a farting sun - wham?
hangman saw fruit?
wanting mush afar???
fun with anagrams!!!
i just discovered wordsmith.org. type in any name or phrase and it will generate all possible anagrams.
here are some of the more interesting things i came up with:
christoph?
porch shit
christoph schoenbeck?
phobic choker's stench
sue park?
pure ska
jihye park? (her korean name)
a jerky hip
my brain is a rat and it can fly?
maniacal rat brandy is nifty
james wittervrongel?
everlasting jet worm
and finally, mom, just in case you ever think of changing your name:
emily wittervrongel??
't will vomit greenery!
have fun and let me know if you come up with anything good! caution:things get obscene quickly!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
mini adventures
ACT 1.
in which christoph and sue go to malta with emily and jim.
i never though i would be happy to see dark clouds and be rained on but after two weeks of unrelenting sunshine i was glad to come back to a cool and dreary prague. growing up in munich i am used to hot summer days being followed by showers in the evening. in malta and rome this is not a given.
emily and jim own a flat share apartment in a 4 star hotel in qwara, malta, and kindly invited sue and me to stay there with them for a week. though it was a 4 star hotel it sometimes felt like living in an old factory; the air conditioners would stop working in the night so you would wake up to a room pumped full of warm, stale air. the elevators didn't work properly so we often resorted to using the staircase (our apartment was on the 7th floor). one elevator in particular deserves to be mentioned as every time it moved it made a noise so loud that our rooms would shake. it sounded like an elephant rubbing it's skin against a wet bathtub.
while we were there we met up with ann, whom i met in prague almost one year ago. she was the first maltese person i ever met and so helped create the image in my mind of maltese people being super friendly and having a great sense of humor. indeed, the maltese that i met while i was there were always helpful and never wasted an opportunity to fit in a small joke.
sue, emily and jim in the souther fishing village of m..... (i can't remember!)
ann driving us in her car.
sue opening a bottle of water with a cork screw. these bottles were impossible to open by any other method.
ACT 2.
in which sue and christoph fly on to rome.
in rome we stayed at the 'metro hotel', which was a little bit outside the city center but was super cheap and very nice. if you ever go to rome, we recommend it. also, just down the street from there was this really nice restaurant with huge portions of really good food for little money! actually, apart from my two years in japan, these past two weeks were filled with the most good food (especially sea food) that i have ever eaten.
my favorite place in rome (and this is a HUGE place) is the forum/palatino complex. among other things, this is where the government of ancient rome was seated. if you ever have a chance to see it, do! it will take your breath away.
the next four pictures are a panorama.
notice the coliseum in the last picture.
one funny thing that happened to us was that when we asked people to take pictures of us in front of famous landmarks the pictures would turn out like this (the first is in the palatnio, the second in front of the vatican):
it never occurred to me to ask ' excuse me, could you take a picture of us WITH THE WHOLE BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND, please? but i guess not everyone has a brain.
one final picture. as we were walking around, sue found this truck.
notice the camel on top!
that's it.
in which christoph and sue go to malta with emily and jim.
i never though i would be happy to see dark clouds and be rained on but after two weeks of unrelenting sunshine i was glad to come back to a cool and dreary prague. growing up in munich i am used to hot summer days being followed by showers in the evening. in malta and rome this is not a given.
emily and jim own a flat share apartment in a 4 star hotel in qwara, malta, and kindly invited sue and me to stay there with them for a week. though it was a 4 star hotel it sometimes felt like living in an old factory; the air conditioners would stop working in the night so you would wake up to a room pumped full of warm, stale air. the elevators didn't work properly so we often resorted to using the staircase (our apartment was on the 7th floor). one elevator in particular deserves to be mentioned as every time it moved it made a noise so loud that our rooms would shake. it sounded like an elephant rubbing it's skin against a wet bathtub.
while we were there we met up with ann, whom i met in prague almost one year ago. she was the first maltese person i ever met and so helped create the image in my mind of maltese people being super friendly and having a great sense of humor. indeed, the maltese that i met while i was there were always helpful and never wasted an opportunity to fit in a small joke.
sue, emily and jim in the souther fishing village of m..... (i can't remember!)
ann driving us in her car.
sue opening a bottle of water with a cork screw. these bottles were impossible to open by any other method.
ACT 2.
in which sue and christoph fly on to rome.
in rome we stayed at the 'metro hotel', which was a little bit outside the city center but was super cheap and very nice. if you ever go to rome, we recommend it. also, just down the street from there was this really nice restaurant with huge portions of really good food for little money! actually, apart from my two years in japan, these past two weeks were filled with the most good food (especially sea food) that i have ever eaten.
my favorite place in rome (and this is a HUGE place) is the forum/palatino complex. among other things, this is where the government of ancient rome was seated. if you ever have a chance to see it, do! it will take your breath away.
the next four pictures are a panorama.
notice the coliseum in the last picture.
one funny thing that happened to us was that when we asked people to take pictures of us in front of famous landmarks the pictures would turn out like this (the first is in the palatnio, the second in front of the vatican):
it never occurred to me to ask ' excuse me, could you take a picture of us WITH THE WHOLE BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND, please? but i guess not everyone has a brain.
one final picture. as we were walking around, sue found this truck.
notice the camel on top!
that's it.
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