Puh, die Woche war wieder doch etwas langwierig und anstrengend und zu allem Uebel wirds jetzt auch noch richtig knackig warm hier. 30 Grad die letzten beiden Tage und das macht im Anzug schon wieder ueberhaupt keinen Spass. Danke an die Klimaanlage im Buero :D
Heute bin ich nochmals am WoE im office um endlich mal meinen Theorieteil ein wenig aufzubessern. 6 Seiten Kuddelmuddel sind schon zusammengekommen, aber das muessen bis Ende Mai eben noch 14 weitere werden weil ich mit der Theorie gerne bis Ende Mai abschliessen moechte.
Heute abend spielt dann endlich noch UNSERE Mannschaft wieder - Shanghai Shenhua werden wir mal wieder anschauen gehen, ist diesmal in nem anderen Stadion, aber natuerlich werden wir wieder in unseren Trikots auflaufen ;) Sonst ist eigentlich nicht so viel passiert - ausser dass fuer die Erdbebenopfer mittlerweile wirklich ueberall gesammelt wird und Benefiz-veranstaltungen gemacht und alle hoffen, dass es doch noch ein paar Ueberlebende gibt!
Morgen goenn ich mir dann mal endlich einen freien Tag, mal sehen, bei dem Wetter wohl einfach nur in den park oder irgendwo raus wo die Luft besser ist und ausspannen und abschalten.
So long,
mo
PS: Entgegen aller Probleme die es hier scheinbar gibt mit Visabestimmungen etc. hinsichtlich Olympiade, den Lotter lassen sie tatsaechlich ins Land :D :D Unfassbar, sowas. Heisst ich muss mich sputen auch rechtzeitig fertig zu werden, das kleine Shalotterchen will ja auch unterhalten werden im August dann !!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Earthquake in Sichuan Province
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,552766,00.html
For the german speaking community only unfortunately :)
Wieder mal etwas spannendes erlebt hier: Nach dem Mittag hier dachte ich mir waere schlecht aber auf einmal sahen wir dass die Vorhaenge sich bewegten und das immer wilder: Dann nach einer halben Minute war Evakuierung des Gebaeudes angesagt: Erdbeben. War natuerlich nur ein leichtes aber hatte bisher noch keines erlebt von daher schon spannend.
Und 32 Stockwerke runterlaufen war natuerlich auch extrem spannend, die Chinesen hatten alle Zeit der Welt und haben noch telefoniert auf der Treppe. Draussen war natuerlich Riesenalarm und tausende Leute draussen aber alles halb so wild - hatte nur einen Drehwurm vom runterlaufen.
Earthquake 7.8 in Sichuan Province
After the lunchbreak I thought I got sick, but then we realized that the curtain was actually moving and so was the whole building. So after a while everybody was walking down the stairs - from the 32nd floor !!!!!!!! GREAT !! Earthquake apparently but nobody knew, then downstairs there were thousands of people on the street from all the other buildings.
Then we found out that there was an earthquake in Sichuan Province and quite a heavy one - Sichuan Province is I dont know how far away but it must be some hundreds of kilometers. After an hour we were allowed to go back in the building. Crazy experience but no worries, everythings fine !!
For the german speaking community only unfortunately :)
Wieder mal etwas spannendes erlebt hier: Nach dem Mittag hier dachte ich mir waere schlecht aber auf einmal sahen wir dass die Vorhaenge sich bewegten und das immer wilder: Dann nach einer halben Minute war Evakuierung des Gebaeudes angesagt: Erdbeben. War natuerlich nur ein leichtes aber hatte bisher noch keines erlebt von daher schon spannend.
Und 32 Stockwerke runterlaufen war natuerlich auch extrem spannend, die Chinesen hatten alle Zeit der Welt und haben noch telefoniert auf der Treppe. Draussen war natuerlich Riesenalarm und tausende Leute draussen aber alles halb so wild - hatte nur einen Drehwurm vom runterlaufen.
