If you have actually got to do something, it may be already times, that one remains longer in the office. In fact, it is very pleasant here in the office ... I will not directly green with my roommate here and I have a comfortable chair, air conditioning in the neck, a fridge right behind me, a huge color laser printer, a large desk and a large sun roof terrace! (Only one bed is still missing:) But of course
logs on in between the hunger, if you have not eaten dinner. Therefore, the endorser is on the way down the hill from the lab, the next bus to Lotte Mart. There is now already known from a little and keeps directly to the freshly prepared food to a little snatches of sushi and fried chicken afraid, yet soy sauce and go back to the office.
If everything is perfect. Also, chopsticks and spoons are available. But ... what to do with the soy sauce!!
is far and wide, not a single bowl-like structure. But what else are Rosebud Coffee Cups ...
The ingenuity in the implementation of solutions to problems is staggering. It is easy to solve everything and there is nothing that does not exist in its implementation! We
It would perhaps be described as temporary, here it is just awesome. I found something even on the toilet business ... the function is simple: Lights on / lights off.
Also in the toilets at the airport I saw Gimhae special solutions in construction (no photo available). Apparently, during the construction of fluorescent tubes were delivered the wrong that were too large for the reduced ceiling recessed reflectors. The lamps even exchange would probably have been too complicated and therefore have the craftsmen simply a drill bit with all Reflectors provided free snout with additional holes. (Of course without the resulting refine Plastikgrat ...)
The health and Ökowahn rampant! Even before Korea, he does not stop! Here he is as "Well-being traded, which is usually pronounced" welbin "...
Behind the name Well-being for the most part hide exorbitant prices and huge amounts of plastic waste. (Environmental protection is unknown because not economically ...) Especially popular are currently a variety of juices, including the following ... (The mother hen for what is:)
is not it is exploding ogre! The trained View can easily see the parts of a Aloe Vera ...
Something is missing in the kitchen? Well, apart from the complete device, an oven, a microwave, cleanliness, abstinence from mold, repairs, bolts, cleaning materials and dishwasher. But what?
I saw daylight! For breakfast I had been able to do that no rice, so I limited myself to cereal and fruit, but a tasty, crispy toast, that would be great! A toaster! That is missing!
In the supermarket I was faced with a shelf with toasters and asked me if I would get all seriousness, a toaster, which I then in this kitchen should be left to his solitary fate when I am gone in a few weeks back? Because take it, I found myself unable to because of the luggage restriction ... This lot of course I could be any poor creature be given to electric.
My brainstorm to find solutions was short and painless. I bought a toaster for manual operation ...
No, you must have fallen for you! That's not Fischbrater for the grill! No, no, this toaster is a high-tech journey to manual mode!
You only need a suitable fireplace, et voila!
Well, the first result was perhaps a little crispy ... But I can cite as an excuse that I alongside the "how to" video was filmed:)
already the second attempt was much more impressive!
The suspension of the vehicles are extremely soft. In itself it increases the ride comfort, even if the traffic control and safety of the vehicle may well suffer. Most interesting is, however, if you have the pleasure of meeting one of those funny fellow: a bumper speed limit! There
them in all sizes, heights and widths. Some of them are painted only on the street, so everyone thinks it's a real bumper (no later than the second one is driving on the track it's not even prepared mhmh ... ... ... nööö never never ... ...). One finds it preferable to multi-lane main roads, on which 60 km / h are allowed (why in side street traffic, where they were urgently needed at the local driving style?)
exist to run over several versions, which depend also on the used car.
first The high-speed variant (car, truck, bus) is maintained with undiminished, or noise in the addiction to flights of fancy with a slightly elevated speed easily towards it. The subsequent impact of the tire zwinkt the vehicle, thanks to the too soft suspension, far into the knee to just before the shower of sparks. The inmates received roof damage, roof of the vehicle by the occupants as well. (On my first ride on the bus I had the pleasure to catch a bus driver who has used a variant of the preferred ... I had to try with full packs in the absence of free seats going to stand on two legs ...)
