.... just some important deadlines:
1. its September 22nd already... and for those of you who dont know, this is the day I've been looking forward for for quite some time.... as it means: updates on whats going on at 'home' (that meaning the place I was born and bread), latest gossip, shopping and endless talking as my dear friend Britta is coming to Bavaria... 8 hrs and 35 minutes til her plane lands (of course on the most biuuuuutiful airport around!) (and... I should get some sleep... hmmpfff)
2. YESSSS... its SATURDAYYY .... which means Today the OKTOBERFEST begins...
10hrs and 45 minutes and then its *ozapft*
3. Monday, 24.09.2007: Sightseeing in munich (its about time to do that after I'm here for 3 months almost and by now know more pubs and bars than historical sights or facts :S)
4. Tuesday: SHOPPPINGGGG... I desperately need a new shirt for sth. coming up on...
5. Thursday... but about that, I simply won't tell here :P
so thats it for now, I'm off til sometime soon...
over and out!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
.... the bourne ultimatum
Dear Guests... please stop talking during the movie and switch off your mobiles...
its time for a movie review again.... monday (yesterday) a bunch of friends and me went to watch 'the Bourne Ultimatum', the english original version of course.
Before, I had quite high expectations and because of that quite some doubts on how good this third and last episode could be. Also, I didn't really remember all the details from the Bourne Identity and Supremacy, so would it be difficult to find the red thread again? No, actually (surprisingly?) not! Paul Greengrass managed to reveal the past with only few shots and concentrate the Ultimatum on just the essentials. Some things I found quite obvious from the begining on (what else would we expect of Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) than switching sides and helping Jason Bourne in the end?). Others weren't, like the result of Bourne's hunt for his own identity in the end. All in all a reaaaaly good movie, worth seeing at least once, with just a single deficit: Who would not like to see Matt Damon again in a fourth sequel?
hmm... next movie is already planned: 'I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry', a comedy... with Adam Sandler, Kevin James (the King of Queens) and Jessica Beal...
Sunday, September 16, 2007
.... Streetlife Festival
I proudly announce a new entry here after only 5 days!!!
Yesterday was just such a perfect day that I just have to post something about it. First of all I woke up at 9:30 AM... and I woke up just like this.. no screaming kids of my aunt around... nothing... silence... great: they had gone out already!
so after a long and relaxed breakfast I made my way to the PEP shopping center again, basically I didnt even wanna shop, just pick up my new contact lenses and leave again... well, 'baaad luck' the contacts weren't there yet... so as not to have gone there for nothing I looked into some shops... and well.. 4 hrs. later..... came out with a new pair of jeans, a skirt, 3 shirts, 2 bags! :D - thats what I call successsful shopping! and yes, shopping does make me happy!
of course I didn't go home without a grande-low-fat-extra shot-almond-latte from Starbucks, arrived at home to take on all the stuff again... take off the tags... fold everything nicely...hmmzzz..
then showered and dressed in the new stuff already, filled a new bag and made my way to a game night with the StudiVZ guys once more... was a really fun afternoon... and later on we went to the Streetlife festival at Munich's Siegestor/Leopoldstraße to see The BossHoss.... was such a cool night... and the best of all... they had a stand there selling:
Yesterday was just such a perfect day that I just have to post something about it. First of all I woke up at 9:30 AM... and I woke up just like this.. no screaming kids of my aunt around... nothing... silence... great: they had gone out already!
so after a long and relaxed breakfast I made my way to the PEP shopping center again, basically I didnt even wanna shop, just pick up my new contact lenses and leave again... well, 'baaad luck' the contacts weren't there yet... so as not to have gone there for nothing I looked into some shops... and well.. 4 hrs. later..... came out with a new pair of jeans, a skirt, 3 shirts, 2 bags! :D - thats what I call successsful shopping! and yes, shopping does make me happy!
of course I didn't go home without a grande-low-fat-extra shot-almond-latte from Starbucks, arrived at home to take on all the stuff again... take off the tags... fold everything nicely...hmmzzz..
