Disturbing Neighbors
I feel like a really old senior complaining about disturbing neighbors (I’m 22 years old), but my threshold level has been reached. We live in an apartment building with a total of six apartments. All apartments have separate entrance and have a nice yard. The house could look more attractive if the owner cared, but he don’t.
Anyway, we live next door to a single mom with one daughter. The little girl is like thirteen years old and seems to have the hobby of disturbing everyone else. I’d guess she is looking for attention.
My girlfriend and I live with my girlfriend’s mother, who at Easter this year has been diagnosed with incurable cancer. She really needs all the rest and calm she can get to live with the disease.
The disturbances have been going on for a while and we didn’t say or complain at the start. We thought it was a one-off thing and tolerated it, but clearly it wasn’t. We and our neighbors talked about it and chose to notify the mom through a note in the mailbox. This seems most fair; maybe the mother could talk to her daughter about it. The note seemed to work at the start and it was really calm and quiet. The mom thought we were ridiculous writing letters and thought we should tell it to her face. I still think this was nice of us; otherwise she would’ve had nine neighbors at her doorstep.
The weeks went by and we had peace and quiet, but then it started again. This time I told the mom to her face, as she requested before. I pointed out that it had been good for a while but now it was like before. I believe the mother works nights in health care of some kind, and it’s not easy to control the kid from work. When the mother is home there is peace in the house, but as soon she leaves the daughter starts. The other neighbors have talked to the daughter as well, but it triggers her to disturb even more.
She usually turns up the music for everyone to hear and invites some friends over so they can have a little fun terrorizing the neighbors. They shout and scream, jump and stomp at the floor like elephants, slams doors as hard as they possibly can etc. If we are outside talking to other neighbors they sometimes scream “screw you!” through the door and then slams the door shut. Very mature I must say, sometimes I think she is still left in the despite age.
For those neighbors who don’t have a fence round their entrance, they have started to do ding-dong ditch at 1-3 am. This I can tolerate at single times but they seem to do it regularly. I think there is a big difference between the kids today and let us say ten years ago. It is not comparable.
We see how it goes, but we’ve tried talking to them and it doesn’t seem to work, the next step is to contact the landlord. Hope it will solve the problems. The positive about it is that I got something to write about, thanks for that little girl!
/ The precocious student :)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Blog assignment 1
Career start
One year from now, I hope that I have gotten a foothold in an engineering company and thereby can begin to build up my experience in the industry. Right now it seems quite difficult to get a chance for the competition is murderous. But I feel like it's getting more and more jobs out there that can be queried and the chance to get a job should also increase. At first, I think you may take the jobs you can get and then take a step towards what you really want.
Now it seems that your chances is quite few, as the employer’s will go for the more experienced ones and not the "freshman" that you are, it feels a bit locked in a way. I think that the government should encourage much more economical to employ young people to facilitate. It is the employer's market now, as they say. I suppose they have a lot to pick from which is good for them.
However, the future looks bright for us engineers if you believe what the media says. Many engineers will retire and hopefully make way for us young engineers. The future for economists, pharmacists, etc. didn’t look very promising as it’s expected to be a surplus of labor in their fields. If it would turn out as predicting, it is probably important to be really passionate about what you do. I wish the best of luck but on the other hand people have turn out to be totally wrong before and Sweden isn’t the only country in the world that you can work in.
Maybe someone can enlighten me about this: Are there any regulations on the number of places on a program depending on how the future looks like or is it just how popular the education is?
One year from now, I hope that I have gotten a foothold in an engineering company and thereby can begin to build up my experience in the industry. Right now it seems quite difficult to get a chance for the competition is murderous. But I feel like it's getting more and more jobs out there that can be queried and the chance to get a job should also increase. At first, I think you may take the jobs you can get and then take a step towards what you really want.
Now it seems that your chances is quite few, as the employer’s will go for the more experienced ones and not the "freshman" that you are, it feels a bit locked in a way. I think that the government should encourage much more economical to employ young people to facilitate. It is the employer's market now, as they say. I suppose they have a lot to pick from which is good for them.
However, the future looks bright for us engineers if you believe what the media says. Many engineers will retire and hopefully make way for us young engineers. The future for economists, pharmacists, etc. didn’t look very promising as it’s expected to be a surplus of labor in their fields. If it would turn out as predicting, it is probably important to be really passionate about what you do. I wish the best of luck but on the other hand people have turn out to be totally wrong before and Sweden isn’t the only country in the world that you can work in.
Maybe someone can enlighten me about this: Are there any regulations on the number of places on a program depending on how the future looks like or is it just how popular the education is?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Blog assignment 3
My reflections on Carl Sagan’s Contact
I have actually seen the movie of this novel some years ago. I am more of a movie person than a novel person simply because I find it more entertaining. Usually the people that reads novels before they seen the produced a movie out of it, says that the novel was way better. I guess they imagined something else than the producer or thinks that the producer missed out on details from the novel. Personally I use the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”. I am not sure but the cameras record with about twenty-five pictures a second, multiplying that on a full movie length and the saying, I am sure that the movie will outgo the novel in word length, but as always it is the quality that counts not the quantity.
Sci-fi is not my first choice of genre but when it is mixed together with others genres I might like it. When you add drama and comedy it gets more alive and likable, just like this novel. I have always admired authors’ imagination, especially when it comes to things which are unknown for the mankind. They must have a great interest and a vivid imagination or maybe it is just me. Painting with words has never been my thing so it is fortunate that there are others who are good at it.
