Birdists

Aasa says:
I would be a bird. But I don't think I would be a tropical bird, like you
But a blue bird maybe
Rahul says:
oh...
Aasa says:
with some tiny spots of something
Rahul says:
not many birds that color
Aasa says:
nope
Rahul says:
pigeon?
haha
Aasa says:
nope
haha
people are
mean to the pigeons
not nice
I am on the
side of birds
all of them
Rahul says:
yeah, here they
are called flying rats
Aasa says:
shouldn't be bird-racist
Aasa says:
I HATE that. I know. I like pigeons
"Walking rats" are the ones who call them that...hehehe
Rahul says:
birdists
Aasa says:
yupp, exactly!
...
Maybe I should blog that! - Fight for the freedom of birds
(oh, that's sortof a paradoxal sentence) hehe
Rahul says:
your blog will soon turn into 3am posts

Socialist?
You scored 92 Equality, 64 Liberty, and 35 Stability!
You are a bit difficult to classify. You may well be socialist. However your greater than average commitment to equality may make you more of a Utopian Socialist. On the other hand your secondary commitment to liberty may make you a Social-Liberal. Check both links and see what you think.
I think this picture was a littel funny, haha!

Take the:
Political Objectives Test

THANK YOU!

I just wanted to say a thank you to those of you who have commented my blog.
Its an inspiration for me and its great to see that somebody is reading
and also have some thoughts about those things I say.
When blogging you sometimes feel that you are shouting out in the darkness
and people are just passing by not hearing you or just plainly are not interested
Comments makes a difference and fuels my writing...
...It makes me continue this blog, which has become something I really enjoy doing.

Thank you all, you are lovely!
Lots of warm, hugs
~ Aasa

I HAVE A DREAM.........

I want to go away, I want to run away.
I want to travel to exotic new places, where everything is fresh and exciting.
I have traveled so many times, but its never enough.
I want to be on the road, see the dust leave behind me. Explore, get thrilled, move, move, move.
I want to smell new scents, see things I don't know yet, stay awake under new skies, smell the salt of oceans I have never swam in.
This is my dream, this is how I want to live. I want to suck in life through my skin. See new faces, touch new sounds with my ears.
This has always been my dream.
My restless heart wants it more than ever now.
I am longing.

I also love to hear others peoples dreams. Its inspiring, its interesting. Its like diving into somebody else's mind. It would be lovely if somebody dared to tell me. To comment, to share a little of their secret with me, even if its anonymous or not.
It would be great.

Some pictures of my fav hobby

I engaged in some good tree-climbing recently And I am still a vegetarian.....(beaver-Aasa?)

Look out trees, here I come...."Art" or coal-stick vandalism by Aasa
"Hug a beaver"

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Yesterday I suddenly got smacked in the face by my own expectations.
You see, normally I live life very much without them, but in certain areas they sometimes build up huge and ruin everything for me. So I got to thinking about expectations in general

I can just give you an easy example from our everyday-life.
The Matrix films.
Do you remember the first one? The first one was cool, right? I really liked it. It was new, it was fresh at that time, it had something going.
There was something universal and true with many of the messages it wanted to send. Quotes like "Stop trying to hit me, and hit me" made me grin and nod agreeingly.

Later I went to see the second one.
I remember that when I was watching it, I had the feeling that I was waiting for something. Something that never came. I thought it was a very bad movie.
But was it so bad just because it was not made well?
I think, for me, only partly. The strongest reason I didn't like it, was because it didn't live up to the expectations I had built for it.
So......Maybe I could have enjoyed it more just for what it was if I didn't have those huge expectations?

I can also give an other example, and maybe a very common one.
The idea that the media and film industry pours out to us every day...That some day somebody is going to save us. That some day we will meet a person that "completes us". That some day we will find a somebody that will take away the pain that is living and make it into just happiness - "happily ever after"
Maybe it is not a conscious wish in all of us, but I am very sure that it lies in the bottom of the unconscious sea of so, so many people.

To me this says a lot. Expectations to life seem to narrow it in a way. It put frames to how we live, it makes our experiences smaller. It makes us not enjoy what is in the present, because of our thoughts of how it should be.
It makes us create life into a recipe It makes us not accept life as it really is, with all its pain and joy. It makes us wait and linger for something we don't have. And most important of all....It makes us forget the only thing we really have in life, the very moment right now!

