Saturday, 17. January 2009

Give Me GIFs

I'll put more pictures from New Year's up shortly. Until then please enjoy these highly entertaining animations with all their lovable characters – Chris, Leo, Äl, Jan, Falko, Honig and myself.

Hemsedal

As I've already written earlier, only four days after the New Year's invasion had ended, my sister arrived in Norway. Unfortunately she had to explore Oslo by herself on the first day while I had to work. The next three days however were spent pretty close together – snowboarding in Hemsedal. Whoopee!

After a four hour bus ride – we had the thing almost to ourselves – my sis, my flatmate Magnus who spontaneously joined in, and me arrived in that small town halfway between here and Bergen at around 2 on Friday. Due to an idiotic rule we weren't allowed to enter our cottage until 5 though. After killing some time by walking to town and eating pizza, we settled into our small but cozy apartment. Half an hour of chilling and then we already had to get dressed to hit the slopes. Yupp, night snowboarding! Seriously, it was killer! I had never done that before, and even though there were only three pistes open / floodlit it was heck of fun. The Austrian and Swiss skiing areas should definitely offer more of that.

Despite being feverish and sore after that night for the rest of the weekend, it was still great to be riding again – the last time for me had already been a year back. On Saturday we had clear blue skies and a lot of icy patches and on Sunday gray skies but perfect snow. So a little bit of everything I guess. We arrived back in Oslo on Sunday around 9 and continued with what we had been doing the past days besides snowboarding – stuffing ourselves with junk food...

On Monday my sis and I went on a quick and unsuccessful trip up to Frogneseteren (stupid fog) before she was off to Germany again. Altogether, good seeing her again and definitely a cool time up north!

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Friday, 16. January 2009

Benny Lava

Before I continue recapturing the events of the past weeks, here some seriously funny stuff (oxymoron, yay). I now find myself corrected when I once praised Rick Astley as the god of dance. He surely doesn't stand a chance in the face of this guy and his funky ensemble...


Thursday, 15. January 2009

Mixtape Mania

I've done it again. I've opened up another blog. But don't worry, you don't have to read anything, you just have to listen. It'll be a blog filled only with mixtapes similar to the one I have here on the right. Probably gonna throw a new one up there every couple of weeks or so. I've started off with my Top Ten of last year. Check it at Twisted Nuns.

By the way, I've just noticed: I should eat sushi more often.

NYE Means New Year's Eve

Deep Breath. One, two, three – go!

Okeli dokeli, with a two week delay here finally a roundup of the time from pre-Christmas–Copenhagen until last weekend. I've been meaning to post the 'happenings' earlier but like I stated before, I'm pretty much exhausted at the moment. Words can't describe how much I'm looking forward to a weekend of complete and utter nothingness. No work, no going out, no stress. Just 48h of sleep, maybe a movie or two and some relaxed drawing. Hhhmmmmm.

Aaaanyways. The landing after my chaotic leave from CPH marked the start of ten semi-relaxed days at home. I say semi because certainly the times of just kicking back at my parents place with no to-do-list in my head and being a total slob for a week have long been lost since high school anyway. But especially so when I haven't been home in over four months.

So there was family business to attend (with my dad dropping an average size bomb by telling us he maybe wants to sell the house), Christmas to celebrate (with a whole day of gift-wrapping prior to that), friends to visit (with our traditional Raclette feast, which was again awesome! Thanks guys!), my favorite jogging route to run and some sleep to catch up on. Unfortunately and even though I did want to chill as much as possible, I didn't get to see the Erlangen crew as much as I would've liked due to different schedules and sickness. Still, it's always good to be home, see some familiar faces and spend time in well-known surroundings.

On the 29th I was off to Norway again. After landing and having made my way to the apartment, I had exactly half an hour of chilling time before having to head back to the train station to pick up the Darmstadt mob.

Damn, it was good to see the guys again! Some of them I hadn't seen for a whole year, some almost two. Within minutes my room was a mess, the kitchen was a mess and the first shots of vodka had been drowned. Yes, as promised, they had brought a huge friggin' array of alcoholic beverages :) . Falko popped the champagne bottle and some big news, we had a nice improv-dinner and a whole lot of catching up to do. It was a bit weird to see all these guys together again – in my Oslo apartment – but fuck yeah, it was just as cool :D !

The next days were spent with lots of fun fun activities. Exploring the city with dawn always on our heels (getting up at two, when the sun starts going down at half past three ain't the smartest idea). A quick tour of Bleed. Picking up the missing crew member. Buying 'condiments'. Drinking. Cooking. Cuddling. More drinking. Making fire. Gambling. Chilling. Snoring. And of course: celebrating New Year's Eve with a nice big dinner, indoor skateboarding, standing on a smoky hill, losing that crew member again, dancing, crying, freezing, hang-overing and puzzling. But that's a whole different story...

At the very 'verstrahlt' morning of the 2nd of January all except one already left the building again. And on the day after that I had the apartment (almost) to myself once more. Sniff. Took the Sunday to relax, then three days of work and then my sister was already waiting at the airport to be picked up. More about that some other time.

For now just two pics and some big shout-outs to my boys. Thank you guys so much for getting your shit sorted, actually making it over here and spending some quality time! So good to see all of you! Much love.

And next time around we'll get the other Korean to come as well... ;)

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Monday, 12. January 2009

ThisIsHowYouDoIt

Sorry, still just fill-in material. But check out the guys of The Glitch Mob rockin' that crazyass shit big time! Why doesn't this kinda stuff happen more often over here, or anywhere for that matter?



P.S. I will probably be blogging about these guys (amongst others) pretty soon on the forgotten playground of MSBWY, so watch out.

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