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Federer Express – the best
02 year ago years ago
by Rudolfo
in Dies und Das
Oder: Der beste Spieler aller Zeiten trifft den besten Schlag aller Zeiten. Roger Federer hat es wieder getan, Zaubertennis praktiziert in einem Moment in dem anderen Spielern flau im Magen wird. Tommy Haas kann solche Schläge nicht produzieren weil er zuviel nachdenkt, Rafael Nadal kann es nicht weil er nicht locker genug dafür ist. Aber der 5-fache (zumindest derzeit) US-Open Champion Roger Federer bringt solche Schläge mit schöner Regelmässigkeit. Videobeweis folgt:
Zur Erinnerung: das hier war 2008 gegen Novak Djokovic.
und nun das hier 2009 im Halbfinale gegen Novak Djokovic:
Der arme Novak kann einem echt leid tun 
Go Federer
Recap 2 – the continuing adventures of little red …
02 year ago years ago
by Rudolfo
in Australien
…rudolf. The reindeer to end all reindeer.
So, zur Abwechslung mal wieder auf Deutsch. Man darf die Sprachtalente ja nicht ungenutzt lassen, sonst verliert man hinterher noch Wörter. In dieser kurzen Zusammenfassung erwarten euch die folgenden Punkte:
- Auszug aus dem Hostel
- Labyrinth des Wissens, wie wir unsere Kurse wählen
- Warum Australien Entwicklungsland ist
- Landlady from Hell
Punkt 1: am 4.August war es endlich soweit, ich verließ die inzwischen unheimlich vertraut gewordene Umgebung meines Vierer-Zimmers und begab mich per Taxi zu meiner neuen Wohnung nach Newtown. Ich kann euch sagen, es tat mir nicht im geringsten leid den Backpacker-Lifestyle gegen ein bisschen Privatsphäre und ein ausreichend langes Bett einzutauschen. Also schwuppiwuppi ein Taxi genommen und schnell umgezogen. Herrlich, Fotos von meinem Zimmer folgen, sobald ich genug aufgeräumt habe 
Punkt 2: In Deutschland wurd uns noch erzählt, dass es total easy ist, alle Kurse nochmal umzuwählen. “HA, so nicht” dachten sich da die Australier und haben schnell noch den “e-request” erfunden. Davon haben Mathias und ich auch ca. 40 Stück abgeschickt. Die alle abgelehnt wurden. Begründungen waren u.a. aber nicht ausschließlich: Kurs voll, Kurs findet nicht statt, nicht für International Students, Prerequisites nicht erfüllt usw usw…
Aber wir wären ja nicht Wirtschaftsstudenten, wenn wir total auf den Kopf gefallen wären (auch wenn das sicher einige von euch diskussionswürdig finden werden). Schnappen wir uns halt die am freundlichsten dreinschauende Dame am Student Service Desk und belagern sie solange, bis sie uns die E-Requests ausfüllt, abschickt und auch direkt approved. Wahnsinn. Dieser kurze Prozess hat sich nur über 2 Wochen hingezogen.
Punkt 3: Entwicklungsland? Oh ja, Telekommunikation und auch öffentlicher Personenverkehr erlauben es mir, Australien und auch Sydney E-Land schimpfen zu dürfen. Es gibt hier keine Flatrates, weder für Handy noch für Internet. Ein Gigabyte Internet kostet im Schnitt 20 Dollar. Telefonieren kann man für 29Dollar pro Monat, wenn man nicht allzuviele Freunde mit unterschiedlichen Netzen hat.
ÖPV ist hier eine Katastrophe. Busse haben keine fixen Haltestellen, man muss winken wenn man in einen Bus einsteigen will. Wenn man dem falschen gewunken hat, weil man die Nummer noch nicht erkennen konnte muss man halt mit dem Hass der anderen Busfahrer leben. Linien haben auch ihr ganz eigenes System in Sydney, nämlich gar keins. Man findet aber nach und nach durch Nachfragen bei Busfahrern heraus wo man mit welchem Bus hinkommen kann. Herrlich. Und all das für 25$ / 10 Fahrten oder 42 Dollar für eine Woche.
Punkt 4: Landlady from Hell. Hi Claire. No Houseparties, no barbecue, no visitors after 10pm, no people sleeping over. Hilarious! Hoffentlich liest sie das, was mich bei ihren scheinbar stasi-ähnlichen Informationsgewinnungskräften nicht wundern würde, und denkt sich dass ich hier pflichtbewusst die regeln aufzähle. An die sich a) keiner hält und b)die sicherlich auch nicht im Rahmen ihrer Befugnisse liegen.
