Sunday morning...

Timeshift steals us one hour of our beloved beauty sleep which means that sumertime comes back pretty soon. Although rain has stopped and sun spreads allover again, it is still quite cold outside.
Hopefully I can get back onto my mountainbike soon and enjoy our beautiful woods over here. Actually I just enjoy the highspeed downhill tracks, which makes it worthy to climb up those hills. If there would be a cablecar or a bus up there-I would fucking buy a season ticket for it hehe!
And you know what, I am living here for almost one year and I just started to ride out into the woods since a few weeks, although it is just 5 minutes by bike. Silly bitch I am...tsk tsk tsk.

Well, the last few days were quite busy with preparing everything for the new job. All that business shit had to be done and it needs so much attention which I honestly never expected in that way. Hmmmmm...

Yesterday I joined some buddies for a little poker tournament, in which was very exciting to see how everybody acts to get the money. Kevin and me, we were the bloody amateurs and to be honest: we had absolutely no clue about this game! Kevin even showed up with the poker rules in his hands!hahahahaha
Well, I had no chance with all those pseudo-pro's due to all those funny dresses and sunglass-covered faces. I tried hard not to laugh, but if you have 5 more Al Capone's sitting around the table you just can't stop giggling.
Everybody tried hard to be as cool as possible and, to my excitement, reflected his poker behaviour onto his real character. It is amazing how much you can find out about someone when he plays poker-I kid you not!
But in the end, the guy who deserved it most...and I really mean it like this, was Kevin! He won the small pot in the first match and the big one from the second! hahahahha...I still see his funny dress in front of me. (but more I see the stunned faces of those who lost-the "poker-pro-pretenders" muuuaaaahhhh :-) )

Happy Sunday!

excitement

...I feel it again. After this period of emptyness and being lazy I am half-foot back into life. I' m excited...yes I am!
Work seems to turn into a positive direction and in somehow I am absolutely not nervous looking forward the first day in Frankfurt.
The head of engineering called me today and explained some details of the development and some of the benchmark caculations I will perform within the first weeks. He was very fortune about me fitting perfect into the team, specialised in ProEngineer and Fluent, working hand in hand with the Catia and Solid Work Pro's.
There is lot's of feedback now, and it is actually the first time tho ... it feels fucking good! There is so much appreciation, that much as it usually has to be everywhere.

Additional information also made me feel like packing my bags again and travel. A subsidiary is located in Singapore too (which I didn't know) plus loads of travel-oportunities throughout the whole wide world....yeeehaaa! Some good deal with my salary was also made and the benefits at the end of the year are giving me this strange grin, which I haven't had since I sold my VW T3 to Nigeria in 2005.
It's been a long time, to be precise from September 2001, since I had my last own car. Wow! I mean it worked out...but now it's time for a new one. You can't imagine how it is being stuck permanently, or to depend on others. Mobility is one of the best goodies and it is essential...like brushing teeth for example. Well, the company car is waiting for me to push the limits on German highways hehhe...what more can I say?

Everything seems to work out now and I feel this permanent desire to start everything right now!
Have you ever had such a feeling?

tough desicions, but well...they also have to be made!

Tuesday afternoon, actually the best day in the year regarding the weather. Everything is in bloom outside and the scent of freshness and spreading new life is reaching every part of the region. Great-I love this time...actually I just like it because it indicates change in general. But I can't deny that I also love rising temperatures and all the idiots on the streets getting mad because of the sun.
Anyways, as you may heard, there has been quite a change happening during the last few months for me; still trying to find the perfect match for me and my socalled carreer. And indeed, the process in finding the appropriate job was a more exhausting one than I thought. All the options, all the countries and all the good jobs needed to be considered before making a move. And I was always afraid to make the wrong move!
People tried to push me in some direction, either in starting any job I could get as an engineer, or in giving me negative feedback for my plans to leave home. And to be honest...I didn't give a fuck about this trashtalk! Sorry, but there was no influence on me making my desicion. I considered well and ranked everything. All companies I applied at and all the offers which were made during the last few months. SpetsAB and MacGregor-Group from Sweden gave me a very interesting view into everydays life of the Swedish engineering business and surely a warm welcome, but unfortunately just couldn't decide for what they want. One the one hand they still both offer me very attractive jobs, which were so hard to find! Omg, I just don't wanna look back onto the times I called plenty companies there and wrote application letters...pffff...I guess they thought it's April fools day with an German ME appling in their country!?
Anyway, to make it short: I can't wait anymore-I need a job NOW! My plan was to start at 1st of April, and so I do!
I wanted to go far, and I made it to...Frankfurt! hahhahaha...shit! Hopefully I don't get stuck over here and the job brings the hardcore-travel-action they promised me! That is still my hope to go abroad working for a German co with keeping all benefits from home.

The company, for which I signed the contract (and hopefully not sold my soul), is called NIKA GmbH in Frankfurt and is specialised in EFD (engineering fluid dynamics) which is their own developed software product. I will be employed as an Application Engineer making calculations in CFD (computational fluid dynamics) for customers and benchmarking. I will also be responsible for trainings and seminars, either given directly to the customer in his local office or tutorials in applied EFD. Well, I am gonna be around in Germany and Europe after a little training period in the beginning and hope to find my fulfilment within the job.

But of course, I didn't quit my intension to go on with finding a job abroad somewhen. It's furthermore a good start to gain experience in the industry with: the job the I want, the salary I expected plus some extra benefits which really honors my skills in engineering so far. But don't ask me where to go...everything changes so fast. I try to live for the moment, always keeping on...

...SPREADING WINGS

secret identity, the truth about Mr Undercover

Look what I've found! hahahha, amazingly funny...and I knew it before! Two identities, one person! Friday nite-spinning in Heidelberg; Saturday-delving back into the hardest league in Europe for scoring cheeky for the Gunners!


top: Julio Baptista-forward FC Arsenal / bottom: DJ George Morel

I'm absolutely sure and there is no doubt about it, this guy definetely lives two lifes! hahahha-I kid you not!
And, btw, thank you for the gig on Friday and the goal on Saturday! Cheers