Poster Pics of Nov – Germany

Some photos from Germany, around Halle.

my homie

Mr. Tom Peanut bar, the best in Germany.

Nature Timelapse

Sunday, rainy and indoors…ah it feels good to sleep in…

Update December 5th, 2009

That video is helping me learn German.

Events:

My great friend Shawn Bakie had a birthday at the end of November.

My neice had a birthday in the middle of November.

I moved into a new flat.

Have been travelling to Dessau quite a bit for work.

chicken

tommy says, cook up some chicken and rice, then just write your blog, “go with it, just go with it”

 

University free talks.

Update November 6th.

Hey,

Writing to you from the staff lounge at my new teaching job here in Halle, Germany.

For halloween, I spent the weekend in Berlin and me and Yase carved a pumpkin together and brought it to Berlin.  It was cute with a little smily face, some teeth and the standard heart shaped ear.  How cute!

I have been travelling to the town of Dessau for my job as well which required me to wake up at 5.30 in the morning and head to the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) in Halle to catch the 6:15am train to Dessau.  Some of the trains require a transfer at Bittefield.
Most of the train info I get is through the DB (Deutche Bahn) homepage which can be seen here. www.bahn.de   Some people I have met have mixed feelings about the DB and feel that the service is shit. I feel that it has been on time, but again the privatization of the train service unnerves me a little because I can only see the price of the train getting more and more expensive.

I have been studying German a little these days through the use of the PONS institute software that I borrowed from the library.  The learning process is alright, but I feel that the pronounciation is the major hurdle that I have to get over before I make serious advancements in the acquisition of the language. 

I started listening to the audio book by Naomi Klein entitled “The Shock Doctrine.”  It discusses how economies and governments capitalize on natural disasters or terrorism for economic benefit.  I am not done the book, but so far it is very interesting.

I finished listening to the audio book by Chris Anderson entitled “Free” which discusses the “freeconomy” and how the world is changing by things that are Free.  How the internet is changing the way businesses are run because the digital cost of things are ever approaching zeor. The way the world has moved from a brick economy (tangible items) to a bit economy (digitalized and intangible). 
Scarcity and economics were also topics in the book. 

My current phone is the Motorola Razor.  I am grateful for receiving the phone from a friend and the phone was the hottest thing a couple years back, but to be completely honest, no phone in the world is better than what Japanese phones can do, not even the iphone.   I miss my Japanese cell phone. and the Quality….
BTW, the phones in Germany are all called “handy.” 

On Wednesday night I visited the Cinemaxx movie theatre in Halle to see the new “This is It” movie about Michael Jackson.  I went to go see it with a friend Tina.
My review:  It is a great and entertaining watch for MJ fans and dance enthusiasts as the movie shows some behind the scenes footage of his genius, but at times with some shotty footage, it seemed like a very long youtube clip.  I did enjoy it though as I am big fan.

I love a big chuck of Parmesan CHEESE!  especially with Red wine.  Yum!

I also recently watched the movie Monsters Ball. Good film. Halle Berry…when will you come to Halle, Germany?

My thoughts are with Mom, Ben, and Sam.

Miss you!

“Home” Movie

Recently watched this movie borrowed from the library in Halle, Germany.

Check out the trailer:

 

French Fries Timelapse

Made this video today in Berlin.
Time Lapse using Gawker software for Mac OS X.

Could you read the message?

Rock Climbing Halle

Here are some pics of our (GP, Yase and Carsten) rock climbing adventure in Halle back in August.

Carsten has been rock climbing for quite some time now and brought all the equipment necessary and of course, told us how its done.

For me, the daunting wall was intimidating and seemed very difficult, if not impossible to climb up with next to zero climbing experience (does climbing trees as a young boy count?).  This, coupled with the pressure to perform in front of my gf (hehe), wow, it really motivated me to get up there!

We found a bunch of old CD’s lying around on the grass.  Someone just left them!  We took a couple of Ricky Martin hits and a few more.

Alphaville v.s. Jay-Z

Sampling music from the 80s is nothing new in HipHop from Pdiddy “inventing the Remix” in the mid 90s to Kanye making his career from using old soul tunes from the 70s and 80s.

Alphaville is a German band from the 80s and I recently heard this song on the radio here in Germany.

This song was sampled by Jay-Z on his new album Blueprint 3 and the song Forever Young.  The man singing the chorus is Mr. Hudson, an artist from the UK.

Word up to Oliver Friebel, my boy from Dresden, who has apparently left Germany for 6 months…Where are you??

In other news:  I am in Berlin for 2 days picking up some things to bring back to Halle.  It is getting cold in Germany.  9 degrees today~!

KR3W – The Phantom

KR3W is realeasing a new watch this week, the Phantom.  It comes in 6 colors (blue, white, red, black, violet, green), presented in a nice box.
It has a polycarbonate band, and with a triple movement Japanese Quartz, the brilliant colors are sure to please the eyes.
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In other news:

I am in Halle this weekend, visiting and job prospecting.
Here is some music for you.

LTJ Bukem