Lau and my birthday in the 50s

For those who have missed it, my B-day was last week. And this year you really missed out! Flip man, it was wicked! Now I keep asking myself: "Why haven't I done this more often in the past?" Well, may be because extraordinary parties, require extraordinary circumstances. This year exactly that seemed to be the case. After half a year of depressing events last year I started to get on top of things again, and after a few weeks of being in London I heard the great news of Lau coming to Europe for the winter. (For those who don't know Lau, we went to school together in Swaziland.) After trying to figure out when the best time would be to catch up in various skype sessions and chats, we thought we have to celebrate our birthday together, since we are born on the same day. So basically we are twins, just one year apart, but who cares. My father was quite surprised to find out that he in fact had a second daughter, my twin sister Lau... Anyway, having decided on the fact that we HAVE to celebrate together, we still had to find a place to do that. Timing wasn't perfect, since I would already be back at uni in mid January and my place in London is not suitable for a big party, plus, I would not see many people from my hime town Erlangen, which I didn't want to miss out on. Therefore, the only solution to the problem was that I would come home for the party (what an excellent excuse to have good beer paired with great food, hehe) and have the whole thing at my place. My dad agreed (a true champion by the way) so it was set! What followed was a relaxed and chilled out party with plenty of dancing late in the night! If you wonder why everyone looks rather funny, we had a theme for the party: choose a 50s movie character. While not everyone found a movie character, there was a 50s feeling all around.

1) Franzi and Tim
2) ooooh kiss me! Saskia and a member of the Corleone Falmily
3) Lau the butterly lady
4) "hehe, I have tea and you don't!" Mado and the butterfly
5) "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
6) dancing late at night/early in the morning
7) The Hockey Crew (Thodde, where are you?)

one crazy New Years Eve

What to do when it is quite difficult to visit all your friends over the holidays, due to lack of time and money? Rent out a chalet in the middle of Switzerland (in the "Berner Oberland" for the geography freaks) and make all of them come! In the end we were about 30 peeps and had a hell of a time! It's quite difficult to put in words, since it was so intense, exciting, crazy, difficult, hectic, messy, cold, hot... It truly was an experience and I feel pitty for those who weren't able to come. However, the mountains won't move too much over the next couple of years, so may be there will be a second time. We'll see... Anyway, the pictures below only show you a fraction of what we have been up to, however, you just can imagine the rest!











What's left to say? Even though it was quite busy every now and then, I had an amazing time! Thanks everyone for coming and making this New Year's Eve memorable!

Holy Crap! It's been long!

Well, there is no excuse really. The title says it all. Lots has happened in the meantime, and I could tell you all about it. I could tell you that I survived the first term of uni very well, but I won't. I could tell you that straight after uni I went to see an excellent play ('Shadowlands' for those pretending to be interested in theater and the arts, incredible performance by the way), but I won't. I could tell you that after that I went to visit Dani in Stockholm for a couple of days, in which we had a spectacular amount of coffee and fun, but I won't. I could tell you that after visiting Dani, I went to Berlin to see Sandra, but I won't. I could tell you that we looked at every pair of sneaker in Berlin, but I won't. I could tell you that this "I could tell you ... but I won't" business is really starting to annoy me! So I am going to stop! ... but I won't! Anyway, after a few lovely days in the German capital city, I went to Copenhagen to see Sebastian. What followed was two of the most intense days of partying I have had in a long time! Two hours after arriving in Copenhagen, I was at a party of Sebastian's flatmate Simon (really, really cool and relaxed guy!) and drunk! Geee, the Danish drink a ****-load! Due to the hangover the following day was pretty chilling intense, however, we still got our asses off the sofa at some point and went to this hardcore electro club. While Sebastian was sweating like a pig on the dance floor, I was having a long chat with Hendrik – friend of Sebastian's. It was deep shit we talked about, I tell you! The next two days we invented a few extreme sports. They aren't even that hard to learn, the only thing that is making the sport extreme is the duration and intensity. The sports were: extreme couching, extreme PlaystationII playing and extreme movie watching. Oh, and extreme Fast Food eating, not eating food extremely fast, there is a distinct difference... Anyhow, the last day, I actually got to see a bit of Copenhagen – small, easygoing, blonde and somewhat alternative! Ten days after I finished the first term in early December, I got to go home. After seeing so many places in such a short time, it felt nice to be able to sleep in my own bed again.

