Thursday 25 November 2010

New job, new smells.

Just a quick update on my life, although I don't want to disclosure any particular detail at the moment. But yes, I am starting a new job, the one that I have been impatiently waiting for ages! The funny thing is all the emotions I am experiencing now: excitement, confusion, fear, happiness and much more. It's like... being in love. All I can think about is my new job.

And the funniest thing is the smell. Yes, I do smell offices whenever I start working in a new place (well, I don't go around sniffing every corner...). I am just using another sense a part from sight, touch and hearing. I did smell something familiar while yesterday I went through the hall and the various departments. It was just familiar, known and I still cannot work out what it is. But it makes me feel at home. It reminds me of my bedroom in Brighton, for some reason.

All is good, all is new, all is unknown.

Saturday 13 November 2010

For those who believe in human rights and freedom of speech

Aung San Suu Kyi has been released a few hours ago after 15 years of detention. I feel that this is one of the most joyful moments of the year for the entire world. Suu Kyi: a woman that is an example of courage, and an inspiration for all those people that fight for democracy and respect of human rights. A woman that, because her beliefs, was isolated for years, denied the use of the internet, phone and access to post. A woman that was not allowed to see her husband before he died of cancer. A woman who has been a part from her two children for 10 years. All of this because she has been fighting for a country whose regime forbids freedom of speech and still detains more than 2000 political prisoners. The journey towards Burma's democracy is still long, however I want believe, I HOPE this historical moment is a step closer to the end of one of the last-official-dictatorships in the world.