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196 days ago
As probably foreseen: New Year resolutions are poised to fall...... and mine did! I had the good intention to contribute to my blog more regularly than the last year or so, but that was January 3. And the blog has not heard from me since... today is May 14. And it is Springtime in Kongens Lyngby. Second half of April was like eternal sunshine that lasted well into May... then one rainy and windy week, and the last few days the Sun has returned, while Nature have greened. On April 17 I was put on a diet and so far I have lost 8 kg. Springtime in my body? Let's see, I have a goal of loosing 25 kg altogether before new Years Eve this year! Still 17 kg to go then... But in other areas - work life, love life, family life - Spring has yet to come! Spring is a wonderful word and a wonderful idea full of energy, readiness and promises... the waiting is almost over, it's just around the corner, in a short time... everything will bloom and blossom. And life will once again be full. In an ...
327 days ago
Happy New Year - Happy 2009! As you can see, I have not been active on my blog since last Spring, actually not since Whitsun. But a lot of things have happened in my life since then, occupied me and made it impossible to keep up the blogging as I had wanted. But now we have just entered a brand new year. I do not normally make any New Year resolutions, but this year I will: Well, I promise myself (I am probably the only one interested anyway) to regularly contribute to my blog here. I hope I can keep the promise - and catch my thoughts and feelings in words I am able to pen on paper... or rather compute on the screen at regular intervals. But where am I? Not in China anymore, so it is not a blog about my life in China. Not Sweden either. Actually, since November 1 (2008) I have been living in Denmark. In the beautiful suburb of Copenhagen called Kongens Lyngby. This is the third period of my life I live in this part of Denmark.... the move to here was the 50th change of home since I ...
565 days ago
Almost one year... well, 10 months and two weeks... have passed since my last contribution to my weblog here. And a lot of things have happened in that span of time. Maybe I will return to some of it in later postings, but here I just want to tell, that I have left China - my home for 12 years! - and settled in Sweden, so future postings will not specifically be about "My life in China", but everything seen from the perspective of the wonderful Swedish countryside in Österlen/Skåne just outside the small town of Tomelilla. I feel I have arrived in Paradise. Although I know I am not dead yet. These last 10 days in "Paradise" have seen the most wonderful weather with the sun shining from the clear blue skies, nature awakening and blooming. From my garden terrasse I have an astonishing view over the yellow rapefields, the green trees around, the green grass and the red tulips in my garden... and then the very blue skies where no clouds dots the panorama, except the ...
881 days ago
Ever since May 8... the day after the Chinese May 1st-holiday ended... there have been an inferno of drilling noise and hammering all around me here in my apartment from around 7.30 in the mornings till 19 in the evening . The neighbours seems to be tearing down everything in their apartment and rebuilding, remodelling, renovating or decorating. I don't like early mornings, and to be woken up at 7.30 of a non-stopping drillingnoise is not my cup of tea. And there was no diffrence on workdays, Saturdays and Sundays! Unbearable! But now finallly it seems to be coming to an end. But this is just a sign of the development of China, the higher incomes and for many wealth, that people can buy their apartments and shape them as they want. 10 years ago there opened a large Do-it-yourself building market just of Chaoyang Road in Beijing almost in Tongzhou, but it was probably premature for it closed down again after only one or one and a half year of operation. Others have taken over in the ...
905 days ago
In my first installment here on this Blog, I mentioned, that learning to speak English had almost become a "religion" for many Beijingers here prior to the Olympic Summer Games next year. I find that praiseworthy, that so many people want to be able to communicate with us foreigners, who does not speak Chinese. Of course it is. Although the Chinese language is the language in the World that is native to the largest number of people, Spanish the second native language and English only the third... English is of course the most spoken language in the world, because so many people, who have other native languages - as myself - can speak English as their second language. Chinese business people have to be able to communicate properly with foreign business people, taxidrivers have to be able to communicate with their foreign passengers, staff at hotels and restaurants, tourist attractions, shops that cater for tourists or other foreigners have to be able to communicate with their ...
