Travel acquaintance

April 30, 2007 by SUM.

While I was still working at Microsoft one day I was reminded of an event that had taken place in 1971. This event was recalled because one of my Microsoft managers made a very unusual remark at an evening get-together at our yearly Summit meeting in 1999.

In that year we had our meeting in Kinnitty Castle, Ireland and one of our managers made an unusual suggestion for introducing ourselves to the group. I considered one of her suggestions inappropriate and nobody followed her suggestion either. Due to the inappropriateness of her suggestion I’ll not repeat here what she had said on that evening. But afterwards her remark made me contemplate about an event that had occurred so many years ago.

While I lived in Germany I visited with two other girls from my hometown Munich. I was almost 18 years old. We camped on a farmer’s land outside of a small town called Fürstenfeldbruck, which lies in the proximity of Munich. After my friend’s future father-in-law, who had driven us to this place, dropped us off at this farmer’s place, we were on our own and without transportation. Therefore we rented scooters to be more mobile.

With the scooter I was able to explore that area and one day I actually picked up a hitchhiker. He spoke only English, and he was a little bit younger than I was. On the day I picked him up, the heaven had opened its floodgates. We barely could communicate with each other because I didn’t speak English. The foreign languages I was learning in school were Latin and French.

I know I talked a lot in German, whereas he was more the quiet one. At the time I thought that he understood me, but that may have been a misunderstanding. We only met for a few hours, but this event belongs, too, to the not so common experiences. It actually took more than a couple months to recollect this specific event and surrounding circumstances.

Without going further into the details of our interaction that day, I like to mention here that I believe that he was an American who was just visiting Germany, maybe as an exchange student at that time.

Since I started to contemplate about this and other events in my life, I was wondering whether I actually had come to the place in the States where he was living. We all know that the Universe plays its melody in intricate ways.

So, here I am, and I would like to know whom I’ve met in Fürstenfeldbruck by Munich in 1971. Who visited Germany in July/August 1971 and was about 16 years old? In one of my books I read that ‘nothing is by chance, everything happens because it has to.’

As the Universe plays its melody, which at times we don’t comprehend to its fullest extent, we can only go along and evolve with time.

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Microsoft Office Christmas party

April 28, 2007 by SUM.

Another photo incident was plotted at another Microsoft Office party event. And that event took place at Christmas in 1998. That year a younger Chinese man, John, approached me at a Microsoft Toastmasters meeting. That was the perfect opportunity to get in contact with me because we didn’t work together, but these informal meetings gave him the opportunity to meet me.

At the beginning he seemed like a nice guy, and I’m a person who doesn’t turn my back on someone who approaches me. I trust people and give them the benefit of doubt until they prove otherwise. As soon I found out that he wanted to get to know me closer, I’ll made it clear to him that I wasn’t interested in any close relationship with him, but I kept on talking with him even when he stopped unannounced by my house.

In the year when I met John, he invited me to the Office Christmas party at a hotel in downtown Seattle. I accepted his offer because I lived by myself, had nothing else planned, and thought it would be fun to attend the Office Christmas party.

John picked me up at my new house in Redmond. In September that year I had bought a house in Redmond, just around the corner of the main campus from Microsoft. When he picked me up for the party, he showed up with dark roses and a toy-box with a Mercedes car in it. At the time I just thought that these are strange gifts to bring. I had told him already that I wasn’t interested in any intimate relationship with him therefore I found the roses inappropriate for the occasion and the car toy a very unusual Christmas gift. Now I know that his acts were carefully planned and not only by himself.

Before we drove to the party, we stopped by his friend’s house Lucius in Bellevue who accompanied us at the party. Lucius was a German guy working at Microsoft, too, and he was married to a good looking woman from Hawaii. I believe I met Lucius the first time at this occasion. Lucius, his wife and sister-in-law were at the house, and a Christmas tree was set up in the living room.

