How is it going?

Bei meiner taeglichen Lektuere der world-news bin ich auf einen Artikel der New York Times gestossen: Link Dort geht es darum, wie und wann sich Neu-New-Yorker mit der Stadt identifizieren, oder auch nicht.
Ich kann nicht genau sagen wann ich "meinen Moment" hatte. Ich glaube ich hatte mehrere kleine ;)
Frei nach Scrubs:
Dr.Cox (zu J.D.): "Ich liebe diesen Moment so sehr, dass ich mit ihm schlafen will!"
[5 Minuten später]
Dr.Cox (zu J.D.): "Dieser Moment gefällt mir sowas von gut, dass ich den von vorhin mit ihm betrügen würde, um ihn zu heiraten und viele kleine Momente mit ihm zu bekommen."
Nach dem Lesen des Artikels ist mir bewusst geworden: Ich denke schon seit einiger Zeit nicht mehr ueber gewisse Dinge nach weil sie fuer mich sehr schnell zur Selbstverstaendlichkeit geworden sind. Der Blick nach hinten, wenn man durch eine Tuer geht um sie evtl. dem Nachfolger aufzuhalten, das "Excuse me, please" wenn man sich an jemandem in einem Laden vorbeidraengelt oder auf den Fuss tritt, der Sprung von einer U-Bahn zur naechsten, mit dem Ziel, eine Minute eher am Ziel zu sein, die stoische Ruhe wenn 3 Minuten lang keine U-Bahn kommt (da man es eh nicht aendern kann und der Anschlusszug auch mindestens alle 10 Minuten faehrt). Hinzu kommt, dass ich einfach in einen nett aussehenden Laden gehe um was zu Essen zu kaufen und nicht mehr Ewigkeiten die Avenue hochtigere, in der Hoffnung, noch einen besseren/guenstigeren Laden zu finden als den soeben gesehenen (denn es wird definitiv einen geben innerhalb der naechsten 2 blocks^^).
Ich bin traurig, wenn der Schifferklavierspieler morgens nicht seine melancholisch schoenen Melodien in der Unterfuehrung zwischen 42nd Street und Port Authority spielt, ich rege mich nicht mehr ueber Langsamlatscher und Im-Weg-Rumsteher auf (meistens jedenfalls ;-) ), schaue nur noch zu einer Seite wenn es heisst bei Rot ueber die Strasse zu rushen (weil die meisten Strassen Einbahnstrassen sind - gekennzeichnet durch ein "One Way"-Schild und nur in eine Richtung parkende Autos) und sage schon automatisch "No, thank you" an Stelle von "Ne, danke" wenn man wieder ne Zeitung oder nen Flyer in die Hand gedrueckt bekommt. Manchmal greife ich aber dann doch zu - entweder aus Mitleid, aus Langeweile, aus Interesse am Flyer oder einfach nur weil die Person die selbigen verteilt interessant aussieht ;) Man hoert auf, anderen Leuten in der Metro auf den BlackBerry zu schauen (weil irgendwie interessiert's einen irgendwann dann doch nicht mehr *lol*). Statt dessen fange ich an mich fuer die Buecher zu interessieren, die die Leute so lesen, starre mich selber in der gegenueberliegenden Scheibe an (wenn die Bahn denn mal leer ist) oder beobachte Leute wie sie dasitzen und sich selber anstarren, vor sich hin traeumen, lachen, traurig sind oder schlafen.

Update
Watch some short videos about people living and working in New York and their story: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#

He's still alive

Last week was very interesting. I did some things I's done never before - in NY ^^
At first, I cleaned some clothings because I ran off of clean panties, socks and such stuff. So I started to look for a laundromat with self-service. I found one at 86th/Columbus Ave. I went there one evening after work and made the experience that it's possible to be an american unable to speak english. Well, my spoken one is not the best, too bus this of the guy in the laundromat was horrible - to put it buntly, the number of words he was able to pronounce in english was about four This four words were: What, do, you and mean. But I figured out that you have to pay in quarter-coins, specificly 16 quarters per machine - no credit-cards or bills accepted. Yeah, I left the store wishing him all the best for his future (even if he was not able to understand it ^^) and gave the stuff to the chinese laundromat in my street, West 85th :) 1pd, $6 that was worth it, because when I arrive from work at about 7:30PM most of the self-laundromats are closed.
On friday I signed in to the gym at MBUSA. It's awesome. You just need some shoes - all the other stuff you pay about $11 per 2 weeks. This includes T-Shirt, pants, socks, towels, shower, shower-gel, cream, and the use of the gym. I think the price is better then the one of germany's McFit :D So I started to burn the first 400cal in 40 minutes by ryding the bike. On monday I will get an introduction to all the sports equipment. It will be a very short week just till wednesday because on thursday there's Thanksgiving and on friday is the day after Thanksgiving *gg*
On wednesday eve we will discover some new bars in manhattan like we did last night. we found something like a Hartz-IV-bar on 42th/9th Avenue. One beer (0.4l) was $2,50 and hot Dogs were for free. It was a nice location with interesting people and good music, even if it was a bit to loud. After this we went into another club, called Zansibar. I decided to drink nothing because there a beer was about $7, a Gin-Tonic for example costs $10. And I had to spent about $60 to start to like the music. Today I was very happy that I saved the money, because on my way through Manhattan I discovered a new shop, called Filene's Basement.

