I found a blog post about my bicycle performance at the Great Wall Mountain bike competition last year.
2007年10月27日，“2007长城国际自行车嘉年华”（2007’Great Wall Bicycle Festival）在国内一流滑雪度假村——位于八达岭长城脚下的八达岭滑雪场举办。来自中国、美国、丹麦、瑞士、日本和中国香港的近300名自行车越野运动爱好者，参加了男子精英组、女子精英组、大学生接力组、俱乐部接力组、青少年组和VOLVO公司接力组的比赛。比赛之后进行了颁奖仪式。
下图是进行完下午的赛程后进行颁奖之前，特意从德国请来的自行车表演艺术家伊泉（音译）的现场表演。以下为表演现场图片。
Here are some pictures of my trick bike show.
The last day before the show and a dress rehearsal with a full „real time“ run through of the „Death Prom“ show. This is how worried our director Kris and producer Anna look like:
I did some warm up on my bike before the run through the show. I also look tense and worried – but more because of my new trick bike show.
The Prom Queen candidates are called up to the stage:
All participants in the show had to dress up and interact with others according to 1 of 4 categories, either as queens, geeks, stoners or jocks. As we had no audience in this dress rehearsal we had to interact amongst ourselves like here a queen and a geek while others were dancing.
The show included some performances, mostly dancing. Thanks again to Michael Rahn alias Coach Riggens for all these pictures.
The the zombies started to come in the room:
The zombies were attacking the prom queen and the prom king and others:
Anna has set up her office here a few days ago for all the last minute preparation. Here is a picture of her office with all the Halloween goody bags:
Diana is a food-blogger. She was asked to prepare, cook, serve a meal as well as documenting the whole event in pictures and writing within 24 hours. So she invited friends for this Chinese-Caribbean dinner. She wrote an entry about this event on her blog within 24 hours. She cooked very delicious Chinese-Caribbean fusion food and we drank Hibiscus Mojitos to it. These are her pictures – (I had no camera) – to give you an idea of the atmosphere in the Hutong kitchen:
It is creeping closer: The Halloween night Death Prom at Block 8. It will be a night of theater and performers like dancers, jugglers, magicians and trick bike riders on October 31st 2008 in Beijing. We had another rehearsal for this excitingly different event.
A show that you don’t just watch, you experience. Come and join the Glendale High School’s Class of 1958 in a night to remember, with a live band, swing dancers, and flesh-eating zombies! Death Prom features the collaborative efforts of different international performing groups in Beijing. This Halloween, come party with us… and bring your friends!
Dress Code – Three options:
1. Formal dress (like a prom/school dance)
2. 1950s style clothes
3. Scary Halloween costumes (zombies, witches, vampires, etc)
A friend of mine took some pictures while I was doing a private trick cycling performance. Here are the best pictures:
If you come to Beijing and want to experience a nice lamb dinner in a Mongolian tent (called yurt) – then go to the restaurant near Dongdan. We went there and had our own little yurt with our own waitress. Each yurt is a luxury tent as they have their own air conditioners. We did not order a full lamb, but really enjoyed the Lamb back. Later even some Mongolian singers came to sing for our guests from overseas.
Afterwards we went to my favorite Chinese band called Second Hand Rose Band. In Chinese their name is 二手玫瑰. They played again in the Get Lucky bar. We arrived late but there were still 2 pre-bands playing. I was confused to see the Second Hand Rose lead singer with almost no hair and not wearing a dress nor high heal shoes. Also he was not able to put the typical rose into his hair anymore. I really always loved his outfit as well as the appearance and intensity on stage. That was missing today.
We are in the process of forming an international organization. It is the „China International Performing Arts“ (CIPA) Association. We want to get the different forms of performing arts, like theater, comedy, magic, circus, acrobatics, juggling, dance, jazz and orchestra to be able to synergize and help each other. For the beginning we are planning an event together. For that some of us met tonight to prepare some space related objects like stars, moons, flowers, space ships and a robot.
And after that I met some colleagues in a bar in Sanlitun. It was quite nice to find out that all drinks for the ladies were free 🙂
The weather has been great this October. Especially from about October 7th to 19th it was clear blue skies and sunshine every day. The temperature has been still very pleasant in the daytime. It did get cloudy and grey in the past few days and but that ended with strong rain and wind last night. So today it is again clear blue skies and sunshine! Only difference is that the temperature is now lower. It is very beautiful autumn weather for outdoor activities like bicycling, hiking, climbing, running. Here is the forecast for the next few days:
This was sent out by the Benelux Chamber of Commerce in China to notify Beijing residents and visitors. It is amazing how huge streets can just be shut down for four days without much notice. Good that I ride bike and usually am not affected by road closures.
Temporarily closed Airport Expressway in Beijing
Starting tomorrow Beijing will host the Seventh Asia-Europe Summit from October 23 – October 26. The government will temporarily close the Airport Expressway and all the exits along it as follows:
October 23 – 8:30am – 11:00pm, Direction Airport to the City
October 24 – 8:00am – 1:30 pm, Direction Airport to the City
October 25 – 4:30pm – 11:00pm, Direction City to the Airport
October 26 – 8:30am – 8:00pm, Direction City to the Airport
This will put extra pressure on the more local roads like Jing Shun Road with the potential to create major traffic jams and hazards.
The progress of the indoor climbing wall and bouldering place is amazing. Just a few weeks ago it was just an idea to open a place for rock climbing in Beijing during the winter and now it is almost finished. The bouldering place we all went to last year unfortunately closed in the spring and they now have a restaurant in there (but still kept the bouldering wall and all the grips on it).
My friends is the project manager for this climbing & mountaineering center project. It is in the Ole soccer facility near East 4th Ring Road. She showed me the progress of the climbing wall and the bouldering room. The experts from the Tibetean Mountaineering Association just arrived to set up the climbing routes and work in this center. I think the bouldering room is so beautiful.I can’t waittill it is opened for us to climb.