second The screw-type (car, truck, bus, bicycle) just before the obstacle (as such one can only describe it really) is laid on the brakes. This can happen to a functioning brake lights at the following traffic yet not notified in time and thus generates infernal honking horns. For the two-wheeler but it is only usable by two variants, since Nummero 1 due to the lack of complete motorcycle clothing (no jacket, pants, shoes are still worn helmet especially among young people ... are so uncool, and unknown in the elderly) in a any fall in the immediate extinction of the candles out.
third The bi-variant (car, bus, bicycle) The third variant can be broken down into two variants, each containing 1 or No. 2, remains However, in its principle unchanged. So it is rather a complement to the above two possibilities. The vehicle will be reduced so much right down to the curb, that the two right tires are not on the bumper, which does not terminate flush with the road, drive away, hoping to reduce so the Wockeldiwockeldiwockel. Bikes have as a chance to drive past with undiminished speed on the obstacle.
No, before the house there are no garbage cans ... instead, in a good manner of garbage thrown on a prominent clusters. There you can make use of each, The needs something (I have experienced it when leaving the house already), until finally the "garbage", which consists of a small pickup truck, the trash entrains part.
Yes, you read correctly. It is obvious that there is a 케익 오뜨 (Keig otteu ... * cough * I mean Cake Haute)!
As the saying goes: "A soft and moist cake Enjoy the taste of haute cake.." And he was really soft! (As usually all the "Cakes" here ...) So soft, that my teeth in questioning the brain, why I bite into the air ...
It was even an "upgrade" version of the cake! Unfortunately, he led but when connected to my taste buds controller via USB 2.0 (Universal Scran bus) to a BSOD, so I really hope for an early service pack ...
Even though my brother did not notice it, so I had a tear in his eyes as it was for me to leave again ...
He had to go to work, I had to master the way back to Osaka to the airport alone. For safety, we are gone but the way to the station the previous day together and had the tickets for me already purchased.
actually get it to me without any major complications to come back to the right airport at the right time! From joy I've made it even a few photos ...
But the next horror was not long in coming ...
After check-in and the security check I had another hour waiting for my flight (I've left a certain time frame for safety). As I was sitting so before the gate and looked out the window, fell someone into view, but this time directly on I was heading (this appears to be a habit). When I went back and looked closer in my daydreams, I saw a middle-aged woman in uniform, each with four gold stripes on shoulders and sleeves: apparently that is a pilot. She talked me (in English) to me if I had heard the announcement indicated. When I was denied, she began to tell me that the cockpit window of the aircraft, unfortunately, technical difficulties arose because it was not completely sealed. Therefore, my return flight being delayed indefinitely and tried all the passengers who had not heard the message be told about it.
shock!
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But as I looked in my ward off, I noticed another detail of their uniform. A tiny button near the collar, read the "KLM" was. Hmm ... The company where I had booked my flight was, but yet on the name "Korean Air"? Have a joint venture?
I asked for, just to be sure: Whether it was by KLM? - Yes. - Whether they were flying to Korea? - No.
Ahaaa!
why I wanted to know because, after all, is doing it would delay my flight home to the States ...
pause, pause, pause.
I said to her that I still do not in the States wants to and besides, I'm not Ami? Then she laughed, apologized and headed for the next American looking PAXs. (Now I shall, therefore, held even by Amis for Ami. I was planning my move there in advance!)
started my flight as planned ...
landed in Korea, there was of course the next question. How do I get back into the apartment? I'm just herausgestiefelt from the arrival hall, somewhere in the bus so leave again after I was with as much earlier on 김해 공항 (Gimhae Airport Gimhae Gongshang =) arrived in Busan.
direct the output I found the appropriate bus stops and recorded one of the benches.
However, do not go unnoticed by one of the bystanders, who also zuhielt directly to me (now sigh! still here ...). He sat down beside me and talked to me in broken English:
- Where I wanted to go? - After Pohang. - Pohang Why? - Because I'm there at POSTECH. - dorthinkommen How do I want? - (A strange question, but now I'm sitting at the bus stop?) By bus. - Why do not I take a taxi? - Because to me is too expensive. (The bus ride will cost a total of 11 700 won, so something around 10 € ... mind you, for about 130 kilometers) - but the taxi's not expensive! He would drive me, after all he is a taxi driver! - Why? How much does a taxi to Pohang? - only about $ 100! - This is too much, I can not afford it. - But I was still Professor! Since you can afford it ... - Huh? Nope. I am student. - How old was I? - 25 - (Laughter. Get up and leaves.)
