it dawned on me just now that the end of this semester is actually there and that its over and that its a turning point once more...
how comes? well... everybody's leaving! not here (well also but that somehow wasnt clear enough for me to notice!) Friends who were still in HK or China this semester are packing up and actually leave these days to return to whereever they are from... new people came to check out my room and its subrented once more... which means that I'VE GOTTA BE OUT OF THERE... so soon!! end of the week I'll go!!
well, maybe thats the point that actually made it that clear! who knows!
well anyways I just wanted to let that know!
oh... and I have to quote what anke just said (you should know for that that there is a family living in the flat above us with an active kid of about 3 years old we guess!)... Anke: "dat kind ga ik echt nog een keer afslachten!!" (in very nice words: someday I'm gonna kill that kid!) and later: "all die kinderen gehoren afgeslagen gewoon!" (All those children should be slaughtered!).... now, that just to show how nice and children friendly my roommate is! (the kid can be annoying though... especially at those times (read: always) when it decides to enjoy a jog (read: stomping run) around the flat (read: especially above our living room). grrr
oh and since I worked all day I have an another weirdes customers anecdote to share: I was actually asked today whether we also have any articles which do not attract dust, as the whole flat of that special customer gets dusty all the time... now isn't that weird? never heard of such thing as dust setting upon stuff in any other place... must be quite a new thing! maybe she should invent something totally new to prevent it also, such as CLEANING!! weeeiiirdooos
I gotta go now... so I'm leaving... adios
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
... as the world turns
so.. after 3 months of bloglazyness a new entry!
What has happened during this time? well a lot but I am not gonna write all that now... just shortly,
I was quite busy studying - I am somewhat more focussed on that here than I was in HK!! Well, now the semester is coming to an end - I am in the middle of exam week now and I am too lazy to study so I rather write this!
I have had a bunch of interviews and a bunch of internships for which I was accepted... so I cancelled some quite nice offers and decided in the end to go to (reaaaly far ;) ) MUNICH!! Yoohooo... I will live in my favourite German city for 6 months. (oktoberfest, beergardens, hiking, skying, .... :D ) - I will actually be going there in 2 weeks already.
As I am moving again we are currently also looking for a new housemate who wants to rent my room in Breda for these 6 months.
While being lazy last week I found somethign nice online... for all of you who love china as much as I do.... or who are interessted in languages and find enjoy funny misconceptions... check out this site: http://www.chinglish.de/. Even though it is a German site the chinglish signes themselves are of course chINGLISH - and as such relate to English... and should be understandable for you... I loved this site, kept me from doing anything or more importance (which would be basically everything I suppose) for at least an hour... some great examples and even one of those that I fotographed myself was published there before... here it is again, as a little sample of what you can expect.
So... what else? I've been working quite extensively at the IKEA those last months and well, now I have to stop again... next week = last week already... but I hope to return next spring when I'm back here again... I cant deny it, I'm addicted.
Other than that I've had a great semester. My roomies Anke and Antoinette are in the US on a fieldtrip now, I miss them already especially cuz I wont live together with wode jia zai Breda (my family from Breda) for the next half year and then Antoinette goes on exchange (which means a trip to Finland for me ;) ) and Karo will write her thesis already... it shows in a weird way how quickly this great time of studying here will be over. Still feels as though I just started, but actually half of it is over... :(
ohh.. and last weekend I was at Festival Mundial again. This time the weather wasnt as fortunate as last year, but THE CAT EMPIRE made just the perfect compensation for the rain... damn is that Felix Reidl (leadsinger) cute... hot... yummy.... (*schmacht*) here some more pix...
rain :(
Martina and Pieternel!
The Cat Empire
soooo this it is for today... will keep this blog updated when I'm in Munich... promise to write more often also ;)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
philosophies....
I truely, seriously believed that I know the basic grounds of this world... or at least what is going on in this western part of Europe... but evidence proves otherwise this weekend in Breda's We-cob.straat...hmmm...
.... maybe it is just because I've had a quite busy week... with working double shifts almost every day and managing a full-time study besides...
... or maybe it is becuase Antoinette and I have given it yet another try to maintain a diet (this time consisting of no more than veggies, fruit and magere (no-fat) yoghurt) for the whole weekend... - mozarella of course doesn't count, as that would cause some serious Entzugserscheinungen (withdrawal sypmtoms such as halucinations, fever and shaking)....
... whatever it is, something just causes my lovely roommate to go through a very philosophical phase... and so I have to endure her asking extremely vital questions that might have answers to save the world. Yesterday the traumatized me with 'How many cucumbers do you think I or you or actually anyone else eats in his/her life?'.... and after trying to find the most truthfull answer to this (X = 1,472 per week x 52 weeks x sum of years lived)... today I had find the meaning in this life through 'I wonder what might happen to all those read and unread 'Metro' and 'Spits' newspapers you can get in train stations etc. at the end of the day... as there are always new ones every morning!?'... this horrifyingly reminded me of Paul Gaugin, and a question he already found no answer to at the end of the 19th century with 'Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?' ... well, with some colorful oil he put his thoughts on canvas....maybe that would be the solution to this somewhat weird weekend....
