Bring on the Night

I head a beeping noise and thought to myself that a truck must be backing up. Then I started laughing as I remembered that I was in China.

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Here’s C preparing for tomorrows oral exam. Its one of 2 final exams she has pass to graduate as social caretaker. It’s been 2 years since she started and she has studied harder than any Dane I know would have. Still she’s very nervous, which may affect her performance. She know this, and it makes […]

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In attempt to teach our kid some Chinese, C got hold of some VCDs with Chinese children’s songs. Actually calling them ‘Chinese’, may be overdoing it, since many of the melodies are oddly recognizable to me (like Jinglebells for one). Anyway, the lyrics are in Chinese, and that good enough for the purpose. Yesterday, as […]

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As promised in an older post, here’s the picture of one of the gifts we got for our boy. It’s a pair of “special” Chinese pants:

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When you’re married to a Chinese woman here in Denmark, you are bound to have tried something like this: 5.30pm the phone rings while you’re almost done cooking dinner. It’s your wife’s Chinese friends, who’s just in the neighborhood and wants to come around. If we lived in C’s hometown that’s would be quite all […]

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Saturday morning C was moaning about the flexibility of barbershops here in Denmark. I understand her woes. I china she used to walk into the nearest barbershop and get a haircut right away. That’s rarely the case in Denmark. Here you make an appointment in advance. 1 day before, would probably not be enough. Later […]

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After Mark’s birth, we have a regular visitor from the city district. It’s a nurse checking up on how Mark is growing, learning and similar. It’s a normal procedure here in Denmark and a good safety precaution for us. The other day she came around when I was working so I had to hear the […]

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So, my parents-in-law bought a dog last summer. They were very fond of it, but a few days ago it ran away. My wife’s father was walking it and suddenly some firecrackers set of, and so did the dog. Its leash broke only being a line my in-laws made themselves. Now they blame themselves for […]

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So I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. It was momentarily fun in the beginning, but now it’s just another time-consuming site of endless challenges, stupid cyber back-pats and invitations to unimportant tests (no offence to those who sent those, cause I found them funny at the beginning too). I just figured that I would try such […]

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So I finally watched Lust, Caution. The naughty western version of course. Yes – it has some naked skin, a pair of breasts, and sure it do show some hair from downstairs. There’s also a flash some balls on work, but really nothing that bad compared to what we normally can see here in movies in […]

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According to this news, Wei Tang is now being boycotted in the Chinese medias. One can only wonder why, but the obvious reason would be her “betrayal” in the movie Lust, Caution, where she end up having a relationship with a ruthless Japanese sympathizer. There’s also a few naughty scenes in the western cut version, […]

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A few days from now, C’s father has birthday. We want to send him some money, as it is way easier than buying a gift, sending it and wait for it to arrive. I should have known better. To send money there are 2 obvious options: Either by regular mail (will take about 7-11 days) […]

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Yet another of those popular follow-ups on our trip to China the summer of 2007. One day we were invited to eat dumplings at C’s sister’s house. The dumplings were great and after relaxing a bit, C’s sister told C that she had some presents for us. Besides some exquisite handcrafted glass objects to put on […]

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Yet another of those popular follow-ups on our trip to China the summer of 2007. Have you ever had a discussion about how to do things with your wife/girlfriend? A discussion where you knew that no matter what you said it would be futile? I am talking about discussions where you know you’re right, because […]

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Today I added a new category to make my first posts easy to find. These are all from my first trip to Shenzhen/China where I met C for the first time. The meeting and later Justins blog – Shenzhen Zen – was what spurred my interest in blogging. The category can be found on the […]

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As promised (threatened) a follow-up on my first visit at my parents-in-law the summer 2007. This is the entrance to the courtyard where C’s sister’s apartment was located. Back when we were in Yilan this was where we lived. Every day we had to go through the stupid mini-maze to the left (look at the […]

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As promised (threatened) a follow-up on my first visit at my parents-in-law the summer 2007. In the summer you would constantly hear an infernal screaming of the word: “Pingau” (not sure how it’s spelled correctly). At first I didn’t notice it much other than one of the many new sounds that filled the air in […]

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Before I went to China I would have sworn never to wear sandals. I held my word sort of. After a few days C’s father felt so sorry for my fat feet that he bought a pair of plastic slippers for me. In 30+ degrees warm dusty weather where even the Chinese sweat, you know […]

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As promised (threatened) a follow-up on my first visit at my parents-in-law the summer 2007. Everywhere we went in the city of Yilan, we were greeted by massive writing of numbers. Almost like graffiti it was written on everything you could imagine. Billboards, walls, houses, stairs well everywhere. I found it pretty odd, so I […]

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As promised (threatened) a follow-up on my first visit at my parents-in-law the summer 2007. First time I saw Yilan City, where C’s family lives, was a bit of a surprise. I’m not sure what I expected, but it certainly wasn’t what I found. We had been in a bus for 4 hours straight from […]

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