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my hobby: finding animal references where others wouldn’t look for them.
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- rochen is german for (sting-)ray [↩]
man hält das glück viel zu oft für unvergänglich,
und der verstand ist für die wahrheit nicht empfänglich:
das glück ist keineswegs normal, und selbstverständlich
ist alles irdische letztendlich ziemlich endlich.
doch wird mir erst später klar
wie schön es vorher war,
dann kann ich mir doch nix mehr dafür kaufen!
man muß sein glück sofort erkennen
und es auch beim namen nennen:
bis jetzt ist alles tierisch gut gelaufen.
hier und jetzt hab ich dich, und es ist alles im grünen bereich...
wise guys - alles im grünen bereich
(sound sample #3 on this page)
my commute to university is about 45 minutes in one direction.
that means i have 90 minutes of potentially unused/lost time per day, which i’m currently spending organizing and processing photos...
i joined lorri, born and murray that day, and we went north to naqara/somosomo because we wanted to do a hike up to lake tagimaucia - taveuni’s biggest freshwater lake (sometimes spelled tagimoucea or tagimoucia).
we had lost track of weekdays, and just across the street from our motel, there seemed to be a festival going on - loud music for several hours, lots of fijians around, children running around on the street, ...
it was sunday, and the festival was "just" regular service. there’s only one church (building) in town, so every confession celebrates mass at another time, resulting in a whole day of church service.
i couldn’t resist taking some digital souvenirs: [more...]
http://www.dopey.de/flash/moviezz/volare.swf
the completely-wrong lyrics-transcription is in german, so there’s a funny part you english-speaking folk are missing, but still...
my stay in fiji started with a good surprise, and a bad one:
in nadi airport [G], right after we alighted from the airplane, we were welcomed by two fijian musicians. the captain of our airplane soon came by, unpacked his ukulele, and joined in:
[download] (mp3, 780KB)
the bad one was the hostel that i had booked through the internet: after staying in australian and new zealander hostels/backpackers, nadi downtown backpackers was nowhere near the worst hostel i could imagine...
there were 4 bunk beds crammed into a tiny, dirty room, water taps were dripping (actually, i thought somebody had left them halfway on at first), and there was one single room key.
but i was just spending one night there anyway, before my next flight would take me to the next island:
taveuni [G] was recommended to me by (yet another) peter. [more...]
our transfer to the north island started somewhat hectically:
we were woken up 15 minutes before the ferry was supposed to depart, had to leave behind a wonderful breakfast that was prepared for us by the friendly hosts of forget me not b&b, and rushed over to the ferry area -- where we waited in line for just as long as the breakfast might have taken...
the ferry took us through part of the marlborough sounds, turned back south, and continued on its s-shaped route to wellington [G].
we spent most of the day in wellington itself, and then drove to palmerston for the night.
[view photos: picton to wellington]
our next stop was taupo, right in the center of new zealand’s north island [G]. a lot of people say that lake taupo (the giant volcanic crater lake) is best viewed from above... so of course we wanted to see for ourselves. :-)
there was only one question i had to ask before booking our skydive with freefall:
- me: if my parachute doesn’t inflate, will i get my money back?
ticketing lady: don’t worry - you’re paying afterwards.
from her reaction, i’d guess that she gets that question about 15 times a day...
i didn’t tell my family about it until i got home, then just told them i wanted to show them something, and played the video. the looks on their faces were priceless!