A shrunken Taynor in the pocket?

I have had a "punkduck" in my life for more than a year now
He is a total lifesaver. So, today's post is just a yay for you Taynor and for all the great talks and all the times we have saved eachother with them. Lots of hugs
~ Aasa

Aasa says:
damn, you surprise me every time I talk with you
cant I have like a regular doses if you talk inserted into my brain ?
Punkduck says:
I think I surprise myself when I talk to you!
Well there's a diagram for you to follow there
Aasa says:
hehehehe
oh, I need a pukduck to keep me straight
Punkduck says:
I know
Aasa says:
cant you come to barca and talk sense to me now and then
Punkduck says:
Regular chats with you does the same for me too!
I'd love to!
Aasa says:
so come!
hehe
Punkduck says:
On Friday I find out whether I might be getting this job
If I get it then I'm all yours
Aasa says:
oh wow
Punkduck says:
Do you know that you're the only person I ever get philosophical with ever?
Aasa says:
hm?
Punkduck says:
You're the only one I philosophize with
Aasa says:
that's nice :) in a way
cool
Punkduck says:
It's true
I don't know why
Aasa says:
hmmm
Punkduck says:
You're the only person I am sure of that likes it
Or is interested
Aasa says:
for sure
:):):)
Punkduck says:
And do you know what's cool?
Aasa says:
nope?
Punkduck says:
I never seem to say the wrong thing to you?
Aasa says:
well, maybe because there is no wrong thing to say
but I know what you mean
its just relaxed
Punkduck says:
Or that you never see it as wrong either
Aasa says:
yeah, that was sortof what I meant, it just came out a little weird
Punkduck says:
I know
Aasa says:
hehe, of course you do
Punkduck says:
Yeah, true
Aasa says:
maybe I can shrink you and have you in my pocket for instant guidance and help and cuddle when ever needed ??
Punkduck says:
Very very good idea
Aasa says:
we can swith now and then
switch
Punkduck says:
Yeah, I'd like an Aasa in my pocket

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
uuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a tincan that has been peeled open the last days.
I am taking a course with breathing techniques and such.
Suddenly I have no defense at all.
I am totally open and everything from my past is flashing trough me
PAAAAAAAIN!
Argh!
Sometimes life can be a little too much to Handel. Especially if you are into self-undersanding and evolving. God I miss the good old days when I just ran away from my pain and didn't feel it, haahahahahah!
~ Aasa

Is there such a thing as "good" and "bad" in anything?
Who are you? What are you? Where are you?
What can you take responsibility for in life?
What can you not take responsibility for?
What is the cause of happiness?
What makes you happy?
Does objectivity exist?
What is happiness?

Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

New mail

Oh, By the way. To those of you that I am in touch with and that had me on your contacts from before. I have a new mail address: aasa_sin@hotmail.com
I cannot get access to the old one
I will not respond to anybody I don't know who uses this to contact me or add me to MSN
~ Aasa

The personality plus profiler test
LINK: Take the test

If you take this test please feel free to write your score in the comments.
Its always fun to see
~ Aasa

My score (shortened):
Sanguine
64 Sanguine, 14 Melancholy, 28 Choleric, 28 Phlegmatic
Hail to you who is SANGUINE!!!

Oh how the world needs the Fun Sanguine. The lift of joy in troubled times. The touch of innocence in a jaded era. The gift of humor when we're heavy hearted. The enthusiasm and energy to start over and over again. The creativity and charm to color a drab day. The simplicity of a child in complex situations.

Here is why you totally rock:
You are enthusiastic, excitable, talkative, a story teller, cheerful, sincere, wide eyed & innocent, curious, emotional, and fun. You are adaptable, you live in the present, and you have a good sense of humor. In your workplace, you think up new activities,volunteer for jobs, start in a flashy way, charm others to join, inspire others to work, have boundless energy, and you are creative and colorful. You make friends easily, love people, turn disaster into humor, are exciting, and envied by others, don't hold grudges, apologize quickly, prevent dull moments & like spontaneous activities.

Here is how you suck:
You are a compulsive talker who elaborates, gets lost in tangents, and can't remember names. You have too much energy for some. You are egotistical, naive, easily angered, restless, and disorganized. At work you are forgetful, don't follow through, undisciplined, your priorities are out of order, you would rather talk than work, you decide by feelings and are easily distracted. As a friend you want credit and want to be liked. You dominate conversations and interrupt.

