Global Nanpa

Fond memories : Dreaming of the past and planning for tomorrow

Friendship and family is what I currently value most in my life. My buddies are more important to me than the girls. Currently the girls come and go, it is nothing of real value – maybe at a later point of time when I am ready for it.

I had a great time at the birthday thanks to my buddies.

When I look back at my happiest moments in life, my best friends are mostly part of it.

There is for example Andre, whom I got to know in 1990 shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989. I was living with my parents in the north of Berlin West to that time. He was living in Berlin East, a short distance away from my place. We got to know each other by chance through video game trading and friends of a video game magazine later named „Maniac“. We started telephoning, trading video games like crazy and we even made good money with it which we invested into new games of course. LOL. I won’t forget those crazy Neo Geo times, playing Art of Fighting, Viewpoint or the Final Fantasy series on the Super Famicom (Nintendo) day and night. I also cannot forget how we played basketball on the drip rail of the garage of his family ground. They had a pretty standard house to that time for Berlin East. Later, when his dad got successful as a real estate constructor/manager, they constructed a basketball court with real NBA hoops on their ground. Still, that former joy of throwing against the drip rail wasn’t reached again later.
The games also didn’t got more fun once we were able to afford all of them. Another great episode were the car races he was involved in and letting me be a passenger. He managed to fully crash 5 or 6 top notch BMW sports cars within 2 or 3 years, losing his licence for some time.

Then there is Michael, who helped me to make it to MIT. We went to the same high school, same university as well, him one year above me.
When entering the MIT gaming arcade hall for the first time, I promised Michael I would only play one game with one quarter (25 cents). I played Streetfighter 2 Turbo and it seemed that my playing caused some attention. I had a small audience behind me after some rounds, Michael already started to read magazine. He must have known how long it would take. First I finished the game with that one quarter, making before announcements at what time and with what combos I go into the next rounds. After finishing the game, I had to play my audience as challengers one by one afterwards. That was much more satisfying than the 2nd place in the Germany-wide Super Mario Kart competition. ?
I won’t forget the summer 2002 in Boston and how we had lunch at Flemming’s restaurant, eating a very delicious steak, talking about girls, dreams and fears. That were the best times, where we were in the middle of everything, not having the slightest idea where we would be 5 years later. I got introduced to my first scotch there. We had plenty of good scotch 3 years later after the organization of the MIT European Career Fair was done. It was the best career fair ever, the ones in the past weren’t that good and the following ones didn’t reach that kind of atmosphere and outstanding team from my point of view. Some things are simply special for a whole decade. It is like the first US dream team – there will never be a second one.
Michael recently proposed to his girl-friend so I was thinking of a special present. If someone deserved one of the most emotionally valuable items from my belongings, then it is him. I got a red wine of the former CEO of Schering (belongs now to Bayer). I did an internship there and my 6 months project got a project code. This wine gave me hope and strenghts in bad times later. I was always wondering when the time would come that I drink it. I came to the conclusion that drinking it with a girl would be a waste in my butterfly times, so someone should get it as a present who deserves it. It reminds me of the Pulp Fiction scene where the young Bruce Willis boy gets the watch of his dad’s Vietnam War jail buddy. Now the wine is his. It makes me very happy.

Then there is Benjamin with whom I studied pharmaceutical sciences in Berlin before. We were crazy laboratory mates. In the second semester , during our organic chemistry experiments, we synthesized a substance that we were not allowed to. LOL. When the news broke, our supervisor kicked us out of the lab and that day we really thought it would be the end of our university career. The summer was also so hot that most of the alcoholic liquids we worked with evaporated fast. We felt so god damn dizzy every evening, I don’t want to know what kind of stuff we inhaled in the lab in total that summer…
The good thing about this study field is that it has the highest female percentage of all fields in Germany. Around 80% are females which makes it worth the pain, LOL.
I had some crazy parties together with Benjamin, him sometimes losing his glasses, his clothes/stuff, alcohol intoxications.
We both appreciate Asian cinema, especially japanese movies. A great buddy to watch and discuss Asian movies and art. He is also a Bali addict.

