Walton Street

this is Walton Street, photographed from its South Kensington end, leading right up to Knightsbridge and practically ending at Harrod's. I like it, it has a very London feel to me.
please note 'Itsu', there first restaurant on the right, fantastic sushi place with several outlets throughout london and right behind that an Eclipse bar, one of my favoured watering holes around that area, even though slightly dear. hey, if you'll ever visit me here we'll go and have a drink there, alright?

saturday evening smirk

oblom(l)ovely

I spend most of today in bed, sleeping, reading, listening to music. as i tried to cure my cold i realised that this is probably what most saturdays are supposed to be spend on. no, not lying in bed, but doing your favourite things.
in related news, clothes are still unironed, flat is still untidy...
catch you later

Goncharov knew it

fairplay

well well, the combination of a proper cold and a hangover, not the best of combinations. anyway it's friday and work was alright. there seems to be a kind of fairplay agreement in terms of workload here. what i mean is that everyone gives 100% during the week, tries get everything done and done smoothly. then on friday, it is a much more relaxed atmosphere, which i truly appreciated today.
Even though this isn't the case everyday it still seems to be the sensible thing to do. of course i believe that similar agreements agree everywhere, it's just that it seems ever so present to me in britain. after all i think it is safe to say the british are people which value fairplay more than many others. I'll give you an example I witnessed recently, in the domain in which you'd rather and more often find fairplay: sports.
It was, as i recall, a first round match between djokovic and... well, some other guy. Me not knowing the name of that fella kind of sums the situation up, it was a rising star against a complete underdog. As far as I recall it was a pretty easy win for the former, but what really struck me once again was the crowd and more specifically it's reaction.
In the beginning, it was clearly favoring djokovic, and who where they to blame to support a player showing some great tennis. He won the first set easily and went up 2:0 early into set two. there the crowd realised "wait, this guy (the underdog) is really giving his best, we probably cheer him on a bit, we want to see a good match." at least this is what i thought them to think. anyway, what they did was shift their symphaty. what i'm trying to say is, i like their attitude over here, I hope I kind of could make my point.

any questions, leave a comment, I am available for interviews from just 2 pints of guinness hourly rate.

slainté

fairplay steams ahead

g&t

leaving do. guinness. corona. beautiful girls. raspberry mochitos. music. darkness. touch. dance. gin and tonic...

not quite the same as home but still... let the good times roll.


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the name game

alright so you might ask yourself (or you might not, I'm just going to supply you with this info anyway - why? because i'm a dictator in this little banana republic) what the fuck 'bofin' is supposed be.
well bofin, which i have used as an internet nickname since my first hotmail address (ages ago) is short for Inishbofin, which is a small island off the west coast of ireland. Inishbofin is the english version of the irish name Inis Bo Finne, literally meaning 'the island of the white cow' - a pretty sweet name for an island, i think.
anyway, my family owns a house on this island, i've been going there since i was born and hopefully will do so forever. nice to dwell in all the great memories :)

that reminds me, i'm on holiday from the 12th October, you have zero guesses where i will be going, that's right, bofin & galway (which i will tell you about later, maybe). so glad to meet my mates over there.

cheerio

laughable

it's weird. i'm not the kind of person who laughs out loud very often when he's alone, yet since i've been in london, that happens so much more often. mind you, not often as such, but more often than other times. i find it disturbing, i mean, i'm sitting in front of the tv for example, see something truly hilarious, laugh out loud and halfway through it strikes me as something extremely weird. i mean, it's not sad or anything, laughing alone is better than not laughing at all but i never experienced anything like this back in cologne.

in the air tonight

alright, I need to figure out what I'm able to do with this blog... how about embedding a video...

as I mentionend before, I'm currently working at an advertising agency, I've been interested in great adverts ever since I was a kid.

The following video was all the rave at the office in the last couple of weeks, and I must say it still cracks me up every time I see it... as an advert, I don't know... it works but I'm not exactly sure what the message is supposed to be. see for yourself:

check it out

guys, i'd like you to check out my mate James' blog

FIRE TRKY >>>>>>>>>

he's from NYC he's been blogging since '03 which is absolutely incredible, i think and he has convinced me of starting a blog of my own. i've always truly enjoyed his writing, be it trivial or thoughtful, seriously, he helped me figure out a lot of stuff and even though we don't talk often on the phone or write mails, the blog keeps one connected and has shown me even though we live continents apart that sometimes you just still feel the same. enough sucking up, go check it out.

london calling

London is brilliant.
i have been here since june now and i will stay here until just before christmas. i live just off queensgate in south kensington, which i'm very thankful for, as it is in my eye the perfect place to stay in london. not only is it central (think twenty minutes to harrod's, strolling in the afternoon sun, uh, drizzle rather) but it is also close to where i work (old marylebone road in, you guessed it, marylebone). It takes me about about 45 minutes by foot to work, which comes in handy when the tube doesen't go (which RARELY happens...).
but seriously, london is cool. great pubs, great gigs, great art - i like it. I must say, it doesen't always come in cheap, but whatever, it's not like you have the chance to live in the coolest city of present times everyday, is it?

explanations are for loosers

Hi everyone,
so I have decided to start my own blog.

Who?
I'm John, people who visit this site probably know me anyway. For those who don't, I was born in Dublin in 1988, but grew up in Cologne, Germany. I posess both, the German and the Irish nationality. I completed my Abitur in May 07 and am currently working in London at a communicatins agency as an account co-ordinator (basically I do everything the others don't want to do.

Where?
Well, as I mentionend above, currently I'm blogging from London, but I will try to keep it up where ever I'll go. That brings us to...

How?
Well, in a technical sense, with my lovely MacBook Pro and (preferably) a beer, when asked 'how' like in 'how often' I'd like to say everyday, but, as fellow Bloggers will certainly be able to confirm, this will be a nearly impossible task to accomplish. For once, not every day my brain will have enough power for a post (I'm happy when it gets me through the day mostly) and I mean, not every day brings something noteworthy, does it?
Anyway, I'll try to keep it up. On to more pressing matters...

Why?
Honestly, that's a good one. First, let me say that even though the thought of having a blog crossed my mind regularly over the last couple of months, I still hesitated to finally start one. Event though the medium 'blog' is a fairly new one indeed, it kind of felt to me as if blogs were already a little bit 'yesterday' as they have become a well known part of the establishment. Blogs are no longer only personal journals but sources for news, entertainment and opinions.
Yeah, whatever.
I obviously did not decide to start this blog out of some kind of fashion, but just because I'd like to write down some stuff... I guess. If anyone is actually interested in it, hey, that's great. I don't approach the blog as any kind of art, with intellectually challenging posts, but as a fun, simple and interesting project.

That's it for now,
cheers, John