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Hobbies,
Interests and other weird
things
Invictus
(last stanza)
William Ernest
Henley
(1849-1903)
Things I can
appreciate...
Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
Some of my favorite famous personalities
Gare du
Perpignan
Salvador Dali
(1904-1989)
places i've
lived
1981-2001
1981-2001
2001-2002
2002-2004
2004-?
Douglas
Adams
(1952-2001)
Some cool
movies
Dominant
Curve
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
My
favorite TV series
(I just love
these)
Kitty
(mother/wife in "That '70s show")
Some
songs I hear a lot
Some books I
like
Cafe
de Nuit
Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890)
Lt. Lawrence (in Lawrence of Arabia)
Affiliations in the past...
(chronological)
... and current
affiliations
Wonder
Sharon
Beals
"Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western
civilization?"
(c)
2004
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- Football (Soccer) and
all kinds of sports
- Trying new (maybe even unusual) things, sometimes
spontaneously
- New Technologies (especially mobile stuff)
-
Watching TV/movies and reading
- Investment/Stock Market/Business
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Dreaming (and then trying to achieve that dream)
- Robotics/Applied
Artificial Intelligence
It matters not how strait the
gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of
my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Simplicity... why
make it complicated, anyway?
Changing something if you don't like it... it's rarely too late
Kaizen + Kanban! - Totally Toyota :-).
IKEA!... just cool :-),
half my place is from IKEA
Some Punctuality... hey! I'm half-german
and I like it
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
John Mayer and Jason Mraz
(singer-songwriters)
Warren Buffet and John C. Bogle
(investors)
Carlos Ghosn and Taiichi Ohno (managers)
Isaac Asimov and Noam Chomsky
(authors, multi-talented)
Jakarta, Indonesia (huge city) (german article on
jakarta nightlife)
Albersdorf, Germany (vacations, small village by
the north sea)
Karlsruhe, Germany (medium city near the french
border)
Gummersbach, Germany (small city, a bit in the
mountains)
Köln, Germany (pretty big and really cool
city)
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I
think I have ended up where I intended to be." Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (just a great satirical comedy, by Stanley
Kubrick) (1964)
The Emperor's New Groove (A Disney movie, but
reeeally funny) (2000)
Chicken Run (Ginger and Rocky are so cool
:-).) (2000)
Family Man (makes you think a bit, a nice "what if"
movie, nothing complex, with Nicholas Cage) (2000)
Good Will
Hunting (I like the story and many of the sequences, and science/math!)
(1997)
Friends (I pretty much know every episode)
Spin
City (really funny)
Frasier (sophisticated and hilarious)
Three's
Company (really old and really good)
Cheers (a classic, no
wonder)
Night Court (just damn funny)
24 (suspenseful and
cool)
"We all have different qualities. But the thing
to remember is, how you do on some silly test is much less important than
how you behave in real life. I'll take a dummy over a jackass any day."
- John Mayer "Your body is a wonderland"
- Die
Happy "Good Bye"
- Jason Mraz "Sleep All day"
- Stereophonics "Have
a nice day"
- Dido "Thank you"
- Other than that I hear anything
from Norah Jones to Nirvana, from The Corrs to Pearl Jam, Black Legend or
Jamie Cullum.
Common Sense on Mutual Funds
by John C. Bogle
(learned on patience and long-term investments, not
just in the stock market)
Gemba Kaizen - A common-sense, low-cost
approach to management by Masaaki Imai
(cool book, implemented
especially in Toyota factories)
How to Develop Self-Confidence and
Influence People by Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie
(had my best talk
after reading this book!)
"Nothing
is written."
German Plus (German Football club in
Jakarta), Top Scorer
ISCI Football (English Football club in
Jakarta), Player
Indonesia Muda (Indonesian Football
club), Player
Greenpeace Germany, "experimental
thing"
1. FC Gummersbach II (German Football club),
Champions!
AIESEC Cologne (international student
exchange), National Coordinator
VDI (German Engineering Society),
semi-active
IEEE (International Engineering Society), passive
member
Amnesty International (Human Rights), passive
member
UNICEF, passive member
Global Marshall Plan Initiative, AIESEC coordinator
UNEP/Wuppertal Institute, employment as student assistant
"I think
it would be a very good idea.”
me, but
copy all you want
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