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Today is my birthday...
Happy birthday to me... haha...
Sounds like I don't have any friend... haha.
That's why I decided to try to figure out who they are...
I have google analytics on my blogg where I can see from where in the world my blogg is viewed.
I would like everybody that views my blogg to write me a small comment.
Don't forget to write your email/myspace/msn or something in the comment, since I cannot see who the sender is when you only press the comment bottom.
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Keep in touch... and our network will grow.....


Heino turning 30..... And what a party.

Pics from my last days...

Ben and Aaron


Alex and I


Phil and Betina


Song from Vision magazine


Anita and Mark

Merry XMAS Everybody.

Finally.... On the way home in the plane from Shanghai dec 21 I wrote this. And Now after having spent Xmas with my wonderful family I have finally been able to find time to post it.

It is nice to be back I have been partying with my friends...god it is good to see them again :o)

So here is the update from my last days in shanghai

21/12
Had lunch at Kraze off course.
Bought some dvd's
Repacked my things with the vodka I received from the guys the night before.
Bruce picked me up on time. Gave him a good tip for being my personal driver some of the time while I have been here.
Off course I had to much weight with me. But i didn't expect it to be 8.2 kilos to much.. I did use a scale before I left Xujiahui. I packed my things so I had the chance to reduce the weight by putting on some more clothes. But the airline company let me through without paying telling me to pack less things next time.


20/12
Last day in Shanghai.
Went to Peppes pizza with Alessio and Denise before meeting Alex. We all went to the Shanghai acrobats. Pretty amazing what they could do. however to many of the stunts I had already seen at the Era show with my family.
We arrived the wrong place at first and got some ticket for free for a show we thought was the acrobats. It turned out to be a ballet show. So we ran down to get a taxi to get to the right place.
We ended the evening at logo bar where I met with Anita, sebastian, Phil, Ben and Mark.
When I got home I was just in time to follow the live updates of Bakken Bears game vs Randers loosers. For the first time in history we actually lost the game but since we were playing best of two we won anyway... now heading for the final game.. :o)



19/12
I met Roderick in the morning. We went to a bird marked. So many birds in small cages. On the way back we went to aqua bar. It is a rooftop bar with a really outstanding view over Kowloon.
I arrived Shanghai in the evening and stated packing my things for my trip back to DK two days later.


18/12
Today i went to get a visa so I would be sure that I could reenter China. I was at the office at 08 in the morning thinking it would take a while (it did in DK) well it took me less than one minute.
After that I too the bus to stanley marked. Boring marked but cool area next to the beach. The sun was shining so I took a little power-nap in the sunshine on the beach.
After that I went with the bus to Aberdeen. both places are located on the other site of the mountains in the middle of HK island. Aberdeen is a very nice city with a cool local flavor to it.
I went back to HK where i met up with Roderick. We went to the Icebar. Jeps a bar made of ice. You get a mother fucking big jacket on and get to sit on an ice chair enjoying your straight vodka.
After that we went to a really long escalator. 800 meters long. It takes about 17 minutes to ride it to the top. I had hope that it would be just one escalator but since there are roads crossing on the way it is divided into smaller pieces so you can get of. But pretty damn cool to be able to ride an escalator all the way up the mountain.


17/12
After only 5 hours of sleep I was supposed to meet the local jeffery from the night before and Joe to go sightseeing. Non of them showed so I went to Joe's hotel and woke him up.
We went to the peak which is a really good view point on HK island where you can see the whole city.
Off course we crossed a couple of red lights like in shanghai until a police man stopped me telling me that the fine for jay walking is 1500 HK dollars/ about 1200 danish kroner. We got of with a warning.
After saying goodbye to Joe I went to the night marked. Not impressive since I already been to all the major ones in Shanghai and Beijing.
After that I went to the harbor to see a light show. Basically they play some music while you see lights flashing on all the buildings on HK island. Would have been fantastic if it wasn't for all the lights on most of the buildings already lighting up the whole damn city.
On the way home I went to Hard Rock cafe to eat and add a new glass to my collection I have been to more than 30% of all the Hard Rock cafes in the world. They have about 120.


