Thought of the day: If they ever invent a machine that can: open jars, press out the last tooth paste, act as a warm pillow in the night, lift heavy things, act as body-o-comfort when strange noise appear and take a verbal scolding with a straight face for something you haven’t the slightest idea what […]
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Yeah – that sounded pretty girlish, but oh well. Try this to check out ours (you know you want to): Websites as Graphs This is mine: What do the colors mean? blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for images (the IMG […]
What the hell is up with bowties? What man really wants a bow tied to his neck? For one I think it looks like a squid ink coloured Pasta Farfalle? And why is it that bowties is expected at the Oscar Awards and not at weddings, office work or changing oil on your lawnmower? So […]
If you for some reason haven’t tripped on Ben’s writing about working 1 month in a Chinese barbershop, I would highly recommend that you took a look. He ventured into the project with open eyes and blog about his observations in-between 8 hours of sleep and 11 hours of work every single day. Take a […]
A little update on C’s tomato plant adventure. This is what our window pane now looks like: C makes sure the cuties get their water and love (unlike me) Note that we actually had luck giving away more than 20 tomato plants already. At least 10 were given to C’s schoolmates. My parents were also […]
NERD ALERT! Turn back now if you want to keep sane. Sometimes I make a few hardware tests for a Counter-Strike community called SLAP Ligaen. Mostly it is related gaming gear like mouse pads, mice and headsets, but the other day a box of different goodies dropped in. As always it’s exciting to test the […]
About 1½ month, and I’ll be off to China to visit the in-laws and short sightseeing in Beijing. We’ll be in China for a full month. I bought the tickets ages ago, well, at least 1 month so that’s all taken care of. Then there’s the obligatory insurance (well, obligatory for decease attractors like me […]
Please tell me the test site is wrong? My homepage blocked by the Great Firewall? It has to be a joke if this is true. I don’t think my writing is anywhere near offensive to China. I haven’t heard anyone complain that I was blocked at all, so I cross my fingers for a temporary […]
Remember it’s mothers day this Sunday. Well if you have a mother worth celebrating of course. :-) Luckily I have which means that C and I will go see her and have a good time with my folks.
Last summer C bought a tomato plant. Big was the surprise when my father told her it would grow to reach the ceiling before long. Bigger was her excitement, when he told her she should save some of the seeds from its tomatoes and plant this year. She never thought about that, and neither did […]
Learning Danish takes some hard work. Especially if your main language is Chinese, which isn’t comparable at all. C was randomly picked to participate in a questionnaire about health in Aalborg. She didn’t have to, but she still wanted to. No matter the difficulty of the language. So she sat down and started translating everything. […]
If you live in China, I bet this is nothing new to you. An electrical bicycle. Here in Denmark I have never heard of them, but it turns out one of C’s friends have one which she uses to go to language school sometimes. So I was a little surprised when I saw it. At […]
C started an internship in a clothes shop last Monday. We waited for this chance for some time. It is really an internship to learn Danish better, but also a good way to gain access to the Danish work market. She was very nervous and even though she wanted this in her heart, she was […]
After more than 1 year of saving, it seems that I’ll be back in China this summer. It’s been some ride economically, as the whole trip depended on whether I got a big tax return as expected (and planned). Meanwhile waiting for the final say from the tax office (the go being given only a […]
Do you remember your first hangover? I mean the first REALLY bad one. The one where you mixed way too much beer, liquor and wine and the next day you were punished for it. You were participant in a one day puke-aton and you won by miles. You wanted to die. Do you remember the […]
Last week C cooked up one of my favourites. Chinese beef soup with huge horse beans. Absolutely yummy. As always I tried to make casual strolls to the kitchen to get a whiff of the coming treat. That day I found this sight:
I learn new stuff about Chinese and in particular my wife every day. The other day I was wondering what some dry tea-leaves were doing on the bathroom table, but forgot to ask C. When something strange like that happens, I have learned to ask before cleaning it up. As expected I forgot to ask […]
Found this toy at Meg’s site. Just had to try it out. Geeks will be geeks! :-) Create your own visitor map!
Monday C took the 2nd of 5 exams needed to complete the obligatory Danish course. She had to do both written and oral tests, and had to wait until today to hear the result. It was a pretty gloomy wait, but today she was told she passed. C has been nervous since before Christmas, and […]
Yesterday I received an email from a reader of this blog. A Chinese girl, who was interested in knowing my idea about the difference in perspective and personality between Chinese and Danish girls. The question made me ramble on, and think hard about the subject. This is my reply to her (slightly edited to keep […]
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