SKIING IN MELLAU, AUSTRIA with AL (Feb. 9 - 11, 2007)

Hey there people! Sorry for the absence, but this time my thesis got in the way and well, I just haven't taken the time to update my blog.
ANYway...

Lots of crazy stuff have been happening in these past two weeks!
This weekend just rocked! I went with some ex-colleagues from Automotive Lighting to Mellau, Austria.
We were a total of 15 people and we wanted to ski for two whole days.

I would love to go into details, but that would just bore the hell out of you.
So here is the short summary:

1. Arrived Friday night (Feb. 9th ) around 8pm at Hotel Sonne, left our stuff in the room and had dinner. Went to bed early.
   
   
2. Woke up at around 7am on Sat. (Feb. 10th), had breakfast at 8am and we all left at 9am. Got at the ski field around 9:30 am and rented the whole ski equipment: boots, skis and sticks.
   
   
3. FIRST SKI DAY: I fell down on the first curve in a really spectacular way...it hurt like a b...I heard something pop and I thought it was my knee...thank God it was only the ski popping off my right boot. Fell a total of 10 times this day. I went down mostly blue ski roads (easiest level) and went down a red lane (level hard). There are black lanes and I didn't try that at all. I wanted to come back home in one piece! Most of the day was sunny, beautiful, and I was able to see where I was skiing.
   
   
   
4. We skied til 4pm and then went back to the hotel. Enjoy a good hour in the sauna, swimming pool and whirl pool. Also played some ping pong til like 6.30pm. At around 7pm we had dinner and around 9pm went straight to bed with lots of aches all over.
   
   
5. SECOND SKI DAY: We did the same routes like on Saturday, but this time I fell a total of six times! The weather was a real pain in the @ss! It was snowing big time and it was very windy! You could hardly see where you were skiing. We skied til 4pm and then we took off back to home. Got back home around 8pm and tried to chill out.
   
   
   
6. Total cost: 118 € for hotel, 39 € for skis, boots and sticks; 65 € for a two day ski pass; one new ski pants for 50 €, ski gloves for 16 €.
   
   
7. Damage: knee hurts, back hurts, right leg responds slowly, right arm hurts, neck also hurts.

I highly recommend you people that for your very first skiing experience you actually have ALL the required ski gear.
Enjoy in the meantime...I'm really beat!
Hugs to you all!
Héctor

OKTOBERFEST 2006

October 3rd., 2006
Hackerzelt, München

Well, I totally forgot to write a small post about this years visit to the Oktoberfest 2006, the biggest drinking party on the living planet!
In almost 4 years that I've been in Germany, I have come every single year except for 2005 (2003 and 2004 were great experiences, but I either lost my dignity, my clothes, my backpack or my digital camera...that one really hurt).
So, I took 2005 as a little break and swore to come back in 2006.

I don't want to say much about the whole experience. I'll let the pictures do the talking. In any case, I just want to thank one of my best old friends (once upon a time she was THE ENEMY). Her name is Maike Mei-lin Wengel, a.k.a. Mei.

Mei & Hector

She was very sweet to reserve a table for like 15 of her closest friends in the Hackerzelt

(the front of the Hackerzelt)

and we had a blast from around 5pm until like...hmm...11pm, yeah, that's what I remember.
There are over 100 pictures of this awesome drinking binge, but no worries, this time I didn't lose a thing...not that I know of ;)

Mei, you are the best!!! To all the fine ladies that were there: you girls just rocked the place!
To all the guys who were there: PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!
I'm already looking forward to Oktoberfest 2007!!

Here are a collage of the pics!

For more pictures visit: http://groups.msn.com/FortheSiths/oktoberfest2006.msnw?Page=1

Prost!

Héctor S.
aka Milo or Mr. Turi

Buchmesse Frankfurt 2006

Hey everyone,

well, after a month of a pause I have to post something. Well, to keep thing interesting for you all, here's a picture from the "Buchmesse" or the International Trade Fair of Books in Frankfurt, Germany. This is one of the biggest trade fairs of its kind for the industry.

From a Korean author: Kung Fu, Meditation & Sex! (I can truly train like this all the time!)

I went there on Sat. the 7th of Octuber with my friends Nina and Paco. It was Paco's b-day on Sunday, so we also had a small b-day party for him. Btw girls, he turned 25 and he's still single.

Paco and "Die Maus", his favorite German cartoon (very educational)

Nina and "Die Maus"; she also likes the cartoon :P

One more thing: we celebrated Eva's belated (a friend and colleague from university from Nina) b-day with a brunch on Sunday morning. So here's also a pic with all the fine ppl that went to the brunch. Twas a great lunch/brunch! Thanks Eva!

From left to right: Christine, Nadja, Nina, Marion, Katja, Martin, bf from Katja (sorry, forgot his name), Héctor and Eva.

Cheers to you all and hope to know from you all.
Have a nice start of the week!

Milo in Reutlingen