restless.
7 September 2009
16 August 2009
what word would describe vienna?
a passage in a book is stuck in my head. the plot plays in rome. liz, the main character, has been living there for a few months. liz says to her friends that she cannot put the finger on it, but she knows that rome will not be the city where she will live forever. her friend, guilio, tells her his interesting theory: every city has one word that characterizes it; one word that summarizes what the city is about. and if your own word does not match the word of the city, you do not 100% fit. rome's word, guilio says, is "sex" and the vatican's "power". liz nodds and says: well, then new york city's word would be "achieve".interesting theory. so here is my thought: what would be the one word that describes vienna?
9 August 2009
work vs. personal lifes
i skimmed through an article the other day. literally skimming, as i cannot remember the title or topic of the article. but one sentence got stuck in my mind. "for some people it is hard to switch from work to personal life; and changing clothes might help switching between those roles." should mean that people tend to take work attitudes to their personal life. i guess this is true if you have a very demanding job where e.g. toughness is needed to get things done. that certainly won�t be helpful when meeting friends.anyway. the main thing that got me thinking was the changing clothes part. in wellington my home would be just 10 minutes from work / city centre, so it was a normal thing for me to do: to go home and change clothes. while reading the lines in the article i realized how much i like(d) doing that actually. how it helped me to leave work issues at work. i hope i have enough time in my new job to keep doing that.
3 August 2009
a year minus one
29 more days to go until i start working again. has been 11 months since i left my job in new zealand, and in a month a new life chapter will start. a lot of things happened in those 11 months. i feel i have been blessed with the experiences i made travelling, the people i met on my way and my friends i re-connected to coming back to austria. i feel time just flew by me like a speed train. still remember my last week in new zealand; my first day of travelling in melbourne; the day i stepped on the boat in cairns; stepped out of planes, buses and trains; the first weeks struggeling to understand spanish and few months later converse almost fluently; the incredible scenery and majesty of things....and this last month in freedom - august 2009 - will be the perfect end of 11 months "limbo". spending it with friends in different places; realizing that the world is small enough for us to play around but big enough to collect memories.