Monday, November 06, 2006
Now on www.kaospilot.dk
A little story about me and my internship here with confuciussays on www.kaospilot.dk
Sunday, November 05, 2006
More pictures from 4/11
The bar
Phil and I.
Fun to play around with the mirrors they had in the bathroom at the museum
Phil and I.
Fun to play around with the mirrors they had in the bathroom at the museum
pictures from 4/11
Kong bao ji ding - part two, now with a nicer look...hehe.. some people said the dish looked a little disgusting so I thought I would bring you a better picture of my favorit chinese dish.
The museum / bar where we had the 42below party this saturday.
It is a really beautiful venue both inside and outside
Our cool bartenders. Jake, Aaron and I.
Last member of the crew was Ben.
42below in the house
The museum / bar where we had the 42below party this saturday.
It is a really beautiful venue both inside and outside
Our cool bartenders. Jake, Aaron and I.
Last member of the crew was Ben.
42below in the house
Pictures from 30/10 & 1/11
30/10
Shanghai by night.
Alex and I at a local supermarket
1/11
Mozart and Elisa at the Japanese all you can eat and drink restaurant.
Our italien friend Alex and I at the same restaurant.
Shanghai by night.
Alex and I at a local supermarket
1/11
Mozart and Elisa at the Japanese all you can eat and drink restaurant.
Our italien friend Alex and I at the same restaurant.
pictures from 28/10
These are pictures from my visit at Island 6 with Mark.
The Island 6 gallery
Mark and I
The disco Le Fabrique where we had cheap drinks and where I met Mark's friends.
like a local: This is the food stand he got to com in the middle of the night just to serve us..
The Island 6 gallery
Mark and I
The disco Le Fabrique where we had cheap drinks and where I met Mark's friends.
like a local: This is the food stand he got to com in the middle of the night just to serve us..
5/11 - 06
Was very tired after last night.. and off course I woke up again ten hours too early from noise in our building..getting really fat up with that shit...
Went to see a local typical chinese temple with my roomy Elisa and her friend Alex.
After enjoying a movie in the afternoon Elisa and I went to thecoolest brazilian restaurant where you get all you can eat plus drinks and desert. They staff will come to your table and cut out the meat for you. It is an overfload of extremely well tasting meat from cows, pigs and sheeps... loved it...
Went to see a local typical chinese temple with my roomy Elisa and her friend Alex.
After enjoying a movie in the afternoon Elisa and I went to thecoolest brazilian restaurant where you get all you can eat plus drinks and desert. They staff will come to your table and cut out the meat for you. It is an overfload of extremely well tasting meat from cows, pigs and sheeps... loved it...
4/11 - 06
Today I went around the area I live in in the opposite direction of what I usual do when I go to the metro. It is a really cool area.. I ended up at a nice cheap shoping mall where I bought another pair af shoes and a pair of jeans.. great quality, even better price.. :o)
One of the shoes I bought had been miscollared from being on display and they wouldn't give me an aditional discount.. but it was still cheap so I just went home and washed it and now it is as ggood as new..
This night we had the first 42below party since I have arrived. It was at a cool venue, A musseum turned into a bar and area to sit outsite. We had a dancefloor with a DJ and I was in the bar all night serving delicious cocktails.
The flavors from 42below (like the passion fruit, kiwi, feijoa, and the manuka honey vodka) are really unique and when you mix them with different ingredients like ginger sirup, lemongrass sirup, kiwi, watermelon and cucumber you get some really brilliant strong cocktails that will knock you down..hehe. So I felt when I started mixing my own private cocktails in the end of the party..fucking great.... :o)
One of the shoes I bought had been miscollared from being on display and they wouldn't give me an aditional discount.. but it was still cheap so I just went home and washed it and now it is as ggood as new..
This night we had the first 42below party since I have arrived. It was at a cool venue, A musseum turned into a bar and area to sit outsite. We had a dancefloor with a DJ and I was in the bar all night serving delicious cocktails.
