Eivind's World

Almost every week I travel to Dongguan and now it seems like my frequent flyer card start to work. This time I got upgraded to business class:) Last evening I took out all my colleges from Sri Lanka for some Indian food in Dongguan:) We were 7 from Sri Lanka, 2 from China and one [...]

Yesterday evening Paal, Yan and Haavard arranged a dinner party. On the menu it was steak, baked potato, mushroom sauce, aspargus and tiramushi:) Here is the main course: Yan is doing a last touch on her tiramishu. She used Norwegian O’Boy:) Mona and Yan is tasting the dessert: After dinner we played the Chinese drinking [...]

Every third friday of the month it will be a gathering for all Norwegians in Shanghai at Peppes Pizza. Last night was the first one, at more than 60 people showed up:) Here is Erling and Cathy’s little girl. She don’t speak mandarin or Norwegian yet, but Shanghainese;) Here is Paal, a friend and Yan: [...]

Today we went out to a car market to look at second hand cars. W found a taxi and after 1 hour drive we came to the market only to find out it was closed on Sunday’s:( Then I asked him to find a BMW dealer on the way home so I could take a [...]

The project we are doing in Dongguan is for a big Toy and wireless company with more than 20,000 employees. We are implementing ERP for them. Yesterday we had a Steering Committee meeting and my customer invited the project team out for dinner. Here are all the 68 project team members: Here is the Steering [...]

To celebrate that we finished the budget for next year, we had a dinner at Sasha:)

Last night we went out with some friends and had Japanese dinner. Very nice sushi and only for 200rmb per person including free drinks! Here is Mattias and me: Oerjan and Baard: Mona is trying to teach me salsa… Mattias and Audrey:

Hairy crab is as far as I know the only fresh water crab in the world. You can only find it in Eastern China. October is the Hairy Crab season in Shanghai so me and Mona went down to the food market to get some:) Here you can see the crab in the food market: [...]

his evening Mona took me to Zegna Fashion Party! Here is me and Mona entering the show: Audrey and Mona: The catwalk: Here are me and Mona together with some of Mona’s friends. The General Manager of Zegna and 2 of Zegna’s designers: There were also some nice cars there and I must admit I [...]

After a long day in the office (on a Sunday) it is nice to come home to fresh seafood dinner:) Mona had been to the local market and bought 1kg with living shrimps. She took them home to kill them. I didn’t know my sweet little girl was capable of shrimp murder;)