then showered and dressed in the new stuff already, filled a new bag and made my way to a game night with the StudiVZ guys once more... was a really fun afternoon... and later on we went to the Streetlife festival at Munich's Siegestor/Leopoldstraße to see The BossHoss.... was such a cool night... and the best of all... they had a stand there selling:
REISDORF KÖLSCH
first I thought I was dreaming... but I wasnt! unbelievable... Kölsch (beer from Cologne) in Bavaria,... that is about as rare as snow near the Equator! :D of course I had to enjoy some of this best-ever-liquid with my friends here... who had (I know, poor people) never had a Kölsch...
one thing to add about this unique experience is Christians first comment when 'drinking' out of a Kölsch-glass... "ohh.. shit... die Nase passt da nicht rein"... pffff
yaaa... ok.. I admit, the picture is not hte best... but if you take a reaaaaly close look, and add a spoon of phantasy... you can make out the word 'kölsch' on the lighted thingy atop of the beer stand... aaaand (better) the word Gaffel (=Kölsch brand) on the class that I'm holding.
and no, I dont know that lady there, I wonder if she knows me? hmm... but well, Robin and Christian are standing there in the background....
oh and by the way: summer's back in town as well... so now Im on my way to tha park...
adios
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
... soooo much!!
wow... a month again, and I swear I wanted to write earlier... but well, here I am and its September. Thinking of it, it still feels as though I've just been back from Hong Kong, spent a couple of weeks in Breda and then came to Munich - like uhhm... yesterday or the day before? hmmzzz...
I've been quite busy those last weeks. My work at the airport is still great. I get along with my colleagues so well and I like Munich and life here in a way that I could seriously consider coming back here for lets just say longer...
It's been a stressful time also. Making friends with some people in Munich, mostly met in StudiVZ (online students network in Germany) I've been out almost every evening of the week... plus plans on the weekens, got to know and love the public transport system in Munich and surroundings, got to know more pubs and bars than I know sights or any of the should-have-seens in Munich, saw a bunch of movies in a bunch of cinemas and got to HATE the public transport system...
so here some notes...
1) why are busses late when I'm on time? and why are they on time when I'm late? idiotas grrr
2) the weather in Munich got quite ugly lately, but if it follows tradition it'll get better for the Octoberfest
3) did I mention that the oktoberfest is coming up in 2 weeks ? ??
4) Britta is coming down here for a visit!! yipieeee... so I should find out about some of the real sights!
5) there is a shoe-shop in the PEP Shopping Centre that has a reaaaly nice bag that I reaaalyyy want!
6) Schwabings definately the best place in whole Munich!
2) I love Munich for its small cinemas showing movies apart from the mainstream stuff...
3) aren't those small old-fashioned cinemas cute?
4) why does 'Am Ende kommen Touristen' come to such an abrupt end? anyways for those who haven't seen it or heard of it, its a German movie about a guy who does his civil service in Oswiecim (better known as Auschwitz) in Poland, his life there, and the life of natives and visitors, providing probably just the glimpse of an idea of reality, but a pretty real glimpse I'd say.
5) 'Tuya's Hochzeit' - great movie about life in China's remote countryside of Inner Mongolia
6) China is in a way, like home, being there for a seemingly endless time, in the end I hated it, not being able to be there now, I hate it!
7) working at the airport makes me sick... is there a word that expresses this feeling as strong as Fernweh? I wanna go.... where? everyplace and no place? when? whenver? forever? never? I just wanna go! and I want to stay at the same time.
ahhh... I cant even remember everythign I've done in the last 4 weeks!
I've also been to Daniela's place in kind of Bavarian remoteness twice... its soooo beautiful there... and I've gone to a 'Volksfest' in Rosenheim, which is kinda like the Oktoberfest, just somewhat smaller! (sort of practice for the real one!)
one last point to mention for all girls reading this: those Bavarian guys are really cute... or is it the air here that makes me think so?
well... thats it for now... take care everybody
I've been quite busy those last weeks. My work at the airport is still great. I get along with my colleagues so well and I like Munich and life here in a way that I could seriously consider coming back here for lets just say longer...