The flavors from 42below (like the passion fruit, kiwi, feijoa, and the manuka honey vodka) are really unique and when you mix them with different ingredients like ginger sirup, lemongrass sirup, kiwi, watermelon and cucumber you get some really brilliant strong cocktails that will knock you down..hehe. So I felt when I started mixing my own private cocktails in the end of the party..fucking great.... :o)
3/11 - 06
Today I spoke with my best friend from back home on the phone and online for the first time since I have arrived here... Wierd to not talk to someone for two and a half week when you are used to seeing that person nearly every fucking day.. :o)
Fun to hear all the things that have been going on..hehe but I must say it is a constant hazzle with him to keep people on my side..hehe..
Later I met with Alex. We wnet to buy shoes at a really cool local skater shop. On the way I finally found a place to buy cheap cd's here. However the quality is not at all as good as when you buy the dvds... Bought 6 cds, half of them won't play... all I can do is :o) ... and think well this is china... I another day I wanted to refill my metro card and the lady behind the counter wouldn't except my coins and wouldn't tell me why (I wouldn't be able to understand anyway :o), but she didn't at all tried, she just pushed the money back... again I could just smile and say well this is china..
Fun to hear all the things that have been going on..hehe but I must say it is a constant hazzle with him to keep people on my side..hehe..
Later I met with Alex. We wnet to buy shoes at a really cool local skater shop. On the way I finally found a place to buy cheap cd's here. However the quality is not at all as good as when you buy the dvds... Bought 6 cds, half of them won't play... all I can do is :o) ... and think well this is china... I another day I wanted to refill my metro card and the lady behind the counter wouldn't except my coins and wouldn't tell me why (I wouldn't be able to understand anyway :o), but she didn't at all tried, she just pushed the money back... again I could just smile and say well this is china..
Thursday, November 02, 2006
2/11 - 06
Through my landlord Lee I have met Dinah; a nice chinese girl who speaks eglish very well. She took me around town to eat at a little local chinese/western joint.. I got my own plate and for the first time in two and a half week I got a knife and fork as well... :o) I nearly used them like chopsticks..haha
01/11 - 06
today I met with Cindy at my apartment to have my 3 chinese lesson... By now I know have to say the dog goes to the park and the old man goes to the post office to post a letter... At some point I'll write it down so you can start practicing.
For dinner my roomates and I went to this great japanese restaurant where you get all you can eat and drink for 88rmb / 65kr / 11dollars. We spend 4 hours drinking sake (a nice Japanese alcohol you drink as heated up shots) and eating like crazy.. I had 8 dishes.. 2 of them were not in my mind eatable though.. It was supposed to be chicken..well and it kind of was but it was chicken bones on a stick and the other dish was chicken grease on a stick. But I had three different fish and they were just amazing.
For dinner my roomates and I went to this great japanese restaurant where you get all you can eat and drink for 88rmb / 65kr / 11dollars. We spend 4 hours drinking sake (a nice Japanese alcohol you drink as heated up shots) and eating like crazy.. I had 8 dishes.. 2 of them were not in my mind eatable though.. It was supposed to be chicken..well and it kind of was but it was chicken bones on a stick and the other dish was chicken grease on a stick. But I had three different fish and they were just amazing.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
My Chinese name.
I got a Chinese name:
睿思睦
rui si mu
it is chinese for:
睿(rui)思(si)睦(mu) : Wisdom & Thinking & Peace
Monday, October 30, 2006
31/10 - 06
Had my first posting today on confuciussays official website.
Am writing about marketing here so check out www.confuciussays.cc
Don't forget to read the whole article. Already know what my next piece will be about but too early to tell you..
As part of my job here we have decided that I shall lead the new morning meetings everyday from 0930-10 which started today. We were creating some drawings of each other in order to learn how to look differently at things and sometimes more detailed. After that we spoke about Watsons which is a potential client of ours.
So i'm prety satisfied.
Finally got the new battery for my computer Able has send me.. and my webcam is up and running...
Am writing about marketing here so check out www.confuciussays.cc
Don't forget to read the whole article. Already know what my next piece will be about but too early to tell you..
As part of my job here we have decided that I shall lead the new morning meetings everyday from 0930-10 which started today. We were creating some drawings of each other in order to learn how to look differently at things and sometimes more detailed. After that we spoke about Watsons which is a potential client of ours.
So i'm prety satisfied.
Finally got the new battery for my computer Able has send me.. and my webcam is up and running...
30/10 - 06
Had my second chinese lesson today in a nice park (which I can now say in chinese but not spell)
Went out with Alex to buy a webcam and 26 new dvds....
