Don’t Date a Girl Who Travels

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of […]

Surf Style #2: Malibu

Summer in San Francisco is not exactly what you expect from a summer in California. This is what they tell you in Europe: Always sunny, tanned bodies, surfing after work, living the Cali dream! Well, no. But that should not keep you away from catching waves in cold Pacifica while dressing up like a real Californian […]

Playlist #7: Monday, go away

San Francisco, your fog annoys me. Especially on Monday mornings when I actually planned to rise and shine. Instead: Snooze, coffee and a warm sweater. One way to deal with it: Back to bed. A better one: Good music. 1.Ed Sheeran – Don’t 2. Left Boy – 10 A.M. 3. Kiesza – Hideaway 4. Cro […]

Surfing in San Francisco

Sometimes people ask me “So, how is surfing in San Francisco?” and most of the time I don’t know how to describe it. Cold? Yes. Rough? Oh yes. The water is freezing from November to June. Surfing here means blue lips and constant paddling against the current. Strong wind in your face all the time. No […]

Surf Style #1: Santa Cruz

There is a serious fashion dilemma in this city for female fashion lovers. After observing the city’s dress codes I realized that San Francisco is a black hole when it comes to fashion. I don’t know if it is caused by the lack of models (New York), trophy wives (Moscow) or bloggers (Paris). Or maybe […]

Playlist #6: Cool boys with soft voices

There is something very appealing about talented musicians who produce weird and dark music videos. And who have beautiful voices which have the ability to make you forget everything around you. Like these guys. 1. The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather 2. Hozier – Take me to Church 3. alt-J – Breezeblocks 4. Cazzette – Sleepless 5. Flume & Chet […]

ALL IN!

That’s it. I can feel it. God, I laughed about it all the time when people were talking about life changing decisions – choosing a job, choosing a partner to marry, choosing a house to live in, choosing a country to live in. Booring, you old people with no visions in life! Then it hit […]

Ali and the BMW i3 on the streets of San Francisco

To all the sceptics out there – the times when electric cars were either an ugly statement of environmentalists and eco-activists or a personal wingman of Harvey Specter dudes are over! I had the chance to test the BMW i3 on the streets of San Francisco this week and oh boy, that was fun! While […]

Moving from Munich to San Francisco

This post could also be called: What the hell was I thinking when I decided to move to San Francisco? When I moved out of Munich, the city that mainly consists of unicorns and princesses, and packed my bags to go to California and do the masters I felt very brave. In your face Munich, […]

ASV – Vorher & Nachher

Pre ASV Gedanken Was ziehe ich bloß an??? Wie schaffe ich es Small Talk zu vermeiden? Dieses Mal verbringe ich mehr Zeit mit guten Gesprächen und weniger im Galgen. Ich darf nicht zu viel trinken. Uhhh shit… ich muss noch schnell shoppen gehen! Dieses Mal werde ich mich beherrschen. Und eigentlich hab ich gaaaar kein […]

Same s**t, different day.

Slowly it sneaks into our lives – the famous crisis of the mid-twenties. Among trend-conscious hipsters and workaholics who will suffer from burnout one day, the crisis is known as “quarterlife crisis”. Most of the time it hits you (or stabs you from the back) after your graduation or when you realize that you have […]

Just dance.

1. Worldwide Dancers 2. Ed Sheeran – You need me, I don´t need you 3. Madeon – Pop Culture Bild: http://jan-raindropsroses.blogspot.de/2010/05/tango.html

Playlist #4: “Morgen…”

Es gibt so manchmal diese Tage. Man hat einen riesigen Berg Arbeit vor sich, vergleichbar mit dem Mount Everest. Und man selbst ist gerade nicht mal im Basislager angekommen, da wird schon die Luft knapp. Wenn aber nur diese Arbeit wäre… Nein, da sind noch paar Dinge, die einem genauso die Luft abschnüren und man […]

Love & Strong Shots

Always the same scenario – completely stressed out girls meet at Rickhouse after a horrible day full of intellectual discussions about economics and politics. They order lots of wine and instead of talking about really important stuff, they only have one topic: boys (if you are a boy, you should not read any further). Most […]

Somewhere Beyond The Sea

Oder halt eben somewhere beyond the Starnberger Sea… Somewhere waitin’ for me… Ein überdimensionaler Gin-Tonic auf einem Schiff oder Steg. Während man seinen braungebrannten Astralkörper in Fummel wirft, die alle anderen Wesen in München vor Neid erblassen lassen. Man darf ja wohl noch Träume haben, während man an der SPSS Software verzweifelt und in der […]