06-10-2014, 01:56 PM
Absolutely and perhaps the most crucial and necessary requirement for anybody who choses a colorful life out of the ordinary. To learn to even enjoy some of the most fucked up situations and never loosing ones sense of humor.
Well, Yemen is dangerous indeed. Temporarily!
It is a new phenomenon that has spread throughout the country after all that fucked up revolution, which was supposed to bring in a new golden era yet looks like it just fucked everything up on a massive scale. We have 6km lines of cars in front of petrol stations since 2 months, and nobody knows when it's gonna get better. Since 2 months electricity is a luxury and you have it around 5 hours a day. So you have generators. But then there's also no petrol. And no gas to cook or at least the price went up, like for everything else. The Finance Ministry has not paid the budget for their national oil company in 8 months. The Foreign Ministry has issued a letter to all foreign institutions, EU, UN, NGO's, that they can not guarantee the safety of their expats anymore. It's a first for me.
However, it is terribly tranquil at the same time. Strangely so, or perhaps even Al Qaeda has run out of fuel.
But if there is any danger here, it is calculated one, as it is about targets. I can still handle that. You know what to look for or are pretty much constantly watching out. What I find more disturbing is what I call "Surprise Fuck Up", like walking into a shopping mall or movie hall and some mad man is going berserk. And that's where the States are clearly leading I believe.
You go to Columbia, you expect to maybe end up in the middle of a shoot out. You take a walk thru Mexico, same thing. But you take your family for some ice cream and fried chicken and suddenly face somebody more equipped like the boys in Iraq believing he's on a spiritual quest, now that's just highly disturbing.
Now something like that would never, ever happen over here. Matter of fact, when we came to this country and how it was back then, I never felt as safe as quickly as here. No matter if that was Hong Kong, Sydney or little, serene Wiesbaden. Here you could walk around any time of the day, all smiles and welcome around you, the little one could be outside without any thoughts as any and every house would take absolute care of her. Which I actually just realized a few days back is a problem, as we visited our neighbours, the boys from the German Embassy, who all of a sudden said "You know, you got to teach your daughter not to go with every man or?" as that is very normal in Germany, I know it from myself as well as the way my first daughter was raised there, and which came from the fact that Jade is just very comfortable and trusting with any guy who is around us, which made her spend hours with the bodyguards in their guard house like it was the most normal thing.
The Germans found that .... peculiar. It comes from the safety you had here.
But yes, all that is gone now. She can not go outside the house that is equipped like a castle. We ourselves are now fully at home, working from here, which also explains why I'm more often here now. There's suddenly so much time in my days.
All that is missing now is my large order which should be arriving in 3 months. After that I most probably won't give a fuck if they bomb the shit out of this place while I'll make sure to make the best of it!
After all, it's what we do best
Well, Yemen is dangerous indeed. Temporarily!
It is a new phenomenon that has spread throughout the country after all that fucked up revolution, which was supposed to bring in a new golden era yet looks like it just fucked everything up on a massive scale. We have 6km lines of cars in front of petrol stations since 2 months, and nobody knows when it's gonna get better. Since 2 months electricity is a luxury and you have it around 5 hours a day. So you have generators. But then there's also no petrol. And no gas to cook or at least the price went up, like for everything else. The Finance Ministry has not paid the budget for their national oil company in 8 months. The Foreign Ministry has issued a letter to all foreign institutions, EU, UN, NGO's, that they can not guarantee the safety of their expats anymore. It's a first for me.
However, it is terribly tranquil at the same time. Strangely so, or perhaps even Al Qaeda has run out of fuel.
But if there is any danger here, it is calculated one, as it is about targets. I can still handle that. You know what to look for or are pretty much constantly watching out. What I find more disturbing is what I call "Surprise Fuck Up", like walking into a shopping mall or movie hall and some mad man is going berserk. And that's where the States are clearly leading I believe.
You go to Columbia, you expect to maybe end up in the middle of a shoot out. You take a walk thru Mexico, same thing. But you take your family for some ice cream and fried chicken and suddenly face somebody more equipped like the boys in Iraq believing he's on a spiritual quest, now that's just highly disturbing.
Now something like that would never, ever happen over here. Matter of fact, when we came to this country and how it was back then, I never felt as safe as quickly as here. No matter if that was Hong Kong, Sydney or little, serene Wiesbaden. Here you could walk around any time of the day, all smiles and welcome around you, the little one could be outside without any thoughts as any and every house would take absolute care of her. Which I actually just realized a few days back is a problem, as we visited our neighbours, the boys from the German Embassy, who all of a sudden said "You know, you got to teach your daughter not to go with every man or?" as that is very normal in Germany, I know it from myself as well as the way my first daughter was raised there, and which came from the fact that Jade is just very comfortable and trusting with any guy who is around us, which made her spend hours with the bodyguards in their guard house like it was the most normal thing.
The Germans found that .... peculiar. It comes from the safety you had here.
But yes, all that is gone now. She can not go outside the house that is equipped like a castle. We ourselves are now fully at home, working from here, which also explains why I'm more often here now. There's suddenly so much time in my days.
All that is missing now is my large order which should be arriving in 3 months. After that I most probably won't give a fuck if they bomb the shit out of this place while I'll make sure to make the best of it!
After all, it's what we do best