Dadj is in love with a Dutch girl !

Well yeah,
In the last weeks I have fallen in love with a dutch girl.. you will found out about her a little bit later as I first wanna share some other thoughts ^^

Last week I watched two nice movies: die Welle (the book is better, and I still think the whole story is too exaggerated) and 500 days of Summer (nice movie, very lovely - made me think about kharma, destiny, love@first sight and such nonsense, in the end I realized: of course there is always kind of luck, destiny, kharma or whatever that makes it possible that 2 people meet each other.. and when you  are in a relationship you can definetly say: "oh it was destiny that we met each other" "It was such an accident, that I was exactly at that place, that day, when you also where there" etc.. blabla.. that might be true.. but there you forget how often you have taken steps and made decision within this relationship. Somebody has to call the other person to ask for a date, somebody has to accept the invitation, and somebody has to do the first kiss... well... on the other hand, maybe it was meant to be.. because if you would not have kissed this time, she would have kissed you the next time, and there is just no way that the two of you would not have gotten together ;))

Sunday I was running 17km, with quite some alcohol in my blood. As we all know that when you are drunk you rarely feel any pain (besides extremely strong heart-pain cuz you are super-emotional ;)), it might therefore be a good idea to always go running after going out the night before. At least with me it had a good impact.

Oke, now the great news: I have fallen in love with a dutch girl. She is called Klaaver Jassen :) She is my triumph and the last days I almost met her every day. Sometimes she likes me - sometimes she doesnt :) I am excited to see, when I will get annoyed by her and stop meeting her... tihiii ^^

Alright - I guess that's it for the week, I am going to meet my darling now :)

Btw it's only 4 more days til my guys start their "Roadtrip to Dadj/Dasch/Dutch" - so much looking forward to it, and I guess (unless I write another post this weekend), my next post will be much more exciting, telling you some cleaned (not the xxx-rated ones) stories of our tour through the Netherlands :)

Love Dadj

I am not writing about Justin Bieber ;(

Hoi everybody !

As I actually wanted to discuss about Justin Bieber in this weeks blog, I am disappointed that I have to write about something different. Unfortunately the Justin Bieber movie is scheduled only in the afternoon (as it is for kids;)), when I have to work. Maybe I will watch it in the weekend - some girls from Vienna told me, the movie is really fun to see, btw. its 3D!! x)

Sooo.. just a very short blog about the fun of sports.. especially jogging, or hardloping (running hard) as it is called in dutch. Jogging is especially fun, if you have somebody to talk to (like Arni was my running-bro in Vienna) or at least if you have some music to listen to (somehow, my ipod shuffles Pink very often - and it really is great to listen to, when running). By the way: After the first two times, when I was running and the alarm of the train always started it has not happened ever again - you wanna know why? Because now i have the ipod, so if the alarm would start I would not be scared anyway, as the music is too loud ;) Well... karma is smart :)
Anyway its a great feeling achieving something, and with sports its a easy way to do so, as you can set small goals, and for running the combination of moving fast, feeling the air in your face, listening to great music, being in the nature and have an awesome view makes the fun! :)

Dont know if for you this picture at this spot makes sense, but standing at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at night, with this great view and the wind blowing in my face - somehow gave me a similar feeling to jogging :)

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My running goals for next half year (now that I write it public I have to stick to it, in order to not loose my face ;)):
6.8 km @ Batavierenrace 6th of May
14 km @ Nacht van Groningen 2nd of June
21 km @ Marathon in Amsterdam 16th of October

For the last two events I am not subscribed yet, but I will do so;)

Besides that, concerning sports, in particular soccer: It's sad that Austria lost against Belgium & Turkey and therefore would now have to beat Germany to keep chances for reaching the European Championship 2012. It is funny what is happening at Rapid Vienna & Red Bull Salzburg in the last weeks with all the trainer & manager changes, and it's great that Sturm Graz will be Austrian Champion this year :)

Speaking of sports, I was the Fifa-King this weekend in Utrecht and just now tried playing ProEvoSoccer on a Samsung pad. This pads are really awesome and probably worth the 700Euro? Allthough it may be more attractive when you dont have it, but as soon as you have it, I can imagine that the idea of going to a park lying in the sun and just playing a game on the ipad is not that appealing anymore?!

