Some Chinese people have a special language: Chinglish - sounds like English but its bare of any sense. I think especially Chinese that write down user manuals for electric devices are masters of Chinglish...

A few days ago I had a nice encounter with Chinglish on my own:

If anyone gets to know the sense, just mail me...

Hint: It has something to do with the gymn in my hotel.

Throughout the weekend a group of interns and me will start a 3-days-trip to Hong Kong. The whole thing was started as we found a cheap flight for a short trip, somewhat later the hotel was booked and in 6 hours I am going to sit in the plane towards Chinas bubbling south.

So many things I have heard about this city: Cheap electrical stuff and fakes, capital of gambling, smuggling and prostitution, but also centre of Asias banking and finance world. Well - lets have a look, I will report on Monday...

The current weather in Hong Kong (lifestream):

I have registered for a google mail account and I am totally convinced of this provider, if everything runs good (import of contacts ec) throughout the next days you all (OK just my friends ) will get a notification...

If one of you folks has a US-cellphone number he can even register himself, all the others need an invitation (for exmple fro me ).

I really don't know why Google puts up such a fuss with these invitations. Officialy because it is 'just a BETA' and they want to limit the number of users, on the other side they offer 2,7 GB of mailbox space, does that make sense???

"Olympisches" Hochziehen

Last night we were out to see the game Netherlands against Cote d'Ivoire. I think it really was a great game, allthough the Dutch won 2:1       ...

Nevertheless our trailer traveling friends can make a good party and have a really a great sense of fan attitude:

Some of the people who joined me:

Marek from Poland

Martin from Germany

An anonymous genius

Helpin Martin to get to know some girls...

Ahhhhw - I am soooo tired - hmm... gettin old???

In Xian we discovered behind all that boring Chinese Tsing Tao Stuff the, probaly Best beer ever brewed:

Hans Beer

That Sunday, after a great weekend of World Cup Games, we only had the energy to do a small trip. This meant to have some lunch and go to the famous Temple of Heaven (you have never heard about it, right??? )

Here are some pictures, note the great weather (in Beijing great weather means not necessarily "high temperatures" but rather "good air" or simply "no visible smog"):

After the temple we had some time to spend, why not have a visit to Mao's grave at the Ti'anamen place?

The Beijing clock to count the time until the Olympics 2008 in Beijing start:

This "Special Issue" is dedicated to my best motive: Glazda!

The first World Cup game:

First game of the preliminary round, the opening game of the tournament:

Germany - Costa Rica:  4:2 

We had choosen to watch it at Browns, but first to have a look at the Nan Jie Bar.

Here some pictures of the preparations:

No honking...??!!

We support our team!

A new Haircut in China

This is my new haircut:

Hey mattes the chinese hairstylists are at least as bad as the taiwanese...

...but cheaper! 

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