Earthquake 7.8 in Sichuan Province
After the lunchbreak I thought I got sick, but then we realized that the curtain was actually moving and so was the whole building. So after a while everybody was walking down the stairs - from the 32nd floor !!!!!!!! GREAT !! Earthquake apparently but nobody knew, then downstairs there were thousands of people on the street from all the other buildings.
Then we found out that there was an earthquake in Sichuan Province and quite a heavy one - Sichuan Province is I dont know how far away but it must be some hundreds of kilometers. After an hour we were allowed to go back in the building. Crazy experience but no worries, everythings fine !!
Monday, May 5, 2008
Sports Saturday
Was will man(n) denn mehr als nach einem gelungenen Feiertag im Kreise der Macao-Sightseeing-People einen Sporttag mit Stefan, dem anderen Praktikanten vom Stammtisch. Ganz chinesisch mit Schirm gegen die Sonne bewaffnet (weil Sonnenbrand vom Vortag) ging es Samstag frueh (10.30 Uhr :) ) mit der Metro in den Norden, denn Stefan hatte entdeckt dass die X Games in der Stadt sind. X Games sind saemtliche verrueckten rollenden Dinge, die man in einer Halfpipe oder Gelaende machen kann: Skateboarding, Inlinern, Motocross, Klettern usw.... also sind wir dort aufs Gelaende (auf dem es nicht einen Schattenplatz gab und unter den Schirmen schon heftigstes Gedraenge war... Also den Sonnenbrand weiter ausgebaut bei gefuehlten 50 Grad in der Sonne und dem Spektakel von fliegenden Inlinern und fliegenden Motorraedern zugesehen, war schon sehr geil. Genialer war aber als wir auf dem Rueckweg das Stadion hier anschauen wollten und merkten, dass tatsaechlich Heimspiel angesagt war. Also 2 tickets geholt (Sitzplatz Gegentribuene Hoehe Mittellinie fuer 7,50 Euro), fuer 4 Euro noch ein trikot ergattert und fertig waren die einzigsten zwei westlichen fans im ganzen Stadion, was uns natuerlich schon wieder zum Highlight des Tages machte !! Spiel war naaaaaaaaaja, ging streckenweise, 2 Tore gesehen und UNSERE Jungs von Shanghai Shenhua Football Club haben natuerlich gewonnen und sind somit auf den 2. Platz in der Tabelle vorgerueckt !! So muss das sein... Abends kam leider statt Bundesliga im CCTV5 die Ankunft der Fackel in Hainan aber ist ja berechtigterweise ein groesseres Event als die 0-0 Meisterschafts-Finalisierung der Bayern ! Seit gestern, Sonntag wieder im Office, von daher steht ne 6 Tage-Woche an, aber es muss ja langsam auch was voran gehen !!
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Macao Artikel bei Spiegel online
Scheint als waere im Zuge der Ankuft des olympischen Feuers auch das Interesse am Las Vegas Asiens in den Medien wieder etwas nach oben geschnellt.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,551156,00.html
Fuer alle die noch nicht mitbekommen hatten wo ich mich im letzten halben Jahr aufgehalten habe, hier mal ein netter Artikel welch interessante wirtschaftliche Dinge in Macao gerade abgehen. Wir waren bei der Eroeffnung vom Venetian leider nicht dabei aber haben wohl an der Uni auch die oekonomischen Auswirkungen des Casino-Treibens mitbekommen und wirklich einige Mitstudis gefunden, die statt weiterzustudieren in den Groupier-Dienst gewechselt sind. Spannende Angelegenheit fuer Macao in den kommenden paar Jahren... und spannend auch bei unserer Rueckkehr zu sehen wie es in Macao weitergegangen ist. Cool ist dass der Spiegel dabei Bilder von den Spieltischen im Venetian zeigen darf, im Spielbereich ist fotografieren leider striktens untersagt, macht aber einen guten Eindruck von der unfassbaren Groesse dieses Casinos. Venetian, Lotter und ich werden dich im August (erneut) bewundern kommen... :))
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,551156,00.html
Fuer alle die noch nicht mitbekommen hatten wo ich mich im letzten halben Jahr aufgehalten habe, hier mal ein netter Artikel welch interessante wirtschaftliche Dinge in Macao gerade abgehen. Wir waren bei der Eroeffnung vom Venetian leider nicht dabei aber haben wohl an der Uni auch die oekonomischen Auswirkungen des Casino-Treibens mitbekommen und wirklich einige Mitstudis gefunden, die statt weiterzustudieren in den Groupier-Dienst gewechselt sind. Spannende Angelegenheit fuer Macao in den kommenden paar Jahren... und spannend auch bei unserer Rueckkehr zu sehen wie es in Macao weitergegangen ist. Cool ist dass der Spiegel dabei Bilder von den Spieltischen im Venetian zeigen darf, im Spielbereich ist fotografieren leider striktens untersagt, macht aber einen guten Eindruck von der unfassbaren Groesse dieses Casinos. Venetian, Lotter und ich werden dich im August (erneut) bewundern kommen... :))
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Leiterwagen in Shanghai ??