I was a bit curious about the author behind the novel so I checked out Wikipedia to get some information about him. Carl Sagan was actually an astronomer and a scientist so he had all the technical terms within himself. I am not sure if his writing was his beliefs or just made up, but I guess he had some hope that the stuff he wrote would actually become reality. It seems like Carl was skeptic that UFOs has visited earth but his beliefs was that there actually is intelligent life in outer space. With these beliefs he studied the universe in order to obtain “contact” according to Swedish Wikipedia.
After further reading on Wikipedia and on this time about the movie; it seems that Carl wrote in order to make a movie but the production stopped and put aside. Therefore Carl published “Contact” as a novel in 1985. They started the development of the movie again in 1989. Too bad Carl Sagan went away in cancer 1996 and could not see his novel become a motion picture in 1997, but I guess that he has been involved in the movie as well. Perhaps someone can enlighten me if he was involved in producing the film?
Finally in the novel like most other novels or movies, the U.S. government acts like that they should hide all the information for the rest of the world. This I believe is reality so if the U.S. government would find out that there was life in space first, we would probably never find out.
Maybe there is life in outer space?
My opinion is that there is life, I quote a memorable dialog between Ellie and her father Ted from the movie which I find brilliant…
Young Ellie Arroway: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
Ted Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.
Merry X-Mas!
I have actually seen the movie of this novel some years ago. I am more of a movie person than a novel person simply because I find it more entertaining. Usually the people that reads novels before they seen the produced a movie out of it, says that the novel was way better. I guess they imagined something else than the producer or thinks that the producer missed out on details from the novel. Personally I use the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”. I am not sure but the cameras record with about twenty-five pictures a second, multiplying that on a full movie length and the saying, I am sure that the movie will outgo the novel in word length, but as always it is the quality that counts not the quantity.
Sci-fi is not my first choice of genre but when it is mixed together with others genres I might like it. When you add drama and comedy it gets more alive and likable, just like this novel. I have always admired authors’ imagination, especially when it comes to things which are unknown for the mankind. They must have a great interest and a vivid imagination or maybe it is just me. Painting with words has never been my thing so it is fortunate that there are others who are good at it.
I was a bit curious about the author behind the novel so I checked out Wikipedia to get some information about him. Carl Sagan was actually an astronomer and a scientist so he had all the technical terms within himself. I am not sure if his writing was his beliefs or just made up, but I guess he had some hope that the stuff he wrote would actually become reality. It seems like Carl was skeptic that UFOs has visited earth but his beliefs was that there actually is intelligent life in outer space. With these beliefs he studied the universe in order to obtain “contact” according to Swedish Wikipedia.
After further reading on Wikipedia and on this time about the movie; it seems that Carl wrote in order to make a movie but the production stopped and put aside. Therefore Carl published “Contact” as a novel in 1985. They started the development of the movie again in 1989. Too bad Carl Sagan went away in cancer 1996 and could not see his novel become a motion picture in 1997, but I guess that he has been involved in the movie as well. Perhaps someone can enlighten me if he was involved in producing the film?
Finally in the novel like most other novels or movies, the U.S. government acts like that they should hide all the information for the rest of the world. This I believe is reality so if the U.S. government would find out that there was life in space first, we would probably never find out.
Maybe there is life in outer space?
My opinion is that there is life, I quote a memorable dialog between Ellie and her father Ted from the movie which I find brilliant…
Young Ellie Arroway: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
Ted Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.
Merry X-Mas!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Blog assignment 2
Now I’ve watched the presentation named “Story of stuff” by Annie Leonard. The presentation will probably get me thinking once or twice regarding various commercials for a while, very interesting lecture.
By the way, I came to think that you can get fooled every week. The grocery stores ICA’ve started with Super Cut here and there, but in fact the price is unchanged. Just look under the sign in the store and check out the original price that will be the same as on the sign. This applies especially for ICA's very own brand. I just wonder if they have the right to trick us like that. If there is someone who makes a Super Cut, then surely it is them.
The same applies to stores such as Elgiganten, who claim that they have lowered the price. In fact the price is often no different from before. This isn't really my area though, maybe they have some kind of loophole that allows them to try and trick us.
Back to the story of stuff, what caught my attention the most was probably the computer manufacturers. I've never thought that they changed the design of the processors in order to get a new buying cycle started.
Maybe it's true, but then perhaps the development forces them change the design. As you might already know, nowadays everything should be as small as they possibly can.
By the way, I came to think that you can get fooled every week. The grocery stores ICA’ve started with Super Cut here and there, but in fact the price is unchanged. Just look under the sign in the store and check out the original price that will be the same as on the sign. This applies especially for ICA's very own brand. I just wonder if they have the right to trick us like that. If there is someone who makes a Super Cut, then surely it is them.
The same applies to stores such as Elgiganten, who claim that they have lowered the price. In fact the price is often no different from before. This isn't really my area though, maybe they have some kind of loophole that allows them to try and trick us.
Back to the story of stuff, what caught my attention the most was probably the computer manufacturers. I've never thought that they changed the design of the processors in order to get a new buying cycle started.
Maybe it's true, but then perhaps the development forces them change the design. As you might already know, nowadays everything should be as small as they possibly can.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Blog assignment 1
I have read the article "Snooping Bosses" and the subject seemed similar to a previous assignment that was given to me in upper secondary school. There was a lot of new interesting technology to track employees though, like “Compliance Control’s HyGenius system”. That is pretty good I think because bad hygiene in restaurants can lead to serious illness or even death.
I can understand that employers want to make sure their employees make up to the salary they earn. If I ever become an employer I probably will do the same thing but I think there’s a limit to it.
When you are at work is one thing but the tracking outside the workplace is not very good unless the employee is using company stuff or leaking out information which is a secret.
I guess that there will be less privacy in the future.
Maybe you will even have to buy privacy?
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