Where shall we go tonight?

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Where shall we go tonight?

Kanye West and Switzerland

True story:
A swiss friend of mine lives in a very nice appartment in Hoboken. When they ( Swiss family) moved in they went to their neigbor and introduced themselves and invited the new neighbor for a cup of coffee. It was a little weird though: The neighbor used a full size bus to go to work and he also had a big screen TV in his bus. Later they found out (through their nanny a huge Rap fan): Neigbor is Kanye West!

Kanye doesn't like G. Bush, listen to his new (Bush adjusted) hit Gold Digger:

http://www.archive.org/download/George_Bush_Doesnt_Like_Black_People
/GeorgeBushDoesntCareAboutBlackPeople.mp3

Caroline and NY Skyline..

She made it! :) So that is Caroline - a future diplomat.
Caro and I went to Sharper Image and she bought an umbrella - well not just any umbrella, the worlds smallest full size umbrella. At the register the guy said: "And your total would be X dollars today". Caroline replied: "And tomorrow?" :) Then she says: "I have been to long with her" points in my direction, then: "I mean not WITH her" It was sooo funny..

I mean it's true. If your total today is X dollar, what if you decide to buy something else in that store on the same day? Your total wouldn't be X dollars but Y dollars. OR would the second purchase be free? Luckily we didn't ask the guy as I am sure he would have called security.

Newest fashion in NY (as seen in the Guess store with Caro today) : A bra with sequins and swarovski cristalls on under a 75 % unbuttoned blouse. Nice try guys!

Caroline is coming today

Her special someone - is studing at NYU, so she came to visit. Let's se if she makes it here ok by bus. The weather is nice so we might go to the mall outside and maybe to the big one inside. I'll post some pics.
What else.. ahh.. I have a recruiter interview tomorrow. It's Robert Half Financial and they are professional. I dealt with them in Toronto before. Talking about Toronot, Ben is going there tonight. A busisness trip and he'll be back on Thrusday. Hopefully. Ok, not I have to bring the place to a shine, Caro is coming! ;)

A glimps into my job hunt

On Friday a lady called me regarding my resume (Monique!). Of course I tried to call her back. In fact i tried 3 times.. nobody picked up ever, no answering machine either. So this moning Monique calls me. "I don't know you, why did you call my number 3 times?" I explained and all of a sudden she remembered. So she switched hats and all of a sudden I was talking to a recruiter. (Still Baby crying in the back though). She made me wait for "a second" while I heard some kind of juice being poured into a glass and a "ahhhh". She then told me about this incredible job opportunity with this ever expanding company. I asked some questions on my own, like if this was a commission based position and how big the company was and what my job dutities would be. She replied she was only the recruiter and had no answers to my questions. But she urged me to come for an interview so she couls tell me more about the job. (More? She didn't know a damn thing on the phone already, so why??)

Different recruiter: I went to meet the lady 1 month ago. She made me wait for 2.5hrs in her office (which was in the Chrysler building, so it's ok.. :)). She said she would transfer my file as she only recruits temp staff. I called her back and emailed her at least 5 times since. I NEVER heard back from her. So yesterday I decided to call until I would get through. (American approach!) I called the receptionist, she told me my recruiter would take my call at 3. I called she said try again at 4. I did, she said call again at 5. I did, she picked up the phone - hung up on me and didn't pick up anymore!

Look this is the iPod case i made for Ben

Please post any compliments you may have :). It's made out of black and red felt.

Another job interview

So today I went to a job interview with American Express. A 155 year old company. The people were surprisingly young and dynamic though ;) They have great offices (not the typrical "worn out carpet, old non-flat computers and super large doors so their biggest employes get in too" american office). I was thrilled!I took the ferry over to Manhattan. It just takes 12 min. to cross the Hudson river. Unfortunately there was a traffic jam on the way to the ferry terminal. So I parked 10min away from the ferry. And I had to walk in high heels across a construction area. (autsch!) My black shoes were covered in dust and on the boat I realized I had forgotten my resume and the job description. Well the job description was stupid anyways... e.g. "Be able to demonstrate ten key skills with speed and accuracy." What does that mean? I don't think I have ten skills with speed an accuracy.Well, luckyli my fellow sufferer ("Leidensgenosse") Ursina explained to me that I needed to be able to describe my ten key skills with speed and not ten speed skills. Thank you Ursina!Too bad they closed the outside pool for this year. There is a day called Labor day, after labor day the summer is officiallly over. And because the summer is officialy over - you can't swimm outside anymore. No matter it has been 30 C every single day since the summer is over. Another big no-no is white clothes. Summer is over and in winter people wear beige!
So today I went to a job interview with American Express. A 155 year old company. The people were surprisingly young and dynamic though ;) They have great offices (not the typical "worn out carpet, old non-flat computers and super large doors so their biggest employees get in too" american office). I was thrilled!

I took the ferry over to Manhattan. It just takes 12 min. to cross the Hudson river. Unfortunately there was a traffic jam on the way to the ferry terminal. So I parked 10min away from the ferry. And I had to walk in high heels across a construction area. (autsch!) My black shoes were covered in dust and on the boat I realized I had forgotten my resume and the job description. Well the job description was stupid anyways... e.g. "Be able to demonstrate ten key skills with speed and accuracy." What does that mean? I don't think I have ten skills with speed an accuracy.

Well, luckily my fellow sufferer ("Leidensgenosse") Ursina explained to me that I needed to be able to describe my ten key skills with speed and not ten speed skills. Thank you Ursina!