Die Woche schreitet schon wieder unerbarmlich voran und heute und morgen (Di und Mi) ist noch ein Besuch aus Deutschland hier, der fuer Beschaeftigung sorgt. Der oberste Personaler der Firma ist fuer zwei Tage in Shanghai und hat ein ziemlich ordentliches Programm vor sich, welches fuer uns auch Vorstellung unserer Projekte und diverse Mittag und Abendessen beinhaltet. Heute waren wir vorhin beim Japaner hier im Gebaeude und haben es uns direkt bei Sushi, Sashimi und der lustigen Knetmasse Wasabi umgarnt von Shoyu (Soyasauce) und geraspeltem Daikon (Rettich) gut gehen lassen.
Morgen steht dann noch ein besonderes Highlight an: nicht nur dass am Donnerstag Feiertag ist (ja auch in China gibt es einen Tag der Arbeit, auch wenn hier immer gearbeitet wird) sondern ein Teil der Partycrew aus macao gibt sich die Ehre: Olivia, Yu Yu, Antonio und Arnaud werden hier nach Shanghai kommen und Poka, Eva, Nerwing, Bonnie und ich werden die 4 freudig aufnehmen und durch Shanghai fuehren. Leider kommen die dann nach donnerstag noch in den Genuss nach Qingdao hochzufliegen (ehemalige Kleinkolonie Deutschlands aus der auch das beruehmte Tsingtao Bier kommt, gebraut nach dem deutschen Reinheitsgebot natuerlich). Ich kann leider nicht mit da Freitag hier auch freigegeben wird, dafuer aber der Sonntag zum Arbeitstag mutiert, was bedeutet dass naechste Woche sportliche 6 Tagewoche angesagt ist, aber wir sind ja auch nicht zum Spass hier. Soweit mal fuer diese Woche,
gehabts euch wohl !!
Gruesse,
M(aca)o
Morgen steht dann noch ein besonderes Highlight an: nicht nur dass am Donnerstag Feiertag ist (ja auch in China gibt es einen Tag der Arbeit, auch wenn hier immer gearbeitet wird) sondern ein Teil der Partycrew aus macao gibt sich die Ehre: Olivia, Yu Yu, Antonio und Arnaud werden hier nach Shanghai kommen und Poka, Eva, Nerwing, Bonnie und ich werden die 4 freudig aufnehmen und durch Shanghai fuehren. Leider kommen die dann nach donnerstag noch in den Genuss nach Qingdao hochzufliegen (ehemalige Kleinkolonie Deutschlands aus der auch das beruehmte Tsingtao Bier kommt, gebraut nach dem deutschen Reinheitsgebot natuerlich). Ich kann leider nicht mit da Freitag hier auch freigegeben wird, dafuer aber der Sonntag zum Arbeitstag mutiert, was bedeutet dass naechste Woche sportliche 6 Tagewoche angesagt ist, aber wir sind ja auch nicht zum Spass hier. Soweit mal fuer diese Woche,
gehabts euch wohl !!
