<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520</id><updated>2011-04-22T04:00:53.006+01:00</updated><category term='Summer'/><category term='Katter'/><category term='Singapore stuffs'/><category term='Badminton'/><category term='Mother&apos;s day'/><category term='wedding'/><category term='Friends'/><category term='Jogging'/><category term='Alex'/><category term='Harry Potter'/><category term='France'/><category term='Shahid'/><category term='Murbach'/><category term='conference'/><category term='London'/><category term='Maga-Samstag'/><category term='Pforzheim'/><category term='presentation'/><category term='curry'/><category term='FreeCell'/><category term='bowling'/><category term='Kaufland'/><category term='Paris'/><category term='Christoph'/><category term='Kuala Lumpur'/><category term='undergraduate moments'/><category term='Faculty fest'/><category term='corporate video'/><category term='Institute'/><category term='Marius'/><category term='Facebook'/><category term='Datuk'/><category term='Mimpi'/><category term='Fête des Mères'/><category term='Idol'/><category term='DSDS'/><category term='Briefkasten'/><category term='campus invasion'/><category term='Lift'/><category term='birthday'/><category term='MTV'/><category term='vacation'/><category term='changsha'/><category term='FAW 2008'/><category term='NLC West'/><category term='Dietlingen'/><category term='Graduation'/><category term='Eurovision'/><category term='Asymptote'/><category term='Strike'/><category term='Malaysia'/><category term='Deustchland sucht den Superstar'/><category term='Karen'/><category term='Freiburg'/><category term='Dragonboat'/><category term='Rants'/><category term='National Day'/><category term='promises'/><category term='forgettable'/><category term='Singapore Airlines'/><category term='Algo-workshop'/><category term='CSI: Freiburg'/><category term='china'/><category term='Cat'/><category term='Battery'/><title type='text'>]Kai's ]Kronickles</title><subtitle type='html'>I think, therefore, I am a Yam. &lt;(((º&gt;•`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸.•´¯`•..&gt; &lt;(((º&gt;•`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸.•´¯`•..&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3809426375796473800</id><published>2008-07-04T08:05:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T10:44:29.886+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='changsha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FAW 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presentation'/><title type='text'>That Conference in Changsha, China (Part I)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wp_YzsKI/AAAAAAAAAbc/Y2T3nraO60A/s1600-h/moto_0346.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wp_YzsKI/AAAAAAAAAbc/Y2T3nraO60A/s200/moto_0346.jpg" border="0" height="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219092147373060258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqMCfCLI/AAAAAAAAAbk/-knVQ2Mc9S8/s1600-h/moto_0342.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqMCfCLI/AAAAAAAAAbk/-knVQ2Mc9S8/s200/moto_0342.jpg" border="0" height="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219092150769092786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqYHJg3I/AAAAAAAAAbs/qDXL90twqns/s1600-h/moto_0345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqYHJg3I/AAAAAAAAAbs/qDXL90twqns/s200/moto_0345.jpg" border="0" height="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219092154009879410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqyGoxQI/AAAAAAAAAb0/jwEyNjOf8fE/s1600-h/img_7838.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wqyGoxQI/AAAAAAAAAb0/jwEyNjOf8fE/s200/img_7838.jpg" border="0" height="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219092160987055362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wrF0bKQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/2IkQxeGPABo/s1600-h/IMG_2691.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wrF0bKQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/2IkQxeGPABo/s200/IMG_2691.JPG" border="0" height="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219092166279375106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two weeks ago, Tobi and I were in Changsha, China attending a conference at the Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW) 2008. While I thought we delivered a rather exquisite 20-minute presentation of our work on "Versioning Tree Structures by Path-Merging", we both found that there were several, ah, &lt;i&gt;"speakers"&lt;/i&gt; among the conference delegates, who, in our opinion, strived very hard to give seriously bad and ineffective talks! Although, strangely, I must confess, that they did write excellent and well-organised articles in their contributions to the conference proceedings -- such constrasting malediction!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so, as would anyone who are forced to listen to a series of uncomprehensive repertoires of monotonic regurgitations of Lemmas and Theorems in between bland syntaxes and numerical tables, Tobi and I made a list of what we thought were going on in the minds of these highly esteemed people whose only mission seem to drive everyone sitting in the audience to lose interest / sleep / be dilatory / stare blankly at walls / unnecessarily draining litres of bottled water (to keep awake) / (and thus) making excuses to visit the toilets / etc... etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cogent title we gave, in our quest to be superb raconteurs of accounting the details of the three-day conference proceedings, was:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;"How To Give a BAD Talk"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read on, and be amused...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[Day 1: 19 June 2008]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Present 6 huge and extremely complicated Lemmas followed by a Theorem explaining the universe in the span of 20 minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Show 100 lines of source codes in a separate editor with font size 10.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prepare enough slides to give a 4-hour long talk and present them all in 20 minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don't bother to explain any of the abbreviations / acronyms / unit measurements / etc. that are on the slides -- but keep mentioning them in the talk all the time since everyone else are assumed to have already know what they mean.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Present, on each slide, at least 6 very complicated mathematical formulae, using more than 2 super-/sub-scripted indices without explaining the significance of the variables.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[Day 2: 20 June 2008]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Place 5 Definitions and 3 Lemmas on 2 slides, about 25 lines each copied from LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Show 20 lines of fully commented pseudo-"pseudo-codes" on 1 slide.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Present experimental results by showing endless columns of numbers without properly explaining their relevance / consequence / importance / purpose.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don't ever use graphs to represent these endless columns of numbers!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don't ever use figures to illustrate graph-theoretical principles. Instead, draw them impressively in the air with your fingers, some distance above the podium, while talking.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Periodically ask for the audience's approval, after the delivery of every thought / idea, by saying, "OK?".&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If your time is over, defy the session chair's suggestion to end the talk and continue to keep reminding the audience that there is still a lot more contents to come.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create slides that dont't match the screen dimensions; for example, use A4-portrait.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Include example figures in the slides. Then ensure that the audience sees them -- or rather, make sure they only manage a quick glance at them; then quickly move on to other another slide. The figures only serve to distract.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Skip the motivation for solving the problem, simply assume that the audience already knows.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[Day 3: 21 June 2008]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don't bother to do a final review of the contents in the slides to spot for typos or something similar. The slides are always already perfect the first time round.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Copy everything from LaTeX to PowerPoint, and don't follow up to ensure the correctness of contents. For example, in LaTeX: "$c n\log n$" -- simply copy and remove the "$" after placing in PowerPoint.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add references such as [1],[2],... without ever letting the audience know the concrete sources. Until, of course, we reach the end of the talk. These references are only meant for our own conveniences, and no one else's.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use tiny font sizes in all the example figures in the slides. This prevents the audience from spotting your mistakes, which, of course, are non-existent.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bring the audience's attention to your figures on the slides only by their label names, and don't bother to explain the significance of those figures. For example, say something like, "Here are our results. Look at Figures (a) and (b)." Then pause for 2 seconds, and quickly turn to the next slide and conclude the talk. Then watch the stunned reactions of the audience.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3809426375796473800?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3809426375796473800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3809426375796473800&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3809426375796473800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3809426375796473800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2008/07/that-conference-in-changsha-china-part.html' title='That Conference in Changsha, China (Part I)'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/SG3wp_YzsKI/AAAAAAAAAbc/Y2T3nraO60A/s72-c/moto_0346.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3986144181210755881</id><published>2007-10-16T15:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T16:25:10.576+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><title type='text'>Facebook? Really now...</title><content type='html'>Hmm... on a much lighter note, I &lt;i&gt;finally&lt;/i&gt; decided to get myself a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?nm=khaireel+mohamed"&gt;Facebook account&lt;/a&gt; -- after much incessant proddings from everyone I know... who ALL seem to &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; on Facebook (here is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook"&gt;Wikipedia's entry on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, which I thought was an interesting read). Didn't really care and know what all the fuss are about, until a few hours ago :) Indeed, Facebook is just amazing -- I am finding out about old chums again, and what's more, they seem to remember me; &lt;i&gt;Supreme Kai&lt;/i&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That, and this &lt;a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=877"&gt;phdcomic&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to back my decision on the other front...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=877"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd062307s.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those bloody guys from Harvard are no doubt enjoying themselves seeing people glued to their product. And with the silly gadgets/plugin-applications incorporated into Facebook, it's just designed to keep people on it for hours on end! *sigh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, it seems that the German community has its own Facebook equivalent, its &lt;i&gt;clone&lt;/i&gt;, as Chris has brought to my attention. It is known as the &lt;a href="http://www.studivz.net/"&gt;studiVZ&lt;/a&gt;, and already Chris, Karen, and Leo are on them. There are other clones too; studiQG.fr, studiLN.it, estudiLN.es, studentIX.pl, and iwiw.hu. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One bad thing though, Facebook and StudiVZ are completely two different entities and are not inter-linkable *grr* I don't want to have another separate account... don't make me sign-up for another one... help...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3986144181210755881?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3986144181210755881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3986144181210755881&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3986144181210755881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3986144181210755881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/10/on-facebook.html' title='Facebook? Really now...'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-2787934051575692182</id><published>2007-10-15T17:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T18:11:27.443+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forgettable'/><title type='text'>An Ode: I just want you to know who I am</title><content type='html'>Several turn of events over the past decade decided to unleashed themselves upon me these past few months, and it culminated with a rather ominous and inapportune phone call from mom Sunday night. It now seems inevitable that I will lose my grasp on someone who I hold so dear, who seems determined to close all doors and burn all bridges. Clash of stubborness? Unworthiness? But why the deceit? I am so reminded of these lyrics... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhwHuU2dbAE&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhwHuU2dbAE&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;And I'd give up forever to touch you&lt;br /&gt;Cause I know that you feel me somehow &lt;br /&gt;You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be &lt;br /&gt;And I don't want to go home right now&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming &lt;br /&gt;Or the moment of truth in your lies &lt;br /&gt;When everything seems like the movies &lt;br /&gt;Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I don't want the world to see me &lt;br /&gt;Cause I don't think that they'd understand &lt;br /&gt;When everything's made to be broken &lt;br /&gt;I just want you to know who I am&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Iris' by the Goo Goo Dolls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-2787934051575692182?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/2787934051575692182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=2787934051575692182&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2787934051575692182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2787934051575692182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/10/ode-i-just-want-you-to-know-who-i-am.html' title='An Ode: I just want you to know who I am'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-8066550673555248447</id><published>2007-10-08T18:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T08:24:10.453+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maga-Samstag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Strike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><title type='text'>Streik bei der Bahn... am Mega-Samstag</title><content type='html'>Endlich habe ich kurz Zeit um diesen Blogeintrag zu schreiben. Na ja, am Samstag nachmittag, nach unserem Badmintonspiel, musste ich in die Stadt zu meinem Termin mit Olaf (er kommt jedes Wochenende von München nach Freiburg für ernsthaft der Diskussion über seiner Arbeit). Nach einem kurzen Telefonat war dann auch Olaf, auf den ich noch fünf Minuten warten musste, an der Straßenbahnhaltestelle (am Stadttheater). Dort habe ich die Streik mierlebt. Die Leute waren das Gleis vom Hauptbahnhof zur Mitte der Stadt entlanggegangen. Und ooohhh.... die waren sehr laut mit ihren Pfiffe! Sie befürchten im Zuge des Ausbaus „eine unerträgliche, dauerhafte Belästigung durch Lärm, Feinstaub und Erschütterung“. Wirklich?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn5mSIK5I/AAAAAAAAAYU/f33yJtruMFQ/s1600-h/streik_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn5mSIK5I/AAAAAAAAAYU/f33yJtruMFQ/s200/streik_01.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018165686774674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn6GSIK6I/AAAAAAAAAYc/5dSpQii-5NI/s1600-h/streik_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn6GSIK6I/AAAAAAAAAYc/5dSpQii-5NI/s200/streik_02.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018174276709282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn6mSIK7I/AAAAAAAAAYk/aNuJYwcOZmw/s1600-h/streik_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn6mSIK7I/AAAAAAAAAYk/aNuJYwcOZmw/s200/streik_03.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018182866643890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allerdings, an der Kaiser-Joseph-Straße fand ich eine andere Geschichte statt! Wir haben den Mega-Samstag gefeiert -- viel kaufen, viel essen, viel kaufen, viel trinken, viel kaufen, viel kaufen, viel kaufen, etc. Ich dachte, dass die Leute in Freiburg ihren &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoTGSIK8I/AAAAAAAAAYs/uIslic9XTUk/s1600-h/natl_day.jpg"&gt;Deutschen Nationalfeiertag&lt;/a&gt; nicht genug gefeiert haben... hmmm, aber das war am letzte Mittwoch. Deswegen hat der Oberbürgermeister Dieter Salomon diesen Mega-Samstag angesagt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoTGSIK8I/AAAAAAAAAYs/uIslic9XTUk/s1600-h/natl_day.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoTGSIK8I/AAAAAAAAAYs/uIslic9XTUk/s200/natl_day.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018603773438914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoTmSIK9I/AAAAAAAAAY0/SltTUXlbZQ4/s1600-h/megasamstag_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoTmSIK9I/AAAAAAAAAY0/SltTUXlbZQ4/s200/megasamstag_01.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018612363373522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoUWSIK-I/AAAAAAAAAY8/gI130WlLJ5k/s1600-h/megasamstag_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoUWSIK-I/AAAAAAAAAY8/gI130WlLJ5k/s200/megasamstag_02.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018625248275426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoU2SIK_I/AAAAAAAAAZE/vEpyZRSBl6k/s1600-h/megasamstag_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RwpoU2SIK_I/AAAAAAAAAZE/vEpyZRSBl6k/s200/megasamstag_03.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119018633838210034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-8066550673555248447?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/8066550673555248447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=8066550673555248447&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8066550673555248447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8066550673555248447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/10/streik-bei-der-bahn-am-mega-samstag.html' title='Streik bei der Bahn... am Mega-Samstag'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rwpn5mSIK5I/AAAAAAAAAYU/f33yJtruMFQ/s72-c/streik_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-8213817675829604143</id><published>2007-09-24T08:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T09:06:01.832+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mimpi'/><title type='text'>Mimpi yang sangat menghairankan</title><content type='html'>Sesuai dengan tajuk yang telah dinyatakan di atas, awal pagi ini barulah aku teringat apa yang meyebabkan mimpiku semalam itu sungguh hairan sekali. Nak kata &lt;i&gt;menakutkan&lt;/i&gt;, tidak pula. Nak kata &lt;i&gt;kelakar&lt;/i&gt;, pun sama sekali tidak. Hanya &lt;i&gt;hairan&lt;/i&gt;, bak kata orang, &lt;a href="http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameswara"&gt;Parameswara&lt;/a&gt; itu asal-usulnya dari  keturunan Raden Wijaya Majapahit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seperti sebuah filem P. Ramlee yang berjudul &lt;a href="http://www.filemkita.com/filem/t/tiga_abdul_01.html"&gt;"Tiga Abdul"&lt;/a&gt;, di mana seorang kaya-raya bernama Ismet Ulam Raja yang bermastautin di sebuah negara dongeng Isketambola, yang menarik perhatian kita penonton dengan gelagat tiga orang anak-anaknya -- Abdul Wahab, Abdul Wahib, dan Abdul Wahub. Di permulaan cerita, telah pun si pencerita menerangkan rumah Ismet yang tersergam indah seperti berikut:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Rumahnya cantik tinggi mengawan,&lt;br /&gt;Terletak di atas Bukit Cendawan;&lt;br /&gt;Siapa ternampak sangatlah hairan,&lt;br /&gt;Mata terbeliak tersampuk syaitan."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm... dan sama seperti mimpiku semalam, aku bermimpi yang aku ni tak boleh tidur hingga lewat pagi. Hairan kan? ;-P&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-8213817675829604143?