I cannot write like this forever, so i stop it here. Time is passing so god damn fast. Make a good life plan and know what is important to you. Don’t wait too long : in the long run we are all dead…

http://www.vimeo.com/1830323

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZu8YJGToU

Becoming a self-made debt millionaire and why I love the $700 billion US subprime crisis

Yep, I did it. I realized my goal one day before turning 30-years-old. My master plan of the last 10 years worked out. I finally bought 2 business that will put me into a nice 7 figures debt and I made an excellent deal. I see it as a mid-term investment : the next 5-10 years will show if my master plan for the next 10 years pays off or not.
One larger business I aquired today, next week I have to fly to Zurich for finalisation and also clarifying some last details for the other one.
The only way to make real money in our world is by owning equity. Timing and what kind of growth/return on equity you can achieve is crucial.

Well, I didn’t need a greedy VC company. 80% of the larger business gets financed by public funds (5% interest !) and the rest gets financed over a normal Mittelstandsbank.

What does the $700 billion subprime crisis of the USA means for the world and how is it connected with my investments ?

The times of the USA as the superpower of the world are over now, once and for all.
Power will be shifting at first to Europe for maybe 2 years, Germany being on top of that influence. Afterwards it will shift to Asia, China becoming THE superpower of the world around 2010 and will most likely remain that status for 2 decades at least.
It deserves the US right : Wall Street is the most corrupt place on earth ! Indonesia’s and the Philippine’s mafia gangsters for example are sweet angels compared with the banking devils playing their dirty games all around Wall Street. Finally the world of lies, corruption, greed and exploitation dominated by the USA is blowing apart and all of those honorable citizens are inside of the explosion. I fucXing love it !!!
I am looking forward to a new world order where happiness and not profit shall be the maxime of people’s goals/dreams. There never was a better time for Global Nanpa to start a revolution. The USA and its created system has never been more vulnerable.

I am not religious at all, I am an atheist. But I do like to work together with people who have the same enemy. That’s why I like the Islam, not the radical fundamentalists I want to stress strongly ! The US and all the honorable citizen in the western world are in majority very afraid of the Islam as a whole; most of the westerners believe the lies they see in TV and they just run after what they had been brainwashed with. Stupid mass. But we turn around that trend soon and exploit that mass soon for us, to make a change.
Long live Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority nation !
The people there are much more good-hearted and peaceful than the “democratic” west.
Now it is time to blow the system of lies and brainwashers, to get rid of the most dangerous powerful bastards hiding in the back while bringing unhappiness to the world by having established a matrix of fear and suppression.

Be smart, this crisis creates monetary opportunities for everyone. Try to make the most of it for you personally, because the system gives a shit about you anyway. Exploit it and live your dream !

The trend/movement differences between Juan Mann, Matt Harding and Global Nanpa :

I think most of you have seen the „Free hugs“ videos which got started by Juan Mann in Sydney and the „Where the hell is Matt“ videos by Matt Harding.
Those two guys have started a real trend/movement in the internet over youtube videos never seen before. It is impressive what kind of power such ideas have and how they can affect society.

Juan hugging :

From my point of view the free hugs movement was a nicer idea than Matt Harding’s one because it was touching the people more directly. Matt has the advantage that the videos get more exciting when integrating interesting sights and cultures. He is using the old-fashioned way of bringing people together : with dancing and music.

Matt dancing :

The problem for both of them is : although they both reached views, fans, followers in an extreme way, the long-term impact of both trends are tiny and it has no deeper meaning. Everyone will remember them as two funny guys who started something that showed us the power of internet videos led by a normal, single person. Nothing however will get changed by it and it is not a continueing, running trend. It was cool for a few months and then it ends.
Where the hell is Matt’s girlfriend from college humor :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoMe8IM3RU

cspielberger nanpa :

The founding of Global Nanpa on January 5th, 2008 could have the same revolutionary long-term impact on society like the first edition of the Playboy in 1953.
Everyone likes girls and travelling and what we are doing and showing here is the real world as you don’t know it from TV. We erase the lies society tries to brainwash you with, we break with common rules and most important we enjoy our life to the fullest, maximizing happiness and not profit, willing to take the risk not to accept the fears our society tries to inflict on its honorable citizens.
Global Nanpa has the potential to change the lifestyle of millions of people, letting them reconsider their goals/dreams and how they manage their free time. Global Nanpa will shake the fundamental pillars of non-happy (almost all) societies very badly.

