omg i missed a freaking fantastic goal..

the play was totally not my type. so ya. it was also quite funny cos during the play people were making hand signals to the other side of the stage. so i knew it was 2-0 at that point. anyway at 9.50 or so we had intermission. i think 3/4 of the audience (including me) switched to becoming football audience at the nearby gelatteria. lol. i could still catch the last 40 mins or so. i didn't return. i find the game more worth watching than the play.

anyway fortunately i could watch video highlights on the net. watch it here:
http://www.d1g.com/video/show/2060973

is Podolski left-footed? he seems to kick a lot with his left foot.

Sorry. yea. The score. 3-2 for germany.

this piece is cool. haha.



germany playing tonight against Portugal. quarter finals. hope they go through. i hope i'll be able to catch at least the last half an hour of the game. i've to read the 'Merry Wives of Windsor' now.quick. watching the play tonight. hopefully not too long.

went to watch football at an italian eiscafe. the rest of the people watched football at the stammtisch in some bar, but we didn't cos we don't like the crowd. it was funny that angela merkel was there (on tv, not in the eiscafe). and then during the break there was a news report on her being in poland and she was wearing the same suit. so we went like, she went directly to watch the game?? ok. Deutschland 1 - 0 Oesterreich. sad that the goal was a free kick. but okay at least they've now secured a place in the quarter finals, so we can go on more footballgamewatchingsession. that's Anglizismus. no that's a joke. ok no that was a "joke". and this morning in class we discussed (the teacher said this) how weird it was that angela merkel gave frans beckenbauer a hug. cos usually for the chancellor it's fine, but for a chancellorin.. and before that she hugged bastian schweinsteiger first. so it was kind of surprising to our teacher.

ok the joke was based on this german tendency to create very long words by connecting two or more words together. for example "Lebenshaltungskosten" = cost of living. but i guess it's not funny now that i've explained it. not that it was funny in the first place. ha.

i watched the indonesian film 'Gie' on youtube on friday. it's a movie on the life of activist Soe Hok Gie in the 1960s. the movie is quite recent, though. Nicholas Saputra acts okay.. but i think his voice makes it freaking boring. i can't comment much on how good it is as a movie, as i don't know much about Soe Hok Gie myself. nevertheless it was okay-enjoyable, though very long.

the soundtrack is really really nice though. so i'm posting it here.

went on an 8-km walk with two japanese friends. about there. to see the "BIG TREE" and back. it was a nice walk although it drizzled halfway. and then we had a great lunch. haha, but i still hope i burned more calories than i took in.

Schwaebisch Hall from the top of the hill.

walked through a village. this house has freaking pretty flowers!!

the "Grosser Baum". right. we walked freaking 4 km for this?? there was a tree this size in front of my primary school!!

but oh well it was fun. besides, there isn't much else to do in town on a sunday. everything's closed. and it was a good way of experiencing nature. so ya, i don't mind going wandering again some other day.

today we went to a trip to the region of Schwaeb. Alb. it was crazy cold. about 10 degrees. that, to me, was real cold. anyhow. we set out at 7.30 am and reached home about 7.30 pm. 12 hours. hm.. well overall i liked the stuttgart trip better. haha. this one, well not too bad towards the end but the first two stops were.. not cool.

had 3 stops. 1. Schloss Lichtenstein. i checked this out online. it's nowhere near Liechtenstein the country (with e), which is next to Switzerland. and it's also nowhere near Lichtenstein the city, which is in germany but in Saxony (and we're in a different province, Baden-Wurttemberg). anyway, for the 2.5 hours journey we went through to get there, it wasn't worth it. there wasn't much to see cos we were only shown like 4 rooms?? looks quite cool from the outside though.


2. Baerenhoehle. this was the lowest point of the trip, cos we were so hungry, and so freaking cold. if it was 10 degrees outside, imagine, it was probably like 6 freaking degrees inside the cave. i wasn't so big on this because erm.. i HAVE SEEN a stalactite-stalagmite cave. besides the guide spoke with quite a strong accent and quickly, too, and with technical terms, i understood nearly zero. plus my brain wasn't thinking with all the cold. so it was really unimpressive. there were bear remains though (as seen below).


3. Schloss Sigmaringen. it doesn't look very nice from just outside. but this was the best part of the trip cos the interior was cool, albeit more "recent". and the guide was clear and informative. some really cool frescos, too. unfortunately we weren't allowed to take photographs within the walls of the Schloss.

freaks. look at this person's backyard. it's full of flowers!! (i think they're all roses. i think). the white and peach ones are bigger than my fist. it's really pretty. i hope the owner's not offended i took this picture. lol.


yesterday we watched this film called 'Das Wunder von Bern' about the 1954 world cup which germany won (which they see as really important in the re-building of the nation's confidence after the world war II). film was nice.. quite easy to understand, also because i could just concentrate on the subtitle. (german, of course, otherwise we'd be learning nothing.) as usual i find the ending far-fetched. but overall it was quite enjoyable. then, as yesterday was Bill's birthday (in blue), five of us went to "celebrate" at a Kneipe. then Turkey won the match against Switzerland and the roads were as noisy as they were on sunday when Germany won.


i met a madman yesterday. he talked a lot and was quite annoying but maybe i should consider that an opportunity to put my german to use. fortunately i wasn't alone so it wasn't so bad. we got a new teacher today. he looks like einstein. really. a bit. so far i like the old one better but i guess it just takes getting used to.