blog in Europe from May 6-12

Blog in Oslo 2012/05/06 I take a walk to harbor, follow the grand hotel doorman's instruction - his name is Eric , who push the elevator button for me as I was electrical shocked , he joked about there is a ghost living inside , well grand hotel is a very old one , there must be stories about spirit , Eric thought the joke is gone too far, anyway, I am follow his direction walking to the harbor ! It's about 10 minutes walk from hotel , many private boat , not yacht , but modern power speed boat, people in Norway love sea / water and sun I guess, how come so many boats along the harbor ? This is a newly develop area , many trendy restaurant and of course , you can't escape McDonald and tgi Frinday taking their space as well! My first impression about Norway ? They love kids, so many parent bring their small children to the harbor , to shower under the sun and eat everywhere ! I sit at Wayne Cafe for my first meal after landing , it's been 24 hours on the road and the unpleasant trip sitting next to a rude young man! I order a large latte and 2 sandwich in Norway style , it cost me almost 200 Kon, that's equal to 1000 nt , living standard is pretty high here ! Liberal is another impression I have : a mother milk her baby inside the cafe , with open breast ! A couple of gay taking their adapted child out - on mother even carry stuff doll with him! People are warm . And I enjoy walking along the harbor ! There is homeless tramp on the street with signboard , I can't read Norwegian language . I spend like 2 hours outside , bought 2 bottle of water and before going back to hotel , I was attracted by a sign : it said / the fragment heart of coffee , follow the sign , I stop by an cafe , order one latte and talking to coffee maker inside , they all follow Sri chimnoy - a spiritual master who pass away on 2007, the fate brought me to this small cafe and to learn how Sri devoted himself oneness - promo peace in his whole life and inspire people to open a cafe in Oslo ! When asked how come they speak English ? The answer is : we are foreigner ! Yes , same as I , what brought them here? A young man said" have you see a gun against my head? " I reply with : yes , lots of guns " and I point to the bools Sri published and said " the gun of peace " I am here for Oslo freedom forum , not so many locals aware ! Met Alex at the grand hotel lobby and again with some attendee , they want to know the relationship between China and Taiwan , well , I might be the only Chinese here! My voice will be easily take as a general opinion , I should be very careful and response with wisdom not emotion ! Take a nap on bed for 3,hours , I am out again , to kill the jet leg and to feed my stomach ! Ate McDonald , having coffee at another coffee brand and I am brave enough to buy a ticket for the movie Martha Macy may .. Hmmm , I don't know why I am here in Oslo , but since I am here , should see something , learn something and enjoy my first experience about Norway ! When the plane landing at Norway airport , I follow everyone to take fly to get - the airport express train to Oslo downtown , well, there is a road construction , we have to get off the train and transfer via bus arrange by train company ! Thanks God , three is a gentle man who show me the way to bus 3, stop at grand station ! From there , I trolly my luggage to grand hotel : uphill for 15 minutes ,quite a challenge ! When you grow old, flying long time and traveling won't be as exciting as you were young ! I am so impressed about the mother who carried a big luggage - bigger than mine , brought along her daughter - under the age of 7 and no free hand for her daughter , she must be traveling many places , by herself ! Saw many seniors taking my same plane back to Europe : good couples and good companige , when I grow old , if I enjoy long trip still, who will be on my side? The learning from the young man who is rude to me: 1. Yes I do have a blind spot : I breath to heavy , sniffing so loud and never notice others 2. I had a bad routine when sleeping : moving my body every direction and it might accidentally invade others Oslo freedoms doom day 2 1. Human right breakfast : humanity united - met carne at grand cafe before and exchange ideas about the event and china 2. Tutu - CSR for Chinese company in Africa 3. Fire alarm when first speaker make his statement 4. See - the Singapore rebel blogger and filmmaker from Malaysia Speakers: - jeta : Kosovo : freedom of speech in peace time ( good ) Roger : different idea is not a crime , speak out your own idea is neither a crime - the photographer for communist in 7 counties ( interesting ) Roger : picture is much stinger than words - Irwin : freedom's counsel - veni prisons' human right - Miomi : 1 millions bones : arts @ Afternoon session : 1. Slavery : Cambodia woman foundation 2. Jean Robert cadet : Haiti human property 3. Nepal slavery 4. Kimmi weeks : change child solders : 6 year old with gun force to fight ! Give gun and transform life 5. Julia ? Actress : why not apologize ? Because we can't apology in what we are continue doing ! Oslo freedoms forum press conference 2012/05/07 1. Russia Putin inauguration , 5 speakers on the rally last night - 500 arrested 2. 3 slavery turn to activist for freedoms 3. Norwegian civic sponsor reject to Russia visa 4. Tutu ? The gathering of dissident ? The threat to world ? 5. Nepal girl for free Nepal ? 6. Norway foreign minister not attend each year since inception on 2009, why? 7. Saudi Abeabia lady lose her job to be here for the forum 8. It's working on the ground -,from morocco 9. Haman trafficking - we don't want to be famous , but to save home - trafficking are organized , but the fighting party is not so organized My comment : 1)Is using English can really explore the deep understanding of freedom need from the bottoms - the majority who might suffer the most ? Or ignore it due to survive come first ? 