Picture: My Sunflower

May 28, 2007 at 11:15 pm (Picture)

Kyoto: Sunflower, originally uploaded by micpohling.

Yup, they are going to be my photo experiment subjects for the forthcoming days! :) Here, we have a perfect blue sky, bright sunray, and my husband’s willingness to work together with me to pose the flowers for pictures! :D There is nothing else much I can ever ask for :P

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MV: R.E.M - Everybody Hurts

May 28, 2007 at 5:19 am (Music Video)

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go, ’cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on

‘Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don’t throw your hand. Oh, no. Don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone

Everybody Hurts mps from Odeo 

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World: Religiosity (IV) - Church

May 28, 2007 at 5:18 am (Asia, OECD, Social, Statistic, World)

In World Values Survey, the questions below were asked:

  1. Do churches give answers to moral problems?
  2. Do churches give answers to family life problems?

The graphs below here show the percentage of people say “yes” among OECD countries.

Most of the people in Mexico (73.4%), South Africa (69.1%) and Italy (61.8%) thinks that churches do give answers to the moral problems. On the other hand, Only sizable people in Japan (19.8%) believes that churches (religion organization?) provide answer to moral problems, followed closely by Denmark (20.0%) and Sweden (26.3%). On special note is that even Ireland has very high belief in God (see previous posts), but they do not believe that churches can give answers.  

Move to next question, again, most of the people in Mexico, South Africa and US believes that churches give answers to family life problems. On contrary, only 15.0% of people in Denmark think that churches give answers, closely followed by Japan (16.0%) and Sweden (18.3%). Surprisingly Czech rep., an ex-communist country which has about 39% of people believe in God (the lowest rank among these countries) has quite high number of people think of the role of the churches.

Then, let’s have a look at Asia countries. Churches here would mean the established religion instituition in the respective country. People in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia has extremely high number of people think that their religion institutions give answers to moral and family problems.

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