Gruesse,
M(aca)o
Monday, April 21, 2008
Billig und teuer liegt so nah beisammen
Letzte Woche war schon wieder dermassen schnell rum, Montag und Dienstag bis spaet abends geblieben und ueberhaupt kein Land mehr gesehen. Dann mittwochs kam ein bisschen Abwechslung ins Land: Praktikantenstammtisch der deutschen Handelskammer in Shanghai. Erstmal rumgeirrt bis wir die Bar gefunden hatten (Mural Bar), dann waren dort bisher nur 5 Leute, somit war nicht so schwer rauszufinden dass dies der deutsche Stammtisch war. Nette Aufnahme und die Abpruefung der Multitaskingfaehigkeit - wieviele Namen kann man sich in kuerzester Zeit merken, naemlich fast keine... :)) Aber hat sich nach ner Weile gegeben und somit war man froh mit anderen die ersten Erfahrungen hier mit Shanghai und im Arbeitsleben auszutauschen. Bis zu 40 Leute scheinen wohl dagewesen zu sein - bis sich dann der letzte Rest zusammenfand um 12 und noch ins Zapata's (vergleichbar mit Ludwigsplatz wuerd ich mal behaupten) auf ein Bier ist um ein wenig inmitten von schoen und reich in Shanghai als kleiner Student sich zeigen zu duerfen. Insgesamt aber sehr nette Menschen kennengelernt mit denen wir uns wohl oefter noch treffen werden.
Samstag war dann direkt Eva's Geburtstag (hatten wir ja Mittwoch kennengelernt) und wir haben reingefeiert, Tipp war ins Attica zu gehen, da war Specialparty = Specialprice angesagt und fuer sportliche 15 Euro Eintritt war dann drin eher Langeweile pur angesagt, aber ein sehr stylischer Laden mit einer genialen Dachterrasse von der aus man im Sommer mit Sicherheit geniale Bilder von der Skyline Shanghai's machen kann. Dann sind wir noch zu Eva heim und haben da fuer guenstige 4 Kuai (40 cent) noch ein paar Bier auf guenstigerem Wege zu uns genommen. Wilder Taxiritt wieder nach Hause fruehmorgens und dann direkt mal um 7 wieder vom lustigen Presslufthammer auf der Baustelle nebenan geweckt (Fensterisolierung ist so gut dass es sich im 29. Stock so anhoert als waere der Mensch direkt nebenan, obwohl der 27 Stockwerke drunter is). Dann ab auf die Couch zum gammeln, mittags dann Sightseeing mit Stefan (auch vom Stammtisch) und Beate und abends gings dann schon zum geburtstag weiterfeiern wieder zu Eva. Chinesischen Trinkspielen sei Dank kam ich um den Schnaps drumherum und somit waren die Kopfschmerzen auch nur minimal am naechsten Tag. Sonntag dann nur gammeln, Wohnung putzen, was lesen und nochmal natuerlich 2 Stunden Chinesisch lernen (immer noch nur Aussprache weil zu mehr reichts noch nicht).
Soweit das WoE, heute geht die neue Woche los... ma kuckn...
Late but nevertheless informative: Update for the english speaking community !
Monday and tuesday exhaustive working hours with no land in sight but anyways. Wednesday then the final big moment - German intern meeting from the German Chamber of Commerce. First it took a while to find the venue - Mural bar - and when we got there it was only 5 people waiting, but in the end there were like 40 to 50 interns or young professionals getting to know each other. Nice talking and a big challenge for the multitasking skills - how many names can you capture within the round. Nice talking, meeting nice people and afterwards some of them went further to Zapatas (also one of the famous expat bars here in Shanghai with correlated prices of course: Expat = xpensive).
