A persent History of Ian Rosmarin

Why do people fall in love, I know it's a hard question I've been in love only twice in my entire life. Both times the women have been disappointments so much so I wonder if I would fall in love again afterwards. One woman fell for at university who always seemed to be on every committee I now know has married a Jewish gay doctor, and I know that as one of her 'friends' who got married told her lover (not her husband) after a bit on the side!

I'm rapidly finding myself asking weird and wonderful questions many of them seem really unimportant but some of them sometimes seem to hit the nail on the head. Like why does Will always tell me about his sex life or why I so busy these days I find it hard ever to switched off or when I am switched off to go out! Here I amwriting a post at 3.30 in the morningon the outskirts of one of the greatest cities in the worldand all I can do is think about sex and life.

The fact is the over the last few yearsmy life has been in the slow lane its only in the last few months since I took up law that things have speeded up.Many of my friends are worried that they are going to lose their jobs now and only three of my friends have married ( and out of the 3 only one has had a child but he got married 4 years before the other two!).I'm halfway to 28 years old, in three days my blog http://ian-s-world-today.blog.co.uk/ is going to be just a year old itself. When I think of all the women I kissed, slept with I realize that's not for women in love with a single one of them really. The only one I not slept with is married to a gay man and most of her so called friends would knife her in the back if they through it would give them any advantage.

Meanwhile if I don't meet someone in the next two years I risk the fate that she will have,I have to say that first loves are people that you never forget about the only problem is even if they are single you know you must never go back. Both men and women know one thing about the dating game or the mating like I like to call it! The Mr Big of sex and the city is just a pipe dream the fact is you should never go back and I suspect I never will.The other issue is that I keep having this recurring dreamI've been having it since the first year of university it's really a nightmare.In the dream I wearing a black suit in New York or London the object of my affectionis walking towards me and she hasa six-year-old little girl I too busy on so I don't notice her but she goes straight into me. I then realize that it's hershe starts telling me about how she's getting divorcedbut I'm in a rush for some unknown reasonso I don't really talk to her.I wake up in a hot sweatat university I get some water from the sinkat home I tend to go down to the kitchen.The fact ismy dream seems to predicted the futureI am indeed working in a job or are likely to have to wear a suit she is married to a man she will at some point have to divorce.There's nothing really nightmarish in the dream upon from one thingthe fact that I'm so busy that I don't care to ask if she is ok?

At the end of the day we are all in the same race to find the right person, and I know with a certain amount of satisfaction that I tried my best to stop the mess before it happened but I had to move on with my life.I've never try to work out what dreams mean but this dream keeps on repeating itself.Based on what I know about his situation and based on what I know about my lifeit's almost certain that I'll meet her one-day she'll be upsetI'll and I will have to make a decision on whether to help her or not.I hope I'm not the person in the dream but I don't hope it for me but for her!

recently people have been asking me why do I not write about the European Union, after all I am very pro-EU myself?the reason I've not written much about the European Union recently is that it seems to never fail especially recently to make an absolute joke of itself. One example the especially surprised me was social dumping.

Social dumping is when a company based in one part of the EU sends workers to another part of the European Union as in the part the European Union that they are based the and they earn less than in the part of the European Union are being sent to. The result is you end up with Portuguese workers in northern England and British workers somewhere in Italy. I myself last year actually learn legislation in detail, apart from the legislation being really complex the whole idea was to give Europeans a chance to work in any member state they wanted but I felt if they were only going to work in another member state as they were cheaper would it not only be unfair for the local workers but also the foreign workers who were being sent to that country.

It turns out that many of these workers are sent for many months at a time to work in foreign countries away from their families and friends. To me it would be a great deal fairer if the salary all over the European Union was the same. But the way things now stand with the economy in a bad state is that social dumping is becoming more common.

the other problem seems to be the euro, it turns out many of the poor countries like for example Greece are having huge problems. The fact is their industrie's are in trouble and their governments cannot take action over their monetary policy.the result is it seems likely that over the next few years a number of countries are going to have to leave the euro and I suspect if this downtime becomes a full on depression and European Union rules don't chang to understand every country is different than we could see many states just leaving work all together.

It reminds me of the old saying if you own someone £100 pounds and you can't pay you're in trouble. On the other hand if you own someone £100 million then its not you in trouble but them. In a way what is going on in the European Union emphasizes this point!

Unlike Jeremy Clarkson I would not call Gordon Brown 'a one eyed Scot who lied about the financial industry', I would however suggest that maybe it's time for him to apologize. It may also be time for him to update his CV like so many other people here in Great Britain have already done. I read in the paper for example, that a loop hole in the VAT laws was about to be closed usually I would not care about this I don't mind the odd fat cat losing there rigth to defraud the rest of us but what upset me in this case was the fact that most people who would be affected were not the well off but many who have it hard or impossible to get a permanent job.

