I’m back from Qingdao and because of the cold I caught these days, finally have time to write a little something (pictures are already up in the gallery Qingdao 09. My trip was really nice, most of the time I lived with my Shi Bo (Gongfu uncle) Yu Bin, who’s now proud father of [...]

I went out of the house, walking through the sun I smelled something familiar. It reminded me of spring in Teheran. There’s lots of similarities between Teheran and Beijing. Not only the masses, traffic and polution, but there’s the dry weather, workers watering the greens and flowers in spring and lots of small details that [...]

A really well done and creative self-introtuction by gradtuating designer 马文
Source: 八八吧 :: 88 Bar

Third day in Beijing. Had a nice realxing Tuesday alone with Pingping and met up with Fei Ai and her friend Aron yesterday. We had lunch together with Pingping and after picking up Aron’s suit we sat a little at Houhai, drank and talked a little.
Today I’m gonna look at some apartments around Wudaokou. [...]

So, yes, I’m moving back to Beijing! This time to write my final thesis in a project at Peking University.
The past weeks were filled with my last exams, a (really interesting) scientific paper we wrote, finding someone to take our apt in Cologne and miscellaneous – seemingly never ending – last preparations. But there [...]

These are my links for August 13th through August 17th:

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Video tech uses photos to enhance, alter shots: it's the Photoshop of video, and no one is safe – Engadget – seems to work really nice, but only [...]

Yesterday in the morning we (Hanno and me) arrived in 青岛. 于斌 was already waiting for us at the trainstation and after some food and watching his pictures of 西藏 (Tibet) and 杭州 (Hangzhou) while having a good 崂山茶 (Laoshan tea) at his place we got some cheap and good accomodation right around the [...]