... it definately is a quite philosophical one!
.... maybe it is just because I've had a quite busy week... with working double shifts almost every day and managing a full-time study besides...
... or maybe it is becuase Antoinette and I have given it yet another try to maintain a diet (this time consisting of no more than veggies, fruit and magere (no-fat) yoghurt) for the whole weekend... - mozarella of course doesn't count, as that would cause some serious Entzugserscheinungen (withdrawal sypmtoms such as halucinations, fever and shaking)....
... whatever it is, something just causes my lovely roommate to go through a very philosophical phase... and so I have to endure her asking extremely vital questions that might have answers to save the world. Yesterday the traumatized me with 'How many cucumbers do you think I or you or actually anyone else eats in his/her life?'.... and after trying to find the most truthfull answer to this (X = 1,472 per week x 52 weeks x sum of years lived)... today I had find the meaning in this life through 'I wonder what might happen to all those read and unread 'Metro' and 'Spits' newspapers you can get in train stations etc. at the end of the day... as there are always new ones every morning!?'... this horrifyingly reminded me of Paul Gaugin, and a question he already found no answer to at the end of the 19th century with 'Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?' ... well, with some colorful oil he put his thoughts on canvas....maybe that would be the solution to this somewhat weird weekend....
... it definately is a quite philosophical one!
Thursday, March 08, 2007
outtake of life on planet pluto (w.cobergherstraat) - March 8th
duhhh... do you know this? you write a whole long text then you either push some stupid wrong button (coincidentally) and everything is gone? irretrieveable I mean...grrrr... or the internet hangs up and its gone.... or the computer hangs up and its gone.... no matter what, its GONE! grrrrr .... pffff.... arghhhh.... well, I chose for the first solution and pushed whatever key.... and my lovely text that I had just written, accumulating all my journalistic talent (which is as you know rather limited ;) ) grrr... and now I have to do it all over again, so here is the new version. hmmm....
I actually just wrote to report of the 17th world wonder: We (Antoinette, Anke, Karo en ik) successfully managed to hang up a picture in the living room in total team work. this was our task division:
- Karo: CEO of operations - tool: 'Bohrer'
- Claudia: Architectural pinpointing, location management and interiour assistent (task:vacumer-under-drill-holding)
- Antoinette: creative assistant, tool: camera, task: documentation
- Anke: human resources motivation
now why this is so surprising? well... lets just say the picture has been standing there waiting to be hung up for a little while... and I mean, we just didnt dare to, because it is such a valuable uhmm... copy.... of the Guernica... so yes, now we did it: Pablo Picasso is haning in our living room, aren't we sophisticated?
hmmm now besides this I guess nothing too worldshaking happend lately.....
.... I just read today that Airbus/EADS is still struggeling in Germany and France, but do be honest, is anybody really doubting that they will finally finish A380, sell it and the trouble will come to an end then? the grwoing amounts of sacked people will get their jobs back and the sun will be shining!
.... also DaimlerChrisler has to pay $54m in the US because some bloke wasn't able to maneuver his Dodge propperly and let it run over him.... leading to deathly injuries... duhh.... well, how hard can it be to put an automatic transmission into P (maybe he just didnt discover this PARKING funktion yet? - I mean, he was just driving the car for 5 years.....)
hmmm... and here?
NHTV is still the same.... was there a point that I said I missed this chaotic school? Planning is a bad as ever.... but (after only 4 months of planning) they now decided that we will go to Madeira on our fieldtrip - yuhuuuu
....
went to *tha shit is banging* party in the Speltuin in Breda last week, met up at Isabelle's place before... here is just one really nice pic of our flat crew... more pics will follow!
on monday, three exchange girls from Hong Kong and Isa were over at our place and we introduced them to the art of baking *typically dutch* (as the dutch claim) Pannenkoeken - pancakes... now I guess its something claimed ad their own by every country, but it was a lot of fun and for them it was something totally new! A really fun night!
oh oh oh... and today... tatatadaaaa... world-wonder-day...... *trommelwirbel* .... an die Gewehre..... Anke, Antoinette and I went - dont laugh - jogging! not a joke we really did it... and we after a nice start we went on for at least 16,73 minutes until we decided it was hyper-extreme-ultra-hard, also tiring and cold and so we turned to walk back (for cooling down purposes obviously)... now that was surely enough sports for about a month or so... when this urge will return and make us do it all over again, just because we forgot what dreadful an experience it can be. it is a viscious circle.
