Travel Guide Germany

The Aquarius Sports Resort Hotel, though it is located in the sleepy western coastal town of Marawila has got a superb Internet and communication facility, which connects the visiting German Praktikum (Internship) students to Germany and rest of the world.

Information & Communication Technology leads the modern world in every field.

One internship student has given me some facts with just a few numbers that will speak louder than words about Germany and especially Bavaria’s success in Information & Communication Technology.

I was surprised that the foremost communications site in Germany has more than 100,000 employees and 1,800 companies of which 586 are U.S. companies, all of which are in Bavaria.

In fact, Bavaria shares the number one primacy with London for all of Europe and it ranks number four worldwide.

How did this happen you may wonder. While there is no single answer, there are numerous contributing factors why so many companies in any imaginable industry felt they needed a base here.

Certainly, it has a lot to do with the Bavarian government’s tremendous initiative and support through financial incentives and action programs.

An early foray into Internet communications also ensured a rapid dissemination of information and communication technology.

Their “Software Initiative” aimed at developing and marketing software sees a close cooperation between research and industry.

Last but not least, there are 20 municipal and 9 technology-based incubator centers providing excellent infrastructure close to wherever you may want to locate your company.

Let’s talk about tomorrow. After a brief talk with me, she went and sat with her parents.

Bavaria has its own merits to be proud of its economic achievements.

If Germany could be proud as one of the major components, making the European economic-power base, Bavaria could also be proud of its vital role in making Germany a powerful economic nation in Europe.

The motorcycle and automobile makers BMW, Bayerische Motoren-Werke or Bavarian Motor Works and Audi, the consumer electronics Grundig, the electricity, telephones, informatics and medical instruments Siemens, Adidas and Puma have or had a Bavarian industrial base to give Bavaria economic super status.

Some students are proud that Bavaria is the only state renowned for its spectacular vistas and unparalleled beauty and comprises more than a third of all German employees in the aeronautics and space technology sectors.

They further said that no other single state could make this claim.

Furthermore, they pointed out that that is because the state government recognizes the importance of fostering new developments and encouraging the enhancement of existing technologies.

They once again proudly pointed out that it is no surprise that, DASA, Germany’s equivalent of NASA, is located in Bavaria.

The students went on to say that since 1990 Bavaria has spent about 200 million DM for the promotion of aeronautics and space technology projects called TETRA to develop new materials for reusable space transport systems with an additional 50 million DM spent for research projects.

Now the sky is their limit.

German students naturally glow with a sense of pride.

Rajkumar Kanagasingam is author of a fascinating book on German memories in Asia and you can explore more about the book and the author at AGSEP

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I once again came to the German hamlet of Asia.

I was invited by Dietmar Doering for the AGSEP’s largest get-together at the discotheque and this time with a difference.

My visit to Aquarius this time was many-faceted.

I was supposed to meet Gunder Wagnar, a director of the International Institute of Ratings and Consultancy.

Gunder Wagnar served the then East German Air Force as an officer and later started his entrepreneurial activities in the field of insurance.

Pascal said he played a key role in insurance for Munich.

Latter he directed his interest on the assignment of surveying the tsunami disaster which paved the way for concentrating on the activities of the IIRC.

While I was entering Dietmar Doering’s room, I saw a well-built person and I guessed he was Gunder Wagner.

I introduced myself. Gunder Wagner was surprised and asked me whether I was the one who wrote those articles.

I had sent some of my articles which appeared in the local newspapers, the ‘Ultimate Peace or War Again’ and ‘The Messed Paradise’ where I had discussed local politics and international affairs.

Later we both went to our usual meeting place, the restaurant of Aquarius Hotel.

While talking I sensed his disappointment with the US Administration of the present and past over several issues.

He is a less-talk and think-more person like his daughter Fredrike and left me to talk more and listened patiently and carefully all the time.

His analytical and fact-finding mind kept the flow of information within him.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, the Russian troops had been completely withdrawn and Russian influence in Germany was a forgotten matter, but the American bases were still occupying German territory under various acts or NATO agreements, giving the impression that Americans are aggressive and intruders.

A similar was felt some time back in Japan after some incidents where US soldiers from the US base in Japan misbehaved with some Japanese girls.

There are generally suspicions on countries which have military bases in other countries.

There are misunderstandings over even the UN Peace Keeping Forces, though they are under multilateral decisions and their operations were executed by the UN Secretariat and its chief independently.

But the misunderstanding over the IPKF in Sri Lanka led both confronting forces join together to pull out the Indian Forces under the Peace-keeping flag.

After a lengthy discussion with Gunther Wagner, I left to have a small nap.

The discussion with Gunther Wagner kept recurring, especially the issues on greater European Union and the United States and the future of world peace and harmony in the coming centuries.

It is a truism that all major world wars started over minor or even unrelated issues.

Hostility on many issues such as economic and military superiority went to create another cold war between the major economic blocs by aligning with some of the Asian and Latin American economic blocs.

After the tsunami disaster, I was extra cautious with the sea, though I could swim fairly well.

The sea has more density than tank water, but the waves are always turbulent.

I enjoyed sea swimming at the Mount Lavinia beach on the western coast of the island, which is famous since Dutch times.

Maritsha was telling some jokes and Stefani, Romy and other Praktikum (Internship) students were laughing all the time.

I was laughing without knowing what the jokes were all about.

But one knows that laughter is infectious.

Romy spoke once in a way in English and in return I told Maritsha seemed a good joker.

I met Maritsha at dinner yesterday.

I never met or spoke to her, but gazed at her contemplative expression while she was having her meals.

But now looking at her in swim suit and the hectic joking, I thought was work-hard and play-well type of character.

My guess was confirmed in a few minutes.

She was a good belly-dancer also, and she was dancing marvellously for a while.

The ocean’s roaring sound gave good music and melody to her dancing and the beach-sand stage with the surrounding greeneries of coconut trees made it a fascinating time for all of us.

Her belly dance took me back to the belly dance performances of Lebanon and Egypt

The German hamlet of Asia is a fascinating for both intellect and fun, giving a sense to life!

Rajkumar Kanagasingam is author of a fascinating book on German memories in Asia and you can explore more about the book and the author at AGSEP

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