I do like this word game…maybe as not native to the language, I’m used to see them from how they sound, rather then what they mean…which just makes the game more interesting, does it? This thought brought some memories about perception…when we just moved into UK and I’ve been making my way to where I am now, starting from the bottom of the packing factory, working shifts with the teenagers who can’t be bothered to go to university. Our shift was ok, fun to work with, all my colleagues were the almost the age of my son, but we did have fun. And part of it was – teaching each other language. So being teenagers, naturally, they asked me about selective words in Russian…and while I refused to teach them the curse words (yes, I used to be a prudent lady once upon a time...???!), the next they wanted to learn how to say in Russian was – “I love you”…well…you know how it is easier to learn the words by association? To my great amusement and somewhat mixed feelings, my teenagers have found a remarkable association with the word “love”…In Russian it pronounced as “lubliu” so the easiest way for them to remember it turned out to be of rather hygienical words: “blue” “loo” [you see, when you try to pronounce them, you’ll get it almost right with the slight accent: “looblue”]… oh well…not that much romantic, but at least memorable…And to be honest, I do it myself all the time – when come across new word, I would just search for a native association in the sound of it…sometimes it could be truly funny...
OK, so back to the Casualties of Today…
Today on the menu there was a casual rain in the morning. I’ve been driving behind a lorry of the haulage company called Knights of Old...they have a pretty picture of the armoured knight on his horse on the back of the lorry, right in front of my eyes…and since the music played on my ipod just happened to be that sticky medieval ballad of Cat Stevens “Lady d'Arbanville”, for a time of the song I had this pleasure of feeling myself being taken back in time to the past centuries…the rain made the boundaries of reality smeared into the vignette of my window, the voice of the guitar in love created the atmosphere and I felt I could follow my Knight to the end of the Land…thankfully the lorry turned to the industrial estate where my office is…otherwise god knows where I would end up by the end of this journey!
A casual event of network being down. From support point of view it is easier when the whole network is down, as you only need to deal with one point of failure…it is when we allow users to get into things, the helpdesk gets really hot…Not sure if the users see it this way though…
A casual problems on my list To Do…had a window man came over to quote for a new window…the complex chain of ideas in the woman’s head…never turns out cheap…never!…I had this dream of a new bathroom suite, completed with new tiling, new flooring and new lighting. And of course one should start with new window as well. So I though: why not get a quote for the window then think of the next issue, when it’s due…one at a time…but I’ve got stuck on the first pre-stage, shocked by the price and considering this was only a small portion of all the changes I’d like to make, I’m now in a grieve for my new bathroom for it might never materialise…
The other casual thing on my list is a visit to my favourite doctor – dentist. So if anyone out there can let me know of a good compassionate dentist and can also come with me to hold my hand during the torture…[~ faints while thinking of it]… For my fear of the dentists is not just the fear, but The Fear, the one that makes you drop unconscious before entering the surgery…
A casual glance into the mirrow - "you look boring, dear" - time to see my newly discovered sweet swiss hairdresser...just another casual thing to add to the list...
Well, guess, this would be all for now…no more causalities worth mentioning so far…and just to light up the day – some Murphy’s Philosophy for you:
Whenever you don't want to do something, is exactly when it needs to be done…
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
If you have a clear mind, you don't get to think
Coincedence doesn not exist, everything happens for a random reason
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going on