Batch and tschilai endured me shooing them through Berlin last Sunday to get a picture of me in front of the Brandenburg Gate with two pieces of paper on which I had written birthday wishes for my grandma.
My grandma turned 85 this Thursday. The last time I saw her was about thirteen years ago. I was a teenager back then, but I remember how hard I cried when the plane left Magnitogorsk and took us to Moscow, back home, away from her. Since then, it’s always been college or work …

To be absolutely honest: when this “financial crisis” hit the news, I didn’t really worry about it. I don’t have enough money to invest into anything, so my understanding of these financial things is not too deep. And, after all, it happened far, far away. So why should it bother me?
Well, I guess, just like me, you couldn’t help noticing that the issue didn’t vanish from the headlines of the newspapers, online magazines or from the tv talkshows. And, now, it really has been driven home for me when the …

PASSED. HAPPY. PARTYING!
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Alright, I am nervous beyond description - today is my (hopefully) very last exam and today by 11:05 am I should forever be done with college.
I am scared out of my mind, as usual I feel completely unprepared and I keep worrying that I might fail this last one - that would not only be terrible inconvenient, but also embarrassing. My colleagues are waiting for me at work to show up with the champagne, my friends are sitting by their cell phones waiting for a SMS to let them …

Yep. That’s me. Figures. Just after I have some revelations about the beauty of life, it turns on me and makes me feel like [insert favorite swear word].
Yesterday I rode my bike to work and when I arrived, I almost collapsed, feeling sick to my stomach, dizzy and utterly exhausted. After some complimentary comments by my colleagues (”You look like the stuff in the air sickness bags on planes”), I decided to go home. I couldn’t concentrate anyway and I didn’t want to infect anyone else. When I did my …

Beware, this is going to be long. Go, grab a cocktail or a glass of wine and then come back and read.
“All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments .. of revelation. This had the feeling of both.
G’Quan wrote: ‘There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, …