Blog | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
The story of my life in China is here.
One Zero
I thought the button said 300 RMB (about 30 Euro) but then I realized that I had just ordered the payout of the tenfold amount. Pressing cancel couldn’t stop it anymore and I can’t pay it in again. Not good.
Without Glasses
Yesterday I forgot my glasses at home. The last time this had happened in driving school. I said we better get them but the instructor thought it’d be alright.
Pudong New Area
Shanghai Stock Exchange (It’s not a magic world just an imperfect stitched image.)
Construction site of the World Financial Center
Jin Mao Tower
Ask a question and you’ll get an answer. That’s how it works here. Many answers are wrong. This time I was sent to the 18th and 24th floor. The right one was the 31st…
Every tower should have one.
You Know?
you know Chinese are the most clever in Asian
Now I do.
Shanghai East International Medical Center
My troubling joints led me to Shanghai East International Medical Center in Pudong. I felt been well looked after although I had thought they’d x-ray or do a sonography. According to the doctor the problems might be caused by a virus and should vanish at most six weeks after they began. Let’s hope so.
I don’t know what Tongji has to do with the hospital.
The Shanghai East International Medical Center is only one section of a much larger hospital.
Dangerous Tea?
Tea that you get for free at most restaurants (if they don’t serve hot water). I’m still unsure whether it’s bottled or tap water. The tea makes it hard to taste the chlorine but I often think they just cook the tap water. That might kill bacteria but not remove the chemicals.
It’s also not so easy to drink only the fluid not the tealeaves. A Chinese friend suggested to blow on the surface. Works. Kind of.
No Chicken After Ten (Not That I'd Eat It)
KFC closes at 10 pm. Very strange.
German Textbooks
A Chinese friend wants to learn German. I’ll help her and so I spent about an hour looking for a good textbook. Most of them teach German that might be spoken in China but certainly not in Germany.
I finally found two good ones and chose the latter because it also features a workbook and another one for listening comprehension.
Run for Your Life
The first dogs I’ve seen so far. No one was chasing them. Anyway, they better be careful.
Proste
A really nice event. I think we’ll go there again next week. All the Chinese spoke German and they even mixed Spezi, ice chocolate and Apfelschorle for us.
It Starts and Ends With Mao
The library. Haven’t been in there yet.
Woks in action.
Never trust Chinese if they tell you something is without meat. A lesson I’ve learned by now. I only ate the lower part and the rice. No idea what the other thing was. Gelatine?
“Celebrate the 98th International women’s day warmly.”(Thanks.)
“Welcome to attend the film department of Tongji.”(Thanks.)
What They Eat Here
Different kinds of tofu, specialties of Shanghai.
Clubs
On walking to one of the cafeterias we passed several booths. I was asked to take part in a survey. At least that’s what I understood. I thought why not, filled in my name, email address and telephone number and they promised to contact me. I asked what we’d do then and they said something about an interview and that they’d be happy if I’d join them. Join what? Seems to be some kind of student council. I’m not sure. But I have no intention to join.
We walked on and found more clubs in front of the cafeteria:
I left my number at a dance club. Thought that could be interesting.
Model aircraft club
Next day:
The clubs at Tongji
“Do you know that I am waiting for you?” Everyone wants you to join his or her club. Here it’s a department of the student union.
Calligraphy club
Crash
My landlady’s grandson just came in, crashed his remote control car against my water bottle and left. Perhaps I should start to lock my room.