Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010

How to become a local celebrity


#1 Get randomly hit with a beer can by a drunken local male on the main road.

#2 Hurt yourself while stopping the PoliceCommissioner from hitting the suspects in front of you and a huge crowd of curious locals with a wooden stick.

#3 Go to the PoliceStation to file a complaint the day after but instead be apologised to on the knees by the subjects.

Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010

Lektüreempfehlung


Zufälle und ähnliches führten mich zweimal zu diesem Herrn -
leider derzeit nur in UK oder vor Ort erhältlich.

Freitag, 15. Oktober 2010

... and I feel fine!


Muzak an!


Willkommen zur Runde zwei!
Start der zweiten Asienreise unter dem Motto "Bis zur Unendelichkeit - und noch viel weiter!"
ist diesmal das Ende der Welt.

Muzak aus!

Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010

Europe&Me


Platz 5, wenn man meinen Namen googelt.

Donnerstag, 30. September 2010

Things I study IV

"The use of the Indian Army to extend and secure Britain's empire througout the vast region 'east of Suez' was no new phenomenon in 1875. The East India Company, from days of its first conquest, had deployed Indian troops eastward in Manila, Sumatra, and Malacca and to the west of India in Mauritius, the Persian Gulf, and Aden. Company troups participated as well in both opium wars in China [and in] the 1855 Persian war and the successive campaigns in Burma.[...]
India remained always, to be sure, a subordinate partner in the larger British Empire, but from Africa to eastern Asia, its army made possible that empire's very existence."

Metcalf, Thomas R.: "Imperial Connections - India in the Indian Ocean Area 1860-1920", Berkeley/Los Angeles 2007, S.68f.

Dienstag, 28. September 2010

Freitag, 24. September 2010