Dr. Filomena

luksemburška ovca (foto: dr. filomena)

Moja obsesija z ovcami bodisi izvira iz nezavednega ali pa se je tja pred kratkim preselila. Tale ovnica namreč po novem sanja o čredah ovčic človeške sorte in o njihovih bolj ali manj uspešnih pastirjih.

V nasprotju z mnogimi znanci sem prepričana, da se velika večina ljudi v politiko poda z najboljšimi nameni ne glede na to ali to storijo kot mladi junci ali kot izkušeni mački s kakšnega drugega področja. Res je tudi, da verjamem, da s(m)o ljudje načeloma dobri in da je pokvarjenih sociopatov, ki jim ni prav nič mar za soljudi, bore malo. Prvi skok v vode dejavnega političnega življenja je torej po moji predpostavki poln dobrih namenov.

Ustvarjal/a (v nadaljnjem besedilu uporabljam moški spol, velja pa tudi za v politiki manj zastopanega) bom novo politiko. Drugačno kot pokvarjenci, ki so jo krojili do zdaj. Ne bom prodal svojih načel. Ne bom sklepal gnilih kompromisov. V zgodovino naroda se bom zapisal kot svež veter, ki je v birokratske strukture pognal svež veter, počistil z nesnago in nepotizmom. Pomagal bom mladini do ustrezne izobrazbe, starejšim zagotovil človeka vredne pokojnine, vsem omogočil dostop do primerne zdravstvene oskrbe. Itd.

Z varne razdalje se zdi, da je prevzem oblasti precej stresna reč. Tudi, če vzpon na vrh uspe najtrdnejšemu in najbolj izkušenemu, ki je hkrati dovolj zrel, da se zaveda, da zmaga ne pripada njemu ampak skupini ljudi, ki si je zanjo prizadevala s skupnimi močmi, celotna posadka pa ne izgubi stika z dejstvom, da na svojem položaju zgolj začasno opravlja naloge, ki ji ga je zaupalo volilno telo, so skušnjave hude.

Boj se prijateljev.

Izstavijo se računi, z vseh strani letijo s sladko lepljivo bunkico ali pa strupenim kavljem opremljene puščice želja in zahtev. Zdaj bomo videli, kdo je resnično trden in ob zavedanju, da so kompromisi nujno zlo zrelega odnosa v katerem koli delu človeške družbe, začenši z vsakim posameznim parom, bomo lahko ocenjevali, koliko bo kdo pripravljen popustiti pri katerem izmed svojih načel in kje bo postavil mejo.

Vrh je osamljen in zelo izpostavljen kraj. Spremlja vas nekaj milijonov oči. Srečno!

Še vedno optimistična,
dr. Filomena… težko vodljiva ovnica

hram svetega Save v Beogradu (foto: dr. filomena)

Njegošev spomenik v Cetinju (foto: dr. filomena)

…says: I Don’t Plum You

We’re off to Belgrade. Catch you all later! 🙂

Cheers!

Let’s see what you think 😉

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Photo by dr. Fil, taken on Mt. Triglav

In Italy, Corriere della Sera published news of a beauty pageant  for… Catholic nuns. The pageant is open to all nuns between the ages of 18 and 40.

Italian nuns will be able to show the world God’s gift of beauty by sending their photos to priest Antonio Rungi (southern Italian diocese of Modragone) who will publish the photos online and visitors to his blog can vote on the photos.”Miss Sister Italy”, the first beauty pageant of its type to take place in Rome, aims to challenge the stereotype of old and sad nuns. Father Rungi said it was the nun’s idea and that he expects about 1,000 contestants. “Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God,” priest Rungi told a daily Italian newspaper. He continued explaining how beauty is not restricted to what we see on television and that young and vital foreign nuns will be participating. (source)

I shall hereby apply self-censorship and not say exactly what I think about this particular contest. Humm, I wonder if it will contribute to an increase in eating disorders in nunneries. Oh wait… silly me!

Photo by dr.filomena: Butterfly (moth?) grounded on Mt. Triglav (click to enlarge)

I just cannot believe my bad luck! Just as I decided to go back to law school, I found that everything I learned a long time ago is now obsolete and I will truly have to start from scratch.

