PiCola Quiz 2
Hey friends,
I now some of you already sit and wait for the solution of the first PiCola Quiz. I think, it was a little bit too easy for you all, because you were all right. The picture shows icicles or as they’re called in German: Eiszapfen. Click here to see the original photo. The icicles were hanging down from the roof above the house door to our backyard and they were quite long and almost hit me on my head 
The next quiz comes right ahead. Click on the image; it links to a new picture.
The solution for the quiz will be posted a week from today that is next friday.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Mar 24, 2006 • English & PiColaQUIZ •••• 4 comments »Springlike experiment
Now that we have spring (the sun just tried so hard, that almost all snow melted in my town…but only almost!), my mood changed quickly to spring spring time mood and I thought that my blog doesn’t have enough PINK! So I made the sidebar…guess: pink! Like it?
I’m just experimenting with some new things on my blog, but do not hesitate to give me feedback on what you see, if you like it or not.
I now offer RSS feeds in the sidebar (left, bottom), if you’re too lazy to visit my blog or if you want to escape my pinkish spring :P
Coming up soon: email subscription feature and photo gallery.
Stay tuned and HAPPY SPRING TIME to you all!
Update at midday: It is SNOWING again *grrrrrr* My spring time mood just froze *brrr* Strange weather here. Sun and snow in a minute-by-minute change…who will win the battle? 1.43pm: bright sunlight, no snow… (more warm spring sun, please)
PiCola Quiz 1
Hey guys, I wanted to post some new photos here, but then I thought I want to make a little quiz’zie similar to Marina’s pic of the week one, but mine is called “Picola-Quiz” and you must guess what’s on the pic. The picture only shows a cutout and I alienated (edited) the pic. I’ll start with an easy one, just to see if someone likes to play with me 
and post the solution (and the original photo) next friday; one week from now.
Have fun
Most accidents happen at home
True!
[I hope it is the right English saying for the German one: "Die meisten Unfaelle passieren im Haushalt"??
Correct me, if I'm wrong, I couldn't find this saying with translation online.]
Anyway, the saying is just so true, what I experienced today. Not even a second and I could have broken at least one leg plus my arm and maybe my neck, because I slipped badly on my stairs with my (running) laptop on my right arm (the screen-lid was open)! I could apply with this excellent awesome stunt for the next Jacky Chan movie Too bad that my house does not have web cams. I should think about installing some…I know that there would be several funny collisions…with doors, door frames especially, cupboards, tables, chairs and probably also my own feet *g*
Result of my stunt: Another time that my guardian angel was on the spot. Thanks!! I’m happy that I didn’t smash my laptop *whew* (ok, and good that my body is still all in one part).
• A-life & English •••• 3 comments »Just another goofy quiz
I found this funny name generator in another blog …why not *lol*
C=== Charming
O=== Old
L=== Lovable
A=== Awesome
OR
A=== Astonishing
N=== Naive
J=== Jealous
A=== Appealing
Name Acronym Generator by Go-Quiz.com
If you generated your name, too, let me know what it said 
Wanted: babies for Germany!
Germany needs more babies! The German population shrinks.
Germany is at the bottom of having a baby compared to the rest of Europe with only 8.5 babies per 1000 women. Particularly the east part of Germany has very low birth rates. (infos from ZDF).
With under 700.000 births Germany has the lowest birth rate since 1-9-4-5 !! Oh oh… .
I can help out, me me me…YESss, because “Ich bin Deutschland” (slogan of a German compaign “Du bist Deutschland”)…ehhm soon (decided that job/money/prepare secure future for baby is more important right now..sorry GER), but I’ll help out…for our common future…some time, I’ll do my best…for sure for sure…hehe. My helping syndrome is switched on now *pling*
H-u-n?? :P
Sad Cola…sigh…no hon here and I’m too sleepy to write more (and to be serious *g*).
Never mind…I better go to bed now, alone.
