Girls’ rights

Posted on 25/01/2013 by Ingeborg

In two weeks I am going to Kopenhagen for an event hosted by WAGGGS, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. There are two world organisations for scouting in the world, WAGGGS and WOSM (World Organisation of the Scout Movement), where WAGGGS is a (mostly) girls only-organisation, while WOSM have no gender specific focus.

As these two organisations are actually global, most of their work is not done in Europe and most of their members do not have the good fortune of experiencing the aftermath of the last 100 years of equality work that has been going on in Europe. One of the aspects where the two organisations are very similar, is in their work on developing good people and good leaders. And the event I’m going to in Kopenhagen, is part of the WAGGGS Leadership Development Programme.

The event that I will be going to “Beyond boundaries”, is described like this:

“This event will provide a forum for decision makers in Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting associations to share challenges and raise awareness on leadership development trends; to learn and discuss about leadership theories and practices; to analyse and consider the conditions and tools that can help addressing the diversity in leadership approaches across WAGGGS members.”

My scout association does not spend much time working on female-only topics and it’s always interesting to attend WAGGGS events. You never realise how male-dominated all organisation work and every day life is before you’re in an all-female environment. I am excited to see what I learn the five days I will spend in Kopenhagen.

Matsnobb?

Posted on 24/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Jeg anbefaler veldig denne kronikken av Esben Holmboe Bang, kjøkkensjef på den sagnomsuste resturanten Maaemo. Han skriver om hvordan nordmenn er ekstremt kvalitetsbevisste på alt (hus, bil, boblejakker, turutstyr, hotell på ferie) og gjerne legger litt ekstra penger i noe for god kvalitet, men gir fullstendig blaffen i matkvalitet. Han sukker litt over at folk bryr seg mer om hvor mye en tomat koster enn hvordan den smaker, på tross av at det er svært få i Norge som har en personlig økonomi der matinnkjøp er en stor utgiftspost.

Det han vil fram til er at det er vi som sitter med makten, ved å skape etterspørsel og ved å putte pengene våre på det vi foretrekker, men også at politikerne må bidra ved å ikke gjøre det så lett å lage monopol på mat i Norge, spesielt nå som ICA også er med i innkjøpskalaset til NorgesGruppen. Når det er ett firma som kjøper inn all mat til hele Norge, så blir det ikke så mange valgmuligheter.

Jeg er jo en av dem som liker valgtfrihet på mat og noe av det jeg vil savne mest fra Bjølsen er grønnsaksutvalget på den lokale innvandrersjappa mi. Han som har 10 sorter olivenolje. Og fire sorter agurk. Han har bedre utvalg på grønnsaker enn noen gigang-Meny/Mega jeg noen gang har vært i. Jeg gjør mitt ved å gå forbi Kiwi, Meny og Mega på vei til tyrkeren. Jeg håper den oppvoksende generasjon blir litt mer matsnobbete og faktisk begynner å bry seg om kvalitet og smak, heller enn pris.

Rucksack?

Posted on 24/01/2013 by Ingeborg

I have to admit that I prefer not to use rucksacks. I wear them when I actually have to carry around something heavy, but I really prefer to keep my computer and reading glasses in the office, and just carry my packed lunch around every day. So I only use handbags and such, but I have to admit that I could have lived with one of these rucksacks from Yang Du. An own or crocodile, perhaps.

If you like it, there are a lot of cool meets fun clothes from the brand as well, I would try ebay or something.

Pollution

Posted on 23/01/2013 by Ingeborg

You can say what you will about pollution, plastic bags and the like, but what is true s that it is a problem. My heart aches for the turtle with the “belt”, it is just terrible to look at. And I’m thinking of that whale they found this fall, that had a lot of plastic bags in its belly (they eat them because they look like jelly fish). I am considering beginning to pick up other peoples’ rubbish in the streets, not just my own.

Sensommerfjell

Posted on 22/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Nothing beats good light, clear skies and a macro lens

Week 4

Posted on 21/01/2013 by Ingeborg

This weekend was calm, quiet and good. I have ended up going to the gym a lot during weekends, and this one was no different. Because of train problems during the morning, I was 1 hour late for work (which means I spent 2,5 hours getting to work), so I stayed an hour more on Friday and then went straight to the gym. Ruben came by with some Asian food from Sagene and we watched the first Varg Veum movie, Girl’s Generations’ (South Korean pop group) first Japan tour video on YouTube and talked about South Korea and his plans for moving.

