oh well, I planned this for quite some time and this sunday I finally went to a (pretty good one) Aikido dojo, to complement my Taekwondo studies. couldn’t train, tough, because you need to be a member and membership is based monthly (doesn’t make sense to pay $150 for 4 remaining days of training), so I will start next week. BUT I could have a sneak peak and it looks quite promising, recalling memories from my JuiJitsu studies back in Austria.

On my way back (without Aikido I would have never been in that area) I ran into Bed, Bath & Beyond,  a HUGE space, most of my (female) friends back in Austria would just climax freehanded, where I found this lamp (besides a wonderful splashproof receiver for the bathroom, finally, music in the morning):

Bath & Beyond Table Lamp

Funny thing is, saw a similar lamp couple of months ago in my area, but with a $180 price tag (instead of $30), so I was QUITE happy to find this ;).

While I was there I didn’t know what I was more impressed of, all the accessories, gadgets, and furnitures, or the BEAUTIFUL women shopping there (although a fair amount of them with their mums). Definitely worth a second visit ;).

Posted by markus, filed under new york, whatever. Date: August 26, 2007, 9:35 pm | No Comments »

Life is so funny. Got an email this morning saying “Richie Sambora, lead guitarist for Bon Jovi, will be playing at noon today in the open seating area here in the office”. We have here in the office private unplugged gigs from artists from time to time to promote record labels, but I guess this one is the most famous so far.

so at 11:50 the area was packed. 90% of the audience being women and the rest being gay (with some minor exceptions). He is a quite funny
guy I have to say, made couple of jokes between the songs, and the audience went kinda hysterical. After the short unplugged session (about 20 minutes) the air was PACKED with female pheromones, making myself shaky and excited, too. One of the women got even her chest signed (love you for that, Misha). There was so much exictement, I HAD TO take a picture with him (and I didn’t even know him before), couldn’t help it, my brain was just fried. quite hillarious, isn’t it ;).

Me and Richie Sambora (small)

sorry, the video quality is kinda crappy, just had my cellphone with me (which sucks badly video quality wise).

Posted by markus, filed under funny, new york, screwed, whatever. Date: August 24, 2007, 12:13 pm | No Comments »

22  Aug
my first oreo

.. ever. Just ate it. and it was delicious. another step into the american way of life. assimilation is going on ;)

Posted by markus, filed under whatever. Date: August 22, 2007, 4:15 pm | No Comments »