JDrama: The season wrap up (winter ’08)

Bara no nai Hanaya
A very heartwarming story about the owner of a flower shop who lost his wife when she gave birth to his daughter. The father of the mother seems to hold a grudge against the man and sets up two of his underlings to destroy the quiet but happy life of the florist.

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Bundesliga – Day 21: Action and Reaction.

VfL Wolfsburg – Hertha BSC Berlin 0:0
Arminia Bielefeld – MSV Duisburg 0:2
Bayer Leverkusen – FC Schalke 04 1:0
Borussia Dortmund – FC Hansa Rostock 1:0
Eintracht Frankfurt – Werder Bremen 1:0
VfB Stuttgart – Karlsruher SC 3:1
FC Bayern Bayern – Hamburger SV -:-
1.FC Nürnberg – FC Energie Cottbus -:-
VfL Bochum – Hannover 96 2:1

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Rugby Overkill: Six Nations and Super 14

Well, well, well, this was a packed weekend with lots of rugby and I took the chance and watched a little bit of the action. Interestingly enough I was able to compare southern and northern hemisphere rugby with the Super 14 championship applying some of the new set of rules, the so called ELV (Experimental Law Variations). No I don’t really understand all of those new rules, but it seems that combined with the speed and creativity of southern hemisphere rugby this looks simply amazing. While I was watching Bulls vs Crusaders (19-54) or Lions vs Blues (10-55) I was thrilled to see wonderful passing and running.

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Champions League – Last 16 (Leg 1)

Arsenal London – AC Milan 0:0
Celtic Glasgow – FC Barcelona 2:3
Fenerbahce Istanbul – FC Sevilla 3:2
Olympique Lyonnais – Manchester United 1:1
FC Schalke 04 – FC Porto 1:0
Liverpool FC – Internazionale 2:0
AS Roma – Real Madrid 2:1
Olympiakos Piraeus – Chelsea FC 0:0

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Akiakane @ Sonic Ballroom, Cologne

I have been looking forward to this show ever since I found out about it on punkstelle.de at the end of last year. It’s very rare for us to get to see Japanese bands play live in local clubs, so I gave the music of Akiakane a try via their myspace site and I instantly liked it. Very nice melodic punkrock with enough energy and aggressiveness.

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Bundesliga – Day 20: How to decide on a goalkeeper for the national team

Hannover 96 – FC Bayern München 0:3
Hamburger SV – VfL Bochum 3:0
MSV Duisburg – VfB Stuttgart 2:3
Karlsruher SC – Bayer Leverkusen 2:2
Werder Bremen – 1.FC Nürnberg 2:0
FC Energie Cottbus – Borussia Dortmund 0:2
Hertha BSC Berlin – Arminia Bielefeld 1:0
FC Hansa Rostock – Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0
FC Schalke 04 – VfL Wolfsburg (Fr.) 1:2

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Quote of the day

“I believe in freedom of speech and I think it’s very important but you don’t do it in foreign countries and you certainly don’t do it in public”

(Some redneck in the movie “Shut Up And Sing” giving a statement why he now hates the Dixie Chicks. God bless America.)

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Rocky Votolato @ Rex Cinema, Cologne

Sometimes evenings turn out just the opposite of what you had expected them to be like. Well, this wasn’t realy the case for last Tuesday’s evening since it wasn’t supposed to be bad or anything like it, but in the end I had a lot of fun which I didn’t expect when I left the house.
I originally planned to meet up with my sister and two friends before Rocky Votolato was supposed to play in a movie theatre in Cologne.

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MLB: Prime time TV drama on drugs

This is simply hilarious. A few minutes ago, the hearing of Roger Clemens on the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs before a committee of the House Of Representatives in Washington (reports on New York Times, Boston Globe) finished and I am still amazed about how this whole thing went on.

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Bundesliga – Day 19: Derby Time

Eintracht Frankfurt – Arminia Bielefeld 2:1
Bayer Leverkusen – Hamburger SV 1:1
VfB Stuttgart – Hertha BSC Berlin 1:3
VfL Bochum – FC Energie Cottbus 3:3
VfL Wolfsburg – MSV Duisburg 2:1
1.FC Nürnberg – FC Hansa Rostock 1:1
Hannover 96 – Karlsruher SC 2:2
Bayern München – Werder Bremen 1:1
Borussia Dortmund – FC Schalke 04 2:3

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