Berlin feiert Asiatisches Filmfestival mit Themenschwerpunkt Indonesien

Freunde des indonesischen Films können sich auf das Asian Hot Shots Filmfestival 2009 im Kino Babylon Berlin Mitte freuen:
Vom 13. bis 18. Januar steht Indonesien im Mittelpunkt des Festivals, das jungen Filmemachern aus Asien eine Plattform für ihre Produktionen in Europa bietet. Die Veranstalter geben in ihrem diesjährigen Schwerpunkt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des [...]

Happy New Year

welcome to the year of the rat – who knows, we might actually get around to write something once in a while again….
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Congratulations…

…to the last of the class 1995, which is graduating today to become “Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence”. Well done! He never gave up, and finally got what he was working on for so long. I am proud of him. Too bad I can’t be there today, but hopefully many of my former classmates [...]

The meaning of “nothing”

A while ago, our internet provider has, as is normal these days, merged/been bought/acquired/made a deal with (delete as appropriate) one of the largest DSL providers in the country. The result was that I paid a third of the price for a better connection. In the letter (one of the few REAL letters that I [...]

My sons best friend

I want to introduce my son’s first friend to you – he is now 6 weeks old, so his vocabulary is rather limited and consists mainly of “coo” and “aeh aeh”, but he does talk already (yeah, we do have a super child. I expect him to ask for his first playstation any day now). [...]

Multi tasking

You know they say that woman is naturally gifted with the ability to do several things at the same time i.e. multi tasking. Let that be cooking dinner while talking on the phone (and not burning the food, that is..), putting on mascara while driving (some women can do it apparently..), or in my case [...]

More old friends

A while ago I wrote about a website that I re-discovered after someone sent me an eMail commenting about it – it’s the MOMO page that you can find here on this blog.
Today I am not talking about the site though but about real people, old friends that keep reappearing. The last few months I [...]

Berlin must be so safe…

… because the police here has nothing better to do than stopping bikers that bike the on the pavement, and extract the exorbitant sum of €5 from them. This is what happened to me yesterday, when I wanted nothing but get home after a hard days of work – the shortest route leads past a [...]