You keep what you kill

After a full night's sleep the jetlag was finally gone and we set out to Waiheke island at noon. While we were waiting for the ferry I took the opportunity to test the icecream at Valentino's (in the Ferry Building) and I can recommend it to you wholeheartedly. Excellent! Waiheke island was excellent as well. It's only a cheap 30 minutes ferry ride from AKL and offer's nice & easy walkways for airplane-damaged legs. Beautiful landscape and coastline, we were almost alone on the tracks although it was saturday in the holiday season. In the afternoon even the weather played along, the clouds vanished and that's why I have to get some after-sun lotion for my burning neck right now. And some food of course. I mean lots of food since New Zealand will practically be closed for three days now with Sunday plus two public holidays coming up. Talking of food: Burger Fuel in Parnell Rd still exists and still serves excellent burgers. The Chocolate Boutique is also still ve...

I`ve finally arrived in Auckland where everything seems to be just the way I left it here nearly three years ago. Actually, I`m way to hungry at the moment to go into much detail. Suffice to say that the second leg of my flight (with Cathay Pacific from HK to AKL) was okayish, but Asian Airlines seem incapable of a) getting the special meals thing working and b) of distributing and removing food trays quickly. Which kinda contradicts common prejudices about them being efficient as hell. On the positive side: nearly all the flight attendants had long black hair so at least the eye was pleased while the stomach was dying. I`ve just fallen in love with the University of Auckland`s City Campus, beautiful! Would somebody please offer me a job there? ;-)

Doitsche Bahn muss sterben. Aber immer der Reihe nach. Live from the business class lounge at Hong Kong Airport. Luxury is bliss. 0. Cologne: Unfortunately my friend suddenly got struck by flight panic (or whatever is the correct term) and could not make the flight. Which is why I'm travelling alone again. And probably why there will be more f-words to come in this log ... . So, Wednesday, Cologne train station, 8:45am: train to Amsterdam will be at least 60 minutes late. FUCK YOU. Luckily Daniela was able to drive me to Amsterdam so I did not have to rent a car to get there. Nota bene: If you have an urgent appointment/have to be on time then don't rely on Deutsche Bahn. 0.1: Schiphol Airport: Okayish. But those security idiots still don't know how to handle those dangerous liquids properly. Fuck you too. 1. Amsterdam - Hong Kong with KLM: good food, mediocre entertainment only though. And too many French people on the plane. And only blonde women! What a downer. 2. Hong K...

I'm not there yet (still abusing my parents' computer), but I've found some highly illegal dating and porn sites that I wanted to bring to your attention. Here you can find single kiwi women looking for males, complete with pictures and all: New Zealand Dating Site . This site is not really illegal in new Zealand, but still quite controversial. Another site though is definitely outlawed down under, just take a look at New Zealand Sex Toys and you'll know why, it's gross. Last but not least there's classic porn, i.e. naked women, as well, take at look at these two porn sites ( 1 , 2 ) for example. To finish off: There are even sex slave auctions on the net. This again proves that the WWW is full of dirt and that Wolfgang Schäuble need to be installed on all of our computers to protect us from international pornterrorism!

Eigentlich nehme ich sie ja gar nicht war, die kleine Werbezeile in Gmail. Aber das ist mir dann doch aufgefallen: Werde ich mir natürlich in Auckland sofort mieten, wenn meine Begleitung rumzickt und den ihrigen nicht zur Verfügung stellt.

Neben der großartigen Hinrunde von Werder war eigentlich sonst fast alles wie erwartet. Ausnahme HSV. Positiv anzumerken ist, dass dieses Jahr die Trainer scheinbar nicht mehr so schnell fliegen, was SPON zu der schönen Feststellung "Peter Neururer gibt es gar nicht" veranlasst hat. Über die Gründe lässt sich trefflich spekulieren, vielleicht lesen die Vorstände einfach weniger BLÖD-Zeitung? Oder haben endlich rechnen gelernt? Anyway, Hamburg ist der einzige Negativ-Ausreißer, Stuttgart vielleicht etwas besser als erwartet, ansonsten alles wie gehabt. Mainz hat einfach zu viel Substanz verkauft, Gladbach kriegt weiterhin die Quittung für jahrelange falsche Personalpolitik plus eine Glühbirne als Trainer. Hoffentlich steigen die ab. Nürnberg wäre ohne seine Verletzungsmisere noch weiter oben, Bayern steht da wo sie hingehören. Einzig Schalke macht mir Sorgen, ich hoffe da noch auf Unruhe. Es gibt nichts widerliches, als Lispelkevin beim Torjubel und das debile Grinsen des Nase...

Und die Antwort lautet: Sir, yes Sir! Was für eine fantastische Hinrunde. Who would have thought? Die Voraussetzungen waren ungünstig: Viele WM-Fahrer. Micoud weg. Klasnic tot. Abwehr Chaos, neue Außenverteidiger. Kein Gefahrenhorst mehr. Dann die Auslosung, ich wusste, nachdem die ersten beiden einer jeden Gruppe ermittelt waren sofort, dass wir in Gruppe A kommen. Keine Chance. Der Ligapokal, Bayern wurde locker "weggefegt" und "niedergemacht". Diego ist der Geilste, wer ist Micoud? Ach ja, der sitzt bei Bordeaux auf der Bank und macht die selbe große Karriere wie Ernst und Ailton. Btw, wer ist Frank Rost? Die Saison, größtenteils begeisternder und erfolgreicher Fußball, trotz plattem Klose, trotz Borowski-Verletzung, trotz Mertesacker-Rekonvaleszenz, trotz Pokal-Aus in Pirmasens. Who cares? Die CL beginnt, 1:1 gegen Barca, weil Schaaf das Wechseln nicht lernen will. Drei Siege in Folge, das Aus, weil Schaaf die taktischen Defizite Womes unterschätzt. Zwischendurc...

... well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine. End of the year, but no depression in sight. All I have to do right now is: finish that chapter of my dissertation, clean up my flat, pack my bags, and then I'm off to New Zealand. I got about 36 hours to finish my stuff here. Lovely. The goal of my journey is: get into Mordor, kiss Live Tyler, destroy the Ring, punch Sam, and then die of boredom. No, wait, that was the other one. In reality, the goal is: find a beautiful sheep, marry her, and live happily ever after. Sounds good, eh? And it has economic benefits as well: since merino wool is so nice and warm I won't need to pay Gazprom for heating my flat in winter anymore.

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