Blog | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
The story of my life in China is here.
Shared Aversion
Webware’s Rafe Needleman shares my aversion to some facebook apps. Let’s hope they’ll vanish somehow.
Wallets
In a famous test of human character, Reader’s Digest intentionally left 1,100 wallets around the world. Each wallet contained the equivalent of $50 in local currency, plus a name and phone number. In Britain 65% of the wallets were returned, in the USA the figure was nearly 70%, while Norway stole the “honesty prize” with 100% returns.
Golden Shield on Vacation?
Since yesterday I can reach the German Wikipedia without VPN and now the English one is also “unprotected”.
How to Recharge
The student ID in Munich has an RFID with which I can pay in the cafeterias. The Tongji one too. If I want to recharge my card in Munich I go to one of several machines, put the money in the slot, hold the card against the sensor and wait.
If I want to recharge the card in Shanghai I need to get a form, fill it in, wait and pay at the counter:
Writing Hanzi
A Kazakh classmate and I had to write the hanzi for the new lesson on the whiteboard. With the help of the book, so it wasn’t too difficult.
The result.
Only one minor correction on my side.
The horizontal stroke at the first character of number eleven was wrongly inclined.
Obama, Clinton, McCain
Spiegel Online helps the Germans to find out which one of the US presidential candidates they should vote for if only they were allowed. In my case it’s Barack Obama. Hm.
107 Yuan
But very good and enough for two meals.
Heping Park
What looks like a playground is a place where grown-ups exercise.
View to Rainbow City 2.
With and Without
Chinese food with meat, as you can easily see.
Vegetarian food. According to the Chinese definition…
Heater in front of the cookshop.
