The final curtain

Before this year is gone, I'd like to give some sign of life to all the guys out there (in Brazil, Mexiko and even Germany...) who know me. I did not forget you, however there is nothing to tell here at the moment. I hope you had a merry Christmas out there in the world and did not get too frustrated about being far away from home.

The university is at a shutdown at the moment, no one works or is allowed to enter it until Monday morning. This got me partly nervous, because I could have spent the last two days working for my diploma thesis. But the good point in it is, I got two more days of relaxation and can continue to work next week.

See you in 2006. (And remember that there is a leap second between 00:00:59 and 00:01:00 on New Year's Day!)

[Sports] Dynamo Dresden vs. Energie Cottbus

I remembered lately, that I seem to have forgotten to post an entry about Dynamo's last home match. This would not have been that sad, if the opponent team was just anyone. But last Monday, the enemy came from just 100 km away - Energie Cottbus. For the third time in a row Dynamo was making the first goal. But for the first time since September, they did not lose!

I could say a lot about the game itself: in comparison to the last games, the kickers played a new way of soccer that could easily be described as a revelation. Fast and dedicated forward play. No more fear of making mistakes. Great, exciting, wonderful. We definitely had fun. (And I wonder, why I am so happy about a draw at home - but hey it was the first score point since I don't know when...)

There were also bad things happening, as it is probably often the case in high-aggressive derby games. More than 2000 fans of Cottbus' team had taken the journey to Dresden and it was great for some moments to see them, because 2000 are much more interesting than the 30 guys from Unterhaching two weeks ago.

What I did not like about the game was the potential of aggression, violence and hate. Cottbus fans showed an evil anti-Semitic transparent early in the game. Later on, they were firing signal projectiles to the field and tried to burn down their own fan block.