That is now probably my self-confidence and self-confidence ...?! Man, I know that I do not have much hair! But let me tell you one thing: bald men Men are men! Pah!
The journey through Nagoya was over (but not without first visiting the golden arches and a teriyaki burger to eat - would be something for the Asia-weeks D!) ... Now it was said the way back to compete with the Shinkanzen and back for me already the tickets for the trip to Korea to get.
As the use of a German credit card (MasterCard, VISA, etc.) is somehow excluded in Japan (Global Cash? How was the ???), because the local banks and authorities who fear the dark ... uh ... have against money laundering and the use of a local map is not always without Another possible (because schonmal calls to the bank and ask what you intend to buy because there at all ... and woe to the new car has a color that does not like the "president" of the bank!), we went to the Search for an ATM that accepts the credit card my brother without a murmur, because we no longer had enough cash for the tickets.
First we tried it at a cash machine at the station. He accepted the card is simply not my brother. Good. Uh, bad. But there's also the local post office, which also have ATMs and finally take on each card. (Unfortunately, we walked by on the way to the station already in post and the 10 minutes were allowed to travel there again.) booted in the offices of the Post Office to a vending machine, card in, card out, huh? card in, card out, how? card in, card out ... These machines do not accept the card at a time! (The account is set!)
A desperate phone call to the bank brought the realization that my brother can come only to those ideas! So this fall a normal human indeed never in my life! Tstststs ... Really! Well, I never ... Because he wanted to really take off on a Sunday after 1600h money from a machine other than his own bank! Unbelievable! Who would do something like this! (Something like that was probably the text of the called bankers ...)
Since we were now without money. Handzurrende company would have had even enough money to my brother and me pay for the trip to his apartment, but we still had to get my tickets for tomorrow's return ... Of course, everyone would say now, are confined to the bank from your brother! Right. Unfortunately there is no branch in Nagoya, there is a village bank is that only has offices in Yokohama (my brother was obliged to be content with that bank account open).
Okay, now contends guarantees that we must keep the tickets with the money to Yokohama handzurrender Accompaniment and get cash while in Yokohama money to buy the tickets for tomorrow. Good idea! The only catch: until we had been back in Yokohama, would have closed the village bank and ticket counters! (And "closed" also means that all machines are shut and locked!)
In other words, HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!
Caught in Japan, no chance of a return. rebook the flight was excluded because it had traded at a discount offer (everything else was priceless, and finally July and August is vacation season).
Whether this desperate Location of course we thought of a solution together. My brother was the view that we should still try at the machine in a supermarket, which take almost all the cards. This view was however refused by the handzurrender accompaniment to her was a brilliant idea: we go to the police!
My brother and I exchanged a meaningful look that could dissuade handzurrende support but not its action. (I was told that in Japan all the time about everything to the police runs. To combat crime, the Japanese police in the absence of any guns or sticks, as these are much too dangerous, not especially well-suited ...) The policemen at the station (to which we return again had boots) were of the opinion that it was probably best to go to the post office or in a supermarket, because the company almost every card! (Hm .. écoute déjà??)
So we went on the way to the supermarket, but not without a brief interruption. (Can you shorten that? About by "HFE", "hand frapping escort"?) Handzurrende accompanied a passing police officer asked for a supermarket, even though our target was already in sight ...
The upshot is explained by itself, if I tell you, my blog that I currently update from the office in Korea ...
The road was long, the road was difficult, especially where not one of us is Japanese ... Stop! Wait! Handzurrende accompaniment is still Japanese, and my brother takes possession of the language more often!? Why was it so difficult to take the right path to correct subway stop and the right line to the next object of desire tour? were
During my brother's despair, helplessness handzurrender support the strenuous and me a glimpse into the far, far distance (Tilt!) in his face, was a Japanese man of the road. Specifically, he charged directly to us (I felt terrible the incident recalls the Shinkanzen ( a post before ... )). Shortly before us he stopped and tried to us poor tourists to help, after which tried him explain handzurrende support and my brother that they are both the Japanese are powerful (and there are probably dealing with one of those classic, innocent couple Dispute: "This way! "-" No, as long! "-" Why that way? "-" Because you want as long "- Some things are just really culturally universal ...)
