ralph's blog

this morning they showed the big wappon-parade of russia on red square. it was yesterday. today it is mothersday and we all kiss our mothers. we also say thank you for the birth, they gave us once.. without birth, we would not have wars or even motheersdays. imagines, babys would be born by wappons. or atomic bombs. stupid thought. than we would have just one day. we would say thank you to atomic bombs... but of course it is opposite. now i do a marketing workshop. also about onono. and next to me, i watch some netheland guests talking about whatever. looking very wealthy. i also wonna be wealthy, to be honest. and it is. ot raining today. and sometimes sun were out. i don't wonna be blond. i wonna drive a fast car - yes not new, but on the other hand, to complicate.

the main question is: how stupit am i?

liebe und friedden und love and peace!
the netherland people leaving and me also the blog.
good night.
all the best for russian armee, and no work for you, always hollyday...

in berlin in bed.. tomorrow it should rain and the wm-2006-football still in the garden.. but it is peaceful here in this area and nobody steals old wm-footballs.

on june 19th we gonna have an open day in ic! berlin! whoever wonna watch our company, is invited to come! bbq on the rooftop and many other hot spots.. so just come!!! saarbruecker strasse 37

ja, gute nacht!
anna breathing loud, which is good!

in the waitinglounge of life.. little tired. do i mention tht to often? the tired-thing? i am waiting for the flight. and the sun is shining and the week, that's starts tomorrow, is a golden one.. but i have to call somebody now.. a friend.. no more writing.. but still time.. slept on an airmatratze without air, because could not close it. but it blow up itself electric. slept well anyway, but not so long. i love staying in the office. far away from home. tht is better than hotel. another home even office. berlin destroyed him- or itself again this weekend. received no news about it here. to far away and to strange this first-of-may-war.. nobody would undertand or do the same. in the bus you can recognize he seats, where foreigners were seated, because of the trash. local people from here, even young, wouldn't do that.
i seated 25 something. ealeseat. took many nuts. wonna do a juice, fruits, nuts diat. just so.. just sonis imposqsible, to be honest. to be honest, as if not, when not mention it. now i have to call.. tht friend. from anothere town. it's sunday.. something arround eleven. or before. to early to call? in this clean, well organized country? i don't know, but i'll see.
all hhe best an never forget the well-beiing-fucked-thing from that movie, which is called "life"... and please give me a businessclass seat in line 12 or best seat 1L...

now i'm back since.... friday..? i guess... today is monday and i am writing that text on this new toy from amerika.. can you imagine? this new type is better for big fingers like mines.. and it even was fallen down to the wood floor and it still works,, even the kids like it, because of the movies they could watch.. so it is a nice toy and it gives us more lifequality, because we could be more and better online, whenever we want, which keeps us away from bitte reality.
yesterday i were at a school-meeting for the parents of kids.. i learned, that even school for parents is like the school i remember from my childhood: it is still beautiful and full of violence... the few people talking against the many people sitting on the small small chairs... yes i still hates school... in my eyes realitvly or maybee even totally useless and a tool to create stupid people, that fits into our factorys as workers. school is not about creativity, that is for shure - and to be honest, i hope, that also this system collaps... can is write that? how many teachees do read that and gonna complain, maybee even through our glasses into the cloesest aquarium? is it illegal to say that? how beautiful is school and how important, to teach our kids how to read or to calculate or how to do sports or religion or beeing against sexuak violence? i love school, these amazing buildings i.pn the drkness of e night..

again: my theory is: give all kids an iphone or pad or whatever comutelikething, and they learn more like in... of course, they also have to be with many other children... like in a village... and here we see, hiw irreal these ideas are and biw much we need our good old geman school systems.,,, even because parents need to work during the day and need a place to storrage kids withhin the day...

oh my good! again: i love school! no hate...

and by the way, i'm baco in berlin... now more ashes in the air, no more danger.. and becausew of the beauty of japan and especilly tokyo, i' ll fly again this friday until sunday... and i ordered a new reisepass plus passport. i was surprised because so easy to do! and: fast!

but now i'm tp tired to continue. it is 22.11 h and i deceide to fall asleep now.

yes, i love berlin and my school, that i left since many many years.... how sad for me. the school? my mother?

what's happening on sundays in japan? well easy to answer... shopping of course.. even ten year old girls knows.. the vulcano in island still working properly, means very activ... the air doesn't move right direction and insurances garantee, that flights doesn't go out a month to early.. because of all that, i prepare myself, not to return to easy and early to berlin... not through airport tegel or schoenefeld... maybee somewhen through hauptbahnhof, means by train... or even on the avus-highway... like madame merkel did, comming from the states..
anyways.. still my moneycards working, hotelspace is available and the office is an option, which is not to bad at all.. and of course enough work to do in beautiful amazing JAPAN!!!

...yes i love!!!
JAPAN!!!

...do you say it like that? out of track? the flight should have left tokyo noon today to paris... at 11.50h.. but... but i received that message from airfrance (by the way: "ic! berlin supports airfrance"), that my flight would be canceled.. from now on there is no more connection somehow.. well not that dramatic, but somehow a timeframe opened, which markes a different space.. normalty is lost. europe out of order.. nobodz knows, when flighttraffic will run again.. and i'm sitting in tokyo.. far far away.. how many days by boot? what would be options? what is useful? how to read the situation? staying here, working here... what is lost in europe? which appointments/meetings gonne be without me.. does that matters? how can i connected with europe/berlin anyway..

a beautiful afternoon in tokyo. watching the city from 45th floor of pary hyatt hotel.. the view is more than...

out of track in the djungel of tokyo..
visiting more customers here..
having fotoshooting tomorrow..

yes, many things to do and: why not? i have nothing to lose...

don't we?!

but: where is the next starbucks?! ;-)))
p.s.> of course: ic! berlin supports STARBUCKS!!!

regards to francis klein from paris into his odyssee to paris: through osaka, and rome... if... because i read, that rome also close the airport and last flight left rome, was a vatican-bird witht the pope to malta... so...
also regards to the very nice guy from berlin beeing lost in moscow now.. hope he is getting out by.. whatever..
and all the other lost strangers and travellers all arround the world.. at the end it is positive... let's enjow the gap!!

at the end: could you imagine, if now also the www would break down? including cellphones? wouldn't that be heaven? heaven or hell... like LOVE or HATE...

well, dust in the air from a vulcano in island might or make m stay in Tokyo... hmm what gonna happens? is it that case I always immagined? internationla airtraffic collapsing when me Bering somewhere far from Berlin... taking the car from Tokyo? the train? the ship? how long woul that tar and how much chang the reception of distances? impossible in that case doing a 24 in an ou trip to the other end of the world..

how long is it gonna take? on the other hand, relaaaaxing. what is the good in the "bad"? is it bad? slowing down? getting the head washed by a vulcano...

and: ye I had an accident here in tokyo by beeing confused by right and left traffic.. and also the different use of trafficlights... red means go and green... hmmm ok, that might be the same, but nobody told me...before ;-) at least nothing happens.. nobody gotten heArd or... just bike and motorbike have little problems, which could e repaired... so I take care and not falling from heaven because of vulcano in island...

when and ho going back to Berlin??? that is the question and how that matters?! yes, there are many things to do here as well !!!

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hello japan! helo tokyo! hello loved people! hello hated people! hello berlin! hello mama! hello papa! hello mr. president! hello young people! hello tall people! hello bikers! hallo tante sybille! hallo angela! hallo frau bundeskanzlerin! hallo hundee guten tag dogs! hallo oldenburg! hallo philipp! hallo tante greta! hallo maria! hallo helden! hallo ic! berlin blechbrillen!

no, it is not raining today, even my cellphone told me different yesterday. i am still ralph anderl and still in tokyo! my glasses still doesn't have screws and i'm still looking for a fixed gear bike in tokyo, to visit the customers. so if YOU are in tokyo, having a beautiful 55-60 cm fixed or not fixed gear bike, let me know!!! ralph@ic-berlin.de...

ja... ja-ja-ja! that was a song from a famous music group from my hometown: trio!

follow my blog and learn more about the world and to be honest, the world is real and movies also and the question, who fuck ic! berlin still is serious... well-fucked - bad-fucked - not-fucked... ?! why fucked? what the fuck was the name of the mentioned movie?!

which brand is sexy? italian brands are sexy in many cases... japanese brands not nescessaryly are... germans are mostly not.. visvim for example is very perfect but not... many brands for kids and kindertagesstaetten are not that... but on the otherhand... ic! berlin of course is not sexy, because of me, because i am also not.., because it is obvious, that i am hearless and - no longer a secret since january 23nd - shaved... ups... is it sexy to be naked on a runway? or opposite? is it sexy to show "everything" or not, or just show a little... who the fuck brought in this subject? (by the way: hello america, hello mr tiger woods! - we love you as well and supports you even if nike quits the sponsorship! so mr tiger, give me a call and come to berlin... the city for golfers like you... feel free to use the hole city as a hole... golfing on kurfuerstendamm, golfing on friedrichstrasse, golfing in ic! berin office... we love to do that... berlin is a much better golf court than america, i guess and my personal handycapt is at 39 already! also hello to the golfers of the hole hole in one! hello caleb, hello george! hello steffi! hello patricia! hello olivia! hello tim! hello marc! hello matthew! hello julie!! hello eric! hello baraccy! hello hummer! hello mc donald! hello STATRBUCKS! (by the way, is starbucks well -fucked?)

what if?
what if it would be common to have IT out all the time.. have the jeans open and HIM watching the street...

would a woman write/think the same? is this novel from a germany woman about dirty body-things (sex included) translated into american english? do anybody knows her name?

isn't it more important to get rid of all these body/things?
fasting is the new trend!

copper is comming back! (ups, still a sercret)

did i mention: i love japan - like your shoes and underware..
fashion is surface.
fashion is love.

my name is ralph. i'm not sexy, not well...., not from germay, not naked, not for sale, not free, not with hair, no vegetarian, no japanese, no cardriver.

do you know ic! berlin?

guten morgen! (deutsch ist hier sehr angesagt, fuer t-shirts etwa!)

if in the morning the wife (?) cleans the wet car with a towel to make it shiny and beautiful for "him"... where are we than? in berlin? in new york city? another help: yesterday it was raining like crasy and cold like in winter - today it is sunny and warm like summer... where am i? and: doors of cabs open automaticly, chaitea latte cost 520,- and cars drive on the left side of the road../! ...so? easy? to easy? difficult?

i am little tired.. awake this morning and could not believe, that the new day starts already, with sunshine.. it was very late yesterday.. we had dinner in a restaurant named "kirschbluete, kirschbluete" the name is, because wife of the owner wrote a poem about... we had many small dishes, tea and an alcoholic drink contains peaches, i guess. smelled very nice!

will the tea help me to run the day? not falling asleep? and i have to buy a bike here! on friday i will visit all customers by bike and forgot mines in berlin.. yes i were lasy but a bike i needed here anyway...

yes i love this city, which suppose to be or become the biggest in the world soon, a german magazine announce... arround 36 million people..

we will have a party in the kirschbluete-kirschbluete on saturday! celebrating the start of the new company!!! it is called ic! berlin japan... hmmm, now it became superdifficult to know the city!!! by the way and maybe again: i love japan - which is not a stupid american-style saying, like "i love your underware!"... in my case it is really serious, which is underlined by the fact, that i have been in japan 25 times since 2003... and i found out yesterday, that there is almost no more space in my traveldocument, to put more stamps in... what does it mean? and for shure i gonna be here for another three or four times.. shooting the new catalogue here and doing many other nice and maybee even crasy things... because again, i love love japan... i almost can speak the language ;-)) and almost understand the weather...

and for all love orientated readers: yes, japan also is about love and sexy people. and i ask, how sexy are you? --- to be honest, i saw a movie recently, a gangster one, in which the two main actors alwazs disscussed, if people arround them would be "well fucked"... hmm i thought, what do they mean, what are they talking about...? well fucked...? what does it mean and how important is that and how much can we see in the faces of the people arround us? is it important or not? is ic! berlin well fucked? who fuck ic! berlin?

love ic! berlin
hate ic! berlin

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yes, i ask myself how much it does matters? are my parents for example? are you? are the states, i mean the "united states", are they "well fucked"... how important is that and if yes, does it create war, if not? or peace, if? or both? or just in israel and irak? who is responsible for the plane with the poland goverment falling from heaven? the fog? a not well fucked pilot? the kgb? me?

what does the jetlag do with my brain, this blog, the well-fucked-question?
and the question is, how sexy are you? how sexy makes our frames?

do zou already have the new ipad?
hmmm. and at the end - and egain, and because i am in tokyo: yes, i love you, because that's what it is about...

the ralph...

berlin in spring.. like a candy after fasting. that is for hure. the bikes come out of the kellar, people getting naked on the streets immediately. i had the half of a white nutsy ritter-sport choclate and some kind of yoghurt with leinsamen, honey and juice..
japanese are unbelievable.. americans incredible.. germans eat potatos and sauerkraut, even if having pasta with pesto..
or?
"be water my friend" (bruce lee)
i bought this, i bought that...

and of course i'm very afraid of american housewifes... they have atomic weapons and play golf with their husbands or make wood out of them, or put the tiger in the tank at the end of the day. most cows in the wide nowhere in the middle of the country are male ones and the buffalohunter are female, or do not have this positive bodything witch... but as he told me, don"t make it to much an issue...

sprintime is back in town and ic! berlin is sexier than the winter in a grey kindertagestaette in berlin marzahn.

take care, because it's real / but no longer in the states,
ralph...

