If I can't hear your hearbeat it's because you are too far away...

It has been another weird week, coming to an end.

My last post proved to be a hit beyond imagination. But i did have loads to say and share. I hoped you enjoyed reading through my content, some of the messages and comments i received were heartwarming and unexpected!

So sorry for the hiatus of posts, as exam period is approaching fast and i just finished writing another report about GIS that revolved around the Uppsala River, Fyrisån. The river spans from the north until Lake Mälaren. The river passes through Uppsala and is a place of great importance and Scandinavian lore, as great Viking battles took place here! Tomorrow I hope i can take my angel and watch the annual rowing contest between Uppsala and Lund!

Who said magic does not exist?

I have been a bad boy lately. And along with my despicable comrades Jaime, Holger and recently Marie the french girl we have been so bad that we are joking that karma will avenge us. And every day it actually does. Today was my turn once more! But that's a story for later, let's kick it up a notch with the incredible Botanical Garden! You can run, chill, eat, relax, study here it's breathtaking.

Looks like a palace instead.

Monday as usual was a day of lectures. We moved to Jaime's favorite territory, the Geosphere. Practically earthquakes, volcanoes, rocks for you normal folks! The first 2 hours were normal. But man the next 2 were a rollercoaster. Justin Bieber gave his place to a man that sold drugs, according to Holger (he is a good teacher, but we are horrible). So i spent the next 2 hours making Holger explode from trying to prevent his not so discrete laughs from bursting out in the room.

We discussed the windmill, Marley, i asked him to loan me money from his wallet (which he lost in his previous karma attack), we talked about opium and his daughters stupidity as well as the newly created PC game, Baboon Simulator 2017. He also showed me the most idiotic webpage i have ever seen in my life: I love you like a fat lady loves apples. Why? Why does this exist? Oh well, it's Holger, he loves to proCATinate. He particularly loves cat 62.

I went to the local ICA to buy a drink, some cheese and bread, yogurt and chips. Then i Marley'd my way back home listening to some drums n bass tunes. 

 

Since i share everything here i will say that i was thinking about running the marathon with my angel. We were first and in the last 200 meters she twisted her ankle. I stopped and looked back, like 500 meters the next athlete was coming. I could have won but i wanted us to finish together. So i picked her up around my waist and overcame my pain and tiredness. We won the race and after the finish line i put her down, i dropped on my knees while the crowd cheered and clapped, and she gave me the worlds most loving kiss and i put my hands on her cheeks. Ah time passed fast until home.

Along these lines..

I texted her as usual. I care for her well-being. And i went to sleep. Happy. Oh i also missed swedish class. I was not in the mood to learn that day.

Then i wake up in Tuesday. I am supposed to meet Jaime and Holger in the GIS lab to do some project work, a task that is becoming increasingly difficult due to sucking and trolling. At 12ish we had a meeting with the project director for information on how to register for the spring classes. I picked 2 from Hydrology, 1 from Paleobiology and one from the Ekonomikum, entrepreneurship so i can learn how to manage and start up businesses. And to be close to my russian love.

Entering our Faculty...

That's it. That's it for the day really. I stayed home and finished some more exercises, read about the seminar the next day, proCATinated a bit, sent another barrage of love poems and messages to my princess and went to sleep late. I did take some pictures that day but I really liked this one.

 

Winter is coming!

It's seminar day. That means our discussion and debate day. I'm with the usual suspects, Marie, Sara, Erik and Paulo. I read an article regarding volcanoes and their effect to the extinction of species (dinosaurs anyone?). I ate 3 kanelbullars as usual. It was so funny. One of the teachers was typing messages on the iphone and the other was talking. When my article's turn came i spoke with confidence and vigor. I finished talking and those ignorant baboons (Holger and Jaime) barraged me with messages. Bastards!

