The following are photos from the “für reinhard schulz” concert in München. The music was not exactly to my taste. I found it rather angry, depressed and scary. The first 2 tracks seemed like they fell off the end of an x-files soundtrack because they were too scary! My girlfriend was highly engaged throughout the [...]

Somedays (most) one feels like they are not lucky and nothing exciting and special will happen today. 11/3/2010 was a different day for me. It was lucky from the moment I left the house and my train pulled up as if it was just for me. When I met Anja in the city for lunch, [...]

Something for the travelers out there from the land of Oz.. I found the most common questions to be asked were: “How big is Melbourne and what is the population of Australia?” After being asked these kind of questions like 12 times, I decided to look it up. FYI Munich = ~1.3 Million Syd = [...]

The process of being allowed to pay taxes in Germany is surprising difficult. I was not able to invoice properly until I was given a Steuernummer (tax number). The process involved many calls back and forth between the Finanzamt (tax dept.) and the kind colleagues willing to put up with them. When the letter final [...]

Another interesting verb in German: Ich soll vs Ich solte (points out motivation) “Ich soll” Implies someone has told me I should.. (motivation from others) “Ich sollte” Implies I should because I must (and is a motivation from the self) “Ich sollte mich gesunde ernähren”. I should eat healthier (because I know this to be [...]

Seems like everyone has left me! It’s either they don’t like me, or the staff don’t like working at Student Flights Collingwood. Basically, everyone that has done some small favour for me has left the job which makes it impossible to plan things. Also, none of their “I no longer work here” reply emails actually [...]

Hi All… been a while I know. Just wanted to let you know that I’m all good and I have like 5 blog posts all saved up for when I have more time. For those that want to know what black hole I disappeared into, here it is: – Had a break down with learning [...]