(what the fuck am i writing?)

und zum nachtisch, schreibe ich noch ein wenig in deutsch... da versthehe ich wenigstens, was ich schreibe und denke mir, krass, wenn mein chef immer so einen block schreiben wuerde, oder mein vater, oder mein bozfriend oder mein was auch immer, waere mir das nicht peinlich? wuerde ich das nicht immer lesen, um eben gut informiert zu sein ueber all die intimitaeten und innerenabgruende meines,,, z.b. chefs? und in der tat einige clevere menschen in manchen teilen der erde tuen dies in der tat und sind damit ein kleines bischen besser auf die wahnsinnigkeiten und kapriolen dieses menschen, der...., vorbereitet, als andere.
die nacht kommt, der tag geht, ich putze meine zaehne und esse unnoetige rittersport schokolade.

wer schon nackt ist, zieht sich nicht mehr aus, die anderen muessen es halt in ihren klamotten versuchen. ich gehe hingegen morgen frueh zum sport.. shit, it's german and i could not understand, he think...

natuerlich habe ich die unterhose ausgezogen und zusammengefaltet wieder in den schrank gelegt zu der uebrigen dreckwaesche.. - was aber soll mein bankberater und therapeuth ueber all dies denken? oder meine mutter, die ich eigentlich immer gerne 'mama' genannt haette, aber sie liesst ja keine blogs..

gruesse in die heimat und ins elternhaus,

now i am in the apfel-laden im fleischverpackungsgebiet. it is still new york and i'm using one of these huge computers. to be honest, i have consumed much to many sugarteas and nuts and other liquids and mouththings. anyway - excuse to my body and more my... my europeantime-watch confuses me. easz to change it. so?

how exiting, again i meat people reading this blog. but it is so personal and everybody can read. how wired. do you say it like that.
and on youtube or facebook..

hotel is next to apfel and later i have meetings... so let's rest for three to two minutes and be fresh. fresh for fun....

good night or see you later,
the r

i'm there... but in berlin is almost night now. now more sun in berlin. but in nyc. in brasil and australien autum starts. here we have almost spring. and here is a glassesthing going on... can you guess? something like a think for business. but in berlin it is nighttime. here it is afternoon, three o'clock. shall i go to bed? sunshine is outside... also here, because this exhibition center is totallz made out of glass. my think-thing feels like bayarian cheese.. this smelly one.. it doesn't work so good, maybee it doesn't work at all. because can zou imagine, in berlin the night starts right now, but i have to sell glasses in in sydney the winter-cold-periode starts? seasons-of-the-year-wise... are all seasons available worldwide or just two? one in the north hemisphare, one south? or like the time? which is available in millions of different timings?
and than this keybord again from the states... why do they mix up the z with the y?
and what about the uk and hong kong? driving left or right side now?
it is late summer in south africa! spring in moscow and i'm tired in "neu york"
...und dann sind auch noch die tasten vertauscht hier in diesem dritte welt land amerika... ooooooh, das habe ich nicht gesagt... das war ja africa...
usa is a very much high end country.
i love one-dollar-bills: so cheap to get + high quality for just a dollar, somehow.
nuts contains less sugar than stainless-steal.
my feat in mz snikers stinks.
i have a very colorful halstuch von einer firma aus frankreich in paris.
was passiert?
was ist los?
deutschstunde fuer foreigners.
lets get a seat in the sun outside.
sun is gone in berlin.
where is it.
gute nacht.
ich habe die winterreise aufgenommen und kann sogar schumann singen: "dichterlove"
wer liebt hier wen? wer zahlt in welcher waehrug heim?
was fuer ein schwachsinn?
jetzt aber schluss, ende aus...

nicht noch einmal lesen!
und "save" druecken

each morning i think, it smells like spring outside... i guess, that's the warmer season nocking on winters door. than im optimistic, take a light grey suite out of my suites tray, a white shirt, a tie and go out to welcome the sun, the birds, the green sleves, the sping-love, all the beautiful things of starting life again.
the problem the last few days was, that each day ends up in winter-catastrophys... snowstorms, rainorgien and other terrible things. getting wet, cold, dirty... the winter doesn't wonna leave berlin, it is terrible and i start hating it..

but, but but, that is not the reason, why im seriously thinking about doing a drivers licencse.. this year im getting 40 years old, which also isnt a reason, but... but i thought i might be a good thing to get an adult, leaving childhood.
lets see, iff car brings more freedom than a bike - to be honest, i doubt it, but in some cases it could... lets see - and most important, which car is gonna be the car i will try out first. old men drives fast cars, in many cases porsche... but i dont like. if sportscar, i allways would choose a italian or if it had to be porsche, a ver sporty one, which would have to be super not comftable - and that i would not like as well. so at the end i guess im a limosine driver... or very small, or a lada or this cheap one from renault from rumnia... forgot the name..

in wintertimes, it might be a plus, not riding through snowstorm and rainshowers. on the other hand even that is good for health..

if stop fasting, it might also create bad smell from the opposite side of the mouth... the most important thing is to start eating again very very slow... maybee with nuts i guess, apples and leinsamen for shure..

next weekend im gonna be in the states, the country of fasting... fasting food... nyc at the beautiful optical fair in javits-center. ill fly out on march 18th through paris... morning flight, so maybee we share flight? back on monday... so, now you know almost all - well yes my hotel... i forgot the name, but it is close to standart hotel in meatpacking d. my roomnumber i also dont know already... but i will and than i can tell you, if you want - otherwise of course not.

so, so so i say good night and see you in a bit!

it's sunday and i'm not in the doumo.. but in the "messe" which is the same word for..hmm, don't know the word, but hte sunday churchthing..
it is mido, the international glasses tradeshow in milano.. and it is very very cold. my nose is cold, my fingers are and at least, my hole body.
my head is a little empty.. i'm not on the booth. i went into a very very comftable section, called vip-club. i don't know exactly who and how to get in, but inside everything is for free. i just walked in, and was in. great world.. is it paradiese? even internet is for free and they serve different dishes whithin the day. ihave to mention the amazing hot water, which is a secret toll, which can be use like coffee and it is even stronger.
the writing is a bit difficult because of american keybord.. thez mix up the y with the z - you see?

the cars are big here.
the people dress well.
the food is extraordinaire.

the first day we went dining. i ordered the dishes and the others eat. very funny , the servicepeople confused..

now i have a very very serious meeting here with the praesident.
so...
r

back in berlin!!! yes!! and today we are recording the "winterreise" from schubert!!! 24 songs about love (of course) and traveling (aaaah!). we gonna do it in the company in the singing-meeting room, which hopefully is silent enough - it's a big difference between "quite" and silence... so i'm speaking just very less, drinking camoille tea, cover my head and try to behave like pavarotti... this moment everything is buildet up, to get it done...

sunday in berlin is not wednesday in moscow...

moscow has more snow, bigger houses, more people - and much much better = saver cars!!! as we all know: here in germany for example, people in cars have to wear saftybelts. i once read, that because of that the number of killed people by exidents went down significantly.. russia is different. there the cars and, i guess the traffic as well, is so safe and advanced, that people don't wear. if you enter into a car and try to get the belt in an automatic handmove, you recognize, that the belt is somewhere behind the seat, putten into the log, not to have this terrible noise... i ask the dirver why, and he told me, that saftybelts wouldnt be nescessary in russia. he would drive a lot and never problems.. i had the same in different cars! so isn't it crasy? we think, that we would be so superadvanced and save, but in fact russia is much more!

at night i start the tv set in my moscow hotelroom. chanel 1: a war action movie fro 2008. chanel 2: a war action movie from the eighties. chanel 3: a war action movie from the sixties... it was war everywhere and i thought, whow, these people here are really well prepared... later i heard, that this day was the day of the armee... and of course it is the same in germany that day.. if we would...

so... what else... russia is not germany and berlin not moscow, even if moviemaker use berlin in same cases to make it look like moscow...

to be honest... somhow i like it all... at night, after tv i always had a hot bath (the best to fall asleep) and listen to "the grossinquisitor" out of the "brother kasamarow" from dostowjesky. until now i listen this text 3 times and it is one of the most... whatever... i love it: "and the kiss was burning on his heard, but he stayed on his old standpoint" - that how it ends...

have you ever been in moscow?

and not to forget the poor toyota people including the family of toyoda!!! regards to the chairman - an old boddy of me from collage! good luck that glasses doesn't drive...

that's it... it is three o'clock... recording suppose to start!

and yes: i'm still fasting - but i don't talk about, ups...
and: no, i don't read it again... i goes online immediatly, plup, button pressed!

yes the sun is shining, almost spring feeling, people wihout socks and kind of naked - opposite me, who still wearing his snowmantra jacket, freezing still, but...
the camoille tea is great and the water with 100 profits back to te nature-system is tasty as well...
the coffeestore...
the surrounding...
the people...

some looke so much more beautiful when comming in, than when leaving.
to stay here for ever...

the way people spend there sundays here...
after exercicing...

beautiful day in beautiful city, because of not beautiful, but beautiful because of that...

where is the apple store?
why does ch no having leather pants in my size?

high end clothes store sells last seasons stuff in a keller...

yes of course, i love you!
yes of course i hate you!

let's fly to moskau!

oder wenn ich auf deutsch schreiben duerfte... dann wuerden mir die worte nur so aus dem munde perlen und satzketten in lyrisch-epischer blablabla.. nee, so geht das nicht und das geheimnis ist doch, dass ic! berlin eigentlich am ende eigentlich keinem gehoert, ausser den beduerftigen, die es brauchten..
koennen firmen menschen reich machen? was soll das und ist das noch zeitgemaess? konzerne sind tot. boersen sind tot, waehrungen sind tot, staaten sind tot... ja was soll dann der gewinn einer kleinen blechbrillenfirma ausmachen, der ja eh da drin bleibt und der zukunft der blechbrillenfirma zugute kommt.
haben sie sich schon einmal darueber gedanken gamcht, ihre firma einer stiftung zu schenken? was soll dieser ganze reichtumsverbloedungsquatsch? wo doch der reichtum auf einer ganz anderen strasse oder seitenwegen begraben liegt - also nicht begraben, sondern offen auf jedem einzelnem pflasterstein..
ja, deutsch muesste man versdtehen um dies lesen zu koennen...

yes, what the fuck is he writing there, and why the fuck can't i understand?
p.s.: what about the america? where is the future? in the west? the east? the south? or... esotheric: deap insite you???

uuuuh, it shouldn"t be alloud to feed blogs after midnight...
shut up mister ralph. oder anders< ralph, halt"s maul!

yes i'm still there, in berlin on earth in this universum, let's say... and i... and i... hmm looking to find the right words... berlin is so frozen.. like a big gletscher.. the ice is conected with the stones of the streets.. i ride my bike anyways, because still the fastest tool to move, maybee even savest..but who wonna know... well... it is already late night and i'm almost sleeping. tomorrow morning at 8.30h i'm gonna sing again the winterreise.. i'm almost able to sing all 24 songs.. so next step is to record it and organize a concert in the philharmonie..

and on wednesday the eastern fasting starts - and one important thing about fasting is, not to make it an issue... not to talk about, or WRITE about all the time... so... shut up, ralph!!!!

and: sex in berlin, that"s the original! alles andere ist just kindergarten, haha!

sorry to focus so much on he fasting, but now i'm still eating... strange... next wednesday 'it' starts again... aschermittwoch... and somehow i'm looking forward... no more chaitealate, called sugartea, no more loved salat at due forni, no morenomore... strange but i love. yes i love you!

uuuuh, so terrible, that i did not visit myself in the blog since so long.... now i'm sitting in philly in the office.. and now it is not fasting periode... because yes i found out, that the eastern-fasting is almost tomorrow, starts from middle of february ot early april... so i fead myself for that and after that there is gonna be a big fasting gap until summer, which is of course also kind of great...
as you can see, my brain is jetlaged somehow... all, comes out now is a little twisted... and i would so much continue in german, but.... i'm not allowed to do that by contract.

- but the weather is good in here..
- but i guess, the states are no longer leader of the world, just apple is about future..
- but who cares.. (me!)

hmmm, here in philly we have salesmeeting with all the wonderful reps... i brought the new frames and they gonna give coments on them (for all the competiters reading that: yes, it is a clever idea to do so, so maybee you should copy that as well?!)

after dinner i'm sitting in the sofa and almost falling asleep. maybee i should go out for a walk... in this moment i have an idea, why i have to stop...

and of course i did not read all i wrote again..

all the best,
r

ooooh, the year almost gone and since november no new bloggy stuff onlne.. how bad is that... even more, because inbetween i were fasting and for shure many readers already thinking, i might dy because of that... but... but!!!1 Im still alive and enjoyed fasting a lot... so again, it was from 11.november to 15th of december... just veggy-juce, water, tea and a special kind of mily dring, calles "molke"... well and finally also fruit-juices, which is basiclly not allowed. ow i finished and made those chrismas-eating-a-lot-experiences. it really were very nice and the restart of eating is like a not ending mouth-orgazm.. can i say that? everything smells so intense and jummy! but that orgasm just takes about one day. after that eating is an normal, but anyway very very beautiful experience and i recogment everybody, to try that as well... chrismas without fasting is like winter without snow or beach-holyday, without the ocean.. and who is fasting these days? we live in a somehow "christian" culture in the west, but have forgotten everything. at the end i guess, the fasting ist not even a religious thing. more precise: does not have to be religious, because it is "just" about recognation. if you have everything all the time, you no longer regognize or appreciate. everything is about having/doing something - and not having/doing something. everything, which is ever arround you, loses value somehow... uuuuh so philosophical?! or philosophic direction? not shure.. anyway ramadan is much more in islamic sociatys. much more people practice - am i right? question: who knew befor reading this, that there is a fasting periode before chrismas and when it starts? i learned last year...

anyway, chrismas is done, berlin has become white over night and i feel very very good, because i working very strong and serious in the "winterreise"... each day 2 hours singing with a genious japanese pianoplayer!!! there is not so many things beeing more nice than singing.. and soon i suppose to have a concert in the kammermusiksaal of the philharmonie in berlin.. yes, that is the target and, if you don't have dreams, how can thex become real?!!!

i do not read the written thing again, so it might be full with mistakes and things, i'd better not wrote.. ;-))

ALL THE BEST FOR 2010... it gonna be a superb year - and not forget, eastern fasting starts middle of february ;-))))

ralph

In some cases, f.e. when you make special kind of bigger deals with a bank, you need to check your full bodyfunctions. They wonna see, if you have enought blood, a heard, which is good and big and tough. the liquid, comes out, have to have the right color and ingredians...