At this point I feel like it's time to the minute that I've actually been in that position before, when I left University at 24 years old I found myself for a good year and a half doing temp jobs in fact my invigilator was also a temp. As I spoke to her I soon found out the market had got even harder than what it was like when I was out of work. I've been reading the newspapers as well and now I'm even more worried than before you see one of the main reasons I made up my mind to do law was that I wanted a career and I believed with a profession I would find it much easier to get a job.

However it's not worked out like that it turns out that many of the people who used to work in banking are now rushing into the legal profession as quickly as they can. I'm hoping the fact that I got into law before them will give me a advantage when it comes to the legal profession but I'm not so sure...

I can any hope that things change but as my invigilator said they only needed £300 or £400 a week but as it was impossible to get a permanent job it seemed likely that they would avoid spending more money. Mr Brown I believe you really need to tender an apology and maybe even a resignation and if I was you I would update my CV you really need to fairly soon in my opinion as most of your 65 million bosses have had enough.

In less than 48 hours I due to do my first exams in the LPC property! For all of the other students (or slaves as that is how we sometimes feel!) good luck and good nigth!

I read Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian today, about the Israeli election. First I not going to talk about the election result as far as I can see thats the really borning bit. Second Jonathan you should really stop talking about into a kind of Isreali/Palestinians, Switzerland it won't happen you only need to talk to a small section of the Isreali public or the Palestinians. I could see the result coming a mile away years before. I talked to Isrealis born in the fomrer USSR many of them seemed to hate the Arabs. I not surpized at all at the election. To Alex Stein who I used to know at Manchester University sorry but I told before you moved to Isreal. As I get older I see a that Isreal seems to look in on herself more and more. In fact like I never be a Little Englander I would find it hard to be a little Isreali like many Isrealis want many Jewish people to become. Today Isreali Arabs are being seen in Isreal as a kind of 5th column this is no surprise to me at all I saw it for myself at the Weitzman Institute.

If you want me to suggest what Isreal will look in 10 or 20 years I think its certain that the country would have left most of the West Bank behind but I would not be surpized if Isreal only kept the Jordan valley if fact I be surpized if they did not. Whatever the parties say I think Gaza will be in effect part of Iran I see Hamas still being in effect the goverment of Gaza. I have read recently about Egypt becoming like Iran in 1979 With an elderly 80 year old leader. What worries me is that the Isrealis worry to much about Arabs who live in Isreal the fact is there is a growing chance of something much worse then the rockets in Gaza or some local problems in the West Bank (where they know they should not be!) is the very real possibility that one of the neighboring governments could collapse and this could lead to a much bigger Tragedy then the wars of the last 3 years.

The result is that I worry not that the Isrealis and the Palestinians will never each get the two state solution (I hope both they will and it will happen soon) but the real nigthmare that myself and many Western writers worry about but how the the two sides would get there. This is why as a fan of the Western system of goverment the reason why I would never settle in Israel. As a fan Western European system of goverment I could not see how I could live in Isreal in the long term in any rate. At the Weitzman Institute I learned this lesson it was talking to a group of students who were all Isrealis who had been born in the fomer USSR. What they said was the same as the rigth wring parties that now seem likly to take control of Isreal today. They seemed nice people but as I talked to them I soon found out that they were worried about the growing numbers of Isreali Arabs in Isreal. They too suggested that they may need to swear allegiance to the state of Isreal, that they should also be limted to the number of child they should have I first through of the bed police or China's one child policy. When you are someone like myself who believes the only way to defuse the demographic time bomb is to integrate these people into mainstream society in Isreal you soon find out that like Jonathan Freedland's idea that even that idea it will never happen. As a result of talking to these students I heard constant fantasists of how the situation could be sorted out. I think I should point out that the Weitzman is not some two bit college in Isreal. The Weitzman is in fact the equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge here or Harvard University in America,if that's what people think in the main teaching institutions think you have to ask what does the Isreali think in the street think. It seems to me that the West needs to stop seeing Isreal as part of the West and Jewish people themselves need to ask questions. I agree the Isrealis have seen things from only their side in a little bubble, that is the reason I would never live there. Secondly and more importantly both to myself and to the Isrealis I believe if I did live there I could not help the situation or myself. When you see the election result it seems to me that this is the new face of Isreal coming out and it seem to me to show the best reason for not moving there permanently for people like myself.

