Like a movie...

I was reading the Guardian the other day and I found the following story:

A 31-year-old Greek man accused of beheading his girlfriend with a cleaver is in critical condition after being shot by police, the country's health ministry said today.

Restaurant cook Thanassis Arvanitis allegedly severed the head of his 25-year-old girlfriend yesterday on the island of Santorini.

Arvanitis was shot three times by police while trying to flee. He had initially agreed to surrender to officers, but then attacked one with the cleaver and tried to escape in a patrol car.

Three bystanders were injured in the clash in Bourboulos, near the island's main town of Fira. A 21-year-old Greek tourist was hit by a ricocheting police bullet, while the suspect crashed into an oncoming motorbike, injuring two doctors, both aged 26.

Arvanitis and the three bystanders, all women, were being treated in a state hospital in Athens. The two doctors were making a good recovery after suffering leg injuries, said health minister Dimitris Avramopoulos. The tourist was in stable condition. The injured policeman received treatment for facial wounds on Santorini.

Arvantis killed his girlfriend following an argument. "The (suspect) slaughtered their dog and threw it out of their home and onto the street and proceeded to kill the woman ... totally severing her head," a statement from the South Aegean police department said.

"The attacker walked around the village carrying the head of the victim in one hand and the cleaver in the other."

"It's hard to believe that people like this circulate among us," said Santorini's mayor, Angelos Roussos.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/04/greece.internationalcrime

In the last two weeks I've read about a guy in Canada who beheaded a girl in a bus and started eating parts of her body, another guy in Canada who stopped a taxi driver in the middle of the street and beat him to death and later told police that he wanted to see if it is the same as in Grand Theft Auto, a 20-year old Australian beaten to death by club security people in Mykonos and two Italian students stabbed to death in London...171 stabbings on one of them, and two teenagers in London who pushed a lawyer in the rail tracks of the Underground because she told them that smoking is not allowed on the station.

I really have no idea where I am going with this but it is Saturday night and I am bored. My week up to now has got me so tired that the only thing I was dreaming of today was my bed. That was exactly what I was dreaming of last night too followed by a sleep in in the morning but unfortunately the builders downstairs had a different idea. IT somehow seems reasonable to start putting holes on the wall at 9am on a Saturday. After all who would be sleeping at that time?

Two weeks left in London. As my time here is almost over, looking back at it, I will remember it as a great experience. I had the opportunity to work for the leading company in the world in its sector, meet new people, reunite and have fun with classmates from school, experience the London life and learn to not be amused by the sudden weather changes. The only thing I would have wanted most though was to be able to spend those 3 months with my baby. It has been a difficult three months being away from her and I am glad that we will reunite again in two weeks, hoping that we will never have to be apart again:)