It's been a stressful time also. Making friends with some people in Munich, mostly met in StudiVZ (online students network in Germany) I've been out almost every evening of the week... plus plans on the weekens, got to know and love the public transport system in Munich and surroundings, got to know more pubs and bars than I know sights or any of the should-have-seens in Munich, saw a bunch of movies in a bunch of cinemas and got to HATE the public transport system...
so here some notes...
1) why are busses late when I'm on time? and why are they on time when I'm late? idiotas grrr
2) the weather in Munich got quite ugly lately, but if it follows tradition it'll get better for the Octoberfest
3) did I mention that the oktoberfest is coming up in 2 weeks ? ??
4) Britta is coming down here for a visit!! yipieeee... so I should find out about some of the real sights!
5) there is a shoe-shop in the PEP Shopping Centre that has a reaaaly nice bag that I reaaalyyy want!
6) Schwabings definately the best place in whole Munich!
2) I love Munich for its small cinemas showing movies apart from the mainstream stuff...
3) aren't those small old-fashioned cinemas cute?
4) why does 'Am Ende kommen Touristen' come to such an abrupt end? anyways for those who haven't seen it or heard of it, its a German movie about a guy who does his civil service in Oswiecim (better known as Auschwitz) in Poland, his life there, and the life of natives and visitors, providing probably just the glimpse of an idea of reality, but a pretty real glimpse I'd say.
5) 'Tuya's Hochzeit' - great movie about life in China's remote countryside of Inner Mongolia
6) China is in a way, like home, being there for a seemingly endless time, in the end I hated it, not being able to be there now, I hate it!
7) working at the airport makes me sick... is there a word that expresses this feeling as strong as Fernweh? I wanna go.... where? everyplace and no place? when? whenver? forever? never? I just wanna go! and I want to stay at the same time.
ahhh... I cant even remember everythign I've done in the last 4 weeks!
I've also been to Daniela's place in kind of Bavarian remoteness twice... its soooo beautiful there... and I've gone to a 'Volksfest' in Rosenheim, which is kinda like the Oktoberfest, just somewhat smaller! (sort of practice for the real one!)
one last point to mention for all girls reading this: those Bavarian guys are really cute... or is it the air here that makes me think so?
well... thats it for now... take care everybody
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
...catching up on July!
oops... its been a month again since I wrote last... welllll... there goes my discipline (read: scatterbrain) and my good intentions (read: forgetfulness) and 4 weeks have passed like nothing.
During the weeks I've been working quite a lot, already cumulated quite some extra-hours that I can take days off for sometime... So far (and I guess it'll stay like that) my internship has been just great. Of course, first days are as they usually go. On my fist day, my placement coordinator, Kristian, showed my around the public (land-side) area of the aiport, both public terminals, the general aviation terminal (GAT) , and the Cargo buildings, the hangars, the visitors and administration area... we did quite a lot of driving and then walked around the grounds for about 4 hours in the afternoon! I seriously thought I'd never find a single place back again, and if I did I would certainly never get back out of this jungle! I really thought it couldnt get any more, but there was the next day - when I got my security pass... so we could go airside, to the non-public-area, I went into the hangars then... and we walked for the whole day over the apron (= Vorfeld in German)... got to have a drink in the Emirates First Class Lounge which is seriously just like a 5 star hotel, just missing the bedrooms! hmm... of course I was introduced to never ending amounts of people... only few of whom I remembered. I was shown 'my' office also! I sit in an office only with Tania, who is responsible for the promotion areas througout the airport. I've got a huge desk, with computer and phone of course but we also share a fax, printer and scanner just with the two of us! by now I got to know her better of course and we really get a long well!