And yet still, you are everyone's favorite, deservedly so, because you are so wonderful! I mean, everyone has weaknesses, but at least you are interesting! You make life into an adventure. You rock.

Just a thought...
If you had to choose between sex and food for the rest of your life
(of course understood that you would survive without food, and no sex in any way)
Which would you choose to keep?

Challenge To The Reader - a re-posting

Today I don't want to post anything of my own.
I give a challenge to the readers of this blog.

Daily there are about 100 people who pop by it on average, and I see that of these 100 only about 3 or 4 make a comment.
I guess some just find it boring or not interesting or relevant to them and then its totally fine.

But then you have some that I see returning (yes, I can see you, muhahahahahaha ;) every day and often several times in one day, but they have never left a trace. Not even once.
And I think that is a little unfair.
I mean, if you buy a newspaper you pay for it right?
But this is totally free....only..... one of the things that fuel this blog is the comments and the conversations that can start through the comments.
Example: I can sit one day, looking at the people visiting I think "Oh, there's this person from England visiting, that I have never talked to or heard from.
I wonder who this person is. What are their lives like?"

"Why does this person come to my blog", I think.
"Looking for something?"
"Like my posts or not?"

Yes, I am watching ya

"Are they just bored?"
"Entertained?"

So, I think you who read this get the challenge by now.
Tell me a little. It can be anything. Something about you, were you live, what you do. Something you think about or just an opinion on my blog. If you hate it, like it, or are indifferent.
Just post as anonymous if you want to.

I just want to know, cause sometimes this feels like shouting out in the darkness, wondering..."Do they listen or just don't give a damn?"
And then I wonder if it would be a better idea for me just to keep this blog un-official, like the other one I have online.

So give me something dear readers :)

Lots of good wishes
Aasa

This is a dedication to the wonderful.........

Zebra

PHOTOS
Yesterday me and my friend Stig went out for a little treeclimbing and phototaking.

These are some of the results:This is Stig. He is one of the most good-hearted people I know

This is me looking down at you

This is you looking down at me

This is Stig in a tree

Sometimes I wish I was a plant.
Or a bird.
If I get an existential crisis I just go and lay down
On grass
And close my eyes
And listen to the sounds of nature.
It makes me feel very "basic"
And not so complicated anymore
Like now

PICTURES ON WALLS
Here are some new pictures from the site "Pictures on walls"
I have included a couple of old ones for new readers.
If you cant read clearly - click on the images and they will appear larger

If you want to see more pictures, check out the site

Also you can see which pictures I posted the last time here.

DISCOVERIES
I just had two revelations.
One was quite hard for me to come up with, since I am not so good at that stuff, and the other one was quite evident.
The first one is that I have an anniversary with myself. I have had this blog for one year. Yay and congrats myself (Thank you myself)

The other one is that I am sun-burned out of my wits.
I did the horrible mistake of moving my body down to the sea bringing and interesting book. An act like this is highly dangerous.
The same effect can also come with interesting people, who you end up talking with.
Let me give all of you out there a very good advice:
Bring yourself and an interesting books or people far away from the sun.

Now some people will claim that sun-screen will rescue a situation like that, but never listen to them. I have quite the suspicion that these people are saying things likle that because of an evil plot. They are just trying to trick you, so you will stay home, making it possible for them to talk to the interesting people instead of you. Meanwhile you will be in bed all burned down under you sheets, making firetrucks jealous of your colour.

No, there are also two very good reasons why their sun-screen argument is not true.
First of all , there is never any sunscreen around in situations like that. It always seem to have wandered off to some other place. (God knows where to)
And second of all, the interesting people, or book will always distract you and make you forget all about the sunscreen, even if you have it and it didn't wander off.

So the best thing I can say is.
Hmmmmmmmmm, let me think now, I might have gone a little off track.
Hmm, yeah....
Stay away from interesting stuff as long as its not in the shadow.

And a lovely evening to all of you.
Lots hugs with following pain-hauls from
~ Aasa

Mrhrhrhrgrgrhrrr

Am I the only one who doesn't care about this world-cup?

