Author: mc7858attitude

The declining strength of the fourth power.

A kiosk was for sale nearby our home.
The old man running it was probably tired and put a note asking for 45.000 euro.
I wondered about buying it and thus enter the alluring world of press.
Afterwards, I remarked that the following kiosk was also on the market as well as others around the town.
Probably the business is declining, notwithstanding the innumerable effects on sale with the papers nowadays.
One day this kiosk closed down and a new notice informed that the price was negotiable.
Last Wednesday I passed by and on the stall there was another note; the price is now 25.000, and a ghastly post-scriptum, by the owner, was informing: I am still alive!.

sliding doors

A Mr. Boubacar, French migrant living in Vitry-sur-Seine has been quoted in a paper as affirming he will have voted for Mr. Le Pen, as “ ..he will do what he say. It ought to integrate who’s here before other immigrants could come to this country”.
This reminded me about the blog ‘in and out’ (4 July 2004), and the thought on how ideas change according to one’s different position.
And also about Italian migrants in South Africa, most of them recently arrived in that country, but among the most racist towards ‘the others’.

Riferimenti: old blog

Approaching a third life

During my first life I evolved in a very tiny area including all the places I had to go to (schools, home, civil service, university, boy scouts, the first job). It was an area of approximately 10 square kilometres.

In my second life I travelled the world: more than 20 countries in 4 continents (missing Oceania and Antarctic). Here is the list: Cambodia, South Africa, Mozambique, Macedonia, Guatemala, Bosnia, Albania, Palestine, Spain, UK, Chad, Togo, Cambodia, Botswana, Moldova, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Ecuador, Indonesia, Malawi, Belgium, Cambodia again, Ivory Coast (twice), Congo, Venezuela).

As for now, I am close to my third life; for the first time an indeterminate-time contract (‘il posto’), pension scheme, paid holidays, etc.

I should stay 4 years in the same place and then swap over to another country, for 3 or 4 times, until getting to my 4th life.

(à suivre)?..

Haircut


One of Charlie Brown’s phrases I prefer is: I would drown my sorrows over an haircut.

The other day, also if at moment I have no major worries, I went to the barber shop.

It wasn’t a very simple task though, as nowadays it is quite difficult to find an ordinary barber shop. Generally one can find a unisex coiffeur or a beauty saloon…… I had to walk a lot.

Check the result yourselves.

Results

On April the 2nd 2004 I denounced in the blog “500 redundant meters” the painful trip passengers coming from or going to the Airport were obliged to do in order to get the train to Fiumicino.

The complaint was successful and after only three years (almost) the trains stops now on a regular way.

Still no way to get a ticket from the automatic machines, though.

Riferimenti: See the previous blog