Went out with Alex to buy a webcam and 26 new dvds....
29/10 - 06
Going to the supermarket here i quite an experience... so many products, 99% in chinese and out of the food products I can probably guess the content of about 2%...
But hi I got water, soda, carrots, bread, shampoo and things like that. They laber here is so low that they can afford to have about 50 employees too many. That means that next to every single one of the shelves you have someone standing doing absolutely nothing waiting for a wierd costumer like me they can help.. funny how they have realized we can't talk.. so they just keep on daydreaming.
The evening I spent at Marty's. He was teaching us 42below cocktails. Next saturday we have a promotion party where I will be mixing these nice cocktails all night.
One of the other bartenders Jake and I went for a snack before we went home. We ended up at this typical chinese place where we ordered 4 different big dishes for 100 rmb which is expensive here but compared to DK it is still very cheap. It is redicules how much waste food you get when you just order away cause you wwanna try different things.
I eat lunch with the company everyday and fortunately they know how much we'll be able to eat so we will still order many different things but we will hardly waste anything.
I love here how you share everything... just pick what you like from the bowls with your chop sticks and start eating.. :o)
But hi I got water, soda, carrots, bread, shampoo and things like that. They laber here is so low that they can afford to have about 50 employees too many. That means that next to every single one of the shelves you have someone standing doing absolutely nothing waiting for a wierd costumer like me they can help.. funny how they have realized we can't talk.. so they just keep on daydreaming.
The evening I spent at Marty's. He was teaching us 42below cocktails. Next saturday we have a promotion party where I will be mixing these nice cocktails all night.
One of the other bartenders Jake and I went for a snack before we went home. We ended up at this typical chinese place where we ordered 4 different big dishes for 100 rmb which is expensive here but compared to DK it is still very cheap. It is redicules how much waste food you get when you just order away cause you wwanna try different things.
I eat lunch with the company everyday and fortunately they know how much we'll be able to eat so we will still order many different things but we will hardly waste anything.
I love here how you share everything... just pick what you like from the bowls with your chop sticks and start eating.. :o)
28/10 - 06
I found a couple of things I can stand about China.. but for now I'm just trying to accept it, cope with it, fight against it or ignore it :o)
Don't like stand up toilets and never will... And why do I have to bring my own toilet paper when I go to a public bathroom and in fact most of the restaurants as well... Damn that...
I'm getting used to the some times impolite attitude you get when you need help in a store... even when I have had chinese company I experienced an ignorence and a lack of willingness to help... but hi you learn a lot about culture, understanding and being persistant.
This morning I woke up 6 hours too early (compared to the time you get up when you have been out drinking the night before) because some construction workers had chosen this happy saturday morning around 0735 to start knocking, hammering, drilling and in general just making a lot of noise inside my building.. but hi... that's completely normal.. especially when they also do it on sundays, mondays.... Good dammit.... Got my land lord to write a note to the security in chinese telling them to shut down the power in the building when the construction workers starts working too early (they are not allow to)
Nice roomies I have. We enjoy watching a movie together and jest have a pleasant time.
This night I went with my friend Mark to an art gallery called island 6. It is such a cool place. It is an old house on a protected field in the middle of all the skyscrapers. After viewing the art exhibition (www.island6.org) we hooked up with Mark's friends Sebastian, his girlfriend Anita and b6, both DJs at the disco fabrique.
Mark is creating a really cool website called: like a local (www.likealocal.cn) which is basically a website where you can locate all the cheap good restaurants in Shanghai. Later on it will also cover accommodation and how to get a bike for instance.
when I went home we went to get some food but his usual supplier wasn't at the streetcorner so all he did was to call them up and after 5 minutes two girls, and trolley loaded with food and a stove were ready to serve us...like a local baby...
Don't like stand up toilets and never will... And why do I have to bring my own toilet paper when I go to a public bathroom and in fact most of the restaurants as well... Damn that...
I'm getting used to the some times impolite attitude you get when you need help in a store... even when I have had chinese company I experienced an ignorence and a lack of willingness to help... but hi you learn a lot about culture, understanding and being persistant.
