Kristallographie ... meiner Umgebung

The crystallographie section, where I am now doing my thesis, is a nice place :D
It's right on top of the Museum Reich der Kristalle, infront of the different pinakoteken. I have a shared office with the Li-ion battery team; also there are nice across-the-hall neighbors that always give me food, and water for my coffee...nice people this neighbors jiji.
Also, we have the XRay machine for the analysis, and big windows to look out of.
Whenever I get brain blocked (several times a day) I go for a relaxing walk around the halls and encounter several different people :D
The PC room is a place for "work" but most people there only check their emails and facebook, only juju actually works there cuz his computer, a faithful machine, has started to have some age-related-problems :D.
Also most mama's elves work here, Kuan and Murad share an office, Jarret was ont he other side, also Tesfaye.
Dayin, mama's elve from last year, is doing her PhD here also, so... nice nice.
SoHyun's (my supervisor) office is right next to ours, so whenever she needs or wants us, we just hear her "melodic" plea for our presence from the other side of the wall.
But our office is a work place, not a chat room, however, there is always coffee and cookies :D... nice place to work.
Everyday around 12, we all send facebook, google and skype messages with the compelling text: food?.. oh yeah, the bliss of food witht he co-workers. If it's a nice day, we just go downstairs and eat outside.
As a new development, we have tandem lunches, this means that Casjen talks to us, Dayin and me, auf Deutsch during the entire lunch time :D it's quite nice.
We do have fun sometimes, us, science people...

Weltmeister finale

Sadly... germany did not win :( .... f"#$#"$ ing pulpo paul.
The last game was such a sad event, some mama´s elves, entourage and agregates got together for some football, all of us supporting our host country... awesome germany. We went to he olympiastadion. It was so full of people and alive... like a real game and not 2 huge screens... reaaaaally huge gigantic troll size screens.
At the beginning it was sooooo cool, people cheering, chanting, jumping, drinking... fun fun. As the game played out and germany was palying terribly, mood went down a rollercoaster... the scary-not-so-much-fun-I-might-puke rollercoaster... sad.
But we still manage to have fun. Thibault had this red horn thing and did something awesome, that most people didn't like... he gave it to me! :D jijijiji... GENIUS! I did make some german (drunken) friends with it jijijiji.
The very cool thing is that even though people were very sad, they stayed longer at the stadium, kept chanting and all, it was sad but nice in a way.
The köningin von Deutschland atire has been betterplaced around my chambers: flag in the balcony, scarf by the door and crown made of flowers... yet to find a home, maybe in the handle of manny (my "new" bike - story to be told later)... we'll see jijiji.... o jeez... to much juju in my speech...well... auf wiedersehen weltmeistershaft! bis zum nächsten mal!

Zuza in München...

So... my friend Zuza visited me this past weekend. She is from Slovakia and I met her last semester in Rennes during her erasmus.

Quick background: first party night in Rennes, Michal , I and others were headed downtown to the first erasmus party of the semester in the famous Rue de la soif! So there we are, at the bus stop (best place evver to meet people in Rennes), and this cute, tiny smiling girl comes up to us cuz she heard us speaking in english, and started talking to us. That night we partied like souls in purgatory and since then, the three of us, have been good friends, having late night "tea parties" that always ended up with one (or two) botles of wine, and social and private events of the sort... good friends.
Now her erasmus year ended and she came to pay me a visit in dear old München.
She arrived friday night, tired as hell, and we, that is me and the entourage with some mama´s elves, were having a night picnic in Olympiazentrum due to Juju's birthday. So I went to get her from the Ubahn and came back to the party. Very "quiet" but fun fun gathering.
Saturday woke up early and did touristy things, discovered that my precious gorgeous Rox had been stolen, so Zuza had to put Charlotte (Juju's bike) back. Then we went around the city and all, and then, of couuuuuurse, to the watch the game. We went to backstage and there met the others. They were so proud, they had found this sort of livingroom area, with couches, a TV and.... NOBODY ELSE!!!! it was freaking deserted! and ... come on! a TV!!!! so no, Zuza and I went in search for better horizons and seats at the beer hall where there were lots of crazy, alcohol-intoxicated german football fans! We found some good seats.. genius. Victor joined us and we had a blast! the game was greaet, as I am sure aaaaaaaaaall, of you know, these germans ( I keep calling them like that, but I loooove them, they are awesome) went crazy with maRRadona's tears... uuufff, it was a great game and great party.
Then we went again around the city, and to the englischer garten to the HB biergarten, then we met the others and played some games.. rackets of fire (Thibault and I) did not make an appearance, half of the team was insanely tired... ME :D
Then we went to the ever-open always cool, we-always-end-up-there kilian's irish pub!, had some beers, some bulmers, played some card games, and then went home at a half-indecent hour.
Sunday, we lazed around a bit, made an improvised tealess tea party with michal in skype and then again the touristy thing, we went to BMW welt, to the neue pinakotek, had some coffee in the street, to the nymphenburger palace, to HB bierhall and then back home to finish the evening (at 23h) with some sake!!! (thanks again darling Mimi).
On monday, I went to work quite early and Zuza left later, then we met downtown and went to he bus station, had lunch and then... well... my dear dear Koki left for her motherland and family!
It was awesome having her here and seeing her again... :D

Pearls

His smile, a string of pearls,
necklace resting on my collarbone,
soft breath caressing the back of my ear,
sweet kisses cover my skin.

His lips, thick and inviting,
I want to lay on the comfort of his mouth.
Dimples form deep pools on his rough cheeks,
the pearly glow reaches your eyes.