My supervisor at the FMG (airport authority) is really nice, but quite a weird little dwarf also... talks without an end.. never actually heard him talk about anything else than airlines, airports, aviation-personnel... etc.... just last week he tried to give me some advice for my leisure time in munich, telling me to go to the 'flyaway' - a party every tuesday which supposedly is visited by 90% of airline/airport personnel only! pfff... FREEAAAAK I think, but I get along with him!! (actually if I hadnt known better I would say he just jumped out of the latest harry potter... a bit of a mix of a houseelf and Mr. Weasly (just leave away the red hair, and replace it with no hair at all) hahaha... pheeeeewwww... now I gotta make sure not to let him know about my blog :P
anyways, enough of work! I've also met quite a few people here in munich, all through the StudiVZ, a german student network. Have gone to the movies three times.. seen Harry Potter 5(of course), then 'Transformers' in the Sneak, of which I was very positively surprised, and finally 'THA SIMPSOOONSSSS' ... that was simply hilarious! 'I'm here to leaaaad - not to reaaad' hahaha..pffff... if you havent seen it yet: GO, and remember to watch the trailer also ;)
last weekend then I went to the olympiapark on Sat where I met up with some people for some beers in the beergarden (you gotta love 'em!) and sunday met up with a bunch of guys in the 'Englischer Garten' (largest park in Europe actually!) for some more beers... :D ... then yesterday met up with a friend again... and today I'm taking a Beer-break :P, to start through tomorrow on the weekly cracker-barrel (Stammtisch) with the StudiVZ people!
soo... thats it for now... today I finally finished (so sad) the last (is it really?) Harry Potter book. Its been the best so far I think... loved and hated it... totally nerv racking, fascinating... an absolute page-turner! So now I'll go and start my next book 'Millionär' from Tommy Jaud!
good night...
During the weeks I've been working quite a lot, already cumulated quite some extra-hours that I can take days off for sometime... So far (and I guess it'll stay like that) my internship has been just great. Of course, first days are as they usually go. On my fist day, my placement coordinator, Kristian, showed my around the public (land-side) area of the aiport, both public terminals, the general aviation terminal (GAT) , and the Cargo buildings, the hangars, the visitors and administration area... we did quite a lot of driving and then walked around the grounds for about 4 hours in the afternoon! I seriously thought I'd never find a single place back again, and if I did I would certainly never get back out of this jungle! I really thought it couldnt get any more, but there was the next day - when I got my security pass... so we could go airside, to the non-public-area, I went into the hangars then... and we walked for the whole day over the apron (= Vorfeld in German)... got to have a drink in the Emirates First Class Lounge which is seriously just like a 5 star hotel, just missing the bedrooms! hmm... of course I was introduced to never ending amounts of people... only few of whom I remembered. I was shown 'my' office also! I sit in an office only with Tania, who is responsible for the promotion areas througout the airport. I've got a huge desk, with computer and phone of course but we also share a fax, printer and scanner just with the two of us! by now I got to know her better of course and we really get a long well!
My supervisor at the FMG (airport authority) is really nice, but quite a weird little dwarf also... talks without an end.. never actually heard him talk about anything else than airlines, airports, aviation-personnel... etc.... just last week he tried to give me some advice for my leisure time in munich, telling me to go to the 'flyaway' - a party every tuesday which supposedly is visited by 90% of airline/airport personnel only! pfff... FREEAAAAK I think, but I get along with him!! (actually if I hadnt known better I would say he just jumped out of the latest harry potter... a bit of a mix of a houseelf and Mr. Weasly (just leave away the red hair, and replace it with no hair at all) hahaha... pheeeeewwww... now I gotta make sure not to let him know about my blog :P
anyways, enough of work! I've also met quite a few people here in munich, all through the StudiVZ, a german student network. Have gone to the movies three times.. seen Harry Potter 5(of course), then 'Transformers' in the Sneak, of which I was very positively surprised, and finally 'THA SIMPSOOONSSSS' ... that was simply hilarious! 'I'm here to leaaaad - not to reaaad' hahaha..pffff... if you havent seen it yet: GO, and remember to watch the trailer also ;)
last weekend then I went to the olympiapark on Sat where I met up with some people for some beers in the beergarden (you gotta love 'em!) and sunday met up with a bunch of guys in the 'Englischer Garten' (largest park in Europe actually!) for some more beers... :D ... then yesterday met up with a friend again... and today I'm taking a Beer-break :P, to start through tomorrow on the weekly cracker-barrel (Stammtisch) with the StudiVZ people!
soo... thats it for now... today I finally finished (so sad) the last (is it really?) Harry Potter book. Its been the best so far I think... loved and hated it... totally nerv racking, fascinating... an absolute page-turner! So now I'll go and start my next book 'Millionär' from Tommy Jaud!
good night...
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