For that reason i'm sitting in a waiting room of a doctors-praxis in the middle of berlin right inbetween seven old and ill men and one woman. It is high season of pigs-influenca and other less well know influencas.. I very much hope, that my fasting is making me imun against all these simple illnesses.

Because of not eating (= giving the body and soul some positive motivation) i did it by buying my feed some new shows. I have to mention that i am so much fallen in love with that brand. I thing in i called red wings and from the states. These shoes are of course NO FASHION, even if they became fashion. Basiclly they are craftmens shoes with a super long history. The ones i bought, were born in the 30ies, i guess. And their secret is, that you have to wear them minimum 10 years, to make them look really cool. Before that time, they look nice, but just like a young mens face. After time, they become character and a face. What very nice longliving concept in time of fastfood, fastdrinks, fastdoctors.. Ups, wrong, visiting a doctor always takes half a day or longer. What's wrong with that system???

ups, i have to confess, right after i wrote that, i made it into the doctors room! a very very nice guy!! cool interview we did - he helped me a lot in answering all questions in the right way... and finally they took half of my blood, but it did not hurt and i almost not fallen into a sudden coma... so everything nice and beautiful..

next monday they check my heard when i'm doing sports.. that's gonna be fun as well..

fasting is not eating...hm easy to say.. since last tuesday i do, like you can read at the buttom. the first 6 day i made it just with water, tea, veggi-juice and "molke", a special milk-drink.. and i have to confess: it is possible.. but also kind of hard, when somebody prepare some gogonzola-souce with a smell, that is extraordinary yumi.. the nose become so sensible that..

yes it is raining here, like almost all the time i'm here. okay, last time it was ashia, but does it makes a difference? kobe, ashia, osaka... all one region. and osaka somehow remindes me on philadelphia. the center is empty. next to the main-station: nothing. in a way like in philly.

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and if your ticket doesn't have the right power, you could not upgrade it, even if you have millions of miles, which i haven't. so my very much welcomed seat is gonna be 40c, which is not gonna be comfortable at all, that's for shure. the good thing is, that airfrance having a german-movie-special this month. with great german movies like that "kirschlten"-one directed by ... i knew, that..no, her name is doris drrie. very very good movie about old coples, parents-kids-relation and death.. and japan.. i watched on my flight to osaka yesterday.. today i'm gonna watch another german one.. this time i really forgot the name of the filmmaker..

and: today is the first day of fasting. not eating until almost chrismas.. that should be 40 days, but i'm not shure. did not count. today i start with just water. tomorrow i'll empty my stomack, which gonna create a somehow intense restroom-thing. the fasting again will exclude me from most parts of the normal world.. whenever there is an eating event, i'll smile and order water... hmmm strange thoughs.. the big thing of eating that you put something inside you.. something positive, that create positive feelings somehow... and i won't, which also create positive feelings... hmm... first day... but good luck, almost all travels are beeing done this year and no more tradeshows!! my springtimefasting was harder because of milan and new york tradeshows...

and, sorry that i mention: i'm very tired again.. 40c... the ideal sleeping-seat for me today.. finally i don't think, that i'm gonna get an upgrade because of "flight-is-fully-booked"... econemy might be good, because i could not eat the foir gras anyway...

that it for today. in germany all crasy carneval-people starts the season by drinking, eating, having fun and forget the fasting.. the breakdown of culture for shure.. i wonder, if in rio the party starts as well now?

kisses to rio and a few more to sao paulo!

i'm sitting in our japanese office.. window opened. local time eight something.. early morning. i stayed here the hole night... of course working.. like japanese people do.. no, to be honest (americans say that all the time) i slept here. i like sleeping in offices.. because wasted space at night.. why not living in office. here in tokyo that dream becames real, because our office is somehow equiped like an appartment. restroom, shower and floor, you can sleep on.. done. very nice and i prefer that place to hotel..

the ioft glassesshow is almost done.. today last day. puh. my eyes again ar burning.. a little. sunshines.

yesterday we had company-picknick also here in this office.. everything takes place in this office.. cool.

good night to germany, good morning tokyo.
p.s.: of course tokyo is not a motherfucker... it is gay, so better saying: ....

here are the events behind the dates of the "ralph collection"... i hope i'm not gonna forget one:

1970: i came first time... to earth
1981: sister s born in oldenburg by my mother - influenced by my father
1989: finished school in oldenburg, of course the elite one "liebfrauenschule" just for girls except me
1998: founding ic! berlin (i guess)
2000: felix the first son was born - mirja finalized him at 17.17h after 17 hours
2003: anna the first daughter (screwless) came out (relativly easy 3-4 hours)

i hope, that's it - and please don't ask, what the fuck ist the "ralph collection"?
to cut it short: a glasses collection. superbeautiful... my personal LOVED ONES..

so ask your LOVED OPTICIAN... or try to see it on our webpage... i guess, still hidden somewhere..

or call me immediatly... number somewhere...

Brasil... Helicopters falling from heaven, poor people live in self buildet and mafia-organized citys.. The sun stand very high in the sky, the air is humid, the beautiful people on the beach play with balls and in a way just using their feed and body, i wouldn't be able to do at all.

Whenever passing by such a balls-playing group, i hoped, not to be hidden by the ball(s) because than immediatly, everybody would have recognized, that i'm not in the brazilian national footballteam..

&8232;The tradeshow is in a club med.. The best brasilien opticians are beeing invited by the exhibitors. Not just invited... Here it means, they don'd have to pay for. In brasil everything is about corruption. Everybody pays everybody for something, which should be for free. An uncredible system..

&8232;&8232;My chain-identification-thing on my arm is blue. If i'd have a red one, i'd be a guest of club med. But with blue? What am i? Am i allowed to eat? Drink? Use the pool? Animationprogramm? And: no starbucks in this location?&8232;&8232;

The humidity and all the circumstances puts me in a mood or feeling like in a novel.. These tropic novels or even movies.. In which somebody, of course western, looses his path and getting lost in dschungel.. Somehow like that.. I'm tired, thursty..&8232;&8232;

Of course i have money.. Original brasilian money.. Can ibuy me a tea in here? With a blue band on my arm?
in rio &8232;&8232;I bought myself a rosenkranz from very old woman.. A catholic thing... It was on a churchy bazar, to renovate the church... Mayby that item will help?&8232;&8232;Or nor..

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Of course it is raining in the tropic rainforest.. But does it have to rain like supercrasy? There is a big big thonderstorm (gewitter) above the club med. So all the fun-areas couldn't be used by customers. Right now i also can understand, that an airplane is falling down from heaven. The helicopter in rio had problems, because gangsters shooten on him. At least a fire made it fallen down. Rio is really not a fun city in all areas..many regiones are very dangerous, but that is known. As well as the fact, that it might rain in the tropic rainforest in brazil. Brazil, this wonderful country in the middle of the rainforest..

the hole country is in the djungel and stefan zweig already have been here app. 100 years before. brazil the future ist he title of his book. I'm siiting in the bar area of a wonderful nice hot and beautiful club med. these toristic places, which garantees a fully holliday feeling including pool, beach and drinks. Not to forget music, entertainment and sport. Not to forget the thinks good old mister holebque mentionetion but i'm not. Do you know this french author? You don't? maybee better, but the book about wonderful club med culture is great.

By the way.. having coconut-water the pool behind mee, the beach as well.. the sun not (yes NOT) shining. But it is warm anyway...

Brazil ist the future.. club med is future II..

..do you translate "st. oberholz" with "saint overwood"? hmm, maybee not, but anyway,i'm there, which counts. st. oberholz is a very berlinish restaurant, bar, "gasthaus", lifestyl, future-thing.

tonight is superrainy in belin and my ic! berlin jeans are wet like irish fisherman in the scotish sea. but it doesn't matter, because i have gum-boots on and a shiny-uk-airport-services-jacket, and by the way, it is not raining inside this place..

the oberholdz is famous for hosting several microbusinesses, people working there with labtops in their own little companys without adress, except the e-mail-adress. offices are not really needed here in berlin since st. oberholz opend its doors somewhen before.

before there was a burger king or mc. donald and other very unsuccessful businesses. i already believed, that it would be related with the location, because even fast fodd didn't worked. but the people of st. oberholz found the key in the "stroh" oder does it mean the needle in the gras? anyway... the keything is, that all people get free internet inside, which even the starbucks people don't offer - off course.. (starbucks is for tourists and others - st. oberholz is businesscenter without public money!)

because of that, nobody behaves like usual cafe-visitors. just very few customers talk (better they should not!), most people stearing (=watching very intense) into their apple labtops. kind of crasy and so very modern. but anyway it is possible to meet people, for example if you have to ask your neighbour to watch yout toy within you visiting the toilette...

finally i ask again: can you understand my words? do you get "sense" out of it?

i'm drinkin a ginger-tea, a peppermint-tea. both for 4,6 = same like very sweet suggerful chaitea-latte at the other place... hmmm anyway, both options are a part of the djungle and very important for me, myself and i.

read my lips, the president of the united states said the journalists...

yes.

good night berlin, good night frankfurt, good night milano!!
it is 22.10h and starbucks already closed....
kisses,
r

yes, i made it to japan. yes, a taifun ins comming, yes, i will be on my way to paris, when the monster will arrive - i hope.. grey clouds above the city.. a small one between kobe and osaka. but kind of beautiful?! difficult to judge, but green montains very close. should go there next time for some sports. again and again: i love japan!!! much more and different to vegas. japan is quality, is know how in life-questions - great english but understandable? japanese people still know, how to live, even if here changes are going on. "let's go mc donald, it's in the ahsia-station!"...

you can find parking-slots for bikes! old men take the bikes and park them for busy busnissman. isn't that advanced?

i had my high end energy-breakfast. those infusions headlined with "energy" / "multivitamin" / or "vitamin c". it looks like a hospital-product, which should go directly into your blut. very advanced..

it is 8.07 am local time. 1.07 am berlin time. gonna be a long trip, but good old gilrfriend AIRFRANCE gonna bring me home! so be nice with me and give me a first-class upgrade..

special regards to australia!!! i will come back and not at least, i will never forget that great dinner we had in your house!! so beautiful and pleas let's do that again! don't forget, come to berlin into the factory and vistit ic! berlin!!!

i made it back into the venetian. my suitcase was beeing delivert to caroussel 13, i took a bus to the hotel and meat my people and all the people from the industrie again. like comming home.. after that i was running direction big vons shopping center. i felt little uncomftable, because maybe not supersafe area. my golden rolex was blinking in the sun and the gang-rappers with the pulp-guns were smiling at me. it made me running faster and finally nothing happend. at walgreens i bought drinks and nuts and cream for my lips. the air everywhere is so dry.. dessert.. yes.. than and than and than.. how boring is that..? at least i'm so tired as if i didn' slept the last 4 month. good luck, bording for my s.f.-flight at am 05.30h.. gonna be fun and i should go to bed right now at p. 6.00h vegas-time. i sit at the working table and all other put the stuff together. is it nice?

tonight i go sexshow.
and gamble.
and dring 12 wodga-chaitea-latte.

where is the champain?

las vegas - s.f. - osaka kansei airport. all with united.. wrong group = no statuscard = no easy traveling.

good night!
good morning!
good afternoon!

i love vegas!
i love your shoes!
i love your underwear!

yes, i'm still in vegas at baguage-calme 13... the good luck numer. Basiclly i should sit in a flight from san francisco to osaka. But on light in the cockpit of the plane gave some unusual informations flight delayed and i wouldn't have make the connection. So i left plane, got a flight for tomorrow (good luck, very very early) and can stay another day in vegas-paradies-city. But bevor i can re-enter the city, i have to await my case, which is not comming of course.

What to do, with such a not existing day? I should have been in osaka, preparing the event. Right now, i will arrive within the event, that i should have help to prepare. Strange and not funny. Shit, i hate it, also because this waiting-area is of course noise like a room in hell. Commercials running all the time on big screena and if you have to stay for longer, you are forced to recognize, that they play always the same.

Is there hope? Will my suitcase come somewhen? I couldn't even dring more. Good luck, my computer ist still energyzed. But me? Who is gonne cahrging me? What positve thing could i do today? Hanging out at the pool? Going to the hotel united airline offers me, or to palazzo, where the exibition still is? But again, fist of all, i hope not to have another problem, loosing my suitcase.

If traveling it is always about deep breath ind, breath out. Not sweating. Staying cool all the time, whatever happens. Plus: beeing at the right place the right time. For example i really hit the moment to line up at the connection-desk to get new bording-cards.. that was good luck and kind of intuition. Anyway, right now i have to wait..

Third or forth time i have to listen to the loud organ-music from the commercial for phantom of opera

Did i hear an annoncment to get my suitcase? Ralph something... nut secound name did not sounds like anderl. Shall i go? Strange.. okay, let's see..


