starmania... it's never too late to apply

Austria is voting this sunday and if I could state a wish it would be the two right-wing parties BZÖ and FPÖ kicked out of the National Assembly (Austrian parliament). Anyhow, in their desperate effort to defend their position the two top candidates both Peter Westenthaler (BZÖ) and Heinz Christian Strache have tried a new approach to get to the people. Singing in fact.

So for everyone, who's interested:

Peter W.

HardCore Strache

If I had to choose between these two, I'd definately go for Peter W. Catchy tune, almost has the quality to be the next big thing on Austria's many skiing lodges. Reminds me of DJ Ötzi ;-)

If they don't make it (hopefully) they always can apply for the next season of Starmania, I bet they'll make it both to the finals, regardless of any intervention at the ORF.

Sry, BZÖ link didn't work hope it does now.

cigarettes, razorblades, condoms...

Went to the supermarket yesterday to get some razorblades but didn't find them anywhere in the shelves, only new razors like the gilette mach 3 (but also wilkinson, bic etc...don't want to plug something :-)... anyways I wanted to check out some other supermarket the next day

so today I went to Malmö. Went to the area of the "Turning Torso", which is the tallest building of Sweden with a height of 190 m. The twist about it is that from bottom to top it makes a turn of 90 °, looks really cool. By the way, the space around this tower is filled with modern housing, neat offices and generally nice architecture. Besides the fact that there is still some serious construction going on this seems a nice place to live, but certainly not the cheapest. In the vicinity there is a Maxi-ICA, a large version of the supermarket next to my dorm. I was convinced that I'd find my razorblades there. So I entered, skimmed the whole market but no blades again. So I asked a clerk there whether he could help me out. And he could... the trick is to get some kind of plastic ticket with the desired object on it, which are normally situated next to the cash desks. Once you've paied you go to a machine, insert the ticket, and yeeha, there we go...

So, I can figure out why you put cigaerettes in a machine but what puzzles me is why the @!%& do they put razorblades or even CONDOMS??? in them as well? Are those like the prefered ways of suicide once the nights get longer and people get depressed because of the lack of daylight? But I guess suffocating yourself with a condom isn't that easy, they tend to blow up, don't they? Or is it to keep small children from this fithly stuff. Then again, aren't the Swedish said to be very open-minded towards sex etc. Anyways, picturing both of the options made my laugh, if anyone can figure out the real reason let me know. Oh mysterious Sweden!

just what i needed....

thats how i'm looking at the moment after some surgery from the local hospital...actually i can't recommend braking whilst riding a bike when you have something in between your front wheel

mother*beep* on this mother*beep* plane

As my friend Mimie already pointed out on her blog dubbing movies some times can be pretty bad... as I'm watching a lot of american podcasts and there's been a huge hype about Sam Jacksons latest flick I was curious about possible sequels

celebration

tonight all-new episodes of family guy and simpsons aired in the US... finally something to distract me from my studies... and even better in two weeks the new season of desperate housewives will start...yes I'm a TV-junkie, but then again, it helps improve my english :-)

appendix...bringing "the sexy back"

I have to add this...



Swedish aquivalent to "Starmania"...very nice indeed...didn't even know that this one was big up here to (Haiduci that is)

.....gonna set my soul on fire...

Had an awesome night at Hallands Nations tonight and for those who are wondering what I'm up to at the moment:



I know that I don't have that loose hip up to now but I'm working on it. Back in my hometown I did quite a good job on Chubby Checker (Salz that is, hello Gnu ;-)

My shelves, my desk, my cupboard!

Just some pics from my room here at Sparta (yes, it is the name of the dorm). Its not the Hilton but a) I've lived in a similar place in Vienna for 1 1/2 year b) I hate that slut anyways and c) modesty is my middle name :-)

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you: My realm!





And for the record, I have to admit it isn't always that neat place.

Soooooo cute!

Just found this on YouTube:

Little Panda sneezes and Mother Panda gets scared.
Cute little fella!

weird experience

The supermarket in front of my dorm has opened every day from 9 to 22 which comes in especially handy when you're a lazy dude as me and have nothing to do all day long (at least for the next 2 days until courses start).

What stroke my attention in the first place was the fact that Sweden's supermarkets in general seem to be far better equiped then their Austrian pendants. Another thing which is different here is that whilst cueing up in front of the cash desk people do move their shoping baskets with their feet on the floor. I too already adopted this habit.

Today an old lady stood in front of me cueing up as well. In the process she literally touched and took out every good that was placed along the shelves. When she finally made it to the cash desk, she started to put every single thing she had in her trolley on the conveyor and turned it in the direction so that the barcode was facing towards the scanner. She probably thought this whole ceremony would speed up the process and help the girl doing in her job, but in fact she achieved the exact opposite. Normally I'm a rather patient guy but I have to admit that I wanted to have that fancy disintegrator from Star Trek this time :-)

P.S.: Don't miss out on my pics from Göteborg, we did a spontanous trip there 3 days ago and payed a visit to Liseberg, the 2nd biggest amusement park in whole Europe. First time for me riding a rollercoaster. Göteborg itself didn't appeal to me that much in terms of architecture, there's a lot of buildings which also could have been built in the heart of Russia back in communism.

Mumsfilibaba!

Sounds funny, doesn't it? It actually means something like "yummy" as i was told today and that's also the appropiate adjective for the thing that is about to arrive here early this day:




Skål!