I'm going home...
Is home the place you live?
Is home where your family is?
Is home the city you were born?
Is home the country of your passport?
Is home where you spent most of your life?
Is home an emotional place?
the answer depends on the audience...
but sometimes the answer is "I don't know!" because the concept of having several homes is generally not well understood by single-homed people.
That's why on the same return flight I'm going home on both ways :)
jeudi 25 février 2010
mardi 23 février 2010
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Oui, je l'avoue aujourd'hui j'ai râlé... j'ai même juré! enfin sur ce soir parce que sinon ce fût une belle journée ensoleillée et j'étais contente, j'ai même évité le train du retour. Mais... moins de 10 mètres après avoir passé la caisse du supermarché mon sachet plastique s'est troué et je me suis retrouvée avec une bouteille d'eau dans les bras. Puis je suis allée à la pharmacie (et cette fois pourtant je n'ai pas excédé les 7 jours de validité de l'ordonnance) mais après 10 mins de tergiversations il n'a pas voulu me vendre les médicaments..... à chaque fois ils me font le coup! Cette fois, l'excuse était qu'il manquait le résultat des analyses sur la prescription. Bon, comme j'ai râlé... et oui, j'en ai assez de demander au médecin de me refaire les ordonnances (et surtout de perdre mon temps à aller les chercher et de faire la queue à la pharmacie), le brave pharmacien m'a fait une copie des contraintes légales. Comme ça je suis prévenue. Même quand tout va bien, il faut de toute façon y aller deux fois, vu qu'ils n'ont systématiquement qu'une boîte en stock et qu'il m'en faut deux! Voilà, je prends le bus et grâce à mon sac plastique d'une exceptionnelle qualité... ma bouteille de lait passe à travers et roule tout le long du couloir central du bus lorsqu'il freine (et j'ai toujours mon sac+le sachet+ la 1ere bouteille d'eau dans les bras). Puis je rentre. J'arrive dans l'impasse avec mes deux sachets et il y a un monsieur qui s'est arrêté en plein milieu avec à gauche les scooters, à droite les pots de fleurs et les poubelles... impossible de passer! Je râle et perds patience (j'ai presque épuisé ma patience). Une fois que je suis chez moi, je lance une machine à laver sans oublier de débrancher le chauffe-eau parce que je n'ai pas envie de redescendre les 4 étages pour aller remettre les plombs qui auront sauté. Je vais prendre ma douche... mauvaise surprise: froide! même pas tiède mais carrèment froide, le top! Je ne sais pas par quel mystère le chauffe-eau n'a pas chauffé aujourd'hui. Puis je dîne en surveillant bien les casseroles parce qu'il ne manquerait plus que ça brûle....
Voilà! alors vous avez compris, ce soir celui qui essaie de m'appeler il ferait mieux de rappeler demain!
Voilà! alors vous avez compris, ce soir celui qui essaie de m'appeler il ferait mieux de rappeler demain!
Mais finalement ce ne sont que des caprices d'enfant gâté qui a de l'eau courante potable à domicile (sans compter que l'eau froide favorise la circulation sanguine), possède les moyens d'acheter de l'eau en bouteille et du lait, a la possibilité de se faire soigner et obtenir des médicaments de qualité, et peut se déplacer seule à la nuit tombée sans crainte et sans risque.
jeudi 4 février 2010
mardi 2 février 2010
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My supervisor arrived on Monday with his beard cut ... a shock for the entire office :) A colleague couldn't look at him because he was too afraid to laugh recording a series he watched the day before where a wife cut her husband's beard during the night because he had done bad (?) things. It reminded of the story of Samson and Dalila. As it seems you don't know that story from the Bible, here it is:
Judges 16
Samson and Delilah
1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. 2 The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."
3 But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels [a] of silver."
6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."
7 Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh thongs [b] that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man."
8 Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh thongs that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. 9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the thongs as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied."
11 He said, "If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man."
12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.
13 Delilah then said to Samson, "Until now, you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied."
He replied, "If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man." So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric 14 and [c] tightened it with the pin.
Again she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength." 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.
17 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite set apart to God since birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come back once more; he has told me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 19 Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. [d] And his strength left him.
20 Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!"
He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison. 22 But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
The Death of Samson
23 Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, "Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands."
24 When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,
"Our god has delivered our enemy
into our hands,
the one who laid waste our land
and multiplied our slain."
25 While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.
When they stood him among the pillars, 26 Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them." 27 Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. 28 Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." 29 Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, 30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
31 Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led [e] Israel twenty years.
Samson and Delilah
1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. 2 The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."
3 But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels [a] of silver."
6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."
7 Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh thongs [b] that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man."
8 Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh thongs that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. 9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the thongs as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied."
11 He said, "If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man."
12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.
13 Delilah then said to Samson, "Until now, you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied."
He replied, "If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man." So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric 14 and [c] tightened it with the pin.
Again she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength." 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.
17 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite set apart to God since birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come back once more; he has told me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 19 Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. [d] And his strength left him.
20 Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!"
He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison. 22 But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
The Death of Samson
23 Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, "Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands."
24 When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,
"Our god has delivered our enemy
into our hands,
the one who laid waste our land
and multiplied our slain."
25 While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.
When they stood him among the pillars, 26 Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them." 27 Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. 28 Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." 29 Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, 30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
31 Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led [e] Israel twenty years.
lundi 1 février 2010
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The first question that crossed my mind this morning when I opened my eyes was "How am I gonna dress today?" It was one of the most urgents to solve as soon as I got out of bed. A day is then full of questions and decisions.
Who was the lady from South Africa on the phone? Should I buy the annual ticket or the monthly one? Is it necessary to give "the destiny" a push or life is going to happen by its own?* = proactive or passive? Should I pierce this white little bubble on my thumb? What shall we do with these flights? Did my brother come back safe from Paris? Am I going to that GBU camp at the end of March? Is India really a good idea?
were some questions of the day - most of them still waiting for an answer -
and now I'm tired ... time to rest :) tomorrow will be a new day!
were some questions of the day - most of them still waiting for an answer -
and now I'm tired ... time to rest :) tomorrow will be a new day!
* well this one needs a comment: what I mean here by destiny is more the sequence of events in life. I don't believe in destiny as the hidden power controlling what will happen in the future. Yes, I'm convinced that every single thing that happen is known to God: He is omniscient and this includes by definition that He has the knowledge of the future; He has also everything under control but this doesn't mean He is going to intervene on everything. In deed God gave us the entire freedom and thus the full responsibility to choose for ourselves what we want to do with our lifes! This question of decision making is therefore complex as it involves both the sovereignty of God (in and on my life : I trust him and don't want to go against his will) and my own judgement coming from the freedom I was granted.
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