The Friday Five for 10 February 2006

1.) Do you believe in God or a higher power?
God: Naw. Well, maybe, but then it has to be one with both bad eyesight and hearing.
Higher power: Yes, I call it chance or coincidence.

2.) Are good and evil just concepts, or real powers in the universe?
I suppose they're real. But then, I'm not sure if they are really separate things. Good and evil just seems to go hand in hand quite often or at least one can quickly change into the other. Too quickly for me to think they're opposites or anything like that...

3.) What is your view on forgiveness?
I have the feeling that people are either too forgiving (and thereby letting themselves being used) or too cold. But then, the concept of "two extremes" seems to take over every single aspect of life these days.

4.) Do organized religions do more harm than good?
Hey, I did listen to "Avantasia" and "Theater of Salvation", so I'm just gonna file this one under "most rhetorical questions I've ever heard". Ahem XD

5.) If you had a day to spend playing God, what would you do?
Sorry, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to give an answer that's at least REMOTELY serious. I somehow tend to replace "God" with "Kai" these days, and this completely messes up any thoughts I might have about the question. Especially, if you add the little word "with" to it ^_^;;;

Actually, this very much reminds me of a certain weirdness *lol*

Kai research + BuViSoCo result

I've been reading a lot of stuff about early video game consoles lately. So exciting and intersting (might post some links to my favourite articles later).
And I found out that one of the major graphic artists for the Intellivision (a cute old pre-Nintendo system that's exactly as old as I am *lol*) was called Kai Tran ^_^
I didn't know that Kai was a common Korean first name before, so that kinda made me smile.

And then, the word Kai seems to have tons of meanings all around the world.
In Hawaiian language it means ocean. Which kinda fits, seeing how Kai-sama was born in the North of Germany, close to the North Sea.
In Japanese it's a race of dogs and a city and possibly other things. There's also a kanji "kai" meaning "sea", but that's only the on reading of it (the kun reading is "umi" which should be a common word for most anime fans).
And in Finnish, it means something like "probably" or "Possibly", right?
If you believe Wikipedia, the German first name comes from an old Friesian word meaning "warrior". Now, if that's not Metal, I dunno what is *lol*
Not to forget the fact that there are dozens of characters from various games, movies and series carrying that name.
Pretty amazing, huh? O_O

In Extremo got third at the BuViSoCo, which is pretty amazing. Stefan Raab himself seemed pretty surprised about it as well. As expected, Seeed won (it's a common fact that at this event, the winner is usually the most well-known band, and not that with the best song), so next year's show will take place in Berlin.
My own Bundesland (North Rhine Westphalia) came last. And I'm bloody happy about it cuz the band was terrible, ehe XD
Instead I voted for In Extremo and also won "up to 33€ of credit" (that's what the text message said) at an internet site for sports bets. Uh... no, thanks?

Pic of me

Someone on some message board just persuaded me to give him a pic of me.
And as there seems to be a general lack of such stuff on here and as I've uploaded the damn thing anyway and have nothing better to do, I'll just link it.



That was the only time I wore contacts. Didn't like it and decided to leave the whole thing. And to be honest, I think I do look a lot better wearing glasses...

€dit: Okay, now that person's starting to SERIOUSLY scare me O___O