How do you address a medical doctor in Austria? Anyone could help me? Thank you in advance!

How do Austrian people (especially in Vienna) say “happy birthday” to friends? I read that it’s quite different from which they usually use in Germany. Thank you in advance for the help.

Day 1 in Vietnam DAY 1 I arrived in Tan Son Nhat airport at about 7 pm. The airport was not as crowded as Changi (it’s incomparable) and it gave me such an advantage that I didn’t need to line up in the custom. Thanks God, as I was so exhausted, starving and a bit jetlag that made me keeps blabbing in my native language instead of English to the officers till they frowned. And I realized that they didn’t speak Bahasa Indonesia. Being an amateur backpacker is nice idea. I can’t say that I am a real backpacker as I don’t go travelling for months with a really big backpack on my back. I usually bring my small backpack, especially if I just go to a nearby country. Some clothes are just enough for 2 weeks (sounds dirty but I always take a bath regularly – once or twice per day). Tan Son Nhat isn’t as large as Changi, but also I need to be careful not to get lost in the airport. I took a right exit to the hall and escaped to the direction which my friend had told me. In Vietnam, careful is required. They are famous for taxi scam, so if you need a taxi, please make sure that the taxi has taximeter and legal.

Ho Chi Minh part 1 HO CHI MINH I met my friend, Susan for the first time in a backpacker hostel in Singapore. She got stuck on the door as she brought a really big suitcase with her. I opened the door for her as I needed to go out whilst she needed to go in. Then, as I came back to the hotel, I found out that she was one of my roommates. There was another guest from Philippines, she was a quiet person but friendly, and of course my friend, Susan. Traveling to many countries has trained me to be a bit more easy-going and open minded person. I used to be quiet, I never greeted any people which I didn’t know well until I travelled by myself. Staying in a dormitory in a hostel and meeting many people makes me getting easier and easier to keep a conversation with any kind of people. So, I started to ask her some casual questions: where you were from, where you come from and etc. And guess what! She had just come back from my country: from Bali as she had got a job there. And me, in two months I will fly to Ho Chi Minh! So, we talked more and more and spent the second day going around together in Singapore. She promised me to escort me when I came to her country! So, that’s a brief story of how I got a new Vietnamese friend.

Last part of my movie review (Passengers) After he woke her up, both were in love. Who won’t fell in love if you were in a spaceship, only you and that guy, a guy who is quite charming (sorry Chris Pratt, you are not my type). Then, the love scenes had begun here. For about some thirty minutes or so, they loved each other. Until the bartender (bad him) told the girl that actually he woke her up. Poor Jim, all the bad things happened at the time he was ready to propose the girl. That’s the main story of this movie. So, what’s more which I don’t like from this movie? Second thing which I don’t like about this movie is the focus. Somehow, this movie looks like me, lost its own focus in the middle of the story. I am not sure whether the director wanted to emphasize the love story scenes which happened in this spaceship or he wanted to focus on the journey to the space, an effort to find a new life, new place and new hope for human. Overall, I like the graphic, also the actors who played in this movie. But as a spoiled person, I expect more. Or maybe it is just because I don’t like a love story?

Passenger Part 4? That guy is Jim Preston, played by Chris Pratt. Because of waking up alone, he thought that he was lucky. But time after time, he realized that it was only him on the spaceship! Nobody has woken up. He tried to wake the captain up. Nah, this is the weakness of this movie. Imagine, he is an engineer; he often uses his logic in doing something. Why didn’t he wake the doctor up? Or maybe another engineer who knows how to repair the capsule? Where is your logic, guy! Instead of waking up the doctor or another engineer (he tried to wake the captain up also, but it was to no avail) he woke a beautiful girl up. So, he experienced some kind of love at first sight at the time he glanced on a capsule with Jennifer Lawrence inside. He started to watch her interview, talking to her image in video and at the end, he took a wrong decision. He cut the cable, made her open her eyes and accompany him. Is that an egoistic behavior? Indeed. If you love somebody, you shouldn’t ‘kill’ them for your own sake. I said so but sometimes talk is cheap, as usual. I might do the same if I were on his shoes.

Passenger Movie Part 3 So what was it? The capsule was designed by I-don’t-know-who as a bed for sleeping passengers. The passengers must sleep for about 120 years, or until they reach new planet which they meant to go. It was only the first 30 years when it happened (I mean, the clash with meteorites). I bet, whomever who likes to sleep, would like to join this spaceship. Imagine, 120 years of full sleeping, it is a marvelous idea for sleepaholic. Back to the story, the capsule which was broken belonged to one engineer. A low class engineer. He wasn’t so lucky. I am sorry, low class in that spaceship, are the same in the low class in our society. It is interesting, though, they have such a social range even in spaceship. The one who are in upper class get more privilege, facility and so forth. Reversely, the one who are in low class get less privilege, without any doubt.

Passengers Again So, last week we watched it, with homemade popcorn on our hands. The story actually was so classic, a mixture between a love story and problem in the space. The story began with a spaceship named ‘Starship Avalon’ faced a group of meteorite in space. The spaceship which brought about 5.000 sleeping passengers, finally could deal with the meteorite. Note: as I have told you before, the passengers who were in this spaceship were totally sleeping. So, all the systems were automatic, done by machine. Because of using and focusing a huge amount of energy on the shield to destroy the meteorite, the machine got a malfunction. As it was detected on the screen, one capsule from 5.000 available capsules was broken.

The Passenger Movie My husband and I really love watching movies, especially if the movies are about space or something like that. When I lived in Indonesia, I didn’t watch movies so seldom. It was because, at that time, I didn’t have enough time for watching. And, also my internet connection wasn’t so stable. Moreover, we hadn’t got access for downloading movies. I know that this is forbidden in any countries. But, sometimes the rules are made to be broken, aren’t they? I started ‘my journey’ on the ‘space’ by watching Interstellar. It was a really good movie. I could raise even my 4 thumbs up (2 of them are my toe thumbs). Getting more confidence watching movies about space, we looked for more and more like an addictive junky. So, when last month we saw a short trailer about a launching of a new movie named “The Passenger”, we both were very enthusiastic.