So I just realized, in order to gain a broader audience, why not add more chinese in future posts? … And with sites like Wikipedia or the Google Language Tools, it’s easier than ever to have keywords or names translated to a foreign language (please write a Wordpress on-site plugin, anyone?)…

Posted on Mar 23.08 to China, Internet   

Quite a surprise, the price of the 8 gigabyte model of Apple’s iPhone dropped a whopping 125 dollars since the last time we asked! Back in December we were running around in that big electronics store at the Hong Kong plaza and back then the price was almost 650 dollars. Now the 16 GB version [...]

Posted on Mar 10.08 to China, Technology   

No Country For Old Men was this year’s winner at the academy awards, telling the story of an aged cop in a Texas that is getting more and more violent and out of control. Of course, it showed again the mistakes of normal people and how these mistakes can cost them their lives, as featured [...]

Posted on Mar 10.08 to China   

When Ben commented to my last post about the pictures from the movie John Rabe, I just headed over to YouTube to see if anything had been released there - officially or not. Sadly, I found no trailer - but a little report! DW, Deutsche Welle, was on the set reporting and seemed to have [...]

Posted on Feb 27.08 to China, Shanghai, Videography   

And just when you thought it was over a new story hits the internet!

So one of the girls Edison Chen (陈冠希) bedded, Gillian Chung, has been banned from the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Gillian Chung was supposed to perform during the the opening ceremony of the big show. Now she has been kicked out due to the [...]

Posted on Feb 26.08 to China   

Most of my friends know what I’ve been doing during the last three months: working with the VFX team on the german movie John Rabe. Sadly, no trailer has been officially released yet so I don’t really have anything to show. But! ‘Majestic Film Verleih’, the company who will bring the movie to german cinemas [...]

Posted on Feb 26.08 to China, Photography, Videography   

When we drove back from Wuzhen to Shanghai in January, we encountered the above posted police car. The first time it passed us by, I was like ‘wtf?’, that can’t really be a police car. But then I noticed the siren on top of the car as well as the white licence plate - and [...]

Posted on Feb 21.08 to China, Photography   

Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi’An city wall. The Xi’An city wall surrounds completely the inner downtown area, which makes it a incredible 13.74 kilometers long. It was established in the year 582, which was the second year [...]

Posted on Feb 18.08 to China, Photography   

Top topic among people in the wife’s and mine age rank this spring festival: the stolen sex tape pictures from Hong Kong star Edison Chen.
So this dude is a famous singer slash actor, and bedded recently quite an impressive amount of chinese female stars (god knows how many before, the thieves probably didn’t steal all [...]

Posted on Feb 15.08 to China   

Good news, I hope - maybe I’ll get it soon in Shanghai for less than 640 dollar?
Chinese Theft o’ the Day: Stolen iPhones, Plans
Another headline that made me smile while going through Google reader:
Fireworks warehouse explodes in Guangdong
I actually saw scenes from that explosion on some chinese news channel earlier. Hilarious!

Posted on Feb 15.08 to China, Technology