"I've always wanted to eat glass with you again but i never knew how" - The Mars Volta

As usual with good music you have to listen to an album over and over again to discover more and more things you love about it. I have this with "Frances the Mute" by The Mars Volta. I simply love it more and more everytime I listen to it. I can't exactly describe it and you need to love guitars but I can really recommend it. So check them out as soon as you can. I've been a Mars Volta fan before they existed as such. Hehe. I was already At the Drive-In follower for 2 albums when they split up and formed 2 new bands Mars Volta and Sparta. I also love Sparta, have all their albums as well but Mars Volta sort of stay my favourites. ^___^ They are amazing musical geniuses!!!

Anyhoo. I've been stepping up my sports activities recently. I'm now going running on a regular basis at work (since it's with a group, you kinda have to... haha) and Angel and I are dragging ourselves to Yoga on saturdays. Last weekend I also had 2 special Karate days with a guest Sensei teaching uber advanced stuffs (well for me at least, I was also the lowest belt and he spoke French when he explained stuff which could have been just as well Chinese or something) So regardless of the difficulties and the enormous bruises all over my body ("sniff, my girlfriend hits me") it was quite interesting! And I keep thinking despite me lacking the instinct to hit people Karate really is the right thing for me. I just have to learn to counter attack since now I'm all like "oh wow I blocked all that haha," and I keep forgetting to finish the enemy. Silly me. I still love Katas the best. They are the most difficult things I think in Martial arts, cause in order to do them perfectly you need so much control over your body and your mind it's not even funny. Most people get too impatiant for katas, they say it's "boring" and "won't help you in real situations" which is why you have to balance between katas, kumite (sparring) and kihon cause they all compliment each other. Anyways, so katas need to be timed perfectly, and you have to go as low as possible, keep your body tense or relaxed at the right moments and most importantly show the right attitude of determination, concentration, and skill. So yeah, as I said, very difficult. I have learned that Kumite (sparring) is a matter of practice for speed and reflex. A bit of creativity comes in handy as well but I need to... *blush* use combos from Dead or Alive (Hitomi) -___-; Which atually work... ^___^ hehehehe. I'm so smooth! Heh!

On a different note, We'll be taking off to the highest East German mountain in 1,5 weeks to celebrate my parents 25th wedding anniversary. Camera will come along naturally. Hehe. So I hope you can finally see some more pictures. :D (btw I rejected the toilette pictures from internet publication cause well... as cool as it may look, it's still a toilette and if you wanna see it, well you have to come over with a full bladder. ^___-;)