Month: April 2005

Once upon a time in Austria – A true storie!

Today I had the funniest meeting in my entire career! A couple of weeks ago my company was approached by a guy from the United States about a possible cooperation of his search-engine and our website. I agreed to meet him and we set a date. Today when I returned from my lunch break (27th of April 2005), this guy was waiting in my office. First I got an angry look from my colleagues because they thought that I just forgot about the meeting, and for a couple of seconds, I actually feared that they where right.

But then I double checked my appointment calendar and reassured myself that the meeting was indeed set for 29th of April 2005. So this got the guy all nervous and he started to check his appointment calendar as well. Turned out that he was actually supposed to meet someone else in a completely different city, more then 350 kilometers (300 miles) away!

A few phone calls where made and luckily for him, I did not had any other appointments and we could held the meeting. Maybe I could have worn something instead of just plain jeans and a T-shirt, but in the end it was a very nice and interesting conversation.

Top Ten Things Men Know About Women…

Hope you are all doing well on this wonderful Monday morning and the following makes you smile!

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1. They have breasts.

If I find out about the other nine things I’ll let you know, hopefully before my next ill-fated relationship takes off. But as the news told me this morning, true love is an illusion anyway!

A new enemy for British tabloid…

There is a new pope, Benedict XVI, and the media is taking care that everyone knows about that fact. If someone from Germany is in the media, I’ve noticed an interresting side effect. The, more or less secret, war between German and British tabloid, such as Bild-Zeitung and The Sun.

Soccer matches, canvas-chairs fights on Mediterranean islands, they have been previously used to create headlines to remind Brits and Germans that they used to be arch-enemies. Especially the Sun likes to dig up old stories from World War II, without a doubt one of the darkest moments in the history of Europe.

So this time around its Benedict XVI, formally known as Cardinal Josef Ratzinger. Mr. Ratzing was unfortunately born in Germany in the year 1927 which means that he grew during the dark time of the Nazi Regime and was member of an organization called “Hitler Jugend” just like many fellow young Germans. So the Sun had nothing better to do then to point out this information of historic proportion in the biggest letters on their front-page : From Hitler Youth to Papa Ratzi… Of course the Bild-Zeitung in Germany had to defend the German Pope in the biggest letters on their frontpage and at the same time remembering the Germans of all the flaws of the Brits.

Josef Ratzinger is 78, and all the others who actually lived during the rise and fall of the “Dritte Reich” will be history sooner or later. As a matter of fact, there will be a day when the last German who lived during the time of the Nazi-Regime will be dead. Poor Sun, no more headlines about some dark secret from in the past of German citizens…

This is just theoretical , but I’m currently 26 years old, male, catholic and not married, which, according to church law, means that I could become Pope at some point in the future. What would the Sun write about me? That my grandfather used to be part of the Hitler Youth? That I worked in Linz, once the favorite city of A. Hitler? Well, I don’t have to worry anyway, I’m Austrian, and the Germans have to take all the credit for World War II…

I wonder if, say in 20 years from now, the Germans will still blamed for things that happend between 1938 and 1945. But I also hope that human mankind has learned a few things since 1945 and that history will not repeat itself.

Women can fake an orgasm…

…men can fake an entire relationship. Well, I would like to add my own point of view to that saying. But before I go any further, I advice people who are younger then 18 years to not read any further. Not because I use bad language or this article is offensive, but because I don’t want to get in trouble with parents who’s kids read the following lines and start asking them questions.

So – really over 18? Please proceed!

Recently I had a very funny and interesting conversations with a friend, an avid female cosmopolitan reader, about a very delicious topic. Faking an orgasm. She was kind of proud of herself because she could fake “it” very well and that no boyfriend ever noticed the difference. She even mentioned that Cosmo and other magazines were a good source on how to learn tricks for faking it…

First of all, a woman who fakes an orgasm because she is afraid of his reaction if she does not get of like Meg Ryan in “Harry and Sally”, should rethink her relationship. Honestly, if a men expects the big O every time, the woman should give him a wake up call. Humans are not machines, and therefore, can’t deliver the same result every time . If the woman thinks he could do better, she should have a word with him on how to improve, instead of complaining to her girlfriends the next day. But if a woman does not feel pressure to fake it, and just wants to make him feel good and if men can’t tell the difference anyway, what is all the fuzz about? Ok – maybe Cosmo(politan) would only be a 80 page magazine instead of 160…

But the discussion with my friend did not end there. If a men does get off, he must have had a good time – hence that she must have done a good job. My friend thinks so – and I guess many women have the same conclusion. Maybe there are women out there that even look at faking the big O as an advantage over men. I admit that men can not fake the biological reaction (at least no one I know) but men are capable of faking emotions just like women. Usually, a generally euphoric sensation is associated with orgasm. So while a men actually might have a biological reaction, it can still mean that he is faking the emotional part – for various reasons. (For example – to make her think that she has done a good job). And yes, women do not “feel” the difference between an “emotional orgasm” and the “just” biological reaction of stimulation.

