Aus und vorbei und wiedermal (immerhin) Dritter

July 8, 2010 - ENGLISH & Germany & Visuelles - (5) COMMENTs

It would have been soooo awesomely beautiful – if!

I didn’t expect the Spanish team to have such a good defence. Looked like they were way stronger than the Argentina’s. They had so many chances to score. Although, the game was rather slow. Not much action. I almost fell asleep in the first half hour of the game.

What a pity! We lost. We could have done better. Why oh why.

At least (again, like in 2006) we came in third, but hey, in my “environment” of international co-workers and friends, everyone thought Germany is going to win the worldcup. WE WERE SO CLOSE!!!

Thanks for the enthusiasm and the optimistic view of world’s best second best third best soccer team. We still did very well. And the best of it all?

We will be back in 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Four is my lucky number anyway. It better is "theirs", too!]

SIGH

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.

Taten statt Thesen – Ich habe gewaehlt

September 18, 2009 - Australia & DEUTSCH & Germany & Good-Girl - (0) COMMENTs

Oops, was war denn da gestern in meiner Post? Ahh…Wahlunterlagen zur Briefwahl. Komisch, woher wissen die denn, dass…

Danke an meinen lieben Herrn Vater, der sich immer um mein Wohl (und die Zukunft Deutschlands) sorgt und vor allem rechtzeitig dran gedacht hat, dem Amt Bescheid zu geben, dass sie mir die Wahlunterlagen zur Bundestagswahl und Landtagswahl 2009 ins Land down under zu schicken.
Hat er mir gar nichts von gesagt. Schlawiner.

Alles angekommen. Danke!
Somit habe ich mich gestern erstmal durch die “typisch deutschen” Formulare gewuehlt. Ich hatte fast nen Knoten im Gehirn bei dem Amtsdeutsch, aber dann gings.

Somit habe ich nun gewaehlt und werfe die Wahlpapiere heute in den Briefkasten, damit sie noch rechtzeitig bis zum 27.9.09 in Deutschland ankommen. Sollte klappen.

So schwer war die Qual der Wahl dann ja nicht, denn man weiss auf jeden Fall sofort, was man NICHT waehlt. Und dann bleibt ja nicht mehr so viel uebrig. Nicht waehlen ist dagegen ganz ganz schlecht. Wie der Wickert schon sagte “Wer nicht zur Wahl geht, darf nicht kritisieren.” Oder wollt ihr, dass das hier so weiter geht? Was ist da nur los in Deutschland???

[RetteDeineFreiheit]

Was sagt denn der Wahl-o-mat bei euch so? Und – beeinflusst er/es eure Wahl?
Uiuiui…was er bei mir ausspuckt, sage ich lieber nicht (oeffentlich). Ich sag nur, von den grossen Parteien sind CDU und SPD das Schlusslicht meines Ergebnisses.
Aber Thesen der Parteien sind ja halt auch, wie der Name sagt, Thesen und keine Taten. Viel besser waere es, wenn der Wahl-o-mat einen Taten-Reflektion-zu-Thesen-in-der-Vergangenheit-sautomat haette. DAS waere mal interessant fuer die, die nicht so hochpolitisch mittendrin und informiert sind. Thesen anschlagen ist ja pipileicht, nur sie auch bestmoeglich (was das alles heissen kann…so einiges) umsetzen, ist die Kunst, die ein Lob oder gar eine Wahlstimme einkassieren koennte.

Bob Weber und die fabelhafte Welt der 3D-Animation produced in Kiel

February 27, 2009 - DEUTSCH & Germany & Visuelles - (8) COMMENTs

Booooooob РIch habe Dich gesehen!!!! Jawohl! Und ich habe sogar Deine Stimme geh̦rt, wie sch̦n! Und Isabellas auch! Toll zu sehen, was ihr so treibt.
Ich bin echt stolz auf euch und puh…bin echt begeistert von eurem Einsatz! Schon toll, euch da insgeheim bei eurer professionellen Arbeit über die Schulter gucken zu dürfen, und das obwohl ich hier leider nicht das SH-Magazin des NDR sehen kann. Internet juchhe!!
Ich wäre gerne vor Ort, um mir eure Arbeit noch besser anschauen zu können. Jetzt wo ich eure Stimmen gehört habe, vermisse ich euch und good old Germany noch mehr. Dicke Umarmung nach Hause. Fühlt euch gedrückt und macht weiter so, ihr seid einfach grossartig!!

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[Planetariumshow, Mediendom, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 3D, MMP, Juchhe]

Receive calls from Germany via German phone number in Australia

January 29, 2009 - A-life & Australia & ENGLISH - (1) COMMENT

It was a good day!
I could finally install two different phone numbers (sip numbers) in my Fritzbox DSL modem. My new Australian phone number, with which I can make free local and national calls, and my new German phone number, which I arranged for my German family and friends so that they can call me for free (if they have a phone flat) or for a local or national call’s cost. Sounds good? It is awesome!
I need to mention Sven and his great blog, from where I have the idea, because he wrote about it how he uses a German (Hamburg) phone number in Sydney to receive calls from home.

I must also mention that we don’t have a fixed phone line here at our home in Perth.
I know, that is confusing.

Both phone numbers are REAL phone numbers: they look like one (with the proper city codes), they act like one (you can dial them from Germany or from Aussieland with any phone, you don’t need a computer at all), but they work over the internet (for me, that does not need to interest the caller), not through the old fashion phone line. There is no difference in call quality.

I use a modern cordless phone, which is like new, but cost us only $2 at a garage sale a bit down our road. I think they thought the phone was not working, because the battery was not put in right. After we changed it, it worked best. The phone hasn’t been used at all. In the shops it costs around $80. *g*

Ok, back to my new phone numbers.
The German number works great. I already used it with my dad today. He called and was surprised that I was so “close” to hear and that the quality was even better than with calling my Australian mobile or calling through skype. Yes, it was a great qualitiy. If felt like we were in the same town. No delay at all. Perfect! And the best, my parents can now call me for free, because they can call German fixed phone lines for free…and my number is a Ecktown (aka Eckernfoerde) number. I thought that connects me with my roots. :]

My Australian number works just as good. My Australian friend K. tried it out today and called her relatives over east and was impressed by the call quality.

With both phone numbers I have a voicemail set up. I could not get connected to my sipgate (German) number’s voicemail yet. It says that it is not in service. It might not work because my dial out number is the Australian number, and of course I can’t use that number to call my German sip number’s voicemail. Hmm..that’s tricky…but I’m sure I will figure it out somehow… otherwise I think it said that the voicemail messages are sent out as .wav file via email, which is another option if I can’t listen to them via phone. (Technik, die begeistert!)

I will now send some emails out with my new phone numbers. If you don’t get one, but you would like to have either the Australian or the German one, just let me know here in the comments or via email.

EDIT:
My sister (living in Stuttgart) just called me and told me that she has a fixed phone flatrate on her mobile phone, which means that she can now call me for free from her mobile! Crazy!
I LOVE THE INTERNET AND ITS POSSIBILITIES! And I love German (mobile) phone providers for offering flatrates for a bargain (where Australia is way behind).