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/8213817675829604143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=8213817675829604143&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8213817675829604143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8213817675829604143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/09/mimpi-yang-sangat-menghairankan.html' title='Mimpi yang sangat menghairankan'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3406905508571042045</id><published>2007-09-16T14:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T09:07:19.846+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Battery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kaufland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FreeCell'/><title type='text'>Das kommt mir irgendwie komisch vor</title><content type='html'>Gestern war ich im Kaufland -- ich kaufe Lebensmittel jeder Samstagmorgen, natürlich, weil ich sonst ganz bestimmt überhaupt gar nichts essen am Wochenende kann. Immerhin brauchte ich ein paar doppel-A Batterien für meine &lt;a href="http://de.europe.creative.com/shop/product.asp?category=3&amp;subcategory=121&amp;product=654&amp;"&gt;Creative®-TravelSound™-200-lautsprechersystem&lt;/a&gt;, und normalerweise ging ich direkt zu den Elektronikabteilung. Da fand ich eine komische Überraschung:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0uVOudunI/AAAAAAAAAX8/rewL72DtAbc/s1600-h/batt_normal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0uVOudunI/AAAAAAAAAX8/rewL72DtAbc/s200/batt_normal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110792094400494194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0uV-uduoI/AAAAAAAAAYE/P6hKKU7kEps/s1600-h/batt_special_offer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0uV-uduoI/AAAAAAAAAYE/P6hKKU7kEps/s200/batt_special_offer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110792107285396098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da steht EUR 2,99 für den üblichen Preis für ein Päckchen mit vier Batterien. OK... dachte ich. Dann, in der Nähe, war Kauflands "&lt;i&gt;Special Offer&lt;/i&gt;" für die ähnlicher Marke. Es gibt sondern hat die Sache einen Harken; man muss ein Päckchen mit acht Batterien kaufen. Das war kein Problem für mich, aber die acht Batterien "&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Special Offer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;" kostet EUR 5,99. Sehr interessant, oder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trotzdem, was habe ich getan? Haha... was würde irgendjemand tun? Allerdings! Ich habe zwei übliche Päckchen gekauft und habe ich EUR 0,01 gespart :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ps: Mein weiteres &lt;b&gt;FreeCell&lt;/b&gt;-Update:&lt;br /&gt;Ich hatte heute zu viel Zeit und spielte ich deshalb 12 mehr FreeCell games. Das heißt, habe ich insgesamt &lt;b&gt;134&lt;/b&gt; Spielen gewonnen, und ebenso &lt;b&gt;0&lt;/b&gt; Spielen verloren. Heh heh heh...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0vDeudupI/AAAAAAAAAYM/9nYAEIOFtek/s1600-h/free-cell-134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0vDeudupI/AAAAAAAAAYM/9nYAEIOFtek/s200/free-cell-134.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110792888969443986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3406905508571042045?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3406905508571042045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3406905508571042045&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3406905508571042045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3406905508571042045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/09/das-kommt-mir-irgendwie-komisch-vor.html' title='Das kommt mir irgendwie komisch vor'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Ru0uVOudunI/AAAAAAAAAX8/rewL72DtAbc/s72-c/batt_normal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3763775447326436813</id><published>2007-09-11T12:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T09:32:26.805+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bowling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FreeCell'/><title type='text'>Die unglaubliche siebenundneunzig</title><content type='html'>Drei mal in die letzte zwei Wochen habe ich die &lt;b&gt;siebenundneunzig&lt;/b&gt; angetroffen. Vielleicht da geht es mehr, aber kann ich mich nicht erinnern. &lt;i&gt;Warum hat die &lt;b&gt;siebenundneunzig&lt;/b&gt; öffentlich auftreten?&lt;/i&gt; Dass habe ich früher gefragt, und nun, nie man hat die Antwort... noch nicht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠&lt;/b&gt; Im &lt;a href="http://www.bowlingpark-freiburg.de/"&gt;Bowlingpark Westside&lt;/a&gt; Freiburg...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgA66RAI/AAAAAAAAAXk/-4W_kQ1ixcs/s1600-h/bowling-scores-097.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgA66RAI/AAAAAAAAAXk/-4W_kQ1ixcs/s200/bowling-scores-097.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108919811371058178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... haben wir (Tobi, Isabell, Fred, und ich) jeder man &lt;b&gt;siebenundneunzig&lt;/b&gt; Punkten in unser dritte Spiel erreichen. Na ja, soviel ich weiß wir haben sehr schlecht gespielt, aber dass war nicht unsere besten Spielnacht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠&lt;/b&gt; An der Freecell...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgQ66RBI/AAAAAAAAAXs/St3soeFb4yU/s1600-h/free-cell-097.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgQ66RBI/AAAAAAAAAXs/St3soeFb4yU/s200/free-cell-097.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108919815666025490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... habe ich insgesamt &lt;b&gt;siebenundneunzig&lt;/b&gt; Spielen gewonnen (seit letzte Woche). Oh, und habe ich auch insgesamt null Spielen verloren. Cool huh? Ich denke das ist ein historischer Rekord! Hat jemand einen besseren Gewonnenpunkt als mich? Wenn ja, schickt mir ein Email sofort :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠&lt;/b&gt; Die neue Laufzeit...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgQ66RCI/AAAAAAAAAX0/aAGmgFYIpVU/s1600-h/running-time-097.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgQ66RCI/AAAAAAAAAX0/aAGmgFYIpVU/s200/running-time-097.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108919815666025506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... mit meine neue Laufroute. Da steht um meine Uhr fast dreiundzwanzig Minuten. Eigentlich habe ich 22'53''&lt;b&gt;siebenundneunzig&lt;/b&gt; Minuten zu der Zeit erzielen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3763775447326436813?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3763775447326436813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3763775447326436813&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3763775447326436813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3763775447326436813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/09/die-unglaubliche-siebenundneunzig.html' title='Die unglaubliche siebenundneunzig'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RuaHgA66RAI/AAAAAAAAAXk/-4W_kQ1ixcs/s72-c/bowling-scores-097.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3633453587459101638</id><published>2007-08-24T10:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T15:36:19.558+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kuala Lumpur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Malaysia'/><title type='text'>The One with Three Dudes in Kuala Lumpur</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6twg66QlI/AAAAAAAAAUM/O5XwZnVK8eE/s1600-h/three_dudes_in_KL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6twg66QlI/AAAAAAAAAUM/O5XwZnVK8eE/s200/three_dudes_in_KL.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102206476839699026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hmm... I have now blogged too many entries in English, I know. So the next one after this shall be in a language other than the one Master Shakespeare used when he wrote the comedy "&lt;i&gt;Much To Do About Nothing&lt;/i&gt;" :) And maybe, after reading this blog, you can decide for yourselves who among us &lt;i&gt;three dudes&lt;/i&gt; most resemble the characters Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro. Right. Let's see now, my mate Tobi has already provided a very accurate chronology of events on &lt;a href="http://blogs.nightlabs.net/tobias/2007/08/23/die-schlammige-flussmundung-oder-meine-tage-sind-gezahlt/"&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt; of what happened in KL. So I shall instead write this report from another point of view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠ "We can eat, eat, eat, till we nearly drop..."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Dick Lee, 1998&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and that was exactly what we did when us three boys rode our way into town!! Besides, to be a good host, I was to ensure that my guests don't starve, right? Haha... that was partially the reason why I chose that we stay at &lt;a href="http://www.Westin.com/KualaLumpur"&gt;The Westin, Kuala Lumpur&lt;/a&gt;. Apart from the spacious suites with commanding views of the city's skylines at our feet, we also had access to the exorbitant buffet spread during breakfast at the &lt;i&gt;Living Room&lt;/i&gt;. (It took three mornings worth of persuasions to get my guests to try the mini-steaks with beef-bacon and eggs-benedict (and hashbrowns with baked beans, of course) for their second servings, after going through the mundane ritual of muesli, milk, and marmalade-breads. *sigh* These boys don't eat very much for breakfast!). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqA66QmI/AAAAAAAAAUU/3QZXg7_wh7M/s1600-h/kl_food_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqA66QmI/AAAAAAAAAUU/3QZXg7_wh7M/s200/kl_food_01.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102209663705432674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqg66QnI/AAAAAAAAAUc/JyFAnOM45YE/s1600-h/kl_food_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqg66QnI/AAAAAAAAAUc/JyFAnOM45YE/s200/kl_food_02.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102209672295367282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqw66QoI/AAAAAAAAAUk/JOdiEHL5dvI/s1600-h/kl_food_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wqw66QoI/AAAAAAAAAUk/JOdiEHL5dvI/s200/kl_food_03.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102209676590334594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wrg66QpI/AAAAAAAAAUs/DQqYZn5YgrI/s1600-h/kl_food_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6wrg66QpI/AAAAAAAAAUs/DQqYZn5YgrI/s200/kl_food_04.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102209689475236498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs63Lg66QuI/AAAAAAAAAVU/O0rpoaez-e8/s1600-h/kl_food_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs63Lg66QuI/AAAAAAAAAVU/O0rpoaez-e8/s200/kl_food_06.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102216836300817122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62xg66QqI/AAAAAAAAAU0/qeszbSmi07o/s1600-h/kl_food_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62xg66QqI/AAAAAAAAAU0/qeszbSmi07o/s200/kl_food_05.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102216389624218274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62xw66QrI/AAAAAAAAAU8/3qi-o562W0Q/s1600-h/kl_food_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62xw66QrI/AAAAAAAAAU8/3qi-o562W0Q/s200/kl_food_07.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102216393919185586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62yA66QsI/AAAAAAAAAVE/y7q-58MdMpI/s1600-h/kl_food_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62yA66QsI/AAAAAAAAAVE/y7q-58MdMpI/s200/kl_food_08.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102216398214152898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62yQ66QtI/AAAAAAAAAVM/SCFFbtDYjd4/s1600-h/kl_food_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs62yQ66QtI/AAAAAAAAAVM/SCFFbtDYjd4/s200/kl_food_09.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102216402509120210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just for whetting our epitites in anticipation of dinner, there was a generous selection of fine wines and pre-dinner cocktails complimenting the hors d'oeuvres and appetizers served at the Executive Club Lounge, before we headed off into the city for dinner proper :P It was also up there on that 33rd floor, while sipping my drink and watching the sun set over the city, that I learnt Tobi is one reputable wine connoisseur! Unfortunately for me, I cannot consume any kinds of alcohol to verify any of Tobi's remarks. Marius on the other hand was nodding away to Tobi's words and adding one or two suggestions as to what was being discussed. So I can only presume that Tobi's knowledge of the vintages are ge-nu-wine *smile* Although I can't quite recall what he said about red wines, chocolate cakes, and his mother... Anyway, I felt sure my guests enjoyed themselves in the calm ambience of the Club Lounge, and this was later confirmed when I heard one of them tacitly ordering the head-waiter to chill the bottle of Chardonnay down to exactly 17.41°C before bringing it out again and serving it to him *big smile*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠♠ "When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Takayuki Ikkaku, 2005&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This meeting in KL was designed with the intention to do just that. To &lt;i&gt;relax&lt;/i&gt;. To &lt;i&gt;chill&lt;/i&gt;. To &lt;i&gt;stretch out&lt;/i&gt;. To &lt;i&gt;unwind&lt;/i&gt;. I definitely needed a break from routine stuffs at the office. Tobi was in his final week of his 3-month-long Asia tour. And Marius could use a breather before tackling the works in Bangkok. So we all deserved some time-out to do anything we please, or, really, to do nothing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7Rsw66Q0I/AAAAAAAAAWE/D_m7pIer_JU/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7Rsw66Q0I/AAAAAAAAAWE/D_m7pIer_JU/s200/kl_relax_unwind_06.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102245994833789762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JIg66QvI/AAAAAAAAAVc/WdHwf63BJ7g/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JIg66QvI/AAAAAAAAAVc/WdHwf63BJ7g/s200/kl_relax_unwind_01.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102236575970509554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JIg66QwI/AAAAAAAAAVk/USNUmuLQGdE/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JIg66QwI/AAAAAAAAAVk/USNUmuLQGdE/s200/kl_relax_unwind_02.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102236575970509570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJA66QxI/AAAAAAAAAVs/3gvLHXNoq8I/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJA66QxI/AAAAAAAAAVs/3gvLHXNoq8I/s200/kl_relax_unwind_03.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102236584560444178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJQ66QyI/AAAAAAAAAV0/9L2Id-Dwi4s/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJQ66QyI/AAAAAAAAAV0/9L2Id-Dwi4s/s200/kl_relax_unwind_04.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102236588855411490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJw66QzI/AAAAAAAAAV8/6Y2cw_XVcgE/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7JJw66QzI/AAAAAAAAAV8/6Y2cw_XVcgE/s200/kl_relax_unwind_05.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102236597445346098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SqQ66Q1I/AAAAAAAAAWM/w4tTsFKB94M/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SqQ66Q1I/AAAAAAAAAWM/w4tTsFKB94M/s200/kl_relax_unwind_07.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102247051395744594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SsA66Q2I/AAAAAAAAAWU/Gae9Zv_afEM/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SsA66Q2I/AAAAAAAAAWU/Gae9Zv_afEM/s200/kl_relax_unwind_08.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102247081460515682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7StQ66Q3I/AAAAAAAAAWc/BCU6FAA7SzU/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7StQ66Q3I/AAAAAAAAAWc/BCU6FAA7SzU/s200/kl_relax_unwind_09.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102247102935352178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SuA66Q4I/AAAAAAAAAWk/6OD-_68BuzM/s1600-h/kl_relax_unwind_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7SuA66Q4I/AAAAAAAAAWk/6OD-_68BuzM/s200/kl_relax_unwind_10.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102247115820254082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... which makes it rather fitting, since I couldn't persuade Marius to wake up early enough (say, around 06:30) so that we could do some workouts at the gym and have a dip in the pool afterwards just before heading for breakfast. But I think Tobi and he compromised by thrashing their bedsheets and pillows, and then jumping up and down on their &lt;i&gt;Westin's &lt;a href="http://www.westin-hotelsathome.com/bed/experience.aspx"&gt;Heavenly Beds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;®. Lol... fun? Yes. But I made sure they didn't do that in my bedroom... heh heh heh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;♠♠♠ "It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of."&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Randy K. Milholland, 2005.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing is for certain; my two guests were, I would say, &lt;i&gt;eco-tourists&lt;/i&gt;. While happy to tolerate my city-dwelling behaviour, they perked up better when the three of us took some time to explore all 7 water-fall stations in the Templar Park Nature Reserve. And one other thing the three of us agreed was on &lt;i&gt;bitching&lt;/i&gt; about our driver, Ben, who I would sum up as an &lt;i&gt;ass hole&lt;/i&gt;. Long story. Poor me, I speak Malay and Chinese *sigh* Ben aside, we were fortunate enough to acquire a personal guide for our private hike up the steep hills who was not only akin to the natural surroundings, but was also hype enough to take us places where not many hikers went. And after a cool dip in the pool at level 4 on our way back down to the foot of the hills, we were happy (well, at least I was) to call it a day and return to the hotel for a well-deserved &lt;i&gt;Westin &lt;a href="http://www.westin-hotelsathome.com/bath/bathmain.aspx?sessionID=53809e9e-5d66-4ac3-83d3-fa3e5f2eefbb"&gt;Heavenly Shower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;® (which I just realised today, is available exclusively only in the Executive Residences, which will restore the mind and body -- it &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; does! The secret lies in the dual-showerheads and in the easily adjustable water-pressure...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7i_Q66Q5I/AAAAAAAAAWs/IArIR3SqMvM/s1600-h/eco_kl_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7i_Q66Q5I/AAAAAAAAAWs/IArIR3SqMvM/s200/eco_kl_01.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102265004359041938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7i_Q66Q6I/AAAAAAAAAW0/zPpLB-NAhXY/s1600-h/eco_kl_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7i_Q66Q6I/AAAAAAAAAW0/zPpLB-NAhXY/s200/eco_kl_02.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102265004359041954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RtbVYA66Q_I/AAAAAAAAAXc/1frrq5AxsvU/s1600-h/eco_kl_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RtbVYA66Q_I/AAAAAAAAAXc/1frrq5AxsvU/s200/eco_kl_10.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104501836211700722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jAQ66Q8I/AAAAAAAAAXE/KAxyqUFSmMo/s1600-h/eco_kl_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jAQ66Q8I/AAAAAAAAAXE/KAxyqUFSmMo/s200/eco_kl_04.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102265021538911170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jdA66Q-I/AAAAAAAAAXU/F53b0lcthQk/s1600-h/kl_food_00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jdA66Q-I/AAAAAAAAAXU/F53b0lcthQk/s200/kl_food_00.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102265515460150242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jBg66Q9I/AAAAAAAAAXM/ESSf60ZT7FM/s1600-h/eco_kl_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs7jBg66Q9I/AAAAAAAAAXM/ESSf60ZT7FM/s200/eco_kl_05.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102265043013747666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There. That's how much I can regurgitate about my holidays with my good mates in KL. I certainly felt a bit younger, though at times, it seems my younger guests can't seem to keep up with me, their elder host. But I digress :P On the other hand, I also discovered that both Tobi and Marius are avid readers, and that we share a common interest in the works by Ken Follett. And from my observation of the other novels that I see them reading (by the poolside, on the sofa in our private lounge, in the car, etc.), I think it's time I introduce them to the works of Jeffrey Archer and Clive Cussler.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3633453587459101638?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3633453587459101638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3633453587459101638&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3633453587459101638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3633453587459101638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/08/one-with-three-dudes-in-kuala-lumpur.html' title='The One with Three Dudes in Kuala Lumpur'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs6twg66QlI/AAAAAAAAAUM/O5XwZnVK8eE/s72-c/three_dudes_in_KL.