Schrei nach Liebe

Since it's been a long time I haven't done any post of a song, I'm going to close my "myworld" series for this year with a German song by Die Ärzte. My best friend in Germany showed me this song a week ago and I really can't stop it's melody playing in my head. I will post here the lyrics traduced by myself into English with it's German original lyrics on the side:

 Du bist wirklich saudumm / You are really damn stupid
Darum geht's dir gut / That is why you're fine
Hass ist deine Attitüde / Hatred is your attitude
Ständig kocht dein Blut / Always your blood's boiling

Alles muss man dir erklären / Everything's needs to be explained to you
Weil du wirklich gar nichts weist / Because you really don't know anything
Höchstwahrscheinlich nicht einmal / Mostly probably even not
Was Attitüde heißt / What attitude means

[Chorus:]
Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer schrei nach Liebe / Your violence is just a silent shout for love
Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach Zärtlichkeit / Your jump boots yearn for endearment
Du hast nie gelernt dich zu artikulieren / You never learnt to articulate yourself
Und deine Eltern hatten niemals für dich Zeit / And your parents never had time for you
Oh oh oh, Arschloch! / Oh oh oh, asshole!

Warum hast du Angst vorm Streicheln / Why do you fear stroking
Was soll all der Terz / What's this naggling about
Unterm Lorbeerkranz mit Eicheln / Under the laurel wreath with acorns
Weiß ich, schlägt ein Herz / I know, there's beating a heart

Und Romantik ist für dich / And romance is for you

 Nicht nur graue Theorie / Not just a gray theory
Zwischen Störkraft und den Onkelz / Between Störkraft and the Onkelz*
Steh ne Kuschelrock LP / There is a soft rock gramophone record

[Chorus]

Weil du Probleme hast die keinen interessieren / Because you've got problems that don't interest anyone
Weil du Angst vor schmusen hast / Because you are frightenend of cuddling
Bist du ein Faschist / You are fascist
Du musst deinen Selbsthass nicht auf andere projizieren / You don't have to project your self-hatred on others
Damit keiner merkt was für ein lieber Kerl du bist / For making no one know what a nice guy you are

Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer Schrei nach Liebe / Your violence is just a silent shout for love
Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach Zärtlichkeit / Your jump boots yearn for endearment
Du hast nie gelernt dich artizukulieren** / You never learnt to articulate yourself
Und deine Freundin, die hat niemals für dich Zeit / And your girlfriend, she has never time for you

Oh oh oh / Oh oh oh

Arschloch! / Asshole!

Arschloch! / Asshole!

Arschloch! / Asshole!

* Störkraft and Onkelz (the whole name: Böhse Onkelz) are two German rock groups which are well-known for their affinity to far-right politics.
** Artizukulieren is a gramatically incorrect word. The preposition zu equivals to "to" in English. In German sometimes the prepositions can appear included into verbs that are formed by combining two words.

Example: I began to go down. -> Ich begann runterzugehen. (runtergehen is derivated of runter, down, and gehen, go)

But in this case artikulieren isn't a verb that is formed by combining words, so the zu in the middle of the word is incorrect.

Women's intuition

Women rule the world. You can discuss that as much as you want, it's impossible to refuse this fact. At least in the western world, women are who really decide. Just think about it! We men, we love women. They are so beautiful, they are so intelligent and they know what they want (attention at this point: I talk about WOMEN, not little girls). We men often think everything is OK, our life is going well, everything is so easy... But then SHE steps into our life and everything is even better. Well, despite the last one, life will be more difficult! But it's worth it! Women show us what we don't know yet. They make us feel good, they make us learn things that we men just don't learn by ourselves. The women have many things they do better and men, too. But everyday I doubt more what this may be for the men, sincerely.

But well, what has been the actual theme: the feminine intuition. Sometimes it's really frightening. My mother, for example, is one of the clearest cases. I give her a little piece of information about my actual situation or the one's of my friends and she tells me what's going to happen next. And so many times I don't believe her but she is right almost without exception! George J. Nathan, an American drama critic, once said: "What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency." This may be partially true. But the frightening about this is, if men are so transparent and women understand other women because they're women... Then they know everything!
So everyday I ask myself more and more: who ever said men are stronger than women? I mean, intelligence and knowledge is might. Might is strength. 

Then the question is: What is the sense of the men? Are we just here to live our life and playing with our comrades and think we are better and just, well, help to give children to the women? I don't think so. Maybe the women just need someone who needs them. It's a bit ironic, but maybe that's the truth. Maybe the women have to train their mother instincts. Maybe without something to love and protect they just can't live. 
But maybe we men also have got something that women don't have. What? Well, perhaps you will read this in my blog in 10 years... 

