Just an other Blog - R. Schär

Getting a baby

2008-09-14T22:42:00.000-07:00

Most of you guys probably already know... well, we are getting a baby next year. We are both really exciting. There are so many things to think about. Not sure yet if it's a boy or a girl, but either way we are looking forward to the new challange :) and either way, it can be a boy or a girl geocacher :D

Mission is great

2008-06-29T09:10:00.000-07:00

This weekend my brother in law got back from his mission in russia. It was just such an awesome oppertunity to feel with him again. All the good memories from my homecoming and from my mission flashed back.
The gospel I really got to know, the friends I met and the language I learned. There are just so many benefits from all that... still, it's hard to imagine me being a missionary again. It just feels like very nice dream, one of the best I've had so far.

I'm looking for contact information of sister hoyt and elder sampson... can anybody help me out?

Indiana Jones 4

2008-05-21T22:32:00.000-07:00

It was actually an awesome movie if there wasn't that strange end... I don't know what to say, it just doesn't match. Why couldn't they find an other explanation for those sculls?
But, nevertheless a cool movie :)

New semester...

2008-03-18T03:56:00.000-07:00

Wow. My 8th semester started a couple weeks ago. I still remember being in my first semester looking up to the "old" students. Now I'm one of them. Luckily I'm not going to be a student that is going to be studying 13 semesters or more ;) I'm hoping to be done within 9 or 10 semesters :) ... looking back though that's a long time.

My Sis finally started to blog aswell. Finally. It is indeed the easiest way to stay in touch with friends and family from far away. I'm going to try to blog more often...

Just chatted with Christy and Chuck the other day. Way cool to hear from you guys :)

time flies

2008-01-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it. It's already 2008. Well, I'm kinda in the middle of preparing for my exams. Somehow I feel as if I was only posting when I'm having a stressy time.
My Sis and her husband (R. Liao) are visiting from Reno. It was kinda nie seeing them again. Too bad though that I'm in the middle of the exams :( it's always the same. ... oh well, ... luckily there's sunday where there's plenty of time for family and friends.

Oh, and Happy New Year.

life can be challenging

2007-12-07T12:21:00.000-08:00

Life can sometimes be very challenging. You plan things and all the sudden everything looks totally different. You ask your-self the famous why questions even though you know you are not going to find an answer.
All that matters in situations like this is faith.... all will be well.

Bachelor Thesis

2007-11-27T02:18:00.000-08:00

It's finally done. After long hours of work it could finally hand it in... now it's time to do all the rest :(

How much work...

2007-11-01T15:26:00.001-07:00

... can a man do? I guess I have to answer this question as followed: Not enough. Exercises, Bachelortheses, work, more exercises, exams, family....aaaaaaaaaaaa! oky. I'm wasting my time bloggin.

BTW: I started my project again (listening to all my music from A to Z). I'm at Andre Rieu right now (23h 22m) --> total: 1 week, 6days 3h :D

25 season 7

2007-10-25T03:37:00.001-07:00

As a Jack Bauer fan I just couldn't resist...

my newest project

2007-10-10T22:17:00.000-07:00

I started to listen through all my music from A to Z... I think I got song i've never even listened to ;)

joined facebook

2007-10-10T13:39:00.000-07:00

finally I joined facebook. Up to a couple days I haven't seen the need for joining. Curiosity finally won. Dang... there's tons of people I know and it was a great opportunity to get in touch with some people I haven't seen for ages. Good stuff I have to say. There's some smart stuff in there...

My conculusion after a couple day of usage: two thumbs up!

PS: I was surprised to even find my mom :)

Back to school

2007-09-24T02:37:00.000-07:00

After the summer break I'm finally back to school again. I'm back at the university of Zürich an started with some master classes and just finish some of my bachelor stuff. So by the end of the year I should hopefully got my bachelors degree :)

Finally online again

2007-09-11T03:43:00.000-07:00

After beeing 1 month without internet we are finally gald to be hooked up to the world again. Dang it... there's just so much depending on the internet. I mean I knew before, but now I experienced it aswell: No Fun!

Some pics from our Appartment

2007-08-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

2007-08-19 - fotos wohnung

Since I was leaving most of my life in a house I didn't really get to enjoy the advantage of a garden. I realized it though when we didn't have one also no balcony. You're just trapped. So we are just so happy to have a nice, pretty quite and pretty big balcony. Just sitting outside, having an ice and watching people walking by. So much fun. ... and smelly visitors can sleep there ;)

Finally in our new appartment

2007-08-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

YES. Good feeling to have a home again. The sad thing... no internet access yet. The telephone company still needs some time. Oh well, I guess we'll have to live without. This also means no fix phone.

