Booth of the queer university groups of Berlin & Brandenburg.

We at Berlin's 16^th Lesbian and Gay City Festival.

Six more pictures on my flickr photostream.

We at Berlin's 16^th Lesbian and Gay City Festival.

Six more pictures on my flickr photostream.

Booth of the queer university groups of Berlin & Brandenburg.

First latte in the sun.

Latte from Queso y Jamon
Ursprünglich hochgeladen von Amujan

What a perfect day.

Cafe Latte.

Sun.

New Haircut.

Latte from Queso y Jamon
Ursprünglich hochgeladen von Amujan

What a perfect day.

Cafe Latte.

Sun.

New Haircut.

First latte in the sun.

TED Talks keep blowing me away...

The following talk by Dr. Jill Taylor is just absolutely amazing.

The following talk by Dr. Jill Taylor is just absolutely amazing.

TED Talks keep blowing me away...

Still Alive.

So, now that the holiday season is finally over and the year has turned (2007 yay!), I hope, that I'll have more time on my hands to be able to write here again.

What happened during my little hiatus from blogworld?

Obviously, Christmas Time was upon us once more and the ever reoccurring madness of gift-shopping took hold of the people. I wasn't much of an exception this year, but to my very own surprise, had had all presents more than one day before Christmas Eve. In the preceding years I was known to always get them last minute.


Gathered under the tree were the typical male-tech-geek gifts, like Wii and iPod (Wii for my dad, the latter for myself) and the notorious bling for the lady of the castle. So we're surfing the web with Wiimote (I'll be writing blog entries from the couch as soon as there's a decent keyboard for Wii) and I'm finally getting my media portable on the iPod. Aside the gifts dad made gorgeous meals accompanied by my very own infamous fruit salad.

On 31st my best friend and his fiancé came back from their honeymoon in Malaysia and we had a 3-hour photo-tour after which we got drunk and greeted the new year with ancient music videos on MTV (ancient = from our teenage years). There are definately much less interesting ways to spend the turn of the years.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Even if it's belated, the first week of 2007 isn't over yet, so these best wishes still matter. I hope you all had a very good time, spending the last days of 2006 and an even better slide into 2007!


Tomorrow I'll be leaving the house the first time since New Years Eve. Hope the world hasn't changed that much. By the way, on Dec. 30th I got the chance to watch the newest Bond incarnation "Casino Royale" and I can only tell you, to go and watch it! It definately brings with it a much more realistic and needed perspective on the franchise and it's better than ever, in my opinion. The stunts are somewhat believable this time, so are the missing gadgets. Even the characters behave like human beings when confronted with situations, which they normally wouldn't be drawn into.

So, now that the holiday season is finally over and the year has turned (2007 yay!), I hope, that I'll have more time on my hands to be able to write here again.

What happened during my little hiatus from blogworld?

Obviously, Christmas Time was upon us once more and the ever reoccurring madness of gift-shopping took hold of the people. I wasn't much of an exception this year, but to my very own surprise, had had all presents more than one day before Christmas Eve. In the preceding years I was known to always get them last minute.


Gathered under the tree were the typical male-tech-geek gifts, like Wii and iPod (Wii for my dad, the latter for myself) and the notorious bling for the lady of the castle. So we're surfing the web with Wiimote (I'll be writing blog entries from the couch as soon as there's a decent keyboard for Wii) and I'm finally getting my media portable on the iPod. Aside the gifts dad made gorgeous meals accompanied by my very own infamous fruit salad.

On 31st my best friend and his fiancé came back from their honeymoon in Malaysia and we had a 3-hour photo-tour after which we got drunk and greeted the new year with ancient music videos on MTV (ancient = from our teenage years). There are definately much less interesting ways to spend the turn of the years.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Even if it's belated, the first week of 2007 isn't over yet, so these best wishes still matter. I hope you all had a very good time, spending the last days of 2006 and an even better slide into 2007!


Tomorrow I'll be leaving the house the first time since New Years Eve. Hope the world hasn't changed that much. By the way, on Dec. 30th I got the chance to watch the newest Bond incarnation "Casino Royale" and I can only tell you, to go and watch it! It definately brings with it a much more realistic and needed perspective on the franchise and it's better than ever, in my opinion. The stunts are somewhat believable this time, so are the missing gadgets. Even the characters behave like human beings when confronted with situations, which they normally wouldn't be drawn into.

Still Alive.

Of bees and flowers.

A month before closing down and reopening as public park, I visited Rathenow's State Garden Show (LAGA - Landesgartenschau).