3, a devil's number?

And now this to close my (spontaneously called) Trilogy of Numbers. I will talk you about the number 3. So the number 3 of the three posts is called 3. Yeah, I know, a bit lame.

Some say it's a magical number. You know what I mean: Three little pigs, Three will rock you, Snow White and the three... Wait, no!

However... In German there is a proverb which says: "Alle guten Dinge sind drei." Well, this means literally "All the good things are three". But is this really true? I would say NO!

Do you really need more evidence that 3 ISN'T ALWAYS GOOD? Well, in this case, 1 and 2 neither.

A few days ago I went to Barcelona because I had to buy many things (birthday presents, books for school, etc.), one of them: Naruto mangas. Yes, you remember? I'm a huge fan of Naruto. And I just started to collect the mangas. In fact, I bought my first one in Italy! Isn't that a nice souvenir? :D

Well, the point is, I was about to buy the third book of the series because I already have number one and two. So we went to a library in Barcelona. 1, 2, 4... so the third isn't here, OK, no problem, next one.
1, 2, what the... another then. 3rd library, the same, 4th and 5th, yes you guessed it: NOT THERE.

Everywhere I went, there were the 1st, the 2nd and the 4th manga but not the 3rd. What happened there? I mean, are there people who dedicate their life to buy ONLY the 3rd book of all manga series?
Now, my theory: The 3 is a devil's number. I mean, think about it. They always talk about 666, which are three numbers! Yeah! And now, turn the number 90° to the right, what do you see? Exactly: The devil's buttocks! Yes, you heard right, he's laughing at us with the number 3. So, I recommend you:

1. Don't give birth to your child on the 3rd day of the month (and NEVER in march). In case of emergency, try to stop your child from coming out!
2. Never put a mark to an exam which can be divided by 3! Always put the mark one number higher! If it's a 6, put a 7! If it's a 9, put a 10!
4. Never write a third advice!

So, here ends my series Trilogy of Numbers! Wait... Trilogy... Tri... of three? NOOOOOOOOO!

(children under 4 years may not read this text, basically because they haven't passed the third year of life yet. and because, usually, they can't read. 
please don't understand this as a serious post, the author hasn't got any mental disorder... really!)

1984

Talking about numbers. And interesting stories. And the work I have to do.

Now I want to introduce you the book I'm reading right now for the Catalan class: 1984 by George Orwell.

The lecture was optional, well, not at all. We MUST read a book, but we can choose which one. I've decided to take this one because we once read Animal Farm in the Spanish class, another book by George Orwell and I liked it a lot.

1984 was written in 1948 (ironic, don't you think?) and tells us the story of a futuristic world (even in our time we could say it's still futuristic) where three huge states, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia have got the power and are in permanent war. The protagonist, Winston Smith, lives in London, Oceania, and works for the totalitarian government with their ideology called "Ingsoc". Everywhere there are big telescreens (a word of the "Newspeak", the new simplified English) which show a face of the dictator, the Big Brother, who watches and observes everyone at any time at any place (actually the TV programme "Big Brother" is based on this novel... sad that they make truth what was an not so much absurd futur vision...). In Oceania, every news, every book, every film, anything that says something about the government what disgusts the dictator is changed to fit his wishes. This is Winston's work: He rewrites newspaper articles. But Winston isn't as stupid as many other people. He knows the things are going wrong. He wants to escape from that world but at the same time (after years and years of brainwashing) he makes him think he must obey the government.

I've just read about 100 pages of the book but I can already say it's very interesting. And I just learned about the World War II and about the nazism and the fascism, so it's has a good relation for me to the History classes right now.

999

This post's title will surely have attracted your attention, am I right? Well, in my case, it did. 

I want to talk you about a game I've played recently (even though I REALLY don't have much time) which is called 999: Nine hours Nine persons Nine doors

It's a visual novel game (you could say it's like an interactive book) which explains a very interesting story and makes you think really what you'd do if you would be in the same situation. I play this game in English, so it's a good training for me!

 

 The 9 victims

 A person (we don't know if it's a man or a woman... or anything else, because he's completely covered) who names himself "Zero" has abducted 9 persons, all at midnight by attacking them with a special gas, and brought them into a cruiser. They all wake up in different rooms when the water suddenly starts to raise and they have to find out how to open the door. When the protagonist (who you play), Junpei, comes out he meets up with the other 8 victims in a higher deck of the cruiser. While they talk, the deck where they all woke up ends up completely underwater but the water level stops raising anymore. 

