A physicist

I just remembered something funny.

Amick asked me about half a year if I could help here move out of her old appartment into a new one.

I didn't really had that much time but promised I would drop in for an hour or so to help, 'cause the date was just the date my sister wanted to drive the 3 1/2 hour back from my parents place.

Anyway as I know Amick, she used to have a lot of friends, capable of carrying a lot so I didn't execpted a lot of hassle. It appeared I was wrong ;). First thing we arrived was, that she had locked herself out of her new appartment. Luckily she had some roommates but to find them was a bit tricky, but in the end we had someone opening up the door again. The second thing was, that she was doing the whole move with just like 4 people and two cars. Moving up into the third floor (IIRR) that's a lot of stairs to go up and down. Anyway, I like moving as long as it isn't my own move so me and my sister helped her moving stuf up. So that's 5 girls and me.

So eager I am, I carry the heavy stuff, not that there is so much heavy stuff, which wasn't that heavy at all but anyway I carry it, and I seem to impress the girls, flattering already but that wasn't what I sprung into my mind again.

It was Amicks comment to that. She commented it as "Ein Physiker halt ... ".

So far I had perceived that the stereotypical physicist in the common population was a "star wars/star trek loving techno babbling computer geek playing weirdo fantasy games and listening to angry musik with long hair either under or overweighted due to lack of physical excercises and unhealty food".

Well, I hit, apart fromt he lack of physical excercises, due me being a martial arts junkie, all those stereotypes - okay .. I cut my hair but it's getting longer again - but still, the stereotypical physicist would not be able to handle those crates that easily.

Anyway, Amick corrected that pictures as well " ... one who does a lot of sport" but still, to her for a brief second I changed the picture of that stereotypical physicist to include being physical in good shape.

That was flattering ;).

Moving moving moving ..

So what do I do with my weekends in Nuremberg.

Appereantly moving.

Wahyu, an indonesian colleagoue asked me if I could help him moving his kitchen.
He doesn't have a german driver license yet and naturally not a car either.
He already asked me a few weeks ago that he might need my help, since he was looking for a kitchen already a while, so he found one and had to pick it up this weekend.

It as one 2m long work desk and another one 1.5m long, it has three cupboards 2m high, one with an frige as well as a freeze, bot about 1.20 high. It also has a dishwasher and naturall the oven and the electric plates.

So there I went saturday evening he was alraedy disasemblying part of the kitchen and picked him up together with Vito (another indonesian guy currently living at his place till end march) and again on sunday morning at 10am to pich the both of them up to grab the rest.

Grab is rather easy said, especially since Wahyu lives on the third floor. Luckily he called two other friends helping out but in the end was carrying 12 times stuff up - heavy stuff - heavy kitchen stuff not mine. Well it was fun and I'll get my revenge on thursday. I need something from ikea and I'm living on the third floor as well ;).

Anyway I'm pretty dead or exhausted, I'll gonna spend some time with my "screensaver" and see how bad the TV programm is on sunday ... .

Moving, moving, moving ...

The last few days have been pretty busy, obviously with me moving.

So I got the keys one day ahead on the 31. Jan so I was able to estimate the amount of laminate I needed. I bought it on thursday carrying 7 packets of 2.7something square meters up to the 3rd floor and made a short workday on friday. With help of my parents, who were so kind to take the day of and drive the whole 500something kilometers, we managed to get about 80% of the room done by midnight.

It was bit tricky in the beginning, as expected but all in all it went pretty smooth. We finished the last three rows on saturday morning cleaning the appartement before we left to KLF, where we arrived at I dont know anymore ;). It wasn't that late as feared by myself but it wasn't that early as I wanted. Saturday evening was thus also more relaxing for the final push of packing stuff up on sunday. Sunday was busy but we realy packed up everything.

Monday morning at around half nine the spedition showed up, a big truck and two people - somehow I expected three but the two of them were pretty capable. They moved everything into the truck in about 3hours with me being slightly mean, I was more pointing directions then loading things, I did feel a bit guilty but he ! That's why I was paying them. I felt realy guilty when they moved my two parador vitrines. I advised them before to disassmeble them ;), but they don't look that bad but they weight a lot - and I mean realy a lot. I warned them.

The key exchange from my old appartment was at half one and I hit the gas to catch up on the truck while my parents drove home - again thanks mom and dad, I'd never managed to move that smooth without your two help. I did catched up on the truck - besides the almost two hours headstart they had - but at a price. Driving an average of 150km/h I did managed to hit automatic speed control check, which wouldn't bother me that much. It's a game and if you get cought you lost, but I'm not so sure about the speed limit I passed. As far as I remember the speed limit was 130, but I passed an 100 sign shortly after the speed check. And if it was 100 before, well, in that case my move got a little bit more expensive.

Half 7 the truck arrived, I was an hour earlier and at 22.30 they were done unloading, again I do feel guilty not helping that much as I could but I just couldn't get myself carrying so much stuff up to the 3rd floor but the two of them did a great job.

So that was the move.
Pictures are on my desktop computer, I load them up next time when I'm online.

So I got something to do ....

and something for real as well. Yepp, my lazy times are over now. I got handed some minor and some less minor works right now at work and I'm all up for it.

The work I'm doing here is slightly different from what I was doing at BenQ, it's more geared toward the baseband development but as curious as I am, it just suits me. I just have to get some more adminstrative stuff getting done, I'm still missing my own lab table and some other stuff but that all has time.

Further, I got my keys to my appartment on wednesday, so I was able to measure out how much laminate I'm going to need. Also opposed to what I thought, each packet of laminate is not just 1sqm but 2.7 sqm so didn't had to carry up 20 packets up but just seven. I'll be starting that tomorrow in the afternoon, might leave early at work as well for that.