I hate it but also keep it as a challange.. to stay cool and not to be negative.. poooooositive thinking...

vielleicht geht es auf deutsch besser als in der anderen sprache.
ich habe meine anzughose ausgezogen und die ic! berlin hose angezogen.
eine schwarze herrenjeans mit 3 reisverschlssen. an jedem hosenbein unten auch einen aussen. und natrlich der essentielle in der mitte dazwischen.
die amerikaner suseln verkaufsgesprchisch.
business knnen diese alten jenkies - sagt man das so? was sind jenkies? schreibt man die nicht mit "y" vorne.
aber die kravatte habe ich noch umgebunden.
ein neues halsband habe ich mir bei kromherzen gekauft.
lebkuchenherzen gab es in mnchen auf dem oktoberfest, wo ich vor dieser brillenmesse gewesen war. auf der wies'n. kuscheliges volksfest mir trachtengebrauch. die mnner shen da besser aus, wegen der traditionellen tracht, sagen die frauen. mitunter eine enttuschung, wenn sie am nchsten tag in zivil das eine-nacht-erlebnis-bett verlassen. so hre ich oder lese. weiss nicht mehr genau.
deutsch geht einfacher als englisch. verstehen halt dummerweise weniger leute. deutsch, die minderheitensprache. und doch so dichterisch.
"waren sie heute schon im kindergarten?" - der neue running gag hier in wegas.
ich will kein einzoges wort mehr schreiben - oder: i don't wonna write another worf anymore. somehow like that. but who is gonna read that, if it starts in english.. shit.

it is noisy everywhere.. and everything is at least about money - gambling, drinking (not milk) and sex (not 6). all what fat man like. women as well? hmm? i'm kind of tired. didn't slept the well last night. and right now i'm almost running out of words. sitting in the suite of the palazzo-hotel on a glasses exhibition, which doesn't takes part in huges halls. there as well, but many brands showing their products in "beautiful""high end" hotelsuites. a better way, but... puh.. i'm running out of content, running out of myself. emptyness everwhere.. and: i'm writing right into that page. could you imagine. burning eyes..
tomorrow osaka, through l.a.
choclate with salt.
we put little diet-coke cans all over the floor. pop-art.
dry air.
not to hot.
where is the bath room.
i like your shoes!
have you seen that frame?
let's go shopping!
her's are bigger than her's.
let's make a deal!
i won!
i lost!
i'm lost!
where is my cellphone?
my name is ralph - or not.

as if sitting in a shinkansen train from osaka to tokyo. The 11.00h one.. very superfast.. of course the businessclass coach with the green symbol. The computer on my knees, listening music on i-tunes. High tech as well, very nice head-speaker. As if beeing tired, because of jetlag.. but basiclly sitting in the office in berlin. Bad weather today. Rainy. Grey clouds. But in japa, inbetween osaka and tokyo it would be sunny and the aircondition in the train would work very well. I would have bought some drinks before leaving the shinosaka station. Some tea and these very hospital-looking energy- and vitamin-infusions, that i love so much. If i would be in japan right now, i would leave the train at shinagawa, going shibuya, or omatesando and finally to our office in ayoama. cant listen to opera right now, bellini is to hystrical.. switched to gregorianic. My eyes would be tierd, did i mentioned, or: would i have been mentioned, if i would be in japan. Hmmm, strange situation. Where am i right now? In japan, or in berlin, thinking to be in japan. Or in japan, thinking to be in berlin, thinking to be in japan. Double minus is plus or triple minus is minus? What is what in this train? Do the other people next to me hear my music as well or would they? Will or would i hear the anouncement, that we'd reach the station soon? Whatever, wherever, whenever, i love this gregorian music. It is so pure and relaxing on a high tention level. It is pure spirit in musik and voice. With what spead would a train travel inetween osaka and tokyo. What does that display anounce above the door at the other end of this coach number 8. In between coach 7 and 8 there is a litte smooking area or would be, if i would be in japan. But i'm in berlin in the office. Many other employees next to me. They work, mean, they sell sheetmetal glasses all the time and to all parts of the world. It is almost noon and maybee i should cook something? Getting some stuff at the netto-shop in torstrasse? Or not cooking and having a salat at the socialistic italian restaurant in saarbrcker. The train is passing a tunnel...and again another tunner.. or would... go to the restroom.. one lady from the officedesk asking me, if the flight to tokyo is to be confirmed, of if booking another... hmmm difficult question, if sitting in a train to tokyo. Let's have some tea from the bag i purchase at shinosaka-station. I love japan.whenever a beatiful lady passes by, all travellers eyes following here. Not, if men walking around. The computer still got 77 of it's energy. My engerylevel is at 84 still, because i had a little nap in these supercomfortable first-class-high-speet-train-seats. If i would be in japan right now. But my office-chair is also relativly nice. And i also had a little nap on the office's restroom. Sometimes i do, like long before, when working in hospital in my hometown oldenburg. That was in my youth, beeing not even twenty. Unbelievable young from nowaday perspective as a man in the middle of the forties, almost entering the fiftheeth annual. So i should enjoy midlifecrisis basiclly, if i would.. or even if not sitting in a train to osaka ot tokyo or wherever. The music in my eyes. I took out the headphones. Right now all travelers can, or have to listen to my music. I so much would love to be in the mountains. In suisse or bavaria.. maybee obersalzberg or kleine scheidegg or in the north of italy, bolzano area. But i'm somewhere else and have forgotten, where i am. Maybee just sleeping.. yes, that ist he question, i had a very intense dream last night. It was very personal and intim, so i could not.. it was with friends talking to me about my life and what is going on. We were walking around in a landcape. The secound morningdream between seven and nine i forgot, but also very intense. I found an electricity-spot, to put my electrycity-thing for my computer in. These japanese trains would be supercool, if i would not sitting in the office in berlin. Or sleeping and just dreaming it. Maybee, this is my dream: thinking to think to be here ore there or in a train inbetween... shit, that is shit.. that is just confusing. The computers-energylevel reaches 76 this moment. Hmm, still less, than a few minutes before. When will we reach tokyo? Already two hours in the train... when can i leave, to have lunch in my most loved restaurant, the crasy italian, right at the corner saarbrcker schnhauser.. my salat-suplier?!! More tea please.. i'm not online here. ---------- here the text break up, because i made to many mistakes fort he controllprogramm and it stoped... just the automatic savingmecahnismus could make it, that everything is gone.. anyway.. right now im on my flight back to berlin? Or to tokyo or hme, wherever it is.. anyway. I put it online and finish. Good bye.. it is morningtime or middle of the night...
just for few, don't read if you are not adresses: (love you!)

lets call it superfast-real-blog... im back in amsterdam right now. I took the plane from taipei, through banghok (dont know, how it is written correctly, sorry, im a superdummy in that).

Early morning... sunrise already happend.. very good luck with sleeping in the plane 10 hours! On my left site i can see the plane. The peolpe from berlin, i suppose, leaving the plane.

Back home. Back to berlin.

Where am ? where am i lost? Where ist he next Stopp?

What would have happen, it the international flight-traffic-system would have broken down, me beiing in taipei? How long would it take with whatever in that case..
I hope, that the international-traffic-system is breaking down, me beiing in berlin or europe or another superbeautiful place...

In on of the duty-free-shops at this amsterdam airport, i tryed out a face-future-becomming-superyoung-cream for 188,- for 100 ml.. when i try to enter the klm-lounge, they ask me form my parents... hahaha, very funny... no, serious, i always check out the most expensive face-cream, and put tonnes of it (value maybee 30 ) onto my huge head. I think, that is also one of the secrets of my superyoung looking. In taiwan people always where so nice with me, saying: uuuuh, you look much younger, than on the pictures... you should keep that compliment in mind, because it works... but did i mentioned that storry already? If so, it would be a sign, that im getting old... maybee kind of dorian-gray-thing???

Aaah, and to keep you informed about the once before mentioned experiement (all blog readers, please send me an e-mail!!!), the result is: 3! Yes, three people send an e-mail, so we are three!!! yes, i have 3 human beeings reading my blog. Even better than 2, even if one of them is a very very very good friend from australia (i wonna meet again soooooon!!!!!!) and the others two are supernice employees of ic! Berlin company... so this blog is a very intimite superexclusive thing.. anyway, i continue and hope, that blog-readers are no e-mail writers...

The bording to berlin is not beeing startet.. it takes and takes... but as long there is something to do, like writing, i dont care.. hmmm, but right now, i loose content.. no!!!, because: once, long ago, i watched a blog with naked young men, sailing on a boot through a little lake, drinking beer. I liked those pictures, because those men where very handsome, and almost that selfish like me. So maybee kind of followers.
When i was young, in my kindergarden, there was a little boy, who always followed everything i did. The good thing was, that i didnt do so much (at least nothing), because i were very very shy, like still. So the litttle boy also did nothing. Just sitting in the corner like me. But i believed, that he was a follower and indeet, when i meat him few years ago, he confessed, that he was so impressed by my, do nothing, that he tryed to be like me... it is so sad, that i forget the name of the boy, who joined me in my kindergarden, but maybee he also try to blog around the world.. so my good old friend from my former kita, if you read this, give me a call to +49 177 240 9 150 or e-mail me to ralph@ic-berlin.de - dont be shy and leave your corner...

Ups, boarding starded, i have to hurry up...!!!!

2009-08-19



even if basiclly very tired, meeting people spends energy. That ist a very very positiv and helpful. After visits, going back into the car, i almost fallen asleep. But the other helpful activity in those cases, if you dont wonna sleep, is to write a blog. Third thing is to watch and select pictures you shot. At the end i just prepare myself for m flight back, to sleep the hole time in the plane (long term startegy).

When visiting customers you always drink. No alcohol but tea, water or juices. I like that a lot because im a extrem drinker of these drinks. The little negative is, that you have to go to toilett/restroom at each customer as well. I see many different styles and also smells. That creates an additional picture of spaces.

if you are tired comming from high speed train, visiting many customers a day, not sleeping enough at night in other words, working hard and traveling much, it is uncredible, how happy a big comftable car can make you immediatly. Like me right now.. we left superfast-trainstation and were picked up by super long high end mercedes benz limosine... in a sudden, i felt fresh, nice and rechared. What is the reason for that? Is the space you have? Or the silence? Ore the good air inside the car? What is the secret of big cars? Or is it just the status-feeling? the limosine makes you the king of traveling, master of the road?

In germany, there is a big scandal going on with a beautiful minister-lady. She were driven into summer hollyday by here working car. She did hollyday in spain and the car was stolen. Beause of that, the complete german press focused on that issue and ask: why does she make her driver going to spain as well in holyday? Does she pay fort hat or just the taxpayers? Because for shure she took the plane and was picked up at the airport again by her limosine (like me right now) to be brought to her holydayhouse... of course she mentioned, that she would have to do some significant very important visits within holydaytime.. to discuss future-issues with some vip of the holyday-village.. right now i can understand totally, why she did that, even if i dont understand, why she is having holydays? Isnt it about not having holyday as aprofessional worker? I mean, do i have holydays? On the other hand, im not working really hard and these days in taiwan are an exception... usally my days are much more relaxed and im not visiting and talking to so many customers all day and night long. And at least it is not bad to visit and meet customers all over the world, because it is so exciting touching different culures in real., seeing who pays for my tea, hotel and life! (thank you so much fort hat i still couldnt believe, that it works... because basiclly i never expect to be able to earn money myself, but that is another story..) But again: i like big cars and to be driven in big cars.. i can write my blog or do some other homework.. having my green-tee-latte etc. life could be so beautiful if beeing a minister or international sheetmetal-glasses-seller. (I have to confess, that i do not like the minister-lady with the car problem.)

I took myself a tea au lait from seven eleven, followed by another hot grenn tea from a green-logo-american brand (i don t wonna mention its name because of personal reasons).

I ask myself about blogging.. what is it about? Blogging? Is it the modern way of literature? Or just a low version of making yourself important in modern internet times? For shure it creates a speed of communication between writer and reader, which is unknown in the past... you write and put it online.. no time to think about it or make it more perfect.

for example this kind of experiment, id like to do right now, a bookwriter couldnt do that easy and immediatly. The experiment: if you read this right now, please could you send an e-mail to ralph@ic-berlin.de??? Headline fuck blogs. Just a brief hello or whatever you want to tell me? Of course not more than 37 words, because i could not read more than that? If just few people will answer, next time please write more.

good morning! how crasy is that, this hotel is so nyc-style... so beautiful so fashion.. i mean let's call "wallpaper"-style.. right now, i directly write into the page.. i have to mention again, because i still could not believe, how that is possible. i just have to put in my username and passwort, over there at the right, and plop, i'm in...
the name of the hotel, i'm staying is " hung's mansion in taichung.. it is so whow.. and whenever you plan to go to nyc, to stay cool, better go here.. much cheaper and if you don't leave hotel, no difference at all - and why leaving hotel??? the view is great and for shure they have a spar insite..
my eyes not burning any longer. it was sleep-related.. not enough sleep the last few days. last night i slept relativly nice after having a taiwanese movie, that i brought in from berlin. the name is "ty ty" - no wrong, "yi yi" by edward young. very beautiful movie... you get at "arthouse" in germany for just 9,99 .. and: it is interesting: many many taiwanese people have western style names.. i would say 90.. i knao that, because i always have to write on ic! berlin cases my name and "for edward" for example.. and "see you in berlin". i write that, because, they really should come watching the factory and company..
it is am 9.00h in the morning and i'll be picked up in a quarter.. going further more into the south of this eyeland. yes, that is all for now. kisses all over onto the mother earth planet - do you say it like that in taiwan?

(i just typed in, without reading again - ups, i hope...)

my eyes are a little tiered. Burning... sitting in a very beautiful and big car from taipei to another town 1 hour in the north. this morning a earthquake happend here.. something like 6.x on the scale.. so a little more significant one, but i must have been sleeping. No damage at all i heard. Wasnt the terrible one in tokyo same?

Yes, it is out, im in taiwan.. earthquake, big taifun... something is going on here, but i do not recognized. And of course the taifun took part last week but until now i havent seen anything.

The risky thing with this writing right now is, that i could put it online myself immediatly. So nobody is reading and taking out mistakes before.. might be a little risky, because im very good in creating mistakes. My only hope is, that these mistakes doesnt count, if i announce them before.

The climate system in this huge car is not working that agressive, which is great not having a to big contrast inbetween inside and outside.

Yesterday, when arriveing, a little mistake happend with the car picking me up. I came out of the terminal and read a sign with my name. A man smiled very much at me and i ask him, if he is for ralph.. he said yes and smiled even more.. i ask him ic! Berlin, but he doesnt understood. But everything look cool. Even if my papers told me, that i would be picked up by our distributer, james, in person, i thought, something might have go wrong and he send a driver... so i made it into the city, when doublechecking by calling james - and he was still awaiting me in the airport.. ups, wrong car, wrong driver, wrong direction. I gave my phone to the driver to make james tell him, whats going on... immediatly the Driver left the highway, but no u-turn back. Just driving smaller road further on. He was totally confused - shocked. It is so interesting with asian people, if mistakes happen. Must be the worst thing in the world for them and it takes minutes before they become normal again. After a wile he made a u-turn and ask an cardriver next to us for the direction to the airport, which basiclly was announce everywhere on several signs.. after reaching the airport, he jumped out of the car, took my trunk out and left with singing wheels not recognizing, that his ralph were just a few meters away, winking with his hands... the other ralph, also flying in from tailand, but looked so different, much more bodyvolume and hair. Anyway, at the end, he should also found his driver and made it into the city...