In that moment, from a speaker in the hall, sounds a machine-like voice: Zero speaks to them. He starts to explain them the rules of the "Nonary Game". Every person has received (not really voluntarily) a special bracelet which cannot be removed without the necessary tools. Everyone has his own speficic number from 1 to 9. Junpei has got the number 5. There are 9 doors in the ship which have got a number painted in red on them. They have to seek the door with the number 9 to get out of the ship. But this isn't so easy. Every time they want to go through a door they have to do in groups of 3-5 persons. To open a numbered door, the group needs the digital root which is on the door. This sounds complicated, I know. Here is an example:

Our group is of 4 persons with the numbers 2, 4, 5, and 9. Their digital root would be: 

2 + 4 + 5 + 9 = 20 -> 2 + 0 = 2 

So they could pass the door with the number 2.

Now they have to organise themselves in groups to get through the ship and try to escape. And this always having in mind to not break any rules: they've got a little bomb in their body. 

I think it's a very interesting game and not the same like the "Jumping, shooting, driving, etc." of the other games. For this one you need to think. And it really fascinates you just like a good book.

Craaaaaaazy

As the title of my blog announces: I'm crazy. Really crazy. Crazier than you may think. But is it something bad to be crazy?
I think there are 3 types of being crazy. Or being something we could call crazy:

1. The nice-crazy: These are the ones who have strange thoughts and don't have problems to tell them their friends. In most of cases they make laugh other people and shine out in the mass. Often they want attention and so they share their craziness with the others. I would classify myself into this type.

2. The mad-crazy: When you look them in their face you say: "He's got a mad face..." Normally it's better to not talk to much to them and don't attract their attention. These use to be the people who are very unpredictable which often fall into a rage quickly.

3. The REALLY crazy: The cases for professional headshrinkers. Very dangerous!


So, as you can see, crazy is not always crazy. Sometimes it's better to be at least a bit crazy. Because without craziness our life wouldn't have colours, it would be always the same and we would have a few things to remember when we are old. Everyone is a bit crazy. And sometimes it's just the best to let the craziness get out of us and do some crazy things. It doesn't matter what! You could just sleep one night on the beach, write your crazy thoughts in your English blog, jump into a swimming pool in winter or convert to the Islam! (Ok, maybe the last one was a bit too heavy if want you don't really want to...)
Do what you want to do! Learn of your mistakes but don't stop trying out new things! Make the other's life a bit better, in your own way. You live to enjoy your life!

How I Met Your Mother

Do more writings on my blog? Challenge accepted!

One of my favourite TV series is How I Met Your Mother. It's a romantic comedy series with many funny moments and one of the most awesome characters in the whole history of television: Barney Stinson. ;) True Story!

The main character is Ted Mosby (even though some may say it's Barney, for example Barney himself) who lives in New York with his friends Robin, Marshall, Lily and last but not least Barney. So, at the beginning of the series, Ted falls in love with Robin. And it'll need a lot of time (one whole season to tell exactly) until Ted reaches his objective. But soon they'll notice they have just too different visions of the future and they break up. Marshall and Lily are a very happy couple since their college time and in the first episode of the series, Marshall asks Lily to marry him. Later they marry and even though they had a crisis and Lily went away for a whole summer, their love lasts. And then, well, then there's Barney Stinson. The God of the singles. A very wise YouTube user once commented: "It really bothers me that people are comparing Barney Stinson to God. He's pretty good, but he's no Barney Stinson."

Just as the title of the series says, the most important theme of the series is: Barney Who will be Ted's wife and his children's mother? During the series, the future-Ted in the year 2030 is explaining to his children all the important or not so important but very funny things that happened in his past before he met their mother. The way the series tells Ted's story is very interesting. In the end of every season there are always very important announcements or changes which makes the story more exciting. Also, being a romantic series, it fits very well in our modern time and shows how the characters learn new things and grow up mentally.

Ah and there's Barney. Barney and his tricks:

Naruto

Naruto and later Naruto Shippuden is a Japanese cartoon, also called anime, based on the manga Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of a young boy, Naruto, who has the Kyuubi, a nine-tail fox demon, in his body. His parents died in the fight against the Kyuubi and finally, his father (the fourth Hokage, the head of the village) sailed him into his own son to protect the village of the monster. Although Naruto should be treated like a hero, the other people in Konohagakure, the village, try to avoid him and they see Naruto himself as the beast that killed their friends and family. And here starts the story of Naruto and his way as a ninja.

The first 10 minutes of the first Naruto episode in Japanese with English Subtitles.

