Monday, May 10, 2010

May Note

Soon I will have to go back to the Embassy to extend my passport. I feel extremely reluctant to pay them and I shall hope that this is the last time I will have to extend it. All citizens are created equal, but those who who sit behind the bullet proof windows have proven themselves again and again to be equaler.

The Sun has been coming out towards the end of the afternoon lately. Slightly pushing my sunbathing and swimming plans behind. But everything seems to be brighter after I passed the German driver's licence test! Yes, I am going to say Farewell to my Oregon licence soon and exchange it for an European one, which means that I won't have to carry my passport everywhere I go anymore, I would have a smaller and more convenient-sized ID.

A woman at the Bus stop asked me where I was from. (It was usually a sign that they try to sell something, also available in my "mother tongue") after I answered the question, she showed me a cart on which 15 languages were written: you can call this number (about 15 cents per minutes) to listen our God in your mother language. (And not free of charge, and we charge you in Euros)

"But we are communist, not allowed to be religious, you can call our prime minister to tell him that."

I gradually developed this habit / obsession of spending hours observing my aquarium and looking for my baby shrimps (they are named Otto and Sebastian). Couldn't find the time to name baby cleaner fish because I don't know how many of them are in it. As we consulted the fish shop, what to do with so many of them in one tank, she suggested us to bring a few Raüberfische, who would balance out the different sort and numbers of the creatures by devouring the over numbered small snails or fish, or shrimps. I wonder if they had a cosmetic clinic inside, they might want to transform their genders or beautify their fins to fool the Räüberfische. Do you call it unnatural or survival?

Survival, progress, civilisation. What abstract and yet tangible terms! Some populations still apply violence as their unique reaction to everything. Are they really so intellectual incapable of having a civilised discussion with someone whom they disagree?! It is such a primitive and paradoxical solution that ultimately proves their incompetence and failure.