Make the best of snow and shit
sorry, but a (ex-) fellow student posted this picture today in our student online community and I thought that it’s kinda funny
The photo looks like it is not taken in Germany, but it would fit totally. Spring starts in a few days (21.) but the snow doesn’t want to melt. I haven’t seen so much snow in the last years (here). You must know that I’m living in the northern part of Germany and we don’t have much snow (compared to the southern regions). It is too wet here at the coast I guess. See our winter weather, how it was just some days ago (me and view out of my study room):
Cool, huh? It is not a fake it is Eckernfoerde! I like the snow though…normally we only have wet snow that doesn’t last longer than a few days. In the federal state Thueringen eight trucks full of snow were just sold at an auction on ebay for more than 2000 Euro!!! Yeah, it could have been my crazy idea *damn*; the mayoress of the small town Steinach was faster. She did it only as a joke (Jux). The whole revenue will be given to an organization that helps children suffering from cancer. Very nice idea. This just shows that you should really follow your ideas and just DO it I think, today, with the internet and our fast communication, everything is possible. For more infos you can read the full article (only in German) here.
I can stick to the same topic: we say in German “aus Scheisse Gold machen”, what is a saying for make money out of nothing/shit/don’t know how the saying is in English, sorry. Today the news said that they want to make medicine out of dung (Mist) to help people with asthma and neurodermatitis. Crazy, huh?
The good things seem to be just in our closest environment…we only need to open our eyes and inhale more intense when we are in a cow barn *mmmhhhhmmm* it’s good to build more antibodies…(it’s what they said in the news) yeah!
Too bad that I already suffered many years from my allergies although I live almost in the countryside…I will book my next holidays on a farm in the next village, just a few minutes out of town…haha.
It’s strange because years before they told me to stay away from hay, animals and that especially places like farms would be the death for allergic people like me.
I guess that dung, cow shit and all dirt stuff from barns will be sold at ebay soon
Filled semolina dumplings
Because it was so simple and good…a quick recipe post (for friends of German dumplings, esp. Nathan-the-dumpling-lover *g*):
I tried out something new…filled dumplings
Here the recipe for two people (~8 dumplings):
Bring 500ml (2 cups) milk, 1/2 ts salt and ~10g (1/4 oz) butter to boil.
Take the pan off the hot plate and stir 150g (5 oz) durum wheat semolina (hartweizen-grieß) into it. Let it cool down a little bit.
Stir one egg under the mass.
Break 1 slice of toast in little pieces and fry it in butter til it is golden (I like it crunchy). Cut fresh herbs and mix it under the bread pieces.
Now make one hand wet, flatten a spoon of the semolina mass into it and press some of the bread-herb-mix in the middle, close the dumpling, form it (roll in hands) til it’s a ball and do so with the rest. Watch out that the little ball is closed to all sides, otherwise it’ll break in the next step:
Put the dumplings in salted boiling water for about 10 minutes til they swim on the surface.
DONE.
Eat as side to e.g. a meat dish. For four persons double the amount of ingredients. The recipe was printed on a package of durum wheat semolina from the German company DIAMANT.
Next time I would put some nutmeg on it or try out some other spices.
It’s not a joke, it’s country!
Haha, yes, with this title a German television station (das Erste) names the German winner of the Eurovision Song Contest that had the preliminary decision tonight on TV (I just turned on the channel on TV by accident). They showed three music band and the audience chose with telephone voting the winner: “Texas Lightning”. Have you ever heard of them? Me not! I just know one of the musicians, Oli Dittrich, who is or was a comedian on the German TV (Remember the show “Samstag Nacht”?). The singer woman of “Texas Lightning” is actually Australian, but who cares, she will now sing for the Germans in the Olympic hall in Athens where the main (European) song contest will be on March, 20th 2006. The Eurovision Song Contest was known before as Grand Prix (just a name change), but the idea and the contest already started in 1955 with the name “The Eurovision Grand Prix”. For more information see the english or the german web site.
