Interesting fact

I was reading The Daily Yomiuri two days ago and stumbled on an interesting fact. Apparently one third of the canidates in the next election in Iraq must be women. And one quarter of the parliment seats must be occupied by women. Sounds good on the surface but will someone find a way to exploit it. It's kind of interesting considering in Canada and the US numbers are not that high. And we consider ourselves to be liberated and equal. Will it be hard for women to join the "old boys club" of politics in Iraq. Will they even be listened to. One quarter is quite a large number though.

Kirsten

2日前にディリーヨミウリを読んでいて面白いものを発見しました。イラクでは次の 選挙で形上は立候補者の三分の一は女性でなければいけないらしいですよ。また議席 の四分の一も女性でなければいけないそうです。 聞こえはいいのですが、これは誰かがうまく政治的に利用するための手段ではないのかな？　アメリカやカナダのほうが女性の割合がすくないのでがとはとても興味ぶかい話ですよね。そして私たちは私自身を自由で平等だとおもっております。　イラクで伝統的な男性政界に女の人が加わるのは大変なことなのですかね？彼女らは話をきいてもらえるのでしょうかね？　四分の一は非常に大きい数字ですね。

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Regrets

As I was preparing for a class on regrets I stumbled across a really interesting blog. I love the way the person writes. He is quite perceptive and interesting. Check it out if you have time.
http://bestoftheblogs.com/postcards.html

I was thinking about regrets and I don't have many. I can't remember having many because I usually do what I want. There are the few people that I wish I had gotten to know better but I don't really hang on to much. Maybe it's just a lack of memory.

While preparing for the class I read a lot of interesting web pages. Some of them were people who believe that regrets are a waste of time and others are living in a constant state of regret. Is it better to think deeply and remember your regrets or just to ignore them. I didn't come across a website that said you should feel deeply and then let them go. I don't see the point of carrying excess baggage, I have enough of it already. Everything can be a useful learning experience but it's good to let go of the residual emotion and just remember the lesson. Why is it so difficult? It's almost like we like to have baggage be cause no baggage would be scary. I don't know.

The problem with having regrets is that you focus on the past so much you can miss the present. You are here and now, the past was and the future will be (but not yet). I tend to live a bit in the future like a dreamer.

anyway, enough rambling

Kirsten

Welcome our new blog!!

Hello and welcome to the new location of "So anyway...". It's somewhat naked now but give us some time and there'll be lots and lots of stuff to read. Hope you enjoy.
Our old home is at http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/takokun1981 if you want to check it out.

Kirsten

いらっしゃいまっせ!!
So anyway...の新しいサイトに
まだ何も書いてないですが、出来るだけがんがん書いていきますので、これからもよろしくお願いいたします。　
ちなみに前のサイトは http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/takokun1981になります。

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