The net result is a country that I would never want to live in and many other Jewish people would feel the same way about. There is a growing nagging worry that the Jewish state could become something that would worry many of us. As I sat in that student kitchin and heard what they said a jigsaw started to form in my mind, since I had worked in the Weitzman I had not met a single Arab student. I think Isreal's largest problem is the split between Arabs and Isrealis who live in effect they alreally live in two counties. I would not be surpized at all if there is a short civil war in only one or two years time. What worries me more in the major towns and cities where they live side by side the lifes that will be ruined. At the end of the day its not up to me or anyone else Jewish, Arab or Western to bring or not bring peace its up to the Palestinians and Isrealis, I don't think America or Britain or even the rest of the world can bring peace and I do not think its up too us but what I will say is that it does not look good...

Both sides seem to be bend on carrying on figthing each other forever, being Jewish I glad Isreal is around but the country needs to change. Isreal is a young country but its people like myself come from a old people in terms of history what I cannot stand is when they say we not had a country 2000 years so we can mistakes Isreal is over 60 years old in my view it needs to grow up and see the world for what it really is. For me my life is in London the Greatest city in the world, all the women I have dated and slept with live in this city, all my family are here my mother, my father, my uncle, my autes mybe I move to New York or Down Under I just think its a waste of my life doing what so many of my peers have done. I live in a city of 8 million people why would I want to move to a country with just 7 million poeple? To me thats just alien I do not speck the language,I hate it when people put their national flag outside their homes (I must say I did not like it when I saw it in both Canada and America I seem to be allergic to nationalism). I find it hypocritical and a pit in my stomach seems to develop, I don't need to feel part of something greater to to be me. I am my own person a island in my own rigth and I friends with a great many other islands. The people who I have known who have moved to Isreal I never understood why they moved there? One person I had not seen in years said on a BBC program that Isreal was home I find myself thinking like many other Jewish people world wide why do you think that? I thinking after the LPC spending some time in Isreal from what I have heard the country however has not changed much the people have not grown up yet. I am a child of the West The West seems to me to be starting to fall apart in every meaning of the word as it falls apart I see the former Western states becoming like Russia and the coutnries of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. They talk about being purn states and soon they target anyone who is not like them. At the end of the day this is not just Isreal's problem this is the West's problem but I always seen Isreal and to an extent America as the Canaries in the mine when something happens in these countries and you can bet your bottom dollar that it will eventually happen here in Britain and the rest of Europe just not in the same way as it happened in these places. For me London has and will always be home I like it here it maybe borning sometimes but I think myself that I perfer reading about Gordan Brown and the banks as well as the Local problems my home country has.

Since the bomb shell of the changes coming to my blog I not really had any time to write a new post.

So here on the third day of February, for me February is the middle of my year (Augest the 28th is my birthday), the time of when I think of rebirth. Today I had a talk with a friend (or should I say a former friend now).Just before new year we had just finished our mocks me and a few class went into a pub called the White Hart which is near by the college in Waterloo.

I saw a friend I had not seen in ages and we talked (no I not giving the name of the former friend!). I sat down and talked when one of the friend's class mate's invited to a party. The friend told me I could not come (and this is what I would not have said) as an acquaintance who was a close friend was coming I naggied about it and they sent a text. They then rudly shouted the reply to the rest of the room. This greatly embarrassed as well as upsetting me I told them what I through of their friend and they said they did not want to get involved in the dispute.

I told one of their friends who had not been there at the time what happened. Me and this 'friend' did not talk for two months till to nigth. When they in capital letters insulted me online and told me that I had made them look bad in front of their 'friends'.

After shutting down my MSN to get ride of them they then at three o'clock in the morning sent me a text message which was even ruder than the messages they had on MSN my simple reply was 'I feel the same way'.

Maybe my behavior was terrible maybe I am a 'bitch' like they said or 'not cool' but those facts don't matter its how they acted. The one thing I am not is someone who does not speck their mind! I found that day that in fact they had never been a real friend they just cared how they looked and how people saw them as they could not answer a simple question? How does the other person feel.

And there is an additional point in the legal profession we will often have clients you can't tell everything to because it's not in their interest. I know for a fact my 'friend' cannot do that therefore their is a very slim chance of them being a successful lawayer as half of being a lawayer is being a people person and sometime you cannot and should not tell someone in other words you need to be able to you need to be able to empathize in other words you need to be up to understand how the other person feels. I have realized that this is one thing my friend missed and that is why so few of their own friends were mates they had had for more than two years, I know the within the rules the solicitor conduct booklet there are limits most notably rule two tells us that we need to tell our client about anything to do with their case but I still think that being a good lawyer being able to empathize with your client is extremely important and these are the three points I would always ask the solicitor to consider if they possibly can,(a) something they do not need to know, (b) something that will upset them and (c) something that will make them do somthing they reget!

And thats why I call February my rebirth every year the date is the 14th of February Valentine's Day!