Got to be something happening today, as it is Friday the 13th,
isn’t it?
Not that I can say that I am the most superstitious person
in the world, but there is always something about the 13th and
especially when it is a Friday.
For us, there will be something special happening today.
Friends we haven’t seen for about 5 years is at this minute
in Hong Kong, and therefore we are going to meet up later in the afternoon for
the magical Margarita Therapy, offered by the “Agave” restaurant in Wan Chai.
Dec is the guy here on the right side, writing a greeting to us on our wedding night.
Last time we saw each other must have been on the night of
my farewell party in Dresden, sometime in July 2007, so there will be a lot to
catch up on, so maybe it is understandable that I am excited and a bit
impatient at how the hours are dragging along endlessly.
Maybe after the reunion, I can even man my self up to a wee
post here, but on the other hand, who is interested in seeing pictures and
reading the minutes of two old friends reunion at an obscure location in Wan
Chai in Hong Kong.
And now to something completely different: North Korea.
Yes, North Korea. That country has a special attraction to
me, like I want to go there and see for my self, how it is there.
I’ve been reading and watching a lot of stuff about and from
there and also been listening to one of my students –from South Korea- and his
description of the place and relationship between the north and the south.
And still I am amazed by it, and curious. I even get more curious
when I look at Google Earth and zoom into the north. Try it, it is amazing as
when you see it together with South Korea, you realize that only one
destination is named in the North: Pyongyang, the capitol. No other cities or
rivers or any other thing that is categorized and equipped with a name in every
other country in the world. And even as you get closer and closer, you get
nothing else than the country with its cities, mountains, rivers and roads,
like the way you in reality would see it from far up there where the spying
cameras for years has provided us with these images of our planets surface;
without any names.
Now I have to get back to this student of mine, who I
mentioned just before. He showed me yet another film made by a tourist who’d
had the possibility to visit the country and to film there. Have a look your
self, and read the comments he got to this video.
I will not comment any thing else, just let the film do its
own work.
Click on the link up here. As the interface for blogspot.com has changed, it isn't possible to embed videos from other services than YouTube -or at least I haven't found out how.
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