My blog vacation is over. I felt I needed some time on my own - without reflecting my private feelings openly on the web. 1 and a half month later Im ready to share my views with you once again (and to update my flickr pictures: mom's wedding, south of...
Hitler, Mussolini, Bin laden, Saddam.... and now Fritzl. A name not difficult to remember. Especially if you work at a news channel. I think its because of the Z. The day the news broke to the media, with alot less details than we now have of course,...
...of the old educational system in France. I have been watching a show on France 3 (Oh, I do watch something else than CNN? What a surprise!) on the French university and how it is crumbling in comparison to other European institutions. A young student...
I have been reading interesting articles lately on the "mother country". Not about its financial troubles but about all the lists it tends to top - being one of the happiest country, after Denmark, the most peaceful one (with no army), book loving and...
After all that buzz last week: France 24 might be closed down (at least the english and arabic sides), lots of people coming forward (even ministers in the government) saying that it is a bad idea exc. - it still seems to be a waiting game. The unions...
The financial CRISIS - its all you hear about, its all the media care about and no matter how many reports I have listened to I still don't know why it happened and how its actually going to affect average citizens, the ones who never had enough money...
I have been contemplating how obsessed France is with its media, or more exactly obsessed by the people in it. Beeing a journalist here has a total different meaning to what I imagine it has in other countries. At least from what I have been able to experience...
I have figured out the difference between a journalist and a editorialist (the latter should actually include the former but its not necessary to go in the other direction). I never actually wanted to be a journalist - how can the information of Presidential...
The french prepare to strike, yet again. This transport strike is expected to last, however it is very unlikely that the government will give in to the strikers' demand - this being the first real test for the government of Nicolas Sarkozy (normally you...
Nice to go out 3 months later and get your ipod, mobile phone and adress book stolen!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just to make sure that you can definatly not be in contact with your best friends or your boyfriend. You got to love it!!! Call me...
Well, here I am - asking myself the same question yet again. After surfing the net endlessly for some news, something else,something different (and wondering whether the word news does really come from the word "new")- Im not satisfied. I want to learn,...
Hello, my name is Kolka and Im a News junkie. "Hello Kolka" I come before you because I am aware of my addiction, and I want to try to control it. My case is not so uncommun. For instance yesterday I looked at the clock anxiously every 2 minutes for half...
I've realised why it is that I dont blog more often - its not the lack of ideas (Always seem to have the greatest ones so far away from a computer and then they simply get forgotten), Or my perfectionism which often hinders me from doing so many other...
When you work in international news, it seems that you are always covering the same stories - melting of polar ice-caps, middle east peace proces,repressing regimes, train bombings, deadly bird flu outbreaks, opposition protests and so on. When it comes...
Sitting in a restaurant the other day, I was very involved in a discussion about marriage - why people get married - how life has changed nowadays exc. I have been maybe a bit silly during the years but I've told anyone who want's to hear it that I don't...
I feel I have to say more about the presidential debate - after hearing the reactions today and just the general aftermath following Royal and Sarkozy's televised confrontation- I have to say that once again my fellow citizens have surprised me - beyond...
I know you are hundreds if not thousands who haven't figured how to comment on this blog. And you're dying to. It's very easy, just follow these steps and don't get turned off if you get some messages in french: 1. click on "commentaires" 2. Nom: Write...
I'm so busy I dont have time to deal with life. So it passes by.. faster and faster and suddenly I realise I haven't called my mother in ages... Wish I didn't realise these things always at 3 a.m. Then I could actually do something about it. This time...
I am a quitter. Yes I think I have established that. I startthings and then I give up. Can't be bothered really ("Do I look likeI'm bothered?") I remember when I was a teenager and I joined the chess team - thatdidn't last for long. Perhaps I joined the...
It's been almost a month. A month to think about what I'm doing with this page. I have no idea. I dont want to be too personal, talk about the people I'm seeing, or my feelings - but I don't have the time or the will to do a regular input on every film...
What is it with french voters? They just love being dominated. The people as a whole, french women in particular. They dont even hesitate to vote for the most egocentric and offensive candidate in the first round of the presidential election. The candidate...
This was written the 19th of february 2007: "Meanwhile Rice, Olmert and Abbas meet for talks in Jerusalem where everyone will agree on a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, except that Hamas will not regognise Israel, the international community...
What is it with authority? I don't like it. I don't like when its forced upon me (which does happen but then I have a really bad reaction - I get all red and yell at people) and I don't like to use it on people. Why cant we just all get along? (hehehe.....
All the people that I love...are not here. Some are - but many are not. So - Something has to be done about that. So little missy is going to London in may (my early birthday present - because I believe I deserve it) and then its Iceland in july - to...
et je n'es pas sommeil. A quote from a famous french song. A beautiful one on parisian life at night. A song I used to listen sometimes on my bike on my way to work at 4 in the morning last summer. I preferred though the other one by the same artist about...