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-2812275756818852512</id><published>2007-08-23T16:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-24T15:23:47.689+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='National Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore stuffs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dragonboat'/><title type='text'>Of Dragonboats and Durians</title><content type='html'>Several things happened while I was in Singapore, and here is an account of a few of those that I can remember. I should have taken more photos, but one just don't think about taking photos when one is in one's homeland, right? *smile*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;I just realised that Wolfgang has quite an impressive collection of photos on Singapore as part of his subjects. These include places/locations/sites that I myself has never seen. So, since I am blogging about SG, I thought I'd include a link to Wolfs' pictorial reviews of SG in his &lt;a href="http://panorama-pics.blogspot.com/search/label/Singapore"&gt;Panaroma-Pics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://fernweh-pics.blogspot.com/search/label/Singapore"&gt;Fernweh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 9, 2007. That was when Singapore celebrated her 42nd year of independence. We locals simply call it our &lt;i&gt;National Day&lt;/i&gt;, and then have fun rejoicing in the holidays. By rejoicing this year, I was asked to take part in the Punggol East Dragonboat race (Grassroots category)... well, actually, they needed one more person to fill up the last boat of 10 rowers (and a drummer, and a steerer) and persuaded me enough until I agreed :P To cut the long story short, our boat came in second place overall -- couldn't beat last year's champions (well, they had &lt;i&gt;beautifully slim and charming&lt;/i&gt; secret weapons on board, ya know what I'm sayin' *grin*). No one bothered to take pictures of the runner-ups, and so I had to take a &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uGw66QbI/AAAAAAAAAS8/bh2u5NUfHpc/s1600-h/aug_trip_07.jpg"&gt;snapshot of the article&lt;/a&gt; in the local neighbourhood magazine just before leaving Singapore. We also decided later that night after dinner to rejoice by stuffing ourselves silly with &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uHQ66QcI/AAAAAAAAATE/b_1MSOGCu5Q/s1600-h/aug_trip_09.jpg"&gt;Punggol's &lt;i&gt;best&lt;/i&gt; durians&lt;/a&gt; (or, as Tobi and Marius called them &lt;i&gt;Stinkfrucht&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uGw66QbI/AAAAAAAAAS8/bh2u5NUfHpc/s1600-h/aug_trip_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uGw66QbI/AAAAAAAAAS8/bh2u5NUfHpc/s200/aug_trip_07.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101925384115077554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uHQ66QcI/AAAAAAAAATE/b_1MSOGCu5Q/s1600-h/aug_trip_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uHQ66QcI/AAAAAAAAATE/b_1MSOGCu5Q/s200/aug_trip_09.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101925392705012162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uIg66QeI/AAAAAAAAATU/BNwV7qN3Cjc/s1600-h/aug_trip_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uIg66QeI/AAAAAAAAATU/BNwV7qN3Cjc/s200/aug_trip_08.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101925414179848674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The week before I left to return to Germany was simply a week of socializing. It seems that when I manage to escape Mom's foods/cakes/snacks, I land myself in places where more food are served. Although, from my voracious epitite, no one seemed to believe that I ran the Freiburg marathons *sigh* Anyway, here are four photos I remembered to take:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v3w66QfI/AAAAAAAAATc/GfNLhNqqosk/s1600-h/aug_trip_13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v3w66QfI/AAAAAAAAATc/GfNLhNqqosk/s200/aug_trip_13.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101927325440295410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v4g66QgI/AAAAAAAAATk/AEVZhFTwg8Q/s1600-h/aug_trip_16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v4g66QgI/AAAAAAAAATk/AEVZhFTwg8Q/s200/aug_trip_16.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101927338325197314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v4w66QhI/AAAAAAAAATs/lBIOCcE9nAA/s1600-h/aug_trip_15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2v4w66QhI/AAAAAAAAATs/lBIOCcE9nAA/s200/aug_trip_15.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101927342620164626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uHw66QdI/AAAAAAAAATM/0k1FHkXIyUY/s1600-h/aug_trip_14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uHw66QdI/AAAAAAAAATM/0k1FHkXIyUY/s200/aug_trip_14.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101925401294946770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and here is one interesting fact with our family cat &lt;i&gt;Gwenni&lt;/i&gt; (that's Gwen Steffani with four legs and a tail). She was extremely affectionate with me this time round, and always parked herself on my carpet in my room. And then, as if to get my attention, flips over on her back and meows softly to me to entice me to scratch her belly... Hahaha... silly cat! If she didn't leave so much cat fur around, I wouldn't have minded. So it's usually my brother who comes looking for her and brave enough to carry her out of my room without being scratched :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3A66QiI/AAAAAAAAAT0/4EbPuoqBasE/s1600-h/gwenni_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3A66QiI/AAAAAAAAAT0/4EbPuoqBasE/s200/gwenni_02.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101930611090276898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3Q66QjI/AAAAAAAAAT8/lRMVomu4DXg/s1600-h/gwenni_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3Q66QjI/AAAAAAAAAT8/lRMVomu4DXg/s200/gwenni_01.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101930615385244210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3g66QkI/AAAAAAAAAUE/BFKxNSmltcI/s1600-h/gwenni_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2y3g66QkI/AAAAAAAAAUE/BFKxNSmltcI/s200/gwenni_03.jpg" border="0" height="120" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101930619680211522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-2812275756818852512?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/2812275756818852512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=2812275756818852512&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2812275756818852512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2812275756818852512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/08/of-dragonboats-and-durians.html' title='Of Dragonboats and Durians'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs2uGw66QbI/AAAAAAAAAS8/bh2u5NUfHpc/s72-c/aug_trip_07.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3192810260221349026</id><published>2007-08-23T10:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T12:10:24.632+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore stuffs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore Airlines'/><title type='text'>Zurück in Freiburg!</title><content type='html'>Oy vey! Kai is back, and *darn*, Freiburg is still cold... Heh heh heh... Well, I should, over the next few days, be updating these pages again -- that's right, you people who have been subtly complaining about my inactiveness (you know who you are :P), and without a doubt leaving some disguised-ly pointed notions in your emails. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1ggw66QVI/AAAAAAAAASM/iyC17jldYac/s1600-h/aug_trip_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1ggw66QVI/AAAAAAAAASM/iyC17jldYac/s320/aug_trip_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101840068884709714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1ggw66QVI/AAAAAAAAASM/iyC17jldYac/s320/aug_trip_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101840068884709714" / --&gt; Yup, I have been away for a short vacation since early August; it was supposed to be a relaxing one, but as usual, the vac ended up being more of a social reunion! Not complaining... just happy to meet up with old acquaintances again :) More of that report to come in the coming entries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now though, I'd just like to share some really nice experiences of Singapore Airlines' (SIA) new cabin products. Without sounding like an advertisement sound-bite; the &lt;a href="http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/new/businessclass/seatfeatures.jsp"&gt;new seats on the 777-300ER&lt;/a&gt; planes are simply so very wide and sinfully comfortable -- didn't realise the journey from Zürich to Singapore took 12 hours! Also, the on-board airline food never tasted better, which was complimented by the fantastic services of their &lt;i&gt;attention-seeking&lt;/i&gt; cabin crew, from the moment I left the comforts of the &lt;a href="http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/before/lounges/index.jsp"&gt;Silver Kris Lounge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1j5w66QaI/AAAAAAAAAS0/d4FMUOkEvts/s1600-h/aug_trip_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1j5w66QaI/AAAAAAAAAS0/d4FMUOkEvts/s200/aug_trip_02.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101843796916322722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jKQ66QWI/AAAAAAAAASU/jS7K74a1N3Y/s1600-h/aug_trip_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jKQ66QWI/AAAAAAAAASU/jS7K74a1N3Y/s200/aug_trip_03.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101842980872536418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jKg66QXI/AAAAAAAAASc/iKZyiaoo1E0/s1600-h/aug_trip_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jKg66QXI/AAAAAAAAASc/iKZyiaoo1E0/s200/aug_trip_04.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101842985167503730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jLA66QYI/AAAAAAAAASk/7UBDsyZAf88/s1600-h/aug_trip_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jLA66QYI/AAAAAAAAASk/7UBDsyZAf88/s200/aug_trip_05.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101842993757438338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jLQ66QZI/AAAAAAAAASs/H-LC0WEvk3k/s1600-h/aug_trip_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1jLQ66QZI/AAAAAAAAASs/H-LC0WEvk3k/s200/aug_trip_06.jpg" border="0" height="102" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101842998052405650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK. Will report again soon. Although it seems that Tobi has already finished an entry on his blog on our meeting in Kuala Lumpur -- &lt;a href="http://blogs.nightlabs.net/tobias/2007/08/23/die-schlammige-flussmundung-oder-meine-tage-sind-gezahlt/"&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;]Kai&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3192810260221349026?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3192810260221349026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3192810260221349026&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3192810260221349026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3192810260221349026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/08/wieder-in-freiburg.html' title='Zurück in Freiburg!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rs1ggw66QVI/AAAAAAAAASM/iyC17jldYac/s72-c/aug_trip_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-7325624816810207663</id><published>2007-07-30T17:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T18:12:20.481+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wedding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Karen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dietlingen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pforzheim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alex'/><title type='text'>Karen and Alex</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq3_muGeKCI/AAAAAAAAAOk/oJVnw_bKFAw/s1600-h/karensWedding_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq3_muGeKCI/AAAAAAAAAOk/oJVnw_bKFAw/s200/karensWedding_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093007794301184034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; After seven years of knowing and loving each other, Karen and Alexander finally decided to get married. And what a wonderful and beautiful ceremony it was -- so delightful, so refreshing! It all began on Saturday morning, July 28th, when Christoph, Ann-Kathrin, and I set off for Pforzheim. We were priviledged to have been invited to the Chinese solemnization ceremony, a private affair where the bride and the groom served traditional tea to the parents, who in turn showered them with gifts... heh heh heh... no pun intended there Karen :P &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then headed off to church after the lunch reception to witness the couple exchange their vows. The priest, in his short sermon, mentioned something about cars, children, and the garage, which I thought was directed to Alex for his love of fancy cars -- but when asked later, Alex swore that the priest was simply talking about cars, children, and garages in general... hahaha... hmmm... Anyway, silly me, I had not brought out my camera for both these events! So many photo ops, and I missed them *still kicking myself* *now have to wait for Chris to develop the &lt;i&gt;official&lt;/i&gt; photos* To make up for this irretrievable loss, I hunted down my camera back at the hotel, and joined in the furroes of picture snappings with the other guests shortly before dinner was served. *Decided to take off my tie and the suit jacket to make myself comfortable, it was rather tiring taking pictures*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CSOGeKDI/AAAAAAAAAOs/zkLRtS0eOKI/s1600-h/karensWedding_special_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CSOGeKDI/AAAAAAAAAOs/zkLRtS0eOKI/s200/karensWedding_special_01.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093010740648749106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CSeGeKEI/AAAAAAAAAO0/UUWqDymRmhI/s1600-h/karensWedding_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CSeGeKEI/AAAAAAAAAO0/UUWqDymRmhI/s200/karensWedding_02.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093010744943716418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CS-GeKFI/AAAAAAAAAO8/w25mTjkzek4/s1600-h/karensWedding_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CS-GeKFI/AAAAAAAAAO8/w25mTjkzek4/s200/karensWedding_03.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093010753533651026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CTOGeKGI/AAAAAAAAAPE/jDouG0iBd2s/s1600-h/karensWedding_special_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4CTOGeKGI/AAAAAAAAAPE/jDouG0iBd2s/s200/karensWedding_special_02.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093010757828618338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came the dinner itself. Plenty of stuffs to eat on the main courses. Apparently, I had had a special menu prepared for me (a little bit different from the other guests, since I can't take pork and alcohol), which made everyone seated around me a little bit jealous; especially the maid-of-honour who sat on my left :P Still, we all got along well, and thoroughly enjoyed our feast!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FROGeKHI/AAAAAAAAAPM/wNY2UUi-MNs/s1600-h/karensWedding_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FROGeKHI/AAAAAAAAAPM/wNY2UUi-MNs/s200/karensWedding_04.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014022003763314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FReGeKII/AAAAAAAAAPU/Twv00YnApoM/s1600-h/karensWedding_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FReGeKII/AAAAAAAAAPU/Twv00YnApoM/s200/karensWedding_05.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014026298730626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FRuGeKJI/AAAAAAAAAPc/bz9_eaaMAWs/s1600-h/karensWedding_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FRuGeKJI/AAAAAAAAAPc/bz9_eaaMAWs/s200/karensWedding_06.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014030593697938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FRuGeKKI/AAAAAAAAAPk/uftjCWEdyaI/s1600-h/karensWedding_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FRuGeKKI/AAAAAAAAAPk/uftjCWEdyaI/s200/karensWedding_07.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014030593697954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FvuGeKLI/AAAAAAAAAPs/LzuUOo4gn1A/s1600-h/karensWedding_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FvuGeKLI/AAAAAAAAAPs/LzuUOo4gn1A/s200/karensWedding_08.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014545989773490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4Fv-GeKMI/AAAAAAAAAP0/9i_xgdxxUzc/s1600-h/karensWedding_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4Fv-GeKMI/AAAAAAAAAP0/9i_xgdxxUzc/s200/karensWedding_09.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014550284740802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FweGeKNI/AAAAAAAAAP8/CFJQxSSbYso/s1600-h/karensWedding_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FweGeKNI/AAAAAAAAAP8/CFJQxSSbYso/s200/karensWedding_10.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014558874675410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FwuGeKOI/AAAAAAAAAQE/v_noQ-xOx30/s1600-h/karensWedding_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4FwuGeKOI/AAAAAAAAAQE/v_noQ-xOx30/s200/karensWedding_11.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093014563169642722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, after we thought that we can no longer stomach any more food, we were asked to step outside the hotel for a Balloon-Wishing Ceremony. We gladly left our seats for a while just so that we get an opportunity to digest what we had sumptuosly ate. I have to thank whoever coordinated this -- it surely was at the bestest of time ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HN-GeKPI/AAAAAAAAAQM/sr7Sm3zcf0M/s1600-h/karensWedding_31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HN-GeKPI/AAAAAAAAAQM/sr7Sm3zcf0M/s200/karensWedding_31.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093016165192444146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HOOGeKQI/AAAAAAAAAQU/K27cbVJbQlA/s1600-h/karensWedding_32.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HOOGeKQI/AAAAAAAAAQU/K27cbVJbQlA/s200/karensWedding_32.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093016169487411458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HOeGeKRI/AAAAAAAAAQc/IgbxbnFZCTQ/s1600-h/karensWedding_33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HOeGeKRI/AAAAAAAAAQc/IgbxbnFZCTQ/s200/karensWedding_33.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093016173782378770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HO-GeKSI/AAAAAAAAAQk/nOFJEmc4hlU/s1600-h/karensWedding_34.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4HO-GeKSI/AAAAAAAAAQk/nOFJEmc4hlU/s200/karensWedding_34.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093016182372313378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also managed to capture part of this on video. Check this out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKF6RK2igaQ"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKF6RK2igaQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After lingering at the foyer for some time watching the balloons fly away (I think mine crossed the river and made its way to Paris!), we decided it was time to resume eating. But first, we had to take a couple of candid shots with Louisa (Karen's mom) and that huge bear who sits by himself at the lobby:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IxOGeKTI/AAAAAAAAAQs/aL55AFJEo8g/s1600-h/karensWedding_40.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IxOGeKTI/AAAAAAAAAQs/aL55AFJEo8g/s200/karensWedding_40.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093017870294460722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4Ix-GeKUI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/FkhLRY6CmQw/s1600-h/karensWedding_41.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4Ix-GeKUI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/FkhLRY6CmQw/s200/karensWedding_41.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093017883179362626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IyOGeKVI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/XbKFQWUn6KM/s1600-h/karensWedding_42.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IyOGeKVI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/XbKFQWUn6KM/s200/karensWedding_42.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093017887474329938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IyuGeKWI/AAAAAAAAARE/P12dNtIgork/s1600-h/karensWedding_43.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4IyuGeKWI/AAAAAAAAARE/P12dNtIgork/s200/karensWedding_43.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093017896064264546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After dessert, it was all about socializing. The cake was cut, we all get to dance with the bride (and Alex got to dance with the girls), the mother of the bride, and whomever one fancies to dance with following the tune of the music. Well now, really, after Karen changed into her chiffon evening gown with matching pearls, who can resist asking her for a second dance, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KYeGeKXI/AAAAAAAAARM/QUEBS90ZIBk/s1600-h/karensWedding_50.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KYeGeKXI/AAAAAAAAARM/QUEBS90ZIBk/s200/karensWedding_50.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093019644115954034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KYuGeKYI/AAAAAAAAARU/w0iqqpYU03w/s1600-h/karensWedding_51.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KYuGeKYI/AAAAAAAAARU/w0iqqpYU03w/s200/karensWedding_51.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093019648410921346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KY-GeKZI/AAAAAAAAARc/3ME6jsDzVNs/s1600-h/karensWedding_52.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KY-GeKZI/AAAAAAAAARc/3ME6jsDzVNs/s200/karensWedding_52.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093019652705888658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KwOGeKcI/AAAAAAAAAR0/sEsTPg5zvw4/s1600-h/karensWedding_55.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KwOGeKcI/AAAAAAAAAR0/sEsTPg5zvw4/s200/karensWedding_55.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093020052137847234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KZOGeKaI/AAAAAAAAARk/zLZCgKdMKjE/s1600-h/karensWedding_53.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KZOGeKaI/AAAAAAAAARk/zLZCgKdMKjE/s200/karensWedding_53.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093019657000855970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KZeGeKbI/AAAAAAAAARs/3bpB7P_w7-8/s1600-h/karensWedding_54.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4KZeGeKbI/AAAAAAAAARs/3bpB7P_w7-8/s200/karensWedding_54.