My eyes still burning. I sleept relativly nice.. had one of those intense backflash dreams.. like the one in the plane, where i stayed in my parents house, when the house suddenly starts moving very fast in a circle. Very crasy and unusual for a house. After this move stopped, it looked much better and the position of the house fitted much better to the other buildings arround. I ask myself and you, what does it mean???


I always ask myself, is somebody reading that? Or is it just a selfish thing for a lownely traveler out on the road to nowhere?

I recogment the the suites-hotel in taipee. I recogment powdersugar. I regogment ic! Berlin glasses..

Next to me there was a man with kindergarten-glasses. But very nice anyway, for shure he wasnt informed about the backround.

uuuuh, new technique..from now on i write directly into the blog... how could that be.. i'm so exited...
unglaublich!!! da muss ich direkt ausnahmsweise deutsch weiterschreiben.. also jetzt kann ich, woimmer ich bin direkt auf die internetz-seite schreiben.. alles was ich will...whow, unglaublich, da kann ich revoluitonen ausrufen und mich bis auf die knochen blamieren...

...back in the plane ... being in a plane, i feel at home. above the clouds and all these earth related thinks, like problems and other hustle creating issues. in the air, there is nothing - except small space to seat, bad air and no reception.

hmmm, how does that sounds.. a bit strange indeed. my home is my castle, comes in my mind immediately. my home is my airplane - doesnt make sense, except, you own your a plan, like michael schumacher, who starts working again in his old job, which is also a big reason for me, not to sell the company, because you might get a plane, but lose the fun of flying in narrow economy seats. at the end of the day, people come back into the life they like and risk everything again, they have gotten before by money - or the money itself. michael schumacher is a good example, how unimportant money is. because in the end he just follows his passion, which money never could buy - and takes the risk to die in a fast car.

but, he could effort for sure a economy flight to tokyo with klm?! michael schumacher in a narrow economy seat on his way to tokyo, or like me, back to bremen... yes, no mistake, destination is bremen, not berlin, because i come from wonderful village called oldenburg in the dessert of the north-west of germany. the reason to go there is the 40 years annual of my parents marriage. what a long time, and which great grapes they have gotten. they had and have a super wonderful life, with supertruperextraordinary kids. yes, im veeery lucky visiting oldenburg and also more that happy going to zrich on sunday, the day after tomorrow... the most beautiful is your hometown, if watching from far away...

the airplane starts the descent and i have to switch of the computer...

of course i love michael schumacher.
of course i would drive as good as him - but...
of course we are talking about 127 million euro.
of course the sun is always shining above the clouds.
of course today it is july 31th 2009.
of course german highways are superbusy because of holiday season.
of course i eat meat.
of course i dont drink.

(i watched the movie about the 20th july 1944 with this american actor, with the wagner-inspired name (not the actor, but the movies name) and: the bad man, who should be killed, also didnt drink, didnt drive and loved wagner. all like me... that makes me fear. shall i better order a whisky, start having driving lessons, switch to michael jackson???)

hmm lucky situation... the plane has an unusual vibration in the area i am seated and so the plane goes back to amsterdam, where we come from. great news like that i appreciate so much in my life as a frequent flyer. if i would sit in my comfortable chair in my villa somewhere in swiss, like michael before restarting his job, i would not get interesting experiences like that.

also funny to see, how my traveling collegues react on the situation. they complain like little kids in the way kids would complain. very interesting and somehow typical.

hmm, so back to amsterdam. hmm if we gonna make the touch down with those special vibrations in my seat-lane... otherwise i hope, the hard disk of this computer will not be destroyed..

thats all for now...


..yes, we made it back to amsterdam. no problems. except my traveling colleagues almost collapsed. right now waiting in an airport bus to get boarded into a new plane, which is parked just few meters next to the not working one. so at least it is all not to bad. really crazy, that another same plane is available. the sun is shining, temperature is around 20 celsius. I am really fully relaxed. breathing in and out.

in about 1,5 hours i should be back in bremen. fly fast mr. captain!!

switch, now im in tokyo. time runs fast, so me to. the flight felt so short for me. kind of strange, magic. i must have slept all the time, because suddenly we were there, which is here, which is narita, called tokyo airport.
im awaiting the friendly airport limousine right now in the american coffeehouse in the departure area. in front: two big paper cups with tea - i cant get enough. outside it is 31 celsius.. i stay just for two days, so it should be manageable. hmm, did i give any interesting information already? why is the tea so hot. shall i wait outside in the heat? shall i buy japanese fashion magazines? how is life. new babies are being born. old people fade away. Every thing is in a balance, even the finance system, which i tried out by getting myself money and these two wonderful cups of tea. all the best, ralph

now in the bus. kind of traffic jam into tokyo. but the aircon is working very well. inside it is close to to cold so i enjoy it, considering sweating outside in a bit again.
and i ask myself, why is it so important to drink a lot against the jetlag? is it because the super dry air in the plane? that your body loosing humidity and getting exhausted? because whenever i fly (and basically also whenever im not flying) im drinking water like crazy. that makes me visiting the toilet minimum once an our, but keeps away the jetlag.
the bus is flying into tokyo high above the street level. the highway is measured in house levels on the 8th floor. i can see many rooftops of smaller houses. houses and houses without an end. slowly we make it to shibuya. this time ill stay in a small japanese hotel and not in these international-all-over-the-world-looking-the-same hotels. i never have been there and I am kind of exited.
in two days im flying back. not to berlin, but to bremen. also b. it is because my parents celebrate their 40th year of staying together. theyve gotten married august 1st 1969. puh, what a long time and what is the outcome of that relationship, besides to two extraordinary super wonderful kids? it feels, that my mouths smells terrible. should take some chewing gum..
and what do we think about a supermodel writing being to fat, even if not? what does it mean, if perfect looking people think, they would not? can somebody explain to me? does it mean: nobody is perfect or: be perfect and feel unperfect anyway?!
highways above highways above houses above streets above underground above... me

leaving america. leaving new york. very interesting days and impressions. for me amerika - more precise the places and states we have been - looks like a eastern europe socialistic country. everything is in a bad shape. houses, streets, people. it looks not like the leading country in the world. yes they have high houses and big cars, but at the end it is not substantial. just blown up everything and everything is paid by debts, loaned from the rest of the world, mostly with chinese money. for sure im wrong but i did not see a future spirit. its more like, lets continue, go through a green and lean fashion period. but basically it is not serious, because, we are america and we are always leading the world. it is only, that it doesnt look like it. more like poland, czech republic or hungary before the breakdown. but of course so much more selbstvertrauen and maybe selbstberschtzung. for sure my european eyes dont see the reality, because for sure the power of this country will make a turnaround very soon and very easy. for sure there are serious reasons, for the president shouting: yes we can!!! - so at the end of the day, leaving this very advanced country, i strongly believe, that the leader in the world stays the leader in the world... yes, they must have the secret weapon, that will turn debts into real money! but we are leaving, wishing: all the best for that bride future!

first of all: read george steiner. you can get his books in english as well as in german... i read the book logokraten in the plane. not the whole but a big part of it. really very inspiring.
so after athens we flew to philly. through paris. athens by the way was very exiting. very much the holiday-summer-feeling. the customer i visited has his store on a beach, where you have to pay 25,- euro to enter. but for that, there is also a starbucks on the area. but of course, you have to pay your drinks as well - same high price thing like everywhere.
as you can imagine, a big fun thing. very many beautiful easy-living people. the hotel we stayed in was visited mostly by arabic princes and princesses, rich greeks and americans. no germans except us. we had dinner with our customers on a rooftop terrace of a restaurant. very extraordinary!!

but now it is philly. if you are visiting the air france lounge in paris and the ladies at the counter check and check your boarding cards again and again, it could mean something very positiv. in our case an upgrade into business!! we, that means me, felix and anna, the junior-children glasses managers in the company. finally the flight was big fun and very relaxing..

philly is grey, humid and hot.
anna has seen the heart of a pig. she says it's eatable.
felix having an high-tech banana-strawberry drink with white power-powder reading a yogijo-comic in english.

this day is gonna be a relatively smooth day preparing the sales-rep-meeting tomorrow.

best regards to philipp, if you read this blog. do you? if so, let me know.
best regards also to australia.

or shopping? everything is very close.

sitting at sydney airport. leaving the country... the uncredible city, these wonderful people.. hmm how to cope with that everything really was that nice like beeing told in advance... very strange in a very positive way... for example i just mentioned that i also could sing some songs from schubert at the party yesterday night... i mean, schubert in sydney. time to prepare it, one day!! and preparing means: getting the notes, a piano, somebody playing it and beeing able to do that. to cut it short, the peolpe here managed and i was singing "winterreise" songs next to technobeats in a club decorated like a very cool fotostudio... unbelieveable. also to prepare it next to techno. the dj of course did not stop music for us trying it out.. but it work very very well!! after that a very kind dentist with atv-show wearing ic! berlin took me out for the night with his supermodel-girlfriend! and of course it got to a shooting at his house, i was picted up by a bently limosine to one of the hottest club in town with a rooftop and an outside pool-area.. uuuh, very hot, even in australian winter... unbelivable.. yes, now i have to get me some -winter-ugg-boots for berlin summer. i saw some very beautiful ones in black.. so.. see you soon down under. maybe i should miss the flight... kisses to australia, love it, ralph

...sitting in the big jumbo-plane. now it's for sure, i am leaving australia - no way back. they gave me a beautiful window seat. just have to get through two other people to reach restrooms. supposed to be easy, because i have drunken app. 1.7 liters of water before security. in addition to that, it is a nice feeling, beeing surrounded by seats, walls and other guests. it is like in a cosy cave;. i had some chickpeas and melons and green salad for lunch. my eyes are kind of burning. at quantas they charge 80 as$ for emergency seats... it is because they are member the british flight group and in uk they charge for everything.

right now im looking forward to the flight from singapore to paris. my friends from air france for sure prepared a birthday cake in premiere class for me. It is gonna be the first time for me to fly first class. i ask myself, why not flying business? i'm an international very important businessman and my boss is always booking economy for me. why that? he should know how very important i am for this company. i might leave and work for a singing agency. on the other hand i like it to be with normal people. as such an important person like me, you totally loose the contact to earth. no more idea how much 500g of butter are at "aldi" in berlin marzahn.

by the way, they have original aldi here!!! isn't that great?! i almost made it to go shopping there, but it already was closed. shit.. no beautiful bags from downunder.

more and more people entering the plane. must be arround 400..

my eyes are still burning.. i got myself some ugg boots. it's winter here and who knows, where the plane gonna have an emercency landing. the south pole is near and i wonna be prepared.

my eyes are burning... did not sleep that well tonight. to many things running around in my head.

very nice people, i met yesterday, brought me spontaniously to the airport. all bags fit into a relativly small car... even the big bike bag... but who is interested in... hmmm, did i mention, that my eyes are burning? did i mention, that some people (1-3) reading my blog? did i mention, that a journalist even knew, that i kind of love chaitea latte? did i mention, that my feet are relativly hot in my new boots?

hmm, so far so good. plane almost leaving earth and i prepare myself for an littel late afternoon nap..

the captain speaks german and tells us, that we are delayed. it is gonna be 7,5 hours.. long nap, or gap..

sitting at darling-harbour... what a funny name for a habour. around me all these white sea birds and i'm awaiting the moment, they empty their stomach on me. yes the sun is shining a little through a thin fabric of clouds. behind me 2 chinese girls... what a language. i ask myself, if i have to go back to the show, selling glasses... but i stay, max, my collegue, is doing a great job, so i can do mine here with a green tea latte at the waterside. this morning i walked into the show - no cab ride. a very double walk. by car the distance seams to be so much longer. the car also cut off the relation to the city, you are driving through. really terrible. at least a very very double ride by bike...but without pedals...

tomorrow i 'll leave again. gonna be a very long day - for sure the longest july 12th i ever had. and tonight i have to sing some songs out of the "winterreise" (schubert). i just mentioned the possibilty of me singing - and they took it serious immediatly and suddenly arranged it. a few minutes before i talked to a pianoplayer and he checked out the songs. number 1, 15 and 20.. my first concert down under... next time i'd like to sing in the operahouse - of course. it is really a serious issue to start my sining career. if ugly british telecom-workers can do that, why not me? to make classic music more pop and popular! that is my mission besides the glasses.. glasses?! and writing a book in english! that also should be funny and open all doors to the international bookmarket... well even if i could not use so many words, like in german. but it is more economic, which always counts. again: don't i have to go back to the show?? don't i have to sell glasses or shake hands with customers. the sun is also getting weaker and weaker. a water cab is circling around.
singing tonight... how crazy is that.. where do they get a piano from? maybe just an electronic one. my cellphone is sleeping.. no calls or messages. going to the tradeshow? watching optical-world-people?

hmm, shall i?

...tradeshows are like tradeshows. same everywhere in the world. but here we are exhibiting in a mueseum. the powerhouse-museum. it is almost the same concept like at the technische museum, at the paul-linke-ufer in berlin-kreuzberg. in our case we took a room in there, so basically we are not in a tradeshow in the known way. the official tradeshow is next door and it is really like everywhere in the world: a big faceless hall, with kind of the same booths. it is relativly empty, which makes it very comfortable, because you have to wait nowhere. the people walking around are 95 exhibitors themselves, so also a nice mix. i have the good luck, that i shoot pictures for the new catalogue here. because of that i'm not getting bored and of course our showroom is much more busy than the official tradeshow.

the bike i bought yesterday came without pedals, which makes it a bit difficult to ride. not even i can manage that. now i hope very much, that they gonna deliver pedals today to the powerhouse (...powerhouse, what a nice name... i live in the powerhouse... uuh, cool)..

my stomach is totally filled with water and tea. another cup and i will be an explosion...

clouds jump in between me and the sun... why are they doing it. without the sun it is getting cold immediatly, which reminds me, that it's winter here. july is winter...how strange and what does it mean for the horroscope? cancer becomes a wintersign! it must influence the whole thing, i guess..

tonight, there are no dinner plans! i like that, because then i'm gonna go to the sauna in the hotel. there is also a pool... after that i put myself into the bed, read a little, watch australien quality-tv and fall asleep. sounds like a plan, if no dinnerappointments or interviews pop in.. who knows..

