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Jesus, I thought months had passed.
But NO

Somehow I seem to be quite unable to write journal entries more regularly.

Nevertheless, good news have arrived for me, I can now look forward to a great field of study. Medicine! yay~ It's so hard to get an university place for that in Germany, I didn't think I could make it. HAPPYYY

Huh. Already Almost Christmas.
One can see that not only by a look at the calendar, but also by a visit at the supermarket where the purple-red christmas squad keeps the unknowing customers from reaching the Milka chocolate bars in the shelves behind.


Recently I have moved and now successfully regained access to the interwebs.
My sister visited London and brought me some cool presents (I'm a fan of Great Britain!), for example a little keyring pendant in form of a pipe from the Sherlock Holmes museum in Baker Street 221b!
This brought back memories from my childhood (yes, childhood XD) when I used to read all the Sherlock Holmes adventures in the school's library over and over again. Whee!

Now, I need to stop procrastinating finally... after almost 20 years of very successful procrastination, and start assembling a nice portfolio. This means... work...

Hello there.

First of all, I need to share some music here.
Regrettably, though participating in three choirs now, I never had the chance to take part in the piece "Ein deutsches Requiem" - "A german requiem" by Johannes Brahms.
The ones of you who are maybe a bit familiar with sacred music and the epoch system of classical music, or music in general, might know why I love classical music so much.

In this case, I speak of a Brahms piece, which belongs to the romantic music epoch.
The orchestral score is massive, the music in general rather emotional and (a special trait of Brahms' music) polyphonic (which means that the melody is carried on by everybody at some point, not only the higher instruments/voices/the usual subjects).

Brahms is a very special German and sacral composer, because he never has believed anything, or at least he never claimed to believe in God or religion. He always kept indefinite in these matters, but nevertheless, for the listener his music speaks of such great emotions when he composes pieces to the words of the Bible...
His music was somehow unorthodox for the era of romanticism, because he almost made attempts in concerns of melodies that rather belonged to the modern era (which followed the romantic era). In his late years, the pieces became more and more polyphonic, almost atonal and eerie, but never the beauty of the music and the amazing intensity was lost.

And I ramble again, though I never wanted to.
Not long ago, my grandmother died. At that time I first heard the requiem, and it disturbed me and moved me to tears, and nevertheless the music was kind of soothing.
(A requiem is a piece destined to be played at someone's death, a death mass.
I guess that this effect was wanted.)

It's some of the greatest music I ever heard in my whole life.
If you have fifteen minutes of time and you think it would be worthwile... listen to this movement (best heard at a quite high volume).
*EDIT* I changed the download link from divshare to rapidshare, hopefully it will work now (because the wikipedia recording is crap!).
rapidshare.com/files/264073009…

Some general information on the piece (wikipedia).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_German…
(just add a bracket at the end of the web address, somehow it won't work correctly.)

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falleth away.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the morning and evening rain.
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.



Enough of emotions!
I think we need a German The Meek fancurve club...
hey , what do you say? X3

Hello internet.

Er, now what? Usually I'd try updating the journal like every month...
but somehow June is missing. What the hell happened?!

Well... I finished my exams and am a senior now, if that's the right expression.
I'm going to work over the next year at an architect (and I'm looking forward to that so much)!
Afterwards, I'd like to study something, but what? I don't know yet.
These are my plans... haha not really good... oh god.

ATM

I'm working at the post office (Deutsche Post) as a postman (well, a postwoman, rather) and I like imagining I'm in Ankh-Morpork... for it's hard work and I need to work under weather conditions that are not really helping me with curing a cold that I've caught during a two-week orchestra work phase in Britain, France and Germany.

By the way... I do this to earn some money to FINALLY buy myself a tablet and to finish some fanart, (wannabe-)kiribans and to try some different programs. If you're waiting for something... next month's the time.

THOUGHTS

About the HP movie!
I went to the cinema Wednesday evening and watched "Harry Potter and the half-blood prince", and I must say firstly that I thouroghly enjoyed it (though my sister almost smushed my hand, huh)! It's regrettable though that they cut the movie so short. Nobody would complain for some extra entrance fee if there'd be half an hour more story?
Some crucial plot details were left out, and now I'm wondering how they plan to fill these plot holes in the next movie(s). But well.
It was enjoyable and, because I didn't like the book so much, I was surprised that it nevertheless weren't two and a half wasted hours.
Now I'm re-reading the books and I have to say they're WAY better than the films (which I thought before, but the sixth is maybe an exception...). They've cut some of the best scenes in every book from #3 upwards. Sigh. Turning books into films will never work out perfectly.

About friendship?
God, again such a long journal entry... but I want to say this.
Lately I have noticed that DA is, for many many people, not only a platform to find decent art and artists, or to present themselves, but also (as almost everywhere on the interwebs) a platform to report about one's own life.
Sometimes I worry about lingering in front of the screen too long, about losing my friends in real life, then again I think that's pathetic and my thoughts could as well be printed in a magazine for worried parents or pubescent teenagers.
Nevertheless, for some people these kinds of platforms are an existential part of their life, sometimes the most important one. People cry out for help on DA, and I never noticed that before. It's kind of disturbing, but nevertheless I feel the urge to help. But I never know whether it's fake or real, if the people really need help...
this sucks.

Nevertheless I got a postcard, and it made my day... :3
also via interwebs one can sometimes find a good friend!
Thanks... you know who you are ♥