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(Dino) Parks and Recreation

Turbulent weeks went by, with no chance to blog. I was Batman (and this guy is when he is cosplaying and probably the king of all cosplayers) and holy hand grenade was Arkham City awesome. The game is bigger, better, faster and more Batman in every single way than the

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This week definitely just this short update, because I am Batman

On Sunday a friend of mine lent me Batman: Arkham City for the Playstation 3 (that I don't like, but my girlfriend's brother lent us) and I am busy being Batman. In Germany I used to have a Xbox 360 that I currently lent to one

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The age (r)evolution

Inevitably we are going old. Wait a second before you call bullshit! I am 30 at the time of writing this and I feel like 14. Okay I admit, I feel 22, but again, I am in pretty good shape, but I don't take myself as serious anymore.

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Everything in it's right place...

So this post has been inspired by a friend of mine and trainer Niels, who also blogs (in German) and wrote this specific piece - about the magical places. Niels is in New York at the moment and I've learned a thing or two about MMA from him,

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Should I stay or should I go or a tale of two cities and 2 Shanghai spots

I live in a country that basically forces you to use apps like 'Airpocalypse' this pokes a little bit of fun or that horrid air that you breath in on a daily basis. It's a country of internet censorship and chaos. It's love-able though,

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Get your towels ready - it's getting hot!

Summer is officially here. Shanghai has basically two seasons. There is winter: roughly from end of November to early April and then there is summer: basically the rest of the time. Currently it's spring I would say, that lasts like 2 weeks, it's pretty summerish already.

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Noisecore and other distractions

China is loud! Like woken up at 7am in the morning to the sound of a jackhammer on Sunday loud. Good thing is, you don't have to care as much either. So if you feel like blasting Death Metal after 10pm then that is mostly an okay as

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Ohrwurm of the week 17/2015

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNv_JpKkaQ] Here is one that just hits all the right notes with me. The band is German and they seem so not German, that I wouldn't have thought so with the first three guesses. And also, the great Jonny from

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Catching up with shows like the Daredevil I am

It's probably the best time ever to be a comic book fan, for the movies and shows that is. Here is the first glimpse of Batman versus Superman: [embed]https://youtu.be/IwfUnkBfdZ4[/embed] I am not as blown away by it as I should be, but damn

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And...we are back after a spam attack

A lot has happened. Frustratingly my tactic to approve spam comments and then comment on them massively backfired and left me with 400+ spam comments. Good thing is, you learn from that. I learned there is good protection (listen kids!) - haha. Some trial and error made me find a

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Sometimes you discover good music that you knew about in the Apples Store

I will keep this a short one. In a few weeks it is Christmas and I would have not realized it, if it wouldn't have been for red starbucks cups and posts of my friends that show snow. I mean last week I went out in a T-shirt

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Stellar movies and weekends

Yesterday I saw Interstellar in the cinema. I can't quiet make out if I love it or not. It was a very brain heavy movie and the 6 beer before did not help. It's the weekend. So what I can say without a doubt is that

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The promised second language article

So here we go: no, I am not a native English speaker and there are a couple of words and phrases that give me away. Not necessarily as a German but yeah, as somebody with English as a second language. The German in me makes all the 'W'

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Here is the update you are all waiting for

So yeah, there are a couple of articles drafted, but that is hard to see for the world, when you are not logged into my wordpress account. Currently it is the best time, I mean weather wise in Shanghai. The temperature hovers around 23 degrees, the sun is shining and

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A quick rant

This is going to be a quick one. At the moment my mind revolves around the things that are going on in Hong Kong. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wSexIGURs] It is a war with love as a weapon and I hope it does not turn violent. I

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Old dream - new post

On the 14th of May 2011 I have posted this piece on Facebook: A weird dream Had a weird dream tonight. Went into a hotel foyer as waves crashed in and filled the rooms with water, then people tried to flee and the water was rising fast to the level

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Ohrwurm of the week 41/2014

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qri3D4Ry0s] This is the song where you really can hear your balls drop and it has possibly one of the best guitar hooks that creep up your spine and make the back of your brain tingle. I have a lot of love for

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Hello World! Meet The Foreigners of Shanghai

I'm not going to apologize for not posting a couple of days, that rarely makes a good read. There have been some background updates and I finished The Strain - it ended on an okay-ish note. There was some vampire slaying, a good couple of unmemorable but boggling

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A little shred of wisdom

So there is this thing called weekend coming up and every time I am happy that next Friday is weekend again, but this is not what I am going to write about. There is a lot of self help/life hack stuff and financial guru's and cool lifehackers

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Ohrwurm of the week 40/2014

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUOfWCHrvIY] Allow me a lazy day once a week and I actually won't let you down, I declare wednesdays the Ohrwurm day. You might ask yourself what an Ohrwurm is and that is okay, you might not be German. An Ohrwurm

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A mixed bags of chips/nuts/bats

So it is that time of the year when I am waiting on TV shows. The time when you watch mediocre shows because you have to wait a week for your new favorites or a couple of weeks or months until the shows you really love make a return. At

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Day 2 - and they have still no idea that I am not Batman...

Let's start this post with a bit more Batman, that you had never heard before: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfjUMinFPk] So those guys are the piano guys - if you don't get goosebumps, then please go away. They have a video with my

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Batman is back and ready to burn

Here it is, the extended version of the hello-world comment I was about to write this time last year. Things take time, sometimes more than expected, but then they might turn out to be brilliant. I know what you are thinking: 'who is this guy?', 'why is

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Discontinuation - Danke Deutschland!

Nach dem was ich gerade gelesen habe, wird dieser Blog höchstwahrscheinlich zum 01.01.2011 zu Grabe getragen. Warum? Siehe hier - als Blog- oder Websiteinhaber essentiell. Vielleicht ändert sich bis Mitte Dezember noch etwas, ansonsten heißt es ziemlich bald R.I.P. burntobealive... Armes Deutschland!

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27.11.2011 The Ghost Inside, For The Fallen Dreams... (Rosswein)

Kurzfassung: Super Abend! Super Publikum! Angemessener Preis! Alles richtig gemacht! Langfassung: Sind gegen 21 Uhr in Rosswein angekommen und es ging auch gleich los. Essen war toll, hab die veganen Steaksandwiches probiert und für sehr gut befunden. War vorher noch nie zu einer Show in Rosswein und war durch und