Posts tagged cinema
The Switzerland is a no-go!
0The title says it all: I won’t go to the Switzerland. After waiting for a feedback for weeks, whether the customer wants me to go to the Switzerland or not, they finally said: We actually don’t need another consultant over her. But okay, at least now my boss knows for sure that I’m still available for other projects. There are other projects to come, but as I don’t wanna tell you something that I have to revise later, I don’t say anything at all, until things get more tangible.
That also means for me that I won’t come to the Football Weekend in Thayngen (which rather should be called Soccer Weekend, actually ;)). The journey from Oldenburg to the Switzerland and back for only one weekend would be a little too much for me. Instead I’ll go to Kai-Uwe T.’s birthday on Friday evening. The topic is “Bad taste” and I’ve already got an idea what clothes I’ll be wearing that night. It’s gonna be fun and I hope to be able to show you a few pictures later. I’ll stay in Frankfurt for the rest of the weekend and am going to visit Julia, which I’m really looking forward to. :D We didn’t fix anything yet, but actually we have to go to the movies again – it kinda became a tradition to go to the movies every time we meet.
If everything goes well, I will visit Diana R. the following weekend. Whether in Bopfingen, where she studies, or at home, isn’t confirmed yet. But I’m flexible. I’m looking forward to that, as well, and am sure that we’re going to have lots of fun. :D

I finally, after a long time of back and forth, decided for a digital camera. But it’s neither the Canon SX200 IS, nor the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7. Lately the successors for both cameras have been released. Both of them removed some of the biggest disadvantages that I didn’t like about their predecessors. But that didn’t make it much easier for me: Now I wasn’t able to decide between the two successors. Finally I watched some video examples on YouTube and realized, that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 is a lot better for concert recordings (regarding image and sound quality) than the Canon SX210 IS. That’s why I decided to buy the Lumix camera, despite the lesser number of megapixels and the missing manual focus. As in Germany she costs as much € as she costs $ in the USA (where she is called ZS7 instead of TZ10), I ordered it on Amazon.com to ship it to Christina B., who is studying in the USA for one semester at the moment. It already arrived there and I can’t wait to unpack it on the 14th of May, when I’ll arrive in Boston. :D
Good bye, stress! … at least for now
0I know, it’s been some time again since I last gave you a shout. And it seems like it going to turn out exactly the same way it did the last time I tried to start a blog. But it’s not like that. I had so much to do during the past weeks that I didn’t even managed to go to the gym, clean up my flat or go to the choire practices. Now, at Thursday, I finally conducted my e-business presentation and submitted the paper, that cost me almost every free minute during the past weeks.
I think I have to catch up with the blogging now. Starting with the Muse concert at October 28th that I visited in Hamburg with a good friend (Felix). It was simply awesome! I already tried to describe that to some people, but it’s not that easily put into words. Pictured will do a much better job. Sorrily I forgot my cell phone that evening, so I wasn’t able to record anything. But there were enough other people who did that for me and even in HD quality. So, for those of you who want to get an impression, here’s the intro and the first song of the concert. But be aware, the music of Muse definitely counts as “special interests”:
This was on a Wednesday evening. I took the next day off, which was a good decision as we drank cocktails that evening. Felix’ girlfriend once worked in a disco and thus has pretty good cocktail-lounge-skills. :D
Two weeks later I’ve visited Valerie from Austria in Munich. Very multicultural, yes! She even baked a cake for me. :) Thank you again! After 8.5 hours of driving car I didn’t have much energy left to go out the first evening. So we decided to watch Disney’s Aladdin – hard to believe that a girl really didn’t know that movie by then. Of course I was in charge of closing her knowledge gap. ;) The next day we visited Munichs inner city where we ate “Weißwurscht mit Brez’n” (Bavarian veal sausage with pretzel). In the evening we moved through Munichs cocktail lounges and I had my first Bloody Mary. Well, “moved” is a little exaggerated, as we already stuck in the second cocktail lounge for the rest of the evening. By the way this is a personal recommendation for everyone who is going to look for a good cocktail lounge in Munich: The Vanilla Lounge.