I found 8€ to be the maximum one could charge for walking through a park, which it was, essantially. One enters near some old warehouses of the Rathenow inland port, which have been completely modernized and served as flowerhouse in which local horticultural businesses showed off some of their skills and range of products. Adjoining these two warehouses was a stage for some kind of evening program, which I didn't attend to.

Now, off to the park itself. The entrypoint was a little bit special, because one was going "over the Havel" to get to the park. They took an old barge and towed it under the bridge, so one didn't have to get wet feet.

Once in, I met one of the three mascots of the show: Havi (the girl inside could hardly see a thing, but everyone has got to earn some money, don't they).

Then I took some minutes at the White Café to relax after the 2hour drive before continuing my stroll. First and last thing you'll enconter are the graves, an element of the park, which I already knew from Rostock's IGA in 2003 and yet again find a little disturbing.

The main attraction are monochromatic rows of beds of flowers, which extend from two colored pyramids, like rays of light emerging from a prism. The other "larger" attraction is a water garden, which essentially is a pool of water crossed by wooden bridges, that imitate the form of the Weltzeituhr on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. I found myself dwelling under some large old weeping willows at the grassy shore of hat pool, my favourite place of this day.

Near the end of the round were the installations for the kids, which also - like the rest of the park - had something to do with optics. That is, because Rathenow is the center of the optical industry in the state of Brandenburg.

I wasn't blown away by the park, but it was only a LAGA and as such it was nice enough.

In descending order: IGA - BUGA - LAGA (international-, federal-, state-horticultural show)

So if you are interested in gardening and plants growing in our region or if you want to let your kids have some fun in the show's playgrounds, use the remaining warm and sunny days and visit Rathenow until Oct. 15th.

PS. It's funny, that they chose a rainbow as the show's symbol. Watch the entire photo-set on flickr.com.

A month before closing down and reopening as public park, I visited Rathenow's State Garden Show (LAGA - Landesgartenschau).

I found 8€ to be the maximum one could charge for walking through a park, which it was, essantially. One enters near some old warehouses of the Rathenow inland port, which have been completely modernized and served as flowerhouse in which local horticultural businesses showed off some of their skills and range of products. Adjoining these two warehouses was a stage for some kind of evening program, which I didn't attend to.

Now, off to the park itself. The entrypoint was a little bit special, because one was going "over the Havel" to get to the park. They took an old barge and towed it under the bridge, so one didn't have to get wet feet.

Once in, I met one of the three mascots of the show: Havi (the girl inside could hardly see a thing, but everyone has got to earn some money, don't they).

Then I took some minutes at the White Café to relax after the 2hour drive before continuing my stroll. First and last thing you'll enconter are the graves, an element of the park, which I already knew from Rostock's IGA in 2003 and yet again find a little disturbing.

The main attraction are monochromatic rows of beds of flowers, which extend from two colored pyramids, like rays of light emerging from a prism. The other "larger" attraction is a water garden, which essentially is a pool of water crossed by wooden bridges, that imitate the form of the Weltzeituhr on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. I found myself dwelling under some large old weeping willows at the grassy shore of hat pool, my favourite place of this day.

Near the end of the round were the installations for the kids, which also - like the rest of the park - had something to do with optics. That is, because Rathenow is the center of the optical industry in the state of Brandenburg.

I wasn't blown away by the park, but it was only a LAGA and as such it was nice enough.

In descending order: IGA - BUGA - LAGA (international-, federal-, state-horticultural show)

So if you are interested in gardening and plants growing in our region or if you want to let your kids have some fun in the show's playgrounds, use the remaining warm and sunny days and visit Rathenow until Oct. 15th.

PS. It's funny, that they chose a rainbow as the show's symbol. Watch the entire photo-set on flickr.com.

Of bees and flowers.

queer BBQ

Yesterday we met up in Potsdam's BUGA-Park celebrating the leave of Stefan - you will be dearly missed, but oh well, six months aren't the world. So as we say bon soir to you, your new home in France welcomes you: Bonjour!.

Lots of beverages and fine foods went down our throats and as the night had fallen upon us remaining few, we knew: this young, we'll never meet again.

Yesterday we met up in Potsdam's BUGA-Park celebrating the leave of Stefan - you will be dearly missed, but oh well, six months aren't the world. So as we say bon soir to you, your new home in France welcomes you: Bonjour!.

Lots of beverages and fine foods went down our throats and as the night had fallen upon us remaining few, we knew: this young, we'll never meet again.

queer BBQ