Accommodation in Oslo

A lot of people have lately asked me about places to stay in Oslo for a good price. I found a list with private homes that rent out rooms, which I think right now is the most reasonable in price according to what you get for it. As far as I can see all of these are close to the city-centre, but I would ask just in case if you call them.
(A comment here made me think I should add something. The prices are in Norwegain kroners. If you are unsure, 1 Euro is about 8 NOK.)
Here follows the list:

Private accommodation in Oslo:

Tore Haug 22 55 43 79/
91 88 49 74 Huitfeldtsgt. 29, 6.etg.
130, - *, 170, - with sheets
145, - per person in db room
Access to kitchen and bathroom,TV-lounge

Berit Loe 22 56 03 83
Jobb: 2299 6764, cellular phone:928 55 937
Majorstuveien 28 B
100, - *, 150, - with sheets
350, - db room
400, - db room with sheets 1 room with 5 beds
access to kitchen and
Bathroom, fridge in every room

Terje Gudmundset 22 19 2636
Cellular phone:
95 10 68 34, Urtegata 48 (corner of Tøyengata), 5th floor.
150, - beds made
+ 15, - if you a’re only staying one night

Frode & Ragnar
22 35 23 08, cellular phone: 90 01 36 61 Haslevn. 8
www.hasleveien.com
340, - pr. room
225, - pr. sg room
130, - for extra bed
600, - house for 1-5 persons Access to kitchen and bathroom

Jørn Jensen & Claudia
22 44 31 43, cell: 975 62 387
Kirkeveien 15
http://bb-oslo.home.online.no 200,- for 3 og 4-bed rooms
250, - for sg room
450, - for db room
75, - for breakfast
All beds are made

Terje Hansen
22 19 02 15, cellular phone: 90 09 06 82,
Enerhauggata 3
Shower and kitchen available.
Sg room: 200 per night
Double room 300. -
Extra person 50, -
http://oslo.steinarweb.com

Milla Stavrum
cellular phone: 90 14 18 29,
Strømsveien 31 (Våerenga) (The last area I lived in Oslo, very nice)
Økernv. 223 (Bjerke),
milla@online.no 200 per night with sheets
Minimum 3 days 4-rooms app. at Bjerke
5 room app.

Berit Memo
66 80 4418 Solbråtanvn. 26
100, - sg.
Room 1 small bedroom with fridge and cooking facillities
* if you bring your own sheets/sleeping bag

Hasleveien B&B
(Frode og Ragnar)
22352308. Cell phone: 90013661
Hasleveien 8 http://www.hasleveien.com
200 NOK sgl
300 NOK db
100 NOK extra bed
access to kitchen and bathroom

Bed & Breakfast Villa Frogner
22561960, Fax: 22 56 07 42
Nordraaksgt. 26
http://www.bedandbreakfast.no/
email: booking@bedandbreakfast.no 650 NOK sgl
375 NOK pr person in db room incl. breakfast

B&B Vigeland
(Claudia og Jørn)
22 44 31 41, Cell phone: 97 56 23 87
Kirkeveien 15, 0260 Oslo http://bb-oslo.home.online.no, email: bb-oslo@online.no
Sgl /db room 250 NOK per person.
3-4 bed room 200NOK per person.
50 NOK breakfast
35 NOK parking

Gerds B&B
Cell phone:45284837
Grønland Appartement availible,
max 6 persons, couples or people travelling together.
Minimum stay 2 nighs.
250 NOK per person
500 NOK db room
Fridge and posibillity for simple coking

Den Blå dør B&B (I grew up in this neighbourhood, its very cosy)
22 19 99 44
Skedsmogata 7,
Kitchen available for guests.
Two rooms share a bath and one room has private facilities.
10 minutes by bus from Oslo center, close to Tøyen Park and the Munch Museum.
double/twin: 350,-
Single: 250,-
Breakfast: 50,- per person

Marit’s Bed & Breakfast
22 10 60 42
Nico Hambros vei 8
single-small room: 300,-
single-large room: 350,-
extra bed: 150,-
incl. Breakfast

Sarah Coch
22375986
Sandakerveien 32

Eva Aagaard
22561332
22294967
Grefsen 3 room appartement
Ole Moes vei 11 b

William
48028315, 22157124
Hasle veien 4
Email: william@roominoslo.no 200 NOK sgl
300 NOK db
450 NOK 3 persons
600 NOK 4 persons