Quiet

October 22, 2009 - A-life & ENGLISH - (4) COMMENTs

You guessed it!

Life is hard and then you die.

It should not be like it is said in the above quote. That’s what I’m working on at the moment. Making life fun and less stressful, because we know it is all about the money, honey! There are also a lot of things happening at the moment…have to be on top of it at the moment.
Stay tuned until I find the time and also the pleasure to blog again.

[sorry]

Peinlicher Versprecher

October 9, 2009 - Funny & Germany - (2) COMMENTs

Wer hats live gesehen, bzw. gehoert im deutschen Fernsehen?
Ich link sowas lieber hier weg….das ZDF, die machen aber auch Sachen…nej nej nej. Hier gibts den Lacher.

Nothing since

October 8, 2009 - Blog - (0) COMMENTs

…I hooked up my blog with the ReCaptcha Anti-Comment-Spam tool provided as WordPress plugin. No single spam made it through into my moderation queue. Very nice. Less work, more blog fun. Happy Cola!

Scottish

October 4, 2009 - A-life & ENGLISH & Funny - (1) COMMENT

Ring ring….

D: “Hi, Daughter of Mrs.X speaking.”

Me: “Hi, this is Anja, is Mrs.X available?”

D: “Yes, just a moment”

Background noise. Mrs.X is busy doing something.

Mrs.X from the background to D: “Who is it, love?”

D to Mrs.X: “I don’t know, I think she is Scottish.”

Must I be proud now?
Or is it a typical case of “if you totally don’t understand an English accent it might be Scottish”?

I told my boss (who also has a very strong Norfolk (British) accent) and he laughed and said that I can be proud of my English. How funny, because I only said these seven words.

The other week a customer asked me if my accent is from Southern Africa. A friend growing up in Johannesburg said that the accent down there is quite heavy. Weird, do I have such a thick accent? Impossible…I still sound German in my ears. Ok, maybe with a tiny bit of American-Canadian-Irish-Scottish-Mix from Nathan.

Funny enough, people are never guessing that I am German. Mostly they guess all kinds of European countries, but they never think of Germany. Even not all Germans that I meet know/guess that I am German when I speak to them. Yes, I’m talking English as fast and as German now…ha ha.

Another Antsy Day In Paradise

October 1, 2009 - A-life & Australia & Visuelles - (4) COMMENTs

Test test, mein erstes Video im Blog.
Gezeigt wird unser Briefkasten. Letztes Wochenende, am ersten heissen Tag des Fruehlings waren sie da, die Biester.

Testing…my first video in my blog. Woohoo!
This is our mailbox from last weekend, the first hot day of the spring. I hope the quality of the video is ok to see closely enough?

Ants In Your Mailbox from missycola on Vimeo.

(Question to the geeks: is vimeo better than youtube for small private videos to link to my blog?)