My personal big lightning today was the buy of my new cell phone! Yeah! You must know, I was using a at least 7 year old phone (does anybody know the nokia 3330…ugly heavy phone with no comfort or any specials, just high radiation carrying with me) and now its time was over. The battery was so weak that it didn’t even last for a whole day. Dependent on the amounts of calls and use it worked sometimes only a few hours til it died again. Annoying. I didn’t plan to buy a new phone today, but it just happened. Very unnormal spontaneous buy…(I normally take my time for decisions *g*). Till now (just a few hours after the buy) I didn’t regret it (fortunately). It is just such a great phone compared to my old one…so modern…small…light (v-e-r-y light), color display, animations, polyphony ring tones, so many options to set…just wow…yes yes I know that this is all “normal” for most of the today’s cell users. Not for me with my mobile “bone”. But – I didn’t care. It was working and I got it from my dad (after he already used it some years), after mine broke two years ago (had a nokia 8310). I lived with the 3330 till the bitter end. It (the bone-phone) could look back to a long life (what phone can say this about itself nowadays where technology is so sensitive and often quick and dirty…ehm cheap made).Will go to bed and let me wake up tomorrow with a new modern ring tone. Hopefully it works also, when the phone is shut off. Good night happy new cola-phone.
• A-life & English •••• 1 comment »4 minus 1 equals 3 wisdom teeth
I had an appointment at my dentist yesterday. I came out with one tooth less. One of my wisdom teeth. I had three teeth infected with cavity (yeah, I’m the choco monster). After my dentist had filled two teeth he asked me if he already told me that my health care doesn’t pay for the fillings and I have to pay 50 Euro. Well, I expected that. He explained everything very detailed and nice, and THEN, he asked me if he should better pull the last tooth (one of my wisdom teeth). Ahhhh, whaaat? I answered that his question is a LITTLE bit too spontaneous for me now…(honestly, I acted like a coward…haha). He said that it wouldn’t hurt and he’d pull it in less than half a minute. He also said that he would earn more if he filled the tooth, but it would be absurd because the tooth (wisdom t.) has no opposite tooth to bite with (don’t know how to explain in English..). To say it with one word: the tooth is…useless. I asked two hundred more questions to feel better (but not less afraid) and then he gave me a syringe, in my palate (Gaumen). That hurts, *autsch*. He said, this hurts more than the pull-action. Sure. 10 minutes later he started to get my wisdom tooth (upper left) out, not even 10 seconds it was done. Wow! Didn’t hurt at all. Only heard the movement of the roots. Nice as he is, he cleaned the tooth from its blood and whatever else stuff, before he showed it to me. He explained what he would have done to it (he took his cutting machine and did some work to the tooth just for explanation). Yes, I was wondering why my dentist has so much time to talk to me…it is maybe a result of the actual situation of the German health care system (it starts to become a money thing to visit doctors). Anyway, he gave me the tooth that I took home with me (I spare you with a photo of it *g*). Looks cute, though. Smaller than I expected a wisdom tooth to look like. However, I was advised not to eat in the next 2 to 3 hours. I couldn’t eat for 8 hours. It hurt a little bit, esp. after the syringe lost its effect. Today, it is much better, but the area in my mouth still feels strange…kind of empty…grin(s). I still have my other three wisdom teeth. Yeah, I am very lucky, I know…and so wise. Good thing is that they all grew straight and they can stay where they are….lucky me. Must now eat less chocolate to prevent more cavity in the other three “wise teeth”…oh waaa, that will be hard. Should rather brush my teeth right after each sweet choc session.
P.S.: I bought three 250g choclate bars (Marabou) at IKEA today. The same bargain (or special offer) they have since a few weeks; three bars that means 750g, for 4,40 Euro. Good deal.
Mar 9, 2006 • A-life & English •••• 0 comments »