The following weekend I had cocktails again. I visited Brett and Heather Seybold and their little daughter Fiona in Göttingen (near Hannover). It was a really nice weekend. The first evening we made good for the cocktail evening that was acutally planned for my last visit a year ago. The next day we were at a very American bar in the inner city of Göttingen and the last day we went to the service of the FeG Göttingen. I liked it a lot.
Last weekend I was in Hamburg again, or more precise, in Buxtehude. And I really like knowing someone who’s living in this often quoted location. :D There we celebrated Felix’ 24th Birthday extensively on saturday. The day before we were in the movies, watching The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which I can really recommend, by the way. After a long birthday-night I drove home on Sunday evening with a little headache, to prepare for the exam that I had sit on Thursday. And today I’ll go to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon a second time, because I promised a female friend of mine – and I gladly do so.
I also managed to work on the new design of Good Hope Sambia. But I am waiting for feedback before I can begin to integrate it into the new website. The way it looks will stay a secret, though, until it’s done. ;)
And now it’s for sure: I will go to the USA next year and see ‘The Lion King’ in New York’s Broadway!! I’m really exited about that, it’s gonna be awesome! But I’ll have to wait until the 14th of May.
That’s it again. Next week the Christmas party of the Berufsakademie (university of cooperative education) will take place. During Christmas time I will be in Frankfurt City again and this is where I’m gonna have my birthday party, as well. See you!
René
About hunters, gatherers and flying houses
0Last Friday was the day: Me, that is my dad, his girlfriend Brigitte and her daughter Christina visited the Caveman in the Oldenburger Kulturetage. For the ones who never heard about the one-man-show “Defending the Caveman”: It’s about the tiresome topic of differences betwen male and female. But it’s presented in a very non-serious, humorous way. Some of you may say “Oh no, we’re tired of stuff like Mario Barth (he’s a German commedian whom’s only topic seems to be the above one)”, but I was told that Defending the Caveman is a little more sophisticated than Mario Barth. But as I’ve never seen his show (except a few little clips) I won’t dare to judge.
As I like to talk a lot, the main message about the typical male (hunter) does not fit me: Men don’t have much to tell their partners, as they’re happy if they don’t need to talk too much with their other male friends. A woman (gatherer) however expresses her affection by telling her female friends / partners everything in detail. Thus she feels unbeloved, if her partner isn’t very talkative. The fact that women have the special ability to “abrogate logic”, wasn’t really new to me. But granted, the fact that men are not able to multitask shows, when they quiet the radio as soon as they do no longer know where they’re driving. I have to confirm that. For those who want to get an idea of the show, feel free to take a look at this clip (German with English subtitles):
(Remark: The show is performed by different actors in different cities, but the show in Oldenburg was still very good!)
After we couldn’t go to the cinema on Saturday, as the cinema hall had a technical defect, and after we went to the North Sea on Sunday where i froze my nose at a felt wind force of 6 (today I have a cold because of it), we went to the cinema in the evening to see Disney’s “Up”. It’s interesting, how Disney keeps coming up with new ideas. From giant birds of paradise that love chocolate via dogs that have a collar that makes them speak through to houses that fly with the help of balloons, thrown by an old man and a boy walking on the ground, everything was part of that movie. The ones who did not get this last sentence, may now have a clue what this movie is like. ;D Overall it was a beautiful movie that came up with some good laughs. Simply Disney. And the little girl that sat beneath me, shouting “That’s so meeeeeeean!” really softened my heart.
With this I wish you a good evening and am curious, if the blogpost (the German version) is going to be posted on Facebook automatically.
Right now I am in Darmstadt and use my laptop to go online. I’m working for a customer here, but stay with Brigitte and Edi. A zebra finch just flew to them, by the way, and they bought a second one. Now the two built themselves a nest and established a gay’s living community. ;) Those creatures are really cute, and sound like an old horn of a child’s bike.
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