When I arrived at Lucius house, the women weren’t ready yet and we had to wait a little bit. While waiting Lucius’ wife asked me for a photo with John in front of their Christmas tree. I wrote already that I don’t like having photos taken of me and especially not with someone I hardly know, but on that evening I felt compelled to take a photo with John. He had invited me to the Christmas Office party, he had bought me some flowers, and it was Christmas. And I didn’t want to snub him on Christmas in front of his friends. Reluctantly I took this photo though I may have smiled. I actually have never seen this photo. I don’t know what they did with it. Later I asked John about the whereabouts of this photo, and he told me that he doesn’t have it. Now I ask myself for what devious plan they used it.

At the Office party I danced a little bit, John pulled an act like a jealous admirer, and I was glad when this show was over, and I was again at home by myself.

I’m not sure whether other pictures were taken of me during that evening, but I can imagine that this has been the case. Now I know that luring me into certain situations had been carefully planned not only once. Therefore I can imagine that more photos of me were taken that evening.

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Photographer and photo

April 27, 2007 by SUM.

I just read in a German newspaper that Hugh Grant acted belligerent when asked by a photographer for a photo in his residential neighborhood. Since I wasn’t there I don’t know what exactly transpired. I can imagine that some people were present who witnessed this incident.

This article reminded me of a few incidents where I had been asked for a picture and an event where I had asked someone for a picture.

I described already in my earlier posts the close-up taken from me at the UW dental clinic and how this incident in connection with the treatment from Dr. G. served as mocking and humiliation.

Here I would like to mention an occurrence that lies back almost 11 years. It was in the year 1996. At that time I worked at Microsoft in the quality assurance department of the Microsoft localization group. The incident I’m writing about definitely accounts for one of my ‘not so common experiences.’

One of my former colleagues, Dagmar, who had switched groups within Microsoft and was working in the Access localization group, invited me to the Office party because I had worked closely with the Access group during the localization process. And I accepted enthusiastically.

At arrival we were handed a one-time camera and some fictitious chips to play on staged gambling tables. We didn’t know why we received the camera but the reason for it became quite clear after a while because Bill Gates showed up at the party.

We noticed that female Microsoft employees constantly asked him for a picture with him. And picture after picture he patiently complied. Later we heard that he had just come back from Japan and there he had been constantly asked for having a picture taken with him.

Dagmar told me that she wanted a picture with him, too. And she asked me to be her photographer. And I complied, but I was neither knowledgeable about cameras nor the ones that you throw away after one-time use.

She also thought that I wanted a picture with Bill Gates, but that wasn’t the case. I’m actually a shy person, most times I’m an introvert, and I’m not the photogenic type. I don’t like pictures taken of me. But besides that I had another reason why I didn’t want a picture with Bill, but I keep this to myself. I only want to say here that the reason for not wanting a picture with Bill was not based on any resentment towards him.

When I took the picture of Dagmar and Bill, I just pushed one button on the camera and that was the trigger. After I had taken the photo Dagmar started to whine and told me that the flash had not gone off. I just knew that I had to press a trigger, and I had done this.

But her whining made me feel uncomfortable, and to make sure that she would get her picture with Bill Gates I decided to ask him for another shot.

Therefore I followed him while he was constantly asked by other female employees for a picture. At some point I plucked up my courage and approached him and asked him for another picture with Dagmar. The way of me approaching him was a bit unconventional because many people always surrounded him.

While I had followed him I snapped at the opportunity when he stood with his back an arms length away from me. To get his attention I just tapped him on the back of his left shoulder. And Bill turned very slowly around so that he could face me. I asked him for another picture with Dagmar, and he patiently accepted.

At that point I was pretty nervous. Firstly, I barely knew cameras nor did I know the camera I had in my hands, and secondly I felt overwhelmed by the whole situation.

When I took the second shot of Dagmar and Bill Gates, the flash didn’t go off again. I didn’t know what was wrong and I felt very uncomfortable. This time I had paid attention and I also had noticed that the flash had not been working.

After Bill noticed, too, that the flash had not gone off, he walked towards me and stopped at about a foot length in front of me. I had the camera in my hands and I was looking at it and I couldn’t believe that I was in this awkward position.

Bill asked me in a quiet manner to hand him the camera, which I did. And he looked at the camera while we both stood facing each other less than an arm length away from each other. While we stood so close to each other I had a kind of yoga-meditation experience that I had not known of. The overall awkward situation and the yoga feeling that I had experienced for a very short moment caused me inwardly more turmoil and to release this pressure I pulled the break by doing something that wasn’t really appropriate. At that time I just reacted to my inner turmoil.

