September 21

Beijing – Hot Pot

Hey Guys,

maybe it is not quite usual to say that the best thing in a town was the dinner but Hot Pot was special.

First of all what is Hot Pot?

Hot Pot has something from Fondue. You have a big pot not with fat but with some sort of sauce. We had to different versions. You can have pot with one ‘sauce’ or with two different ‘sauce’ in one pot. You can choose different ‘sauce’. We had one half of the pot with a mild milk combination and the other was a spicy one. Like the name says this get hot like the fat when you do fondue.
Then you can choose alot of different staff to throw into the pot. Just to say a few things: sweetcorn, tofu, meat (more like bacon), noodles, eggs and leaves.
But that was not all. Then you got a little soup and different sauces that you can mix on your own. Also you got melone to eat until everything is ready.

How to eat

This is really simple. You throw everything in there and wait until it is ready than you fish for it and took in one of the sauces and than you eat it. It is really delicious.

Happy Hot Pot

We were two times at the same restaurant, because it was just so much fun there. Most Hot Pot restaurants let you do all that stuff on your own. At the place we were they make alot for you. The make sauces for you (you can still make your own if you want) and throw the stuff in for you. At first we thought why would him bring us here. But than we had like ten different sauce from them. They came and asked questions. They were all really sweet and really interessted. They have little presents for you and when you sit long enough you get a lot of stuff for trying.
But the most special thing is that you can let them dance for you. It is really sweet and funny to watch them dance gangnam style.
It was one of the nicest evenings in beijing.

Addresse:
ZhiChunLu Jia 20Hao, Beijing, China

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September 19

Connichi 2016

Hey Guys,

the Connicht brought me back to me roots. I bought so much Manga and Anime and i am totally in a phase. So i thought that i make a Connichi special. That means of course that i will write about the anime i bought. That would be Tokyo Ghoul √A, Re:Hamatora, E’S Otherwise, Detektive Conan 19 Movie, Lie in Apirl, and Digimon.

Also i would write about Manga too. One i will tell you about, because it is an amazing story and everyone should read it. So of course i will tell you about it too.
If you want to know more about Manga i bought tell me and i tell you all about it.

So i will post every month a article about Anime and Manga. I hope you will enoy it.

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September 17

Torchwood – Zone 10

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welcome to the newest Big Finish Torchwood adventure ‘Zone 10’. This time we get our lovely Toshiko Sato back. So this have to play before the end of season 2. I would say it plays before the episode they met the real Captain Jack Harkness. Because she tells them that she hadn’t seen her family in years, but in this episode she gets ready to go to the birthday of her father. So when this isn’t a mistake, than Torchwood makes sure that she will see her family again.

First Solo Mission

The radio signal that Tosh is investigating says ‘Toshiko Sato the truth is in Zone 10’. This signal is over 40 years old. So long before Tosh was born. But she feels like it is for her and when you look at what the signal means, she is right. So she travels alone to russia to find the truth. The Story is simple and not really surprising. Of course everything has in the end to do with the Comitee.

I love Tosh and i want more adventures with her but this adventure is not feeling so familiar as the other storys. When you her the others you are feeling like your characters you love back. But with Tosh there is something missing. I don’t know what is. Maybe because she is not so good at the radio thing like the others. Or it is just to long i saw Tosh in action. The last time i watched Torchwood is a few years ago…maybe that is the reason. The only thing i know is that something is missing. But i hope that Tosh is coming back for other adventures and that this feeling will be gone than.

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September 16

DW: Lethbridge-Stewart – the forgotten son

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here it comes the first book of the new serie Lethbridge-Stewart or the Havoc Files. Like the name says it is about Lethbridge-Stewart so what can go wrong?

What is it about

For everyone who didn’t heart about it yet. The serie plays after the events of ‘The Web of fear’. This is his way to becoming the Brigadier and building UNIT. Which is a lovely idea. The Brigadier is an amazing character and one of the most important character in the arc of the third Doctor. So war he is also with Sarah Jane Smith the one that has seen the most reincarnations of the Doctor. I don’t know rigth now if the sixth Doctor met the Brig but one to five and the seventh of met the Brig – and that is just the tv serie. To make a serie about the person who not just become a close friend to the Doctor but also his boss, is an amazing idea – yes i know i said that before and it will be not the last time. Because the Brig is one of my all time favorites.
So the first book took place right after ‘The Web of fear’. When the Doctor left the town was still a mass. They people left behind had to clean up after the incident. The Brig is the one that is responisble for the repopulation of London.

Old enemies

The first case has to do with the Great Intellegent and the past of the Brig (in this story he is just an colonell but he just call him always Brig or the Brigadier). Best thing about the book is not the story itself, which is be no means bad, but the best thing is that we got to know more about the Brig, about his past, his daily life and his fiancee.
The most negative about the book is the way it is written. This story as way to many perspectives. We have the Brig, a dead soldier, the Brigs mom, an old friend of the Brigadier and twins and you look through everyones eyes. Which is making us understand the person itself better but it is just to much for me.

But you got a good feeling for all the characters. You like or dislike them. But there isn’t a character that seems flat. And a few of the characters will cross the Brigs way many times.

Close to the serie?

What is good and on the same time not, is that they actually are very close to the New Who serie. So it is mentioned that the Great Intelligence is followed everywhere by procelin girl – Clara Oswald. But that also means that they took also his last salute to the doctor. Which I really hate because I want to forget that it ever happens. This is destroying cybermen and the Brigadier.

But everyone who love the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart should read that book.