Saturday we were already invited to Eva's birthday, one girl also from the black forrest region. We had the special tipp of the week to go to Attice, also one of the famous clubs here and so was the cover charge again = 150 Kuai (15 Euros) and noone inside, GGGgggreat. Perfect view though coz the club/bar/lounge is located directly across the bund and therefore we enjoyed the view and the ridiculously expensive beers for 7 Euros. Then we went on to go to Eva's place to get more student like beers at the local supermarket for 4 Kuai (40 cent). Then saturday was basically only hanging around, in the evening we went to Eva's place again to further celebrate her birthday but that was about it. Sunday was the lecture for chinese again (and no, I still cannot speak, we are still about to learn how to pronounce the 4 tones for different words which is still an ongoing learning process. Now the secret update for the english community coz this time I m too lazy to write in both German and English: :))
Week passed by quite quickly again (damn it, already 4 weeks here and only 1 page written for the thesis, any volunteers to finish that one???? :)) and weekend had a special trip ahead. Stefan (also one of the interns from the German Intern meeting) proposed to take a look at Shanghai from 2 hills he found to be a special hint for Shanghai tourists. So we went with the new line 9 (btw - even Poka didnt know that this one existed and called me a liar ;) but in her defense, it just opened like couple of weeks ago). So we went and the metro was driving, and driving, and driving.... one hour in total from our place to the station. There again we fell for the tourist trap and went with a "taxi" for 8 Euros (later the official cab was just 11 Kuai (1,10 Euro) to the "mountains". The mountains were two little hills but interestingly some meeting point for catholic chinese where in the early 20th century they built 3 cathedrals on those hills which was quite a surprise to find there. Nice and warm weather without Smog outside of Shanghai this afternoon was a pleasant present for the 4 of us who went there. Then I was invited for Daniel's birthday party which was also very cool, dinner with all his chinese friends and only his father and me were the only westerners attending. So we laughed, had fun, experienced further the chinese way of dining and later they were playing some music together, really cool evening. Sunday we just went for Hotpot and Chinese lectures but that was it. This week is quite short coz thursday is holiday but now the highlight of the week: Olivia, Yu Yu, Arnaud and maybe even Antonio will come to Shanghai so I hope we will have a nice 1st of May together before they continue travelling through China... Later dudes...keep you posted...
Samstag war dann direkt Eva's Geburtstag (hatten wir ja Mittwoch kennengelernt) und wir haben reingefeiert, Tipp war ins Attica zu gehen, da war Specialparty = Specialprice angesagt und fuer sportliche 15 Euro Eintritt war dann drin eher Langeweile pur angesagt, aber ein sehr stylischer Laden mit einer genialen Dachterrasse von der aus man im Sommer mit Sicherheit geniale Bilder von der Skyline Shanghai's machen kann. Dann sind wir noch zu Eva heim und haben da fuer guenstige 4 Kuai (40 cent) noch ein paar Bier auf guenstigerem Wege zu uns genommen. Wilder Taxiritt wieder nach Hause fruehmorgens und dann direkt mal um 7 wieder vom lustigen Presslufthammer auf der Baustelle nebenan geweckt (Fensterisolierung ist so gut dass es sich im 29. Stock so anhoert als waere der Mensch direkt nebenan, obwohl der 27 Stockwerke drunter is). Dann ab auf die Couch zum gammeln, mittags dann Sightseeing mit Stefan (auch vom Stammtisch) und Beate und abends gings dann schon zum geburtstag weiterfeiern wieder zu Eva. Chinesischen Trinkspielen sei Dank kam ich um den Schnaps drumherum und somit waren die Kopfschmerzen auch nur minimal am naechsten Tag. Sonntag dann nur gammeln, Wohnung putzen, was lesen und nochmal natuerlich 2 Stunden Chinesisch lernen (immer noch nur Aussprache weil zu mehr reichts noch nicht).
Soweit das WoE, heute geht die neue Woche los... ma kuckn...
Late but nevertheless informative: Update for the english speaking community !