STOMP

Well, apart from having tons of work to do, I don't really have an excuse to be silent for a while. The last two weeks I was rather busy... four projects, learn how to screen-print from scratch, and the week after next I have an essay due! On top of that Sandra came to visit last weekend, and even though it put me back a little in terms of uni-work, it was fabulous to have a break from work related things! We had a "jolly-good" time in Britain, and I can't wait to have an equally relaxing time in Berlin in a month's time! – No pressure here, Sandra – It was actually really good that someone came and visited me, cause this way I went and saw a few touristy things around London, which I wouldn't do by myself. Long walks and talks, a pretty extensive visit to Greenwich (being part of a "marvelous" and really funny presentation on why longitudes are so important) and cute houses in Notting Hill were not able to match the utterly impressive Saturday night! We had a stomping good time, watching the STOMP performance. I already knew most of the videos on youtube beforehand, but it is no match what-so-ever to seeing the actual performance about 7 meters away! Definitely the most inspiring and fascinating theatrical performance I have ever seen! – It's good to think about things like that, when I see the mountain of work ahead of me... not quite a Mount Everest yet, but definitely as high and difficult as the K2... Oh, btw I didn't take any pictures of Sandra's visit because a) I kept forgetting my camera and b) I really needed a break from things. I'm sorry. More picturesque articles coming soon...

SomE RaNDom NIghT

Took these the other day from my roof terrace. The window of my room has the same view as the first two pictures, except that I am not looking over the houses on the opposite side of the street, rather at them. It is weirred, cause the people opposite can see what you are up to and vice versa. I already taught one of my neighbors to wave back at me, the others still need training. The white building in the background in one of the pictures is the Royal Opera House, which is much more spectecular from the inside, but it is sort of nice to live next to it... The big lit up building in the last pic is Center Point, which marks the end (or beginning) of Oxford Street. And the remaining one just shows the nasty part of the terrace.

Italian Stallion

Matteo (24, flatmate) discovered Photo Booth on my laptop. He certainly seemed to have fun! ...crazy Italians...

Skate-Park-Punk-Kids and the School Party

All of yesterday I was successfully procrastinating for most of the day, after having not slept much the night before due to a typography project. By 3pm I felt the couch-potatoness paralyzing almost my entire body, and therefore I thought it might be a good idea to do something about it. I called up Baptiste (friend from my course) forced him to go visit a gallery. Being as we are – unorganized students – we just wanted to see a gallery and didn't really care what kind. The coice was quickly made (yep, we choose the closest) and started walking. After a few minutes I asked him: "Do you actually know where this gallery is?" "No, I thought you do!", he answered. We decided it might be better to ask someone for the way, and weren't really surprised to find out that we had to go back the way we came. A coffee and some food later we finally found the gallery we were looking for. Finally we would do something useful for the day! Madly excited we went in, and about 3 minutes later went out again. The exhibition consisted of one room with an animation showing about Pamela Anderson's honeymoon (the latest one). We just thought: "...yeah – right ..." As madly excited as we arrived, as madly disappointed we left again... On the way back along the river we came past the local hang out of London's skaters. Having a lot of time to kill before we could go to the party that night, we made ourselves 10 years younger and were really hardcore when taking pictures of the raddest skate performances I have ever seen!

After pretending for long enough to be skate-park-rats, we started off the night by having a few beers on our roof terrace and having a deep and meaningful discussion on design and life. Yeah. Anyway, the main event was the Primary School Party organised by a fellow student, "G". Why school party? Well, because G actually lives in an old Primary School Building! It is a crazy place to live, but perfect for a party! He has a room that is bigger than my entire flat and that's just his living room... Insane! Anyway, we did what is usually done at parties of grand scale, had a great time, and getting an hour extra sleep today was definitely necessary! Can't wait for the next party in this wicked place!

Life is a cup of tea

Well, yeah, I know... Yes, mmmh, yeah, ... no, sorry, but... YES, I FUCKIN' KNOW, I have already been here a few weeks, and have only written one lousy email. Welcome to my blog, about my life in cup-of-tea-land!

I hate computers and the internet (as you might have guessed -> picture)! They really suck, but then what would we do without them? Took me ages to set up this stupid blog, and I still don't know why my laptop doesn't want to do what I want it to do, I mean I am already screaming at it, but it still won't hear me! That's the kind of moment when you have to set yourself on fire...