Monthly Archives: October 2001

The Great Escape

Week­ends, they don’t come bet­ter than this.
Where shall I start?
Well, here I am, in Manuel’s room, a very happy guest for the week­end with a very good friend. I’m lis­ten­ing to Tori Amos, moan­ing away, and while Manuel doesn’t like her, he let me down­load her .mp3s into his PC and play them. It was 10 a.m.

Marco’s Birthday

Woke up at half past six this morn­ing just to go room-hunting. Didn’t go far. Just see­ing the German-speaking com­pe­ti­tion with­ered me. Ga.
Had an inter­est­ing email from LT today, her first since I came her. Ver­bally bang­ing me with such vigour I’ve not seen since our uni­ver­sity days (still applies to me, I sup­pose). Told me

Yo-Yo

Today has been a com­plete yo-yo.
It started off like a dream — going to Stu­den­ten­werk and get­ting some num­bers and call­ing up land­lords and going as far as Ara­bel­la­park to these beau­ti­ful sub­urbs and even bet­ter house and the best room you can imag­ine. And the land­lord whose Ger­man I can under­stand for some strange rea­son.
Sounds

Never Ask The Lonely

I won­der if I am just lonely.
Never ask the lonely. They either won’t say a word, or they’ll pour every­thing out. Like I’m about to do (but which one?)
I’m get­ting so frus­trated and depressed look­ing for a damn room here in Munich. It’s near impos­si­ble in this city. And the rates the ask! High­way rob­bery and

Somewhere I Know You’ll Be Her

When Tori per­forms here in Munich this Decem­ber, the song I want to hear the most is “Some­where Over The Rain­bow”.
I know she doesn’t do cov­ers often (but con­sid­er­ing she’s released an entire album of just those, maybe) but this song will be it for me. Even more than my nor­mal faves like “Dough­nut Song”

A.I. — Affection Inherent

Finally watched A.I. today. Enjoyed it despite poor reviews from Mon­key Boy or the girls. To be fair, they did say they would have enjoyed it if it had ended the way it seemed to have, instead of going on.
That pseudo-ending, I agree, with the kid robot in the ship under the sea, wait­ing for an

Drawing Girls

Tonight was the last night the girls are in Munich before they leave for Prague and Ams­ter­dam, together with Mon­key Boy. I invited them and the rest of the Fam­ily to din­ner.
Feel­ing adven­tur­ous after my mas­sive cook­out dur­ing Inter­na­tional Nite weeks before, I cooked them nasi lemak (coconut milk rice) and Szechuan spicy chicken with