So to all those Cosmo-editors out there, if a woman screams and jumps around in bed, I always think that she might be acting, thanks for that! But you know what, men fake just as good. And there is no way you can prove me wrong.

A tribute to Solbeam!

Well, today I want to recommend website, a diary kept by a very inspirational person, which I have visited for many years. If you have a few minutes, go to www.solbeam.com, its defenitly worth your time.

Espacially I want to recommend her recent article (9th April 2005) about religion, it is called “walking with Jesus and Buddha”.

I think it reflects in a certain way my opinion about religion, which I try to put in a simple line:

Religion is what you make of it.

United States of Sadness

Since September 11, 2001 and the horrific attacks on that day, a lot of things have changed in the United States. I’m not talking about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the tragic events, but the many little things that have changed too. Fear and suspicion has occupied the minds of ordinary people, but also of the leaders and powers to be in the United States and it is showing its effects.

When my cousin recently flew to the United States, her headshot and fingerprints where taken, a result of tighten security measures. Nothing wrong with that, apparently when the United States announced their plans to tighten airport security, Brazil did the same and started to take fingerprints and headshots, which left many US citizens who arrived in Brazil quite puzzled on why the local government would do something like that… But of course, nowadays, everyone is a suspect, even a tourist from Texas who arrives in Sao Paolo and who wants nothing else but catching a tan.

But back to my cousin – when her headshot was taken, she was not allowed to smile on the picture. Hello?! I can only assume that smiling on a picture that is taken to protect the United States from evil wrongdoers is something very dangerous. A smile must indeed be a weapon of mass destruction!

Since September 11, 2001, there is nothing to laugh about in the United States anymore some might assume. I remember my first trip to the United States in 1999, when my cousin and I flew home from Chicago. We filmed at the airport and the Check-in lady would even pose for us and have a big smile on her face. I still have that footage and I will keep it as a great reminder of happy and fearless days in the land of the free. I might show it to my kids one day, when everyone who arrives in the United States will be held in an immigration zone for a couple of hours to be interrogated and marked with an transmitter before being allowed to enter the country.

Protection and taking precautions necessary, but does it mean everyone is a suspect, and no one can expect a warm welcome to the United States anymore?

Red lipstick and a perfect smile…

A while ago (maybe two months or so) I wrote about the upcoming blog entry # 100. It took me some time to finally get there… But this is indeed Blog entry Number 100! Today I’m finally in the mood to sit down, relax, drink some coffee and type a few lines.

First of all, for those of you who frequently read my Blog – thanks for all the nice & (sometimes) nasty emails! I really appreciate feedback, even the one with bad language.

So what is up with the title of this Blog? “Red lipstick and a perfect smile…”
Around Valentines Day I read an interesting article about Emma Forrest, writer of the book Namedroppers, on CNN. The article was a little insight on her thoughts about Valentines Day and men. What did catch my attention was the picture of her, to be precise, her perfect, dark red lips! I have not found an equivalent to those perfect lips yet.

So Emma Forrest, if you ever stumble across this Blog and read it, I consider your lips the most perfect one I’ve ever laid my eyes on and this Blog entry is a tribute to that. And you and your publisher might be happy to know that I actually bought one of your books and enjoyed reading it! The reason I’m not publishing the picture with those fantastic lips on my Blog (and I would love to do so…) is that I simply do not own the rights to it and don’t want to get into any copyright troubles.

That’s all I’m going to write today! But at last I do have a simple task for all readers of this entry: Take a look outside and if it is sunny, shut down your computer and get some fresh air! That’s what I’m going to do right now, sit in the park, and enjoy the small and simple things that make life wonderfull.

Thank you!

I am catholic, and I was named after John XXIII, but I was born in Dezember 1978, and John Paul II had been the only pope I actually knew. Today he passed away, and despite many things I disagree with my church , John paul II always made me THINK and many times, when I saw him talking, he was inspiring for me and I do want to thank him for that tonight.