While all this was going on I had noticed that another man hurried towards us and when this guy reached us, I took the camera out of Bill’s hands, handed the camera to the guy next to us, said to him “you do it”, and turned around and walked away.

I don’t know what was going on behind me, in that moment I just had to remove myself from this situation. Sure, the situation could have been handled better, but it wasn’t. And I’m certainly not proud of having acted this way at that time.

When this happened, many Microsoft employees and guests witnessed this incident. For quite some time I was reminded in subtle ways of this situation. For example, one time when I came home in the evening a neighbor blinded me in my car with a very bright flash that just went off when I passed by his house. Though I didn’t work at Microsoft anymore, I lived just around the main campus.

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Symbols and numbers

April 25, 2007 by SUM.

I mentioned already that I’m working on a book, which hopefully will be published this year. The idea to write a book dealing with numerological pattern recognition unfolded in 2003. The actual writing and additional research started in 2004.

After I had written down the book’s content to about 90%, I decided to host a private web site on my own computer. And that was in November of 2005. I displayed excerpts from my not yet published book in English and in German. I also informed friends and family members of this site and asked them to give me feedback about my writing style and German translation. I informed only a few people of this private web site, but I had a valid URL address and anyone who knew of it could access this web site when my computer was connected to the Internet.

I received almost no feedback from my friends and family members. I had not asked for feedback about the content, only for my writing style and German translation. Not receiving any feedback was quite bewildering.

My youngest sisters wrote me at the end of 2005 that she had visited with her daughter the Mathematikum Museum in Giessen. She told me that her birthday could be found on a specific position in this infinite number.

After I had received her message I decided to check whether I could observe some kind of connection in regards to my numerological profile and numerological destiny number. Interestingly the number seven, which is my destiny number, showed up also here in a unique way, and I even noticed other connections to my numerological profile.

My primary destiny number derived from my birth name is 79, and my secondary destiny number derived from my married name is 88. These numbers appear on position 30-31 and 35-36 and they are only separated by number 502, which can be reduced to the single digit number value seven (5+2=7).

The first time the number seven appears in the number Pi is on position 14. Number 14 is the atomic weight for the chemical element nitrogen with proton number seven, and number 14 is my outer personality number.

The first time the number 79 appears is on position 14-15. When adding these numbers (14+15=29 and 2+9=11 and 1+1=2), I see here a connection to my birth date.

I’m born on August 21 (8+21=29 and 2+9=11 and 1+1=2). The number for the month and day of my birth date 821 appears the first time on position 102-104. When adding these numbers (102+103+104=309 and 3+0+9=12 and 1+2=3), I arrive at my invigoration number three, which is the single-digit number derived from the day I was born.

The total of my primary destiny number is 277 (2+7+7=16 and 1+6=7), which appears the first time on position 559-561. When adding these numbers (559+560+561=1680 and 1+6+8+0=15 and 1+5=6), they show a connecting link to my astrological chart. I have six planets in the seventh house.

Anyway, anyone who is interested in math knows that the number Pi is an infinite number starting with the numbers of Albert Einstein’s birthday 3.14 (March 14).

The symbol for the number Pi is π and this symbol is displayed here in Seattle as well as in Redmond. You’ll find this symbol as an art object on stairs leading to the Seattle Art Museum and in a Redmond City Park.

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Online games and protective measures

April 24, 2007 by SUM.

Since my student times I like to play chess. Christoph a medical student who rented the apartment above my flat-sharing community taught me this game. When I play chess I tune out and focus only on playing the game. After I played chess I’m invigorated for other tasks.

I started to play chess online when I worked at Microsoft. Microsoft had a chess club and an online chess ladder. At the time I worked at Microsoft it was allowed to play chess online during work hours. I just can talk for myself, I played a couple games and afterwards I felt energized and I worked more efficiently again.

