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3 février 2007

My 31st Birthday Party

After a quiet birthday with James Bond and a Friday where I met up with the Norwegian crew in Beijing, it was time to celebrate my birthday in style. I had booked a table at Alameda in Sanlitun. Alameda is a great Brazilian restaurant that always gets...

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11 mars 2007

Absinth

What sounds more complete than an evening filled with beer, pizza, Machine Head (heavy metal), Playstation 2 and Absinth?Answer: An evening fillled with beer, pizza, Machine Head, PS2, Absinth and Bowling! Dave and me kicked off the evening by almost...

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16 mars 2007

Damned Cold

You have to love China ... Beijing is a city of remote heating. They pipe the heat in and keep you and your apartment nice and toasty all winter. Granted they start a bit late ... In fact they wait until it's positively freezing outside. Only then do...

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24 février 2007

Saturday

Dinner and drinks! It sounds simple and mundane, but in Beijing it can quickly become exotic. Christian discovered just how exotic it can be when he got a snake dumped on him while he was enjoying his dinner. Steve's comment: "Dude, there's a snake on...

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14 février 2007

Valentine's Day

On the day that most people go on dates or do something special for their better halves, a group of us decided to meet up and make it anything but romantic. We met up at a Mongolian Hotpot restaurant right around the corner from where I live, where food...

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19 avril 2007

Caught in the Act Part Deux

It had been two months since our last show at Yugong Yishan, so we were happy to enter the stage again. It's nice to take our rehearsals and put them in to practical use in front of people. For our first show we had close to 200 people watching and this...

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20 février 2007

A RISKy evening

Vinny and me have been planning to start up our weekly routine involving dinner and a game of chess. We started it a year ago and kind of took a prolonged break over the summer (yes ... we've been busy and it has been a while, but we've both wanted to...

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15 mai 2007

Christian's Farewell Party

This Tuesday was a sad day. Christian was leaving. He's been one of the long-timers here, so I was very sad to see him go. The only correct thing to do, was to send him off in style. We started the evening at the fantastic Russian restaurant White Nights....

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18 mai 2007

17th of May

May 17th is an important day for all Norwegians: It is our independence day. Most Norwegians will struggle to remember whether we won our independence from Sweden or Denmark (or both), but that does not stop us from having one Hell of a party on their...

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9 mars 2007

The Master of Shakes

I've been making a lot of shakes lately. It's directly linked to me exercising 6 times a week and changing the number of meals I eat. I now try to eat 6 meals per day. So far it's going quite well. In order to get enough proteins in me, I make protein...

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17 février 2007

Chinese New Year

As is normal I wasn't quite clued in to what was happening around me, so only after I had invited Steve and some of the guys over for an evening of beer, whiskey and PS2 did I find out that today was actually Chinese New Years eve. The crew still gathered...

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11 février 2007

Caught in the Act

If you're not living in Beijing then you haven't heard that I've joined an improv troupe. The idea was spawned in November last year, when Jonathan and me wanted to do something different from the Beijing Actors Workshop. We gathered some excellent folks...

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11 février 2007

Presents in the mail

I received a little not in my mailbox that I almost threw away because I couldn't read it and it didn't look very important. Luckily I didn't. I asked a friend of mine to translate it and I was informed that I needed to go to to the post office to pick...

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1 février 2007

My Birthday

As my birthday fell on a Thursday I had already decided that the big splash would happen on Saturday. 14 people had confirmed that they would show up for dinner on Saturday, so it would be all good. Thursday was kind of quiet. I worked from home like...

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22 mars 2007

Steffi comes visiting

After two and a half months I was finally meeting Steffi again. Instead of a rendezvous in Europe, she was coming to visit me here in Beijing. Time had flown since we said good bye in Munich in January. To celebrate her return to China, we went to one...

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1 février 2007

A new blog

Most people don't even have a blog. With the creation of this one, I now have 3: One for traveling, one for planning the sailing trip and now this one for everything that doesn’t fit in to the other two. I have thought about creating this blog for quite...

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5 mars 2007

You'll never guess

I might have neglected to inform people at home that the apartment directly underneath mine is a thriving brothel. Nothing obscene or vulgar, but a few girls making good coin catering to those that have more $$$. About 10 minutes ago I was sitting in...

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1 février 2007

30-something

When I woke up this morning, I was no longer 30; I had become 30-something. Once people pass 30 they stop counting the years and either stay 29 for the rest of their lives, at least in number if not in body, or they don’t talk about it. I have a long-term...

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12 février 2007

Ludovic's lecture

I left work an hour early, so that I could get to the Bookworm in time for Ludovic's lecture. I met Ludovic a couple of weeks ago through Vinny and was sorry to miss the first time he talked about his travels, so I wasn't about to miss it again. This...

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4 mai 2007

Midi Festival

As everyone probably knows, May Day is a big thing in all communist and socialist countries. China is naturally no different. They do the boring military parades as well, but since that's more for the old die-hards, they also put on a big music festival...

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