..no chance for daily routine..

Not sure, if this week's headline actually is something positive or negative, but anyway: it is definetly true for me. 2 weeks ago I got the feeling that somehow a routine appears here during my internship in Groningen, but as I had my troubles last week with my laptop, I got sick this week - so daily routine: keep patient, not yet!

being sick sucks, and why do we actually get sick ?
From Wednesday onwards I had heavy muscle pain and throat sore, had bad nights and was sweating a lot..Actually, if every week would be like this, I should have better stayed in Vienna. Being sick is much more fun when mummy and your family doctor are close :)
It seems my body showed me a sign.. immune system got weak in the last days, due to stress ? too little sleep? I would love to be healthy... I mean like really healthy, not having any problems with my body at all .. I know sooner or later there will be some serious issues.. everybody gets them I guess - but why? Incorrect usage of our body?
like Professional sports: overpracticing and taking huge risks... how much compassion should I actually have when I read about Hans Grugger almost dying, read about Rubert Kubica's accident or happenings during the Rally Dakar? Just a very few examples.. While professional sportsmen probably die when doing what they love most and by being aware of the risks they take, others somewhere in the world do not have any chance to decide how to die. Every death of a human is a tragedy - I am the last one, who does not take this serious - and I do not wanna compare the accident of a professional sportsmen with a child dying of poverty in Africa... just some thoughts..I dont judge - I dont rate...
like alcohol & drugs: As I am not experienced about drugs, I can only talk about the consumption of alcohol and immediately start wondering why people drink alcohol? I have no idea.. there are only a few drinks, that really taste good (Malibuuu or Amaretto :)) like some cocktails maybe.. But what about beer? Sure, some of you will say beer tastes good.. yeah..Idk.. remember the first time you tried.. you liked it? I didnt :D It is not that I dislike drinking beer.. I got used to it and its nice... but stil
back to the topic: Why do we drink? (I mean like the going-out-drinking; not having a nice class wine accompanied to your dinner): Do you wanna escape.. ? Do you dont want to behave tonight?, Wanna do things, you probably wouldnt do otherwise? Want the evil side in yourself to take over (btw. I saw black swan this week: niiice!), Wanna be more funny? Want to be more selfconfident when talking with girls? Wanna just let your self go? If these are not the reasons.. I am really curious what are your reasons? You can post them anonymous as a comment ^^
The conclusion for me: people are cowards, afraid of beeing who they would like to be and therefore need alcohol to become the person.. by that just destroy their bodies along the way...I am not an exception

Highlight of the week: collected my 50th poke/anstupser
Well..some of you were victims within an interesting experiment I made the last months.. since ~ October. I tried to poke/anstupsen (facebook) approximately 1 person a day :)
As most of you know, or can probably imagine: I am a huge fan of social media! I <3 facebook, I (h) Skype and I love online communication in general. It's an easy and convenient way of communication. I can easily chat with many friends the same time.. I like social activity more then just watching tv at home, if this social activity is not possible, it always is possible online.
So I used poking as a way of keeping "friendships" alive.. people I hadent spoken with for a few days/weeks/months.. I poked them (Its more fun poking with girls.. dont know why.. I guess its just a psychological issue :D) . Reactions were really suprisingly great, I did not carry out a study or something, but I have the feeling, that approx.
- 80% poked me back
- 20% (of everyone I poked) responded in a certain way besides poking back, meaning: starting a chat with me in the fb-chat, writing a fb-message or at least (just a personal feeling) comment and like my posts more regularly.
Poking is great! It is not the god of communication and the best way for establishing a friendship. But we all know there are some times when we are busy, and would really like to meet somebody, but we just dont find the time for this. Why not just poke? It shows the other person, you think about him - so let him know! Anyway, be aware I will continue poking around.. :)
"1 poke a day, keeps the death of your friendship away"

new spy mission
As my poking-experiment is over, I am already planning on a new mission here in my studenthouse. Unfortunately I can not give you any details, as sooner or later people involved in the experiment could read this too ;) I just hope Daan de Vries (btw. he did not receive any friendship invitations on facebook despite last weeks post in my blog; here is his link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1765042949 - he would love to become your friend :)) and some other guys from my floor will be motivated to wear ninja suits with me :D haha

good night reading
Paul Watzlawicks "Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein" was complemented by "The Playbook" from Barney Stinson... my 2 books for the next weeks..  

only pictures of the books thisweek.. but next week I plan on making a first summary and recap of my first month in Groningen, so there will be several pictures be included :)
k&h Dadj