(i don't like clouds in between me and the sun!)

i ask this distributer and co-owner of a competitor from hong kong, if i might picture him for our new catalogue. i send two textmessages, but i did not get an answer. hmm, maybee he is to shy? but it would be fun and i also would shoot him on his booth with his logo in the back. why not? we are a big family and in our business everybody loves everybody. so i am still hoping, that we come together!

in germany it is am 6.08h right now.. for many people time to leave the bed. i'm getting a bit tired right now and should get myself another chaitea at sturbucks... (they closed 60 shops in australia.. reasoned by my exhibition in munich. i'm so sorry for that...

(clouds clouds clouds all over.. what's going on?)

ralph anderl from sidney, july 10th 2009....!

...night is in right now. totally dark at 5.45 pm... i had tonnes of tea today again and now my heart-area hurts. maybee the heart itself or something around... who knows.. the energy-level of my mobile computer has gotten low.. hope, he'll make it until i'm back in the hotel (same for my heart). so many people buying frames here and now i might get late and i think about skipping dinner... but how to get to the hotel? i am little tired of taking a cab... would love to walk? or ride, or bus? the museum arround us is closed now, but we are still in it. i think it would be possible to run arround in the dark, staying in over night! like we all dreamed in our childhood..

breathe in, breathe out... is too much tea unhealthy? does it create heart attacks? anyway it is crazy, that i write in english.. (thinking: why not writing my next book in english.. would get international automatically.. of course, i have maybee not even half of the words, i have in german, but could it be a very thin one..?! english would help to became a famous international writer...

right now a security-guy is comming in.. for sure to garantee, that nobody in entering the museum..

anyway. customers are leaving and maybee me to?! stay tuned and don't change the canel!!

a mild clear winter thursday morning in sydney. winter in summer, from a european perspective.. very cool, in a double perspective.. really kind of crazy. time is opposite and weather is opposite. i'm sitting in one of those untemporary international coffee-shops, having my teas.. yes i am drinking two venti teas, one chai, and one green. i'm without borders.. do you say it like that?
yesterday i had a great interview with an extraordinary informed superjournalist. she knew everything about me - plus a bit more. it was like tv with camera and shooting on a rooftop of a fancy designhotel. uuuuh, like i ever expected to be interviews... in australia dreams come true... shall i stay here? having a house in mansbay (shit, it was another name...) but that area close to the sea, where all houses are like in a big park.. i dont't watch the watch.. basically i'd have to be at the show already, but of course i also have to do this blog. no i haven't seen kangaroos.
no i haven't seen whalefishes from my window.
yes i have seen the opera house and the bridge from my window.
yes i bought a white bike here in sydney,
yes, with no breaks and they forgot to put pedals on it- shit, this is the reason, why i have to take a cab this morning and not dying in the left-running traffic... maybee better?!

finally i really very much can recogment australia. to be more precice: sydney. very nice people in a very beautiful city. next time i'll take the train through the dessert... 4 days nothing else than nothing. that should be beautiful and an extraordinary experience. shouldn't it be...

also kind of british here, but it's okay...

sitting in a cab to the show.. it is a bit nyc feeling, but nicer.. means more friendly... after about ten minutes the driver trys to start conversation by asking: how are you!? whow, isn't it funny, after such a long time.. but at least i like it.. there are messanger bikes around me. the air is so clear and fresh. i like it a lot. than asking myself about the use of this blog. isn't it very selfish? and is that a problem? isn't erverything in ic! berlin relativly ralph-selfish? and does that matter? might people hate that - or love that? i think as long as it is one of both, it works. the meter is on 10 australien dollars. i think i have 50 left.. stupid thinkings of a pour german... getting a bit hot in the car. window is open. wearing a suit and a coat so that i look like a serious busimessman, if there were not the very v-necked shirt... to go to the show by bike would have been wounderful..but without pedals, not possible, even for me. hopefully i'll get throgh the day without big hassles. reaching the powerhouse museum, where we show up... so good bye my bloggy friends,r

the heat of kuala lumpur and the humidity... it is like an opium dream, without opium. it takes speed and energy out of body and mind. as long as you stay outside, which you basically never do. but inside it is cold. cold like outside in berlin early february, that's how you recognize and feel it... i'm sitting outside in one of these cafs, having a green tea. it is very noisy. traffic jam all over. the air condition of the cars pumping hot air out on the road as well as pollution. big ventilator creating little wind and noise as well. tonight i'll leave to osaka and tokyo. i hope they prepared a better climate, but, stop! it doesnt mean, that i do not like the k.l. climate. because i do.. it is like fasting without fasting. at least i enjoy the slowdown of life. i understand mentally of people living here - maybe a bit better?? on the other hand, if i'd live here, it would be different.
the reason, why I am here is a presentation of our wonderful distributors. they organized a little tradeshow in a hotel, with all the brands, they distribute. yesterday night there was a price giving and the 1st price was a mercedes benz b-class... a car for about 40t . isnt it crazy? for the show there were many model-hostesses around, so i had the idea, to become k-l-model. once i have been in a model agency in berlin, but were never booked. but as a foreigner you are automatically interesting so ill try. i also met a pop-singer. she also does classical music as a soprano. the plan is to start my singing carrier in malaysia too. maybe easier to enter the deutsche oper and philharmonie in berlin from kuala lumpur.
yes, that is basically all. i also shoot many pics on my mobil and because of good luck and the right cable, im able to transfer these artworks on my computer - and that menas, that we could put theses visual windows to the world here as well. isnt it cool? - i mean, if it works...

sounds like a plan...

more sayings for the eye-examen inside the ic! berlin temples:

money in a real fiction
cars are to slower than bikes
come to berlin!
everybody is beautiful.
love is better than love.
get more, have less.
never eat more that me.
drinking water or mineralwasser.
more brain must not help.
cut your hair!
kuala lumpur, 29th may 2009
...sitting in a very comfortable sofa chair in an extraordinary luxery shopping-center on a friday afternoon - but, unfortunatly, it is completely empty. sales persons talking to sales persons. all the luxery brands are here - and all are empty. no consumer... and i wouldnt say, that is because the financial crises, for me it smells more like a crisis of this system itself, the system of consumption. it became so boring... new season stuff everywhere but also sales. everything is without blood.. kind of dead. just beautiful.. designed by designers not passioned people. and most of the designers not even exist. just ideas of marketing-idiots. these days the consumers seam to realized that and stop visiting these beautiful temples of consumption? or is it just because of... lunchtime? hot weather? a football game on tv? who knows? because all the goods are soo beautiful and would make all of us beautiful like all the beautiful models on the displays...hmm indeed kind of scary, because there is no other system, which could help. there would be another system, but this new system could not take over... you dont know, what im talking about? asking, which system??? well, the answer is easy, it is - of course - the ic! berlin-system! you don't know? well, in this case, come to berlin and have a look..

i have to leave this beautiful, cold shopping center right now, because there is non of these american coffee shops inside, but...



...now im in the most successful shopping center of the world. or maybe i mix up, and it is just the best shopping center of the world. better than harrods, kdw and aldi - ups, aldi is not...anyway

the good news is, that is it not that empty like the one before just across the road. it is very very new and really big. or lets say huge. you find all the hot international brands. and a supermarket with all you need for a life, which is so international, that it becomes spaceless.

im sitting again in this coffee shop. the smell of my tea is really different to the smell in berlin or even tokyo. i dont know why... even the plastic-top of cups is different. more massive somehow.. strange.. i hope, this coffee shop is not a copy.

but shopping still is a problem. for example me: i tried two kinds of interesting adidas-trainer jackets. special designs in a way and in addition to that 50 off. both of them fit me perfect - but, i did not take them.

local time is 4pm. maybe right now the shopping mall i was before is more crowded as well. but is it older and customers just run hot for the latest stuff. but this interest doesnt remains to long. these days the circles of new things run faster and faster. when im gonna be here next time, this shopping mall is old and empty as well.

Im getting little tired right now. maybe because the coffee shop is top floor and the climate system doesnt work that good here. even my tea doesnt help.

shopping without shopping...
it is more like visiting a museum - a nice one, where it is not forbidden to touch the exhibited masterpieces...

...going back to europe... in this case not berlin, but milano. kind of easter holiday with the hole neighbourhood i live in. like in the late sixties. here in tokyo it is early morning and - surprise surpise - in europe deep night. in addition to that, today is karfreitag - i dont know the english word. so today is one of the blackest days in the year of church. but here in tokyo nobody cares. just end of april gonna be an important period: the golden week. mostly about shopping and travelling. but these days maybe less shopping.

hmm, yes indeed, it has become more slow with consuming here. you can see it all over. bouticques are empty and people are not even walking around in the former desired streets. in the news Ive heard, that stock markets going up again, so is it already and of crisis. crisis, crisis, crisis, what a stupid issue.

i drink my water and hope to get a late upgrate at the boarding gate. because still im row 32, so no business at all. but emergency-seat, which also might help. here in the lounge i fill in my bodytank with tonnes of water and other liquids. i like drinking and Ive read somewhere, that drinking would help to have no jetlag. - in tokyo Ive met an italien guy living here right now, who had problems with his heart and could walk around just one hour a day!! also not allowed to drink more than 800ml of water. isnt it terrible. if i couldnt drink, i maybe also would die. in mean, i will die for sure, but maybe a bit earlier. so best regards to that guy and i really hope, that he is getting better soon...

i really feel very fit - after a period of 4 weeks fasting. just very uneffective soup, veggi-juice and water.. if that deal is being started, it is not so terrible, like expected. i even cooked and did some bakery. the mind becomes clear and you move your body in slow motion as less as possible, which is also not so bad. so i recommend it to everybody..

fasting, thinking and waiting - the three big things in life.

im waiting for my plane.. hmm, basically boardingtime..? one hour to early still. i always go to the airport extraordinary early to avoid all kinds and possibilities of stress. time is the key for comfortable journeys - old men say.

it is ten oclock right now. blue sky. burning eyes. the plan is, to sleep all time in the plane...eating is cancelled, because i do here as well. i got some swiss muesli with french honeys in japanese airportlounge.

so far so good. right now i have to do some research in fashion magazines. did you know, that jil sander works for uniqlo right now? a japanese discount brand like h&m?

see you in berlin, ralph

...eben noch ibaz messe berlin, jetzt slide show in tokyo. Ups, english please... springtime-tradeshow ibaz in berlin above the roofs of the city and after a sudden switch: tokyo narrita. how unbelievable is that. i flew klm through amsterdam... and already when bording in berlin i received the very good news about the connection to narrita: seat 2F - that means business! how cool is that! i went to the berlin airport-lounge and was just happy... yes, it makes a difference and it is much sportier flying economy with the hope of getting business.

in amsterdam all the connections worked out very smooth. just at bording a little moment of doubt, because it was a huge boing with business on second floor... so maybe just very good economy. But at least i was lucky... I slept well, had a very japanese manga-dream and arrived here very fresh!!! Left plane as first passanger, received luggage first - i mean, how crazy is that??!!!! Took some money, bought some drinks and magazines and even reached the first bus to shibuya, which i usually never reach (and have to take thew next 2 hours later...)

not to forget the weather, which is very fine as well! sunshine and 16 celsius!!!

So right now i just hope, that a hotelroom is being book and entering my room early. Because usually bording is at 2pm. At three ill have first appointment with wonderful salesrep aki. So lets check it out.


aaaand, not to forget mentioning the best glasses-show in early april in the world, the IBAZ!!! this time i took part in the backfabrik in the middle of berlin. we took some space there, which is usually the ic! berlin office. but for ibaz ic! berlin left and gave all the beautyful space to the organization of IBAZ!! the best was not at least the weather and the extraordinary rooftop! the hole show felt like holiday and customers, stayed for hours. some even came back the next days... this time we where 5 exhibiters, which is a very organic number: lafont, sutro, andy wolf, zuerihorn and ic! berlin.

the next show we plan for july during the fashion show bread and butter, which should fit very well and offer all exhibitors and visitors a view into the pure fashion world as well!!!

...sometimes it is positive to do things always in the same way. no changes.. for examples if flying somewhere by plane, it is extremely helpful always using the same airline. in my case that habit gives me again an upgrade to business-class on a 11 hours flight. what a great thing is that. and right now im sitting in a waiting room for special frequent flyers with drinks and dishes for free. also not too bad...
outside it is raining like crazy. did i mention, that im still in japan? not tokyo any longer but narrita, where the airport is. everything went very smooth. the friendly airport limousinebus delivered me in the comfortable japanese way.
yesterday at idetan trunkshow, i had to put my autograph into a customers louis vuitton jacket... very special experience, but he was serious. we sold many frames to young and not young people. the isetan department store is on of the nicest shopping temples in the world, i would say. all the high end brands are there and if you can, it is great to go shopping there.

another hour before i can board the plane... in germany it is am 2.30h right now. everybody is sleeping, nobody sending emails. im getting tired as well and very much hope to sleep in the plane

so far. no more words...

yes we can, yes i can... yes i can do it in english, or, yes i can try.. what a day today... im in philadelphia on the day of the presidential election. barack obama is in town...

it is kind of illegally cold out here and on tv they recommend not to leave your home... the worst is: i forgot my do-not-freez jacket from canada in berlin... so now i'm freezing like crazy... I was riding my bike to the office yesterday without gloves and my mind... so I almost lost both. it is difficult for me to figure how cold it is in celsius, because of the different system. i think it is minus 25 C.

the good thing is, that there is a starbucks in the hotel. whow, that is kind of crazy, even if starbucks is not that 100 politically correct.. can you say it like that? anyways, this worldwide coffeshop is like my worldwide living- and lovingroom.. it is something you can kind of trust in: like mc donald, it is the same everywhere. but more important for somebody, who doesnt drink coffee, the chai-tea-latte is great and better than everywhere else... bla bla, what a stupid issue, even if it is very interesting...

so i visited our american company and took the opportunity to speak with obama about his time in the white house under the perspective of ic! berlin sheetmetalglasses. we developed some very cool ideas together, about which i'm still not allowed to talk about.. sorry, some top-secret plans also for europe, asia and south africa... the only thing i can tell is, that we might put the new slogan yes we can!!! in every frame. barack liked that idea a lot and promised to laser himself bad eyes, to need ic! berlin glasses

(by the way, how is my english? can anybody understand? - i never read things i wrote twice, so even i myself do not know...)

well i have to go to nyc today to take my flight back direct to berlin. so i will walk around a little in philly and than our wonderfull marc will deliver me and all my bags to jfk airport. Yes. There is no more i can write, my brain is too... let's say jetlaged, which it basically isn't. anyways. kisses and hugs to all,the yes-we-can-ralph

okyo night without saturday-night-fever... Okay im a little ill and tired, but that is no reason for all the young people not to go shopping! most of the stores are totally empty and even on the streets in shibuya there is no walking-people-traffic-jam, like usual on an saturday shopping evening.
very surprising for me or not, because everybody is talking in that direction, but to see that, it is different. it is like there is a switch from consuming, STOP, to stay at home no shopping: START. I dont know, if there is a big sports-event on tv, or free chai-tea-latte at starbucks, but basically there should be no reason for that. even trendy second hand store raptap was empty!!!!
so i followed that trend, as usual, and went shopping at hermes, louis vuitton, prada and gucci. i mean like ever, ic! berlin is one step ahead - so...?!!

anyway at least, i saw many people cewing up for ic! berlin glasses in leading optician stores and as long as the crises is good for ic! berlin, i do not care and say loud and clear: lets start the new trend and start consuming again, when everybody else is sitting at home eating chips and drinking cold water!!! it is great to do, because people became really nice in all the stores and no busy sales-people anymore...!!!

at last: one very important rule is: whenever discount or sales is offered, dont buy!!!!! that is out of trend!!!!!!

