Notes From A Traineer New post Have you eaten rice yet?
Learning Vietnamese in Sài Gòn - greetings that aren't questions, pronouns that are relationships, and tones that turn chicken into girl meat.
One language, all years Everything I wrote in English
146 posts. The rest of the archive is mostly German, which is what happens when you start a blog at nineteen and move countries later.
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Next week it’s Bangkok again: six days, Jayden and me, and Julle – yes, that Julle, the forty-centimeters-of-duvet guy. Different hotel this time, one roof for all three of us, zero awkwardness (allegedly).
The plan: temples and museums, malls and metro joy, a day out on Bang Krachao, endless mountains of street food, all of it in heat that doesn’t let up from breakfast to bedtime. And somewhere in between, a German bakery again – pretzels, apple strudel, cinnamon rolls, God and the world – with a German who lives in Thailand, a friend from Myanmar who lives in Bangkok, a Swiss, a Vietnamese, and me, the German from Vietnam.
Last time a German bakery in Bangkok turned two almost-lovers into buddies for life; let’s see what it does with five. 🥨
Breadbasket, Optional Dawn of the Delta is the most beautiful province nobody needs
Anno 117: Dawn of the Delta review - a gorgeous Nile province of floods, gods and pyramids that the rest of the empire never actually needs.
Engage, One Last Time The bridge is empty
Sir Patrick Stewart has died at 86 - a farewell to the Shakespearean actor who made Jean-Luc Picard the captain a whole generation trusted.
Bond, Binge-Watched Twenty-five relics and a monorail
Dr. No to No Time to Die in one marathon - James Bond as an accidental time capsule of furniture, villains, sexism and one very loud ricochet.
Baking Against the Season Cinnamon snails at 37 degrees
Cinnamon rolls with cardamom, baked in a 37-degree Sài Gòn and devoured by an entire office in minutes - full recipe included.
Winter In The Hinterland Warp speed in a snowsuit
A sledding hill, iron-runner sleds and one humming streetlamp - a mid-90s Bavarian winter memory about flying through falling snow.
Unhelpfully Explained How big is Phoenix A, the largest known black hole in 2026?
Phoenix A, the largest known black hole as of October 2026, measured in Earths, Chuck Norrises, Coruscants and googols - back-of-the-envelope, of course.
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Nobody joined, nobody typed a command, nobody placed a single block – and after ≈1,975,000,000 [1.975 billion] simulated years, the Ender Dragon died anyway. RedLogic ran an idle Minecraft world as a Monte Carlo simulation: Endermen haul pumpkins out of pillager outposts, the pumpkins accidentally turn into snow golems, the golems provoke creepers, the creepers blast a tunnel down to a naturally completed end portal. Opening that route alone took ≈37,500 years; the first end crystal fell after ≈3 million, to a snowball that missed its Enderman. Villagers went extinct somewhere along the way. That’s ≈30 times longer than the dinosaurs have been gone – for one dragon. Running Minecraft Until It Beats Itself is the most gloriously pointless thing on YouTube. GG, nobody.
An Off-Meta Millennial Raised by dinosaurs
Old work meta vs. new: a millennial raised by post-war bosses on Gen Z, Sài Gòn's version of the clash, and what matters at the very end.