Did i mention that in the morning we were supposed to do more GIS project work and i didn't go because i got struck by karma as usual and felt sick? And that those Top Gear-like friends sent me supporting messages saying that chechens broke my kneecaps? :D

Then i reluctantly went to the swedish class. Half of it was empty. I sad next to some boring german girls and some others. I was texting my love and Despoina to pass time. In the end it got interesting as we divided into groups and we asked the others questions about Sweden and Uppsala. We named our team IKEA and face off against Kanelbullar.

Back at home i played some ridiculous CS: Global Offensive on my super crap laptop with Holger and his friends. It was hilariously bad but fun. I kept sending more sweet goodnights to my Russian angel princess and dreamed about her all night long like a baby.

Landscapes to die for.

The beauty of this country is astounding. What better way to kickstart your day with such scenery, or simply the sun caressing your house gently? I sent another lovely message to princess (i need to find a nickname or i will keep repeating myself) and Marley tortured me for 20 minutes until i got to the GeoCentrum.

So beautiful...i wish she woke up next to me..

Holger was missing. It was his time to take Karma in the butt. He was sick with fever so it was me and Marie in the lab trying to tackle the watershed map that i mentioned in the beginning. We finished 2 hours earlier so i went home! Yay! Apparently my lack of silly content and adventures these days is covered by the fact that i have so many wonderful pictures to show!

I would swim there if it wasn't so cold :D

It's so hard not being able to express my self freely regarding my princess here. If you follow my blog and you know me, then you know who she is. I wrote her some beautiful things these days. From the heart. Let's just say she makes my heart warm, my pulse skyrockets and i want to get lost inside those magical eyes and smile.

Bleeding love..

She made me so happy yesterday. She told me she misses me and that i am a unique man with a heart of gold and  that she loves what i write. I could never ask for a better compliment. I want to care and protect her, her drive and fierce passion inspires me. We are destined for great things and i will put heart and soul into this baby, i promise you.

I had the best sleep since i arrived here. I told her that her words brought joy inside me and that i almost cried from happiness. Thank you. I also wrote some special love messages to my best lovely friend in Greece, Aggeliki who just turned 25 and i miss and love her very much, along with my other 2 babies, Athina and Katerina (<3). She replied in the morning being touched by my words. I am happy i have them. I wake up every day and i look at our photo and i feel them close to me.

Enough time to take a pretty picture outside my house.

Friday is upon us. I wake up 30 times and i have a lab exercise at 13:15. I have a shower and wear some fancy clothes, i expect to meet my angel hopefully. I get Marley and after 1 kilometer, while listening to my favorite tunes during the lyrics "Will you take me out of here when I'm staring down the barrel" Karma strikes again. I guess Marley took the lyrics seriously and decided to remove the chain from the pedals.

So there i am, bamboozled, confounded and miserable trying to fix the chain with my hands. Oh it was dirty. Where was this bike, in a mud pit? My hands are black, like my black black heart. I make my self to the university. I try to clean my hands. I am late for 30 minutes but i show the professor what happened while Jaime does the windmill laughing at me. We do some lab work involving chemistry and we try to melt down rocks by pouring acid on them.

First time in a lab after 6 years...

That's it for the day. We make some stupid stuff with Jaime and Marie, we buy some stuff from ICA and i go back home. Marley worked and tried to kill Jaime some times and throw him off the road. In the meantime a granny of 70 years old overtook us like Sebastian Vettel  almost throwing us off the bikes.

So here i am home, finishing papers, studying and sending the most loving messages ever imagined to my girl. She promised me to meet tomorrow. I hope we do, i miss her so much and i live for the 2-3 hours i see her each week. Until then i will pretend to hug her like a fluffy bunny. I did want to go with her to the "Dress like a cat party". I did not go because everything feels less fun without you my princess. But but but, i still have material for you to wrap this up! Because in Uppsala, the party never stops!

Meow?

Wow you hyena!

I will include one bonus picture from another era that i found disturbing before we all go to our cozy beds. Someone sent me this one, i didn't find it myself lol.

DAFUQ?