Erik came home very late Friday, so I had most of Saturday to myself while he slept. I finally managed to organize all my pictures on my domain and delete all the copies I had everywhere. So when I manage to get a decent gallery application, all my pictures will be at bulldozerborg.com. Late Saturday we did some grocery shopping and invited some friends over for a quiet evening. Sunday we were back in the gym, finally cleaned the apartment and had (yet another) scout meeting. This seems like how our weekends usually end up.

Oh, and good news! My travel plans for the spring are soon all in order and I will be going to Kopenhagen, Paris, Italy and Porto before summer 🙂 This week will be about keeping up my exercise and going on our first trip with the scout troop.

Monday I am hoping to go for dinner at Tinas’, but I’m afraid she is still sick. In that case I’ll probably go to the gym.
Tuesday Tone has invited us for dinner.
Wednesday I have a meeting with a project group, team of what will the my scout associations’ first Explorer Belt in a long while.
And after my meeting I might have to pop by the patrol meetings at the scout house to see how they are doing.
Thursday is open, so a nice dinner and/or the gym.
Friday is free, but I guess we will have to do a lot of last minute preparations for our hiking trip.
Saturday we are going hiking with the scout troop. It is just a short trip, but it will be the first time I’m really out and about with the kids, so I am very excited.
Sunday, after we have come home from the hike, I guess we will clean our gear and collapse on the couch.

Instaweek

Posted on 20/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Road trip!

Posted on 19/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Good news! Erik and I are going to Italy on a road trip this Easter 🙂 We have now even bought the tickets, so now it is definitely happening. I can’t wait to go. There is nothing better that travelling with Erik and I am looking forward to spending ten days in romantic Tuscany with him. There will probably be a lot of what we did when we went to Uppsala for my interview in September last year.

Uppsala:

The church from the river

Beers by the river

Mmmm, berries and mushrooms.

Skipping and dancing

By the fort

The entrance to the botanical garden

Benches for giants

Carl von Linné was at Uppsala when he invented the scientific system of ordering organisms

Insection of the plants

Happy, lunching in the sun

The fashion brand Acne has collaborated with Uppsala University to make t-shirts! (but I was too poor to buy one)

The front of the church

Bulle! (cinnamon roll, Swedish style) Just as big as Eriks’ face

The tea cup is dwarfed by it

The Beasts of the Southern Wild!

Posted on 18/01/2013 by Ingeborg

You have to see this film

You might know that it’s main actor has been nominated for an Oscar.

She has this amazing presence in the film. We saw it earlier this week and there are so many things that I liked, the story is really a fairy tale. The real world is really the world of a five year old, which is much more magical and logical at the same time than the world I currently live in. The filming is as with an hand held camera, which gives it almost a documentary feeling. There are a lot of really good characters and many sides of life are portraied with affection and warmth, but also just as they are, the naked truth. There is action, anger, catastrophe, curage and love.

See it!

Troppstur

Posted on 17/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Neste helg skal Erik og jeg på vår første troppstur som troppsledere i Longship (sammen i hvert fall). Her er noen bilder fra da vi var på hyttetur i sommer (naturdetaljbildene kommer senere).

Peiskos må man ha, også om sommeren.

Dette er kling (tynnlefse med smør og sukker) og verdens største og deiligste bringebær.

Rescuetime – week 2

Posted on 16/01/2013 by Ingeborg

What does this tell you? That I wasn’t particularly efficient at work last week. Or not at all, really. This is one of the graphs that Rescuetime will give you of what you actually did on your computer. So I signed up and decided to not try to be good, just do what I did the week before. And it turns out that I spend way too much time on Google Reader (no news there) and that I am not very productive in general. But I am also either very productive or very non-productive.

I will have to tweek the settings a bit, but I think this will be one of my greatest tools during this PhD. The interesting part will be how good I can get.

Wish me luck!

Longing for Italy

Posted on 15/01/2013 by Ingeborg

As we are searching the Internet for tickets to Italy, I am thinking of some of the better evening this summer. BBQ, friends, sun and really good food.

Week 3

Posted on 14/01/2013 by Ingeborg

This weekend was a good one too, even though we didn’t get to clean the apartment as we had wished. But there was a lot of good food, some shopping (feels like I haven’t done that in a while) and exercise. Friday I went swimming after work and when I came home Erik had made a wonderful meal, bought flowers and we had a very good Italian wine.Saturday we were super efficient. We went to our storage and got the last of the winter sports equipment and some books I was missing. Then we had lunch with Erik’s parents and did a round through the shops at Majorstua (this is the point where I bought three new pairs of shoes and a dress). In the evening we had tapas at Meatmarket at Aker Brygge and went past a friend’s party on our way home. Sunday we were up early and got some execise before brunch with my parents at Mat & Mer (slow service, good food) at Bjølsen. I ended the weekend with my fifth scout meeting of the week.

