Archive for the ‘Improve Yourself’ Category

Accepting drinks in a Chinese disco

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

One of the unique features of a Chinese nightclub, disco or bar is, the Westener often gets free drinks sponsored by other customers. Some popular explanations include that the Chinese want to impress the Westener so the Westerner stays with this particular Chinese guy. From the Western perspective paying drinks ...

2010 plans

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Hey guys! 2009 is over. Hope you got well into 2010. A new year, new opportunities! Changes and Improvements. So let's answer the question: What do I want to achieve in 2010? This year is going to be a year of fundamental changes in my life and I have to ...

2009 review

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Much has happened this year other things didn't, here I will review 2009. My computer science studies progressed a lot and I'm close to graduation. This is a nice fact, but the biggest archievement in 2009 for me was that I started to read Chinese text. Somewhere on the internet ...

Sleepless nights

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

My fellow reader Aremonus told me in a few comments on this blog, that if I get everything right, I should get the same salary in Asia as I get in Germany. I hope you are right. My graduation comes nearer and in January, but not later than February, I ...

What difficulties did you encounter learning Chinese?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Today my mate Nino at MKL wrote about difficulties while learning Chinese and he is asking his readers what difficulties they encountered learning Chinese. First I wanted to write a short comment there, but I guess it's to much to summarize it in a short blog comment. So I take ...

Many roads lead to Asia

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Before I start with what I have on my mind, I want to post a picture of the beautiful view my Shanghai apartment offered me last month. My apartment had a great view of high rises, medium sized houses and a park. Going to the park took just 5 minutes. Very ...

Keeping it real the Chinese way

Friday, September 4th, 2009

What do You want to be someday? What is Your future dream job? This is a question everyone of us faces sooner or later. The more dreamy of us might be a musician, the lazybones might try English teacher, hard working people might get into some management position, but what do ...

Shanghai and other plans

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

It has been a long time since my last post and I might simply claim it's the summer's fault. But a lot has happened this year and a lot is going to happen. I was pretty busy, except for the last 2 weeks, where I relaxed and shook of the ...

Hi everyone! I'm interested in the Chinese speaking world and here I write about it. Currently in Europe, but soon back in Asia ;)


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