Come and join this revolution in its beggining stage. The world needs a new celebrity who speaks the truth : the world needs YOU ! Help me to roll out nanpa related videos all around the world.
I support chaos. Weclome to the real world. Welcome to Global Nanpa !
info(at)globalnanpa.com

Hugh Hefner published the first edition of Playboy in 1953. Hefner, born 1926, aged 82 came up with the ingenious idea of showing pin-ups/models in an erotic way with high resolution pictures in a magazine. He was a pioneer and saw/felt the demand for it.
Since that striking first idea, the Playboy in the following 50 years never came up with another revolutionary move. Playboy expanded into several new sectors using its brand name and connections to make videos, TV shows, fashion and franchised clubs popular.
The company is managed by Hefners daughter Christie. 2007 they made revenues of USD 340 million and a profit of USD 4.9 million. The company developed lousy in the past 20 years which also gets reflected by the stock chart, the stock now trading at the very same levels like 2 decades before ! Investing into the stock was a great way to burn your cash thanks to the management of Christie Hefner. The old man Hefner never was interested in management and we cannot accuse him of the poor development.
Playboy never was innovative. They relied on the brand, the blond college girl bunnies and the Hefner villa and parties.
I cannot understand why the grot of the Playboy villa is so famous and almost all male US celebrities mention that they dream of dirty games in the grot ? None of them probably have ever been to Thailand. These grot fantasies are for kids when you compare it with whats going on in Bangkok, Pattaya or Angeles City. Your wildest fantasies can turned into reality there.
This Hefner grot is a ridiculous joke if that’s the maximum most western males can imagine as the ultimate untamed debauchery party.
I think we need to let those guys experience what they haven’t even dreamed of yet, worlds of joy and happiness that might screw them forever if they are too weak…
Global Nanpa and you are out there to do a revolutionary act : Telling people the truth and letting them live the ultimate fantasy in reality.

Global Nanpa will challenge Playboy Enterprises – ambitious goals, but you got to dream big.
The Lonely Planet is no challenger. We are soon beating the shXt out of those stupid BBC guys who are still searching for their next CEO.
„Dream big and always ask big questions“ is what I learned from Har Gobind Khorana in Boston.
Khorana grew up in a poor village of British India and later got the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the interpretation of the genetic code in 1968. I once enjoyed the privelege to eat lunch with him together with our former lab members. Nothing is impossible is what such real gurus can motivate you to.
Together with your help we can create something really revolutionary out of Global Nanpa.
Living the dream !

Global Nanpa finally has a new logo/mascot. It took some time but I like the result. I was having some problems with the programmer, so I have to cancel out the idea for a quick change of the whole site. It will take longer, I am also currently very busy with work. Moreover I am soon taking a longer break from blogging again.

My 30th birthday is coming up and I am looking forward celebrating it with my friends. We will start at the Daitokai restaurant, Berlin’s oldest and nicest japanese restaurant and later move on to club Villa, where my older brother will be DJing. Unexpected special guests will be Mike coming from Boston and Bart.La coming from Brussel. I am looking forward seeing you friends.

It is a quiet common believe that people can and do change over time : They learn from their mistakes, they experience something striking in life which influences them for change or they get taught to behave in a different way.
Bullshit from my point of view. People don’t change after they have built and established a first set of character traits in their childhood which is mostly completed around age 10. These first 10 years will determine the character of the person for the rest of his/her life in most cases.
The big difference here for me is that his/her set of character traits can get modified : certain traits can become more distinct while others might almost dissappear over a certain time-frame; the degree of real change is however very limited. There is not so much influence over the own personality development as many would wish. It is an illusion that people can completely change that you won’t recognize them anymore. People who are good judge of characters will most likey confirm this thesis.

