Friday, November 18, 2005

How long are six weeks?

I had an exam and had to wait six weeks for the result. And that feeling of waiting is really annoying. Pretty ugly!
44 days = 1056 hours = 63360 minutes = 3801600 seconds.
The last week was the most difficult one. Every day after work I looked at my mail box, thinking about weather I should open it or not. I gave the key to my mother to avoid exactelly that situation, but after the weekend I went to get my key back. I finally wanted to know the result. But... Many accounts, junk and postcards, but no letter. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Tomorrow will be day 44. Finally! But i'm leaving the house at 9 and I'll get mail around noon and be back home on sunday evening. So I'll have to wait for another 30 hours. Aaarrrrrgggghhh!

Friday, November 11, 2005

Without a trace

Well, the joke about packing all the stuff in with paper was good. The thing that was NOT good at all is, that someone broke into the office right after it.
You don't understand it? Well, neither did I. Until yesterday...

The policeman left the office 15 mins ago. And that's what I told him:

Saturday in the morning two friends packed my office into paper. Two hours after they left you houskeeper wanted to clean the office but because there was no way in he left. Probably he forgot to close the back door. When I arrived at the office on Monday in the morning (I was in a hurry, I had to leave the second I entered the office) I didn't realize that anything was missing. I've noticed that the digital camera wasn't there but i rememberet that we lent it to a mate. and because of the special situation of all that paper I didn't think of anything else that that joke.

Yesterday, when I wanted to install the beamer I realized it wasn't there. I asked my mate but he didn't take it. Then I realized that the laptop was missing as well. And because it's always three I noticed that some money (SFr. 1500!!!!!) was not in it's place anymore.
Great. The door was open, the windows were closed, the robber had about 30 hours time to take out of the office whatever he or she wanted.
What makes me furious is that I didn't realize it before and that we extripated all the fingerprints and proofs. Without a trace...

Yes, shit happens...

Monday, November 07, 2005

Bored mates

Today when I wanted to enter my office I saw that:

Great. Ok, then I'll try the back door. Same picture there...

When I finally entered:

Really nice. One of my mates must have had a really boring weekend and too much time. The chairs, the computers, the mouse, the keyboard, the pens, everything was packaged and decorated with some sweets...

Even my dust bin!

How lovelly. Well, that's why I decided to go home again and not to work in the office until my mate comes back from holidays tomorrow.

Friday, November 04, 2005

A visit to Copenhagen

After a year full of scout camps we decided to leave Switzerland for a change. Just a weekend somewhere else in Europe. On friday morning we went to the airport and to the Swiss booking office. The lady there asked us where we wanted to go and we asked her to book the next free flight in Europe for us. She was a little confused and told us she couldn't. So we went to check the timetable and saw that the next plane went to Copenhagen. Back to the booking office to buy two tickets to Copenhagen. We had to hurry to the gate and when we arrived there we had to wait for about 40 mins becaues the plane couldn't land without sight in the fog.
After a short flight we arrived at Copenhagen Airport, at Kastrup. By train we went to the city looked for a hotel (which was not that easy bacause it was a Music Festival that weekend and every hotel was full) and luckily we found one. The last room in hotel Ansgar. And then we went to discover the City. Two days weren't enough to discover all the beauty of this interesting city but it was enough to get fascinated and get an impression about it.
They were crazy of building towers and castels. It was really impressive and I'm sure I'll go back some day. But first I'll go to Vienna next month :-)
I'll leave you some photos to share with you:



A view over Copenhagen from the round tower


Tivoli


The City hall


The black diamond


The stock exchange. 127 meters long...


...with a very special tower. Four dragons with their tails entangled


The famous Nyhavn


Nyhavn 17


Frederikskirke - unfortunately the church was closed for a wedding so I couldn't have a look inside. It must be great!


Amalienborg - the royal family's home


A fountain


The Mermaid


A nice building (in the military base)


Ansgar, the founder of Copenhagen


In the Bistro at the Mainstation nobody has to sit alone at the table, there is a cute Carlsberg-guy waiting to have company