Now I play chess online either on Pogo or on Yahoo Games. But there seems to be a problem with their servers. And yesterday was one of those days again.Yesterday, I played chess on Pogo and Yahoo Games. And on each server my chess games were frozen and the clocks stopped working. But the games had not been actually interrupted I just couldn’t move any of my pieces nor did I see the clocks ticking on my side. At each occurrence my time ran out and I lost the game because of some kind of manipulation.

The person on the other computer knew about it. This person just waited until my time ran out and told me that it had been my move, which I couldn’t execute. Therefore I lost the game because of time.

Since I play chess online I experienced this kind of manipulation so often, so that I seldom play chess online now. Yesterday, after Pogo acted all messed up, I decided to register again on Yahoo Games to try playing chess there, but the same thing happened there, too. My game was frozen, my clock was ticking, which wasn’t displayed, and I couldn’t make any moves.

The problem was not that the servers were overloaded; the chess tables were almost empty. It was the manipulation of time. Now this kind of manipulation is called cheating.

If you know of any chess site where players are protected against manipulation of time, please let me know because I would like to continue playing chess online but without manipulation of time or any other technical manipulation and/or illegal activity.

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Crest Night Effects - Part XII

April 23, 2007 by SUM.

After dentist Dr. C. had told me that less abrasion is noticeable on the x-rays taken in February 2004 than the ones he had taken, I called Dr. G. at the UW office. Up to that time I had neither received a phone call nor any written information from her.

I called her on Tuesday, 22nd March, and left the message with her answering service to let me know whom I could contact at the UW so that I could proceed with my Crest Night Effects case.

In the following weeks I received an invoice for $240.00 from the UW. I’m not sure when I received the invoice for the first time. I believe the invoice was dated on March 15th.

After not hearing anything back from Dr. G. and receiving an invoice that I found not only unjust for the actual service received but also for the misguided transferal, I decided to write the Dean of the UW dental school a letter to object the invoice.

I sent the letter to the UW dental clinic on 16th May 2005 per registered mail. In my next posts I’ll write about this letter and the letters I received thereafter from the UW dental clinic.

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Crest Night Effects - Part XI

April 19, 2007 by SUM.

Before I continue with the other bizarre incidents concerning the consultation at the UW dental clinic, I must correct one of my previous entries.

I visited the dentist’s office in Bellevue on 16th March and not a couple weeks before I consulted with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic. I thought I had visited him a couple weeks before I consulted the UW dental clinic, but had only forgotten to write down my encounter with him in my journal. But I wrote it down when it actually did happen, which was on March 16th.

I had told the hygienist at Dr. C’s dental office that I had been in contact with the UW dental clinic because of the damage to my lower teeth. But as of this day I had not heard back from Dr. G. whom I had asked for a name of another dentist at the UW clinic who could carry out actual tests with the product Crest Night Effects.

Though Dr. G. had told me that she would call me back and let me know which other dentist I could consult within the UW dental clinic, I had neither received a phone call nor a letter from her.

Dr. C. who had made some x-rays of my frontal teeth on that day said to me after comparing the x-rays taken in February 2004 and the ones he had taken “I see some abrasion, but less what you have now.” And he added that I should go back to the UW dental clinic and consult with a dentist from the reconstructive department because he also thought that I had been set up with the wrong person.

Since I didn’t have an answering machine nor an answering service I wasn’t sure whether Dr. G. may have tried to call me to give me the contact name for another dentist who I could contact at the UW dental clinic. I neither received a phone call nor a letter from her up to this day.

I had canceled my answering service with my phone company because I have had no use for it at that time, but I had not replaced it with my own answering machine. But on that day I decided to go to Computer City and buy a simple answering machine so that someone could leave a message.

Irrespective of not having an answering machine the encounters at the UW dental clinic were bizarre and everything what followed thereafter. And I’ll write about this in my next posts.

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Crest Night Effects - Part X

April 19, 2007 by SUM.

If you followed my description of the events that pertains to this case you’ll maybe get the feeling, too, that I was not only misinformed but also given inappropriate service or you’d think inadequate.

With time I felt that I was purposefully directed in a demeaning position where I was humiliated and mocked.

I found it also puzzling that nobody cared to take a look at the product itself. Nobody of the attorneys or dentists I had contacted asked me for a sample of this product.