16/12
Today I had lunch with with my flat-mates at Latina and after lunch I picked up a couple of presents before heading to the airport.
2,45 hours later I arrived Hong Kong. One hour later than I expected. I met a nice Dutch guy in the airport called Roderick. He showed me where to find the train for Kowloon which is in Hong kong on the main island. To get to Hong kong Island you can either take the train underground or the famous star ferry. The star ferry is only 1,7 hong kong dollars. Times 0.8 and you have the danish currency.. so really cheap. In Hong Kong most of the people speak english. Very nice to finally be able to talk to people again..haha
When I arrived Kowloon station and found a taxi I was actually amazed to see that also the taxi drivers he know the english language...
I had booked a hostel online 15 minutes before leaving for the airport in shanghai but fortunately I learned that it was located in the Chung king mansion right in the middle of Kowloons most famous rood, Nathan rd. When I arrived a guy knocked on the taxi window and I just ignored him knowing that he probably wanted to sell me something or offer me a hostel.
When I got out of the taxi however he said; finally you made it... What do you mean finally I asked. You have booked right? Yes. Ok come with me. The strange thing was that I arrived an hour later than what I had said when reserving my room. He took me to another hostel than the one I ordered and when I asked him about it he just replied that he had many hostels. when we arrived he asked me to give him 600 cash for the hostel. But on the internet it said I could pay with credit card and on top of that the price he suggested was more than what they had promised me online. So I asked him to take me to the other hostel. It turned out that the to hostels had nothing to do with each other and that he was just trying to steal my business.
After finding the right place I went out for food. At 01.15 on the way back I run into Joe from San Fran who was cruisin' the town for the night. We end up going to a local bar playing dices, fussball and dart bonding with the locals until 7 in the morning.


15/12
KiwiXmas.
We created a KiwiXmas party with the guys from Vision Magasin. Kiwi magazine is one of Chinas bigger magazines. They run some really beautiful pictures and in every issue they have a feature on a new country. They have done a piece on New Zealand recently.
We created a nice hot atmosphere with a fake beach, local Tikis and lots of NZ pictures to get people in the right mood. Here they enjoyed loads of wonderful cocktails made from our local kiwi bartenders. The party was in a cool rooftop art gallery and outside we had the local Chinese BBQ guy providing us hot meat-sticks all night.
I used the whole day on getting the location ready for the party. We had found a very nice picture of a typical Kiwi flower and enlarged it so the whole picture fit 72 A4 pages. It took me quit a while to pt all the pages on the wall in the right order.

Having my brother here.

Have been really busy these days having my brother here and finishing work before I go home to Denmark.
A little update on my life:

14/12
One week till I return to DK.
I have ordered a ticket to Hong Kong on saturday. I look forward to coming home... sick of chinese people these days (except Kello and Alex)
So a little vacation in Hong kong will be nice.


13/12
Had a lot to do at work today with printing invitations for the party the upcoming friday. Met my brother for dinner before he returned to Denmark.
met a very nice taxi driver who wanted me to call him every time I needed to go somewhere... VIP :o) He dropped me off and came back 2 hours later to pick up my brother.


12/12
Halfway to Xmas and I still hardly see any xmas things here.
My brother and I went to Pudong to see the century park where they have a lot of sculpture cut out from bushes and plants. Very nice.


Went for dinner with my flat-mates and Alex before heading to windows for a couple of drinks.




11/12
Today we went to see the underground tunnels in beijing. over 10 years the dogged a tunnel system big enough to evacuate 5 million people in a few hours.
Today you can only get access to a very limited area.
We went to another big marked before jumping on a plane returning to Shanghai.



10/12
1675 steps up the great chinese wall. That's how many we ran down in 15 minutes leaving my legs sore for bout a week afterwards. We took a tour to Badaling to see the wall. It was really cool. I have heard a lot of stories about to many tourist at that spot but guess it was our luck coming outside season and in the middle of the day.




