It's a question of mentality

Well, then it went from dream to truth - AaB beat Brøndby at home and took the championship with 2 matches to go. The whole city went bananas, as far as i could tell from the TV pictures. I really wish i had been there! Well, next weekend will crazy as well, and i am sure the gold medals will somehow put it's influence on the Karneval.

All this fuss about the football team has really been showing the mentality of northern jutland in the media. For one, the boss of the football team who, with a good danish word, can be described as "lun". Hmm hard to explain, but something like "anti-bragging and always with a wink in the eye". It is impossible for the reporters to get anything out of this man unless he decides to give them a funny comment. He can "smooth"-talk his way out of any annoying question, and always turns it around so he can tell the reporters what he wants to. For example he said all the way, until the gold medals were safe, that the goal of the season was top-4 in the league, even when they were 9 points ahead in the table! And comments like "the players are paying good money to play here, so of course we will have a new manager ready when the new season starts" when being asked about the fact that the current manager is leaving the club, coins the term to some extend.

Also, the fans of AaB just seemed much more happy, since we have been waiting 9 years for this. The 1st spot normally goes to one of the clubs from Copenhagen, and their fans are probably used to it, so it is more like "oh, another gold medal... well, cool!". Just like Arsenal beating Southampton in the FA cup final, and the So'ton fans being more happy than the Arsenal fans afterward... sheer happiness of just having been in the final, while for the Arsenal fan it meant just another medal. Supporting smaller teams might not give you reason to celebrate every year, but when they finally win something... oh boy!! (remember EURO '92 :-D )

I had a small talk with Danfoss people in Mexico and it seems more and more likely that i will be there from September till March, but nothing is final yet, no papers signed etc. Still, we discussed the actual assignment, and their line of work seems really interesting.

Finally, i think i have unraveled the mystery of pop-music - and it's followers. Really... im not kidding you!
I asked my pop-loving colleague what was interesting in someone pretending to sing while 5 others were stading behind dancing in the same way?! He replied: "It's entertainment...". Actually it makes me relax a little, that he doesn't actually think of it as music :D
I guess lots of people actually never listen to music, but just take it as entertainment? In that case i understand why pop-music is probably the most preferred, but poor people ;) Hehe, always nice to slack off the majority by exploiting simple statements ;) Well anyways, thanks mom and dad for listening to so much good music -it really got me off to a good start :D