"bLog means boring-Log"

* get indexed
* get rss-fed
* get atomized

october 2008
sun	mon	tue	wed	thu	fri	sat
			01	02	03	04
05	06	07	08	09	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

archives...

writing activity stats

blogrolls...

powered by: blosxom 

kosheen

oh yeah. there was kosheen at the posthof in linz. since
zombiequeen asked me if i would like to see them too, i
joined her, for i thought kosheen live would be cool. and
somehow... yes, it was cool, but kosheen was quite... hm,
let's say different from what i knew so far. there was
the frontwoman and singer with her recognizable and unique
voice and there were the two DJs. but what they performed
was far from kosheen songs i knew. in fact, if would have
not listened to the lyrics, i wouldn't have recognized
any of their songs. pretty strange listening to songs
you basically know, but don't recognize at first. on the
other hand, what they made of those new versions was
really enjoyable. it was more of a rave ("we're gonna
raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave!", shouted by the vocalist)
and was really pure techno. songs and smash hits like
"Catch", "Hide U", "(Slip & Slide) Suicide", etc would
have perfectly fit at any techno-parade/-party. the down-
side was, that after only about five or six songs one
knows from their releases (and one yet unreleased song)
this all really ended in a techno-party. the singer
stopped singing and was merely dancing and from time to
time shouting some slogans. honestly, i think she was
pretty drunk - she drank one bottle of wine and had just
opened another one when we left. but all in all i guess
kosheen had as much fun as we had. it's an experience i
can really recommend - to techno- and/or kosheen-fans.

oh yeah, some pics. since i was too lazy to walk around
(and the concert hall was crowded too) i had no good
view to the stage. but i guess you get a slight im-
pression of how it was (- besides all concert pics look
the same if you're not in the first row, don't they?)

[ comments (0) // permanent link ]

a visit to graz

from the 16th to the 17th of january i had a very nice trip
to graz. in the course of our tamperproof design lectures
at the university of applied science in hagenberg an ex-
cursion to the philips plant in graz, gratkorn was planned.
it was scheduled for the 17th of january (including an
exam). so i thought it's a good idea to visit my brother
and have a look at the house he and his wife are currently
erecting. this is why i already left for graz on the 16th
in the afternoon. unfortunately when i arrived it was
already getting dark. nonetheless i got a good impression
of how the completed house will look like. (in case you're
interested, here are some pics of the house and the time
we spent afterwards).

the next day i had to get to gratkorn (which is about 20km
distance from graz) to the philips plant. as i brought a
colleague to the hotel the day before i already knew the
way. the day at philips itself was pretty interesting and
loads of fun. we got a good pizza, loads of coffee and
soft-drinks, cookies, etc, etc, etc. of course i took some
pics there.
seing some stuff we heard about in the lectures in practice
was pretty interesting. the atmosphere in the company was
pretty relaxed and cosy. there are areas where people can
meet to take a break. in these places taps for softdrinks
(like ice-tea, orange juice, soda, apple juice, etc) are
situated and every employee can get them for free.
additionally you can find cookies, fruits, etc there too -
and again for free. pretty impressive.

[ comments (1) // permanent link ]

new year's eve in prague...

since this will be a really long (and of course boring)
bLog-entry, i added some pix to spice it up and bring joy
to your eyes...

yow, as reported in my last boringLog-entry my girlfriend
and i went to prague. the stay lasted from the 31st of
december 2005 to the 03rd of january 2006. although it's
the fourth time now for me (and the second time for zombie-
queen) that i've been to prague, i still enjoyed this town
so much. especially the gothic-style of the buildings, the
statues, etc is what fascinates me most. this also includes
decayed buildings and factories outside of prague.
 
 
 

we went there by train which took us about four hours from
vienna to prague. since we arrived on a smaller railway
station and it was saturday the 31st of december, most shops
were closed and not too many people were around. this turned
out to be a problem since we didn't know how to get to our
accomodation. fortunately some policemen helped us searching
on a city-map hanging out at the station. it took them ages
to find it, but they finally told us what metro to take, 
where to change to which bus-line and where to get off. they
were actually the only friendly czech people we met at the
station. the accomodation was fine and it took us about 30
minutes to get there from the center of prague, which is
pretty ok for the "top-season", as it was announced by the
booking-agency we used for our hotel (if you ever plan to
go to prague, it's definitely a good site i can recommend.
i used it twice to get a hotel/accomodation and the service
was excellent!). later we drove back to the city again, had
a good pizza, loads of impressions and loads of coffee and
tee, since it was pretty cold. the turn of the year we ce-
lebrated like hundreds of other tourists and czech people
near charles bridge and at the bank of river vltava. for
hours the sky was lit by rockets and the streets were filled
with sounds of firecrackers. after midnight we were walking
around a bit to various places, all crowded with people,
all happy (and maybe drunk). the atmosphere was friendly,
nice and untroubled.
 
 
 

later we tried to get home, which was more of a nightmare.
although a bus was scheduled for 01:35 and 02:05 no bus
arrived at the station. so we started walking and tried to
get a taxi. after a very long while we finally got one
that brought us home safely (there was loads of snow on
the side roads).


the next day (01.01.2006) we drove back to town had a really
good "breakfast" (apple-pie and cappuchino) and then
continued our tour through prague. although it was sunday
and the 01st of january, surprisingly a lot of shops had
opened. since we were pretty tired from walking all day
long in the cold and still a little hangover from our
"let's wait 1h for a bus that never showed up"-experience
from the day before we went home pretty early and stayed in
bed and enjoyed czech tv and a little reading.

on the 02nd of january we planned a shopping tour through
prague. zombiequeen knew a cool shop to get clothes and i
wanted to get a bag for my camera. so we got up pretty early
and drove to town where we arrived at about 10:15.
unfortunately at this time no breakfast is served anymore -
absolutely bad luck for us. there ain't even a breakfast at
McDonald's - the guy looked at us in wonder when we asked
for a breakfast... so we went to a normal shop, got us some
pastry, some cheese, a yoghurt-drink and some sweets and had
breakfast at the river vltava surrounded by seagulls.
this in fact was more fun than staying in a coffee house,
but also it was colder...
 
 
 
we continued this trip and found some lovely shops, including
this one with all sort of cat stuff.


on the next day we had to get up early again - our train left at
10:25 from prague...

all in all this was really a wonderful new year's eve and weekend.


oh, and here's the link to the gallery with the pix included 
here and of course lots more...

have fun.

[ comments (0) // permanent link ]