Questions Game

Variety of unusual foods definitely - can't think of meal I could eat for ten years (btw, what's humble Swede?)

Summer or winter?

I would be difficult, and say Autumn. Out of the two, I'd say winter, as I am at a creative low during summer.

The humble swede is also known as the Swedish turnip...

A terrorist comes in and says that either you and your loved ones die, or everyone on A2K apart from you will be blown up instead. Do you martyr yourself, or let everyone else die for the sake of you and your family?

This is tough one. I would always choose myself if that was only myself. I mean, I WANT to live, but if it's choice between me and someone I never saw and don't know anything about, in Bangladesh or somewhere, I would always choose myself. But in this situation more people die with any choice. So I guess I would just tell them to f*ck off and then they can do whatever they want.
(I used to love Autumn, to adore it actually, but since war started in Autumn it's not same anymore)

You find bag full of money. You really need money. You also know that it's property of someone really extremely rich. What would you do?

I would take it, if they were really rich; and then pay it back whenever I could.

Would you prefer every song to be a cover version, or there to be no covers allowed?

Of those two choices - no covers allowed.

You can choose to visit any event of any kind anywhere in the World. What's your choice?

That depends on whether it's from any time, or going on right now.

If it were any time, I would love to be involved in the Russian revolutions.

If it were now-- I would choose to see every show at the Edinburgh festival...

If you could wake up speaking any language fluently, what would you choose?

Some of Arabic languages, because I have lot Arab TV stations and I have no clue what are they talking about.

What is first thought you have when you hear - "Croatia" (negative or positive, never mind - very first thought)

I think Dubrovnik, strangely! I love Croatia,... I often spend quite a lot of time there, while travelling further east.

What is the thing that you find the most boring, out of anything?

That's tough one. I'm rarely bored. Probably some moments on my job, when I wrote everything I had for that day but it's still early to go home (am journalist).

Who do you consider the sexiest person in the world, but one of YOUR gender?

Thanks for the clarification, moun. I'm afraid the although I know several 'refugee' families, my knowledge of the slavic countries is limited.

Wow. Hmm. Well, I'm going to have to think this out....For some reason, just off the top of my head I'm thinking Sofia Loren. She's intelligent, beautiful. Does that mean I like older women

If there was a time in your life you could go back to, what would it be and why? No cheating!

Oh, I'd never return to any part of my life. I had an awful childhood, and my studenthood wasn't much different than my life now; the only difference was that I was poorer! No, I like the way that things are now.

Whom do you least admire, in the world?

Saddam Hussein. Awful man.

What is your most prized possession? (not most expensive or anything, but maybe most sentimental.)

The presentation piece that I got for outstanding endeavour and achievement in my last year of school.. I didn't even know that I was getting it; it was a really nice gesture.

If someone offered you invincibility but no one else, would you take it?

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No. I wouldn't I don't want to live in this life forever!

Same question.

I probably would, unless it was some demonic thing that was asking me... I hate to even envision there being nothing after death, and so I'ld try to prolong my life.

If you could change three decisions that you made in the past, which would you choose, if you would choose any?

Man! I don't think I could change anything! I wouldn't be who & what I am today... which begs the question: how did I get here & do I want to be who & what I am today?!...Then again how could I be anything else?! How thought-provoking! I might change some things, but I'd have to think days about it!

What would you say is your greatest weakness?

Oh... probably a toss-up between being stupidly kind to people who don't deserve compassion, and doing things capriciously, despite the consequences.

How about yours?

Yours seem benign compared to mine! I'd have to say my TEMPER when it comes to my husband. No one has ever ticked me off more! We are such opposites! A weakness and a strength woud be that I am very sensitive, sometimes far to empathetic for my own good. (I think it makes me a good counselor though.) I am also far too critical of myself which makes me prone to perfectionism. But enough about my flaws!

What is your greatest strength?

I have come to think my greatest strength is a lightness of touch, I've seen what happened to my husband who took everything too seriously and personally - like dev, too sensitive. I have the capacity to put things behind me, I think. I also cultivate 'consciousness of abundance', a belief that I have everything I need, that I have enormous and precious gifts. I guess you could say it was counting your blessings!

What are your greatest strengths?

Life experience I guess - when you spend four years in the war you get to know a lot about people. When you are lying near the brick wall with your girlfriend and rockets are destroying your town, and in a PERFECT SUMMER DAY you see your friend with a blood on his back, and another one with blood on his arm - then you get to know a lot about life. And maybe it's not fair to have that choice when you are 16, but you still have to choose will you hate for the rest of your life, or will you understand everything, because in the war you are given opportunity to really understand. Everything. How bad people can be. And how good they can be. And how, in extreme conditions, it turns out that yours and everybody's else intuition basically sucks. Best friends are trying to kill you and silent guys that suck in street soccer and are too afraid to try anything dangerous, those guys that you never noticed, suddenly become heroes.
And when you and your friends run into much smaller group of Serbs in Budapest, on U2 concert, and they feel ashamed, but also kinda scared, and much later all of you together are sitting in a park, talking and laughing and having perfectly nice summer afternoon - well...then you get to know a lot about wars. Not under rockets, not when you are running from your school under bombs and you see destroyed bodies of a 7 year old girl and her grandma, not when you are looking your destroyed town - no...you get to know a lot about wars in Budapest, when you are sitting with those guys and girls in a park, and when you see them. When you really see them.
And you also get to know (if you want to know) that you can love your country as much as you want, and you can be proud as much as you want...but that you will never take a weapon to kill for your country - to kill someone scared, someone who listens same music, likes same movies...and doesn't even want to be there on the war fields...

Yeah, I would guess experience is my greatest strength. Sorry for long answer....

How many real friends you have?