blog.plugimi.com ( Sascha Pohflepp )

1* I seriously considered becoming a pilot, maybe until age 15 when I somehow forgot about it. I especially was into fighter planes and used to be an expert on all kinds of versions and special armaments for specific planes and mission types. Once at an airshow, I told the pilot of a Belgian F-16 some feature or fact about his plane that he actually hadn’t known before. I guess he was really scared of me. I still love flying a lot and I cannot understand why people would ever opt for an aisle seat when asked. One day I met this 22-year-old guy who was 1st officer with Lufthansa. For a second I really regretted not having pursued this kind of career and I hope to have the opportunity to get a pilot license at some point. So, if you ever need to know what kind of plane is behind you – I can still tell you from at least 15.000 feet distance.

2* I have no clue where my name originates from or what it means.

3* I once met Michael Jackson in a small video rental place in the suburbs of Cologne. At the time, around the mid 1990s, this was highly disputed among my friends, but I swear that it actually happened. He was visiting Phantasialand, a theme-park near Cologne which he really loves, to donate them a carousel. He was staying downtown and on the way back, he apparently thought that they would need some videos for him and his entourage. His bodyguard’s other boss, rents an apartment above the place, and this is how this unlikely situation came to be. So there we were, my dad, me and two random teenagers practically locked in with MJ. This lasted for maybe 30 minutes and when they started getting ready to leave, I decided to collect some trophies. First, I got an autograph on a gift coupon of the store. Then, as he was on his way out, I got really bold and actually managed to shake his hand. He seemed a bit surprised, but was very nice and said “thank you” or something similar in a very high voice. He looked pretty good though – no holes and stuff.

4* I was at least twice considered a threat to my fellow students at elementary school and early at high school. You have to keep in mind that this is late 1980s middle-class West Germany, at the height of the pacifist and green movement. The second time, of course, was because of my mentioned fascination for military technology. The first time though, was just because of the fact that I had got a C64 for Christmas at the age of six and was by far the first student to have one. This alone, and a vague fear of everything technology was enough for some of the other students’ parents to call in a parent-teacher conference to figure out whether I would now be evil influence on their offspring or will even be made into the brainless enemy of humanist education by that machine. My parents had to actually defend themselves for giving me the opportunity to explore the future. From today’s perspective, this seems so ridiculous and this attitude makes me very very mad when I still encounter it in people.

5* I don’t play an Instrument, but I want to.

Aight, so I’m tagging Jonah, Richard, Burak, Ralph and Harm!