PICTURES

Hey everybody, here are some links to picture pages I uploaded today:
- I made a trip to the Badener Lindkogel a hill or mountain close to Vienna:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Badener_Lindkogel
- I assisted at a biological practical course in my former high school:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Biolab_Dezember_2005
- Pictures from the christmas party at my institute:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Christmas_Party_IMBA_2005
- On a Sunday I went to Schönbrunn, one of the most beautiful castles in Vienna, close to where I live:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Gloriette_und_Schoenbrunn
- The presentation of the Studienfahrten:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Studienfahrt-Praesentation_2005
- Pictures of the Christmas concert of my local musicclub:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Weihnachtsfeier_MVW_2005
- Pictures of Vienna, seen from the Danube Tower:
fotos.web.de/ehmseb/Wien_vom_Donauturm

Have fun!

Long time no see!

Hey everybody!
Back again!
You might have wondered why did not write to you for such a long time. Well, this had only one reason. I have not been close to PC and not even in Vienna for some days. From last Friday until Tuesday this week I absolved my first home-trip from Vienna which I had been looking forward to a lot.
After a day without a lot of work on Friday, some seminars, I left early, around 3.30pm for Germany. The driving was horrible, a lot of snow and and rain. Still I could make it home within six hours. I did not have any plans for this evening, so the better it was that, after meeting Jule at his place, we ended up in Heilbronn to have some cocktails. During the drive there we celebrated Katha's birthday in a round-about with Champagne Pascal brought. The night ended at around 4.30 in the morning in front of Passe's house with a lot of discussion.
The next day started late, in the afternoon. I spent some time having a coffee in Besigheim with Geli and Jacki and then I went to the christmas celebration/concert of the local MV Walheim. An intersting evening started with a lot of drinks, a nice concert, a lot of dancing and another private party at Ferds's place. Again I only went home at 4.30 in the morning.
Finally Sunday came. It started with a good lunch and went on with a very much desired stay at the Enztal Sauna. WOW! This is such a great place. I love to go there. We spent around four hours sweating and ended up at Ararat's for a Döner. This evening I went to bed early for on Monday I had to get up early to go to school and be assistant at a biological practical course in my former high school, the Biolab. During the day I helped with a lot of experiments and talked to all of my friends there. After the course finished this day I went to the christmas celebration of this years Abiband, of which I know all people. We sang christmas carols and without a stop slipped into the presentation of this years Studienfahrten. I was again very much looking forward to that for the Elba video was shown which I did not see before. The whole evening was a great pleasure ending in the pub Krone with some beers.
Finally on Tuesday morning I went back to Vienna to reach the lab in the afternoon, this time after a quieter ride. I really wanted to work this day but was not very successful for the IMP/IMBA christmas party already started at 5pm. You will be jealous if you see the pictures, I promise. There was lots of great food, free beer, wine, Sekt. We also had Sushi and in the course of the party I was dancing like crazy with the best music mix I heard for a long time. Everybody was crazy, beer was poured over my head and the next day we received a mail that a lot of stuff was destroyed in the course of the party and food thrown around.
I came home at 2 o'clock in the morning after a night bus ride, did sleep quite good and woke up without a headache. For my boss was late the whole week I could come late to the lab and althoug I really wanted do to something productive this day, again it did not work. At 2pm we went to my boss' place for the lab christmas celebration. Good tea and coffe, sweets and cookies waited for us and I even got a present, cool!
Back to the lab and then in the evening to Sergio's place for a great Italian dinner. And again home in the middle of the night.
So today, after almost one week, I finally find the time to write some lines.
I hope the length of this entry did not bother you.
So long!

Somewhen durig the week

Hey everybody!
I tell you it is getting harder and harder to find a time to write to my BLOG.
Right now I am still at the lab having a short break in between experiments.
Just shortly I wanna tell you about the last days. The most exciting event was yesterday the IMP/IMBA (the name of my institutes) christmas concert where I performed in a clarinet duo. I had a lot of fun, met some more interesting musicians and after the concer had a lot of wine and cheese. But then I was completely done in the evening not having any remaining brain or body power to write to you.
Well...now...let me think, what else happened? Today is Wednesday, ok today so far no exciting things. Ok, tonight again orchestra rehearsal and then a party...
...this will leave again being very tired tomorrow.
On Monday, ok, yes, I remeber. Twas a horrible day. In lab nothing worked and I was quite sad in the evening. Nobody wanted to have a beer with me. And so I went home alone. But Markus cheered my up a while when we were discussing about the potential Silvester party in Besigheim and Umgebung.
Ah ja...and on Tuesday we also finally started a new project in the lab. And for that we ordered stuff for several thousand Euros. This was fun, I tell you.
So...now I have to go on working. See you all on Friday!