The tour also took us to two jade factories and a temple. Quit funny to get to a temple so early in the morning that we were the only tourist at the place. And probably the only hangover tourist that day... :o)
Our guide told us to tell the guys at the jade factory that we were non students from America in order to be able to get out of the factory a little earlier. Her contract states a 40 minutes visit for non americans and only a 30 minutes visit for americans. And the jade factory wouldn't sign it if we were students. So today I learned that ALL americans have loads of money and students are very poor and that they would never buy anything... who said stereotyping?
We ended the tour at a tee house where we got to taste 5 different, not very good, but typical chinese tees.
Ended the evening next to the lake where you find a lot of bars.


Top Ten of most heard words in China
You need lady bar
looke looke (look look)
cheap cheap
no joking price
hello shoes
hello watch
watch, bag, shoes, t-shirts
I'm student here, we have very nice art exhibition
shoe shine okay
what do you want to buy, tell me

I have probably forgotten a few... but more will come


9/12
Saturday in Beijing. We went to the forbidden city and the famous square Tian amen.



Later we ended up at a huge marked with lots of fake stuff...haha but also a lot of nice things in really good quality. In a danish guide book I once read that a good bargain should end up with both parties being satisfied... such bullshit. Here in China you know that the price is reasonable when the salesman gets a little angry. in the end you know they will never sell anything here without making money.
Off course I had to visit the Hard Rock café to buy a glass for my collection at home.
We ended the evening at club Mix.. :o) 24 danish kroner for a Breezer is not cheap here but compared to DK it is quit ok so off course we ended up buying "a few". Here it is prestige to drink Chivas Regal (12years) with green tee. I saw about a hundred chivas bottles on the different tables around the huge nightclub. The funny thing is that around 3am I saw the waiters returning some of the green tee when the chinese left to go home.



8/12
After work I met with my brother and we took of to Beijing.
Kello had sorted out a really nice hostel in the hart of Beijing.


7/12
After work I met my brother and Alexbluto. We went to get a haircut, 1 hour full treatment with massage for only 25 danish kroner...
I found a charger for my camera.
We were going to go out but the evening ended very abruptly with some very sad news from home.


6/12
Last day with my parents. I went to work before meeting up for dinner. After dinner we went back to the hostel where I repacked their suitcases to fit all the things I wanted them to bring back for me. Fortunately we found room for 4 bottles of 42below vodka. After adding them to the luggage I had two kilos to play around with. Knowing I had 15 kilos I wanted them to bring that was a little challenge. I only returned with 6 kilos after adding a little to their handbags and this without going over the weight limit.
In the evening I took my brother who is spending an additional week in Shanghai to logo bar to meet Sebastian and Anita.


5/12
Today we went to a big aquarium in pudong. Lots of nice fish.


4/12
Took my parents to my next door really nice japanese all you can eat restaurant. We got "a little" sake drunk. After sending my parents home the party continued in our apartment where we played really loud music (payback for all the hours the workers upstairs have kept us awake in the mornings)
We "stole" a nice chair from our building down stairs in the lobby. Quit funny when the guards came up next morning smiling asking us to return the chair.


3/12
Today we went to Suzhou.
It is a one hour train-ride north of Shanghai.
we had a really great day. When we arrived a guy tried to convince us to take his taxi telling us that here in suzhou; we don't cheat people so you my friend get good price, only 100 rmb for all 4 persons.(said with the local asian english accent) For 100 rmb you can basically drive through Shanghai which means that the garden we were heading to should be around an hour away. On our map it was around two blocks away. Given the normal taxi prices we like to spoil our self when we go somewhere. We get their faster, it is easier to find the places and it is soooo convenient and pleasant and paying 2,5 danish kroner for a taxi ride somewhere is affordable.. hehe. And ones again we were right.. We took a normal taxi and the price as we expected.. 10 rmb.
In Suzhou we ran into a very nice man. At first he seemed like the other Chinese people who just want money but it turned out he was a local tour guide helping people just to be nice.
He took us around for nearly 6 hours showing us all the good spots in town. In the end when he left us we had an hour before getting on the train back to Shanghai. He actually came back just to make sure we would make it to the train station. We gave him some money but at first he wouldn't take them.

