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Dec 3rd, 2008 by Peter
Time of death: December 3rd 2008 – 4.00pm
If not dead, then maybe more suiting in hibernation with no deadline. You never know, but right now it feels dead as the world economy.
It has been fun, but all good things have to end.
Thanks to all those who read and commented here.
Oct 17th, 2008 by Peter
….. don’t look here. There is really nothing interesting happening here at the moment.
Oct 8th, 2008 by Peter
It’s no secret that I hate city busses and the way people behave when they enter a bus. It isn’t a secret either, that I hate repairing my bike when the tire runs flat.
Flat is exactly what you can call my bike these days. Laziness got the better of me, so I’m a certified “busee” atm. Not only do I have to get up 15mins earlier to take the bus, but I also have to endure all the negatives of bus riding.
This morning I almost strangled a woman because she well was egoistic.
Danish city busses have 1 entry door and 2 exits. The entry is in the front, and the two exits are in the middle and the back. Both window rows are filled with seats and there’s a path in the centre of the bus. When you enter, it’s polite to move backwards into the bus, leaving room for new travellers. This normally works ok, until people get to the middle, where the first exit door is located. Then people automatically stop and “forget” moving along, since they want to stay close to the exit. Selfish shit. When this happens, the bus driver has to get up and shout for people to move back in the bus. If he doesn’t, no one will move an inch and people can’t get in. Continue Reading »
Oct 7th, 2008 by Peter
Maybe it’s just me, but the last week, I have noticed an increasing number of girls that decided to wear short skirts and pantyhose. This disregarding the fact that in the same time, it has become pretty cold in the mornings and after the dark sets in (approximately 0-5 degrees celcius).
C has noticed it too. Being a Chinese, she find it very odd and irrational this time of the year. Its like girls here are desperate to use their skirts before it is definitely too late. I would have argued that it already was and expect plenty of colds to hit sporadically among the female race the next weeks ahead.
Its not that I’m complaining or anything (I am a man, aren’t I?), but got to wonder what sparks this behaviour.
Am I the only Dane that has noticed this trend?
Sep 30th, 2008 by Peter
. You should have been around me yesterday. After 4-5 hours of writing a review of the new Acer Predator on my laptop, it suddenly died. Bluescreen and all.
It tried to reboot but nothing helped. Couldn’t even get to where it repaired the hard drive. The bluescreen gave random error descriptions every time, but it looked like hardware trouble. I figured it could be either memory or hard disk issues, so removed half the memory twice, with no effect.
Then after repetitive retries, it suddenly booted only to crash as I pointed my mouse on the document with the review. Doh.
The semi-success made me a bit optimistic, so tried rebooting plenty of times and at last it came around and I managed to drag the document to C computer (on the net). Then as I released the mouse crash. Continue Reading »
Sep 18th, 2008 by Peter
So I’ve re-opened my Facebook account. Could have sworn I wouldn’t, but turns out it’s getting an important part of the net for many people.
It’s still flooded with games and annoying info, but guess I just have to get use to that to get the good stuff from it. The good stuff being keeping up with and renewing old connections, which is the part I really like. I’ll have to look into the privacy and general settings to keep the worst “spam” at bay though.
Sep 16th, 2008 by Peter
This may have interest for the Danes reading this blog.
For curious non-Danes: don’t think more about it. It’s a petition for Danes being allowed double citizenship, which is not legal atm.
Sep 11th, 2008 by Peter
Think I have to re-evaluate our marriage.
This evening as I helped my wife out with some Danish translations she accidentally called me 教师 (teacher).
Sep 11th, 2008 by Peter
Here I should have been writing a whole lot about how we tried to get our money back from the Chinese bank. As you may know, they decided to “withdraw” the fee we already paid here in Denmark from the transferred cash, instead of getting them from the Danish bank as the OUR agreement states they should.
As you can guess I won’t write any of those things.
Why? Well, C finally caved and agreed that we’d probably never see the money anyway, and the trouble of trying wasn’t worth the possible refund. We’ve been getting nowhere, and the ICBC isn’t helpful at all. So we gave up. Hands down. You win our money this round you no good lazy crooks ICBC.
From now on we’ll follow the advice of commenters here, and use the SHA code for future transfers. Not happy to be “forced” to do so, but that’s the only way to make sure our money isn’t stolen unexplainably lost. Continue Reading »
Sep 10th, 2008 by Peter
Blogging wil continue….. hopefully.
I’m not taking any chances, so I bought some UV filter sunglasses and will eat my daily snack 5 minutes before they push the button. Not taking any chances with that one.
Mmm…. snack… *drool*
Sep 3rd, 2008 by Peter
Recently we sent some money to Cs father and mother. We’ve done so a few times already, because they need the necessary doe to prepare passport and visa for their hopefully upcoming trip to visit us here in Denmark. For us the fees are peanuts, but for them, it’s a whole lot of money.
We have sent money before, but normally we mailed them by regular letters. This march, we tried transferring the cash between our bank, and theirs (the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China). It turned out to be no easier task to arrange, and in the end and not faster either. At least it is way more secure. I thought.
The last 2 transfers we made didn’t make it completely. Both of them were 100USD.
Here’s a brief explanation to how such transactions is supposed to work:
When you transfer money you can do it via PC bank (I did this). First you write name of the receiver, his bank account number, the receiving banks BIC/IBAN numbers and their name. This part can be hard to obtain from Denmark. Continue Reading »
Aug 29th, 2008 by Peter
Disclaimer: I am not paid to make this review. It’s done because I really like this bag, and feels it deserves a review (I couldn’t find others on the net when I tried before I made my purchase. I guess that goes for others too, so why not help them out?).
