Introduction I've been writing in diaries and note books since I was eight years old. Friends and family of mine joked about that I have a life like that of the movie character Forrest Gump: very random and full of surprises! They have been telling me for a long time that I should write a book about all my silly stories. Okay, nice idea: a biography, but where do you start with something like that? Should I, like Forrest Gump, sit on a park bench and tell my stories to random strangers? No, I think I’ll start with writing a blog... For example, on this blog I am going to tell you how about I ended up in the world of science without a university education, how I became second place at the national championships of living statues without ever having been a living statue before, how I wrote an orchestral music composition of 20 minutes without being able to read a note, how I gained access to the Pope's audience without being religious, how I survived my illnes