Sorry

Sorry, der Link zum Sebbi seim BLOG ist falsch. Muss heißen:
brainblogga.blogspot.com

Blue Monday

Acutally, before I do anything else, I need to tell you, that I have a new BLOG colleague. He is also a Sebastian, namely Sebi Prill whos BLOG you can visit under:
brainblogger.blogspot.com
But now, the story goes on. Yesterday I had a quite nice Sunday. After my Satruday session I got up at around 10am and after showering and organizeing some stuff in the appartment, I actually left around noon with my beloved Clio towars Baden, a nice town with around 20000 inhabitants south of Vienna. From here I did a nice hiking trip around the Badener Kogel, a hill with around 600m. On my tour I had a lot of time to think and even more. Two ruins were included on my path some caves and several gorgious vies donw into the Helenental and to Baden behind which the flat area of the Marchfeld streches.
Stupid as I was, I did not think about taking something to drink, nor money with my. So after the tour whicht took me four hours and on which I lost my map twice which meant that I had always to go back quite a distance to recover it, I was completely hungry and thirsty, which lead me, on my way back to Vienna, to McDonalds......hmmmmmmmmmmm...
In the evening then, I had no program planned. So I decided to use a cinama ticket (for free) that I still had to go and see "Die Kroniken von Narnja". For I did not have to pay for neither the fikm, nor popcorn or coke and for I did not know anything about the movie, I really enjoyed it.
So then I came home close to bedtime. And ended up listening to Harry Potter again.

Leopoldscafe

Acutally it is strange what kind of days happen to me from time to time. Days in which you encounter all sorts of different feelings. The ones you have when you wake up are completely not the same than in the evening. Today was such a day. I did not want to get up at all, my head was turning in bed. But finally I put a foot out of bed and thing were not quite as bad as I thought. I surfed the web, answered some mail (everyhting with my flatmate lying next to me on the couch) and finally I already left my appartment around noon for a walk in the castle's park to make some Vienna pictures. At that time the sun was shining. The world seemed ok. I went home the, made my weekend shopping on the way and ended up in the kitchen preparing lunch, Grammelknödel, a specialty from Burgenland, the Austrian state south-east of Vienna. At 2.30pm I left again (until this time my flatmate had left his bed) to do some christmas shopping. Unfortunately I ended up having bought most of the stuff for me. I did not really think about possible presents before.
Right before I payed at IKEA I was called by a friend who told me that I can not join him in the evening. Shit! Another lonsome night during the weekend. This seemed to be a horrible weekend.
When I came home I tried to find some activity for the evening but did not succeed in discovering a place in Vienna that I really liked to go that night and definitely not alone.
Some SMS' later and after a phone call I left my flat the third time this day to meet Natalia, a colleague from the institute. During my ride to her place a labmate called ans finally I was meeting with six girls in Cafe Leopold in the museums quarte in downtown Vienna.
From this place I have just come home now. It is 2.20am in the morning and after some beers and a lot of dancing (tow DJs and a live act were playing some dancing music) and a nightbus ride home (did I tell you that they have nightbusses here every evening during the week, every 30 minutes, all night long from midnight until the morning, whe the first U-Bahn is going?) I will finish this monster-entry and dive into Harry Potter's world once again.

Another weekend!

I tell you something!
Just in case you did not know, I will soon be old.
This I noticed again today. No plans for the weekend, no energy to try something new, no will to do something on my own. Well, well, well!!! Sounds bad, huh!
Ok, not too bad. Work was done today and after some of my flatmate's friends came to our appartment in the evening and I started watching the drawing of the WM groups, I finally wanted to go out with Natalia to either a soul dancing place or a private party but then in the end I missed one bus and therefore the U-Bahn and so also Natalia whose phone ran out of battery and this meant that by the end of this day I did not do anything.
Right now I saw the German group. Not too hard for us.
I think I will end this unlucky day now and go for the next chapter of my Harry Potter audiobook!
More on the weekend!

