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Aw, for heaven's sake. I'm such a geek. I watched three hours of Wetten dass...?! just to see Elijah Wood drinking Glühwein (I don't think he liked it) with Ozzy Osborne (who did like it), sitting next to Kylie Minogue, chatting Ozzy's not spoiled daughter and the actors from the German movie Das Wunder von Bern (about the soccer world championship in 1954 - it'S better than it sounds), hear a stadium full of soccer fans sing "Oh Christmas Tree", have Katie Witt (who is a famous German ice skater) skate around on rollerblades wearing a Santa Clause costume, and for a 100 year old German singer/ Actor/ whatever who lost a bet in 1998 and said he'd come back in 5 years back then, which he did today. And for a few minutes of ROTK footage. A bit more on the scene with Gollum and Sam that everyone knows from the trailers anyway so I refuse to think of it as a spoiler. With Frodo saying that he needs Sam by his side, awwww!
Of course the scene was shown dubbed in German, so the funniest thing about the whole show was having Elijah stare at the screen wide-eyed. "This is me talking in German?!" He won his bet (the point of Wetten dass...?! is having people come up with weird bets and having stars saying whether they think they can make it or no and inventing strange consequences if they bet wrong), which was that two guys would manage to blow up 5 baloons pinned up in a half-pipe by landing on them with their BMX bikes in 1 and a half minute. They did it, blowing up the last baloon within seconds before the time was up. So Elijah didn't have to learn and recite a German Christmas poem.
Anyway.
EDIT: Yeah, and if you want to see what I saw, just go to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shinyeleni, who made lots of screencaps.
Today was the big Christmas/ Santa Clause tournament in my karate dojo. This is the first year that I didn't take part at all. Instead, since beside our sensei I am apparently the only person who understands how to do the listings, I did just that, sitting on the side, noting down who got how many points and penalties, who was next and who was out and who made the finals. Shocking to see so many kids I didn't know at all - everyone under green belt was basically a stranger to me. *sigh* Also shocking to see that we have to really, really good athletes among us who have rather good chances to win some prices at larger tournaments - and I never knew they were that good!
All in all, it was fun, but the kids were really annoying at times when they besieged me to get to know whom they'd have to fight against next, or what place they'd made, filing through my lists and all. Gah.
Eventually, as every year, we didn't have medals enough, so the kumite and kata teams only got one team medal for now until the missing medals have been bought. Figures that they just didn't get this and were complaining afterwards. Since it was only silver medals we were short on, eventually those buggers took gold and bronze medals home (with little 'second place' stickers on them). Ah well.
But there were impressive performances, and especially the kumite of the over 14 year olds was great (the younger ones were a bit too hasty and uncontrolled), and some beautifully delivered katas. Also several hideous ones, though. In one group, the three everyone had expected to win all made Bassai Dai - all much too fast, much too inaccurate, and one even switched to Heian Godan halfway through the kata. So they all were out after the first round. But that's a phenomenon you have with kata tournaments in general: Often, people chose much too high katas, trying to make up for lack of accuracy and technique by difficult combinations, and of course, usually that just doesn't work.
Since today is Santa Claus day (of the real one, the one who was a Turkish bishop back in the day - which reminds me, can you have American children get there presents from someone who basically comes from a direct neighbor of Saddam? Just asking - but of course, Santa Clause works for Coca Cola and never came from Turkey) - yesterday at Kyûdô practice we shot at little dough Santas (so if anyone doesn't get a present, now you know whose fault it is). To celebrate the day,kaneda and I wore our new hakama, which are really beautiful and make every movement look so much better, but among the others in their jeans and t-shirts, we stuck out like Elves at Helm's Deep.
Started buying kinder surprise eggs again. Already found Aragorn and Denethor inside them, and my brother got Éomer and gave him to me, now isn't that nice of him. Couldn't even say thanks because he was so eager to get back to his PC to play Knights of the Old Republic though.
