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!
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Posted on Feb 15.08 to China, Technology   

My wife, my parents-in-law and myself had a nice little Mahjong session just now. Real chinese Mahjong is played with 136 tiles which contain about 30 different characters, so that each one is about four times to be found in the game. Sounds a lot like Poker, doesn’t it? Wikipedia tells me that the game [...]

Posted on Feb 13.08 to China   

To all of you!
And a happy new year, of course.
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Posted on Dec 22.07 to China   

But then came the main event: The german-nationally famous electronic pop band called ‘2raumwohnung’ and boy did they make the chinese people dance!

 

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Posted on Oct 20.07 to China, Videography