entertainment

I know I usually report on my life in Wuhan using hilarious anecdotes and drawing from my ever-growing Chinese vocabulary to enlighten you. Today, I wanted to take a moment to mention the music I have been loving for a few days.
Many of you know I like mash-uppers like Girl Talk so recently while I [...]
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Last night Bencham (Benelux Chamber of Commerce) organized a new event: Young Professionals Network.
The event has been “created” to serve the growing crowd of young(-ish) people that are part of the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg community. What the organizers want to do with it exactly, they also don’t know yet, as they were asking [...]
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Last Friday Pam, Ilse and Kat organised a “worst pub” crawl. The idea was to visit all the bars on Sanlitun we normally never go for the obvious reason that they in no way appeal to us.
They managed to gather a group of around 15 mostly Dutch and German people and we started off at [...]
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On xmas eve I had nothing particularly planned, so when David invited me to the Aihua dinner, I thought that to be a great evening-filling for me.
We went to a big restaurant called Da Dong Bei (???) one I didn’t know yet and, as I found out there, is a franchise with also a branch [...]
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Today was the festival of “dongzhi” (??), the solar term used in Asian countries for winter solstice. In other words the shortest day.
From my friend Cindy I heard that in Beijing people should eat jiaozi on this day, so she and I went to do exactly that!
She took me to this great place hidden in [...]
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Wanted to write this yesterday already, but first wanted to get the facts straight before publishing some nonsense here…
Friday night Sjoerd and I were out and about in town. First to Area, a club near Lido, where a jazz band was playing. Cool music, coincidentally lots of other Dutch people, all in all a very [...]
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The other day I received an sms if I was interested in a free ticket to DJ Timo Maas in Coco Banana. Ghehehe, of course I was and yday night was his fabulous performance! I took some pictures with my phone, sorry lousy quality, but still some sort of impression…
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Last weekend on one of the big(ger) Halloween parties around town I met David an old friends of mine who runs a school in the West of town. After a bit of chatting he told me he had a vacancy for a teaching job. Only 80mins a day, couple of days a week and the [...]
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Just read this listing in an email newsletter:
Friday, October 20
Inner Affair Turns Three
Inner Affair holds its third annversary party on this autumn night. For details call (8610) 8454 0899
Pretty weird that is, since I was working there last year (2005) from March till May and during that time I planned and hosted the 1st anniversary…
Now [...]
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The October Holiday is finished again and what a week it was!
The NO+CH Music Festival that i mentioned earlier already was absolutely fantastic!!! One of the highlights of the first night was Jungle Cats, a BJ band with leadsinger Jessica Meider, who i actually also saw perform once back in the days of the Keep [...]
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