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093019661295823282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4LmuGeKdI/AAAAAAAAAR8/YfN8jn-qZVM/s1600-h/karensWedding_56.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4LmuGeKdI/AAAAAAAAAR8/YfN8jn-qZVM/s200/karensWedding_56.jpg" border="0" height="105" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093020988440717778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I have to mention this, when Karen threw her bouquet for the single-women to catch, there was a weird wave of them trying smack the flowers &lt;i&gt;away&lt;/i&gt; (rather than rushing forwards, tumbling over each other to catch it)... hahaha! But Alex's cousin's girlfriend caught it :) And because of that weird wave, I didn't manage to get the full flower-flip on video, just part of it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqnyC_phUNs"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqnyC_phUNs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, I had had a wonderful time. I felt well-taken care of. Everyone from the bride and groom, their parents, relatives, friends and colleagues, all the way to the staffs of the hotel... they were all so friendly and sociable. Got me carried away here... look at how much I blogged!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I made some wonderful new friends (they flew in specially from Vancouver and London to be with Karen on her big day): Maggie, Melissa, Victoria, Elliot, Joyce, and Calvin. Guys, I kept my end of the promise with this blog and its contents. I'll check out your suggestions on Facebook next. Then we'll wait for Karen to coordinate the email list *hint*hint* Heh heh heh... To top it off, it was a fine reunion with Leandro and Christine. You guys were awesome! Leo, I'd promise a &lt;i&gt;tribute&lt;/i&gt; entry for us on my blog, wait for it within the next few days, ok? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4TyeGeKeI/AAAAAAAAASE/9mN0xOrVQJM/s1600-h/karensWedding_60.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq4TyeGeKeI/AAAAAAAAASE/9mN0xOrVQJM/s200/karensWedding_60.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093029986397202914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;]Kai&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7325624816810207663?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7325624816810207663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7325624816810207663&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7325624816810207663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7325624816810207663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/karen-and-alex.html' title='Karen and Alex'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rq3_muGeKCI/AAAAAAAAAOk/oJVnw_bKFAw/s72-c/karensWedding_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-7973488733027823326</id><published>2007-07-23T07:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T11:59:37.130+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lift'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Institute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><title type='text'>Der verdammte Aufzug</title><content type='html'>Arrgghhh.... ich habe die Nase voll! Unserer Aufzug ist noch einmal außer betrieb -- seit Donnerstag letzte Woche! Ich hatte mein Fahrrad über das Wochenende an die Treppen erhöhen musste, und heute Morgen können wir den Aufzug fahren auch nicht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*sigh* Dieser Aufzug ist tatsächlich &lt;i&gt;selbstbeherrscht&lt;/i&gt;... habe ich es nicht gleich gesagt? Wenn der sich gekränkt fühlt, funktioniert er nicht mehr. Oder vielleicht er fühlt sich ungerecht behandelt (man kann ja nie wissen)? Wenn ja, dann er einfältige Pinsel ist...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqRS5-GeKAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/0i7WOaWyAQU/s1600-h/aufzug01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqRS5-GeKAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/0i7WOaWyAQU/s200/aufzug01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090284634711664642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqRS6eGeKBI/AAAAAAAAAOc/LUb9mUtb8RM/s1600-h/aufzug02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqRS6eGeKBI/AAAAAAAAAOc/LUb9mUtb8RM/s200/aufzug02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090284643301599250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7973488733027823326?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7973488733027823326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7973488733027823326&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7973488733027823326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7973488733027823326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/der-verdammte-aufzug.html' title='Der verdammte Aufzug'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqRS5-GeKAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/0i7WOaWyAQU/s72-c/aufzug01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-751360357605784288</id><published>2007-07-21T17:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-21T18:07:50.549+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Harry Potter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>Woo Hoo! Got it!</title><content type='html'>Yes! Finally! After being made to wait ALL these years by J.K. Rowling, I finally got my hands on my very own copy of the "&lt;b&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/b&gt;" last night! Well, to be perfectly candid, I actually got it &lt;i&gt;SO VERY EARLY&lt;/i&gt; this morning -- check out the time-stamp on my receipt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqIxi-GeJ-I/AAAAAAAAAOE/3t_WHI-b4Wo/s1600-h/harry_potter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqIxi-GeJ-I/AAAAAAAAAOE/3t_WHI-b4Wo/s200/harry_potter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089685005737535458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqIxjOGeJ_I/AAAAAAAAAOM/26VkuVxCVmo/s1600-h/harry_potter_receipt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqIxjOGeJ_I/AAAAAAAAAOM/26VkuVxCVmo/s200/harry_potter_receipt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089685010032502770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bookstore refused to sell any copies yesterday (no surprise there), but insisted I come back and join in the fun at 01:01 a.m. (&lt;i&gt;why not at 00:01 a.m.?&lt;/i&gt; I think to coincide with the midnight time in Great Britain) on the 21 July 2007. The counter woman told me (in German, of course) that they'd remain open until 03:03 a.m. so I can be among the first to buy the book, and then tacitly reminded me that they might be sold out if I come back at 09:30 a.m. later in the day. *Darn* I admit that her remarks psyched me up a bit, and I couldn't garble up enough German to fire back a retort. So instead, I simply nodded and gave her one of those  '&lt;i&gt;thank-you-for-that-useful-information&lt;/i&gt;' look, to which she smiled and added that there'd be some refreshments served around 2 a.m. *Sheeiiisshhh* As if I'd like to stay that late, in a bookstore of all places...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, to cut the long story short, I did return to the store just before 1 a.m. (after hanging around the "Freiburg Downtown Party" with some friends in the city center -- there were several Jazz bands playing last night, not bad actually, quite entertaining). When I got there, I just pushed away some tired looking children (and their parents) who were already gathered at the store front who thought they were Harry, Ron, and Hermione wearing the silly Griffindor scarfs and and wizard hats and all, and then ran to snatch the first book within my reach when the doors opened... HA HA HA HA HA...! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I guess I will be quite busy this weekend figuring out the details of Deathly Hallows. &lt;br /&gt;So.... -----[ DO NOT DISTURB ]-----&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-751360357605784288?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/751360357605784288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=751360357605784288&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/751360357605784288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/751360357605784288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/got-it.html' title='Woo Hoo! Got it!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RqIxi-GeJ-I/AAAAAAAAAOE/3t_WHI-b4Wo/s72-c/harry_potter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-386026328264346029</id><published>2007-07-19T08:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T19:54:43.726+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>SSV hat begonnen</title><content type='html'>... wirklich? Das heißt der Sommer wird am Ende zu sein. Aber erstens, muss man frag: Hat den Sommer schon angefangen? Falls ich es gar nicht bemerkt habe, sag mir bitte sofort und wach mich auf. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich hatte heute die Werbung des &lt;a href=" http://www.mann-mobilia.de/"&gt;Mann Mobilia SB&lt;/a&gt;s in meine Freiburger Wochenbericht gelesen, und die lautet ,,&lt;i&gt;Beim großen SSV können Sie jetzt bis zu - 70% sparen!&lt;/i&gt;`` Naja, es ist toll... nur solange Vorrat reicht, natürlich. Und nur wenn ich mehrere Möbel brauche. &lt;i&gt;Oh nein, bitte nicht mehr!&lt;/i&gt; :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, am diese Wochenende habe ich viel zu tun. Das letzte Buch von der Harry-Potter-Reihe (&lt;i&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/i&gt;) wird am Samstag veröffentlicht! Ich hatte diese Mal mit Amazon mein Buch nicht bestellt -- lange Rede... vielleicht nächste Mal sollte ich Euch erzähle. Das bedeutet muss ich frühe am Samstagmorgen zu meiner Buchhandlung für meine limitierte Edition... dessen ungeachtet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dann später, auch am Samstagmorgen, werden wir eine &lt;a href="http://www.flugtag-freiburg.de"&gt;Internationale Flugschau&lt;/a&gt; zu sehen. Die Flugplatz Freiburg und die Luftsportvereine präsentieren die 100 Jahre Jubiläumsausgabe. Der Tag lautet ,,Flugtag Freiburg`` und ich möchte gerne die ,,Wingwalking Formation`` sehen. Hoffentlich wurde das Wetter schön gut sein, dann kann ich ein paar Bilder zu nehmen. Hoffentlich...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-386026328264346029?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/386026328264346029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=386026328264346029&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/386026328264346029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/386026328264346029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/ssv-hat-begonnen.html' title='SSV hat begonnen'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3139140291466107575</id><published>2007-07-10T17:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T08:24:29.270+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christoph'/><title type='text'>Christoph hat heute Geburtstag!</title><content type='html'>Haha... das hier ist überhaupt noch eine Bewies der Fortführung meines &lt;a href="http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/das-sommermrchen.html"&gt;frühers Eintrags&lt;/a&gt;. Da habe ich &lt;b&gt;Theorem 1&lt;/b&gt; festgelegt: &lt;i&gt;Das Sommermärchen = Viel essen + viel trinken + viel feiern&lt;/i&gt;, und heute haben wir den Geburtstag von Christoph gefeiert, und natürlich haben wir viel mehr essen und trinken... und lachen... und Musik hören... :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (vii).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Christophs Viertel-Jahrhunderte Geburtstag.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwmlgMfaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/xwzZ6rMIPB8/s1600-h/chris_bday_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwmlgMfaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/xwzZ6rMIPB8/s200/chris_bday_01.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085602581180087714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwnFgMfbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/MWhZEJna9ZM/s1600-h/chris_bday_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwnFgMfbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/MWhZEJna9ZM/s200/chris_bday_02.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085602589770022322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwoFgMfcI/AAAAAAAAAMs/QnEbQxVQFNQ/s1600-h/chris_bday_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwoFgMfcI/AAAAAAAAAMs/QnEbQxVQFNQ/s200/chris_bday_03.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085602606949891522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwo1gMfdI/AAAAAAAAAM0/ysKDdswZM4c/s1600-h/chris_bday_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwo1gMfdI/AAAAAAAAAM0/ysKDdswZM4c/s200/chris_bday_04.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085602619834793426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOxA1gMfeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/EAft71SO4Wg/s1600-h/chris_bday_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOxA1gMfeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/EAft71SO4Wg/s200/chris_bday_06.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085603032151653858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe die Leute unseres Lehrstuhls (und Frau Pfeiffer von Prof. Schindelhauer) nach Mittagessen eingeladen. Danach haben wir zusammen zwei Kuchen gegessen: Der erste hat die Ann Kathrin super gekocht-- sehr ziemlich sicher mal und gesundheitliches lecker! Die hat auch die Spezialkerzen für Chris gepackt und zueinander haben die Kerzen &lt;b&gt;,,Happy Birthday``&lt;/b&gt; buchstabiert... nicht schlecht! Der anderer (habe ich mit gebracht) ist eine italienische Torte: &lt;i&gt;Die Crema Amarena von Café Vivendi&lt;/i&gt;. Heh heh heh... da hat jeder sofort Lust auf ein leckeres Stück ,,La Dolce Vita``.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO79VgMffI/AAAAAAAAANE/NY-SRowgNoU/s1600-h/chris_bday_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO79VgMffI/AAAAAAAAANE/NY-SRowgNoU/s200/chris_bday_11.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615066650017266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO79lgMfgI/AAAAAAAAANM/S2AlFr-ZUFs/s1600-h/chris_bday_12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO79lgMfgI/AAAAAAAAANM/S2AlFr-ZUFs/s200/chris_bday_12.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615070944984578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7-VgMfhI/AAAAAAAAANU/y2AKhkcajMo/s1600-h/chris_bday_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7-VgMfhI/AAAAAAAAANU/y2AKhkcajMo/s200/chris_bday_05.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615083829886482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7_VgMfiI/AAAAAAAAANc/FnN1jBe2wv8/s1600-h/chris_bday_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7_VgMfiI/AAAAAAAAANc/FnN1jBe2wv8/s200/chris_bday_09.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615101009755682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7_lgMfjI/AAAAAAAAANk/8CIVjXtMgP0/s1600-h/chris_bday_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO7_lgMfjI/AAAAAAAAANk/8CIVjXtMgP0/s200/chris_bday_10.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615105304722994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO8oFgMfkI/AAAAAAAAANs/fzwdGlEO77E/s1600-h/chris_bday_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO8oFgMfkI/AAAAAAAAANs/fzwdGlEO77E/s200/chris_bday_07.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615801089424962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO8o1gMflI/AAAAAAAAAN0/3UNyfDPplVs/s1600-h/chris_bday_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO8o1gMflI/AAAAAAAAAN0/3UNyfDPplVs/s200/chris_bday_08.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085615813974326866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO9L1gMfmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/F5K-vXEc0Qs/s1600-h/DSC01632.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpO9L1gMfmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/F5K-vXEc0Qs/s200/DSC01632.JPG" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085616415269748322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK. Der Chris ist endlich in meinen (und Karens) Club -- "The Quarter-and-Over-Centurions". Er ist jetzt älter als gestern. Das ist einen Fakt. Dann gehen wir wieder zur Arbeit, nicht noch nur feiern Moni ;-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p.s. &lt;i&gt;Diese kleine Überraschung für Chris war eine schwierige Aufgabe, weil er immer diesen Morgen ins Büro bleibt. Ich kann meine Plan erledigten nicht bevor er zum essen gehen... naja... dann musste ich etwas aus dem Ärmel schütteln, und schnell! Und, er... ,,alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei``?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3139140291466107575?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3139140291466107575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3139140291466107575&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3139140291466107575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3139140291466107575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/christoph-hat-geburtstag.html' title='Christoph hat heute Geburtstag!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOwmlgMfaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/xwzZ6rMIPB8/s72-c/chris_bday_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-4834924866353424142</id><published>2007-07-10T16:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-10T18:11:14.465+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graduation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><title type='text'>Tobias Graduates!</title><content type='html'>Ein bisschen zu spät, ich weiß, aber nur heute, dass ich das Bild von Herr Dr. Tobias Lauer realiziert habe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqfVgMfXI/AAAAAAAAAME/ErKeZodDl88/s1600-h/tobias_grad_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqfVgMfXI/AAAAAAAAAME/ErKeZodDl88/s200/tobias_grad_01.jpg" border="0" height="115" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085595859556269426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqflgMfYI/AAAAAAAAAMM/GXirW3z8WB4/s1600-h/tobias_grad_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqflgMfYI/AAAAAAAAAMM/GXirW3z8WB4/s200/tobias_grad_02.jpg" border="0" height="115" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085595863851236738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqgFgMfZI/AAAAAAAAAMU/1xHG8RoPr2U/s1600-h/tobias_grad_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqgFgMfZI/AAAAAAAAAMU/1xHG8RoPr2U/s200/tobias_grad_03.jpg" border="0" height="115" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085595872441171346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh ja, der Herr Doktor ist auch jetzt unseren schwedischen Chefkoch. Wie man sagt: ,,&lt;i&gt;Hunger ist der beste Koch&lt;/i&gt;``. Leider kann ich nicht kochen... dann ,,&lt;i&gt;was Hähnchen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr&lt;/i&gt;``.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-4834924866353424142?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/4834924866353424142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=4834924866353424142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/4834924866353424142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/4834924866353424142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/tobias-graduates.html' title='Tobias Graduates!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpOqfVgMfXI/AAAAAAAAAME/ErKeZodDl88/s72-c/tobias_grad_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-6613584314497106746</id><published>2007-07-08T13:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T09:13:16.436+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marius'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shahid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Badminton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Faculty fest'/><title type='text'>Die schriftlicher Beweise des Sommermärchen</title><content type='html'>Erstens, werde ich mich Ann Kathrin für ihre hilfreiche Anregungen in meine ehemahlige Blogeinträge bedanken *&lt;i&gt;vielen dank A.K. für die Korrekturen!&lt;/i&gt;*. Haha, jetzt kann ich meine Meinung besser schreiben, oder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Den Sommer ist schon da. Obwohl seit am Donnerstag (den 21. Juni) im Kalender der offizielle Sommeranfang erklärt wurde und sollte die Temperatur über 28°C sein, haben die Regen und Gewitter für mehrfache Unterbrechungen bei uns in Freiburg (und auch in Westeuropaweit) erfahren. Sehr komisch dieses verrücktes Wetter, oder ist das die Ergebnis der Erderwärmungs der Erdatmosphäre? ... naja, dann müssen Chris und ich unsere alten Papiere nicht mehr wegschmeissen, wenn sie auf einer Seite noch unbeschriftet sind :P Abgesehen von dieses kleines Problem, bin ich noch OK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Theorem 1:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Das Sommermärchen = Viel essen + viel trinken + viel feiern.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (i).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Marius und Alexs Abschiedsessen&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDmslgMe9I/AAAAAAAAAI0/A1E4ofKtP6I/s1600-h/summer_food_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDmslgMe9I/AAAAAAAAAI0/A1E4ofKtP6I/s200/summer_food_01.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084817632957070290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDms1gMe-I/AAAAAAAAAI8/eo4OJYmn158/s1600-h/summer_food_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDms1gMe-I/AAAAAAAAAI8/eo4OJYmn158/s200/summer_food_02.