| about me |
| about me |
| I was born in Bonn, Germany on August 3, 1970. Bonn is a nice city on the Rhine river with about 100,000 inhabitants... and also the former capital of Germany, until Berlin was chosen to the new capital of the reunified Germany in 1990. You can find Bonn about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) downstream from Cologne. Until 1972 we lived in Pech, a quiet and green suburb of Bonn. We then moved to Rheinbreitbach, where my parents built a house, adjacent to the forest. I still see the deer in the morning eating the burgeons in our garden... until my parents had a big fence built to keep them out. In 1974 my dad was transferred to the German Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I attended the Garden School, but all in all I don't remember too much of the roughly two years that we spent there. From 1976 to 1980 we lived again in Germany. I attended Elementary School, but things only started to get interesting again in 1980, when we moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. I had a good time there, although unfortunately we lived in the seventh and eighth floor of the embassy building - with "air out of the can", since it was not possible to open the windows. The little pond in the yard served as pool... Luckily my parents had rented a weekend retreat in Carita, a beach about three hours drive from Jakarta. During the three years we spent in Jakarta, I attended the German International School (DIS). Back in Germany, things slowed down again a bit, until my dad was posted at the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan in 1986. We lived in this green oasis (the German Embassy) right in the middle of Tokyo... and I had amazing four years. After graduation from German School Tokyo (DST) in 1989, I took part in a six-month intensive course of Japanese at the Naganuma School. In autumn 1990, I enrolled at the University of Trier to study Business Administration and Japanese. With two short scholarship intermezzi - in 1992/93 I transferred for two semesters to the Trinity College in Dublin, Rep. of Ireland (I lived with two other students from Trier in the Liberties, the heart of Dublin... needless to say that we a 'grand' time) and in 1995 I enrolled in the Sophia Unversity in Tokyo for one semester to write my graduation thesis - I finally graduated in Spring 1996. Three days after I finished my studies, I started a trainee program in the Financial Services Division of Daimler-Benz InterServices AG (today the company is called DaimlerChrysler Services AG) in Stuttgart, Germany. After various projects in HQ and our German subsidiary, the path led back to Tokyo: a four month strategic project assignment in Mercedes-Benz Finance Co., Ltd., which actually led to a job and kept me in Tokyo for four years (again, it is needless to say that I had a great time!), until I got transferred to work in DaimlerChrysler Services AG's Berlin HQ in October 2001. OK, enough already...! Needless to say that there is also a lot of travelling, sports (snowboarding, wakeboarding, scubadiving etc.), partying and having fun involved in my life. And since photographing is another hobby of mine, you can get a glimpse of that on my other pages. Gotta go now... but I'll keep you posted! Cheers, ch :-) |
| Name: Cornelius Michael HALLIER Date of Birth: August 3, 1970 Place of Birth: Bonn, GERMANY Residences: 1970-74 Pech, GERMANY 1974-76 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA 1976-80 Rheinbreitbach, GERMANY 1980-83 Jakarta, INDONESIA 1983-86 Rheinbreitbach, GERMANY 1986-90 Tokyo, JAPAN 1990-92 Trier, GERMANY 1992-93 Dublin, REP. OF IRELAND 1993-95 Trier, GERMANY 1995-96 Tokyo, JAPAN 1996-97 Stuttgart, GERMANY 1997-01 Tokyo, JAPAN 2001- Berlin, GERMANY |
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