Saturday, 24 April 2010

Hittade en gammal dikt

Datorn påstår att jag skrev den här sent en kväll i augusti 2005. Tycker att den var ganska bra, med mina mått mätt.



Till den tysta vägen som kallas livet

När jag ser dig undrar jag
Vad som egentligen händer

Är det tänkt och vem tänker
Att våndan ska fortsätta vara

En tro som aldrig slocknar
Ljuset som aldrig tänds

Solen påskyndar rosten
Regnet torkar sakta bort

Jag köper dig en trasa
Så kan vi hjälpa till




Today Simon has:

Listened to his coughing
Read FT Weekend
Noticed that the pollen may just have caused enough mess for this year

Saturday, 3 April 2010

The Exception

Generally I do not allow myself to write late at night. So here is another exception.

I am entering Easter having had a very eventful week. I came back from South Africa on Monday, and then I moved into a new place on Wednesday.

There are many things to be said about SA. It is a beautiful country. I wish I could see things through the eyes of the people who live there – it is so easy to become a Mr Know-it-All. My friend Leah would have had a tough week without me being there, so she deserves praise for surviving me - and being a great host. Not like she had a choice...

Africa is probably not a finished chapter for me. When I get good at project management, I hope to get an opportunity to join my company’s office in Johannesburg on a short-term assignment. But first a few years in Guildford.

Good opportunities come to those who pray and work their asses off.


Today Simon has:

Listened to Def Leppard's Hysteria
Read Fortune and how American companies utilises the leadership qualities of ex-soldiers
Noticed that I am not always happy

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Poem

I have actually thought about publishing my collection of very random Swedish poems (my poems are for poetry what abstract expressionism is for art). Usually they are just jokes at friends' weddings (I put the most random stuff together, and ask friends to perform these at wedding parties in my absence - to their embarrassment and the guests' confusion). Here is one that was performed by a Oscar at Jonas and Monica's wedding.

Diktens namn: Lövträd
av Simon Sundberg

Senapssås, ååh du gyllengula
Vi ska dansa genom en ny skosula

Min katt är svart, grön grön grön

När ljuset droppar genom
Sirapskakan
Vill du inga vänner ha
I Södertälje
Kan ingen höra dig baka




In English:

Name of Poem: Leafy Trees
by Simon Sundberg

Mustard gravy, oh you golden
We shall dance through a new shoe sole

My cat is black, green green green

When the light trickles through
the syrup cake
No friends you want
In Södertälje (a city south of Stockholm)
Nobody could hear you baking


Today Simon has:

Listened to his own thoughts and a 10 presentations
Read in African Laughter by Doris Lessing
Noticed that this blog is slowly getting refreshed