2) I will hide , but I won't lie I am in the theater now! Not sure if I may finish the film unless it's in English or my fight with jet leg works! I have no clue what make me think I shall go to a movie instead of staying in hotel and to work on some homework Oslo freedom forum day 2 session 2 1. Tutu - Equatorial Gena Www.egjustice.com 2. Saudi arabia : faceless , voiceless , nameless . Woman in SA : 21 old impact by the song : show me the meaning of live ? Back Street Boys ! Drive your own life ( YouTube : voice / face / real name ) - it's not about driving car! But to be on the driver seat ! 3. Benny : crying for freedom in west Papua 4. Jeatina : zimbabwe abduction and prison for 21 days , torture and interrogation , police for another 68 days 5.alex : formal soviet union : global option management Oslo freedom forum day 3 1. Nick Cohen : you can't read this book: you need to have the courage to admit that you are afraid ! 2. Andrew F. : inside the global arm trade : 3. Rebecca : social media censorship The world of off This is the world they created for themselves ! Networking with so many dissident under one roof 1. Thor : the organizer and CEO for human right Foundation : graduate by 19 , smart 2. Thor's mother : support him and be part of the hosting team for guest from Latin America 3. Peter muller : the senior German gentelman who come the 4th time by boat and enjoy the program so much 4 Tripp and the intern team : how they passion on political world and human right issues ? 5. The norwegian children program host : dress to tell the world who he is and sit on first raw 6. The Nicon pm : who is so fascinated about meeting the people with great story 7. Tutu: fight the Anti-corruption and transpency world with a country only have half a millions people 8. Dress up and dress down of 3 speakers from the 3rd world : it's the stage for them , but they need a normal life after the show 9. The photagrapher : who do it the first time at off. Selling topic to Times magazine 10. Reception at city hall : you have a print invitation by major , but we won't guaranty mayor will host the reception himself 11. A lot of talk outside and can't be heard in their own country , hum interesting 12. The pr thing: wearing a shade (.sunglasss ) having a group picture to support Chen Kwan Chen - they don't even know who he is 13. Present award to those who won't be Present . Hum 14. See : Singapore film maker with the blog : Singapore rebel Blog 2012/05/10 Meet Miguel at Lisbon airport , he came and pick me up with his 20 years old convert Benz, he book me at inglrotot hotel between cascia and itojo , arrived around mid night, I mange to sleep until 6 in the morning , since I took a long nap from Oslo to Lisbon - a 4 hours sleep on the plane , the result is caught a cold during the flight ! Took some cold pill brought on the trip and I did exercise in the minding and get some swear out! Do a few things until 10:30am. Since in Cascia, I should not escape from the sun and beach. Walked down the hill. Their is a banyan tree spa and I took 2 shots of coffee latte at the picculiry circus cafe , preparing my yelling point with Miguel and see the people on the street ! It seem almost all the seniors were independent , they buy their own thing, drive car and enjoy life ! Miguel take me to a far site restaurant located on a small hill. From there , we can enjoy seafood while garnet the great view of sea : should be Atlantic ocean ! We are the only guest at lunch , the food is good but I can sense the economy is not in good shape here. Meeting for 2 hours with Miguel , he is a person priorities on efficiency , made swift decision and difficult to appreciate team work! We go over my agenda about the TTC concept and give is a working title : Formosa project , and at the end of meeting , we came out with the credo for this task : we energize through synergies ! Good hah Pick up his 2 child at school , from different mother and this is so interesting to digest his philosophy about marriage and being freedom and not to live a stressful live ! The 2 kids were so cute. , I took picture with them and send it to Meiling ! Decline the family dinner invitation , I go for a massage and go to bed for another 8 hours! I have to wake up by 4:00 am in order to catch the plane! Why ? Now I have the answer at Lisbon airport : there will be a strike starting 6:00 am! So we all in a hurry to up in the sky ! Blog 2012/05/12 All the wag to Bangkok The landing visa application is not a tourist welcomed system even thought Thailand claim to be tourism of Asia , an ironic phenomena in the entry of Thailand : airport I lines for getting in the customer and one immigration aid staff check my iimmigwatih form and direct me to the landing visa apply station , no one one the plane told me about it, I walked in and have no idea I should prepare my id photos and money. Yes. The only good thing about the visa apllication is : once you approach the photo station , the camera system integrated with the shoot Oslo freedoms forum press conference 2012/05/07 1. Russia Putin inauguration , 5 speakers on the rally last night - 500 arrested 2. 3 slavery turn to activist for freedoms 3. Norwegian civic sponsor reject to Russia visa 4. Tutu ? The gathering of dissident ? The threat to world ? 5. Nepal girl for free Nepal ? 6. Norway foreign minister not attend each year since inception on 2009, why? 7. Saudi Abeabia lady lose her job to be here for the forum 8. It's working on the ground -,from morocco 9. Haman trafficking - we don't want to be famous , but to save home - trafficking are organized , but the fighting party is not so organized My comment : 1)Is using English can really explore the deep understanding of freedom need from the bottoms - the majority who might suffer the most ? Or ignore it due to survive come first ? 2) I will hide , but I won't lie