“No human had ever seen a giant adult squid alive, and though they had eyes as big as apples to scope the dark of the ocean, theirs was a solitude so profound they might never encounter another of their tribe. The melancholy of this situation washed over Sai. Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply…
Read morenessun dorma
Ii’ve listened to this aria a thousand times and still it moves me, weither it be carreras, pavarotti or the three tenors all together. there is something eternal in music, something that no man can ever achieve. something to stay for the generations yet to come. i believe.
Read morepersistence
even though i try to talk myself into believing i am a fighter, i am not. at least not always, sometimes i give up way too easily. i had an offer to take a trip to north korea accompaigning the austrian women’s hockey national team to the b-pool world championships. i forwarded that offer to…
Read moreone call
we travelled the world + played a single track to 3800 people. then gave them one phone call. amongst those called were 20 solicitors, 2 radiologists, and a scuba instructor. 930 people said i love you but only 620 said it back. 407 people called their partners, some people phoned friends, but mostly people used…
Read morea day to remember
“to be able with somebody else you have to be able with yourself”, a friend once told me. and i knew why she did, because i used to hate being alone. yesterday however i went to oostende, up north at the coast. the north sea at my feet, i had a day i will remember…
Read moreand it rained
A few days later than we expected, but today it has finally rained. I mean real rain, the sort that comes with thunder and lightening, that announces, “I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere soon”. As everyone else raced inside for shelter I couldn’t help but go outside, to stand in it, feel the water…
Read more20 trees
That is all that Green Fleet tell me it will take to neutralise my carbon emissions from last year. A small price to pay to have them plant those trees for me. If you’re in Australia, check them out. If you’re somewhere else, do the world a favour and look for an equivalent organisation.
Read moredear mr. president
Dear Mr. President Come take a walk with me Let’s pretend we’re just two people and You’re not better than me I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street Who do you pray for at night before you…
Read moreThe power of food
“Actions have consequences, and people acting responsibly can make a difference. I believe that how you eat, and how you choose your food, is an act which combines the political— your place in the world of other people—with the most intensely personal—the way you use your mind and your senses, together, for the gratification of…
Read moreEine Zeit voller Möglichkeiten
„Wo immer schweres Leid über die Menschen gebracht wird, geht es uns alle an. Vergesst auch nicht: Wer Unrecht lange geschehen lässt, bahnt dem nächsten den Weg. Auch nach der Epochenwende 1989 und 1990 konnte die Welt nicht nur ‚gut‘ werden. Unsere Zeit allerdings steckt, wie kaum eine andere zuvor, voller Möglichkeiten – zum Guten…
Read morelack of endurance
Me: You can not believe how much I want to go to Columbia to do what I can do best. Sometimes I just doubt I have the endurance to make it. You: O. S. will substitute for the (possible) lack of Stefan’s endurance. motivation, reloaded. thank you, oded. i believe.
Read moreTo the guy who found my wallet
I know that you will probably never read this but Thank You. Thank you for caring, for picking it up so noone else would, thank you for taking the time to bring it back to me and most of all, thank you for reminding me about how good people can be.
Read moreone more thing
there are days like this one, where i have to remember myself of what a lucky person i am. i might not be in the place where i want to be right now, but things will change and i have astrid and a life waiting for me at home. la vita é bella, even on…
Read moresweden for the soul
Tystnad Tunnel, avfart När taxametern slagits pÃ¥ försvinner allt i regnet utan spÃ¥r & som en viskning ser Vi syner nu igen Det här är nÃ¥t som inte ens har hänt… Tystnad En rökfri viskning Det är exakt vad Vi vill ha det luftkonditionerade ljudet av fart Du är värd att dö för Ni kan…
Read more2006, the hours.
in january i saw the stars rise in finland. in february i was given a second chance. in march i learned that if i choose freedom, nothing can happen to me. in april i went to look for america. in may i was taught the paradox of our age. in june i learned that heroes…
Read morechristmas
i am were i had some of the happiest moments in the last couple of months, back at the desk at the newspaper. nobody is here, even news take a break on christmas. it’s been a weird year, filled with so many emotions that i don’t know where to start. i just wish that you,…
Read moreit’s about us
“The ‘great man’ theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle who wrote, that ‘the history of the world is but the biography of great men’ He believed it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating…
Read moreso yes, hallelujah – i am going home
I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah. I believe.
Read morethe thing with moms
you can’t help but wonder where moms take the endless patience, power and time to deal with their kids sorrows, small and big. like kids sitting in belgium, running out of money, rather wanting to be home. i can’t imagine life without you in it. i believe.
Read morecaught in a dream
repeated. I’m caught in a dream and I cant get out I’m caught in a dream I’m caught in an endless dream I believe.
Read morehome
there are no words to describe what being home feels like. not that there would be a necessity for any. i believe.