Monday and tuesday exhaustive working hours with no land in sight but anyways. Wednesday then the final big moment - German intern meeting from the German Chamber of Commerce. First it took a while to find the venue - Mural bar - and when we got there it was only 5 people waiting, but in the end there were like 40 to 50 interns or young professionals getting to know each other. Nice talking and a big challenge for the multitasking skills - how many names can you capture within the round. Nice talking, meeting nice people and afterwards some of them went further to Zapatas (also one of the famous expat bars here in Shanghai with correlated prices of course: Expat = xpensive).
Saturday we were already invited to Eva's birthday, one girl also from the black forrest region. We had the special tipp of the week to go to Attice, also one of the famous clubs here and so was the cover charge again = 150 Kuai (15 Euros) and noone inside, GGGgggreat. Perfect view though coz the club/bar/lounge is located directly across the bund and therefore we enjoyed the view and the ridiculously expensive beers for 7 Euros. Then we went on to go to Eva's place to get more student like beers at the local supermarket for 4 Kuai (40 cent). Then saturday was basically only hanging around, in the evening we went to Eva's place again to further celebrate her birthday but that was about it. Sunday was the lecture for chinese again (and no, I still cannot speak, we are still about to learn how to pronounce the 4 tones for different words which is still an ongoing learning process. Now the secret update for the english community coz this time I m too lazy to write in both German and English: :))
Week passed by quite quickly again (damn it, already 4 weeks here and only 1 page written for the thesis, any volunteers to finish that one???? :)) and weekend had a special trip ahead. Stefan (also one of the interns from the German Intern meeting) proposed to take a look at Shanghai from 2 hills he found to be a special hint for Shanghai tourists. So we went with the new line 9 (btw - even Poka didnt know that this one existed and called me a liar ;) but in her defense, it just opened like couple of weeks ago). So we went and the metro was driving, and driving, and driving.... one hour in total from our place to the station. There again we fell for the tourist trap and went with a "taxi" for 8 Euros (later the official cab was just 11 Kuai (1,10 Euro) to the "mountains". The mountains were two little hills but interestingly some meeting point for catholic chinese where in the early 20th century they built 3 cathedrals on those hills which was quite a surprise to find there. Nice and warm weather without Smog outside of Shanghai this afternoon was a pleasant present for the 4 of us who went there. Then I was invited for Daniel's birthday party which was also very cool, dinner with all his chinese friends and only his father and me were the only westerners attending. So we laughed, had fun, experienced further the chinese way of dining and later they were playing some music together, really cool evening. Sunday we just went for Hotpot and Chinese lectures but that was it. This week is quite short coz thursday is holiday but now the highlight of the week: Olivia, Yu Yu, Arnaud and maybe even Antonio will come to Shanghai so I hope we will have a nice 1st of May together before they continue travelling through China... Later dudes...keep you posted...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
aaaaiiieaaaaah
Hell no course I didnt forget the Macao party crew but actually SOME peopel have to work from time to time, know it sounds crazy, but thats the way the water flows...
Aaaaaanywho...
.... the last week passed by quickly as hell, fortunately I was able to hand out my draft of the statement of work to the supervisor in Hamburg and my academic tutor at the university and despite the lack of project management deliverables I still have to produce the project is on its way and the thesis can start as structured as a German can be ;)) I know u didnt expect anything else ;)))
Due to all the action during the week friday was rather low profile - I met up with Poka and we discovered some really nice cheap sports bar like 700m walking distance away from the office. This could actually have the tendency of becoming the most favorable bar in the neighbourhood despite the rock music which is not quite my style but anyways - with drinking prices NOT HIGHER whatsoever drink u might want than 2 euro (20 Kwai) the bar is obviously designed for the student wallet. Popcorn chicken, fish and chips and other snacks for 1 Euro support this image.