Hmm.. Chinese connection.. don't know what to say..

I haven't been able to enter my blogger page where I create the postings for my blog for a couple of days. A couple of weeks ago it was my blog I couldn't enter because China had decided to ban the page.. haha. (not only my page but all blogspots)

I have picked some radom pictures from different locations we have visited the first couple of days my parents have been here.


Ok so here is a little update from some of the days gone by.



2/12
Today we met with AlexBluto who took us to a local pottery marked. It was a marked where restaurants shop so it was cheap and for the first time we were not chased around by crazy sales people trying to convince us to shop at their place.
Later we went to Shanghai museum. Not my style really but I enjoy experiencing museums to know what they have to offer. This one had a lot of all Chinese paintings, coins and small jade statues.
In the evening we went to circus world to see a really spectacular show. The artist were really brilliant. One guy threw a huge ming vase in the air. He caught it with his head and left it balancing for a while. We saw a lot of crazy somersaults using fx trampolines.
When we came back we went to a local chinese restaurant and got some really good duck meat. I'm getting good at ordering, know a couple of valuable words by now.
My brother and I send my parents back to the hostel before we went to windows for cheap drinks, hip hop & r n' b and lots of mingling. From there we went to Glamour bar to find Andreas and since they were closing we ended up at Babyface for a huge house party. The homeless here call it babyfis or just fisse, fisse, fisse when they repeat the name fast. Quit funny when you are hammered and you know they don't know what it means in danish.



1/12
1 of december and I haven't seen anything xmas alike yet...
We went on a trip to Hanzhou today to see the nice and very beautiful local temples and pagodas. And to get out of Shanghai for the first time.
It was a two hour train before we came to the station. As usual loads of pirate taxi drivers wanted us to come with them for a ridicules huge price.. Am not that stupid really.
We spent all day in Hanzhou. It is really great having my family here experiencing China with them.



30/11
At one of my nights out I went to a place called La La Land for abut 5 minutes which was enough to say that I really liked the DJ. So today DJ Cage came to the office to meet the guys and talk about potential future jobs for 42below parties.

I met up with my parents later and we went to meet Phil and his lovely wife Bettina for dinner at a local Chinese restaurant where the staff were dancing and singing when we ordered specific dishes fx the donkey.

Family

29/11
Today we went to the yuyuan garden which is a beautiful traditional garden with Shanghai's first tea house.
To get there we walked through the old shanghai.
It is a really cool area where people hang the clothes they wash in the streets. You have a lot of local small restaurants and you can buy a lot of food on the streets.
We went back to pudong which is on the other side of the river. Here we went to a very big market where you can buy a lot of really cheap/very good quality things. Off course they have the fake shit here as well but the quality of it is really good and it is so damn cheap.
We had dinner at a chinese muslim restaurant with belly dancers performing. Alex, Elisa and Mozart came along.


28/11
My family met me at the office and we went out for lunch with the staff where I work. We went to Grandmothers which is one of my favorite chinese lunch restaurants here.
In the afternoon we went to pudong to get up in the third tallest building in the world, the pudong tower. Good view but very foggy.
We had dinner with my flat mate Denise at the brazilian restaurant Latina, where you get all the meat you can eat. Really like that place.


27/11
My parents came today a couple of hours later than expected. They got screwed big time in the taxi on the way from the airport and payed atleast 5 times the regular price. It was partly because of the trafffic and because the chinese driver was a lousy cheater.
After arriving and getting into the rooms we went to a chinese foot court where you can look at all the dishes before you chose.

One week since my last posting

I can see that it has been a week since my last posting so I thought it would be time for a little update... Wouldn't wanna disappoint all my fans.. ;o)
Actuall I have a tracking device now that can tell me how many visitors I have on my website and where in the world they are entering it from... So keep looking at it!!

Tomorrow my parents and my brother will arrive. That is going to be very nice!


Here is an update from last week here.