But at the end of last year when I had my teeth cleaned at a dental office in Redmond, the hygienist who cleaned my teeth asked me to give her a sample after I had told her what had happened to my lower teeth. She said to me that she hadn’t seen this product and I handed her an application. I should have asked her what she wanted to do with the sample, but I didn’t at that moment. And I haven’t seen her since.

I had bought at Costco one package that included two packages and each contained 14 applications. Since I stopped using this product after I had noticed that it had damaged my teeth many are left over.

In my next posts concerning this matter I’ll continue writing about the other bizarre occurrences that followed after the consultation with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic.

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Wall of isolation and silence

April 15, 2007 by SUM.

Since I mentioned that a wall of isolation and selective network is being built, I like to share some of my own experiences in this matter.

Many years ago while I worked at Microsoft in Redmond I met a person at Microsoft who did some volunteer work through a volunteer organization here in the Seattle area. He gave me a name and phone number from the organization to call so that I could apply for being a volunteer within that organization.

After filling out some paperwork I was assigned a volunteer job at a nursing home on Mercer Island. I actually wanted to do volunteer work in a nursing home because I think that the elderly are forgotten and given a rotten deal because the emphasis is out of control and only on the young and inexperienced. It’s true the children are our future, but without the elderly there wouldn’t be any children. How is it that a whole culture is so unappreciative of the ones who created them?

Coming back to my volunteer work at the nursing home on Mercer Island I like to mention here that after the volunteer organization had assigned me that place, I was pretty much on my own. No contact person from the volunteer organization existed at the nursing home and/or contacted me. Actually, nobody looked after me there. It was almost like I didn’t exist for them. Just like so many elderly people who are forgotten and ignored.

So, a couple of years I volunteered at the nursing home on Mercer Island, but nobody cared for communicating with me except for Alice who was in her nineties and a very lonely fragile legally blind nursing patient.

My next experience of being excluded and/or ignored involves another volunteer organization. I volunteered at the Children’s Hospital in Seattle and there I found out about the Sovren organization. After I had volunteered for a few years at the hospital, I wanted to do something else. Therefore I wanted to join the Sovren organization that also does volunteer work that benefits the Children’s Hospital.

So I contacted the President by phone and he told me on the phone that he had forwarded my request to the secretary. Additionally he said, “You don’t have to do anything.” Afterwards I never heard from anyone.

I don’t want to get into further details without looking at my notes, but something seriously developed over the years, I continuously was purposefully isolated from group activities that I wanted to participate in. And I consider now some of my experiences that were forced on me bullying tactics and unlawful.

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Non-transparent selection?

April 15, 2007 by SUM.

I just noticed that none of my pictures, which I had uploaded at the beginning of March to the Panoramio site, are displayed in Google Earth. Therefore I visited the Panoramio forum and searched for posts that deal with the same problem. As a matter of fact I found that others have the same problem, too.

I looked at some pictures, which are not displayed in GE, but can be viewed directly on the Panoramio site. You have to know the user’s ID on Panoramio. So, if none of your pictures are displayed in GE, nobody will ever know that pictures exist from you except the ones who browse the Panoramio site or the few who you directly contacted and told that you posted some of your pictures at the Panoramio site. But as far as I understand it that is not the purpose of the connection from Panoramio to GE.

I have viewed pictures from one person who had uploaded his pictures at the beginning of January. And now in April they still were not linked to GE. In the forum he had posted the question why his pictures haven’t shown up yet in GE. And some of the answers were dubious like the pictures may have not been up to higher standard or “rejected by Google Earth”. But his pictures were incredibly good and others thought so, too.

I start wondering what this is all about. I’ve seen photos that were not as good as mine, and they showed up with the little star sign in GE. Somehow I get the feeling that the Internet due to the anonymity allows other power players to pull their strings in the background quite effectively and build a wall of isolation and selective network.

A couple years ago I’ve seen here in Seattle the sign “Invisible Fence”. It is just another sign for how people protect their interests. Fences always existed. People always erect boundaries through all kinds of means including belonging to a certain class, profession, money elite, or sharing other common interests.

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