I was quite aware that based on the 49:26 vote in the National Assembly back in May, a new Criminal Code will enter into force in Slovenia on 1 November 2008. I was furthermore aware that contrary to what I was once taught, Slovenian criminal legislation has introduced life sentence, semi-public records of pedofiles and several other novelties.

I admit that I did not know, however, that Slovenia introduced additional definitions of criminal offences, such as the “Meeting of People” (sestajanje oseb), “Grand Filth” (velika svinjarija) and “Minor Filth” (majhna svinjarija). I thank Minister Mate and Prime Minister Janša for the pointers!

I do not think law books by some dusty old Professors compromised by the system of yesteryear will come in handy in any respect. I have resolved to study by watching live TV broadcasts from the National Assembly and reports from news conferences held by the Government’s Ministers.

If I fail an exam, I will know exactly whom to blame! And whom to ask for deus ex machina assistance.

Photo by dr.filomena: Rinka Waterfall (click to enlarge)

hodim po robu
miže
in tipam pravo pot

prsti se zlivajo s skalami
pozdravljajo drobne kaplje
ki drvijo mimo
in se ne zavedo, da so

dokler se ne umirijo
daleč od izvira
najdejo mir in globino

jaz pa še kar hodim
miže
in tipam pravo pot
brez strahu
se vzpenjam in padam

vedno v tvojo dlan

photo by dr. Filomena: a snail in the Alps

I must apologize to this blog’s fan for not having written anything in a long time. Time, along with the other three or five, is another dimension I find difficult to escape from. Though second-hand smoking in Dutch coffee shops that have recently gone tobacco-clean might help somewhat.

Just a couple of sentences on music, however, before I delve back into work.

Music means the world to me. It wakes up every atom of my body and lifts my spirit. (Which in turn helps me lift a broom and do some housework, for example.) Music fills me and takes me places I wouldn’t see or feel otherwise. It’s an essential part of my existence.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of enjoying the concert of La Scala’s Philharmonic orchestra at Ljubljana’s Cankarjev dom and the feeling was incredible. Everyone on the stage could have performed as a soloist. And I cannot imagine that anyone among them does not wish to a certain degree that she or he’d been given the opportunity to show off their mastery. And yet they performed as a team, perfectly in tune with each other, every one of them taking the spotlight at one point of the evening or another while the rest subsided ever so gently and courteously for a moment.

The end result was complete harmony that radiated a true love for music and the smiling faces in the orchestra sent out a loud and clear message:

La vita è bella!

Back to nature, my friends. Going for a trek in the mountains may be one of the few ways to escape the Big Brother’s all-knowing eye. In the country where Privacy is or rather used to be one of the very top values not to mention human rights.

I just came from a lecture by the former CEO of one of the largest and most successful European-based multinationals who made several comments on how democracy in its pluralistic form is terribly inefficient and who claimed that the fact that nowadays the more people oppose the system the more highly regarded they are in terms of academic prizes is unnatural. As he put it, back in the days of tribes, people who opposed the way the society worked were killed. As humanity progressed, they were tolerated. Now, they are awarded. Right.

Just after that, I heard that the fact that I listened to Schnappi das kleine Krokodil (more than once, as well!) would now be known to Viacom due to a US court ruling. What the $#% does Viacom care if I like a certain crocodile??? He’s cute! I will follow developments with regard to this issue with great interest as the US court ordered Google to divulge the database that contains the unique login ID of the user who watched any YouTube video, the time when the user watched it, the IP address (unique online identifier) of the computer used to watch the video and the identifier for the video (source).

I wonder how many Americans still have that ‘over my dead body’ gut response to corporations collecting their information. Isn’t it Google that is launching an online medical record database system where you can keep all your medical records and your entire medical history with diagnoses?

Collectively, people’s hindsight is gradually degrading from 20-20 to 09-11.

Repeat after me. We are all individuals.

Mountains, here I come!

Why riding a bike to work beats using the car.
Celovška cesta, Ljubljana