The story of my life in China is here.
I just learned that I’m only applying for the School of Economics and Management which is completely independent from the one of Mechanical Engineering. In order to be admitted to the graduate program I need to provide information about the management not the engineering courses I’ve heard here.
I only finished one of four yet and will write two more exams before I leave. The last one will take place after my departure. According to Tongji the worst thing that can happen is that they’ll put me in the undergraduate program, so they’ll not reject me. Good. My landlady already found a next tenant.
If you’d create a product, let’s say a website, wouldn’t you at least check the meaning of your name in the top ten languages? Well, doof didn’t.
When the lady at the doctor’s office had learned that I’m at a private rather than the compulsory health insurance two weeks ago, the next appointment was no longer in January, it was yesterday.
Another one at another doctor today, but the outcome was similar: They didn’t send me into the waiting room where others have been sitting for some time. I was offered a chair next to the reception and led into the doctor’s office soon.
Moral: All humans are equal, as long as they’re at the same health insurance.
Seeing myself in the mirror, sitting on a bulky, white, upholstered chair with this funny red net holding all the electrodes, wires protruding and hanging around, that was one of the moments where I really regretted that I didn’t bring my camera.
I need some kind of laptop bag or sleeve. The interim solution of putting it in one plastic and two cloth bags may protect it but is not that easy to handle.
Ok, so I got a laptop, X61s, rid of Vista and have been trying to install Ubuntu for two days now… without success. When I boot from a copied live CD, the installer reports defective files, a netinstall doesn’t work from home and when I try to install from the ISO file the thing reports a defective CD. But there is no CD and the MD5 hash of the file is correct. Arg.
The man from lenovo Germany wanted to call me “in half an hour”. I’ve been waiting twice as long now. Seems like figuring out what to do with someone who wants to get a Windows tax refund takes a while.
So many disappointments, so little fun. It’t time for me to leave Munich, Germany. Time to go to Stockholm, Shanghai, wherever.
According to HumanForSale.com I’m worth $2,457,100. CadaverForSale.com puts my remains at $3,710. So I’ll lose $2,453,390 by dropping dead.
The cafeteria was overrun with Asian students today. I’ve been studying for three years now but I can’t remember having ever seen that much of them at one place before.
A Chinese friend helped me practicing Chinese pronunciation via Skype and I completely forgot about the two baguettes in the oven which got some unpleasant color…
The first of eight appointments at different doctors brought me two vaccinations and the prospect of a good deal more in a biweekly cycle. After that, I’ll resist everything. ;-)
Since November 1st you don’t only need a mugshot to apply for a German passport, they also scan your fingerprints…
The fact that Tongji needs the serial number of my passport revealed a minor bug in the passport application software. The number on the screen was not the same as on the print-out and no one knew which of them was correct.
After a while we found out that the field isn’t long enough, the missing characters are just hidden and it’s possible to scroll to the end and show them. So I hope I have all the things they need for the visa.