This morning I woke up 6 hours too early (compared to the time you get up when you have been out drinking the night before) because some construction workers had chosen this happy saturday morning around 0735 to start knocking, hammering, drilling and in general just making a lot of noise inside my building.. but hi... that's completely normal.. especially when they also do it on sundays, mondays.... Good dammit.... Got my land lord to write a note to the security in chinese telling them to shut down the power in the building when the construction workers starts working too early (they are not allow to)
Nice roomies I have. We enjoy watching a movie together and jest have a pleasant time.
This night I went with my friend Mark to an art gallery called island 6. It is such a cool place. It is an old house on a protected field in the middle of all the skyscrapers. After viewing the art exhibition (www.island6.org) we hooked up with Mark's friends Sebastian, his girlfriend Anita and b6, both DJs at the disco fabrique.
Mark is creating a really cool website called: like a local (www.likealocal.cn) which is basically a website where you can locate all the cheap good restaurants in Shanghai. Later on it will also cover accommodation and how to get a bike for instance.
when I went home we went to get some food but his usual supplier wasn't at the streetcorner so all he did was to call them up and after 5 minutes two girls, and trolley loaded with food and a stove were ready to serve us...like a local baby...
27/10 - 06
Today I had arranged a meeting with Peppes pizza.
It is a big Norwegian brand which has just recently opened their two first stores in China.
The meeting went very well. Phil and I spoke to Ørjan from Peppes pizza who is a very nice norwegian man. And we got to taste the pizzas before we left. We presented our approach and some of our ideas and from now the next step is for me to finish a proposal Ørjan can look at to consider if we can enter some form of coorporation.
I took a long walk to get back home that afternoon.
One of the first days here I was in a huge shopping mall where I saw loads of interesting, trendy VERY typical Chinese brands like... dyrberg & kern, vero moda, only and Bang & olufson...
this afternoon I found bo concept. Wierd to walk in to a store for a danish brand without finding a single person able to speak danish... or at least english...
A few days earlier I had called the Danish ambasy here in Shanghai to see if I could get a hold on some dane.. I reached Christina who brought me along for a wonderful evening with about ten danes. We went to the JW Mariott hotel for martini night where you get free martinis 2 hours for 100rmb/70dkkr/12dollars.
We went on to all the other high profile places in Shanghai. We ate at a rooftop restaurant called height and than we went to a really posh place called the glamour bar where you off course can get 42below in the bar.
It is a big Norwegian brand which has just recently opened their two first stores in China.
The meeting went very well. Phil and I spoke to Ørjan from Peppes pizza who is a very nice norwegian man. And we got to taste the pizzas before we left. We presented our approach and some of our ideas and from now the next step is for me to finish a proposal Ørjan can look at to consider if we can enter some form of coorporation.
I took a long walk to get back home that afternoon.
One of the first days here I was in a huge shopping mall where I saw loads of interesting, trendy VERY typical Chinese brands like... dyrberg & kern, vero moda, only and Bang & olufson...
this afternoon I found bo concept. Wierd to walk in to a store for a danish brand without finding a single person able to speak danish... or at least english...
A few days earlier I had called the Danish ambasy here in Shanghai to see if I could get a hold on some dane.. I reached Christina who brought me along for a wonderful evening with about ten danes. We went to the JW Mariott hotel for martini night where you get free martinis 2 hours for 100rmb/70dkkr/12dollars.
We went on to all the other high profile places in Shanghai. We ate at a rooftop restaurant called height and than we went to a really posh place called the glamour bar where you off course can get 42below in the bar.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
26/10
Work task today... To get two whiteboards for the office in order to start visualizing the different ideas, concepts and network.
One of my tasks here is to look at the internal communication flow and come up with ideas for how to implement a continuous great communication while expanding.
Alexbluto
I met with my friend Alexbluto for a walk around people's square. He helped me get some different electronic things I need here.
We had a great time.. He is really good at bargaining. Even though I'm good at it the start price will always be higher when it is a foreign person bargaining than when it is a local chinese person.
One of my tasks here is to look at the internal communication flow and come up with ideas for how to implement a continuous great communication while expanding.
Alexbluto
I met with my friend Alexbluto for a walk around people's square. He helped me get some different electronic things I need here.
We had a great time.. He is really good at bargaining. Even though I'm good at it the start price will always be higher when it is a foreign person bargaining than when it is a local chinese person.
Snakes on a plane...
Enough is enough.
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.
Check the coolest b-movie...
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.
Check the coolest b-movie...
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