The FIKA BREAK

Fika is the most common word that swedes use and that is the same word that every non - swede in Sweden would have learned. In very few days of one's stay in Sweden, the Fika culture crops into u. Here, every swede takes a fika break in every two hours. As one comes to the lab, he just grabs a cup of coffe and then after 2 hours, by ten the second fika break and then lunch at 12 and then again a fika at 2pm followed by another fika at 4, just before he leaves for home. I've no clue how many fikas they have at home after their work. Besides these many breaks for fika, they are very productive and this fascinates me. When I think of productivity and Fika, I get this idea, how a break can actually make u more efficient.

After boiling your head for two hours, a break definitely helps you calm down and also helps you to think clearly. When you have a few other people around you, you share light jokes and your lab problems, this might actually help you solve some of the silliest problems through exchange of ideas. This might be one of the reasons why the researchers here has embraced the fika culture to the hilt.

I told one of my friends that if you do not take a fika, you disqualify as a swede. In this regard, my whole labmates faces the disqualification charges. we are just a bunch of hard working souls.

When I was talking to my swedish friend about the Fika break and how it has influenced Indians in Umea, He suddenly came up with this idea what if God takes a Fika break...

Hmmmm My rest of the blog is about what would have happened if several of our world leaders had taken a Fika break!

1) What if Hitler had taken a Fika break: the moment he would have said a loud "Nej NEj Nej" for the very idea of exterminating thousands of jews for no reasons. This would have prevented the second world war.

2) If Gandhiji would have had a Fika break, he would have thought very clearly, backed the radical revolutionaries and we would have won independence atleast 2 decades before 1947!

3) If American policy makers would take a fika break, they would understand that they are poking their nose into unnecessary matters and that they are a pain in the arse for the rest of the world.

4)If the noble peace committee had taken a fika break, they would have realised their blunder for honouring Mr.Obama with the coveted award, who is busy killing people in the 3rd world countries, whose policies are inhumane and who talk a lot about nuclear disarmament but does not even endorse a policy of "no first use".

5) After a fika break, Kishanji would have definitely abandoned his anti-government policies and his bloody rampage over CRPF personnels and would have stopped bombing schools and other public buildings.

Now you guys can contribute................