This Tuesday I got a parcel with my new Lowepro Fastpack 250 multiuse/camera bag.
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The Lowepro Fastpack 250
I just HAD to write a review, even though no one asked me (that’s just the kinda fella I am). You didn’t ask for it, but you got it!
I have checked the net out for a long time. I needed a backpack to replace my “normal” one. The new one had to combine the following 3 purposes (in priority):
Aug 20th, 2008 by Peter
Need to brush up on your Chinese character recognition?
Then maybe Stig in Shanghai has a handy tool for you. This is a link is to his blog, which is in Danish, but no worries… Read on.
Check the game out yourself here. (In English and Danish if you like too).
There is both a web and a flash version. The latter can be used directly on your cellphone for the long hours in bus or train (need flashplayer installed on it though). Pretty cool stuff.
Kudos to Stig!
Aug 11th, 2008 by Peter
What the h… did Mark “Da Shan” Rowswell do in the Olympics parade?
I read that he is attached as a “consultant” to the Canadian sports people, but why was he allowed to walk in the parade with them? It’s a sportsman event, not an “I-love-to-see-myself-in-the-media-event”, is it? Any one but me who would like to see him and Paris Hilton battle it out in a celebrity death match?
Unfortunately I didn’t get a still of his happy face as he walked with all the other athletes. I have to admit that it pissed me a bit off, which may have caught your attention. But on the other hand, plenty of other countries probably had their “Da Shan” with them too and that didn’t give me rage. So maybe it’s just because I don’t like Da Shan very much (no offence Canada!).
Actually the opening ceremony was a bit so-so if you ask me. I’m a grumpy hard to impress bitch, I know, but I had expected a bit more from a land that invented the Craptaculars. Cool in all ways, but missed that little extra to make me go “wauw”. Continue Reading »
Aug 2nd, 2008 by Peter
Sixth in the series of “What we did in Norway on our vacation pictures”
Sometimes pictures say more than words (at least when they are accompanied by wording, right?).
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Aug 1st, 2008 by Peter
Fifth in the series of “What we did in Norway on our vacation pictures” and some thoughts
I had a small discussion with C the other day. It followed one of my many friendly taunts regarding C’s love for fruit and fish. More precicely: free fruit and fish of course. She does love them bought too, but I’ve noticed that there is nothing better for her, than for example cherries freshly picked from a public tree (read: free).
The fruit could be second rate tasty, but that doesn’t matter, they are the best ever. Last year, C picked many kilos of cherries from a park. She kept them in the freezer and took out a few 100g once in a while. Some weren’t even all red, but they were still the best cherries in the world.
She also loves apples, pears and plums. Sour apples are good too. If they are too sour, she just doesn’t eat the skin, or give them to our rabbits.
On our vacation in Norway we caught some fish in the fjord. None were too small. They were free of charge and C loved them. She also managed to catch some tiny crabs. They were so small that they couldn’t have had any meat on then. Fortunately she only found out how to catch these on our last day there, so she didn’t manage to overstuff our portable freezer box. The crabs were used for hot pot back home in Denmark. Luckily I wasn’t home when that feast was prepared. I don’t care much for fish/sea smell. According to C they were yummy. Continue Reading »
This post is inspired by Ben’s recent entry.
My wife always tells me that she does not feel full for a long time unless she eats rice. If we eat Danish food (potatoes, pasta, salad, bread or whatever) one day, she will often complain that she miss rice the next.
When I giggled at her attempt to convince me to eat rice for dinner, she said something like this: “You don’t know what it’s like. I’m Chinese, and we NEED rice”. I believed her. I remembered how I missed huge chunks of meat when she moved here, and the menu suddenly changed to meaty to “vegetably” overnight.
By now I don’t eat that much meat anymore, but sometimes I crave for a huge beef or similar. As my wife started working, I noticed that she started yearning meat after a long days work too. Then she went back to studying and changed again. Now she work again, and guess what? Continue Reading »
Jul 30th, 2008 by Peter
U.S Senator Sam Brownback, claims that some Beijing hotels had their arms twisted on their back and was forced to install surveillance equipment to spy on their guests Internet usage.
At a conference he handed out translated documents to back his claims. According to the documents, hotels who fail to comply with the instructions will be fined 5.000 yuan for an individual and 15.000 yuan for an organization.
Jul 29th, 2008 by Peter
Should have worn it last summer. I would have earned roughly 100kuai just on “hellos”.
Jul 28th, 2008 by Peter
I’ve always been of the opinion that China should get the Olympics. I felt it would pull China towards better hnm@n r!ghts and more fred0m of sqeech. Right now I am not so sure.
Actually I have to admit that I was wrong, and now feel the opposite. A feeling I don’t quite like.
From the start I was in doubt about which side to take, but eventually picked the optimistic path (much unlike my normal behaviour) hoping and believing that OL would actually help China steer the big ship with the current, instead of against it.
The last year, I’ve followed the developments via blogs, the Internet and other media. I know you shouldn’t believe everything you read, but until now I’ve read very few positive stories. Of course fred0m of sqeech also has a negative side exaggerating everything, but even that couldn’t explain that many dismaying stories from the middle kingdom. Well, sure, there has been a few about internet sites like Chinese Wikipedia and similar being unbanned from the GFW, but just as soon as the good news got out, they were back on the black list. Continue Reading »
