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China revisited
Mar 14th
So I’m back in Beijing for more than a week now. Not much has changed – only some new buildings and the lack of restaurants I used to go. The weather is really nice and the air I got used to quite fast.
I’m staying with german friends (Hanno and Marcel) who live close to 五道口 (Wudaokou), which is my old neighborhood, so I can easily find my way around. They’re pretty cool folks so I’m most probably staying with them longer than planed. We get along quite well – training and partying together.
The first day already started quite nice. I arrived at 11 am and after getting some food and fixing my mobile, we already had Taiji training. Afterwards we invited my teacher to 火锅 (Hotpot) and had some beers. Then we went to meet some people at Lush and had more beer and some absinth 
And as it wasn’t too far we moved over to Propaganda for some dance action. Even this club hasn’t changed much, stll HipHop music and full of Koreans… ^^ and it was still fun, so that we were home at about 7 am. More >
Iran 07
Sep 30th
Before classes start again I decided to go back to Iran for 3 weeks (after not having visited for 3 years) to see some relatives and friends and also to pay respect to my recently deceased grandpa, who always treated me like his own son and whom we all miss a lot.
Before going I had to organize a lot of things including the contract for my new apartment in Cologne, but in the end all went pretty well and I could fly without regrets.
Iran hasn’t changed as much as I expected – at least on the outside – but if you look at it more deeply you notice quite some things, most of them not very positive. One of the most disturbing beeing the new law agaisnt shops (and with coffee shops, ice bars,..) having to close at midnight, so that streets get really empty and lonesome at nights (quite contrary to the Teheran I knew 3 years ago). Additionally the recently very popular TV series keep a lot of people in their homes from 6 pm till about midnight.
But I also had lots of fun back home. Going out with my Cousines and Cousins. eating lots of great food and enjoying the warm sunny end-summer-weather of Teheran. I would like to especially thank Ali, my younger Cousines husband, for sacrificing so much of his time showing me around and having quite interesting discussions.
We also visited the Island of Kish in the South of Iran, which was really hot and humid, but also fun. But see the pictures and get your own impression
Love Parade 07
Aug 27th
As they moved the Love Parade to Essen this year and me and my friends had never been to any, we decided to take the short trip there yesterday.
Essen was stuffed with people from all around Germany (and some other countries, too), all wanting to party in this relatively small town. The Parade itself was pretty cool – with good DJs and music on the trucks and lots of people dancing (and also drinking and … ).
At around dusk all the trucks and party people met at a place between Essen University and Berliner Platz for some more partying, only that this time there were some not so famous (and at least for us not so good) DJs, so we decided to leave earlier. Tired and with aching feet we walked all the way back to the trainstation just to see that they wouldn’t let anyone in for maybe an hour or longer. Luckily, I had been to Essen quite often in the past weeks to visit my friend Fei Ai (who’s now in Beijing – huhu Ai ), so I could lead my friends around the station to the other side that hadn’t been closed and we even got the first train back to Cologne.
Pictures of the Love Parade 07 
I also uploaded two clips of the crowd (and me) dancing in front of one of the trucks. Don’t laugh, you can’t imagine how hard it is to dance and hold the camera still at the same time 
New Pictures Online – Iran
Jul 30th
Finally got to upload some more of my china pictures. I’ll try to get the rest online again soon and maybe even some newer ones.
Also, I’m going to Iran in September, maybe after that I’ll have some new photos and stories to post on this site again
New pictures – finally
Feb 19th
I just payed the $24,95 for my flickr pro account, so now I can upload all the new and old pictures I have here. First will be pictures of my stay in China. I have a lot so this will take some time, but I will start uploading gallery for gallery over time so be sure to check back here often For now at least the [http://www.tanglang.info/index.php/flickrgallery/album/72157594544340855/Hiking_the_Great_Wall.html|Gallery with pictures of the Great Wall] is up again. Have fun
New Gallery – again
Dec 24th
So after spending a whole day testing and hacking through different gallery plugins for WordPress, I realized the easiest and most flexible way is to host my pictures on [http://www.flickr.com|Flickr]. That way I don’t need to use too much of the serverspace I rent out and there’s a really nice plugin for including everything I have on Flickr also as a Gallery on my own site. So I spent the rest of the evening uploading and organizing at least some of my pictures on flickr and integrating it all nicely into my site. And as an incentive for you to have a look at the [http://www.tanglang.info/index.php/flickrgallery/|new gallery], I even added some previously not realeased pictures that had been taken while my gongfu brothers and sisters where visiting China in summer 2006.
Only downside is that Flickr doesn’t support “subalbums”, which is ok as it suports tags. Also I’ll have to get a pro account on flickr to be able to organize pictures in more than 3 sets/albums 
Seit langem mal wieder Uni & Tai Ji
Feb 27th
Nachdem ich schon gestern erfahren hatte, dass ich in Brad’s Klasse gelandet bin – man hatte unsere Klasse aufgrund von zu wenig Schülern auf die anderen Klassen verteilt – war es doch ein wenig komisch in einer Klasse zu sitzen, in der ich nur eine Person kenne. Der neue Klassenraum im Hauptgebäude ist jedoch einer der besten, die unsere Uni zu bieten hat. Jeder Platz ist mit einem [http://www.dell.de|Dell] PC inklusive [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD|LCD] ausgestattet. Unsere neue – recht junge – Lehrerin nutzt das Medium auch direkt mit einigen Powerpointpräsentationen aus und lässt und in den letzten beiden Stunden mangels Büchern [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454914/|„如果爱 – Perhaps Love“], einen Liebesfilm mit [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/|Moulin Rouge] Touch, auf Chinesisch mit chinesischen Untertiteln gucken Und da wir grad bei Computern sind – anbei noch ein Werbeplakat für Intel Dual-Core Prozessoren aus Shanghai.
Auch zum ersten 太极 (Tai Ji) Training seit langem konnte ich mich heute endlich mal durchringen More >