So, das war die 2. Kurzzusammenfassung. Enjoy
Recap – the month of July – arriving in sydney
02 year ago years ago
by Rudolfo
in Australien
Alright, this post is going to be a little recap of what I did in the month of July, the year 2009. I guess this is a little acknowledgement to the fact that I have not been writing as many updates about my various exploits abroad as I thought I should or could. So here goes.
I flew from Hongkong via Auckland to Sydney. That’s right, not directly, as I could have, because a) that’s boring and b) Auckland is such a nice city (not). I arrived in Sydney on the 12th of July 2009 with a very official sounding student visa, which only costs around 400 Australian $, cheap is elsewhere my friend! But at least immigration was hassle free, compared to HongKong and Auckland, and only took 5 minutes. After that I was standing in the beautiful Sydney winter and enjoying about 18°C and sunshine outside.
After getting a shuttle bus to my hostel, which was surprisingly easy to arrange, I checked into the 5 star YHA central. 5 star meaning it’s basically a hotel with shared accommodation. I got myself a 4-bed room with 3 strange people in it. Especially this “Christian Dior” character stood out, being bi-sexual and a criminal justice advisor. How do I know all this about him? He told me, I sure as hell didn’t ask. All was good, even my move to the YHA across the street, Railway Square, was good, because I got rid of this “Dior-character”.
In the month of July i wanted to look for an apartment to live in, check out the city a bit and begin my semester on the 20th. I got all of that done, without finding a place to live. I looked at about 5-6 different flats, but either they were too dirty or the people living there were too strange. Which sounds a bit odd, given where I live now. But we’ll get to that next month.
Start of semester was great, with lots of parties, lots of meeting people, exchanging phone numbers and drinking beer. Which is basically all I ever drink, because all the hard liquor is too expensive. I mean, Vodka-Redbull for fourteen dollars? With ONE shot of Vodka? Who are you trying to kill with a sugar overdose there, barkeeper?
Next month, I’ll tell you about our classes, changing all the subjects around, e-requests again, and where to go for fun without spending your inheritance (or not as much of it).
Pictures from our Cogee to Bondi beach walk online
12 year ago years ago
by Rudolfo
in Australien
Hey guys, just a quick note that I’ve put some pics up from our walk from Cogee to Bondi.
Took us about 5 hours, with a 1.5 hour break for lunch
Orientation week at UTS – who wants some (dis)orientation?
12 year ago years ago
by Rudolfo
in Australien
Alright girls & guys, we just finished the much touted Orientation Week programme at the University of Technology in Sydney. Let me tell you, it wasn’t that different from what you’d expect. So, I’ll give you a short overview of the programme.
First of all, there was the official welcome, held by the Dean and some other honchos, who appeared in their “Full Academic Dress”. Which basically consisted of long robes and fancy neckwear, which made all of them look like they just fell out of the latest Curse of the Caribbean movie, i.e. Victorian Age colonialists. That impression was reinforced when they had an Aboriginal Dance Group (ADG) do a little dance in front of them. It really looked like the benevolent conquerors allowed the stupid aborigines to dance around a little in front of them. They called it showing respect, to each their own I guess. After that we had our welcome speech by Doctor Hugo Gonzales, who told us to call him “Dr. G.” or “Speedy Gonzales”. Let me tell you, he’s neither speedy nor a G. His accent does make him sound like a close friend of Cypress Hill though and his slides were funny. His useless advice about starting a new chapter of our lives wasn’t though.
Then we were allowed to book into the orientation sessions for the week. Which we didn’t, as there wasn’t anything we thought we needed to successfully study at University. I mean, the options were: Study Success (6 lectures), consisting of stuff like note taking, time management and critical writing. All the Germans knew how to take notes, so we skipped that. The other available option was IT Services lectures. Those were about Excel, more Excel, advanced Excel, Word, Powerpoint, file management and Unix, nothing we don’t know or really need anyways.
We had another session of Essential International Advice after that, where Dr. G. performed admirably again, by boring us almost to death. The student services team was very refreshing after that. Especially because they did a quiz with us about Australia. None of us won, because who knows who last year’s Australian Idol was…I can’t even remember the german one.
Another interesting part came on wednesday with our official faculty welcome. Since we’re all enrolled in the business faculty (at least we think so), we expected it to be a boring presentation again. But the staff, lecturers and administrative surprised us with a lively performance that only took about 40 minutes. And I even got a 50$ book voucher for the university book store out of it. How, you might ask? Well the moderator basically checked to see if his audience was listening to the presentations by having 3 “Prize Time” slides, where he’d ask a question about the latest part of the presentation. I correctly answered the question “When are library tours running” with “All year long” So there you have it, 50 Dollars for 3 words.
The really important part started at 5.30 PM on Monday, continued at 5.30 on wednesday and ended on Saturday morning at 4 o’clock with the beginning of the first official welcome party for exchange students. Met lots of people, next entry is going to be about that, or about e-requests, haven’t decided yet.