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084817637252037602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDmtFgMe_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/h824OGSV4hg/s1600-h/summer_food_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDmtFgMe_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/h824OGSV4hg/s200/summer_food_03.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084817641547004914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDzWFgMfRI/AAAAAAAAALU/KW64HzziTmQ/s1600-h/summer_food_05b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDzWFgMfRI/AAAAAAAAALU/KW64HzziTmQ/s200/summer_food_05b.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084831540061175058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPFgMfAI/AAAAAAAAAJM/BVQabDPKSXo/s1600-h/summer_food_04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPFgMfAI/AAAAAAAAAJM/BVQabDPKSXo/s200/summer_food_04.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084818225662557186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPVgMfBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/uNbg3mzWDL0/s1600-h/summer_food_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPVgMfBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/uNbg3mzWDL0/s200/summer_food_05.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084818229957524498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPlgMfCI/AAAAAAAAAJc/LOy0SVCx2yY/s1600-h/summer_food_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnPlgMfCI/AAAAAAAAAJc/LOy0SVCx2yY/s200/summer_food_06.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084818234252491810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnP1gMfDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/fD9yHzfNH1g/s1600-h/summer_food_07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDnP1gMfDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/fD9yHzfNH1g/s200/summer_food_07.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084818238547459122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marius hat uns zusammen für seinen Abschiedsessen im Thai-Chi Restaurant eingeladen, weil er in nächste Woche nach Thailand für seine drei Monate lang zur Arbeit (von Nightlabs) gehen werde. Dort er sich mit &lt;a href="http://blogs.nightlabs.net/tobias"&gt;Tobi&lt;/a&gt; zusammenschließen geworden sein, und dann später am August würden wir uns in Kuala Lumpur getroffen sein. Am früher letzte Monat hat Marius auch eine Bachelor-Abschluss-Party gehabt, und Chris hat eine kurze Bericht in &lt;a href="http://blog.guschtel.de/archives/173-Marius-Bachelor-Abschluss-Party.html"&gt;seine Blog&lt;/a&gt; geschreibt (+ photos!). Oh ja, heute habe ich nachgeschaut und rausgefunden, dass der Marius hat eine &lt;a href="http://blogs.nightlabs.net/marius"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; gemacht :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (ii).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Shahids überraschen Curryparty&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDoblgMfEI/AAAAAAAAAJs/iJ4MyRR8m4U/s1600-h/summer_food_08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDoblgMfEI/AAAAAAAAAJs/iJ4MyRR8m4U/s200/summer_food_08.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084819539922549826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDoblgMfFI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/Rd6COIq2FP4/s1600-h/summer_food_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDoblgMfFI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/Rd6COIq2FP4/s200/summer_food_09.jpg" border="0" width="150 "alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084819539922549842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD0HFgMfSI/AAAAAAAAALc/CLlis6Z-QtM/s1600-h/summer_food_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD0HFgMfSI/AAAAAAAAALc/CLlis6Z-QtM/s200/summer_food_10.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084832381874765090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDo1VgMfHI/AAAAAAAAAKE/z01wsulWKD4/s1600-h/summer_food_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDo1VgMfHI/AAAAAAAAAKE/z01wsulWKD4/s200/summer_food_11.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084819982304181362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ls5-web.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~jabbar/"&gt;Shahid&lt;/a&gt; war zurück in Freiburg! Aber der bleibte nur bis diese Wochenende. Und natürlich hat er seinen leckerer Curry gekocht und hatten wir eine super Zeit in der kaltes Sommernachts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (iii).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Das Fakultät Fest (2007)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnVgMfII/AAAAAAAAAKM/NaPQQFwbYR4/s1600-h/summer_food_13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnVgMfII/AAAAAAAAAKM/NaPQQFwbYR4/s200/summer_food_13.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084820841297640578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnlgMfJI/AAAAAAAAAKU/83xL4AH7q6I/s1600-h/summer_food_14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnlgMfJI/AAAAAAAAAKU/83xL4AH7q6I/s200/summer_food_14.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084820845592607890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnlgMfKI/AAAAAAAAAKc/nAV9Pv24RZo/s1600-h/summer_food_15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpnlgMfKI/AAAAAAAAAKc/nAV9Pv24RZo/s200/summer_food_15.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084820845592607906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpn1gMfLI/AAAAAAAAAKk/vPpygHo39PY/s1600-h/summer_food_17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDpn1gMfLI/AAAAAAAAAKk/vPpygHo39PY/s200/summer_food_17.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084820849887575218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqR1gMfMI/AAAAAAAAAKs/BUEoh82jeVw/s1600-h/summer_food_16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqR1gMfMI/AAAAAAAAAKs/BUEoh82jeVw/s200/summer_food_16.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084821571442080962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqSVgMfOI/AAAAAAAAAK8/je8_P9bmX1Y/s1600-h/summer_food_18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqSVgMfOI/AAAAAAAAAK8/je8_P9bmX1Y/s200/summer_food_18.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084821580032015586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpH1yVgMfWI/AAAAAAAAAL8/HAGnoJAeKkY/s1600-h/summer_food_24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpH1yVgMfWI/AAAAAAAAAL8/HAGnoJAeKkY/s200/summer_food_24.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085115699392445794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqSlgMfPI/AAAAAAAAALE/I74lu-esrKg/s1600-h/summer_food_20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDqSlgMfPI/AAAAAAAAALE/I74lu-esrKg/s200/summer_food_20.jpg" border="0" height="112" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084821584326982898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freitag, den 6. Juli war den &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.faw.uni-freiburg.de/fawfest2007.html"&gt;Tag der FAW 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, und den letzten Tag der Jahreskolloquium DFG-Schwerpunkt 1126. Wie eine Tradition hatte der FAW eine Fest gehabt. Tolles Wetter -- heiße Sonne + kalter Wind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (iv).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Frankfurt Multicultural Week&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDrMFgMfQI/AAAAAAAAALM/e4fC-_THTdk/s200/z_awaiting.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084822572169460994" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;,,&lt;i&gt;Gleich und gleich gesellt sich gern&lt;/i&gt;``, in Frankfurt dieses Jahres wo die Leute von &lt;a href="http://www.masduke.net/about.php"&gt;Malaysia Hall&lt;/a&gt; dieses Fest organisiert hatten. Und natürlich, die haben mich eingeladen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (v).&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Samstagmorgens Badmintonspielen&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD7L1gMfTI/AAAAAAAAALk/l1WsiH3vQmE/s1600-h/summer_food_21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD7L1gMfTI/AAAAAAAAALk/l1WsiH3vQmE/s200/summer_food_21.jpg" border="0" width="155" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084840160060538162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD7MFgMfUI/AAAAAAAAALs/hw1ZlxCmA7o/s1600-h/summer_food_22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD7MFgMfUI/AAAAAAAAALs/hw1ZlxCmA7o/s200/summer_food_22.jpg" border="0" width="155" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084840164355505474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD8zFgMfVI/AAAAAAAAAL0/8F-jGbhNbU4/s1600-h/summer_food_23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpD8zFgMfVI/AAAAAAAAAL0/8F-jGbhNbU4/s200/summer_food_23.jpg" border="0" width="155" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084841933882031442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keine Worte, nur... ,,&lt;i&gt;Wo nichts ist, hat der Kaiser sein Recht verloren.&lt;/i&gt;``&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beweis (vi). (Updated)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karens und Leandros ,,Shakira Jammmm``&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/in1mMurOW_I"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/in1mMurOW_I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sehr cool... das hier ist das Video von Karen und Leandro -- &lt;i&gt;The Chubby Bunnies&lt;/i&gt;. Die haben für die Arlingerfest eine Szene proben, und vielleicht Karen werde für nächstes Jahres &lt;i&gt;DSDS&lt;/i&gt; saison bewerben?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-6613584314497106746?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/6613584314497106746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=6613584314497106746&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/6613584314497106746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/6613584314497106746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/das-sommermrchen.html' title='Die schriftlicher Beweise des Sommermärchen'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RpDmslgMe9I/AAAAAAAAAI0/A1E4ofKtP6I/s72-c/summer_food_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-8871212787124332655</id><published>2007-07-01T16:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-08T12:41:17.605+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campus invasion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MTV'/><title type='text'>MTV Campus Invasion, Freiburg</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RofKO1gMe6I/AAAAAAAAAIc/difOWNt2tI0/s200/MTV-campusInv-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082253060739988386" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit Donnerstag letzte Woche hat die MTV-Party-Crew in unserem Campus (ja, hier in der Fakultät für Angewandte Wissenschaften am Flugplatz beim Gebäude 106) &lt;i&gt;eingedrungen&lt;/i&gt;! Und gestern war die größte Party die Freiburg je gesehen hat -- die MTV Campus Invasion, Freiburg, 2007. Guck mal &lt;a href="http://www.mtv.de/campus2007/freiburg.php"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; für die offizielle Website, und alle andere Informationen in den &lt;a href="http://fachschaft.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/?q=node/230&amp;PHPSESSID=964d5e84a0cc3460f46c4faa9390f2c9"&gt;FAW Fachschaft-Terminkalender&lt;/a&gt; und &lt;a href="http://www.studentenwerk.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?id=354&amp;L=1&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=481&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=150&amp;cHash=f2323cf21d"&gt;SWFR&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am besten war die Vorführungen von &lt;a href="http://www.moneybrother.net/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Moneybrother&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; und (natürlich) &lt;a href="http://www.wirsindhelden.de/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wir sind Helden&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Super, super Performanz bei allen Bands (&lt;i&gt;Turbostaat&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Itchy Poopzkid&lt;/i&gt;, und &lt;i&gt;Satellite Party&lt;/i&gt;), und das Wetter war auch nicht schlecht. Oh ja, die Madels in der Menge auch waren ziemlich sicher mal schön und sehr, sehr freundlich :) Dann kam Andreas mit seine Gitarre... hahaha...! Wie schade, dass ich kein Bild von ihm gemacht habe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RofLLFgMe7I/AAAAAAAAAIk/V_LaH79Km_A/s200/MTV-campusInv-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082254095827106738" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RofLLVgMe8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/r_VInEsTgN0/s200/MTV-campusInv-03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082254100122074050" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ich sehe, dass du denkst, &lt;br /&gt;Ich denke, dass du fühlst &lt;br /&gt;Ich fühle, dass du willst, &lt;br /&gt;aber ich hör dich nicht...&lt;br /&gt;... bitte gib mir nur ein Wort!&lt;br /&gt;Bitte gib mir nur ein bitte bitte gib mir nur ein Wort!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;b&gt;Updated:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immer mehr Bilder von die &lt;a href="http://fudder.de/artikel/2007/07/01/fotogalerie-neueroeffnung-f-club/"&gt;Aftershow-Party bei Fudder.de&lt;/a&gt;. Klasse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-8871212787124332655?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/8871212787124332655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=8871212787124332655&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8871212787124332655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8871212787124332655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/07/mtv-campus-invasion-freiburg.html' title='MTV Campus Invasion, Freiburg'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RofKO1gMe6I/AAAAAAAAAIc/difOWNt2tI0/s72-c/MTV-campusInv-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-6769657460927451146</id><published>2007-06-30T12:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T09:09:23.518+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Algo-workshop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Murbach'/><title type='text'>Saint-Barnabé: Algorithmic Worshop Eucor</title><content type='html'>Am Mittwoch, den 27. Juni, also letzte Woche, hatte unser Lehrstuhl einen Algorithmic Workshop in &lt;a href="http://www.hostellerie-st-barnabe.com/"&gt;Hostellerie Saint-Barnabé&lt;/a&gt;, Murbach-Buhl, Alsace, Frankreich organisiert. Ich habe mich mit Robin und Christine frühe um 08.00 Uhr getroffen, und wir sind zusammen in Robins auto circa eine Stunde nach Murbach gefahren. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es gibt hier unseren Fahrplan von Google Maps (klick an Bild #1):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=d&amp;hl=de&amp;saddr=freiburg&amp;daddr=murbach&amp;sll=47.15984,2.988281&amp;sspn=18.298302,40.957031&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=10&amp;om=1"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZF-VgMepI/AAAAAAAAAGU/LeRXLw-BIZQ/s200/AWE-gMap.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081826166760569490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZF-lgMeqI/AAAAAAAAAGc/YbnHTHF3D0A/s1600-h/AWE-localMap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZF-lgMeqI/AAAAAAAAAGc/YbnHTHF3D0A/s200/AWE-localMap.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081826171055536802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZHO1gMerI/AAAAAAAAAGk/xuc04ZmxFDQ/s200/AWE-hostelFrt.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081827549740038834" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drei Universitäten, einschließlich unserer, sind für den Workshop angereist -- die andere zwei sind die &lt;a href="http://www.iutmulhouse.uha.fr/"&gt;Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Mulhouse&lt;/a&gt; und die &lt;a href="http://www.iutcolmar.uha.fr/"&gt;Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar&lt;/a&gt;. Ich habe nachgeschaut und rausgefunden, dass beide Institute zu eine Hauptuniversität; &lt;a href="http://www.uha.fr/"&gt;Université de Haute Alsace&lt;/a&gt; gehören.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dieses Mal haben die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter von die Universitäten ihre kurzen Berichte ihrer Forschungsarbeits präsentiert. In diesem Zusammenhang habe ich mein Thema "Competitive Active-Smoothing in Unknown Environments" vorgestellt. Die Leute von Frankreich sind ein bisschen langweilig, aber das war ein Workshop für Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen... was sonst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glücklicherweise war das Mittagessen super! Ich hatte das Hänchenmenü, und fand ich es sehr lecker und hatte mir gut geschmeckt. Nach dem Essen, sind wir hoch zu den historischen Kathedrale gewandert (guck mal Bild #9 unten). Die war zwischen dem Jahr 1200 und 1300 erbaut worden, und mich interessierte der perfektes 'Photo-op' in der Nähe des Waldes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insgesamt hatte ich mich gut untergehalten und viel Vergnügen in Saint-Barnabé in Murbach Frankreich gehabt. Jetzt kommen meine ausgewählten Bilder und natürlich hat Christoph seine Kollektion in seiner Gallery (wenn ich den Link von ihm habe, werde ich die URL hier angeben).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZi3FgMesI/AAAAAAAAAGs/KYswYMMk3Mk/s1600-h/AWE-photo01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZi3FgMesI/AAAAAAAAAGs/KYswYMMk3Mk/s200/AWE-photo01.jpg" border="0" height="100" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081857928043723458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZi3VgMetI/AAAAAAAAAG0/taikyuzsZRs/s1600-h/AWE-photo02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RoZi3VgMetI/AAAAAAAAAG0/taikyuzsZRs/s200/AWE-photo02.jpg" border="0" height="100" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081857932338690770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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Schon sehr früh heute Morgen haben die &lt;i&gt;Mistresses&lt;/i&gt; (Ann Kathrin und Bettina) und die &lt;i&gt;Overlords&lt;/i&gt; (Chris, Benni, und ich) von Badminton super gut gespielt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn0594bBS5I/AAAAAAAAAFk/c_w2PwK9cqw/s1600-h/afterBaddy-03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn0594bBS5I/AAAAAAAAAFk/c_w2PwK9cqw/s200/afterBaddy-03.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079279690024307602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn05yIbBS3I/AAAAAAAAAFU/7x-sN5v8kkM/s1600-h/afterBaddy-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn05yIbBS3I/AAAAAAAAAFU/7x-sN5v8kkM/s200/afterBaddy-02.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079279488160844658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn06T4bBS6I/AAAAAAAAAFs/YRfIyLsSV2s/s1600-h/afterBaddy-04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn06T4bBS6I/AAAAAAAAAFs/YRfIyLsSV2s/s200/afterBaddy-04.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079280067981429666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn06UIbBS7I/AAAAAAAAAF0/ERVMDL74YJo/s1600-h/afterBaddy-05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn06UIbBS7I/AAAAAAAAAF0/ERVMDL74YJo/s200/afterBaddy-05.jpg" border="0" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079280072276396978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast vier Wochen hatten Chris und ich noch nicht zusammen gespielt, weil er bei der Tour-EUCOR war (lies mal seinen Blog &lt;a href="http://blog.guschtel.de/archives/170-Tour-Eucor-2007.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;) und einen Kongress in Berlin hatte. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn1CIIbBS8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ILl5G2nrvzo/s1600-h/afterBaddy-07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn1CIIbBS8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ILl5G2nrvzo/s200/afterBaddy-07.jpg" border="1" height="130" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079288662210988994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Außerdem hat er sich am Finger verletzt -- aber dem geht es jetzt schon wieder viel besser -- dann kann er nicht den Schlägergriff genau anhalten. Trotz seiner Verletzung kam er zum Badmintonspielen und wir haben sogar ein paar Spiele gewonnen. Dass hat ihn sehr gut gefreut:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In der mitte des zweiten Doppel-Spieles, mussten die Lords und Ladies einen Streit schlichten. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn1FU4bBS-I/AAAAAAAAAGM/dy0Lan9fQUE/s1600-h/afterBaddy-06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn1FU4bBS-I/AAAAAAAAAGM/dy0Lan9fQUE/s200/afterBaddy-06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079292179789204450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Der Federball war in die falsche Richtung geflogen und es war nicht klar wer hatten den Punkt bekommen sollte. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Look, it was soooo OUT!"&lt;br /&gt;"No, it was sooo IN, you stupid cow...."&lt;br /&gt;"But the feather is in the court, you silly bird..."&lt;br /&gt;"Hey, the rest of the ball is outside the line!"&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;"All right, replay! And you there, stop taking photos..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7242314887012857892?