Read moreIn Flanders Fields
Yes I was there. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and…
Read moreon a friday afternoon
so yes i am here but i’d rather be somewhere else. and probably this one time it was wrong to leave, because it wasn’t my heart that guided me. Den Staub von unseren Füßen wird der Wind der Zeit verwehen. Ihr von morgen werdet neue Wege gehen I believe.
Read moreohne liebe ist er nichts
Für den Krieger gibt es keine unmögliche Liebe. Er lässt sich vom Schweigen, von der Gleichgültigkeit oder der Abweisung nicht einschüchtern. Er weiß, dass hinter der eisigen Maske, die die Menschen aufsetzen, ein feuriges Herz schlägt. Daher riskiert der Krieger auch mehr als andere. Unablässig sucht er die Liebe eines Menschen zu gewinnen, auch wenn…
Read moreabout drowning
just overread in one of coelho’s books: we don’t drown if we get our head under water every now and then. we only drown if we stay there. i believe.
Read moreit never dies inside you
being a journalist is probably one of these jobs that is more an attempt-on-life than a chosen profession. i was always curious about things (and kept asking my parents and everybody around me a million questions..), so even if i am a trainee in brussels now, the journalist inside me is neither quiet nor dead….
Read moreno one ever said it would be this hard
Nobody said it was easy No one ever said that it would be this hard Oh take me back to the start I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling your puzzles apart Questions of science, science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart Tell me you love me, come back…
Read morea clean sheet
one of the most beautiful commercials i have seen in the past years. because after all it”s all about the passion for the things you love. like hockey. “If i give you a clean sheet, what will you write. Will it be poetry, or just plain english. If you have something to say, say it…
Read morethings that shouldn’t remain unsaid
i was thinking of it for weeks, if not months: writing to riittas mom. päivi is one of the kindest persons i ever got to know. when i went to see her parents for the first time, it was far from akward as it normally would be. they made me feel a member of the…
Read moremy boss is a blogger
as my colleague georg holzer already pointed out in his blog our bosses are finally going 2.0 as well. in a blog entitled “chefblog” reinhold dottolo, adolf winkler, hubert patterer and thomas götz will try to give the kleine zeitung’s readers an insight view of daily life at a newspaper. so far there have been…
Read morestuck in a (metro)-moment
another one for brussels-beginners: there are only two ways to really get around in a reasonable time during rush hours: your feet and the metro. i did an experiment yesterday, trying to figure out if i should rather walk to the metro-station or take the tram. i took the tram and it took me no…
Read more(en)counters of the expensive kind
lesson number three: if you really intend to actually waste money buy your own food (see lesson number two below first) don’t do it right next to the european quarter. i just paid 33 euro (no kidding), for a sandwich, cookies, bananas, apples, a pizza, a shower gel and a sald. al capone would turn…
Read morebuffet, the take-away-way
lesson number two: you don’t buy food in brussels. it is offered to you. yesterday i threw all the lessons i was taught as a journalist (you’re not there for the buffet, you’re there for a story) and joined fellow workers on a buffet-trip which lead us first to european comission (vernissage: chilean wine, mediocre…
Read morea long walk home
belgian lesson number one: never lose your nerve. belgians are some of the most relaxed people i’ve got to know up until now. i was rushing (and i mean ruuushing) to the metro yesterday to get to the office in time on my first working day. though there was a million people on the train,…
Read morerule britannia
so after driving hours after hours we finally arrived in brussels, stopping by at christoph’s in münster before. saw all the tourist stuff and decided to take the trip to england. and quite honestly, england never seemed really charming to me. i have ro revise my opinion, people were extrordinarily friendly and welcoming wherever we…
Read moreleaving, never easy
this time it was hard, hard to leave behind a life, friends, my job, hockey. but then there’s brussels in front of me and nothing to hold me back. i am luckey and i sometimes forget to realize how much life has given me so far. and then there’s astrid, who enriches my life in…
Read moreSleep
Sleep is really underrated these days. It seems that we all lead such busy lives that the easiest place to find that extra time is to cut back on sleep, as if sleep is some wasted time. I see it with my colleagues and my family. I know I don’t need as much sleep as…
Read morestark encounters
recently i had one of the most delightful and entertaining interviews in a long time: oded stark is not only a highly recognized scientis but also a professor at my alma mater, the University of Klagenfurt. During the 1 1/2 hour talk we had, I felt the utmost respect not only for his scientific accomplishments…
Read moredid i try my best?
Heaven bent to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and painful fight Truth be told I’ve tried my best But somewhere along the way I got caught up in all there was to offer And the cost was so much more than I could…
Read moremade in finland
and it always comes back to me in one way or another: finland. today it was in a professional way, as i was doing research for an article about finnish design. when i contacted marimekko (a finnish company famed for their stylish design) i experienced once again what i sometimes really miss here: friendliness on…
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