My orthodontist sent me a card, that evil old torturer. An appointment on Dec 16th at 3:30 pm. Hah, hah. Even if I didn't have courses till 5 pm (which I won't go to on the Tuesday in question), on Dec 16 at 4 pm starts Trilogy Tuesday...
My brother drew a grim wizard in white on the card. I should add that my orthodontist is named Saduman, which, of course, triggers certain associations to someone who bears almost the same name...
And now I think my crazy mind is even crazier than it was before.
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( Deutsche TV-Shows, Karate-Wettkämpfe und St. Nikolaus )
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Of course the scene was shown dubbed in German, so the funniest thing about the whole show was having Elijah stare at the screen wide-eyed. "This is me talking in German?!" He won his bet (the point of Wetten dass...?! is having people come up with weird bets and having stars saying whether they think they can make it or no and inventing strange consequences if they bet wrong), which was that two guys would manage to blow up 5 baloons pinned up in a half-pipe by landing on them with their BMX bikes in 1 and a half minute. They did it, blowing up the last baloon within seconds before the time was up. So Elijah didn't have to learn and recite a German Christmas poem.
Anyway.
EDIT: Yeah, and if you want to see what I saw, just go to
shinyeleni, who made lots of screencaps.Today was the big Christmas/ Santa Clause tournament in my karate dojo. This is the first year that I didn't take part at all. Instead, since beside our sensei I am apparently the only person who understands how to do the listings, I did just that, sitting on the side, noting down who got how many points and penalties, who was next and who was out and who made the finals. Shocking to see so many kids I didn't know at all - everyone under green belt was basically a stranger to me. *sigh* Also shocking to see that we have to really, really good athletes among us who have rather good chances to win some prices at larger tournaments - and I never knew they were that good!
All in all, it was fun, but the kids were really annoying at times when they besieged me to get to know whom they'd have to fight against next, or what place they'd made, filing through my lists and all. Gah.
Eventually, as every year, we didn't have medals enough, so the kumite and kata teams only got one team medal for now until the missing medals have been bought. Figures that they just didn't get this and were complaining afterwards. Since it was only silver medals we were short on, eventually those buggers took gold and bronze medals home (with little 'second place' stickers on them). Ah well.
But there were impressive performances, and especially the kumite of the over 14 year olds was great (the younger ones were a bit too hasty and uncontrolled), and some beautifully delivered katas. Also several hideous ones, though. In one group, the three everyone had expected to win all made Bassai Dai - all much too fast, much too inaccurate, and one even switched to Heian Godan halfway through the kata. So they all were out after the first round. But that's a phenomenon you have with kata tournaments in general: Often, people chose much too high katas, trying to make up for lack of accuracy and technique by difficult combinations, and of course, usually that just doesn't work.
Since today is Santa Claus day (of the real one, the one who was a Turkish bishop back in the day - which reminds me, can you have American children get there presents from someone who basically comes from a direct neighbor of Saddam? Just asking - but of course, Santa Clause works for Coca Cola and never came from Turkey) - yesterday at Kyûdô practice we shot at little dough Santas (so if anyone doesn't get a present, now you know whose fault it is). To celebrate the day,
kaneda and I wore our new hakama, which are really beautiful and make every movement look so much better, but among the others in their jeans and t-shirts, we stuck out like Elves at Helm's Deep. Started buying kinder surprise eggs again. Already found Aragorn and Denethor inside them, and my brother got Éomer and gave him to me, now isn't that nice of him. Couldn't even say thanks because he was so eager to get back to his PC to play Knights of the Old Republic though.
My orthodontist sent me a card, that evil old torturer. An appointment on Dec 16th at 3:30 pm. Hah, hah. Even if I didn't have courses till 5 pm (which I won't go to on the Tuesday in question), on Dec 16 at 4 pm starts Trilogy Tuesday...
My brother drew a grim wizard in white on the card. I should add that my orthodontist is named Saduman, which, of course, triggers certain associations to someone who bears almost the same name...
And now I think my crazy mind is even crazier than it was before.
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( Deutsche TV-Shows, Karate-Wettkämpfe und St. Nikolaus )
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