Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Just next Wen Shu temple there is an are with old restored houses. One of the most impressive constructions there is this ancient 6 storey restored house. I can hardly believe that more than 100 hundred years ago there had been such tall houses in China. But then, Chengdu is ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
If You are from the West then You are probable famous in China. Maybe not in the modern cities like Shanghai or Beijing, but You definitely are in the rest of the country.
People will take photos of You. Sometimes they pretend to take a photo of a tree that is ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
After my two posts about Chinese food here and here, it's time to show a picture of a Chinese downtown, because apart from food the Chinese high buildings are really impressive and worth a post. Today's picture of a Chinese downtown comes from Chongqing.
Although Chongqing is quickly rising, its wealth ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'm not really sure if there is salad in China. I've been staying quite a while in Chinese territory, however salad (Western style or Chinese salad) was always a thing I missed. To be honest, I only saw one Chinese style salad during my Chinese traveling. Anyways, this Chinese salad ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Yesterday I got the chance to taste a little bit of China back here in good old Europe.
My girlfriend and me prepared some delicious hotpot. We invited some friends, who were a little bit surprised about the exotic food. We didn't tell them before what we had prepared for them. ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Seems like I was wrong.
In the last few days a bunch of explicit pictures of Hongkong stars hit the internet. These pictures leaked because some star forgot to delete the pictures before he brought his computer to a repair shop. Shit happens. There is lots of media coverage about this ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
1 more month of surviving the cold German climate. Then my plane departures. Luckily February is a rather short month.
I'm very busy at the moment with preparations and exams also.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Well not all parts of southern parts China. In Kunming there is no snow and the temperatures didn't drop below 0°C at any time. So what is the media here in the West telling us? I don't know. They probably just made an elephant out of a fly.
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