But this week is mutch better, or at least not as crowded as last week.

Monday is the day for the late weekend cleaning and looking for tickets to Italy for Easter holidays.
Tuesday there is another date night. We are going to see “Life of Pi“.
Wednesday is the first troop meeting (Scouts) after Erik and I decided to be real scout leaders again.
I am really looking forward to Thursday, because I am coming home with Tina after work. She has invited me for real southern Indian food for dinner with her family. I can’t wait to taste real, every day Indian food.
Friday I have no plans, but I might be going into the woods to entertain some scout leaders around the camp fire.
Saturday is empty and I am happy keeping it that way.
Sunday I’ll probably go for my weekly weight lift session and in the evening we have another planning meeting in the scout group.

It looks to be a good week.

Streaming

Posted on 13/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Alt er Eriks skyld, om dere lurte. Men han fikk meg i hvert fall hekta på å streame musikk for 1,5 år siden og jeg har ikke vært misfornøyd ennå. Jeg bruker WIMP, bare fordi det var det Erik brukte, men etter dype samtaler om streaming med mange venner har jeg funnet ut at WIMP og Spotify egentlig er jevngode. Men jeg har ikke behov for å betale for mer enn én tjeneste, så jeg holder meg til WIMP. Jeg har alltid vært en storsamler av CDer og har trivdes best med å høre på hele plater av gangen og var derfor egentlig litt skeptisk til streaming, siden man jo ikke eier musikken selv. Men så har jeg funnet så mange nye artister og så mye ny musikk at det har jeg helt glemt. Streaming, altså, den har gjort at jeg har oppdaget nye sjangre og har blitt litt mer vågal og utforskende. Og så er det som radio (at du får høre ny musikk), bare at man slipper all pratingen…

Fordi jeg nå har holdt på med streaming og musikk lenge, så syntes jeg det var spennende å lese tre innlegg i den norske debatten om nettopp dette. Først en generell artikkel om hva ulike artister synes om å være med i streaming-cirkuset, så et litt skarpere innlegg fra Bugge Wesseltoft om hvordan det kommer mindre penger inn i norsk musikkbransje fra alle kanter og tilslutt et tilsvar til hans innlegg, bare for ordens skyld.

Jeg savner CD-samlingen min, men jeg elsker å ha tilgang til (nesten) uendelig med musikk. Hva synes du?

This summer

Posted on 12/01/2013 by Ingeborg

In the middle of master thesises (is that really the plural?), moving, travelling and not having my own coputer, I have realized that I never actually posted pictures. I have therefore decided that I will have some regular updates with real (and good) photoes.

As I might have said this summer, I was, for the first time, the fastest of the four of us. That meant that I had time to stop and photograph on every hill top. So here is a selection of (mostlyl) close up nature.

Lene Wikander, altså

Posted on 11/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Jeg har en stund lest bloggen til Lene Wikander og hun skriver morsomt, spennende og tar opp mye rart og viktig. Noe av det siste hun har skrevet om er horene på turiststrendene i Afrika. Lene skriver ofte om fyllekalas, homser i Oslo, førtiser og annet snask, men dette innlegget var plutselig veldig ryddig og alvorlig om prostitusjon og fattigdom.

Om du trenger et pust i bakken anbefaler jeg absolutt dette blogginnlegget.

Pictures! Colours! Life!

Posted on 10/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Every day I look at pictures from warm, sunny, pretty places and every day I wish that I could find something for Erik and myself to do there. I realise that I will have to travel at one time. Not just weekends or weeks, but months and years.

But for now I am happy in Oslo with my friends and job. I have to finish this PhD first anyway.

How to stop illegal downloads

Posted on 10/01/2013 by Ingeborg

From the wise mouth of Kim Dotcom

Create great content
Make that content super easy to buy
Release the content worldwide on the same day
Give it a fair price
Make sure it works on any device

Look! Look!

Posted on 09/01/2013 by Ingeborg

Mmmm, new computer. And that huge screen. This will be a good partnership.

Architecture

Posted on 08/01/2013 by Ingeborg

I attended a one day conference and project finale just before Christmas. It was at Ås, in their great hall. I just wanted to show you some of the details.

Ingeborg Korme

Reising, feminisme, mat og tur

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