Too bad they closed the outside pool for this year. There is a day called Labor day, after labor day the summer is officially over. And because the summer is officially over - you can't swim outside anymore. No matter it has been 30 C every single day since the summer is over. Another big no-no is white clothes. Summer is over and in winter people wear beige!

Good morning

Look Mami,
here is a picture of the CH sticker you sent me :) Ben and I had the car washed just to take the picture. Unfortunately we got stuck in the car wash and the "stop" "go backwards" and "go forward" signal all flashed at once. There was water splashing everywhere and the car was soaked in soap foam and we didn't move one millimeter for minutes. That was fun - because I wasn't alone in the car! Yesterday we went to Chinatown. Hey Baba - I saw the Pomelofruit! It's about as big as a Honigmelone. The ones the sold in Chinatown were still green, I don't know if that's their final color or not.
And then we went to the Apple store and got an Ipod nano. Wow, 2 days ago I thought the Mac mini was the coolest thing on earth - now it's the most old
fashioned thing I can think of. Stay tuned for the new nano pic! I am off the the bookstore, I need a book about Resume writing as I am still unsuccessfull :(

Oh Katrina

These are a couple of pictures somebody took of Katrina. I got the pix from Tanya (I never know how to spell her name :( )

Waiting for the hurricain

so apparently Ophelia is passing the NJ shore tonight or so.
In order to be prepared I bought 10 gallons of water (under our bed) and an LED flashlight and body heat reflecting aluminium blankets at Target. I think it's the same ones you get after a marathon.
The led flashlight is cool. The bulb will last for 11 years if used without interruption. With 2 batteries you can light for more than 300hrs! Wow!
All set up now, Ophelia we are ready!
I will go to the Swiss Expat event on Tuesday
http://expatswiss.meetup.com/3/ should be fun. They have meet ups for really everything.. check it out. Oh and if you like art (photography, jewellery etc.) check this out too http://www.22bumblebees.com/ it's Illarias boyfriends website. And yes, that on the picture is him.

Cliff Couple

Couple hanging out on the Cliff in Block Island..

Olivier

The house we stayed at had a full glass front.. nice! The house is called Olivier just in case you want to go there too :)
http://www.blockisland.com/olivier/

Cliff

On our moped tour we stopped at this beautiful spot Eric had shown us 3 years ago... On the bottom of the pic you can see the stairs leading all the way down to the water. We were too lazy to go down - so just enjoy the nice picture from the top he he

As we finally made it to BI we rented a moped to tour the island. I don't know how big the island is - but I think we toured it a couple times that afternoon :)

This is me on the ferry. It was pretty cold. We had to get up very early to catch the 10.30 am ferry. Mapquest said it takes 4.5h from our apartment to Point Judith - it took Ben less than 3 hours (including breakfast break at - of course - McDonalds)

Blcok Island

This is Point Judit RI (Rhode Island) on the mainland. On the right you can see the "slow" ferry. On the slow ferry it takes about 1 h to get to Block Island, on the high speed one 30 min.

Movies we like

Ben's alltime fave is : Lost in Translation he doesn't like the Cell anymore.
I liked the Che movie: A motorcycles diaries
and since you like Kevin Spacy, have you seen K pAx? I loved it.

The other movies we got (not yet watched): Team America, world police
Millennium Mambo, Maria full of Grace (drug trafficing movie), Criminal, then I choose: Remember me, my love.
Oh, we also have The manchurian candidate, cool movie.
I am also desperately waiting for The march of the penguins to come out. That is supposed to be a great child-friendly movie. :)

My chocolate chip cookies!

They look good and are good.
Want the recipe? Here it is:
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
lots of chocolate chips.. and some walnuts. (In the 3rd row from the top, cookie number 2 - that's a walnut!) Mix all ingredients together except the chocolate chips. Once the dough is liquidy add chocolate chips.

The drop teaspoon full sizes of dough on baking sheet. Cook for 10 min at 375F.
YUMMY!
I'll be gone until Tuesday. So no news until then. Oh, by the way I didn't get the Cultural Attache job. Sniff.

I want one of these

http://www.plantkeychain.com/store.htm
Aren't they cool? Ican't decide which one to get..

Baba, wouldn't that be a good business idea?

Weekend

Hello, hello.
We had a long weekend that's why I didn't write for a while. On Satuday ben had the glorious idea to get an iExpress, a device that sends MP3 data wireless to the stero system. Well after trying to get it to work for 7 hrs we gave up. We bout a cabel for 130 times less and it works just fine. Somethimes having the newest and smallest and wireless-st is not the best!
On Sunday Ben gave finally in and came for a walk with me. Little did I know I was about to get into a 6h walking marathon. On our way back we stopped at a Video store and we got 6 movies. The motorcyle diaries is a great movie. It's about Ernesto Che Guevara. The CIA killed him so I won't elaborate on this further :)
Today I am going to try to make chocolate chip cookies. Like the Chip Ahoi ones. I will take a picture and post it as soon as I am done. On Friday we are going to Block Island with Eric and Robyn. We are going there by High Speed Ferry. That should be fun. Check out the pic of the High Speed Ferry

My favorite Drink:
1 oz Pineapple juice
1 oz Mellon liquor Midori
1 oz Vodka

with ice, add everything in the shaker, yummy

Broom in the garden

ok, I am bored..

Helloooo

Huh.. it's very hot today. It's 27C and I just wanted to say hi before I hop in the pool!
We have a female life guard today. She has been cleaning the pool all morning.
I am looking foward to the long weekend! (labor day Monday!) I think the interview went well..