...20th february, osaka, japan. if you walk very long distance from berlin east, you someday reach japan and maybe osaka. if using the plane, you might go west first to paris and than all the long way east - like i did. and like you might know, there are different possibilities in planes to sit: very narrow and small seats mostly in the back, and big comfortable seats in the front. the different in between is a few thousand euros. but... but in good cases and if you have a special card, you may sit in huge super-nice seats, even if paid small. in my case it happened. from seat 46c to 3k!! from that moment on, you can expect 11 hours of fun and luxury. very nice, even if i did not sleep that well at all. but also in compare to walking or driving, a big mystery to do that distance in time in 11 hours.

now im here in the rainy osaka, having my morning tea in the not-space of starbucks im so sorry for that, but i like the all around the world same smell of tea.. again, it creates a kind of homey feeling..

in berlin Ive heard, is it very snowy, like it should be at christmas, but everybody expects springtime. anyway... as we know, it is all because of the finance-crisis in america. also climate is mixed up and becomes more cold instead of more hot, like mr. gore said.

in a few minutes i have a serious meeting, so i have to go. i say good bye and see you soon,

ralph

... kobe is about beef and steal. steal is to heavy to bring to berlin and beef might be problem as well, because ill leave japan in 4 days. so maybe not healthy to keep that long without fridge? also kind of forbidden to import beef into germany? maybe, maybe not. i do not know. I just know, that 2 years ago ive smuggled some beef into berlin for christmas and it was more than great.

here in kobe many young girls running around in groups of 3-4 girls. laughing a lot and always playing with their cell-phones. im getting tired again, even in germany is sunrise-time right now. finally i have to confess, that matscha-tea is to sweet. i do not like as much as chai-tea. matscha-tea is a kind of green-tea. i drunk a lot but still tired.

and im thinking about fasting. do you say it like that? the not eating-thing? next week the fasting period before easter starts and why not doing it in the stong way? after first 3 days it should not hurt anymore. so why not.

here in kobe today it is raining and sunny. very mixed and kind of cold. no snow like in berlin. tonnes of snow there... but didnt i mentioned already?

my eyes getting heavier and heavier. in a few minutes we are going back to osaka by train. not so expensive, 380 yen, which is about 3 euro... so...
in shinkansen in between osaka and tokyo. in japan all humans are being born in or with a louis vuitton bag. it is unbelievable, but everybody has minimum one. whereever you see somebody running around, you see this brand around his body. and you can be sure, that these bags are original and no fakes. and so they are not very cheap.

hmm, getting tired again. sitting in a train makes your eyes heavy. so very short report from my journey through foreign worlds...

...it is getting cloudy and it doesnt make sense any longer to have a bath in the sun on my 16th floor hotel-room this morning. i dont know why, but they book me a very big room here for that trip. the weather is kind of mixed. sunny but cold and now not even sunny. in philly it should be warmer than here, which is for sure related to the international climate collapse or the californian state being bankrupt.

anyway, yesterday i could sell several glasses to several not to poor people. and indeed you can still see cars on the road in orange county, which are not a cheap renault-dacia logan. people still got money and spend it. at all, here is a smell of wealthiness in the air and if you go south to the next village at the ocean, you are getting smooth-wealthy feelings as well, even if you are a poor european sheetmetal-glasses-seller.

my view from my balcony in direction south i see 2 smaller skyscraper. or how do you say? also a golf-areal and many houses of not poor people.

this morning target is to get little brown or darker skin color, to make all berlins jealous. (and it is still unbelievable, that ill be home tomorrow in cold berlin, with snow and the darkness of the german winter...)

in about one hour i have my last business meeting here and at around 2 pm i have a shooting in venice beach. of course... that is how it works here in us. shootings, bbq, money, crisis, big cars and starbucks... i create also a new saying which is: take care, it is real but i think i mentioned already (usa is not about historical recognition... so me too)

shit...because of finance crisis there are just clouds covering the sun right now. very terrible and i think, maybe not even obama could help.

anyway, i have to pack my stuff and leave into the future.
kisses,r

basiclly is o.c. right now, which stands for orange country. the richest part of the whole us, i heard. and indeed, the sun is shining very bride and the cars are big and houses beautiful. even the people look good and not being to fat... no, to be really honest, everybody is beautiful and the headline of the whole is: take care - its real i found out yesterday, when a lady ask me to write something with a big marker on her arm. difficult question, but by that i found that maybe old saying and she was happy with it. ups, clouds coming up. whats going on? is that reasoned by the crisis?

i do not see the crisis. maybe it is to early. shopping center did not open already. we start very early today. start at 6 am to make it here from l.a.

tonight i'm gonna cook again in the store for customers and hopefully it will work out well. so what to cook???

sun is back and i can get colour for the winter in berlin. snow storm in berlin. hmm, well that's it. now i go to the beach and teach the people there about ic! Berlin.

yes. so see you in a bit in berlin. or o.c. or l.a. or nyc...

and of course sunny. it is kind of hot in the sun but just great, if coming from the winter in berlin. sitting in the back of the store, where i did an information-education to the employees of our customer. very nice, i think, i hope. i enjoyed, even if its very early today. 8 am. so hmm, what to tell about l.a. santa monica... the hotel im staying at... the hole situtation. my feeling right now is: fuck, how lucky i am. it is so great being here, doing this job, which is not work. spending time with those people.

tonight i have to cook in another place for customers as well and it seems to create problems, to get all the things for cooking. not the ingredients, but the pots and pans... so maybe i could not do it, but at the end americans solving all problems.

ups, the sun is so hot and i am wearing just black. perfect combination.

americans always talk with each other. What ever is going on, they tell each other, what they feel or thing or what ever. totally different to german people. Live to tell. I like it, because communication is a good thing and why creating borders in between people by not talking.

so hot in the sun. did i wrote that already? yesterday night i wish to have my very winter warm jacket. today i'm asking for swimming-shorts.

im running out of words. so i stop for a moment...

...munich right after the extraordinary optimale opti-tradeshow... the city is still packed with opticians doing sightseeing and shopping... yes shopping, even if we have the biggest crises in the world ever. just kidding.
well, the sun is shining and everything is so okay. no weather-crisis for sure. yes we have been selling so many frames the last three days and yes, customers loved our new collections a lot. for all, who never have been at those events: all companies build up their own spaces, showing their products. at eyewear shows, just opticians are allowed to come, but because of crises, also end customers coming. just a few, but basically they are not allowed. anyway, we put a big truck on our space and cardboard-furniture, we build up on ourselves. so very high end and beautiful, like our glasses. we also offered eating and drinking to everybody... yes, that is the way how it works and because we are ic! berlin, it works very good. just kidding. no, but to be honest, it is so. do you say it like that. anyway..

another story from munich:
if you do not have hair on your head and visiting one of those traditional bavarian restaurants in munich, for example the great andechser hof, or similar name, it could happen, that a local guy comes to your table, checks your naked head, taking a little box out of his traditional jacket, putting a kind of legal kokain on your head and taking it through his nose, directly from your skin. like that happend to me yesterday night and i very much believe, it is a very old local tradition. we took pictures maybe also for you to believe. after i washed my head a little, i also tried that obviously legal kokain and it was very good. but isnt it crazy, that in a conservative city and state, like bavaria, it is not a problem to take drugs in public??? In other, much more open minded parts of the world, it is strictly forbidden and you go to jail because of that... so at least, munich and bavaria is a big miracle and we all can learn a lot about life, death and drugs here... (if you do not believe it, go to that place and ask one of those extraordinary service-people. It is right behind the frauenkirche the biggest and most famous church in town - everything is sooo tasty, good, traditional and open minded. but - even it is allowed to take that bavarian kokain in public, you have to go outside to smoke a cigarette, which is of course good...)

and: today we went to vogue- building, visiting a young and, of course, extraordinary beautiful and fashioned journalist. we showed here or new trs-chic-collection and she loved it. she was so thrilled, that she wanted to have all of them for herself and her gay boyfriend. she promised, to put just our glasses with me on first page of magazin!!! she also promised, to organize a shooting with me, naomi, claudia and other famous fashion girls in monte carlo or bonn. i also were so thrilled and happy and fallen in love with that, that i'm not sure, if the hole story is true terrible, i really do not know. terrible, but well see. so please all of you should buy the beautiful german vogue the next months or maybe years - i think, she did not promise, to do it soon... but i promise, that i loooooove fashion and fashion magazines. i totally believe, that just fashion-magazines will not be hidden by the crises and exist for ever. i have to say again: i loooooove fashion and i looooooooooove german voooooooooooogue.

and: tomorrow i have to leave the most beautiful city in... hmmm in munich? in bavaria? in germany? in the world? difficult question. i think for sure, munich is the most beautiful city in munich. about all the rest im not sure. but i would love to life here. i believe this city would make me more beautiful and serious. it also would make me more successful. i mean personally. you know? why not ic! munich?! we could do that maybe. berlin is done anyway and i read in one of the leading german newspaper, that chancellor angela merkel thinks to settle to munich. more power and closer to italy and the alps, she said. germany is so advanced! maybe it is also because of legal bavarian kokain?!

and: it is getting dark. today it is january 26th. I bought some music, some gifts for the new baby of our patent lawyer gert habermann (he received new baby few days before and his name is knut, it is a boy!!! congratulations) i also bought a very big, heavy and expensive book about the vogue-magazine. it is because i so much love fashion and to underline, that i be very honest and telling the truth. if you want, i can send a copy of receipt.

and: of course i hang out and work at starbucks coffee right now. having chaitealatte and hot water. like always. everything is like always - that how life is. from a certain point of life it does not change anymore. you eat the same things, you drink same things, you buy same things, you work same things. all the same, which of course is very good, because it makes life easier and helps to save money.

and: now i do not continue. i'm ready or: im done. or, i have nothing more to say...

munich is very bavarian. or do you say: bavarianish? anyways, i do not know... but it is for sure, that we do not have "octoberfest" here right now. it is relatively smooth and quiet and most people are not drunken. there are no fights on the roads, which could be the case during "octoberfest". but to be honest, munich is very very safe. a friend told me, less than 8 murders a year.

maybe it is because tradition and catholicism, but i do not know. maybe because of the climate or culture of eating. but i can see, wherever i look, that this city is very rich. much richer than berlin. bigger cars, more expensive clothes, most buildings are beautiful and in very good shape.

mostly women love munich, because a lot of rich man are available for getting rich and unhappy as well. good thing is, that people are free to choose, and very few of them are rich, happy, beautiful, cool and successful - all in one. in munich that is possible, in berlin not, except maybe me. - just kidding, haha..

anyways, life is not to bad even here in the south. in case of good weather, you can see the alps and the air is so clean, that you can breath even when there is sommer-smog. unbelievable, but true. most of the people here drive mercedes, porsche, audi or bmw. 87 of locals wear rolex, which is also the reason, why so many people can afford beautiful ic! berlin glasses.

my latest idea today was the commercial slogan: "better take the original - ic! berlin" isn't it supercool?

strange, my ears are burning.. ao hot? why? am i getting ill? in the office almost everybody is ill. but i should not, because i have no talent getting ill. most of the year i'm not ill. maybe half a day, mostly on sundays. for sure it is because i have such a nice job and such a healthy life. so believe me, it is better, not to drink beer for breakfast, having huge burgers after midnight and whisky for teeth cleaning. but whom shall I be telling such stuff..

well i also have, i mean HAVE to confess, that i'm not sure about my english and if i always get to the point. in other words, i'm not sure, if i write, what i wonna express, or the opposite. so whenever something sounds strange, i do not mean it like that. always everything in a very nice way. nice like i am. is that understandable??

anyways, i'm again in this american fast coffee-restaurant, enjoying chineseteelatte, doing my homework, watching those rich and beautiful people and wish, to be a munich boy as well.. but, i'm just a poor berlinish guy.

anyways, life is beautiful and it is not raining and i like ic! berlin glasses more than others and i could drink maybe 5 cups of that kind of tea and i'll go back to hotel later and i wear very cool sunglasses even at night and basically i do not have to say any more..