I just came back from a reunion of my old elementary school classmates in Berlin. I haven’t seen some of the people for 18 years. The get-together was well attended and about half of the old class was present. I recognized all faces pretty quick. Sometimes people do change in looks strongly but the character itself was easy to track back after a short talk. No surprises at all for me : neither looks, extreme life stories nor behavior did shock me a bit of all persons.
Yes, people tend to go very different ways than the dreams they might had at age 12, but that individuum of the past you still feel and you talk to in the same way 18 years later, almost like you had met just 1 year ago. I still see the child in everyone and most of them see the same child in me. Nothing did really change. We are still behaving the same in a grown up way, some might act more than others – but we do see behind the curtain.
The degree how the personal character could evolve is totally overvalued in our society, if not a lie. Welcome to the real world.

This doesn’t mean that you can just sit there and think you don’t have to do anything because your life has a chosen path already. No, i only say that your personality will remain the same during your path with some modification features. You can make smart decisions or bad decisions and sometimes bad decisions might turn out in a good way at a later stage. The most likely path to happiness are mostly however smart decisions, hard work and passion. It is not necessary to be very intelligent. Very intelligent people often have more problems than „simple-structured“ people. The important thing is to find out for yourself what you really want, to explore at first, work hard on the fundament and then use your time and money for decisions that enable you to get to that „happy place/moments“ in the short life that satisfy you fully. Everyone can do it.
People simply don’t change, but that is also not that important actually. It is just one of those common lies we get educated with. Time to erase „political correct thinking“ ! I support people who are not afraid to break with common rules and thinking of our society.
I support chaos.

Johnny Bunko is a bored, unmotivated office employee and he is the hero of a business advice book in manga form. It shows the reader how you can develop from a grey mouse into the CEO’s dream employee.
Author Daniel Pink believes it is the “last career guide you’ll ever need”.

Johnny Bunko is a miserable accounting drone who finds a bundle of magic chopsticks. Every time he separates a pair, a genie emerges to help him navigate his way to career freedom.
Johnny learns from this genie named Diana that life is not an algebra equation, but more like an algebra equation painted by Salvador Dali.
The dirty little secret she tells him is that instrumental reasons usually don’t work. Things are too complicated, too unpredictable, you never know what’s going to happen, so you end up stuck.
The most successfull people – not all of them, but most of the time – make decisions for fundamental reasons.

Here you can read a bit of the manga :

http://www.mypaper.se/show/johnnybunko/show.asp?pid=345241358165554

A trailer :

http://www.johnnybunko.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/841040

What I think about this : There is always a plan for everything ! I have a master plan since age 10 to which I stick and it brought me where I am today and I will continue sticking to the goals/plan I wrote down for the next 10 years. My life could not be any better at the current stage, I would not want to change with anyone.
But in general I still think the manga comes up with a few interesting ideas and most important it is fun to read and look at it.

Don’t become a fool or weak individual. 99.9% of the average Joes don’t have any special skills - sad but true. It is highly dangerous to encourage the broad mass to run after an illusion they won’t achieve and to risk their normal lives for ending up miserable.
My blog is about “living the dream” more or less. But I don’t tell people to go out there and follow what they like to do. I try to help people making smart decisions to use their limited time and money for maximizing happiness in our short lives. I would never encourage anyone to get creative if there is no skill, no competitive advantage to build ground on. Gurus with such advice like that from Daniel Pink should take responsibility for destroying the lives of some of their “stupid” followers. Believe in what you know yourself about the world. The most powerful people and institutions in our capitalistic society try to fuXking brainwash you (or at least the broad mass) all the time for their own good. Know yourself and don’t believe what seems unreal.
Welcome to the real world. Welcome to Global Nanpa.

Japan has a lot of business comics. Quiet successful is for example “the true life of Carlos Ghosn”, a manga about the CEO of Renault/Nissan.
Kosaku Shima is the most popular series, they sold 30 million copies so far. Next to some boring sex scenes the Shima stories also give you a taste of the dark side of Japanese business culture : pulling all-nighters over a long time frame, total burn- and bore-outs, suicide, office intrigues and hierarchy fights.

A recent article from Economist, August 7th :
“For many critics of Japan, that says it all: Mr Shima could exist only in fiction”. I agree on that.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11885715