Once again!

Alright, I think it's time to write again.
Now it is Friday evening and I have just come home from work.
Unfortunately I do not have any plans for tonight.
Right now, I am surfing the web and watch TV (Südwest Drei).
Today nothing special happened. Working in the lab, a seminar in the afternoon, practicing the clarinet for the concert on Tuesday.
We will see waht happens today.
Yesterday was a holiday in Austria, so I did not work. I was sleeping long and in the afternoon I went on top of the Donau Turm. A nice tower similar to the Fernsehturm in Stuttgart. I had a great view of Vienna and the mountains of the Wienderwald in the back. I made some photos that I will show you some time. After that I went shopping to Mariahilfer Straße, a big shopping street in Vienna. At least I found one christmas present. In the evening, after doing some city exploring with the city bike, I met some colleagues in the Schwarzes Cafe. Twas nice. I met Alessandros sister...
This was it for that day. Well, on the way home I met some nice people from Südtirol and I showed the way to some Austrians. So I really finally am a Viennese one!

Thanks

Ok, for a first thing I want to say THANK YOU for reading my adventures. It really honours me to see that there are moren than 100 visits every weeks!!!!
For today. I have just come back from downtown where I have been at two places with some student colleagues. First we went to Cafe Latte and had a cocktail for a cheap price because it happened that we ordered when they had their happy minutes. Some talking then and looking at the photos of my Neusiedler See Trip and the goose eating some days ago. The we continued to the "Möbel" a bar in which you sit on very unike and nicely designed furniture that was made by design students and you can actually buy all the stuff you see. Great thing indeed. And cheap...I mean not the furniture but the drinks and so on...And nice staff. They even brought me some water to drink when I did not order anything for I was there with my car.
Before all these bars we had a beer hour at the institute again. One of the labs which is gonna move to Oxford celebrated their goodbye. T'was fine, beer for free and some food.
During the day I was working, things went fine, some reading, some jokes with the boss, like dissconnecting him from the internet router...:-)
This morning I came to work by car which makes thing faster. But in the evening I found my fourth parking ticket at the window. What a sh...!!!
Well so far I never had to pay.
Now, best thing, tomorrow is a holiday giving me the chance to sleep long, then maybe do some christmas shopping and in the evening...we will see.
Sounds like a good day, yes, it was one...
...no I go to bed.

Thanks

Ok, for a first thing I want to say THANK YOU for reading my adventures. It really honours me to see that there are moren than 100 visits every weeks!!!!
For today. I have just come back from downtown where I have been at two places with some student colleagues. First we went to Cafe Latte and had a cocktail for a cheap price because it happened that we ordered when they had their happy minutes. Some talking then and looking at the photos of my Neusiedler See Trip and the goose eating some days ago. The we continued to the "Möbel" a bar in which you sit on very unike and nicely designed furniture that was made by design students and you can actually buy all the stuff you see. Great thing indeed. And cheap...I mean not the furniture but the drinks and so on...And nice staff. They even brought me some water to drink when I did not order anything for I was there with my car.
Before all these bars we had a beer hour at the institute again. One of the labs which is gonna move to Oxford celebrated their goodbye. T'was fine, beer for free and some food.
During the day I was working, things went fine, some reading, some jokes with the boss, like dissconnecting him from the internet router...:-)
This morning I came to work by car which makes thing faster. But in the evening I found my fourth parking ticket at the window. What a sh...!!!
Well so far I never had to pay.
Now, best thing, tomorrow is a holiday giving me the chance to sleep long, then maybe do some christmas shopping and in the evening...we will see.
Sounds like a good day, yes, it was one...
...no I go to bed.

Maeckes

After I used my Skype phone just now to talk to Tabea at home I am not really in the mood to write everything again.
Only one thing!
This evening, after I walked in the rain, being hungry, having to go to the toilett and not finding the place where the choir was rehearsing I wanted to participate in, I went to McDonalds, ordered two chicken burger and then...
...a small lady, looking like from the Philipines, being a McDonalds cleaing womand and probably not having an easier life than me, after she saw that I was sitting there alone and only eating my burgers, tried to speak to me her few Germand words and after I told her that icetea is a good beverage she came back to my table five minutes later bringing me a full cup of fresh icetea...only just so, with a smile and free of charge.

Sometimes, things like this happen!!!

