Eivind's World

This morning in the office I tried to plan my schedule this week because last Friday some customers wanted me to see them. After calling everyone I managed to get a meeting on Tuesday in Dongguan a meeting on Wednesday in Guangzhou and a meeting in Hong Kong next Monday. I went back home and [...]

Sunday poor Mona had to get up at 04:30 in the morning! She is working on a TV advertisement for a French redwine brand and they started shooting at 05:00. It was a sunny day so me and Orjan met down in the pool at 11:00 in the morning:) After the pool I took a [...]

Today at 06:30 it was time for Tennis again! 3 seconds after I went out the front door of my apartment building I was “wet”. So hot and humid!! I walked the 5-6 minutes to the Tennis court and I was already sweating heavily when we warmed up. The game was good and tight. We [...]

Friday I took a couple of hour off work and went to see Orjan. He is currently building Peppes Pizza restaurant so soon we can get Norwegian Pizza with “roemme dressing” in Shanghai Here is Orjan inspecting the workers:

This morning we kicked off morning kardio After long time with too good food and too little exercise we have to get in better shape! 4 times a week now we will do kardio in the morning. Here is Mona in action!

Ping Pong is China’s national sport, and this weekend Haavard, Jane and a friend of Jane challenged me and Mona. Before we played table tennis, we warmed up one hour with badminton. The badminton court was in bad shape, the ceiling was too low, the court was too short and it was no air condition;) [...]

This evening Mona and me went to see “Black Eyed Peas” at Shanghai Stadium. We thought it would be no problem to buy cheap tickets from some of the dodgy people outside the stadium, but we were wrong! It was the sellers market. Hundreds of people had thought the same thing as us, and was [...]

My biggest hobby of all is Flyfishing, and last year I didn’t get the chance to do any flyfishing, so to compensate I ordered some books and DVD’s at my lunch break… “Caddisflies“, Gary LaFontaine “Tying Emergers: A Complete Guide“, Ted Leeson “Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die“, Chris Santella “Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes“, Gary LaFontaine [...]

Mona and I had a quiet weekend here in Shanghai. Just had some friends over and we did some climbing. On Friday one of Mona’s friend Mavis had been on a business trip nearby Shanghai, and came by to visit:) On Saturday Oerjan, my neighbor who manage Peppes Pizza here in China came up for [...]

Last night Berty called me and asked me if I wanted to play Tennis today at 07:00… I thought it was a little bit early, but I said yes. At 06:30, Berty called me to check if I was going to make it, and when I arrived the Tennis court at 6:55, Berty told me [...]