Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Daniel died alone

Loneliness is a big problem in swedish society and may old people die alone without any relatives being present.Daniel,a 56 year old man orinally from Argentina lay dead in his flat at Bagarmossen ,a surburb in the south of Stockholm for two years without anybody missing him. Nobody knows exactly when he died because he simply disappeared without friends,relatives or work mates missing him. He lived on a small disability pension that went directly into his bank account. The rent and other bills were paid by direct debit.His body was discovered only when a real estate company forced open his door in order to make some renovations. For more than 30 years ago, Daniel was a young man of 20 years.Together with his wife Susanna and their parents, he came from the military dictatorship in Argentina to Sweden in the late 1970s.Daniel and Susanna had no children and divorced in 1981. Shortly after the divorce Susanna lefty Sweden.  There are gaps in the Swedish population register, but Daniel's father Juan should have returned to Argentina in 1991 where he died in 1997. Daniel's mother Maria Rosa remained in Sweden with her son. Five years ago, she died at a nursing home in Jakobsberg north of Stockholm. After her mother's death seems to Daniel social contacts have ceased completely. “It is clear that he did not have a job the last years of his life,” according to a source. Ahmed Jabbar lived next door to Daniel . He remembers a nice, quiet man who looked much older than his 55 years. “He came alone here three years ago. We used to stand next to each other and smoke in the walkway. We said hello, that's all.Once I saw-him wander away alone with a fishing pole. But I never saw him with anyone.”  The last years of his life lived Daniel on some form of disability pension and all his fixed bills were paid by direct debit. When police broke into the apartment they found a pile of advertising and free newspapers.  Furthermore,there have been similar cases of people dying alone before.In april this year a postman raised an alarm about a 69-year-old man who lay dead in his apartment outside Sundsvall without anyone missing him. He had been dead for two months before the mail man noticed that it smelled from the mail slot. 3 years. 2011 found a 82-year-old man dead in his apartment in Tumba. The man had of putrefaction judge remained there for about three years. His bills were paid by direct debit.  In 2011 company porters in Lund found a person who had lain dead in his apartment for three months as they distributed the company's newsletter and observed that the mail slot that was crammed with mail.

Monday, 8 July 2013

Stockholm Street dance festival

www.stockholminfo.se Sundays can be boring sometimes.However,yesterday was exciting because,I made a chance visit to the Stockholm street dance festival at Kungstrågärden.The audience was big including many tourists.I was reminded of the many street musicians who play around the city to entertain and make a living without having to beg and suffer humiliation.However,some street musicians have been stopped by police or city guards because they had no permission to play at a venue. The team of the group I saw was led by Brian from New York.Others included Ludwig and Vincent from Sweden and Spain respectively.

Friday, 5 July 2013

King of swords

King of swords is a thriller which is action packed and full of suspense which isd about the war on drugs in Mexico where many lives have been claimed on both sides. It provides an a detailed account of the war on marijuana and cocaine traficking in which “thousands of police and soldiers have been killed over the last ten years, as the war has intensified due to a crackdown by pro-U.S. administrations. Cartel members slaughter one another by the thousands each year, as well as huge numbers of innocent bystanders.” “The brutality of the turf wars that are a constant and ongoing facet of the trade is stunning; well over a thousand children have been butchered during the last decade, as have countless family members of traffickers, killed in retribution or as a deterrent.” At one level are the cartels including Sinaloa ,. the Knights Templar ,Gulf , Tijuana , , Los Zetas ,contract killers ,assassins, as well as the narcotraficante armies locked up in a fight with law enforcement. Above all, the story unfolds against of backdrop of day to day Mexican life which makes interesting reading. Blake, Russell (2012-10-23). King of Swords (Assassin series) . Kindle Edition.

Stockholm Notebook

Yngligagatan 9 is the name of the road where Nagib has been working for sometime as a cleaner in a restaurant.He is born in Sudan and came to stockholm as a political refugee more than ten years ago.He is currently is a law student at stockholm university.Yngligagatan is centrally located and connects at the end with Sveavägen which another popular road lined with shops ,restaurants and clubs. Today Nagib visited his dentist in order to fill up a hole in one of his teeth because for some sometime,his instincts told him that all was not right with his dental health.When he met Angelica his dentist at Gustavlundsvägen 141,close to the Alvik beach, on a friday,his suspicions were confirmed.In addition,she advised him to deal with his calculus or stones in order to avoid losing more teeth. On his way home ,Nagib passed by Sergelsgatan 33, a shopping area in the heart of stockholm to make a video clip in order to improve his photographic skills.

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Sun,Sea,Sex.

Summer is a special time
The sun is ever present
Long days ,short nights
Not to mention the birdsong
Sweet smell of flowers in the air
Women showing more skin
Hot pants,mini skirts ,bikinis
Visiting the beach,have a swim
Watching people sun bathing
Feeling the cool breeze from the sea
On my face, all over my body
More night life,drinking and lovemaking
Yes more hot sex ,more excitement.

Friday, 28 June 2013

Meeting my dream partner,ghost profiles,adult dating.

kpakpo has been on a week long summer break from his night job as a newspaper distributor around saint Eriksplan which lies in the centre of stockholm at the end of June.He moved to Stockholm about thirteen years from Accra,Ghana in west Africa as a student He has been yearning for a suitable partner since his divorce from his swedish wife,Lily about eight years back. Lily was fifty one years old and he was thirty six years when they married after meeting through an internet dating site called www.match.com .They had been together for about four years and the marriage produced no children but they stayed together with Lucas,her teenage son from a previous relationshhip. After several short-term relationships Filips has taken an interest in internet dating.A recent article he read was on “trending legal issues with adult dating sites” about the unfair business practice of some operators setting up ghost profiles in order to get around the primary problem facing any new dating site operator which is how obtain enough member profile content to generate a sufficient level of user interaction. This cyclical problem has no easy solution, since the necessary profile content comes from the members. In other words; the more members, the more content; the more content, the more members. In other words,Filip was concerned in wih the use of “host” or “ghost” profiles when dating site profiles are created and maintained by the website operator, as opposed to a real third-party user. , Such profiles have made him dissatisfied about multiple messages from such fictitious profiles which involved no actual human interaction. Another issue dsicussed in the article was whether operators must conduct backgound checks on users because there have been cases where individuals have offended fellow dating site users and committed horrific crimes ranging from sexual assault ,fraud or murder.  http://www.xbiz.com/articles/165408

Friday, 21 June 2013

Midsummer in Huddinge

There was a huge gathering of people and families in Sjödalsparken today with a couple of bands playing to celebrate midsommer in Huddinge.I took a walk to the park join in the celebration and enjoy the nice sunshine. Apart from Christmas, midsummer, midsommar is the most important celebration in Sweden. The successful midsummer never-ending lunch party formula involves flowers in your hair, dancing around a pole, singing songs while drinking unsweetened, flavoured schnapps and downing a whole load of pickled herring, sill served with delightful new potatoes, chives and sour cream. http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Things-to-do/Swedish-Lifestyle/Swedish-traditions/Midsummer/