Naruto, during his time in the ninja academy, will learn what real friendship is when he knows Sakura and Sasuke, the two other members of Team 7 under the leadership of Sensei (professor) Kakashi. While Naruto falls in love with Sakura, she is aiming for Sasuke. But Sasuke himself doesn't give much importance to these things and seems to be very solitary. Just like Naruto, he had a very difficult past. His whole clan (big families where the most of members are ninjas are called "clans") except himself has been killed by his very own brother. Now Sasuke only wants one thing: revenge.

During the series Naruto will meet a lot of other ninjas of his own village, but also from the other ones. He will have to fight against a lot of villians and during the series, the main characters Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura change a lot. They grow up and start to decide the path they want to take. In the end of the first series, Sasuke wants to go with Orochimaru, one of the most dangerous enemies of Konoha. Orochimaru promised him to give him more power and to train him so he can have his revenge for his family soon. Naruto tries to stop Sasuke, but he isn't powerful enough and in a spectacular fight where good and bad memories of their childhood and their objectives for the future crash into each other, Sasuke is able to flee and to go to Orochimaru.

Naruto knows that now he has one very important mission: get back Sasuke to Konoha. So he goes to a very hard training with Jiraiya, one of the strongest ninjas of Konoha, for almost three years. The first series "Naruto" ends when Naruto starts his journey with Jiraiya and the second series "Naruto Shippuuden" starts exactly when they return to Konoha. All the characters have grown up and a criminal ninja organisation gets very much importance: Akatsuki. It's members are searching for the tailed beasts and the Kyuubi inside Naruto is one of them. During Naruto Shippuuden a lot of stories of many different characters slowly come to one conclusion... 

What I especially like about Naruto is that the series grows up with it's viewers. Perhaps it's only like this in my case because I actually started to watch Naruto when I was twelve years old (just as Naruto in the first series). Now, in Naruto Shippuuden (which is still going on), Naruto is already sixteen. 

But the creator Masashi Kishimoto himself confirmed that when he became father (while his manga was at the point a bit after the time jump, when Naruto returns to Konoha) his vision of the world and of all things changed a lot. With his manga he wants to transmit the really important things in life. But he says also that everyone has to know for himself what he learns of this manga.

I, personally, have a lot of good memories in relation to Naruto because I watched it with my best friend in Germany the year I had to leave. And one of the most important themes of the series is friendship. I have to admit that I could learn some things about friendship of Naruto. And about the meaning of being someone's friend or being a man.

In the end, I think that people can learn anything of anyone or anything, if they just want to.

Italy: a nation unable to unleash its talent

I found an opinion article on the American news CNN written by Marco Vicenzino (and international affairs commentator and conference speaker) about the actual political situation of Italy related to the global economy and the crisis of the Euro in the European Union. 

Here's the link: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/10/opinion/italy-berlusconi-marco-vicenzino/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

In some ways I agree with his opinion. For example, he says that Berlusconi's credibility is damaged because of the past and he cannot recover it now, even now that he is about to resign.

Another of his basic ideas is that Italy is generally a very conservative country: it's becoming a nation of pensioners, ruled by pensioners for the sake of pensioners. Even when we look at the national football team we'll see that almost all the players are around 40 years old. So Italian people don't like changes. With this point of view it makes more sense that the Italian population chooses such an irresponsible person like Berlusconi another time. And it's also a fact that the famous Italian mafia still exists and a lot of people are still pressured by them.

To resume, Italy should and has to change a lot of things in their politics to not end up like Greece or Ireland. In fact, the European Union should try to act as a union and change something in the organization to solve the big problems it has.

5 words I've learnt + translation (German):

spoil - Ausbeute

tutelage - Vormundschaft

struggle - kämpfen

to revoke - widerrufen

to emerge - auftauchen

Corpse Bride

"Corpse Bride" is a stop motion film (the scenes of the film are taken picture by picture, when we see all the pictures quickly in a row the seem to be one single animation) directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson.
The protagonist is Victor Van Dort who is forced by his parents to marry Victoria Everglot. The two don't know each other, although they seem to have some feelings when they meet for first time. At the wedding Victor is not able to pronounce well his vows and everything ends in a disaster. Later, Victor wants to practice his wedding vows in a forest and when he finally says them well and puts the ring on a piece of wood that seems like a hand, Emily appears. Emily is a dead girl who was killed by a man before her wedding and since then she is looking for someone who wants to marry her. She takes Victor into her world, the world of the dead people. To return into his own world, Victor says to Emily that he wants to present her to his parents...
I think it's a very funny film and I also like Tim Burton's style very much. I've seen the film once in Spanish and I have to admit that watching it in the original language is much better. Because of the appearence and the song parts someone could think it's a film for kids but that's absolutely not true. I fully recommend this film to everybody.