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7242314887012857892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7242314887012857892&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7242314887012857892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7242314887012857892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/06/die-badminton-over-lords-und-ladies.html' title='Die Rückkehr der Über-Lords und Über-Ladies'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rn0594bBS5I/AAAAAAAAAFk/c_w2PwK9cqw/s72-c/afterBaddy-03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-1189564680887238894</id><published>2007-06-16T12:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-17T13:47:39.755+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Malaysia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Datuk'/><title type='text'>Unto thee We bestow and giveth</title><content type='html'>I found out today, of such glorious news, that Louisa's father has been conferred an honourific title by none other than His Majesty the King, &lt;i&gt;Duli Yang Maha Mulia, Seri Paduka Baginda, Yang di-Pertuan Agong&lt;/i&gt;, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (who apparently has just ascended the Malaysian throne &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6594325.stm"&gt;himself&lt;/a&gt; in April this year, in a rather elaborate coronation ceremony). Clearly, we now have to address the newly created '&lt;a href="http://www.malaysianmonarchy.org.my/portal_bi/rk6/rk6a.php?id=rk6_12"&gt;Panglima Jasa Negara&lt;/a&gt;' of the State of Sarawak (Malaysia) as '&lt;b&gt;Datuk&lt;/b&gt; Soon' -- no more 'Uncle' Soon (or 'Mr' Soon) *smile*. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, well, I guess congratulations are in order here, My Lord, Datuk Soon :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Louisa explained that this honour was for her father's stern dedication and sincere contribution, as a loyal subject to the King, who has made such extraordinary impact in his home-state community. I added that perhaps, just perhaps, the few rounds of golf Datuk Soon had had with His Majesty probably helped too -- you know, gets one closer to his Sovereign :P Well, if you ask me, and if &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; have a handicap score of 18 and always come close to par everytime I play, I'd be delighted to golf with the King too... heh heh heh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately though, we cannot address Louisa (the daughter of the Datuk) as 'Lady Soon', like the English peerage system, as the title of 'Datin' is reserved for the wife of the 'Datuk' only. So Louisa must then try to achieve the honorable title of 'Datin Paduka' in &lt;i&gt;her own right&lt;/i&gt;, if she wants to, of course. I have to check back with Lou when she does accomplish this (notice, I didnt write 'if' she accomplish this... *hint*hint*) Alternatively, well... erh... she can marry a known 'Datuk' who is still single :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On another note, I think Louisa must really, really crack her head on what to get her dad for Father's Day that will top what the King has given.... hmmm... hmmmmmmmm.... *BIG SMILE*&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-1189564680887238894?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/1189564680887238894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=1189564680887238894&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1189564680887238894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1189564680887238894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/06/titles-and-honorifics.html' title='Unto thee We bestow and giveth'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-4434557894311347763</id><published>2007-06-14T17:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-17T10:18:33.403+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asymptote'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Karen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>Methinks this possierlich cat doth protest too much</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnI_AIbBSxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/1ibo5_NGyWs/s1600-h/matters_most.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnI_AIbBSxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/1ibo5_NGyWs/s200/matters_most.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076189001493334802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been over three weeks since I last went for a jog, and today, feeling a bit guilty, I decided to complete my usual 15-km route, &lt;i&gt;leisurely&lt;/i&gt;. Man... that took me over 80 minutes! And I was almost breathless when I arrived back on campus. And it took me a further 10 minutes before my heartbeat returned to normal. So... note to self, "(i) Go do more runs (shorter ones) this weekend and next week, then double-check on timing on the 15-km this time next week. (ii) Find people to spar with at Baddy this Saturday morning, too bad Chris is in Berlin *sigh*. (iii) And, well... stop having fried chicken at every meal, &lt;i&gt;just have them at every other meal...&lt;/i&gt; hehehe... *Grumble*Grumble*."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen (the future Frau Sutter), hailed me on MSN some days ago, and as always, we exchanged some good conversations. I can feel her outpouring excitement for the upcoming wedding *BIG SMILE*. Also, she has now uploaded her 'bridal photos' (shots taken while in Hong Kong last Christmas) up on her &lt;a href="http://www.friendster.com/8265688"&gt;friendster site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful. No need for other words. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's hope Alex and Karen take good care of each other, for better or for worse, in happiness and sadness, etc., etc., ... :) And until there are 5 little Alexes and 5 little Karens, and beyond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahh... and before I sign off this post, I just have to mention that I am having such a roll of a time with &lt;a href="http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/"&gt;Asymptote&lt;/a&gt;! Best ever figure-generator I have met -- discovered it (and now a convinced follower) from the good people I used to work with. And I have (and still am) painstakingly converting all my earlier figures in my thesis to this superb-high-quality, non-degenerative, and succintly-precise format offered by Asy. And my efforts seem to be paying off, albeit slowly. Check out the example figure below... then check out the zoom at 500%, or even at 1600%! Use picture #2, it opens a PDF file. (Asy codes &lt;a href="http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/svg/fig_compoCurveEg01.asy"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.) Or for those &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; skeptical people (like my dear counsellor brother), use the PDF file and zoom to 6400%!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnPFDYbBS0I/AAAAAAAAAE8/4gfnGy5tvRc/s1600-h/about-asy-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnPFDYbBS0I/AAAAAAAAAE8/4gfnGy5tvRc/s200/about-asy-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076617866862742338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/svg/fig_compoCurveEg01.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnPFDYbBS1I/AAAAAAAAAFE/Ed-Isp93ZuE/s200/about-asy-02-zoom-x500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076617866862742354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No deterioration, what-so-ever! And I am so getting into the hang of producing modules in Asy, that I didn't realise I have programmed almost all of my ground algorithms in it. And because they &lt;i&gt;WORK&lt;/i&gt;, in Asy as well as in Java and C++, this becomes another proof of soundness of the algorithms -- I'd say, the 'offline' version :) Well, I now need to find the correct words/phrases/paras/sections/chapter? to describe this well-suited observation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem now is, whenever I see figures by others that offer no high-quality renditions, I get irritated. Figures &lt;b&gt;have&lt;/b&gt; to be perfect, and precise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Grumble*Grumble*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm... let's see other reasons to &lt;i&gt;grumble&lt;/i&gt; this week:&lt;br /&gt;1. Freezer door inside fridge is broken -- shouldn't have yanked it.&lt;br /&gt;2. My handphone is definitely broken beyond repair...&lt;br /&gt;3. Roland Garross: Hewitt didn't get past Nadal.&lt;br /&gt;4. Roland Garross: Federer didn't stop Nadal's hat-trick.&lt;br /&gt;5. USGA: Ken Duke birdies first hole. What's wrong with Tiger???&lt;br /&gt;6. NBA Finals: Missed game 1 of Spurs vs Cavs *sigh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Grumble*Grumble**Grumble*Grumble**Grumble*Grumble*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: Here is Leo's translation of &lt;a href="http://dict.leo.org/?search=possierlich&amp;relink=on&amp;spellToler=on&amp;lp=ende"&gt;possierlich&lt;/a&gt;.  Some people think I am possierlich... heh heh heh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-4434557894311347763?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/4434557894311347763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=4434557894311347763&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/4434557894311347763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/4434557894311347763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/06/methinks-this-possierlich-cat-doth.html' title='Methinks this &lt;i&gt;possierlich&lt;/i&gt; cat doth protest too much'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RnI_AIbBSxI/AAAAAAAAAEk/1ibo5_NGyWs/s72-c/matters_most.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-7201997484108352463</id><published>2007-06-05T16:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T18:45:38.883+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marius'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curry'/><title type='text'>Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei</title><content type='html'>Am Mittwoch hat Marius seiner Schlusspräsentation tatsäschlich angeliefert, und wir haben einen Film von ihm aufgenommen (und ich hatte auch Tobi versprochen bevor der nach Thailand ging). &lt;strike&gt;Wenn die Film bereit ist, will ich ein Link hier errichten.&lt;/strike&gt; -- Die Film ist jetzt bereit: klick an Bild #3 (requires &lt;a href="http://www.lecturnity.de/player"&gt;Lecturnity Player&lt;/a&gt;). Ich dachte Marius war sooo nervös und man sieht der viel Stress hätte weil er viel zu tun mussten -- die Arbeit mit NightLabs, und meine ärgerlichen Bemerkungen zufriedenstellend :P Ja, ja, ich weiß, dass ich immer 'high-quality' Beschäftingung von meine Studenten angefordert. Deswegen ich manchmal ein Dorn in Auge sein, aber, es ist kein Baum, der nicht zuvor ein Sträuchlein gewesen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dennoch nach die anstrengende Präsentation, wir erleichtert aufatmen gewesen sind. Dann machten wir ein paar Bilder...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvTkYbBSsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/z75pnNJkG50/s1600-h/marius_kai.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvTkYbBSsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/z75pnNJkG50/s200/marius_kai.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074382027147528898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvTkobBStI/AAAAAAAAAEE/aHAEZtmKARQ/s1600-h/chris_marius_kai.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvTkobBStI/AAAAAAAAAEE/aHAEZtmKARQ/s200/chris_marius_kai.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074382031442496210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/marius/mHeinzmann.lpd"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rm5n3obBSvI/AAAAAAAAAEU/8NVeklGXy6w/s200/mariusTalk.jpg" border="0" width="110" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075108035534342898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://electures.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/catalog/images/lecturnity.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zweitens, habe ich und Suzanne (keine Angst Leute, die ist nicht Suzanne Albers aber sie ist meine neue Nachbarin -- sie kommt aus Dresden und arbeit an die Freiburg-Messe) einen gesundes Curry am Samstag in ihre Küche gekocht (natürlich, weil meine Küche nicht so sauber ist :P). &lt;img style="float:left; margin:2px 2px 10px 10px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvZZobBSuI/AAAAAAAAAEM/RX7I2IWdBS4/s200/gesundesCurry.jpg" border="0" width="90px" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074388439533701858" /&gt; Suzanne hat gesagt, dass ,,&lt;i&gt;die asiatische Küche nutzt seit jeher Gewürze nicht nur wegen des Geschmacks. Denn Pflanzenwirkstoffe können die Gesundheit positiv beeinflussen. Damit beeinflusst der Wurzelextrakt Krankheiten wie Rheuma, chronische Darmentzündungen oder Asthma.&lt;/i&gt;`` &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cool huh? Aber das große Problem ist dass wir brauchen fast zwei stunden für diesen gesundes Curry kochen, und nur 15 minuten zu alles fertig Essen *sigh*&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7201997484108352463?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7201997484108352463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7201997484108352463&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7201997484108352463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7201997484108352463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/06/alles-hat-ein-ende-nur-die-wurst-hat.html' title='Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RmvTkYbBSsI/AAAAAAAAAD8/z75pnNJkG50/s72-c/marius_kai.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3311114086248696181</id><published>2007-05-30T12:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T17:25:08.718+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CSI: Freiburg'/><title type='text'>CSI: Freiburg, Teil I</title><content type='html'>Sie sind drei Leute.&lt;br /&gt;Sie wohnen in Freiburg. &lt;br /&gt;Sie haben zumindest ein Fahrrad. &lt;br /&gt;Sie haben einander am Pfingstmontag zufällig getroffen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- img style="float:left;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl2dmvAFEBI/AAAAAAAAAD0/wHwEmYAuV7A/s200/theEgg.jpg" border="0" width="50" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070382044266434578" / --&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ESS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;en. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ei&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;raquo; &lt;b&gt;C.S.I.&lt;/b&gt;: Freiburg [&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_IPA-Zeichen"&gt;ˈsiːesˌaɪ Fry-burg&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl1fvPAFD_I/AAAAAAAAADk/4v_2dbbhn7g/s1600-h/csi-freiburg-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl1fvPAFD_I/AAAAAAAAADk/4v_2dbbhn7g/s320/csi-freiburg-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070314020574400498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sie sind (1) Eric ,,Marius`` Delektorsky, (2) Frau Dr. Moni Woodska, und (3) Lt. Horatio Kai. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl2PX_AFEAI/AAAAAAAAADs/e1QUxOF-zqQ/s1600-h/missing_cake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl2PX_AFEAI/AAAAAAAAADs/e1QUxOF-zqQ/s200/missing_cake.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070366397700575234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In diesem Episode müssen die C.S.I.-Abteilung des Freiburg-Dade Police Department ein Rätsel losen: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;,,Wo sind die vermisste Stücken dem Erdbeerekuchen?``&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am früher diese Woche hat Frau Dr. Moni ihre Crime-Fighting Kollegen für ein Stück Kuchen und Torte und einem Tässchen Kaffee eingeladen. Natürlich... Moni ist die besten Chefköchin untereinander und die hat einer selbst gebackener köstlicher und leckerer Erdbeerekuchen gemacht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unglücklicherweise für Marius und Kai, sie kamen zu spät an. Irgendjemand hattet irgendwie gelangte an den Kuchen esrt! ,,Keine Panik!`` sagt Marius. ,,Lt. Kai ist unser Sprengstoffexperte, und er kann diesen Tatort ausdiffundiert!`` ,,Ja! Keine Panik!`` sagt Kai. ,,Marius, du bist der Fingerabdruck- und Drogenspeziallist. Weißt du was den Kuchen zusammengesetzt aus ist?`` ,,Err... Erdbeeren und Rahm?`` ,,Stimmt!`` sagt Moni. ,,Und einige Eier, natürlich.``&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glücklicherweise hat Kai keine Sprengbombe gefunden, und hat Marius seiner Fingerprint an den Kuchen nicht geblieben. Außerdem hat Moni zwei frischen Tässchen Kaffee für sie wartend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem gelöst, die drei Leute aß der Kuchen auf wie ein Scheunendrescher :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3311114086248696181?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3311114086248696181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3311114086248696181&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3311114086248696181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3311114086248696181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/csi-freiburg-teil-i.html' title='CSI: Freiburg, Teil I'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rl1fvPAFD_I/AAAAAAAAADk/4v_2dbbhn7g/s72-c/csi-freiburg-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-8995057345819784769</id><published>2007-05-20T17:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-21T17:25:37.384+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporate video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NLC West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='undergraduate moments'/><title type='text'>Found something I didn't lose: NLC West Video</title><content type='html'>I decided to tidy up my C: drive today after (finally) managing to move all the necessary contents from the old computer to this new one. Tidying up, apparently, takes a considerable amount of time -- what with all the reorganisations and the creation of new folder-names-that-make-sense. Previously, I have had quite a mountaineous pile of dis&lt;i&gt;contented&lt;/i&gt;ly messy data, which didnt bother me because I had Google desktop running, and Google seems to be advocating to us to be as messy as possible so that they can show off their trusty search engine. But a bit of control among the chaos should turn out something good, I hope. All these activities led me to discover a copy of the NLC West corporate video, which amazingly runs on Flash, sitting at some weird location in the forest of my disorganised directories. "&lt;i&gt;Erhh... this NLC West... what's that Kai?&lt;/i&gt;", you say...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, '&lt;b&gt;NLC&lt;/b&gt;' -- that's short for &lt;a href="http://www.nlc.edu.au/main/index.php"&gt;&lt;b&gt;N&lt;/b&gt;ational &lt;b&gt;L&lt;/b&gt;iaison &lt;b&gt;C&lt;/b&gt;ommittee&lt;/a&gt;. And 'West' refers to its branch in Western Australia. NLC is a not-for-profit organisation for international students studying in Australia. Among the many things it does, the NLC contributes to Federal and State Government inquiries and processes into changing and improving international education in Australia, on behalf of all the international students it represents. "NLC Australia (Inc.)" is the main body with national office bearers running the show, and there are other NLC executive affiliations which include the branches from NSW (New South Wales), ACT (Australia Capital Territory), VIC (Victoria), SA (South Australia), QLD (Queensland), and TAS (Tasmania).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I played a rather active role in NLC during my undergraduate days while at The University of Western Australia (UWA). That was quite some time ago; 1999 to 2001. People who know me then would remember that I was Director of the &lt;a href="http://www.iss.guild.uwa.edu.au/index.htm"&gt;International Students Services at UWA&lt;/a&gt;, and then moved on to take up the state executive position as &lt;a href="http://www.nlc.edu.au/wa/"&gt;NLC West&lt;/a&gt;'s Secretary of State (for 3 weeks), before being elected as NLC West's State Convenor (that's the chair position of the state branch). By virtue of being 'convenor', I automatically get a seat on several committees on both state and national levels. And while it was really, really hectic and exhaustive throughout my stint (&lt;i&gt;eg. NSW and WA has a time-difference of 3 hours, and people in the east like to call people in the west at 6am just because its already 9am there...&lt;/i&gt;), I did manage to have an enjoyable time with this experience and made so many friends. Amazingly, I didn't fail in any of my exams at uni too, thank God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt; Now, back to that corporate video:&lt;br /&gt;It was during my term in 2000-2001 that I commissioned and authorized a 'corporate-video' specifically for NLC West (I had a hand in its production too). It was fundamentally meant to raise awareness of the what the organisation does, and to introduce my fellow office bearers. Go on and view it if you can spare 5 minutes (clicking the picture will open up a new window and run the flash-video):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/nlcwest/nlcwest02.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RlB1kvAFD-I/AAAAAAAAADc/HZZ_jjNm0Fw/s320/nlcwest_startpic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066678854744346594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: (&lt;i&gt;UPDATED&lt;/i&gt;) The soundtrack is originally a Solo Violin piece entitled '&lt;b&gt;Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006/I. Preludio&lt;/b&gt;'. Venessa Mae reorganised the same piece, which was also recomposed in '&lt;b&gt;Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46/1st Movement&lt;/b&gt;', and called it '&lt;b&gt;I'm A-Doun for Lack O'Johnnie&lt;/b&gt;'. Sounds like a mouthful, I know, Jean, so dont laugh :P It has been quite awhile since I last immersed myself in such haute couture of the classics. "Indeed, denouements like Te Deum and Coriolanus can sapid and match the likes of La Sanadora and Pax Deorum (played in F#-major-allegretto-AND-appoggiatura)"... don’t you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPS: The website indicated in the video no longer exists (dont really know what my successors did to its original contents), but the new national and state sites are still up... see above links.