Earlier this week I received an email from the Beijing Olympic Ticketing Centre to inform me on the amount of tickets I had won in the Phase 1 lottery. Actually for quite a lot of events I signed up for I received tickets. I tried to get tickets for opening and closing ceremony, but those [...]
Archive for: August, 2007
happy customer
Can it be true? Are there really companies waking up and start to grasp the true meaning of the word service?! Since it is a rainy day and I am not feeling like cooking up any food nor going out to get some and I already had a hotpot for lunch this afternoon, I decided [...]
rolling truck
Today I went with a friend to see some houses for my homestay project in the area of the airport and while we were waiting for the bus back to downtown an accident happened 100 meters from where we were standing. A truck with a concrete mill was driving way too fast over a crossing [...]
Good Luck Beijing II
How much bullshit will we have to hear before the people of the world can see the truth with their own eyes? The official results of the recent air pollution test presented on the Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games quote Mr. Du Shaozhong saying that the tests were successful. Oh yeah, it [...]
Great Wall
Just got back from the Great Wall again… In the past 3 days I did 3 trips, bit much perhaps, but sometimes people’s schedules just end up like that. On Monday morning I took a British couple that just came back from North Korea to Mutianyu Great Wall. Unfortunately it was a quite bit hazy [...]
Good Luck Beijing I
The two weeks of August 8-23 this year have been called by the Beijing Govt. as trial weeks for the Olympics next year. The weeks have received the name “Good Luck Beijing sport events” to test the function of the venues, preparation of venue teams and quality of logistics. Also regarding pollution some measurements have [...]
Snippets intro
What is it with blogs? About a year ago I started writing a blog. Obviously the start was enthusiastically, but within a couple of months I found less time and/or energy to write about stuff that happened in my life. This year March I decided to get rid of it altogether, because I hadn’t been [...]