Saturday was of course another shopping day, but first of all we started off with sth. I should ve done quite earlier: take chinese lessons. Beate and me met for breakfast at Starbucks (which in Shanghai has the most dense concentration in a city with 68 coffee places all around Shanghai) and then went to People's Square to meet our teacher Wang Qing. Funny thing again - of course he had to find us there coz on a saturday will million black-haired bees humming around in front of Raffles' City its quite hard to find the one who is your new chinese teacher. 2 western people are quite easier to detect :) After a lunch in order to get to know each other (already adapted to chinese business culture) we were checking the bookstore for appropriate material. For our first lecture we decided to go into the parc nearby and for the hell of an amusement of the surrounding Chinese we were practising how to pronounce the tones and the pingyin properly (one couple was running away coz they couldnt stop laughing - one good deed a day by the western community to make people laugh). But it was really nice to learn some stuff and we ll see how well we can proceed in the next few weeks (hopefully we will last that long).
Shopping for reward came afterwards so we went to the cloth-market or as I recall copy-paste-for-clothing-place: One tailor next to each other trying to sell his/her suits or dresses to the visiting community. Silk dresses, cashmere suits - u feel like being in Thailand again here. AAAnd of course despite the fact that I didnt wanted to spend money on the weekend I ended up ordering a suit for 550 Kwai which is roughly 50 Euros. We ll see how the quality will do when I can pick it up in a week.
Evening program was quite perfect too: German DJ legend DJ Tomcraft was in Shanghai and so Beate and me decided to spend money again to go there. First a quick visit to the Windows Scoreboard (u remember, cheap student bar), inhaled some Havana colas and then off to find the club coz it wasnt properly shown where that might be exactly, but after a while we managed to actually find the desired adress (hooray).
really nice club, old-fashioned furniture combined with nice paintings and airbrushes on the wall, club Voltar was hosting DJ Tomcraft and a nice party bunch that was ready for some electronic party time. Professions like sons or daughters were also there spending their parents spare money on Hennessy XO and I got almost a shock when I went to the bar and ordered 2 beers for an unbelievable amount of 160 Kwai - SHOCKING. But ok, guess the flight from Germany has to be paid also. But was a very pleasant evening and after 3.30pm is was walking in the actually quiet streets of Shanghai to find my way home coz i didnt wanted to go with the cab.
Sunday was under the opympic influence :))
Daniel and me went to the Gym ( I already applied there for half a year for some quite ok money), and that not enough, we went out into the suburbs in Pudong to meet his chinese colleagues and friends from his last stay in China and played soccer for almost 3 hours. That was really funny but quite exhausting and finally we got together with almost 20 people to have typical chinese dinner (with incredible spicy and hot food from Sichuan province, but which was very enjoyable to have an experience like that with so many people). Some spoke english, we tried our 4 words of mandarin and so we had funny times and some insights about chinese eating and meeting again.
Therefore today was muscle ache all over the place and I could barely move, but had to sit on my chair anyways quite long in order to get my project ahead.
Then funny last thing for all my people from the MBA: I couldnt believe it myself, we had an Alumni meeting from Pforzheim people in Shanghai and the managing director of the company called Wuerth here in Shanghai is also an Alumni from Pforzheim so we ended up 4 people meeting there and talking about our experience with the lovely city of Pforzheim :) Unfortunately we couldnt get in touch with Prof. Pfoertsch coz he had other plans, but Uwe told us they regularly meet up with sth. like 5 to 6 people once a month so I am curious if next month I will have the opportunity to see our Leadership Professor again. And of course we went to Paulaner, the german wheat beer brewery branch here in Shanghai in Xintiandi (the amusement mile close to the office).
That's all folks, talk 2 u soon,
Shanghai-MO
Aaaaaanywho...
.... the last week passed by quickly as hell, fortunately I was able to hand out my draft of the statement of work to the supervisor in Hamburg and my academic tutor at the university and despite the lack of project management deliverables I still have to produce the project is on its way and the thesis can start as structured as a German can be ;)) I know u didnt expect anything else ;)))
Due to all the action during the week friday was rather low profile - I met up with Poka and we discovered some really nice cheap sports bar like 700m walking distance away from the office. This could actually have the tendency of becoming the most favorable bar in the neighbourhood despite the rock music which is not quite my style but anyways - with drinking prices NOT HIGHER whatsoever drink u might want than 2 euro (20 Kwai) the bar is obviously designed for the student wallet. Popcorn chicken, fish and chips and other snacks for 1 Euro support this image.
