My Birthday
in September 06
It is amazing how fast you get people together in Shanghai - even if you don't know anybody - to celebrate your birthday :). Well, after that I knew a few more in Shanghai :).


In the restaurant, ordering food


A Japanese restaurant, where they prepare the food in front of you. The food there is really good - so if you ever come to Shanghai you have to try the Teppanyaki Restaurant on heng shan lu.


Melek and me


The boys, performing a strange game :)


At Zapatas - Melek and Marco performing a little birthday dance for me...on the bar -their favorite place :)


The security guard (was in a really good mood that day :)), Marco and me.

Jiaozi - How to make Jiaozi?
in October 06
Well, probably you are thinking: What are Jiaozi??? Jiaozi are the Chinese version of Italian Tortellini and tasting incredibly good. I have to confess: I love Jiaozi!
My chinese work colleagues found out very fast. So, Quency and his wife invited some of my other work colleagues and me to his home to teach me, how to make jiaozi :). Quite a challenge ....that I can say :)


Quency's wife, myself and Quency


High life in the kitchen :)


Quencies wife is cooking


Jiphiii...my first Jiaozi....I won't tell you how many times I tried before :)


Jane and Zhang Lei making Jiaozi.


Sooo many jiaozi...


We are eating Jiaozi...a lot of them :)


Jane, is really hungry from making jiaozi :)


Some exercise in the park after a looong afternoon eating jiaozi :)


German Ball
in November 06
The German Ball in Shanghai is "the event" everybody wants to go - even if they are not German :). The entrance tickets are really expensive and most of the time already sold out after two hours. But as I did a remarkable good job with my project in Changzhou, my boss decided to give me a ticket as a bonus :) (...hmm..ok, actually he wanted me to accompany a friend of him).
The evening was incredible nice - a huge buffet with everything you can imagine from caviar to oysters, life music and many shows.


Harald, Elsi, me and my Boss Joerg


hmmm....:)


Oli and Michael enjoying the beautiful girls of the Philippine band :)


Melek and me on the dance floor


Oli and me, trying to rock the dance floor :)


At four o'clock in the morning we continued without our shoes...:)


On our way home..about six o'clock in the morning :)


Eric Clapton in the town
in January 07
In January we had a visit from the great Eric Clapton itself in Shanghai. As I had visit from my mother these days, we went together to see the Eric Clapton Concert at Shanghai stadium. The concert was just incredible ...I never seen a man play the guitar like this before.






My mother and me

My 6 month internship I performed at Hartung:Consult, a German IT consultant company based in Shanghai, Beijing and Berlin. See some pictures below of my work colleagues and the office.


Our office building...


The entrance and our nice receptionist Jessy :)


Jan, our IT Manager @work


Samuel and Quency, some of my Chinese colleagues


Me @work, very concentrated as usual :)


My favourite project team with key users in Changzhou :)


With my team eating hot pot in Shanghai.


With Thomas, Lena, Jenny and Carlos in a Chinese restaurant at one of my last evenings in Shanghai

The Huang Pu River devides the city center of Shanghai in two areas: Puxi and Pudong. I used to live on the Pudong side - Dong chang lu - which is about 4 metro stations away from the people square. The Pudong side is also where the Pearl Jam Tower and the Jin Mao Tower is, the emblems of Shanghai- which was about 10 min. walking distance from my apartment away.
The best of my apartment was actually the view - as I could see the Jin Mao and Pearl Jam Tower from my living room coach in the 16th floor. And not to make you jealous - I had the best Sushi bar of whole Shanghai just arround the corner - where I went at least three times a week :).


The view on Jin Mao and Pearl Jam Tower from the apartment :)


The living room


My room...not much to see...