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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Christmas market in a box 
I had to go and pick up a package at the post office today. I thought it's the snow globes I ordered. But it was much better than that! Susanne sent me a Christmas market in a box! The box contained a Düsseldorf mug, Glühwein packages, biscuits, gebrannte Mandeln (I just love those!), an Indian notebook and pen, plus a large box of chocolates! What a great idea! It will go into this year's Advent calendar. So sweet. [ back to top ] Saturday, January 27, 2007 Black out 
Dine out Vancouver is on for the 5th time. As always we like to take advantage of the event and visit restaurants that we would not visit on a regular basis. Tonight we had a 5.45 PM reservation at West. I was making fun of the fact that only old people would have dinner reservations at such an early time. As we drove down the Granville Rise traffic got really heavy and was barely moving because some of the traffic lights were out. When we entered the restaurant we were told that they are not running on full power and that we should be patient. Klaus SLOW COOKED HEN'S EGG WITH ITALIAN FLAT LEAF PARSLEY SOUP STAR ANISE BRAISED PORK BELLY, SAVOY CABBAGE PUREE DARK CHOCOLATE CARAMEL PARFAIT Esther MOSAIC OF CHICKEN AND FOIE GRAS WILD MUSHROOM AND RICOTTA RAVIOLI PASSIONFRUIT AND PINEAPPLE GALETTE WITH We enjoyed our excellent main course when all of a sudden everything went dark but the candle on each table. Then our waiter came and told us that we were the lucky ones and still get dessert. A few minutes later our waiter came with the desserts which were heavenly. Eventually our waiter came again and told us that we do not have to pay for dinner tonight because of the inconvenience of the power outage. Well of course we did not start an argument with our waiter but we also did not suffer any inconvenience at all. We had an outstanding dinner, excellent service, the chef's table... Thank you West! [ back to top ] Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Aenne Burda Award
Taken from Focus Online Zum zweiten Mal ging der Aenne Burda Award nach Nordamerika. Nach der Google-Managerin Marissa Mayer erhielt ihn die Flickr-Mitgründerin Catarina Fake. Der Aenne Burda Award wird seit 2006 verliehen. Der Preis soll Frauen bestärken, ihrem eingeschlagenen Weg treu zu bleiben, an ihre Ideen zu glauben und sie durchzusetzen. Vorbild für den Preis ist die Vita der Verlegerin Aenne Burda, die aus einem kleinen Verlag nach 1949 den weltgrößten Modeverlag aufbaute. Mit der Verleihung des Preises an Catarina Fake würdigte Verleger Dr. Hubert Burda die Ausdauer, mit der Fake unbeirrt von vielen Kritiken die Foto-Gemeinschaft Flickr aufbaute. Sie gehört heute zum Yahoo-Imperium. Fake, deren Name auf die deutschen Auswanderfamilie Feick zurückgeht, wurde auch dafür ausgezeichnet, dass sie mit Misbehaving.net eine Website ins Leben gerufen hat, die jungen Unternehmensgründerinnen Mut macht. [ back to top ] Thursday, January 18, 2007 Christmas is over Today the Christmas holidays are officially came to a close. Klaus gave me a Starbucks gift card for Christmas. And as everybody knows Starbucks products are overpriced and some also overrated. This is why I usually bring my own coffee to work. But having gotten that gift card I enjoyed my Starbucks coffee (small size and regular flavor) with a chocolate croissant. But the chocolate croissant luxury is now over. As of today I am back on my much healthier but also much less appealing granola bar breakfast. [ back to top ] Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Jackpot On the way to work I thought I hit the jackpot! A dealership on Marine Drive had a 2004 Mercedes CL or SL, silver for less than $5,000.00 on their front lawn. So I called them up asking if that beauty is still available and what was wrong with the car. "Hahaha ma’am, with all the wind we are having a number sign must have blown away blah blah blah…" After our little banter about dead bodies in the trunk and a drug dealer having owned the car he asked me if there is anything I would be interested in. I told him that I am in the market for a BMW convertible. But I don't think he took me serious. His loss because as I am looking for a BMW convertible. [ back to top ] Sunday, January 14, 2007 Buying software After having put the renewal of the anti virus licence on the back burner for two weeks I had to pay the price for that sloppiness today. I actually had to go and buy an operating system. Klaus' comment was: deserves you right for unsafe computing. $149.00 for Windows XP Pro is a small price to pay for being able to keep all my work. [ back to top ] Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Snow 
I took this image this morning. Klaus just called and said that there is no way for him to make it onto Knight Street Bridge. He is stuck in Richmond because he had to drop off his car for service. [ back to top ] Thursday, January 4, 2007 Schlagzeile Auf Spiegel Online steht heute: Bush lobt Merkels Weisheit
Wenn man berücksichtigt von wem die Beurteilung stammt, kann das nur als Beleidigung verstanden werden... sorry Angela. [ back to top ] New Year's Day, 2007 Ein neues Buch, ein neues Jahr Ein neues Buch, ein neues Jahr Ich möchte leben, bis all dies Glüh'n [ back to top ] |
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Running Chef 
I am not reading at the moment - too lazy...
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