南京和上海

南京 Nanjing,
vom 7ten bis zum 9ten November gings nach Nanjing,
direkt nach der Arbeit, 4h mit dem Bus. Wir, das sind Moni, Lutgi, Doreen, Mareike, Luni und Ich. Nanjing ist eine sehr kulturtraechtige, historische Stadt. Auch der Grund warum Kinesn keene Japse moegen.
Mit dem Wetter hatten wir Glueck und auch die Stadt war recht nett. Haben eine paar historische Plaetze gesehen, und auch Shopping auf dem nightmarket war drin. Da gabs dann ein paar echte Schuhe auf denen sogar addi sein ding drauf steh… recht einfach, aber wasserdicht. Und recht gut…fuer ~5EUR
Hier ein paar Bilder…von Nanjing

上海 Shanghai,
14-17.11. gings dann endlich mal richtig nach Shanghai… das hostel war direkt am Bund. Bund is stueck am fluss….von da gibt’s die ganzen bilder auf den bekannten pearl tower und die bekannte skyline mit gebauden 500m. Wir waren isngesammt sieben, obwohl wir uns immer mal wieder in teilgruppen bewegten, was recht gut war. Die meiste Zeit war ich mit Lutgi unterwegs. Hin gings mit dem Zug 1:20 von Hangzhou fuer 6EUR…weiter mit der U-Bahn.. (ca.. 50-60c)

Abends sind wir dann gleich rueber in den finance district auf der putong seite…. Dann auch mal in den 89stock des world finacial centers…..danach noch ein coctail im jin mao tower……
Samstag war fuer sight seeing, Gaerten, old town, french quarter,…..abends gabs noch n coffee vom starbucks…. Hier muss man immer extra sagen, wenn man aus na echten tasse und nich n pap becher trinken will….. da nach gabs noch baustellen-sight-seeing und zum schluss noch die neue bond dvd fuer 80c. (gesehen hatten wir den schon, 4 tage vorher, aber aufgrund der relativzeit war das gefuehlt schon 2 wochen her/ leider hatten wir auch ne stoerung waherend der ersten action szene…von nhansel bansels…./ ich kann nur empfhelend den film im kino zu gucken)
Abens gings dann noch in nen Club, 150RMB all u can drink… ich will nur kurz anmerken es war ein sehr verrückter Abend…ich war im hostel, als es schon hell wurde…. Hatte meine Jacke vergessen…und [..]

Sonntag gings recht spaet frueh los zu eimen fake market mit Lutgi.. bischen was gekauft… polo’s gibt’s mit feildschen fuer 4EUR. Aber mann muss schon gucken, jedes krokodiel, jeder reiter sehen anders aus… kam ach schonmal vor, dass das kroko in die falsche richtung guckt, dem reiter der kopf fehlt und das pferd eher aussieht wie ein kamel. Auch die proportionen scheinen nicht immer zu stimmen. Auf die angegebenen grossen kann man sich nicht verlassen…. Manchmal passt M manchmal ist XL noch zu klein…recht haufig habe ientsteht auch der eindruck es wird jenes schild draufgenaehet, welches grad verfuegbar is…wir waren aufgrund er letzten transaktion etwas laneger als geplant im markt… und ich musste ja noch meine jacke abholen und das gepaeck war auch noch im hostel….wir trennten uns also… was sehr gute idee war…..mit viel gleuck bekam ich meine jacke…. Und wir beide erreichten genau rechtzeitig den zug, sassen sogar noch vor den anderen auf unseren plaetzen….. war ein nettes wochenede in Shanghai.
Ich werde sicherlich noch eimal dorthin. Wegen der Skyline, dem Transrapid und vllt auch noch wegen etwas Kleidung.

Mikes wedding

Mikes marriage and drinking with British

On October the 18^th I was invited to Mikes wedding party, he is a coworker. Was interesting to see a Chinese one, yet I couldn’t compare as I have never been to any wedding party before. Afterwards I went with Peter&Paul, two British guys who came for a week for business, to the Shamrock Bar.

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Team Building Buyout -- 01/11/08

This Event was fun even though it was first slightly raining, and later more. But this made it even more fun. We were about 50ppl except the Department head (Dutch guy) and me all Chinese ppl.
We first got these Army dresses to cover our clothes, and get a more unity feeling, I guess also to be not so sensitive about getting mud on you. Then we were divided into three groups…had to decide group leader, name.. then we had to fulfill several tasks. Furthermore we had to perform the thing were you build up a circle and sit on the knee of the person behind you, whereas the person in front of you sits on yours.
Task One was what I ever wanted to do. It was the thing where you fall back and other ppl catch you. Was a quite strange, but yet interesting feeling.
Task Two was to cross a lake on a steel cable., whereby the cable was shaken by others.
Task Three was to climb a pole, then get on the tiny platform on top of that pole, and after that to jump and grab a metal bar. It was no problem for me to get on top of the platform… but after I straightened up and was standing upright, my legs hit the eigenfrequency of the pole and everything except my upper body started to shake more and more…. Conclusively I though I would never get that stopped…so I jumped before the resonanz get me down. I easily grabbed the bar, as it wasn’t far. Lucky I did so…. As I was only afraid of somehow falling down, not because of the falling itself, because of the belt I was wearing….and that it might could hurt somewhere low.
The Fourth task was one with all three groups together…. We had to get over a wooden wall together… was really fun…
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After all I had lot of fun…. spent so more time with my coworkers…

Shanghai - F1 19/10/08

As Shanghai is quite close… and we got the opportunity to go there for the Sinopec F1 Chinese Grand prix…. We took that chance, even though we got the bit more expensive tickets for 680RMB which is still quite cheap compared to Germany…so I got there….all together 100EUR. There was my seat....(我=ich)

But quite frankly the race itself wasn’t that exiting…. in our curve we didn’t saw any interesting actions…. Except from the Porsch Asia race….. But Formular 1 was interesting though…the sound from the engines was amazing…. Really loud and powerful, luckily I had purchased some earplugs before.

The way to the racetrack was quite various… first taxi to the train station, then the fast train to Shanghai 1:18 there we gathered with my new friends from lawn&garden, Paul and Peter who got the most expensive tickets for the race…but for less price coz someone made a mistake…..then we took the subway to the stadium ( here also the group dividing started…arrg) [some always need there own way, best is keep to your self]……from the stadium was a shuttlebus service to the track… we took the same way back…. Anyway all I now remember what is to say…. For more details feel free to ask

Here some pics…

Ah, here some information about the track...: it has the shape as the Chinese sign 上 “shang” from Shanghai. Shang also means “above”

Sanya – 三亚 (24/10/08-27/10/08)

Hey….. I used 2 of my vacation days to spend 4 days on Hainan in Sanya.
Hainan is a Chinese island south of Hongkong, which is considered to be the “Chinese Hawaii”.
The beach, weather and sea have been great…. furthermore I got sunburn due to the clear sky.
Two days were spent at the DaDongHai area one at YalongBay and one day for a trip in the rainforest on Hainan.
In DaDongHai where the hotels were located many have been many Russians, so I was many times mistaken for a Russian and Chinese people started speaking Russian to me. They seems to be very surprised of me not understanding them at all. The YalongBay area is where the big hotel chains are located….the Hilton pool is very nice, and while swimming in it I could see the sea from one end.

The time went quite quick, but after one day I felt like spending already a week there…..but it was strange to get back home….and it got a bit stressful after arriving at SYX….the flight was ok…however, as it wasn’t a direct flight we stopped in Xiamen… but there was no need to leave the airplane..was quite funny though…..

Here some pictures 三亚