Finally came also the U-Bahn stops-Aufsichtsofficer -of-service (as they call them?) out of his Kabinchen, three, four rounds strolled around us, until he has made a picture of the situation in his subway stop, went back in his car (was probably short by radio or that it has a "three-fifty-six" has at its station - Excerpt from the official U-Bahn stops, Officer-Situation-code table: Code 356 "pairs, consisting of Japanese and gaijin, helpless and clueless in a suspicious guardian (brother) on the U-Bahn station caught) and brought us then the subway road map sheet design. (Well, we stood in front of the huge timetable at the bus stop. ..)
But I took the time to do at least have a snapshot from one of the most interesting flower pot stands, to an even more interesting place ...
We managed It still, to achieve the Toyota Museum. Toyota? The one with the car? Exactly the Toyota! But, as is apparently common practice for Asian companies (see The case carrots, and the like in terms of business, I am also able to make in Korea), Toyota started with everything else, as with cars ... his achievement was fully automated looms and processing machines for cotton!
And in this house, the empire began with a drawing board ...
... The success brought him after a few years growing in the "Garden" of the house shown above.
The story after Toyota had seen a semi-automatic looms of a German on a ship traveling sales representative and would also have such a machine. That was the beginning of intimate Japanese-German trade relations, which were for both sides so far reaching that we at this point a question to mind was: "What stood again in the achso great German history of the alliance Japan and Germany in WW II? !? " Right. Nothing really ... could economic reasons have been well attended mainly?
The historical development of the company we were able to look at the museum, so here again just a few impressions:
At the sight of this machinery, the neurotransmitter handzurrender company came back in motion. .. "Music! Music!"
Well, if a business will be booming increase, then the net investment, and it expands. But why should we expand the core business, obvious business? That would be too easy ... (Sort of It is an ingenious feature of the Asian companies: even in the event of failure of a line of business, whether by global problems of division, failure of policy or disaster exists, yet it fully independent operations, so the company is practically irrepressible) In short, Toyota! began to build that for which he is known in Europe: Automobile.
It is impressive, as are processed by hand so with a wooden model as a basis for the metal of the body can ...
... that it then mounted on a frame and is at the end ...
... gets such a look!
But the tour was far from over, even if we could because of the lateness of the hour and no longer see anything. (Museums make it very early, so usually between 1600h and 1700h, because it is so dark and dangerous ... According to a story of my brother, you go at noon or afternoon to the cinema, the last movie (for the brave or suicidal) run probably until 2000 hours!)
This futuristic vehicle is the result of a design study of future wheelchairs. In fact, it corresponds with his vision and the influence of high-tech may be more expectations from this foreign country, you look in everyday life to attend to (unsuccessfully) ...
This cute robot has assembled us to push even a body and welded (not, of course, really, the welding process was indicated by red LEDs). Our astonishment over the full functionality of all Machinery in the museum was not low. For all issued equipment were fully operational and met some current production lines. German companies in museums and exhibitions usually get to see just a few pictures on a pretty poster, could be something like ...
fact, one of the museum staff especially fired up for us in the screening room, the iron press to make us Zylinderpleuel in real time! (In fact, the engine parts are pressed and not cast! Engineers may be called an "Ooh!" Give away.) Such a press (not used to us) can be seen here. Note the tiny Flywheel. The vibrations during operation of the machine were felt throughout the hall!
Here again the corresponding blanks and forms for the press, ...
... and the finished product.
In the other exhibition spaces, we were repeatedly asked the machines were turned on and it was tooth and nail trying to explain what we are viewing (such as a fully automatic, on an air flow based Fadenrückholer for high- Tech looms from Toyota).
Unfortunately, just at this moment considering the huge metal press already recorded all the music of our well-known pink predator and we went towards the exit.