They sold different clothes, stuff for the bathroom and for traveling (da fallen mir an dieser Stelle die Durchsagen in den nur noch selten fahrenden ICEs ein: Thänk yu for träwölling wis deutsche bahn *hihi*) with a discount of up to 70%. The last two weeks I was looking for something like a business-pant because I have just one with me in the USA and you are just allowed to wear jeans on the so called causal friday. So I bought a pant and a new shirt (compatible to the pant I thought, and my roommate agreed to my opinion after she looked into my bags after coming home - that made me a bit proud because sometimes I have some really small problems to match colors as some of you might remember ;-)).
Furthermore I bought some earlaps. That's pretty nice, because everytime I use one of my caps my hair looks really confused. But my hair is that plump that I just need something to warm my ears. I thought about buying a headset produced by Bose, but this is not possible during the next month because of not existing money :( So earlaps are a good alternative :-) They had a lot of nice caps there, too - but I was not able to decide which one I like most, so I bought none of them. Maybe I will take the guys visiting me on christmas and new year to this store to give me some advise (Hi there guys ;-) ). And for the first time i had some kebab from a guy selling it on the street - like on every corner in the town. It was very tasty - see the following foto:

On thursday I had the most funniest workday ever. I registered for a class called Introduction to Cognos. Cognos is a web-based controlling tool. The description sound interesting, I think that maybe one day I could use the stuff you learn thereand it was also sponsored by MBUSA and so I decided to take part on this event (more classes will follow the next weeks ;) ) We were three people. One from Washingto, he was the supervisor of some dealers in this area, one from a team working on a similar stuff like my team (the same day I arranged a meeting with him during the next 2 weeks to learn more about his work :) ) We had so much fun together on joking around, listening to crazy storys from the work with the dealers and company-members - it was just amazing. Besides we were working very hard so that I could take the bus at 4:15PM instead of the one at 5:30PM ;) - first time since I'm in the US btw :)
The ride is another one then the one at 5:30PM so that I was remembered by this advertisement that the recession already arrived in NY:

As response I would quote Funny van Dannen with Kleine geile Firmen:
To come to an end I want to present a new subway-video. I filmed it at 34th St - Herald Square Station. The woman you can see in the video (if you turn your head to the left - sorry, but I'm not able to rotate it because therefor I need a good computer) was singing some great songs - this one is Michael Jackson as you would discover by yourself of cause, too ;-)
She had some more great songs from other famous songwriters, too - but this is the only one i filmed. Have fun with it:

Music feat. New York

Because I can't get my ass up to write about the last week I present some stuff from right this day.
At first, I'm really pissed of that the american wireless is so slow. It doesn't depend on the WLAN because all networks I tried are that slow. It's really boring to watch videos or even to listen to some onlinemusic. So while the video is loading I have some time to write some lines. I found some music on the borought notebook. It's almost 3 to five years ago that I listened to Subway to Sally - Julia und die Räuber:
Nicht dass die Band nicht mehr tolle Lieder auf Lager hätte - aber Placebo ist hier auch auf dem Rechner, und da kann ich dann natürlich nicht widerstehen, zumal ich jetzt endlich mein 5.1-headset angeschlossen habe - mit Surround und ordentlichem Subwoofer flattert's da bis in die letzten Gehirnwinkel, WAHNSINN :))

But now back to the roots: New York :D
Today there's AC/DC playing at Madison's Square Garden. Well, once in the lifetime you shoud have visited a concert powered by AC/DC, I think. The performance is great, some other interns told us newbees. But after looking up the prices I had to think about it again. $70 one ticket, last row in the auditorium. That's not worth it I said to me. Well, and I think I was right. If the first salary not arrives till friday I would be out of money. I mean, totally out of money. No liquid credit line, no backups, nothing to sell (at any rate nothing that I own ^^). Out of money means, no food, no busticket to work, that means especially no money, that means - you know ;-)
Ok, so I klicked from page to page, arrived at lastfm.de and logged in to my profile. One possibility on this page is, to inform about concerts in the area you live. Well - one is Nada Surf this weekend - for $20. Nice band, nice price. So let's see if I can get some tickets :)
Ok, at this point I want to introduce some of the NYMs - the newyorkian musicians (Anm. d. Red. *gg* Achja - bitte laut mitsprechen: "newyorkian musicians" Zwecks Verbesserung der Aussprache und so, ihr wisst schon *hihi*) But more important than the spelling is the music they make. In nearly every subway station somebody sits and makes music - sometimes mehr schlecht als recht, but sometimes they are great performers - like in the following vid:

It's difficult to decide wether to spend some money or not. In most cases the wallet decides, but sometimes they make such a great performance that is doesn't matters. I will try to catch some more impressions. One girl told me (here name is Sina "Hallo Sina :-*") there's a man, running through NY in underpants and playing the guitar. I have to say that i never met him, but maybe somebody is so nice to post the video - I'm a bit to tired to start a search. Thank you so much :-*
Stay informed :)
Nachtrag: folgendes hab ich beim prae-zubettgehen-im-netz-stöbern noch gefunden :-))