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-8995057345819784769?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/8995057345819784769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=8995057345819784769&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8995057345819784769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8995057345819784769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/found-something-i-didnt-lose.html' title='Found something I didn&apos;t lose: NLC West Video'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RlB1kvAFD-I/AAAAAAAAADc/HZZ_jjNm0Fw/s72-c/nlcwest_startpic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-1460558132319198313</id><published>2007-05-17T12:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T15:16:26.983+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Katter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Briefkasten'/><title type='text'>Es funktioniert!</title><content type='html'>Woo hoo! Nie mehr Werbung in meinen sauberen Briefkasten. Nie mehr unerwünschte Post. Nie mehr Postwurfsendungen und Werbebriefe. Nie mehr Reklamesendungen... guck mal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rkw9afAFD8I/AAAAAAAAADM/Xo9MzDF7MQY/s320/myLetterBox.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065491206092689346" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hahaha... Der gestiefelte &lt;b&gt;Kater&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;i&gt;that's &lt;b&gt;Puss in Boots&lt;/b&gt; my non-German speaking friends&lt;/i&gt;) hat seine hervorragende Zauberkunst geklappt. Man sieht die Briefkästen meiner Nachbarn sind Zeitungen- und Werbungensvoll. Nur meine authentische Postsendungen und Magazine-Abbonements o.ä. liegen in meinen Kasten seit frühes des Monats, und das bedeutet habe ich viel weniger hitziges Temperament allabendlich wenn ich zurück von Arbeit gekommt. Das gefällt mir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kater. Kater von der Film 'Shrek'. Der ist meine Lösung (mit Adobe Photoshop, natürlich). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man."&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RkxOIPAFD9I/AAAAAAAAADU/Ns7zP_rxArM/s1600-h/keineWerbung.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RkxOIPAFD9I/AAAAAAAAADU/Ns7zP_rxArM/s200/keineWerbung.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065509584257748946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-1460558132319198313?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/1460558132319198313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=1460558132319198313&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1460558132319198313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1460558132319198313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/es-funtioniert.html' title='Es funktioniert!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rkw9afAFD8I/AAAAAAAAADM/Xo9MzDF7MQY/s72-c/myLetterBox.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-3580569243705552882</id><published>2007-05-13T19:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T15:21:45.784+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mother&apos;s day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fête des Mères'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eurovision'/><title type='text'>Le Maillon Faible</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Bonjour Paris!&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Such a welcome relief after Friday night's forgettable debacle...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom was certainly cheerful and happy to see me again after all these whiles. I was somewhat surprised to find her waiting for me at Charles De Gaulle with one of my French second-cousin &lt;i&gt;twice-removed&lt;/i&gt; (heh heh... go figure that one). Claude seemed to be delighted to chauffeur us around town, and he drove us straight to our hotel at the &lt;a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1919"&gt;Le Méridien Etoile&lt;/a&gt;, after passing by Champs-Elysées and Arc de Triomphe on a nice and bright Saturday afternoon. And all the while I was cursing myself under my breath because I was missing such an incredible opportunity to take snapshots of Paris, as I had forgetfully and regrettably left BOTH my camera and my phone in Freiburg. *sigh* Some things were just not meant to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's another funny thing: It wasn't until I looked at my itinerary during check-in that I realised I had booked myself into &lt;a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1920"&gt;Le Méridien &lt;i&gt;Montparnasse&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -- wrong hotel, but same management, on the &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; side of the Seine river! Well, to cut the story short, I'd say that the staff at Le Méridien Etoile were indeed very professional and well-trained to handle guests with such situations like mine, and happily arranged to have me checked-in to the adjoining room next to mom's suite without so much as a hassle (and they didn't charge me extra to cancel my reservations at Montparnasse, cool huh?). On another thought, it was definitely a blessing in disguise that mom and Claude turned up at the airport to pick me up :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh... and guess what? On Sunday morning, the concierge, Jacques, thoughtfully got me to pass mom a '&lt;b&gt;Fête des Mères&lt;/b&gt;' card (that's Happy Mother's Day). I had earlier asked him to purchase some nice white Calla Lilies and to put them in a crystal vase for mom on our breakfast table, but I completely forgot about getting her a card to go with the flowers. What made it really nice was that Jacques personally hand-wrote the words "&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le Jour De la Maman Heureuse&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;". Haha... I have never learnt to speak French, but my attempt to pronouce those words after learning what they meant (and after a quick articulation-tip from Jacques who animatedly showed where to place my tongue and when to curve my lips) drew some delightful smiles from the tables around us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RkdrRYfsmmI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZclTsoRhmhg/s200/evsc.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064134252378757730" /&gt; OK... by now you must be wondering what have all these got to do with tonight's blog title '&lt;i&gt;Le Maillon Faible&lt;/i&gt;'? Well... it's another one of my &lt;a href="http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/der-ein-und-einziger-deutschlands.html"&gt;Deutschlandserfahrung&lt;/a&gt; that I wanted to experience (which this time, by the way, ironically happened in France): When mom and I returned from the pre-wedding reception on Saturday evening, we sat together on a very comfortable sofa in her drawing room, sipped some nice lemon tea, and turned on the TV to &lt;i&gt;France 3&lt;/i&gt; to watch &lt;a href="http://www.eurovision.tv/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eurovision Song Contest&lt;/b&gt;, Helsinki, 2007&lt;/a&gt;! Mom predicted that the group from Serbia would win -- they did, they are this year's champion. Mom was just dissappointed that Madame Royal didn't become France's next president -- a statement mom made that I (still) couldn't connect with what it's got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest. Anyway, I, on the other hand, was hoping for Finland's &lt;a href="http://www.eurovision.tv/content/view/318/282/"&gt;Hanna Pakarinen&lt;/a&gt;, because she reminded me of Evanescence, but that was not to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what about Le Maillon Faible? Haha... well, after the complete rounds of votings from all of Europe, Turkey, and Israel, all 24 finalists last night got points -- that is, all &lt;i&gt;except&lt;/i&gt; for Ireland and the United Kingdom which totals remained at &lt;b&gt;0 points&lt;/b&gt;. And thus, they are... &lt;b&gt;The Weakest Links!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-3580569243705552882?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/3580569243705552882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=3580569243705552882&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3580569243705552882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/3580569243705552882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/le-maillon-faible.html' title='Le Maillon Faible'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RkdrRYfsmmI/AAAAAAAAADE/ZclTsoRhmhg/s72-c/evsc.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-9091057698288500340</id><published>2007-05-11T21:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-13T21:09:18.556+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forgettable'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Durch die Nacht und das dichteste Geäst</title><content type='html'>Du meine Güte! Never have I felt so uncontrollably angry at someone to the point of blowing my top! Such a startling episode I have had this evening... and in the middle of London, of all places, really... *sigh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes me wonder if stark stubborness, 'face' credibility, and particularly, old age are reasons enough to cloud an unrestrained view of obvious sense and logic from one whom I gather (all my life growing up knowing) would have incredible knowledge and intelligence, vast life experiences, and stern, disciplined caution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes me wonder what else besides facts, evidences, and proofs will it take before one realises that his current course of &lt;b&gt;action&lt;/b&gt; is detrimental and indeed adulteratedly faulty, inaccurately wrong, and fellaciously erroneous, based simply on some benign and untrustworthy external opinions; an &lt;b&gt;action&lt;/b&gt; that would inevitably require major refurbishments immediately in order to save what I already fear is a brittle and fragile familial situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes me wonder if I will see eye to eye with my old man ever again :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Filial piety', an ancient tradition quite unlike primogeniture... now &lt;i&gt;THAT&lt;/i&gt; certainly didn't happen tonight. I have become so numb now, just looking back at the audacity of it all, and worse still, I am powerless to stop it. This blog seems to be the only outlet I can think of at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*sigh* Suminasen, kokoro ga tsuyoi, michi ni mayoi mashita desu. Linkin Park has a nice way of putting this crazy preoccupation in my head:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eQCE2iK6tG4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eQCE2iK6tG4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;I've become so numb I can't feel you there&lt;br /&gt;Become so tired so much more aware&lt;br /&gt;I'm becoming this all I want to do&lt;br /&gt;Is be more like me and be less like you&lt;br /&gt;... &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being what you want me to be&lt;br /&gt;Feeling so faithless lost under the surface&lt;br /&gt;Don't know what you're expecting of me&lt;br /&gt;Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes &lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Every step that I take is another mistake to you&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;And I know&lt;br /&gt;I may end up failing too&lt;br /&gt;But I know&lt;br /&gt;You were just like me with someone disappointed in you&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damit ich keine Ängste mehr kenne? God help.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-9091057698288500340?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/9091057698288500340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=9091057698288500340&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/9091057698288500340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/9091057698288500340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/durch-die-nacht-und-das-dichteste-gest.html' title='Durch die Nacht und das dichteste Geäst'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-8608715822163492643</id><published>2007-05-08T09:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T14:27:11.461+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore stuffs'/><title type='text'>Orkestra Melayu Singapura Tiba di Belanda</title><content type='html'>Terperanjat bila aku terdengar adanya kumpulan musik melayu tanahair tersendiri, bukan sahaja bermain dengan musik asli, bahkan &lt;a href="http://infopedia.nlb.gov.sg/articles/SIP_424_2005-01-03.html"&gt;Orkestra Melayu Singapura (OMS)&lt;/a&gt; digabungi pelbagai alat-alat musik lain daripada kaum Cina, India, dan Mat-Salleh. Didalam sebuah artikel &lt;a href="http://cyberita.asia1.com.sg/singapura/story/0,3617,95627,00.html?"&gt;Berita Harian&lt;/a&gt; ada menyebut juga alat-alat dari Jepun dan Korea Selatan... hmm... ini harus cepat-cepat dilihat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rupa-rupanya Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim (kitorang punyer Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam) yang telah melancarkan badan tersebut, dan untuk badan ini bermain di negeri Belanda, di Eropah adalah amatlah sangat 'choon' :) Hai... pakkal sahaja aku nih tak tahu main zabur, kalau tidak, dah lama dah aku jadi 'terer' dengan alat musik tu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-8608715822163492643?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/8608715822163492643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=8608715822163492643&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8608715822163492643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/8608715822163492643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/orkestra-melayu-singapura-tiba-di.html' title='Orkestra Melayu Singapura Tiba di Belanda'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-7299215865689870744</id><published>2007-05-07T16:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T17:09:00.151+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ni Xi Huan De You Ji Ke?</title><content type='html'>Wei shen me lao shi ba kong qi quan dou xi guang le? Wo ye bu je tau, ker she qing tian wo gei da ta tianhua &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/"&gt;Time-Magazine's Top 100&lt;/a&gt;. Zai ni mian, na ge Terence Tan shi wo de hao peng you, qian hu xi ji cu xu yao jiao jiu hu che *sigh*. Tang ren la, wen me ban gan jue tian you suan tou tou ai ni kuai le you gu dan zen me ban ai que bu neng jiang... Karen shuo, "Mingdian wo yao jiao kei ni la" :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hai you liang ge, (i) "Ren de yi sheng, juan gao 'fen tou'. Wei you 'fen tou', cai neng zheng gong!", ken (ii) "Lao Wang mai gua, cher mai cher gua".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7299215865689870744?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7299215865689870744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7299215865689870744&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7299215865689870744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7299215865689870744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/ni-xi-huan-de-you-ji-ke.html' title='Ni Xi Huan De You Ji Ke?'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-1887517035437385625</id><published>2007-05-06T12:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T10:04:01.277+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DSDS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deustchland sucht den Superstar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Idol'/><title type='text'>Der ein und einziger Deutschlands Superstar</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 80px;" src="http://www.dsds-news.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/deutschland-sucht-den-superstar.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was könnte besser sein? Gestern hat Deutschland seines neues Superstar gekrönt, der heißt Mark Medlock (die Endziffer 02) mit 78,02% direkte Stimmen. Die Entscheidung kommt ungefähr 23:38 Uhr. Der anderer Kandidat im Finale war Martin Stosch (die Endziffer 01). Die beide sind nicht meine Lieblingsfinaliste, trotzdem habe ich gestern abend meine Abstimmung nicht angerufen. Aber OK... ich fand die haben gut gesungen seit ihres "DSDS-Recall-Session" für die top vierzig Kandidaten (von fast 30.000 'Superstar-Bewerber' in der Castings des Jahres 2007). Die Juroren Dieter Bohlen, Anja Lukaseder, und Heinz Henn haben auch gleich gedacht, aber wichtiger aller Deutschland denkt Mark und Martin viel Talent haben. Immer noch mehrerer Leute hat am gestern um zwischen 20:30 und 23:30 Uhr 01379-1001-02 abgestimmen, und Mark hat endlich gewonnen. Mach schon... Dieter hat einen ähnlichen Bart Aussehen als Marks getragen weil Mark seiner Günstlingskandidat ist!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meine personal Top-Favoritin war die wunderschöne &lt;a href="http://www.francisca-urio.net/"&gt;Francisca Urio&lt;/a&gt;. Sie hat eine herrliche, unglaubliche, und fantastische Melodie in ihre starke und mächtige Stimme. Sie hat auch eine kreative, tolle, und erstaunliche 'Showmanship' (geschickte Zurschaustellung?). Aber, es ist sehr Schade, dass sie ihre Abstimmungen der vierte Motto-Show am 31. März nicht genug gesammelt hätte. Das bedeutet sie gehen musst. Seitdem habe ich nicht sehr viele Lust mit DSDS, aber Lisa Bund und Mark Buskohl waren noch da. Die sind meine zweite und dritte Personalfavoriten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naja, ich weiß was du frag wird: Warum habe ich dieses Reality-Show sehr interresant gefunden, wenn ich nieman hier am Institut (und in Freiburg) hat dieses Show immer am Samstagsabend bei RTL fern gesehen kenne? Haha... ich habe eine gute Antwort. Hmm... das ist mein vierte Jahr in Deustchland und ich möchte eine komplette Deutschlandserfahrung haben sein muss :) Ich habe die WM2006, der Freiburgmarathon, die  Rieselfeldmeile, usw. schon erfahren. Ich glaube DSDS ist eine einzigartige Erfahrung und jetzt habe ich diese zusätzliche Erfahrung erreicht! Das gefällt mir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe mit Karen gesagt, dass ich mein Geld an der Mark Medlock aufgesteckt für diese DSDS-Saison (weil er sehr viele Anhängern und Fans hat). Aber ich noch werde gerne für Francisca angerufen -- ich liebe Francisca *sigh*. Auf sparsame Weise, hatte ich Recht. Mark hat gewonnen und Deutschland hat seiner Superstar gefunden. Aufgezeichnet. &lt;a href="http://www.rtl.de/musik/superstar.php"&gt;Deutschland sucht den Superstar&lt;/a&gt; ist jetzt vorbei. Was geht's weiter für mich? Vielleicht "Let's Dance, Again" oder? Man kann ja nie wissen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-1887517035437385625?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/1887517035437385625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=1887517035437385625&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1887517035437385625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/1887517035437385625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/der-ein-und-einziger-deutschlands.html' title='Der ein und einziger Deutschlands Superstar'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-2606736902871660663</id><published>2007-05-03T18:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-17T12:35:25.999+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Aussie Promises</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Achtung Leute:&lt;/b&gt; Jetzt muss ich auf Englisch schreiben, aber nur für diesen Artikel.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G'day mates (yeah, you guys: Aaron, Colum, Andrew, Ben -- G'day, G'day!), I did promise to put up our pictures on my blog for, well, about some time now. Its better late than never, eh? And also because Colum and Aaron wrote to me just today -- yes, yes, I have decided to become a bit more active with this blog (a promise I made to a friend of which I intend to keep :P ) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But really, next time after more beach-BBQs, I will load whatever snippets I think is appropriate on to these pages, like, immediately. For now though, here are are a few I'd like to share:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="160" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjoiEofsmRI/AAAAAAAAAAc/OjlrdpP4Q30/s200/DSC01326.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060394594289359122" /&gt; &lt;img width="160" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjoiUYfsmSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/gecKqHaxu6Y/s200/DSC01335.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060394864872298786" /&gt; &lt;img width="160" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjoiwIfsmTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/7f9NYr0zFtQ/s200/DSC01336.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060395341613668658" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="160" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjoi_IfsmUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/m5XyGu8Er7I/s200/DSC01334.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060395599311706434" /&gt; &lt;img width="160" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjojmYfsmWI/AAAAAAAAABE/DdRRZJMBqas/s200/DSC01332.