And thats life so far. 再见!! *learning-to-write-chinese-now-;)*
groetjes to the world,
歌迪亞
Thursday, February 08, 2007
time flies... me too!
so, its been a while again, so here a quick catch up:
I returned from HK on December 18th, being my moms personal birthday surprise! The first week home was weeeeiiird people! cold weather, people that look like me, and I am not the tallest and fattest around anymore (in comparison to the Chinese that is), people understand me - and I them! I can read everything that comes in sight. and it is clean. not that Hong Kong is not, but the air. my god its so fresh!
and oh yes of course: the Christmas Market in Aachen... with real Glühwein.. yummy... then Christmas with my family... just nice!!
I miss Hong Kong though.. it was a great time there... I couldnt really decide what I loved most... guess just tha big-city-life ;).... the nice weather, accessability to other places in Asia... party in HK... and all the weird stuff that I came across. Of course there are things that I wont miss... such as chese with pineapple and chocolate flavour... elevators that talk to me ('ba lou - eight floor') and all other kinds of speaking information ('please stand behind the yellow line - the train to lo wu is approaching...').
Over new years I visited my best friend on the northernmost point of germany on the isle of Rügen... nice place, slightly more quiet than Hong Kong... and it was cool to spend new years eve on the beach! After the new year, I went to Poland for a weekend, then to Bremen where I met up with Lisa. Another weird moment. What is she doing here? Does she belong here? NO! Go back to Hong Kong where you belong - Room 750... PolyU student halls of residence!
To keep myself busy, I went to Madrid to surprise Karo as well, together with Antoinette. That was a really cool weekend also... got a new jeans yeah!
Now I am back in Holland since one week. Weirdness continues. Coming back here, I took the wrong exit of the highway first, then after having to drive through the whole city, I found the way back to our flat... and of course went to the wrong floor!! oh my good! scary
I also started to work again back at the IKEA. On my first day last week I had a very warm welcome from my former and future colleagues and by now it is as though I had never left!
Today a new surprise then: the first snow of this winter!!! (it is February 8th, the fact that it was more than 10 degrees until last week will not make us think of global warming and that kinda stuff now...) Now, snow in Holland, what does that mean? oh yesss... how lovely: Ausnahmezustand! Chaos in Breda... traffic comes to an almost hault... 9 out of 10 traffic lights break down as soon as 2 snowflakes are spotted in the sky, small streets are being closed down... jajaja... have I missed that? hmmm
but well, I am glad to be back but I am also sad not to be in HK no more... and through this I wanna thank everybody who made this exchange in Hong Kong possible for me, like nhtv, my parents and the ikea for my job last year... and the people who made the time in Hong Kong so great, like all the other exchange students and the StudiVZ people!
I returned from HK on December 18th, being my moms personal birthday surprise! The first week home was weeeeiiird people! cold weather, people that look like me, and I am not the tallest and fattest around anymore (in comparison to the Chinese that is), people understand me - and I them! I can read everything that comes in sight. and it is clean. not that Hong Kong is not, but the air. my god its so fresh!
and oh yes of course: the Christmas Market in Aachen... with real Glühwein.. yummy... then Christmas with my family... just nice!!
I miss Hong Kong though.. it was a great time there... I couldnt really decide what I loved most... guess just tha big-city-life ;).... the nice weather, accessability to other places in Asia... party in HK... and all the weird stuff that I came across. Of course there are things that I wont miss... such as chese with pineapple and chocolate flavour... elevators that talk to me ('ba lou - eight floor') and all other kinds of speaking information ('please stand behind the yellow line - the train to lo wu is approaching...').
Over new years I visited my best friend on the northernmost point of germany on the isle of Rügen... nice place, slightly more quiet than Hong Kong... and it was cool to spend new years eve on the beach! After the new year, I went to Poland for a weekend, then to Bremen where I met up with Lisa. Another weird moment. What is she doing here? Does she belong here? NO! Go back to Hong Kong where you belong - Room 750... PolyU student halls of residence!
To keep myself busy, I went to Madrid to surprise Karo as well, together with Antoinette. That was a really cool weekend also... got a new jeans yeah!
Now I am back in Holland since one week. Weirdness continues. Coming back here, I took the wrong exit of the highway first, then after having to drive through the whole city, I found the way back to our flat... and of course went to the wrong floor!! oh my good! scary
I also started to work again back at the IKEA. On my first day last week I had a very warm welcome from my former and future colleagues and by now it is as though I had never left!
Today a new surprise then: the first snow of this winter!!! (it is February 8th, the fact that it was more than 10 degrees until last week will not make us think of global warming and that kinda stuff now...) Now, snow in Holland, what does that mean? oh yesss... how lovely: Ausnahmezustand! Chaos in Breda... traffic comes to an almost hault... 9 out of 10 traffic lights break down as soon as 2 snowflakes are spotted in the sky, small streets are being closed down... jajaja... have I missed that? hmmm
but well, I am glad to be back but I am also sad not to be in HK no more... and through this I wanna thank everybody who made this exchange in Hong Kong possible for me, like nhtv, my parents and the ikea for my job last year... and the people who made the time in Hong Kong so great, like all the other exchange students and the StudiVZ people!
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