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How Sinico S.p.A. and a chinese friend cheated me.

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 [...]

Falling, Falling Down.

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 [...]

iPhone Wallpaper: My Contribution.

I took personal favorites out of my 200 most popular flickr pictures and converted them into the iPhone accepted wallpaper size of 320 to 480 pixels.
Feel free to modify them or whatever, they are all with a creative commons license.
Enjoy these free iPhone wallpapers:

That’s it for now. If I can ever afford an iPhone myself, [...]

John Rabe - Little Report, With Video!

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 [...]

iPhone soon cheaper?

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!
Rate this: 2.5

WARNING! Do not buy The Sims 2: Pets (if you have a wife)!

We wanted a second Wii controller badly to play Wii Sports: Tennis and other games against each other, and the game store lady told us she would have new ones in last week.

Buying a Nintendo Wii in Shanghai.

But then I saw that the prices for HDTV’s didn’t drop that much and that we probably weren’t going to buy one anytime soon.

Insane rain in Pudong!

Of course a cellphone camera (here: Nokia N93i) can not really capture the forces of nature, but you get a idea of what was going on. Or is still going on. While typing this entry, it’s still raining outside…

Old Shanghai in Ang Lee’s new movie.

Most of the story seems to take place in ‘occupied Shanghai’, so I am guessing in the late 1930’s.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Now my stomach is back in order, I can eat whatever I want whenever I want without having to run to the nearest toilet within minutes after shoving it down.

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