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060396273621571938" /&gt; &lt;img width="160" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjojIofsmVI/AAAAAAAAAA8/-AaApNGwPO4/s200/DSC01340.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060395762520463698" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And since I am on a roll, I might as well put on the pictures for you too Louisa, Sharon, TJ, Gloria, Sri, and Antonio. You guys were the most hospitable hosts/hostesses in Melbourne and in Perth!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjok7ofsmXI/AAAAAAAAABM/P3erTmRcHLk/s200/DSC01359.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060397738205419890" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjok8IfsmYI/AAAAAAAAABU/w_eceNe1ZJk/s200/DSC01382.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060397746795354498" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjok84fsmZI/AAAAAAAAABc/56HBLw5EXrU/s200/DSC01402.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060397759680256402" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjok9IfsmaI/AAAAAAAAABk/JPfnSMtBtt0/s200/DSC01409.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060397763975223714" /&gt; &lt;img  width="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjok9ofsmbI/AAAAAAAAABs/F6zLc3f6SZ4/s200/DSCF3994.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060397772565158322" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="140" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjolYYfsmcI/AAAAAAAAAB0/bcjni2zkbw4/s200/DSCF4005.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060398232126659010" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjolYofsmdI/AAAAAAAAAB8/tNCxlzfTwcc/s200/DSCF4006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060398236421626322" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjrn5YfsmiI/AAAAAAAAACk/3l4iN9mjtIY/s200/DSC01374.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060612104318130722" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjol9ofsmeI/AAAAAAAAACE/iHQox_4zhUU/s200/DSC01432.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060398872076786146" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjrn4YfsmfI/AAAAAAAAACM/jDb9HNnAGGM/s200/DSC01429.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060612087138261490" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjrn4ofsmgI/AAAAAAAAACU/JZ9Eci3sCcw/s200/DSC01428.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060612091433228802" /&gt; &lt;img width="140" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/Rjrn44fsmhI/AAAAAAAAACc/0wQUz2hPoHQ/s200/DSC01431.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060612095728196114" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know, come to think of it after reviewing the pictures, it does seem like you guys enjoyed my room. I should ask for the same suite at the &lt;a href="http://melbourne.grand.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp"&gt;Grand Hyatt&lt;/a&gt; next time I visit Melbourne -- I think there is enough place to entertain, the suites are bigger than the &lt;a href="http://www.westin.com.au/m_index.html"&gt;Westin&lt;/a&gt;'s, and better sweeping views too (especially up on the Club Floor)... we should have a party, or something like that. (Although the services they offer on &lt;a href="http://melbournegrand.hyatte-concierge.com/Login.aspx"&gt;eConcierge&lt;/a&gt; was a bit of a disappointment.) But remember, the bedroom will STILL be out of bounds for you guys... heh heh heh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-2606736902871660663?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/2606736902871660663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=2606736902871660663&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2606736902871660663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/2606736902871660663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/aussie-promises.html' title='Aussie Promises'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjoiEofsmRI/AAAAAAAAAAc/OjlrdpP4Q30/s72-c/DSC01326.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-5423862627448051335</id><published>2007-05-03T09:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T08:18:32.433+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promises'/><title type='text'>Ein Versprechen halten</title><content type='html'>Erstens, habe ich Ann-Kathrin versprochen, dass ich meine Blogentries öfter aktualisieren und auf Deutsch schreiben werde. Oh mein Gott! Jederman weiß, dass meine Grammatik in dieser Sprache unglaublich schlecht ist. Aber, keine sorge, ich werde das Problem so bald wie beheben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zweitens, Tobi ist jetzt in Bangkok, und hat seinen Blog endlich instaliert. Kuck mal hier: &lt;a href="http://blogs.nightlabs.net/tobias"&gt;blogs.nightlabs.net/tobias&lt;/a&gt;. Apropos Tobi, wir eine fantastische Dinnernight am Donnerstag letzte woche (26. April) gehabt. Elli (Tobis freundin) und Marius waren auch da, aber ich habe der Restaurantname vergessen *sigh*. Oh ja, Tobi hat seines neues Digitalkamera (Canon IXUS 900Ti?) mit gebracht, und das ist unser Foto zusammen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjmlcYfsmQI/AAAAAAAAAAU/HA9worAlxho/s1600-h/IMG_0120-1024x768.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjmlcYfsmQI/AAAAAAAAAAU/HA9worAlxho/s320/IMG_0120-1024x768.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060257563357780226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schlussendlich hat Marius gestern seine Bachelorarbeitdissertation schon erledigt, Gott sei dank. Woo hoo! Der kann endlich relaxen, aber nur für eine Woche. Wir müssen seine Präsentation vorbereiten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;(((º&gt;•`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸.•´¯`•..&gt; &lt;(((º&gt;•`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸.•´¯`•..&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ps: wir haben gestern ca. 15 Uhr eine große, schwarze Rauchwolke zu sehen. Die kommt von die Südrichtung in der Nähe der Institut -- groß Feuer! Man kann mehr informationen in Fudderartikel zu lesen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fudder.de/artikel/2007/05/02/rauchwolke-ueber-dem-mooswald-fenster-zu/"&gt;http://fudder.de/artikel/2007/05/02/rauchwolke-ueber-dem-mooswald-fenster-zu/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-5423862627448051335?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/5423862627448051335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=5423862627448051335&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/5423862627448051335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/5423862627448051335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/05/ein-versprechen-halten.html' title='Ein Versprechen halten'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjmlcYfsmQI/AAAAAAAAAAU/HA9worAlxho/s72-c/IMG_0120-1024x768.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-7655327782099699091</id><published>2007-02-14T13:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T13:58:54.325+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lufthansas Miles &amp; More Online Gewinnspiel</title><content type='html'>Ich habe von Lufthansa eine Seit gesehen. Die hat eine Angebot für ein Spezialspiel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Schneller zur Traumprämie – jetzt mitspielen und gewinnen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haben Sie Ihre ganz persönliche Miles &amp; More Wunschprämie schon ins Auge gefasst?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ob Flug- oder attraktive Sachprämie - lassen Sie Ihren Traum wahr werden: Beweisen Sie im neuen Miles &amp;amp; More Online Gewinnspiel Ihr analytisches Geschick und gewinnen Sie mit etwas Glück &lt;b&gt;bis zu 20.000 Prämienmeilen&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es werden insgesamt 50.000 Prämienmeilen verlost, mit denen Sie sich Wünsche erfüllen können.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.miles-and-more.com/cdautils/BannerRedirectServlet?url=http://www.miles-and-more.com/online/portal/mam/de/newsandpromotions?l=de&amp;amp;nodeid=1593412'&gt;URL ist hier!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nichts schlecht!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-7655327782099699091?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/7655327782099699091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=7655327782099699091&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7655327782099699091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/7655327782099699091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2007/02/lufthansas-miles-more-online.html' title='Lufthansas Miles &amp; More Online Gewinnspiel'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-115063587161671817</id><published>2006-06-18T14:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-18T14:04:31.626+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich bin zurück!</title><content type='html'>Ja... das WM2006 ist dabei, und ich weiß nicht welches Team ich stütze muss, weil ich vom Australia, England, und Deutschland bleib.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-115063587161671817?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/115063587161671817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=115063587161671817&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/115063587161671817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/115063587161671817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/06/ich-bin-zurck.html' title='Ich bin zurück!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-114106064187784465</id><published>2006-02-27T18:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:17:21.910+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich bin Krank</title><content type='html'>... *sigh* &lt;br /&gt;Ich bin wegen des Wetters zu Hause geblieben.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-114106064187784465?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/114106064187784465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=114106064187784465&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114106064187784465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114106064187784465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/02/ich-bin-krank.html' title='Ich bin Krank'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-114061657045891463</id><published>2006-02-22T14:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T11:54:35.668+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lift'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Institute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freiburg'/><title type='text'>(Tag #4) Wer hat gefurzt??!!</title><content type='html'>Dieser Morgen, ungefähr 0819 Uhr, wenn ich den Aufzug nehme, rieche ich einen muffigen Geruch! Fünfundzwanzig unglücklichen und unerträglichen Sekunden in diesem muffigen Aufzug... mein Gott!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Darum frage ich:&lt;br /&gt;1. Wer hat gefurzt?&lt;br /&gt;2. Wessen Furz war das?&lt;br /&gt;3. Wieso hat dieser Mann in dem Aufzug gefurzt?&lt;br /&gt;4. Wem hat dieser Mann seinen Furz gegeben?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vielleicht eine Frau hat gefurzt, nicht ein Mann... hmm... Wenn so, dann gibt es nür drei Möglichkeiten im unserem Stock... hahaha! Trotzdem, Mann muss das Beste aus einer Situation herausholen -- nach Luft schnappen nicht!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-114061657045891463?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/114061657045891463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=114061657045891463&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114061657045891463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114061657045891463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/02/tag-4-wer-hat-gefurzt.html' title='(Tag #4) Wer hat gefurzt??!!'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-114060798950461172</id><published>2006-02-22T12:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-22T14:09:11.263+01:00</updated><title type='text'>(Tag #3) Was kann Mann eine Frau zum Geburtstag schenken?</title><content type='html'>Ich glaube das hier ist eine ziemliche schwierige Frage. Allerdings! Was kann Mann eine Frau zum Geburtstag schenken? Wenn Mann eine tolle Idee hat, findet die Frau fürchterlich. Höchstwahrscheinlich, die Frauen sind unpflgeleicht -- zumindest die Frauen ich kenne... hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eine Diamantkette? Eine goldene Brosche? Vielleicht eine Pierre-Cardin Handtasche-set? Unbezahlbar? -- oder nicht teuer genug, wenn Mann sie verliebt ist? Deswegen muss Mann einen romantischen Blumenstrauß schenken auch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... mehr, später...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-114060798950461172?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/114060798950461172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=114060798950461172&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114060798950461172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114060798950461172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/02/tag-3-was-kann-mann-eine-frau-zum.html' title='(Tag #3) Was kann Mann eine Frau zum Geburtstag schenken?'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-114053901783082509</id><published>2006-02-21T16:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-21T17:39:01.063+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tag Nummer 2</title><content type='html'>Ja. Ich habe mir versprechen. Ich muss jeden Tag zumindest einen Absatz schreiben, in Deutsch, natürlich. So kuck mal herunter meinen kurzen Artikel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wenn ich Deustch spreche, jeder halbwegs vernünftige Mensch wird mich nicht von Deutschland (oder Österreich oder Schweiz) kommen gesehen. Dass ist klar weil ich sehr viele Probleme mit der Sprache habe. Deswegen tun ich diesen Blog. Darüber hinaus Tina -- oopps, entschuldigen Sie, bitte -- Frau Kupich (Sie sind Frau Kupich in diese Woche weil ich muss mit Ihnen Umständedeutsch machen) wollen mir meiner Sätze helfen (und vielleicht korrigieren auch).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alles zu seiner Zeit. Trotzdem, in wenigsten zwei bis drei Monate, mache ich richtigen und perfekten Sätze! Muahahahaaaa....! Warte, warte... obwohl ich nicht sehr optimistisch bin, sehe ich das Glass immer halb voll und nicht halb leer. Vergnügen finde ich an... ja? Stimmt! Aber... ich denke nein... Wolfgang wird ,,Fahrvergnügen'' erklären :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-114053901783082509?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/114053901783082509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=114053901783082509&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114053901783082509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114053901783082509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/02/tag-nummer-2.html' title='Tag Nummer 2'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-114042588224638632</id><published>2006-02-20T09:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T13:57:02.426+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Das Ziel der Woche</title><content type='html'>Was ist das Ziel? Wie ist das Ziel? Wann wird das Ziel anfangen? Kann man mit dem Ziel atmen? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sein, oder nicht sein? Das ist die Frage. Aber, was ist die Antwort?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm... ich möchte zumindest jeden Tag in diese Woche einen Absatz schreiben, hier in mein Blog. Sage ich mal so, ich meine Deutsch verbessern kann. Gut! Dann jetzt geht's weiter... loss!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zu erst, ich hatte heute meine erste Tasse Kaffe noch nicht, obwohl ich nicht sehr müde bin. Das bedeutet, ich muss heute noch etwas drei Kaffe Tassen trinken, vor Mittag. Ha ha ha... vielleicht dann ich habe mehr Lust für diesen Arbeitstag. Aber ich habe die Time-Magazine auf den Tisch gelegt für später. Ich denke dann wird alles gut, oder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog. Das Blog (neuter). Ich habe dieses Wort in LEO gelesen und das alternative Wort ist ,,Internet-Tagebuch''. Das gefehlt mir. Ich habe mein personal Tagebuch für lesen bei aller Leute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK. Ich denke das ist genug für heute. Morgen früh kommt wieder mehr.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-114042588224638632?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/114042588224638632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=114042588224638632&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114042588224638632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/114042588224638632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/02/das-ziel-der-woche.html' title='Das Ziel der Woche'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-113864444021951057</id><published>2006-01-30T19:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T13:08:34.104+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Long-Awaited Photos from KL</title><content type='html'>Well, today I finally have some time to place the photos I have been meaning to put up (so that family can view) from the last trip to KL. It was Tok Hussein's grand-daughter's wedding reception at her father's (Cik Hassan's) place at Shah Alam. Hmm... I can't seem to remember the bride's name, &lt;i&gt;shame on me&lt;/i&gt;, but that's because Tok Hussein is my late grandmother's cousin. However, I think I will attempt to find out... soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/640/DSC01286.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="224px" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/320/DSC01286.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/640/DSC01274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" height="200px" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/320/DSC01274.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwZofsmjI/AAAAAAAAACs/BtZ-lXlfTNY/s1600-h/DSC01272.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" height="200px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwZofsmjI/AAAAAAAAACs/BtZ-lXlfTNY/s200/DSC01272.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061043666927000114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/640/DSC01275.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="130px" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/320/DSC01275.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/640/DSC01273.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="130px" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/173/9639/320/DSC01273.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwaYfsmlI/AAAAAAAAAC8/R8GLXuh5jc0/s1600-h/DSC01276.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="130px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwaYfsmlI/AAAAAAAAAC8/R8GLXuh5jc0/s200/DSC01276.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061043679811902034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwaIfsmkI/AAAAAAAAAC0/rLDFXwNsg2k/s1600-h/DSC01288.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" width="130px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwaIfsmkI/AAAAAAAAAC0/rLDFXwNsg2k/s200/DSC01288.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061043675516934722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-113864444021951057?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/113864444021951057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=113864444021951057&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/113864444021951057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/113864444021951057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/01/long-awaited-photos-from-kl.html' title='Long-Awaited Photos from KL'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XGa9Bz53Pvw/RjxwZofsmjI/AAAAAAAAACs/BtZ-lXlfTNY/s72-c/DSC01272.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21531520.post-113826410089539272</id><published>2006-01-26T09:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-01-26T09:28:20.903+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New day, new blog</title><content type='html'>I have finally decided to blog, after all these times reading others, and telling people that I have my blog-of-thoughts somewhere in cyberspace (which I do, just not well-organised).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western Europe is getting the brunt of the cold from the east - last week Moscow averaged at -40 Celcius!! Its warmer today, considering they are reporting only -25 Celcius... Snowed this morning here in Freiburg. I didnt fall off my bike, cos the snow is fresh... I like fresh snow. &lt;b&gt;Because&lt;/b&gt; it snowed, it is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; 'bitterly' cold today, so thats good. I look forward to nice and productive day in the office.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21531520-113826410089539272?l=khaireel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/feeds/113826410089539272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21531520&amp;postID=113826410089539272&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/113826410089539272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21531520/posts/default/113826410089539272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://khaireel.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-day-new-blog.html' title='New day, new blog'/><author><name>]Kai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13014566319287273535</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~khaireel/album/kai3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