Third weekend

Okidoki!
Didn't write yesterday and today will be short.
Well after my odyssee I woke up late on Saturday. After starting a first machine of dirty clothes I finally went downtown to meet Gregor from my lab for lunch (at 3pm). I had a good dish from Kaernten, Kasnudeln, really ok. After that we went to an interesting bar, called Phil. Which is a mixture of book shop and record shop and coffee. You can sit down, read, buy. Actually they have great glasses, almost like my porn glasses, that are now broken...
...Then I went home again to join Alessandro, Silvia and Natalia to visit a Christkindl market downtown and to visit a nice bar afterwards. Was fine! When I came home I did not join the party of my flatmate's friend. I was just too tired from my Vienna night cruise on Friday.
Sunday I spent all day with natalia. We made a trip to Neusiedler See. A lake almost as big as the Bodensee around 50km south of Vienna. We had a coffee in Eisenstadt, the Haydn city, drove along the lake went to the lake shore to meet some swans and to find a beautiful public beacht and finally ended up in Podersdorf, a small village directly at the lake where I had been many, many years before with my mom for holiday. We had dinner in a kind of Besenwirtschaft where I had a dish, typically for the most eastern region of Austria, the Burgenland. After that we made some sunset fotos of the lake and went back to Vienna where we finished a very nice day with a tea at here place. Here I also met Pedro, her Spanish flatmate. Coming home already around 19.30 I ironed my clothes, played a the clarinet a little, smoked my Shisha, took a bath and now I am gonna go the bed to finally find enough sleep for the upcoming week. How was your weekend???So long!

An odyssee in Vienna

Yesterday:
Work done...Sebi goes home...coming home, establishes connectionn to the internet with his brandnew Apple iBook...it hast a microphone...calling of Jule via Skype...it works...juhuuuuuuuuu...he calls back to a Besigheim number...works as well...juhuuuuuuuu...Sebi goes back to downtown...meeting with Gregor from the lab...off we walk to a Weihnachtsmarkt...shit, already closed...still the first two Gluehweine of this season...great, nice atmosphere...and on it goes to a bar which used to be a PUFF...and still looks completely like it...Sebi lies down onto a couch and waits...but no girls would come...still beers number one and two...another guy from the lab joins us...talking, laughing, talking...beer number three...the guy leaves but instead other people from the institute come...talking, laughing, talking...beer numer four...Sebi is in a good mood...planning of a trip to Kaerten and Italy next week...great, great, great, Itay...music is good and more people are coming...dancing, dancing, dancing, for the first time dancing in Vienna...time goes by...1.30 in the morning and Sebi decides to leave...but where to go...no idea where the nightbus leaves...Sebi walks on...of course in the completely wrong direction...Sebi is tired...he buys a doener...and suddenly realizes that the direction is wrong...Sebi walks back at least now with food...Sebi reaches the Westbahnhof and rents a citybike at 2.15 in the morning...Sebi bikes through Vienna in the middle of the night...now to the right direction...to walk it would have taken hours...Sebi reaches the place where the night busses depart...some waiting time...it is 3.00 now...nightbus comes...Sebi sleeps and dreams...fortunately he wakes up two stops before the right one...it is 3.30 now and completely still in the district where I live...Sebi reaches his appartement...oh, what a night...
now it's 13.30 the next day and I am still tired as hell

DAY SIXTEEN

Today is already day seventeen but I went to orchestra rehearsal yesterday and afterwards to a Chriskindl market which then was already closed so that we ended up in a bar to celebrate the diploma exam of a clarinet player. I came home after midnight and did not relocate my computer to write to the BLOG.
Actually this is what I usually have to do. Bring my computer from my room to the living room for only there I have internet connection and I also need my computer in my sleeping room to listen to Harry Potter 5 audiobook.
Now I only have seven more minutes until I have to plate some transformed bacteria. Today was a busy day and a frustrating as well.
Oh, I forgot that this should be the entry for yesterday. So, well, I can't even remember what happened beside the rehearsal.
Ah...right...I joined the neighbouring lab for lunch at T-lunch the mensa in the T-systems building. Work was fine but nothing special though.
Ok! I need to go on working.
....Again something came to my mind. I was asked to participate at the christmas concert of my institute. This means that I might need to really practice the next weeks to play a duo with an older guy from upstairs in our building.

Well, now, finito!

CU