Monthly Archives: December 2001

Adam Kiss My Eve

There are firecrackers in the street and fireworks in the sky. I recall the words of the first Strange Little Girl: Adam Kiss My Eve. Suddenly I get an inkling of what it could mean, here. The past haunts, but that is no reason not to celebrate the now. You’ve got to let go and

Berlin, Finally

I’m lying, collapsed, on a bed in Hotel Carat, Berlin. You have no idea what it took to get me here.

Leaving Las München

In the morning, Marco, Claudio, J-Dawg and I set about seeing Michael off. China-bound for a couple of months to be with his girlfriend, Jenny, he seemed to have packed enough for a year! Two large suitcases and a grin on his face. On the hour-long trip to the airport, we joked and bantered listlessly,

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sometimes walking can be a chore, especially if it’s late and it’s cold. Sometimes walking can be wonderful, even if it’s late and it’s cold. Walking back to Stusta this early in the morning, with snow on the ground but no frost biting yet, all the way from Cinema, near Hauptbahnhof, is both long (yet

Christmas with Two Mikes

Here is a brief recap of the Christmas week I spent with the two Mikes in Stusta. Great meals, amazing food-fests though quality on the slump as we ran out of food. At one point Useless McGyver was making rice with leftover cheese. But damnit, it was still good! Holidays are never the same without

Kantonesisches Kochen

This Tuesday, I played host, as I often do on a very irregular basis (or is that regularly infrequent?), to my friends. I invited 13, some of them invited more, but luckily none of the extras turned up though I ws disappointed 3 had to cancel as they were on their way back home for

Ski Weekend at Kitzbühel

This weekend I entered Austria under the assumed identity of Giorgio Stone.The rest, as the say, is history. (Or possibly a whole lot of BS, but you’ll have to wade in and find out for yourself, won’t you?) The week itself was crazy enough. Thursday evening saw J-Dawg and I doing some really last-minute shopping