
I have been reading and following the Catholic priest; George V. Coyne lately. His thoughts and ideas on God are very similar to those of Irenaeus. I propose in another blog post, that this is a Christianity which was lost to the dominant type A and B theologies. Read more about this here.
Coyne says the [...]
I saw a documentary about Amos Oz tonight. You can watch it here.
He says the following towards the end of the movie;
“we live now in a world where people work harder than they should be working in order to make more money than they really need, in order to buy things they don’t really want [...]
Life in Africa
A recent article in the Economist writes that matters might not be getting better in Africa, than claimed and hoped for. Here is one claim from the article.
“the regional figure for government effectiveness has deteriorated some 17%, as has regulatory quality and the control of corruption. Africa’s performance as regards rule of law [...]
Top ten 2008
Media (like Norwegian aftenposten or, Swedish dagens industri) all over the world have commented on the fact that “skytrax” once again have voted the top 10 best airports in the world.
This year the list was as follows:
1. Hong Kong 2. Singapore Changi 3. Seoul Incheon
4. Kuala Lumpur KLIA 5. Munich 6. Kansai [...]
Swedish TV (SVT) has just started to show the Norwegian TV series; “Berlinerpoplene”. It is fantastic! I love the pictures, the story and the fact that its a good Norwegian TV production. Not too many of those have come my way.
“Berlinerpoplene” is a series of 50-minute long episodes based on Anne B. Ragde books; “Berlinerpoplene” [...]
A few years back,2003 to be exact I went to the first 46664 concert in Cape Town, South Africa. The tickets were sold out, but we (we were: Hanne, Lydia, Sergey and Johanna. Johanna and I, were in the prossess of hooking up actually,which is a totally different story) were able to get a few [...]
Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York times writes the following from a recent visit to the holy land.
He draws up two contrasts with the bad and ugly on one side;
“It is here in the Palestinian territories that you see the worst side of Israel: Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians (almost one-third of settlement [...]
Not Long ago my Wife Johanna and myself were a few days in magnificent Rome.Preparing for a trip takes time and effort, and is part of the trip itself. It was enjoyable reading up on Rome. Books, Blogs and travel sites were all a part of the planning process.
We decided to live just outside the [...]
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