facets of my life http://www.bluefacets.net my life... first Japan, now back in Germany Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 it kind of beats the purpose… http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/11/08/it-kind-of-beats-the-purpose/ http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/11/08/it-kind-of-beats-the-purpose/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:53:21 +0000 Alex http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/11/08/it-kind-of-beats-the-purpose/ … of my previous post. Anyway, this video is just too… true… to be missed. Enjoy.

 

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As the connection I announced some time ago between facebook and this blog is also working reasonably well, the next step will be to include my photos. Haven’t uploaded any in quite some time, so after announcing it 10.000 times I guess I should consider actually doing it :)

]]> http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/11/08/windows-7/feed/ 0 49 days to go http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/10/19/49-days-to-go/ http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/10/19/49-days-to-go/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:06:13 +0000 Alex http://www.bluefacets.net/?p=174 Wow, last week I finally forced myself to redo on of those fantastically boring JLPT prep-tests. And I would have failed. Clearly. Undeniably. And now I am sitting over truckloads of reading materials just so get those last missing 5% points in the reading section. I have 49 days to go. 7 weeks. Anyone else [...]]]> Wow, last week I finally forced myself to redo on of those fantastically boring JLPT prep-tests. And I would have failed. Clearly. Undeniably. And now I am sitting over truckloads of reading materials just so get those last missing 5% points in the reading section. I have 49 days to go. 7 weeks. Anyone else suffering from the “I do ok in all areas of the JLPT…  but reading” problem?

2-kyuu. I am coming.

Two more hours to read. Tonight.

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Apart from this, I am trying to link my wordpress and facebook accounts so it is possible [...]]]> Well, quite some time has passed since my last post… bad me. Anyway, I guess I might actually enter some data and back-date it as there has been hapenning a lot which actually outh to appear on this blog.

Apart from this, I am trying to link my wordpress and facebook accounts so it is possible to cross post or connect easily between them. Anyone having experience with this, feel free to send me a message.

]]> http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/10/01/trying-to-integrate-with-facebook/feed/ 0 Honeymoon in Greece http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/09/30/honeymoon-in-greece/ http://www.bluefacets.net/2009/09/30/honeymoon-in-greece/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:13 +0000 Alex http://www.bluefacets.net/?p=169 Finally Masumi an I did our honeymoon. Months of waiting and lots of expectations later we embarked on September 12th onto our trip. First we went to Athens, visiting the various sites (Acropolies among others). From there we took the ferry to Mykonos. The beach was ours – between a few hundred other tourists. Anyway, [...]]]> Finally Masumi an I did our honeymoon. Months of waiting and lots of expectations later we embarked on September 12th onto our trip. First we went to Athens, visiting the various sites (Acropolies among others). From there we took the ferry to Mykonos. The beach was ours – between a few hundred other tourists. Anyway, it being quite late in the season there were really not too many people; rather too few and the enormous amount of sunloungers seemed quite deserted.

Of course, we took the opportunity to visit Delos, the worlds largest assembly of ruins, and I enjoyed taking a few (hundreds) of photos.

A few days later our trip brought us to Naxos and we organised a small buggy with which we explored every corner of the small island. Fantastic views and quite a bit of original greek culture in the more remote places, very view tourist and overall, due to the very relaxed mood much more to our liking than touristy and chaotic Mykonos.

In the end, yet another ferry brought us to Santorini where we enjoyed the last few days of our holiday in a fantastic cave hotel looking down into the water filled caldera and the local volcano. While I liked the hotel in Santorini best, the relaxation on Naxos and ruins on Delos where my personal highlights and I can conly recommend all of you to take a trip on these fascinating islands! Just be careful to avoid the high season :)

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