I really like our new flat. It's got a room more, so guests are welcome :) and we also got a balkony which is just sooooo nice. Sitting outside and haven dinner.

Pics will hopefully come later.

Got our new Appartment :)

2007-08-03T06:46:00.000-07:00

Finally we found an appartment. We started looking for one like 3 months ago and we never got one. Either it was too expensive, too far away or they didn't want one, but now we found a nice appartment just in time and it even has a balcony :)

Pictures to come...

Back from vacation

2007-07-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

It was a really nice week. We enjoyed it in a little cabine way up in the mountains. It was just so peaceful and the weather was pretty nice too. It was just the best place to kinda relax and get mentally ready for exames.
Sleeping, hajking, eating, some studying, swiming fishing... is there anything better to do?

It was an awesome hajk!
45 km, up-hill: 3400 m, time 15 hours.

and the best: there was a geocache on the way :)

some more geocaching

2007-06-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

They can be pretty difficult

and who is hanging on the end?

me... a pretty freaky climbing gear. But it did it's job :)

great night :)

Geocaching

2007-06-29T00:35:00.000-07:00

Geocaching ist just the bomb. Oky. for those who don't know:
You find the coordinates in the internet (for example on www.geocaching.com). You just type them into your GPS reveiver and you start looking for the treasure. Well, it's not always that easy. There are caches that require to solve riddle first, or some where you can have very difficult terrain, or multi caches where you have to find several caches first that contain the coordinates to the main cache.

Well, it's just way cool. Why? I don't know. It can't be the treasure. Cuz there's only like little stuff, keychaines, magnets and just little stuff in there (most the time), but the feeling of finding it is just way cool!
This was my first cache... it wasn't there anymore. The water has probably taken it, but it was just tons of fun looking for it. Well, if you are looking for a new cool hoppy. this is definitely it. But be aware: Potential for addiction ;)

Got our own car

2007-06-25T01:58:00.000-07:00

We are moving up. Last week we bought our own car. It's kinda old, but it's moving and it's in pretty good shape. It's a silver Toyota Corolla and it still looks nice. Pictures are to come. Well other than that, there's nothing much new in our life.
We are still preparing to move out, even though we don't have yet a place to move in ;) ... at least we got a car, so we could sleep there.

french translation

2007-06-18T00:56:00.000-07:00

There's an investigator at church. He's from Togo. He only speaks french. Well, I'm almost the only person here who speaks french. Dude... it's dang hard. My french got pretty bad. It's kinda sad to see how the things just flush away. Three hours is a long time.... really long time. But I just kinda got through it.
It was a good excercise. Let's see how I'm going to do next Sunday... or actually tonight ;)

Sorry Guys

2007-06-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

As you can see... I'm still trying to work on my bachelor project (btw: what's the word in English for this?). Well, as a matter of fact I just have to deal with youtube and just find crazy stuff over and over :)

Beautiful Mauritius

2007-06-13T06:35:00.000-07:00

Dang I'm missing Mauritius. Was a great time being there and serving as a Missionary.

--> As you can see, I'm still working on my Bachelorwork

My Bachelor work

2007-06-09T08:04:00.000-07:00

I don't know how you call it, but gotta make a project in order to get your bachelor degree. Well, I'm doing something with Youtube :)

Interesting things...

Just because of fun...

Finding an apartment

2007-06-01T06:40:00.000-07:00

We are moving.
From Leipzig Germany to Lörrach Germany. Wanna know where that is? Google Map

Work is sometime frustrating

2007-05-24T10:08:00.000-07:00

Today I've been working for 9 hours on some problem and in the evening I was still not being any further. I guess that's life of every programmer. Well, I guess everybody knows this problem, but it's indeed very frustrating :(
Oh, well that's life. I guess it also makes life interesting :) hehe... well, a break will do good. I hope I'll still know where to continue after the break...

Homemade bread

2007-05-18T10:58:00.000-07:00

it's just the best.

It was really delicious. The bad thing: It's gone too fast.

For Nat

2007-05-18T09:29:00.000-07:00

Oky. Just to give you the proof!

Almost cut off my finger

2007-05-13T23:38:00.000-07:00

I was preparing a delicious meal. The base for such a meal would be something with onions. They just give the food the good tast (similar to garlic ;)
Well, cutting onions... and schwubs, a deep cut in my thumb. I could just lift part of my thumb up. Look kinda funny. So now I got a big white bandage on my thumb. Is kinda anoying but I gues I have to live with it.

