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New Year's Resolutions

I had none. Zero! Nothing. Nichts. And yet, this is so far the biggest change I have had in my life since coming back to China in October 2011 with 1 pair of jeans, 3 shirts, 2 pairs of shoes, some socks, some underwear and a job that paid really

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Some movie reviews of movies I have recently watched

I deserve an award for this creative title. Let me start this of by saying there have not been a lot of movies I have watched 2017 that really left an impression on me. There is no spoiler in any of these short reviews, so knock yourself out. 'Justice

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Ohrwurm of the week 05/2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKS-N2AaxRE Being As An Ocean - Dissolve My Sundays are 'holy' again, meaning I use this as a day to really calm down, relax and do things I really enjoy doing. It's also the day where I allow myself to

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Self-improvement is masturbation...

... is a great quote to think about from both the book 'Fight Club' (by my favourite author Chuck Palahniuk, it's not my favourite book by him, but possibly my favourite movie) and the movie of the same name. When I was younger this movie was everything,

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Holy Guacamole and Hello World 2018

This was seriously stressful, but here I am, back again! I haven't posted in ages, as you might have noticed. For reasons. The main reason was that in October 2017 I have made a big decision. The decision to return to Germany and leave China for good. It

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Aus gegebenem Anlass einmal auf Deutsch...

... ich bin geschockt. Eigentlich aber nicht. Auf der einen Seite könnte ich mich schämen aus Sachsen zu kommen, dort geboren worden zu sein, aber dass habe ich mir nicht herausgesucht. Das ist auch ein Grund warum ich Nationalstolz oder selbst Patriotismus nicht verstehe. Das geht für mich soweit dass ich

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Ohrwurm of the week 38/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8O674Nn1rw Atreyu - Blow Man, what a band! Hailing from Orange County in the U.S. they bring back memories of sensational times. Of times where I went to a small hardcore club not far from my village super close to the Czech border

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Ohrwurm of the week 37/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWbcK3YQ_o Architects - Doomsday This hit harder than Floyd Mayweather! Architects: possibly my favourite UK metalcore outfit. At first they almost where completely foreign to me with their Math Metal like sounds on their first album. More and more I grew attached to

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The customer (or consumer sometimes, as a lot of stuff is free) is always right!

Nope! I have been a customer and wrong at the same time. I consume a lot of media, a lot of free stuff too and you won't hear me complain about the free stuff a lot apart from banter or if I really care. It happens to the

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What's new and why aren't you writing a lot?

So there has been some silence and here is why: I hurt my knee again. After a great dinner with friends I fell off my bike, not even fast or with style or so that one could laugh about it, just ran into an oddly parked shared bike (in the

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Ohrwurm of the week 30/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPs897BANo Make Them Suffer - Let Me In I actually had to look through my post history to check if I haven't posted this one and was surprised to find, that I haven't. Make Them Suffer is an Australian Deathcore

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Your taste will inevitably change, so you might as well embrace the new

Again we are coming to the meaty article of the week. This topic is going to be something, I find to be meaningful and for the lack of a better word deep. Change. Nothing is as inevitable in life as change. There is also this fear we all have with

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Ohrwurm of the week 29/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBtJpVY7NkE Low - Especially Me LOW is a indie rock band hailing from Minnesota, some call them a Mormon band - 2 members are practicing mormons. They are currently touring with the fantastic Mono, that I love to listen to on long flights. They

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Recipes and Punk Cooking

With 6 years in China and more specifically Shanghai food plays a big role. I came here weighing around 75 to 78kg and currently am at 88 to 90kg with a bit more muscle but also a bit of a belly. For the first 3 years I was basically not

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Ohrwurm of the week 28/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCR0y84-06U Oceans Ate Alaska - Escapist This week we are going a tad softer than last week. Polyrhythms and blast-beats do make a return but we have something fresh sprinkled in and some clean singing. Oceans Ate Alaska are a metal core outfit from

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A lifehack and how gaming influences (my) life

The internet giant Tencent in China just recently started to restrict gaming for people under 18 for their flagship game and possibly the biggest mobile sensation ever. Sounds crazy - might actually help a bit. Semi related, I came across this super interesting article. This piece of writing touches a

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Ohrwurm of the week 27/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6SLEBM19M Thy Art Is Murder - They Will Know Another So here we go with something heavy. This is what I would call the Extreme Metal Version of We Are The World. Hear me out on this. To me this spreads a similar message.

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At almost 33 I am realising I might be an introvert...

... I might be crazy or just getting older, but hear me out. So I head a little  of a  find myself time in Thailand recently. Nah, jokes! It was a stag do and good fun with a couple of friends and there is a new energy inside me since then.

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Glass Hearts

Part of the plan that I made is to keep the Ohrwurms going and then write something from the heart mid-week'ish. What better way to start than to talk about something from the heart about hearts. A special kind of heart, a heart that is weak, a heart

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Ohrwurm of the week 23/2017

With the recent plans I made, I am bringing something back. The weekly Ohrwurm (literally ear worm meaning a song that is stuck in your head). So I am trying to do this every Monday and this might give you an idea of what kind of music I am into

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How I almost got beaten up by gangsters

Boy oh boy this was a day! When a day starts at 7:10 (AM that is, if you are not using the superior 24 hour system, because it confuses people) with a pick hammer and knocks on what feels like the wall that you sleep next to, then it

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Some of your world grows bigger, while some of it becomes smaller....

This time we are getting a bit philosphical and dive into some cultural perceptions and subjective experiences from yours truly! Life is ups and downs and kris and kross (sometimes it's so confusing we forget which way the clothes are supposed to fit) but some things seem to

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Catching up!

So with the sudden change from winter to summer, over the course of what seemed like a week, here is a longer recap of what is going on and burning hot! I have made the jump into the latest console gaming generation and got an Xbox One and boy, oh

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Lego Batman, Logan and Iron Fist

A good weekend of two movies in the cinema and a TV show that I was looking forward to. Let's jump right in! The Lego Batman Movie - Almost got me completely hooked, like The Lego Movie back in the day. The first 10 minutes were rapid fire

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The Fans and Critics are the problem

We are the problem... Really, unlike with video games, where fans keep calling publishers out on their bullcrap and someone like the amazing CD Projekt Red comes out of the woodwork and delivers on all accounts without aggravating (what I believe) a single consumer, with the grandious Witcher 3 (so