From today there are just 2 full days left for me to stay in this town. So I did something I planned for months but never really managed. I took a camera and went out to document some of the thousand interesting luminous advertisments.

After taking half a GB of data just for NanJingLu I first have to sort and convert the most interesting stuff out. Tomorrow I start writing a bigger ariticle about Blinking Shanghai into my Wiki. Since the Aurora Tower display was off today I will have to provide some older pictures and maybe a video on that topic.

After 9 days of relaxation and joy I came back to Shanghai Sunday night. Although the temperature difference was around 20 °C the way of life between Shanghai and Hainan is more different.

Basically I found that life and the people in Hainan are really relaxed and easy just like in southern europe where people enjoy siesta.

Okay, I guess I’ll write more about the trip during the week.

After more than 4 months of work (which included one day off) I am going to be on holiday by tomorrow. I plan to go to Hainan Island for a 9 days trip.
At 16:45 my flight to Sanya will leave at the Pudong Airport in the south east of Shanghai. To go there I’ll need one hour and 15 minutes where the 15 minutes will be the time the Maglev (well known Transrapid for germans) needs from a subwaystation to the airport.
After bargaining with some local travel agencies I decided to buy the tickets at ctrip.com where the round trip ticket is 1880 RMB (Tax included).

Asking our secretary for help ordering the tickets she contacted a friend in a travel agency who could offer me the flight for 1700 RMB. Without negotiation I agreed. So now the imprint on the ticket says 1500 RMB what makes them earn 200 RMB. And I am okay with that since it still saves 180 RMB for me.

So what is planed in Sanya? Since I was for a long time in Shanghai now – beside 3 one day trips to smaller (2 – 6 mill. inhabitants – that is what shanghaineese people call “smaller”) citys – basically I want to relax there.

Including beach chillout, cocktails, maybe diving and exploring the rainforests in Hainan. I am looking forward leaving the really cold ~10 °C place to go for > 25 °C.

My plan is to finally watch the recordings of the 22C3. Therefore I bought an mp4 player and converted the 51 congress recordings that are allready available in the net to MPEG4.

Hi everybody. This will be my Weblog. So what am I going to publish here and who am I anyway? Well, as a student of Computer Engineering I will most likely write about my job and that means mostly technical issues. Beside that I am currently in Shanghai for an 5 months Internship – what makes me writing about what I experience here. My work in a small IT company was an interesting experience, that I could share with others – showing how this kind of companies runs in China. The next point is life in Shanghai in general. – As my internship is nearly over by the time of writing this (2 weeks left) I’ll have to write most of my postings in retrospective. So lets hope I won’t be to lazy to create some content and please send loots of fedback.