Spiderman 3

2007-05-05T06:03:00.000-07:00

I was actually really excited to see this movie. I had to think about the night a couple times during the day. I don't know exactely why, since I was never too much into his comic books, though somehow I really enjoyed the first two movies.
Well, yesterday night was the great day! Hurry. I must say: Awesome movie. I really enjoyed it. Great action and great story. I also like the computer animation. Way cool. I guess as computer geek I have to say something like that.
I guess this is then also going to be the end of the spiderman trilogy. ... Talking about movies. They are starting to show in a weekly rythm the star wars saga :) all six every week... good oportunity for my wife to finally get aquiented with star wars :) I'm sure she'll enjoy it... the love story is just so romantic.

Papers for school

2007-05-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to write as few as possible, but somehow you just have to sometimes. Well, I guess every student does. The fun thing is, that you always find other things to do... Paper is due in two weeks. I guess I'll have to just kick my butt and get it over with.

Summer weather

2007-04-28T03:35:00.000-07:00

It seems as if we skipped spring. It's really warm and nice outside and it's only april? This kinda reminds me of Mauritious. There's no spring, no fall, just hot and warm season. I guess it's kinda a nice imagination but being there for almost two years makes you realize how nice it is to have season, even though winter might be cold and dreary it's just nice to see how everything starts again in spring.

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Finding new personal blogs...

2007-04-24T04:32:00.000-07:00

Just found Sr. Vials blog and getting more and more excited about personal blogs as I just truely believe they are a great way for staying in touch with people. If there are blogs I would be interested in but don't know yet, let me know.

I'm a baker

2007-04-22T10:24:00.000-07:00

Guys you wouldn't believe it. I made bread and it was actually incredibly good. We call it "Züpfä". Well, you can call me Baker ;)
No kiding, it was raelly good and I was a little bit suprised my-self. ... Isn't that a reason to come and visit?

Internet is a blessing

2007-04-18T21:59:00.000-07:00

Just chatted with Chuck yesterday... dang it's been a long time, since I've last heard of him. Well I then realized that life would just be a heck a lot more complicated! Thinking of all the letters I had to write, or the expensive phone calls I had to make... I just couldn't picture it.

Well, but instead: chatting with friends around the world, telefoning around the world for free or almost for free, getting general conference live, I guess the list goes on. ... oh almost forgot: and of course the blog with RSS feed! Just so easy to handle and easy to stay in touch with people.

I'm actually curious about how many people use RSS feed to read blogs? It's just awesome and I'm kinda sad that I didn't use it before, but I have to admitt that here over in europe among non computer dudes it's not very popular. What about US?

Writing Papers...

2007-04-17T22:46:00.000-07:00

I'm finally starting to see an end of my studies. For my bachelor it's only like 1.5 semesters and this then leaves me with my masters :) which will only the length of a mission.
It's just a nice feeling to know that I'm passed the humpday.

Also reading through an article in newspaper yesterday talking that there are a lot of computer scientists wanted made me really anxious about starting to work. I hope they are still looking for me in a couple years.

Well, but till then I still have to write a couple papers. Writing something about the semantic web and will soon start with my bachelor paper.

Dance classes or Feet kicking?

2007-04-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

For this semester me and my wife signed up for a dance class.... I was kinda nervous at the beginning, cuz as the guy you don't want to be th looser. Right? Well, actually I was amazed on how well I did ;) Believe it or not. Ok, I still got losen up, but that's ok.
I'm a young master in:

Cha cha cha
Slow walz
Tango

I'm actually amazed that you can learn that much in just the first lesson... oky. We shall see, what I'll remember next week ;)

Snowboarding

2007-04-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

If you look at the next two videos.... I guess I'm not as good as my little brother :(
Well winter wasn't that good for snowboarding and I guess there's also the fact, that I'm kinda getting old :(
Well, after 10 years of snowboarding, I tried skiing again and I was pretty ok.

Blog started

2007-04-15T07:34:00.000-07:00

Ok. Just an other blog for my friends in the english speaking part... I guess it's just a way to stay in touch...

Well, why this blog. I got inspired by Christy's Blog. I just though it would be a great way to stay in touch with old friends from far away...
I think everybody should just have an RSS Reader. Live becomes so simple. You just subscribe to the RSS Feed and you can read changes in the blog through the reader. Simply great!

Well, ... spread my blog please! There are tons of people out there, I would like to stay in touch with but just don't get the chance to write to all of them...