Presentation..

In 20 minutes I'm going to step out in front of the tribunal in order to present my work and get my ass kicked from catalan scientists! Bloody hell!! :)

Do I want to go back to Austria?

No!



Any questions?

A kid with the head full of drugs..

What a nice daddy to put this on the internet:


Somehow funny, isn't it?

El tribunal..

My project is almost done.

I completed the final project report of my work today and was going to hand it in so that the 'tribunal' can take a look at it before I'm going to present it next week. The million pages lasting catalan assignment paper declares I have to give a printed copy of my work to each of the tribunal members. Well, I thought. No problem at all. I know how to print! The first of which took a deep breath in order to laugh at me. When he was finished, he told me I would be the first person ever to hand in a project report without having it binded before. Of course I made my point of being Erasmus student, which is sort of confessing that I'm a stupid idiot. He was very kind and took me to the office where I could finally form my paper to the right condition. It's not over yet.. :)

Teoría e historia del diseño.

It is done! My first and only Spanish exam is over.

Nice!

And I passed it. I got a 6.5.. don't know what this is??! :)

The aftermatch!

The blokes from Top Gear once showed us how to make a convertible out of the mother of all people carriers, the Renault Espace. Apparently, a huge tree can do the same to a Voyager in just a few moments. Luckily there was none in there when it happened!


Some guys were cleaning up the mess while I shot the picture, one and a half weeks after the cyclone has trashed the streets.. Indeed, they left the car at its place, just like nothing happened. Wanna see the face of its owner when she/he wants to pick it up. :)

Nothing is more sexy than intelligence.

Finally, a rival for the Smart city car has arrived. The new Toyota iQ:


Why am I showing you this? This spot has actually been filmed in Barcelona while Kiwi and I were at the Maresme Forum. Well, they changed it a bit, what do you say? :)

Hero sniffer dog 'not killed by cocaine'..

Haha, I love the odd news section of MSN so much!!

It's the story of a springer spaniel dog called Max who had worked as a drug sniffer for seven years and had finally died because of nasal cancer at the age of nine. They're now wondering if there might be some connection between his work and death. Well, I think he's indeed a poor dog considering the fact he had to die so young. Moreover, he had to pass his last years in a wheelchair.. sort of.. Anyway, regarding his job of sniffing cocaine for 7 years??! He must have been high for his lifetime! :)

Lines from the news I like most:
.\ ‘Max was a truly iconic and wonderful dog. We are heartbroken at his passing but celebrate the way he literally lived his life to the max.'
.\ 'Max was one in a million. It was an honour and a privilege to know him.'

I want to 'hear' that on my funeral!! Except for the d-word, of course.. :)

wuff wuff

Boy, what a storm!

A cyclone with peaks of more than 105 mph (170 km/h) hit Barcelona in the wee hours of this morning. It left some serious damage and even a few people dead..


Even a million year old palm tree couldn't withstand the attack of the wind:


Payback time!! Let me try not to seem too gleeful but to be honest, those scooters are just annoying and most of the time they're driving me mad! :)


In fact, lots of trees, traffic lights, cars, scooters, windows, houses, parks have been really destroyed and it looks like hell on the streets. There are pieces of glas everywhere but it seems that none cares. The Spanish (Catalan?) mentality must be: everything that's laying on the ground can't turn over again and we are expecting another storm in the next couple of days..

The end of the term is near..

When it's hot, you learn how to keep cool.. no matter what comes across. Time to see if that worked out! My last month in Barcelona begins today and Vienna is already stretching its fingers. How nice..

Montserrat

Caballé?

Nope! More like that:


Montserrat is popular for its finger-shaped rocks. I think those look more like faces:

Pure happiness!

If you wondered why my pictures look different this year. Yes! I got myself a brand new digital single-lens reflex camera for Christmas. I don't wanna bother you with technological stuff and details but let me tell you so far, it is truly amazing. Now, look what she (I'm actually thinking of naming her) can do:

I went out to see that huge television tower behind my house but I got stuck on my way there. Flowers blooming in the middle of January? I had to shoot some pictures of them:



When I got to the tower, I recognised the viewing platform is closed until March, but that didn't stop me to take a very close look:


Pure happiness! :)


Look how nice the weather was! I didn't want to go home, so I went over to Mont Tibidabo:


Great view on Montserrat from the back of the church:


You can even get on top of the church to take a look at the theme park from up there:




At the end, I saw a submarine on my way home. What a day! :)

Just the sky.. Vol. 2

This is what the sky around here looks like in January:

Happy new year!

Look what happened! The star of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" wears a brand new hat. Snow has covered Barca's surrounding mountains making them look like Krapfen.


What now Ms. rental car office? Are you still sure I don't need winter tyres?