http://kike.blogsome.com as of now, work in Progress Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:52:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/07/21/la-ville-des-comics-iv/ We all wound up sick to death of the French election, alter seeing the blessed pair everywhere on every TV, radio, newspaper and conversation. Is France really that important? They are the best example of how NOT to do things, the embodiment of a brake to development. Well, now there ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/05/17/elections-in-belgium/ Today I fly to Spain again, Blitz journey, return tomorrow. Reason: yet another concours of the same organisation. I already spoke about the one I did the last months; as foreseen, I passed all the exams (they were not difficult), but the fact of it being a concours-competition means I ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/05/08/football-exams-overemployment-moving-and-the-stones/    http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/05/06/la-ville-des-comics-iii/ I am changing town & country within days, unless something unforseen may appear. But my role model will accompany me and keep my feet warm wherever I go. It is a pleasure to have him on my new shocks (a sister´s present, bought at a fleamarket in Burgos). The most ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/04/27/this-shocks-are-made-for-walking/ Yesterday´s flight between Brussels and Madrid was my 8th of this year. The airport overdose is beginning to loose my screws. Scene at the Brussels Airlines check-in desk: BAH (Brussels Airlines Hostess): "Good morning Sir." TM (Tired Me): "Hi." BAH: "Any Luggage?" TM: "Just this bag, I´d rather carry it ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/04/20/at-the-airport/ Hard to believe, the original cover of The Stones´ "Sticky Fingers" - the one with the zip, see "Times change" - was banned in Spain. It was 1971 and my guess is the censors deemed it too "sexually explicit". So the album was released with a different cover that, in ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/dedicated-to-that-boy/ I am not keen on football. Anybody knows that. Well then, right now I am translating a football magazine, having my flatmate answer my technical questions - I just learned what a sweeper system is, though I´ll be damned if I know how to translate it - and we´ve got ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/04/11/quirks-of-fate/ <p>To counter my rather sensitive post on Knut, something far less cute. Three R &acute;n&acute; R albums with a crotch on the cover (O, the LP times, when the cover was as magical as the music itself&hellip; Something died when Internet took ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/03/30/p65/ Berliners are far kinder than the Bavarian Authorities when it comes to bears. They have rallied to defend Knut, although an animal rights campaigner said the bear shouldn´t have been kept alive and should be put to sleep. They´ve got their reasons (alongside loads of sangfroid), yet I deem their ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/knut/ Facts. I finished the Commission stage 20 days ago, I’ve got no job, neither have I hunted for one a lot, but I know it is thorny in Brussels (supply much bigger than demand, with nefarious consequences I’ll explain another day); however the last 20 days have been the most ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/03/24/a-bad-run/ Yesterday I had a sleepless, thoughtful night. Knowing me, I suppose it is just normal, I think too much and being jobless enhances my pessimism and musing over decadence. It is easy to feel confused. Yet I shall not be idle this month: I must study (a concours and my ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/03/07/p62/ <p class="MsoNormal"><span>It is not the slowdown of the U.S. economy or the unfairness of globalisation. Neither is it the financial markets&acute; tumbling of last week. China has not devoured the rest of the world and Iran hasn&acute;t officially got Weapons of Mass Destruction. I ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/03/06/p61/ … because yesterday I felt asleep at 4.30. I had nothing to read (error) and could not sleep because I am sick (a cold that evolved into bronchitis, bloody cigarettes). So I went in Charlie’s room looking for anything readable (Charlie is my flatmate, who yesterday was at Suequi’s, his ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/02/16/p60/ Brussels. You dodge the mountains of rubbish that crowd the streets of the capital of Europe, grey clouds are mirrored on grey puddles while the combination of grey smoke from grey cars owned by grey executives and driven by grey chauffeurs on grey roads and grey skyscrapers prevents one from ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/02/14/youthful-laments-2007/   http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/02/13/grote-markt/ http://kike.blogsome.com/2007/01/22/paris/   http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/12/11/la-ville-des-comics-ii/ <p class="MsoNormal">James Bond looking like a steroid-sated Gorilla from the DDR, troubled by the problems he finds himself in, that falls in love and quits from MI6? Where are the silly jokes, high-tech gadgets and British cold blood? Critics praise &ldquo;Casino Royale&rdquo; as the best Bond in years. The atmosphere ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/12/03/changes/ <p class="MsoNormal">Third time I visit Amsterdam, and the city outperforms itself each time. Awesome! An utterly different perception because this time I saw the real Amsterdam, beyond tourism and sleaze. The first time I was there was great, that marvel of a hostel called the <strong><a href="http://kike.blogsome.com/wp-admin/images/cerdo.jpg" target="_self" ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/11/27/53/ <p class="MsoNormal">I have neglected the blog a bit as of late. Moreover, I have not written anything in English for ages. I am beginning to consider whether I should drop the blog in English; truth be told, hardly anybody reads it. I have not blogged because last week was stressful ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/11/20/robberies-floods-cold-showers-and-fire-alarms/   http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/11/18/la-ville-des-comics/ http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/11/01/the-belgian-coast-sand-dunes/ You probably thought that the amazing Spiderman was in fact Peter Parker, a timid journalist and student that was stung by a radioactive spider, did you not? Wrong, the superhero quiz says I am the amazing Spiderman:I am intelligent and have great power… I haven’t got to show my badge ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/10/25/my-secret-identity/ Today is my last ICEX day. Almost three years since I applied and began, a month later, with the selection process on a rainy day in a Hotel on the outskirts of Madrid. Three nice years. To begin with the boring stuff, work, I liked the course in Madrid (suppose ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/25/farewell-reflecting-on-the-past/         http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/25/45/ This is my last day in Viena. Tomorrow I will sleep in Brussels. Last Saturday we had farewell party in Fledermaus, where all the Teutonic, beer soaked hits sounded: “Zu Spät”, “Aus Liebe” “Lust am Leben” and so forth until (upon my request) “Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann”. Downright proper. Yesterday I ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/25/44/ …zum Geburstag FOB! Brüssel benötigt bald deine Nerven aus Stahl!Isch langwille misch wie ne Kuh auf n Alpi.  http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/25/alles-gute/ “Austria first”,  “Homeland instead Islam”, “Homeland instead Schüssel and Brussels”, “Vienna shall not became Istambul”… The FPÖ´s campaign is the funniest I´ve ever seen. Throw a glimpse in their website. The pic on the right, posing as if he were James Bond. The poster “The patriot, he for you”… I ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/18/seeing-is-believing/ Within two weeks I´ll have left here. The change will be welcome. I do not feel much sadness. But I will miss Vienna nevertheless, a city I explored and discovered wholly on my own. The Budvar (the Czech stuff, not the American) Krügln in Schweizarhaus, on its dirty beer mats. ... http://kike.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/things-i-will-miss/