Anyway, Champions League starts in a few minutes, so lets hope Manchester United beats Chelsea :)

Daaaadj!

oh..and if you wanna see new pictures of my time in Groningen, check out my facebook-album: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1144811054&aid=197834

Recipe: Kebab (Iranian Food) for 13 persons

This weeks highlight was definetly cooking for 13 people from my student house some typical Iranian food: Kebab.
Below you can find the recipe which I used ;). Usually I really dont mind cooking on my own but for this amount of people I am really thankful that I had 4 helping hands, so probably you shouldnt try this at home on your own ^^


Kebab:
2500 gramm minced meat (Faschiertes/Hackfleisch) (I usually use mixed meat, but you can also only take pork, beef, or even lamb/veal)
2 bunches of parsley
3 onion
3 tomates
paprika spice
pepper
salt
oliveoil

Cut the onions as fine as possible and chop the parsley. Take a big bowl and mix the meat with the cut onions and the choped parsley. Use some paprika spice, pepper, salt and approx. 2 soup spoon oliveoil to mix it with the meat in the bowl as well. When everything is mixed up, put the mixed meat on baking plates.On the baking plates the meat should be approximately 1,5cm high. Make the whole baking plate full and then seperate the meat with a knife (or so) so that you get kebab-slices that are approx 2 fingers broad. For this amount you will approximately need 5 baking plates and most likely 2 ovens ;) But you can also put the 2nd round in the oven, while you are already eating the first round.
Put the meat in the oven for approx 40 minutes with 180°, but this is also depending on how done you want your meat to be.
Cut the tomates into sixth and put them on the baking plates directly on top of the meat after ~15 minutes.

Rice:
approx. 1500 gramm Basmati-rice
2,7 liter water
safran
salt

Put all the rice in a pot and wash it three times (I think 3times is just an iranian superstition, but it does not really matter, does it? ;)). Then put approximately double the amount of water in the pot. Before boiling the water put a lot of salt and safran in the pot and make sure that the water takes over the colour of the safran, so the rice will become orange/yellow. Start cooking the rice on the highest level, but as soon as the water is boiling turn it back to one of the lowest levels and let it just cook. It should also take approx. 40 minutes.

Tsaziki:
1 kg yoghurt
2 cucumbers
5 garlic cloves
mixed herbs (parsley, basilicum, dille, tymian, rosmarin, chive etc.)
pepper
salt

Seperate the yoghurt to several small bowls and grate (raspeln) the cucumbers equally to the several bowls. Also apportion the garlic equally to all the bowls. Finish the Tsaziki by adding mixed italian herbs, pepper and salt.

Salad
2 iceberg salads
7 tomatoes
1,5 cucumbers
2,5 red onions
2 lemons
basilicum or oregano
olive oil
pepper
salt

Cut the salad, tomatoes, cucumbers and red onions in bite-sized pieces. Portion the vegetables to equal portions to approx. 3 big bowls. For the marinade the following order is important (5 element kitchen):
2 lemons, basilicum (or oregano), approx. 5 soup spoons oliveoil, pepper and salt. Sometimes a little bit of water can help to make it become a perfect salad dressing.

Lavash, herb plate and Sumach [Somak]:
To have the perfect Iranian dish you should put some additional stuff on the table. Lavash is an Iranian bread, but if you can not find it you can also use some turkish bread, pitta breat, Fladenbrot, etc.. and just put it on the table so that everybody can have some. Also make a plate with herbs (as a whole) like parsley, mint red onions (paled and cut in half), radish and sliced lemons.
As a speciality try to organise Sumach, which is a Iranian herb that you can just put on top of your plate.

Put everything (kebab,grilled tomatoes,  rice, salad, Tzaziki, lavash, herbplate and Sumach) on the table. Everybody just helps himself.

Unfortunately I could not make a picture of our awesome table (as the battery in my camera was empty) but in the end it it should look like this:

Enjoy your meal! :)