Es geht weiter! I will continue. In English and German. So why English? In fact I am German and my mother tongue is German. Since my last post in June 2011, yes, the one right below this one, a lot has changed, a lot. I hardly ever had any 2 years so full of events. This includes me communicating in English almost every day by now. Although having spend more than a year of my lifetime in English speaking countries, I don't consider myself a good English speaking or writing person. Yet, I figured the language has a few advantages: The target audience is bigger and, I can refrain from using this stupid Denglish (Deutsch + English). Also, around one quarter of the visitors are coming from the USA and not to forget some other non German speaking countries, like Lativa (WTF?) and Poland ;) So it is not a wrong idea to switch to English. Also I may practice it even more, cannot hurt either. Please any native speakers reading this: yes I will do more typos and grammar and my style of writing may not be what you are used to. In addition my vocabulary is kind of limited, so don't expect any literary marvels. Thank you in advance for your patience. If you want to teach me about the proper use of the English language, I am actually very happy to learn more. You can always drop me a message.

So if there is still one of the regular visitors from before - and I knew only very few myself - I want to thank you for reading in the past and continue reading. What has changed since back in 2011? Here a short list of positive and notable events:

• New job: check
• Went to USA: twice
• Also went to: Fuerteventura, Spain and Split, Croatia
• New car: check
• New family member: check
• ♥♥♥
• Learned a lot about myself: check

So in terms of contents I will not change too much. Still I am a Google fan, I do not like Apple, even though I have an iPhone and an iPad, no kidding, for business reasons. So you can always expect more Google reporting and also some Apple bashing. However, there might be fairly less technical topics. It still interests me, moves me, yet, not as the years before. This is subject to change anytime though. Politics? Yes, some. The rebel inside of me still exists. Yet, sadly he has become much more sarcastic and more accepting, like the rest of me.

Expect more music, even more than before. Lately I have been inspired to look back into the music of my own childhood. I am thankful to this inspiration. Although I never stopped listening to rock music of that time, like Queen or early U2, I kind of not persued the pop music anymore. In the 80s my brother and I had a radio and a cassette player in our room and not a tv, so music was what tv is for the kids of today. Also my parents listened to radio more than now I suppose. For somebody who just started looking into the music of this decade, I am quite familiar with what was at least in the charts. As a big follower of electronic music I am particularly interested in the first synthesizer sounds and songs.

The same inspiration made me look into older movies. Not that I ever refused myself to old movies. I am a fan of many classics, usually they needed to be science fiction or horror, with few exceptions. I watched a few older movies not of my usual genre, not all of them were Hollywood. Slow, with focus on dialogues. Yet so intense and interesting beyond my expectations. Therefore just as with music, I am on a quest, exploring new old things. Surprisingly I have not found many good old German movies. German cinema started outgrowing stupid comedy formats in the 90s, so much later.

Am I on a retro trip? No! Maybe I have become old enough to look at myself differently. That includes looking at me as a child, at the time back then. I wish I could travel back in time to the late 70s or 80s, to visit my younger self, but more, to experience the past with the eyes and the mind of the future.