Saturday was of course another shopping day, but first of all we started off with sth. I should ve done quite earlier: take chinese lessons. Beate and me met for breakfast at Starbucks (which in Shanghai has the most dense concentration in a city with 68 coffee places all around Shanghai) and then went to People's Square to meet our teacher Wang Qing. Funny thing again - of course he had to find us there coz on a saturday will million black-haired bees humming around in front of Raffles' City its quite hard to find the one who is your new chinese teacher. 2 western people are quite easier to detect :) After a lunch in order to get to know each other (already adapted to chinese business culture) we were checking the bookstore for appropriate material. For our first lecture we decided to go into the parc nearby and for the hell of an amusement of the surrounding Chinese we were practising how to pronounce the tones and the pingyin properly (one couple was running away coz they couldnt stop laughing - one good deed a day by the western community to make people laugh). But it was really nice to learn some stuff and we ll see how well we can proceed in the next few weeks (hopefully we will last that long).
Shopping for reward came afterwards so we went to the cloth-market or as I recall copy-paste-for-clothing-place: One tailor next to each other trying to sell his/her suits or dresses to the visiting community. Silk dresses, cashmere suits - u feel like being in Thailand again here. AAAnd of course despite the fact that I didnt wanted to spend money on the weekend I ended up ordering a suit for 550 Kwai which is roughly 50 Euros. We ll see how the quality will do when I can pick it up in a week.
Evening program was quite perfect too: German DJ legend DJ Tomcraft was in Shanghai and so Beate and me decided to spend money again to go there. First a quick visit to the Windows Scoreboard (u remember, cheap student bar), inhaled some Havana colas and then off to find the club coz it wasnt properly shown where that might be exactly, but after a while we managed to actually find the desired adress (hooray).
really nice club, old-fashioned furniture combined with nice paintings and airbrushes on the wall, club Voltar was hosting DJ Tomcraft and a nice party bunch that was ready for some electronic party time. Professions like sons or daughters were also there spending their parents spare money on Hennessy XO and I got almost a shock when I went to the bar and ordered 2 beers for an unbelievable amount of 160 Kwai - SHOCKING. But ok, guess the flight from Germany has to be paid also. But was a very pleasant evening and after 3.30pm is was walking in the actually quiet streets of Shanghai to find my way home coz i didnt wanted to go with the cab.
Sunday was under the opympic influence :))
Daniel and me went to the Gym ( I already applied there for half a year for some quite ok money), and that not enough, we went out into the suburbs in Pudong to meet his chinese colleagues and friends from his last stay in China and played soccer for almost 3 hours. That was really funny but quite exhausting and finally we got together with almost 20 people to have typical chinese dinner (with incredible spicy and hot food from Sichuan province, but which was very enjoyable to have an experience like that with so many people). Some spoke english, we tried our 4 words of mandarin and so we had funny times and some insights about chinese eating and meeting again.
Therefore today was muscle ache all over the place and I could barely move, but had to sit on my chair anyways quite long in order to get my project ahead.
Then funny last thing for all my people from the MBA: I couldnt believe it myself, we had an Alumni meeting from Pforzheim people in Shanghai and the managing director of the company called Wuerth here in Shanghai is also an Alumni from Pforzheim so we ended up 4 people meeting there and talking about our experience with the lovely city of Pforzheim :) Unfortunately we couldnt get in touch with Prof. Pfoertsch coz he had other plans, but Uwe told us they regularly meet up with sth. like 5 to 6 people once a month so I am curious if next month I will have the opportunity to see our Leadership Professor again. And of course we went to Paulaner, the german wheat beer brewery branch here in Shanghai in Xintiandi (the amusement mile close to the office).
That's all folks, talk 2 u soon,
Shanghai-MO
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