Oslo incident, I still can not get it ...

I want to start with saying how horrible I feel for the victims and injured ones of both incident, both the bombing and the blind shooting toward all those young politicians who did care about their country and belonged to a party I stand for :-(

When the bomb went off, I was not in Oslo. I was on a trip in Germany & about two hours after explosion I still had no idea what had happend. I got a chance to check Facebook and there it was. Short status updates from friends saying Oslo sentrum has turned to a hell !!! Oslo is the last place on earth that I could think of something like this happening. It's known to be a safe place, where everything is calm, somewhere that a cat stuck on the wall can make it to the news headlines ... This was true up to yesterday when someone went crazy which probably will change lifestyle in Oslo  :-(

I am still shocked. I started calling around people to see if they are okay. My girlfriend was one street away from the explosion, my family had plans to eat at a very famous Thai resturaunt there on that day(luckily they cancelled), and one of my best friends was buying food around the corner !!! Actually it was an area that everyone would go alot there. Oslo is like nowhere else, right beside where the government is sitting is one of the crowdest areas of the city for resturaunts and pubs. I really liked this idea that government people are not people out of reach, they are a part of people and they live and rule between people. It seems what lots of other Norwegians and me enjoyed/were proud of, yesterday turned Oslo to a living hell. Although I was not in Oslo but it feels like I felt the waves ... I wish I was there beside my lovedones ...
At the end I want to say two more things, first emphasise agian that my thoughts goes to all victims and those injured in these blind violent attacks. Second that I am proud of the Norwegian primeminister(Jens Stoltenberg). When the country was under frightening shadow of terrorism, while he had no idea from which side the threat is coming from, he said :

Stoltenberg, 22.07.11 : "We will retaliate with more democracy".

I am proud of this man :-) I hope this does increase our security concerns, but does not change the Norwegian lifestyle. A lifestyle based on trust and tolerence :-) He wanted us frightened, but we should stand strong ...

Viva Japan, Viva Asia :-)

Japan won the women soccer world cup today. Back to 1990's when I was a kid, I remember Iranian national TV buying some Japaneses animations(That series was built in 1986) which encouraged us to play soccer more & more ... Japaneses are known for the ones with plan, well structured enough to implement the plan and also word super hard for it. Here it is 20 years after that. What have they achieved ?

• Becoming one of the best Asian men soccer team(Always in top three)
• Winning Asian cups 3 times
• Attending in soccer world cup both in women and men level
• Holding the men soccer world cup ; together with South korea; for the first time in Asia
• And now standing on top of the soccer world, at women soccer

I can imagine the day that Japanese men soccer players will also stand there and wave to us, as there has been a very long history in experience and investment in men soccer, so it takes more time for Japanese management, planning and hard work to beat them all, but at the end they will :-)

I like it when hard work fruits and I say congratulation both to Japan and Asia, as this victory brings both soccer worlds to a new level :-)

Glory

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

Planning is the key ...

Failing to plan is planning to fail. 

- Effie Jones

What you give is what you get ...

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back. 

- Grace Speare

Time ...

You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. 

- Charles Buxton