26/11
I found a place to play arcade games and I just love Metal slug so I spent a couple of hours completing Metal slug 4. Besides that I prepared some work and watched a movie.


25/11
What's better than spending a saturday night with your friends at a japanese all you can eat and drink restaurant...
I just fu..... love saké


We ended up at the funniest bar ever. I never in my life seen so many ugly european men hooking up with chinese girls. You could close your eyes, spin around, point and than handpick them... haha. Picture this: white tennis socks, boring jeans, beer belly, long ugly black beard, lousy old t'shirt and geeky glasses. That's the recipe of one of the most popular guys at the bar. When he left the bar the girl he was kissing stayed to my surprise.. but when he entered the taxi he was accompanied by another chinese girl... fun what money can buy... haha.


24/11
Today I went out to clean up the venue.
I must say that that 42Below vodka is going to kill me...haha. It is so good.. You don't put around 25% alcohol in your drinks...you put 75% alcohol in the drinks instead and the funny thing is you can't taste it...


23/11
We started at 09 in the morning with getting ready for the party.
The venue was Island 6 the beautiful art gallery.

Our bar


Anita And I. Sebastian was in Beijing but his girlfriend Anita showed up.


42Below


Shaking cocktails


I had invited all my flatmates. Alessio came along as well.


Andreas was also present at the party. This picture is taken outsite the venue on the way home. Phil, Ben, Marty, Andreas, Anita and I.



22/11
Party preparation day
We made unique cards (creditcard size) for all of the guests and had them delivered by courier the next day.
Long day at work. One of the machines for making the cards broke down and we weren't finished before ten at night. But damn they look really prof.


21/11
Had a massage today at a place where only blind people work... They should be very good at massaging and rumor has it that places where people can actually see are more likely to offer you a happy ending...haha and I only needed a maasage...
I have bought three copies of the new 007 movie but two copies only had russian sound and one version was the old flick in a new cover so I still need to see it..


20/11
Had chinese with Cindy
Got a haircut... Off course I had to visit Para Para to see what they were about.


Met Alex for dinner afterwards. We ate at a nice local Chinese restaurant.

pictures from 18/11 + 19/11

Dinah, Alex and I at the creative Bazar.


Astrid met us for the concert with Robin Gibb and later we went out to the club where we danced on the bar to the early morning.


The small street neighborhood Elisa and I found.


Walking down the train tracks


Crazy way to work. The workers were hand loading and emptying the ship. One person was doing nothing besides looking after all the workers. They were really working hard and fast, carrrying 60 stones in each arm at the time. One stone has the approximately weight of half a kilo...


Crazy traffic

19/11 - 06

Sightseeing day
As every other sunday Elisa and I go sight seeing. Today we went to two cool chinese temples. On the way back we walked through the coolest chinese area walking on a railway trail. We got to a neighborhood where the streets between the house were around half a meter wide. We could see through the windows to see how the chinese live. It was really interesting. Two things I will never eat here is pig tail and pig nose.
we ended the day with eating thai food with Mozart and Alessio.

18/11 - 06

Happy birthday MOM...

Today I went with Dinah and Alex to a creative Bazar. Basically a bazar for high quality junk only affordable for xpads... It was located at an art museum. I met sebatian again who was there with a cool photographer he knows.
Later we met up with Alex's friend Robin, my friend Astrid from sweden and her friend Dave from the UK to go to a concert with Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees.
And what a BURN OUT.... I'll give the concert 2,3. He had the coolest 30 person big orchestra with everything from violins to back up singers but his could not keep up with it. The backup singers sang all the high notes and he was just dull in his appearance, the music wasn't loud enough and they ended up playing staying alive 2 times in 15 minutes.
We ended the evening at a nice bar and disko where we danced on the bar and had free tequila shots.

17/11 - 06

Going out:
At one of my many visits to a japanese all you can eat restaurant I met Heidi and Morten from Denmark. This night I met up with Heidi to go to an event called Danish friday. Many of the Danes in Shanghai gathered at the Blue frog for drinks and food and a nice chat. I had a really nice time and spoke to some really interesting Danes with vary different jobs here in China.