ASFHH - A Song for Hamburg 1

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As the colleagues in the AOL Paris Office did this great video ( PW is "aol lover" ), we here in Hamburg wanted to make one too... easier said than done, trust me...
it took us almost 3 weeks and 6 ish meetings, just to agree on the song (yay for Juli, "es war ne geile zeit")... anyways, we're almost halfway through, will be shooting the remainder next week (fingers crossed...)
this shot here shows Oliver and Oliver, during one of the short lunch brainstoming sessions.

Edit: final DE video can be found here

apart from that, I passed the ITIL foundation exam yesterday. one step closer to improving my CV for next year :) in 2 weeks time it'll be the PRINCE2 training course (I just hope I'll pass that too), and after that 3 weeks in Spain, Seville - language course. Vino Tinto y un cafe solo, por favour...

Sunday trip to St. Peter Ording

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The trip was more than overdue - according to my government that is ;) got up early (easy, since no "heavy" drinking took place on Sat night), left around half nine, got to St. Peter Ording not even 2 hours later, went for a walk... fantastic weather really, clear blue sky, light winds around 3 ish. I even was so hot I took my coat off... that enabled me to take 2 additional days vacation (or what do you call it again, when you can stay in bed and don't have to go to work again? - ahh, being sick at home, ok...)
anyways, feeling better today, but I will leave work early... throat still acting up here...
workwise still all fine... 114 days to go ;) and just 3,5 weeks until I start my 3 weeks language course in Seville :-D

No Smoking and the Stasi

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Went to Cafe Gnosa today for lunch (goulasch, nice one), but the dreaded secondhand smoke wasn't there anymore... Since Oct. 01, 2007 "no smoking". yeahhh. :-D
Had a chat on the phone with one of my former colleagues from "before the wall came down"... he told me, that once the Stasi approached him, as he should keep me under surveillance... like should go for a beer with me and ask me about the "other punks in the hermsdorf area and their opinions and such"... scary in a way... his dad was a Major or similar (in the Stasi) and was able to reject the request on the behalf of his son... now you tell me...

London heathrow - Disk write error

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Great, again I got up at 5:30... some might like it, I don't... told my colleagues about http://www.alleyinsider.com/ and how accurate some of the posts about AOL financials situation seem...
Took the tube to Barons Court, easy peasy really. Gave Steph her pressies, and now to talk about one more project, which we are supposed to "handle efficiently, no PRINCE2, but to adapt a pragmatic approach instead". sure :)
P.S: helping Sven to move house last Sat was tiring indeed. jaisus, was i wrecked or what on Sat eve...

Lunch in Paris (2)

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typical breakfast in www.Paul.fr - great way to start the day really :-D

and again we didn't have to pay (thanks Mehdi!) ... so sad really ;) and as you do on a friday, of course one has wine for lunch... even better, since it was one of the "cheap" St. Emillion ones...

Lunch in Paris (1)

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After we partied last night (started off in herzblut, sankt  ( st.) Pauli with food and three mai tai iirc; after we tipped

Funda - the cute waitress -
- onto ex-sparr - sambuca, mexicans and vodka lemon; home at midnight)I was pleased to get up at 5:15 a.m., to catch my plane...

flight went well (luckily). but the best (thanks to Martial) was the place we went for lunch. crowded, a bit sticky, but great food... plus, the usual rosé wine :-D

now back to work...

A tad Sente-fukcin-mental

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So I sat in Coffe+Cakes (as every Wed really), enjoiyng my usual breakfast (galao, fresh O-juice, croissant with chorizo and cheese), when all of a sudden I thought of various friends.... and then I started to kind of pray, to wish them well... Lisa, Mark and their baby girl Faye... Imke, Tobi and their baby girl Mia... Bea and boy Linus...Steffi, Ronny and "another" Linus... Astrid and Ramòn... Mareke...Marco, Manja and baby girl Helen... Ed... Anni and Carsten... Jessy and Gar... Willi+Coko... Drea... Schippi and Jasmin... Stanze and Ralph... Kati and girl Leonie... Kamil and his "career"...

was a very special moment, sitting there, enjoying the sun, thinking of ones friends...

what a spendid day really!