I was comfortable moving to Shanghai in 2005 because I knew I had work there. Selling machines from Europe to China. Eventually, in 2006, we build up a partnership with the italian company Sinico S.p.A. - they produce tube processing automation machines. Machines, that cut long tubes in small parts and make them ready for [...]

Posted on Jul 21.08 to China, Shanghai   

I’ve got a little cold from all the heat, to be more precise: From all the air conditioners standing everywhere. It’s not really healthy to have sudden temperature changes from over 20 degrees, but some people simply ignore this fact. Example: When I enter our office building, the temperature changes from 38° Celsius to 20° [...]

Posted on Jul 07.08 to China   

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