Also my parents offered to help me and they will also arrive somewhen friday afternoon and join me to KLF to do the last packing there for the final move on monday. The spedition has offered to do everything in two days to make sure everything gets across savely so well pack up on monday and drop on tuesday in Nürnberg.

Regarding the kitchen in KLF my follower is taking it for an aceptable price, I'm okay with it, he is okay so I everything is alright. In Nürnberg Im going to cook on gas rather than on electricity. I ll have to by a new fridge and some other kitchen stuff but I don't mind that. Gives me more freedom to get that they way I want.

Anyway that's it for now. I ll be posting something probadly next thursday or later. Cya !

p.s.
that might include pictures though these will be only taken with my mobilephone. If the quality is good don't blame me, I was responsible for audio/acoustics at BenQ not for camera ;).

My appartment

So I still get questions about my new appartment, hmmm, it seems I should either loose some more words about it or you guys simply don't check out my blog ;).

So as mentioned before 54 square meters, two rooms with carpets, from which I will one change to laminate a very plain kitchen but with gas and a small bathroom and naturally a balkony. Everything up on the 3rd floor, no lift and that's one of the big reasons why I have a spedition doing my move.

For all those who are interested in helping me with my move, it will probaldy take place on the 5th/6th febr. and it will be realy easy. As announcent quite often, we'll grab sone beer carry it downstairs and drink it while we watch my movers do the move.
Exhausting ain't it ? ;)

The district I'm going to live in is called St. Johannis - big thanks to Christian S., my former BenQ for the advice colleague, it's a nice corner. I also mentioned before that I have visited another appartment in that same street and already from that moment on this previous and now my current appartment where on the top of my "I want to live there" list.

Reason? There is a chinese vietnamese restaurant right on the corner, just across the street a chinese shop and just a few houses straight along the street a sushi restaurant. - I just soo had to live in that street.

The house itself isn't so great from the front but it has a nice backyard. If you enter the appartment, the kitchen is right to left, with the balkony, both facing north west and with the bedroom also on the left side. The living room is on the right while the bathroom is straight ahead. And that's all, not that I need that much more.

As soon as I get the keys, I'm going to start laying laminate in the living room, so that get's done before the move. That's it for now. I ll pu up pictures as soon as I get some.

p.s.
I'm going to celebrate my new birthday in my new appartment, naturally. Same procedure as last year, the usual suspects are always invited .... ;) ...

Not much to say

So far, still looking for an appartment.

I hoped I would have found something by this time but appearantly I became rather picky in choosing something that would suit me.

Everything is still open but Kendo rocks.

So just for the fun of it:


Clips: Girl. Bikini. Wii-mote.

Visiting appartments and more appartments, ....

Yeah, that's what I was mainly doing this week, the only real fun part this week was Kendo. And no, I still don't have something final, there are potential ones but there's nothing realy to announce.

So I'll be looking further during the next week, wish me luck, I'm loosing my motivation to keep on searching.

Oh work after the first week.

No project yet for me, so no real work but I have a lot to read about their former projects. The people are cool though I don't know that many yet, most are pretty busy with finishing off what didn't get done till end of last year to get moving to the new projects - and that's the point where I guess I will start getting real work :).

I didn't get it.

It seems after talking to the owner, that the appartment is a social supported appartment.
To be allowed to rent such one you have to get either social help and/or your wages need to be lower that a certain limit.

So in this case, I earn to much, doh!

I have to keep on looking.

p.s.
the iPhone is there
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/

Appartment

After thinking it over and over during yesterday and today, I decided for one I sah yesterday. It is going to be the "new 1996" one. Apperently the owner is not available till 15th January and there is so far one more interested, so wish me luck that I get it.

Nürnberg

So I arrived in Nürnberg on thursday.

Honestly, it's pretty impressive but I might have been biased from living in KLF before ;). Anyway driving all down there was pretty easy, I left at 10am and arrived and 5pm at my temporary appartment. So far everything alright. After a short break and bothering some ppl at the phone I started further looking for a long time appartment and making appointments to visit some of those appartments but besides that I just stayed in my room for thursday.

Friday was visiting appartments, checking in on a local cafe, the Cafe Bar Celona and using the WiFi hotspot to check out some more ads for appartements. I got about 10 more and started calling them when I got back to my room. I also moved my O2 Homezone so my old Homezone number isn't working anymore.

I found one very beautiful appartment, which is probadly gone by now. It's right in the middle of the city, you might say next to the castle, realy impressive. Everything else was okay, with one appartment I sah today, which is in the newspaper since this week, so I might have a chance to get that. Even though there are very very much old buildings in Nürnberg, this one is in a 1996 build one but it has a rather big balkony. I'll have to see what the next week will bring.

Regarding Nürnberg, as I mentioned before, it's pretty impressive. It has a whole different taste to it, than all the other cities I know. So far I know cities smaller, as my old home town and Göttingen and larger, like Hamburg and Berlin but to be honest. Nürnberg is beautiful.

On Monday ist going to be my first day at my new job. I'll see what is awaiting me there and so far I'm pretty exited and curious about it. Besides that, I know there should be the possibility to start Kendo as well as Aikodo here in Nürnberg and I brought "my stuff" with me, but apart from that looking for a longterm appartment will by keeping my occupied during the first few weeks, wish me luck I find what might like and that I get.

So much from here now, I think I get back to here another time. This WiFi Hotspot, the California, is a bit nicer as the Cafe - Bar - Celona IMHO so if I don't find something more interesting.