Christine is confident and ready to show her strengths to others. She is loose and generous. - My confidence has improved in the last years. Still, I do not put me and my strengths out into the world every day. Unless I am in a job interview. And I only show generosity to those, who I think deserved to get it from me.

Christine is self-controlled / disciplined and has a destinctive conception of tidiness. - My room may not be the tidiest in this world, but it certainly is not the messiest. And if I have a goal in my head, I do try to reach it. Yes, I am one of those to-do list people. I love checking off chores. <3

She is sensual, affectionate, comfortable and imaginative. - Yes, yes, yes and yes!

All in all she appears to be calm up to dismissive, but when she is convinced about something, she surprises her surroundings with her exuberant and enthusiastic appearance. - Hm. I am NOT dismissive. If I am really fond of an idea, then I can be very enthusiastic.

Christine is a very emotional person. Often decisions are made by her feeling, although a different decision would be the right one going by pure rationality. - True. I do not hold back tears, anger or other emotions. Then again I can be very rational about certain things.

She goes by her intuition, even then when the mind says something different. – Frequently. My intuition has never let me down so far (knock on wood). I have always judged people and situations correctly by listening to my intuition. So why should I stop?

Christine puts weight on a general distance to her fellow human beings. Even good colleagues do not have to know everything. – I do not lock myself away from (new) people. I do approach people and talk to them. But only my closest friends and family members really know the whole me.

She strives to help other people as far as possible. - For my family and friends, definitely, yes.

Christine is very anxious concerning justice. She continuously tries to come through for somebody. - See previous comment.

Christine acts with much joie de vivre and thrist for action. This vitality is transformed into great creativity on artistic grounds. – Possibly. Not all the time though. Everyone has a bad day sometime. My artistic grounds would be writing and photography all the way.

She is a bullethead. The surroundings are regularly surprised with sudden appearing opposition. – Unfortunately, I can be a bullethead from time to time. But complete, out of the blue opposition does not happen.

Christine is in so far modest and less pushy, as she does not need to call attention to her own strengths at every given moment. – True. I know my strengths and people who get to know me better, will notice them after a while. Unless I am in a job interview – then I press the fact. But that everyone does.

All in all a lot of the results were accurate. Scary!

Germany made it into the semi-finals! Amazing! Which means that we will definitely see two more games. And so far, Germany has done well in the round of the last 16. Here a short overview…

Round of 16 – England vs Germany 1-4: The ball was not in the goal.

(via twitter.com)

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Quarter final – Argentina vs Germany 0:4: Taken apart in bits and pieces.

(via twitter.com)

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And a preview for tonight:

Semi final – Germany vs Spain (my prediction: 3:2): The Spanish will be squeezed out and squished!

(via)

By the way: Paul was also wrong for his prediction at the Euro Cup ’08 final (Germany vs Spain). My theory: He is simply nervous, when it comes to this specific match, because Spanish love Calamari. That confuses him and makes him predict wrong ;) Enjoy tonight’s match and: Go Germany!

The world cup is in full swing and you are confronted with many world cup articles and gimmicks – especially on the internet. Here a really small list of things, which I have discovered so far. If you really need them and how helpful they are – judge for yourself.

Mexican wave instead of  Poking (picture: StudiVZ.net)

Poking is totally yesterday during the world cup. Totally in on the other hand is the Mexican wave, as seen here on the German equivalent of Facebook. But the representative figures on the left do not seem like they are in the middle of a Mexican wave. Hm.

Stadium atmosphere (via zeitonline.de)

Many blogs have changed their design for the world cup with soccer balls and flags of their home team. If my world cup blog series is not enough for you, please follow the new link to my blog (stadium atmosphere guaranteed!): stadium atmosphere on mind-blogging.de

Google the world cup (picture: google.com)

Currently, if you google “world cup”, on the bottom the regular “Goooogle” turns into “Gooooal”. Noticed it just by accident. Hilarious!

Twitter-Mania (twitter.com)

Shortly before the world cup, Twitter doubled its capacity. But a breakdown during the world cup supposedly is still possible, since a complete mania has entered the Twitter-world. Hashtags for teams, like #ger or #usa, now have small flags, while tweeting #worldcup makes a small soccer ball appear. To complete this, there is a Twitter World Cup platform, where all tweets to the games are collected. Twitter goes all the way with the World Cup.

Virtual replay (picture: guardian.co.uk)

And who tops the twitter service? Correct, the English. On the online site from The Guardian, you can get a virtual replay through Twitter statuses from every world cup game.

The reason for this Google’s design, which supposedly will be online for the whole weekend, is Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary.

And my heart beat even faster, when I realized that you are actually able to play the game there! Because Pac-Man is one of my fondest child memories.

When I was 4 or 5 years old, my parents and I went on vacation to Austria high up into the mountains. There in the hotel was a small room, with a pool table and an arcade game machine with Pac-Man on it. I remember sitting there every evening together with my dad, chasing apples, oranges and cherries and running away from ghosts. The game simply fascinated me, as it did millions of other people, too. And later, when I got my own Super Nintendo with the Pac-Man game, my fascination reached another level. For hours I played the game alone; on weekends mostly with my dad as a duo. Of course I was the one in the game with the cute little pink bow on the Pac-Man. If I recall it correctly, we were actually really good and reached the end of it several times.

So it is not a surprise that I already played Google’s small version. My current high-score is 19710, I reached level 5. You can also play with another person, if you click on ‘Insert Coin’. The female Pac-Man can be used by using the keys W, A, S and D; the male simply with the arrow keys. I just think Google’s tribute is simply awesome! And I know now, with what I will be spending my study breaks on…!