so this is the end and of course: i love you all (just a few a bit more than others), ralph

back in europe. yes there is a difference between here and there and over there. munich is not berlin is not philadelphia. right now i am in munich building up the booth. from nyc i had a smooth flight back to berlin. i slept fine and because of the melantonin supersleepers, i had and have no jetlag. yesterday afternoon i went to hamburg and today to munich. but who cares about that, and why am i telling you such rubbish.. hmm, i don't know, but for sure there is a reason, i do not understand yet. so i have to mention the big difference in between the beds and those tools for sleeping, i do not know the word for... anyway, big differences and of course i like the european way better. it is much more flexibel. so right now i hang out on my bed, maybe gonna watch the obama-getting-president-thing. it is just ten o'clock, but here in munich everybody went to bed allready, because tomorrow is another hard working day. in berlin tomorrow for a few it is something like a working day as well, but not for many and for sure it's not suppose to get too hard. that's why there is nightlife at all days of the week. that how i say that and maybe it is so.

i'm not writing down more, because my sound is getting more and more like german... german-english.. i also want and have to start the tv because i do not have on at home..

kisses and regards to all sheetmetal glasses,

...blechbrillenverkaeufer ist kein sofajob. eher ein nicht-sofajob. heute hier, morgen da, so singe ich mir mein lied. im flugzeug von hong kong nach paris genoss ich keinerlei sonderprevilegien trotz meines superplatinplus status... ein enger fensterplatz in reihe 41... ehrlich gesagt total zum kotzen, da ich minimun 5 mal auf klo muss waehrendeines 12 h fluges. zufaellig entdeckte ich dann aber einen freien notsitz und zog adhoc dorthin um. beinfreiheit bis auf den tuerabsatz und ein oberflaechlicher schlaf, der den naechsten tag nicht zur totalkatastrophe werden laesst... nun, dann eben berlin und direkt weiter ueber bruessel nach lille. zwischenzeitlich hat mir der chinesische zoll noch mein sampleset abgenommen, die beamten muessen gedacht haben, ich plane einen illegalen strassenhandel mit nicht versteuerter ware, wie hier die vietnamesen mit der rauchware. anyway... jetzt lille bei superkunden. philippe ragons opticien... freunde der ersten stunde, und weil sie so nett und aufgeschlossen sind, darf ich ihrer kueche direkt ueber dem laden meinen schokoladenkuchen backen und deshalb muss ich jetzt abbrechen, weil ich checken muss, ob verbrannt....
soweit, ralph the runner

...2 schokoladentorten fertig.. schokolade fuer guss zu fluessig. die schokolade ist ueber die ufer getreten und hat die kuechenarbeitsplatte inschokoladiert. es hinterblieben zwei schokoladenkreise wie brillen... das passt, ich habe es so gelassen fuer die ewigkeit. in die mitte zwei zuckerwuerfel gelegt. die schoensten menschen der stadt scheinen sich hier verbredet zu haben. kinder, frauen, maenner der aesthetische spitzenklasse. ich kann es kaum glauben.. tja, wie das essen, so die menschen... nun, ich werde mich wieder der situation zuwenden und melde mich in 23 sekunden...

... ein ploetzliches zeitloch beschert mir 2 leere stunden. keine termine oder so... ich irre im stadtteil "central" herum mit meinen sampletaschen. millonen menschen rennen umher und es gibt fast so etwas wie pedestrian-traffic-jam. schrecklich, diese vollheit. dafuer habe ich heute schon viele brillen verkauft. insgesamt glaube ich sogar schon fast 200. jetzt sitze ich in der sonne (!) vor einem modernen bankgebaeude. in die shoppingcenter gehe ich eher ungern, weil es dort so kalt ist. das zweite problm ist, dass ich mir in meiner grenzenlosen einfalt einen starbucks wuensche mit kuschelsesseln ... aber den finde ich nicht. nach kurzer nacht brennen meine augen mal wieder. eine gewisse grundmuedigkeit kriecht in mir hoch... vielleicht in der metro schlafen? einmal endstation und zureuck fuer die siesta...bankmenschen um mich herum. z.t. britisch arrogantes aussehen, leicht gebrochen durch die geldkrise... europa schlaeft noch und ich haette auch lust darauf.

lunch im biologischen "mix" schnellimbiss. salat eine rolle mit pilzen. dazu ein aloe-wassergras getraenk, in dem geleeartige gubbel schwimmen. das scheint der natuerliche bioanteil zu sein. nebenbei zaehle ich ic! berlin brillen auf vorbeilaufenden bankern. drei habe ich schon gezaehlt. man erkennt die banker daran, dass sie ein telefonknopf im ohr und/oder eine zugangsberechtigungskarte um den hals haben, oder dass sie anzug tragen und die "international herald tribune" lesen, wie der mann, der sich soeben zu mir gesetzt hat. also alles sehr simplel und die autos, die an meinem fenster vorbeifahren sind sehr gro und teuer. pausen sind durchaus positiv, wenn auch langweilig. nee, langweilig nie, aber man muss dann nachdenken, was man machen soll...

...es ist so wunderbar am abend nach getaner arbeit in diesem amerikanischen weltweit gleichen kaffeehaus abzuhaengen und einen heissen kakao zu trinken. nach ca. einer stunde andauernden feierabendduschens... hot water all over...was fuer ein genuss. der weitere ritus ist abendsport = seilspringen 17 minuten und ein japanisches heisses bad. dann zeitung lesen, ein buch, fernsehen und einschlafen. in fremder einsamkeit braucht man rituale, an denen man sich festhalten kann.

und sogar die verkauften brillen gezaehlt. we ein echter salesrep, der dann jetzt hong-kongdollar-zeichen in den augen haben muesste. ja, es ist gut gelaufen und ich habe fast das planziel erreicht. wahrscheinlich werde ich morgen noch einen kunden besuchen, der nicht besucht werden will, und ihm ganz viele brillen verkaufen, weil er einsehen muss, wie toll die sind.. das koennte passieren.

diese entspannung in dieses kaffeehaussesseln ist ungeheuerlich. das cafe scheint bis nach zehn aufzuhaben oder die servicekraefte sind sehr offen mit dem gaestekehraus.

und immer wieder, die aussendienslereinsamkeit. wie halten meine kollegen das aus. wobei gewoehnung einiges ausmacht und ich bin noch ein absoluter frischling. anfaenger. es koennte leichter werden - oder schwerer... wenn man die kunden laenger betreut, lernt man sie kennen und kann etwas mit ihnen unternehmen. das hilft, denke ich mir. wo man doch praktisch keine anderen menschen kennenlernt.

in der u-bahn bin ich auf einen echten ic! berlinbrillentraeger gestoen. ein programmierer mit frau und kind. wir haben uns kurz unterhalten, ich habe mich bedankt, dem kind eine minibrille geschenkt und die visitenkarten getauscht. ...wenn sie mal nach berlin kommen...

das war der tag... so sagt der tagesthemensprecher am ende der sendung und ich mache das jetzt auch so, obwohl sonntag ist und es hier und in deutschland diese sendung nicht gibt.

das jetlag verabschiedet sich langsam. ich habe bis weit in den spaeten vormittag hinein geschlafen. die sonne knallt schraeg in mein schlafzimmer. meine muedigkeit hat eine solch intensive dichte, dass mich das licht nicht beim schlafen stoert. langsam gewoehne ich mich an die stadt und das blechbrillenverkaufen in diesem moloch. ich bin wieder in dieser strasse, in der einen staendig maenner mit "hello my friend..." ansprechen und irgendwas verkaufen wollen. ich ignoriere sie so konsequent, dass ich nicht mitbekomme, ob es sich um drogen, hotelzimmer oder geschlechtsverkehr handelt.

jetzt sitzt ich wieder bein einem kunden und warte auf den chef, der noch einen kunden hat. sehr angenehmes ambiente. berall unsere brillen und die anmutung insgesamt ist europaisch. schoene menschen arbeiten hier. vielleicht besorge ich mir zwischenzeitlich noch ein 200iges kakao-getraenk beim seven-eleven next door. es gibt eine breite auswahl an milchgetraenken. hmm soll ich?

dann wurde ich eben zeuge eines traenenerfuelltten streites auf einer parkbank. mutter oder gromutter mit tochter, bzw. enkeltochter. es wurde deutsch gestritten... die tochter heulte die ganze zeit: "immer sei sie an allem schuld..." die aeltere frau mit hartem gesicht. ich haette mich fast eingemischt und die junge frau zum blechbrillenverkaufen eingeladen... vielleicht haette ihr das geholfen, wenn sie nicht wirklich an allem schuld ist. das haette mir dann auch geschadet... anyway. beide sind schlielich streitend aufgebrochen, zurueck in ihr hotel. schicksale im fernen osten. wie schade, dass sie sich nicht vergnuegen koennen.

weiter warte ich und soll ich etwas trinken. unhoeflich sollte es nicht sein und energie ist auch wichtig... hmmm, sage ich da mal wieder und waere lieber am sonnenpool in meinem hotel auf dem dach... ja, den gibt es tatsaechlich im 76. stockwerk. that's the place to be... but... ich habe verschlafen und jetzt eben das blechbrilleverkaufending.

hier war mein mobiler computer ploetzlich abgestuerzt und wie durch ein wunder ist der text nicht weg... deshalf fuege ich jetzt auch nichts mehr hinzu...

... die berichte eines reisenden. genauer, der bericht des blechbrillenverkaeufers ralph anderls. das bin ich und das ist die gleiche person, die sie erreichen, wenn sie den spruch auf der brillendose ernst nehmen: "questions, call ralph: +49 177 240 9 150".

in genau diesem moment sitze ich bei einem optiker in der cameron strasse und warte darauf, dass er sich die brillen ansieht und dann kauft. die muedigkeit der langen reise, auch jetlag genannt, sitzt mir in den knochen. die augen brennen. ich koennte adhoc auf meinem wartestuhl einschlafen. wie soll ich bloss gleich die brillen praesentieren? wenigstens ist es schoen warm und die sonne scheint. november, der beste monat fuer diese stadt, sagte mir der servicemann im hotel...

diese stadt ist so voll wie tokyo, aber ohne deren gute manieren. so kann man es sagen. schoene menschen gibt es auch keine. zumindest sind mir keine ueber den weg gelaufen. alles ist riesig und vollgepackt. wie halten es die menschen hier aus? indem sie konsumieren und ihren zielen hinterherrennen. das heisst, das hauptziel ist ueberleben, bzw. reich werden. wer das schon ist, kaempft darum, es zu bleiben oder das geld auszugeben, also es zu zeigen. hong kong ist eine geldstadt. das ist der hauptinhalt. darueber hinaus kann ich nicht so viel erblicken, aber das liegt eher am jetlag, als an meiner objektiven wahrnehmungsfaehigkeit.

und damit es nicht langweilig wird, flimmert alles. z.b. im hotel: der boden des fahrstuhls ist ein bildschirm, auf dem wilde animationen laufen, genau wie auf einem monsterscreen hinter der anmeldung. ueberall ist musik und damit unruhe. des nachts rauscht die klimaanlage und natuerich lassen die fenster sich nicht oeffnen. mein zimmer hat keine praemienaussicht, liegt aber dennoch im 31. stockwerk. alles ist schoen und hochtechnisch. der ipod laesst sich ueberraschend einfach mit dem soundsystem verbinden... whow, technik, die begeistern kann -sagt man das so?

und ich warte noch immer...ob dieses schreiben negativ, also verlaengernd auf die wartezeit wirkt? weil die freunde hier im laden denken, ich sei ja beschaeftigt? oder ich schlafe einfach auf dem stuhl ein und falle dann im tiefschlaf in die brillendekoration.

jetzt kommen neue kunden und ich befuerchte schlimmes. bin bereits eine halbe stunde ueber der zeit. fuer einen echten salesrep wahrscheinlich nichts besonderes... aber fuer mich?!

der optiker entschuldigt sich und klopft mir auf die schulter. ich werde immer mueder und mueder. erhoeht die wartezeit die abnahmemenge? warum kommt sie jetzt, wo in europa aufstehzeit ist. samstag... europa ruht, waehrend asien ackert. wochenenden gibt es hier nicht. der urlaub bezieht sich immer auf den gesamtumfang aller arbeitstage, incl. sams- und sonntage.

ich lehne mich jetzt an meine sampletasche und schlafe ein. oder ich kaufe mir ein getraenk. besonders bloed bzw. erschwerend kommt die christliche weihnachtsfastenzeit hinzu. da trinke ich keinen tee. kaffee ja eh nicht, also keine aufputschenden aufgussgetraenke. alles nicht = total muede. nach drei bis vier tagen ist das vorbei, davor aber die hoelle. die fastenzeit beginnt am 12.11. das war vor 3 tagen.

gute nacht!

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ich warte immer noch... in preussischer manier natuerlich nicht eingeschlafen. meine augen drohen aus ihren hoehlen zu rollen. ich kann sie kaum noch offenhalten. die unentwegt hupenden autos halten wach. sobald ich die augen fuer mehr als 10 sekunden zumache, traeume ich weg in ferne traumwelten. ich glaube ich kaufe mir im nachbarladen noch ein getraenk...das koennte helfen...

...weiter im text: nein ich bin nicht eingeschlafen und die freundlichen kunden haben ordentlich geordert. trotz finanzkrise. was fuer ein job, blechbrillenverkaeufer!! immerauf achse in oder an den brennpunkten dieser welt... leute treffen, die etwas bewegen und sich auskennen. in der fremde mit einheimischen in kontakt zu kommen, zeigt dem reisenden das wahre gesicht einer stadt. kann man das so sagen? ich hatte heute meinen spass, trotz muedigkeit und finanzkrise. die metro ist uebersichtlich und sauber, das shoppingcenter, in dem mein hotel steht, ist das schoenste und aussergewoehnlichste auf der ganzen welt. ich habe sogar schon meinen individuellen stamm-starbucks gefunden. und wenn ich auch wegen der fastenzeit keinen tee trinken darf (verordnung des papstes), so geniesse ich den koestlichen heissen kakao.. dazu wie immer den kostenlosen becher heisses wasser.
morgen besuche ich wieder drei kunden. sonntage zaehlen in asien nicht - hier wird durchgearbeitet und ich gerne mit...

sommerlich sind die temperaturen und ich werde meine braunen sandalen anziehen. dazu die bunte hose und das hawai-shirt...

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