Hand made noodles, handmade music and there is no chance for any depression. Just for silly sausages....
During these kind of evenings it takes not too long time to ask the one and only question: What would you take with you to a lonely island? Well, a mobile phone is obvious and that boooooring. But who thinks of tweezers? And if tweezers, why not a swiss army knife. This would be the clever choice....
Monday night is as every Monday Harry's rock night. Mens night, by the way. Regina was in the need for some photographs at Harry's so Stephan took the camera and did as told.
At Harry's the best life band of the world is on stage: Too match, if we forgot to tell you before. And now we also have pics of the single band members:
But that's not all we adventured in the last weeks. We've been also in the chairman Mao restaurant to fulfill our cultural desire. Shall say: we've been to the midsummer murder dinner which is actually good chinese dinner and in parallel there are actors playing. And for sure there was a murder that night. Our job was to find out, who is the murderer.
We were really surprised when principal Nerdlinger welcomed us to the Parent Teacher Association meeting. Hey, sorry, we're wrong, we're looking for the theater. Have we mixed up the date? After principal Nerdlinger explained to us, that for sure we have plenty of kids in his school we recognized, the show has already started ;-) Well, at least we were not alone with the misunderstanding.
And we got a clue that at least one person per table is an actor. Cool, we had two of them. One pupil which fell deep in love with the PE teacher and her dad, who was a little bit tempered.
The Story: The PE teacher quarrels with his wife, the librarian, the financial chairWOMAN is also squabbling with the PE teacher due to the fact, that he over did his budget. Also the colleagues of him are disappointed and not really amused about him, there is only 5 Kg of rice as an benefit for all and no money. Anyway, the PE teacher is a happy man. Yet.
Between all the eating and acting there were also some presentation of dances and drumming from the Ayi's. Everybody who wasn't fast enough escaping had to do his part in the play. Ying was too slow so he got chained up with a drum. He did his best and it looked quite professional.
And then the big surprise: Who else than the PE teacher could fall dead in front of our table? Just so, no body was expecting this, really. And it was a big shock for all present people.
After a couple of minutes we found the "weapon": An injection set including anabolica and steroids. Sure, look at the PE teacher, he uses a lot of these drugs we believe.
Uris Ismine (I really love this name), started the investigation immediately and we were focusing also on the sequence of things that night. And we enjoyed the food. Hey, just because somebody was killed does not mean, that the food has to be wasted.
After some back and forth we - so to say: our table - found the murderer. It was the finance chairperson together with the chinese teacher. Out of jealousness. That's it. Just a little mercury to the anabolic and boom, that's it. After this the chinese teacher tried to kill the finance chairperson and got shot. Wow, pretty busy today, isn't it.
For our extraordinary good investigation we won a bottle of red wine, which we shared on the table. So we had some time to enjoy the very nice ambiance of the restaurant. Very cozy, isn't it?
With Rosie and Ying we found two others to play Mahjong with. What's missing next is the full automated Mahjong table. Yes, this wonder of engineering is really existing. You throw all the tiles in a hole in the middle, press a button and "ping" the tiles are mixed and in the right nomination on the table. It's a kind of magic. We need such a table ASAP. Says Stephan......
As you can see focusing and concentration is a big part of Mahjong. If not you loose. Even in the more easy Suzhou rules we played this night.
Flipping through our pages we recognized that most of the pages are telling stories of holidays and parties. Hey, there is more in China, shopping for example. We're still surprised what we find in the shops, also after 2 years in China. Yesterday we went to the Wal Mart. More or less curious about the different choices and offers compared to the other supermarkets. Well, first of all it's more expensive. Hmmm, the goods variety isn't different from others. A lot of junk.
After looking closer to the junk we found some really reasonable things. Lunch boxes, with segmented parts, chop sticks included in the cover. Or the thermos with different inserts for the rice and the other food. Also with a separate box for the chop sticks and a spoon. Well, the thing to discuss is maybe the color and design.
If you believe, these lunch boxes are only for the kids - you're wrong. All the so called adults are using this kind of junk at work. So cute, these bears. TIC. At least we found the difference between the Wal Mart and the other supermarkets: It's the thermos in Coca Cola design. Puh, now it's clear.
That's it for today, next time we'll tell most probably some stories from Shanghai. No, not yet from the Expo, this trip is planned later this year, but this is as always another story............
Gardeners...
....and how they find their work area....