And that's it. 5 days in a nutshell. I though i wouldn't have much to write about, but i did. Nice! Until next time, please leave me a comment, support me, subscribe, share me or just like me! It's improtant for me and it keeps me going! We are approaching the 10000 viewers barrier soon! In the meantime...

Goodnight Sweden! Oh and princes....this is for you...

I will keep you safe because i care...

The 7 Deadly Horsemen - Banish them

The worst enemy (or the best ally!) a man can have is himself.

If you could see yourself from another viewpoint, a 3rd person, or how others perceive and see you, you might discover weaknesses or some frailties that you would not otherwise notice.

There are 7 enemies of success, 7 deadly horsemen that ride unseen, making them harder to spot and even harder to defeat. But they stand between you and your success. They can drive you to insanity.

In quick succession they are:

• Intolerance
• Greed
• Revenge
• Egotism
• Suspicion
• Jealousy
• ?

1) Intolerance: lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure.

Intolerance is one of the biggest banes of mankind. It has caused more pain than suffering than any of the other sins, and that says a lot. This conflicts with you being an accurate and logical thinker, acting rationally and closes your mind and envelops it into darkness. If you find yourself hating other religions, groups of people, judge by skin color....then i am sorry to have to break it to you but the most dangerous rider is in your brain pushing reason, logic and facts aside. Do NOT be that man.

Well said...

2) Revenge and Greed:

• Revenge: to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit. The act of revenging; retaliation for injuries or wrongs; vengeance.
• Greed: Excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.

The riders are like the Nazgul in LoTR. They ride alone or together. These two travel side by side. If you find one the other is omnipresent. Greed drives a man in a burning crusade to accumulate wealth and fame, to gather resources that he does not need. It is a very well known fact that a greedy and revengful person wants to bleed dry a poorer man and put the final nail in his coffin.

What's for dinner?...

Revenge is close. How many times you see people slander others or badmouth them in order to gain an advantage? Usually this happens for a silly reason, like "She stole my boyfriend", "she said my hair is ugly", "he said he has bigger biceps than me". Ignorant baboons. Wake up. These are swords with no sheathe or handle, they hurt both people.

Sounds familiar huh?

3) Egotism and Suspicion:

• Egotism: Excessive and objectionable reference to oneself in conversation or writing; conceit; boastfulness.
•  Suspicion: the state of mind or feeling of one who suspects. Imagination of anything to be the case or to be likely; a vague notion of something.

These also ride side by side. You will be unsuccessful if you have massive self-love or you do not have confidence in your fellow man. Have faith to others, even if they let you down. This is how i felt but i kept going. I uncovered some rare gems that are now my best friends.

Just like an onion.

Suspicion is a virus. It spreads very fast. It can overtake you and consume you. It has a very close tie with the next horseman, jealousy. How many times have you caught yourself judging others before you even know them just because you heard rumors? Observe people that begin their phrases with "I", and they are most likely suspicious of others and with a massive ego. Banish those two fast.

Don't worry, he is just silently judging you..

4) Jealousy: resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself. Mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness, etc., as in love or aims.

This was my destruction and my redemption. I lost everything in 2012 because i jealousy. It's a form of insanity. In the medical society it is know as "Dementia Praecox". It is the divorce lawyer's best buddy, for it breaks and completely annihilates the bonds between people and couples in a matter of seconds. It creeps into your mind and completely takes over. You lose track of time, any sense of reality and logic and you act by impulse. Kick it out of your system and close the door or it will slit your throat while you are asleep.

So much pain and suffering.

 5) ?

This is blank. It could be dishonesty, procrastination, uncontrolled sexual desire. Name it as you wish. Give it an appropriate name, as it rides along jealousy. Also kick it out of your system, please.

What you believe, you CAN do. Stop and think for a moment. Which of these unwanted "traits" you could have? Think about their meaning and how they have affected your lives. It is never too late as long as you try! It is your obstacle towards success, wealth, financial independance and most importantly, happiness and prosperity.

  

YOU are responsible.