Watching this year’s Eurovision was a blast! A lot of very colorful performances. Congratulations to Russia with the 1st place, Ukraine came in 2nd and Greece was 3rd.

My personal favorite was France. Since we were not allowed to vote for Ukraine, France was my pick. We did actually participate in the live voting process by sending SMS messages from our cell phones to the number provided on the screens of our TVs during the contest.

Sebastien Tellier’s “Divine” [the French performer I liked] was a very unique (musically as well as vocally) composition. I didn’t quite understand the meaning of the song at first (I couldn’t figure out the meaning of the word ‘Chivers’), but later when I found out what it meant, the song started to make some sense to me :)

Lyrcis can be found here

And the story behind this song (as well as the meaning of C.H.I.V.E.R.S) can be found here .

We like watching movies, reading books, hearing stories about people who are in certain ways are better than us, hoping and believing that we too, at some point, can and will get there… about their lives, which may have certain aspects [we believe] we are missing in ours; yet [we’re sure] we have ahead of us in not so distant future… It fuels our dreams, our thoughts, stimulates our mind, erasing the boundaries between reality and imagination.

House is one of those people. Most of you would probably disagree with me right here - he’s miserable, he’s alone, he virtually has no friends, no loved ones and cares about nobody, not even about himself. So, why on earth would we admire him or his life? But wait, not so fast :) Look at it this way: • He’s brilliant at what he does • He’s got the job he loves • He has power (over his patients, but still, it’s power!) • He has admiration and respect of his coworkers as well as his superiors • He lives his life exactly the way he wants and wouldn’t change a single bit of it regardless of all the efforts of other people who in various ways would like to “help” him

Sure it’s all fiction, we all know that. Nobody in real world would put up with him, no matter how talented he was… Or would somebody? We all know that people with problems “connect” better with people… with problems. I think that’s exactly the case here, look at Wilson, Cuddy, as well as the rest of his gang - they all function on a formula “If the world puts up with me, the way I am, I can surely put up with somebody like House, the way he is”. I guess you might say we all are like that, to some degree of course, and what exactly is that degree and who and where draws the line… And you will be right :)

But here is another idea - I think a lot of us see in House ourselves, doing things “the right way” (the way we see it), and not the way we’re often told to… His actions represent something we’re all dying to see other people do (including ourselves) - make decisions, follow through and take responsibility for the results! We want our close ones to admit mistakes, make plans, love us, we want our peers to show leadership and responsibility, our colleagues to take initiatives, our bosses to recognize us, and our doctors to act, not to react…

I think that’s why we like House :)

PS: How does one switch on and off American accent? Just like that! Speaking of accents… is there American accent or is there British accent? It can’t be both, can it ? ;-)