Surfing Couches and What Not...

Oh there, it's not December yet and still you'll have something new to read (and to look at). So, last weekend there was an Italian/Danish/American invasion going on in my flat. With pure excitement those strangers surfed my couch...

We had a fairly drunk tour through Amsterdam's liquor and beer pubs tasting the most wonderful beverages anyone could ever imagine in a Dutch city... And all while listening to great stories about The Netherlands and the rest of the world.


During the nights that Rumanian Band (Fanfare Ciocarlia) was seen right after some lovely Ethopian food... (How much more international can be on a single weekend?) Well, the band... Amazing... Instead of the usual one more song on stage after the show, they walked in through the entrance, that is normally only used by mortals like me, and played another half an hour while everybody was going mad around them. Again, I need to throw in a picture here, sorry for shitty cellphone camera:


Apart from getting drunk your dear writer showed off his Amsterdam-Sight-Seeing skills and, besides other things, took someone to the probably highest point in the city, Club 11, where the most adorable picture ever taken of anybody was made :)


Next week Vienna will be invaded, then this never-ending journey takes me all the way over the Atlantic Ocean, but not much further ;) Extensive reports will follow, maybe, eventually, who knows...

Work 'n Squatters

So, here we are once again. Life as a member of the graduate society has not proven easy so far. Instead of being relaxed by the lack of obligation to study all the time, everything else around me got so stressful that I can't even imagine how I ever had time to even look at my books...

It's not all that dark of course. Another weekend of pure joy is approaching. Many people will have to be met and pints of Guinness will hopefully make me strong for next week.

Obviously I can't let you, my dear reader, with out some random pictures. So, there is one of me in my office ...
... and me and my colleague explaining interesting stuff to some person at that big bi-annual conference ...

... and a shitty cell phone picture of police trying to get squatters out of a house by using water throwers and a box on the roof ...

... was the box magic ??? nobody knows ...


That's it for now. More to come, maybe in December...

Is there light?

Yes there is! Live around these days has been busy, and boring me has been practising his laziness a lot lately. But this is going to end. (At least for today...)

So where do we start off? A great summer with crowds of Austrians invading the poor author's home was had...



An amusing barbecue was held in Westerpark resulting in a night full of fat food, loads of beer and wine, spiced up with some good old Austrian Schnaps and eventually very bad headaches.

... photos appearing out of nowhere without any memory of them ever being taken ....

What can I say? Stuff just happens I guess...

Also, your dear narrator of these amazing stories finally managed to graduate from University. What a relief...

Don't hope for much more any time soon, though there might be some...

Oh, and... Thanks for nothing, to whoever made these pictures :)

Gaan Booten!

The second sunny weekend this summer is over and was obviously well spent. A boat ride on Amsterdam's canals made a sunny Saturday even nicer... Photos (not done by me) to be shown here...

The vessel has been entered.

El Capitan!

And the Passengers...

Unfortunately no photos of the barbecue in the evening... Maybe some will be added later. (Probably not...)

In back of the real

So there we go, I'm back in Amsterdam. Austria was tragic/fun/lovely... There will be more in depth talk about that when me stupid manages to pull photos on his laptop.

Over here work sucked me up completely. Loads of new things have to be learned and my imaginary todo list is making my mind explode, almost.

Anyway it's good to be back and have someone to miss over there...

City Hopping

Stockholm was simply amazing. One of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen in my life. I walked around the south part a bit, saw the royal palace in the old town and found a trashy record store in some small alley. There wasn't much time since, as previously mentioned, Tallinn called for me...

Apart from groups of policemen on every other corner, the city is very quiet. So far no riots could be observed. Maybe, me spending more time at that conference, being surrounded by geeks, is more or less keeping me from seeing what's actually going on outside?

Anyway, today there was a big party, held by a big Internet search company, you might know them, maybe... Got loads of merchandise from them which will be distributed among Viennese crowds eventually.

Also photos have been made. Though, me stupid, obviously forgot to bring his USB cable to transfer stuff to the laptop and upload it on the mighty Internet. So people reading this have to wait until me arrival in Vienna for fun photos and what not.

Speaking of which, I will arrive in Vienna on the ... Nah, won't tell over here since someone might want to come to the airport to surprise me. Or even wants to pretend, having wanted to be there and ... Ahhh, whatever. This is not the place for personal shit like that anyway.

So see you soon, or maybe better not?

Not to forget:

"Penis mightier than the Sword"

Good Night!

Riots?

Only a few more days before I'll be on my way traveling to Tallinn and what do I have to read in the news today?

"Estonian TV Predicts Uprising on May 9

Estonian Channel 2 has reported that Russian-speaking youth in Estonia to revolt on May 9, Victory Day in Russia. According to the television channel, the youth intend to launch a protest on May 1 and begin a general strike the next day that will turn into a revolt on May 9.
The channel predicted that Estonian authorities could use the army to put down the revolt, which would lead to a sharp react from Russia.

Rioting began in Estonia on the evening of April 27 when the monument to the Soviet Soldier was removed from downtown Tallinn and the exhumation of the Soviet soldiers buried beneath it began. Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo has stated that the monument would be re-erected in Military Cemetery in Tallinn on May 8."

Nice...

[Via kommersant.com]