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September 14

Elementary: Season 3

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here i go and watched the 3rd seaon of Elementary. The last season left me on really big high. I was judging Watson for not seeing in what dark place he was. That he was running away of the feeling of losing her. I had a great excpetions of this season and one was that we see Sherlock on a really low point in his life. It doesn’t happen like i thought… and i still have very mixed feelings about the third season.

First point: Time jump

The season starts month after the last season and Sherlock is already on a better place than i thought we would see him. He is already fighting his way back and i thought that we would see him fall. Joan built a life for her own. She is working for the police and got a boyfriend, making nemesis. Sherlock is running away and getting a new student.
I dislike the time jump. Because i felt betrayed a little of the fall of Sherlock. It is not that i want to see him fall. I wish him a really great and good life but that show isn’t a happy one. Beneath all the laugh and fun it is really dark and crappy place. The people are pretty broken and we left Sherlock at a place where he lost all ground beneath his feet. He fall…and we didn’t see that. Later in the season we got a flashback and see how worse he was but it was just not enough for me.

Second point: Kitty

Kitty is the biggest point why i have mixed feelings about the season. Just to be clear. I love Kitty. She is an amazing character and her story is really great and i really feel the hole she left. Truth be told I didn’t liked her the first two episodes but she really grow on me. She is a really strong character and utterly broken. That one point i love of her arc is the relationship with Sherlock. Both are so broken. Sherlock needs her to so he doesn’t drown. He concentrate everything on her. He needs her more than she needs him. She needs someone to help her heal and Sherlock is not the right one for it, he himself is to broken for it. But in the end he is it what really helps her heal none aless…
Between Sherlock and Watson it feels like the two has beneath Clyde adopted Kitty.
On the other hand is Sherlock so focused on Kitty that we see Bell just as a cop in the background. He has like zero interaction with Sherlock just with Joan. That is for me a really negative point.
You see my troubled feelings?

Third point: Everyone so broken

The second part of the season is all i missed in the first part. But now i miss Kitty…
Bell and Alfredo get interaction with Sherlock again. We see that fragile friendship grow and how broken they are. Sometimes i forget that Alfredo is a broken junkie like Sherlock. We see him not often struggle and episodes when he does are so good and sad.
Bell is such a lonley character but we never really saw many of that but in the second season it becomes so much clearer.
Also we have to deal with a Watson that is trying to isolate herself when everyone else is struggling to fight the loneliness.
One of my favorite scenes is were Bell and Sherlock through cards at the hockey-cup. Right now he needs just that.

I love the third season. But it is totally not what i thought i would be. But in a way this is better, isn’t it? Maybe i even love that i have such mixed feelings about the season because it is just like the life. It isn’t black and white. Everything is just gray…

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September 10

DW: I.D.

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welcome to the 94th big finish main range adventure ‘I.D.’. This is an adventure of the sixth doctor without a companion. The back cover says that it plays in the 32nd century. Ahistory is placing it around 3150 between ‘the brain of Morbius’ and ‘the beast below’. So for the Doctor it has been somewhere between Peri and Mel. Because he is traveling alone. If this is between or after Evelyn is hard to say.

Altering the character

The setting is interessting. The Doctor met a researcher. This group is working on recreate character treats. The do it with data. It seems like people are uploading their character and everything as data. It seems very interessting. What are the consequences of it and why whould people do such things. So this give us alot of interessting stuff to think about. But the first two episodes are not getting into this stuff. It seems like that zhr Scandroids want to transfer data and this data is killing people. So the maschines wander around and upload data into the humans brains and kill them with it.

On the surface

Except from the Doctor we know nothing in this story. We don’t know the time or the characters. We don’t no the big bad. Which means we are in this completely new world and his interessting background that don’t get used. It remembers me alittle of the cybermen and the end is for me a little to happy end. The characters are good and interessting but have way to little time to acctually get into your heart. This story is just to fast for what i could’ve been. If you understand what i mean. Sadly this is what i am telling about the most stories in the last time.

Bonus Story: Urgent Call

This story is the first one that have a short story on the disk. I had this story before it was one of the storys big finish overed to download for free when you have the right from the Doctor Who Magazine. I really like this story. It is different to the others. We have that character Laurel that doesn’t feel well and is calling her mother but instead the Doctor answered the phone. The only way the Doctor is playing in this story is when Laurel calls him be accidient. The whole story are just phone calls she makes and the story is in the background. She just got little parts of what happend from the Doctor.

The best thing in this story is that in the end she doesn’t know how it ends. The Doctor just vanished like always and let her with all the question back. Urgent Call is a really nice story and is totally worth to hear the story before on the disk.

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September 7

Beijing – Must See

Hey Guys,

here is my list of things that you should do or see in Beijing. Afterwards i will go into detail of the things in other articles. Soo the hardest part about it is to decided what i like the most. Everything we did was fun… okay except the Temple of Heaven. But i will talk about too. Sooo first things first what was my highlight of the vacation. It is really hard. But i decided for Food. My number one is:

1) Hot Pot

Hot Pot is a special way of eating food. It is little like fondoue. There are a lot restaurants for it. My friend visited two friend restaurants but we just got one of them, but it was amazing. It was super delicious and funny. But it is totally a group activity. You should be at least three persons. More infos will follow here.

2) Summer Palast

Of all the Palast and temple this was the one that i found the most beautifull. Mostly it looks like all the other places but the palast and everything what counts to this whole area is built on a mountain. Which means good shoes and it gives you a totally differnet view of the buildings. More infos will follow here.

3) Sport place at the Uni of my friend

Yeah, this one is weird one. But it was actually the place we spend the most time in Beijing. It is really chilly there. Of course i and my friends too didn’t make sport there. It is like a big stadium and when it gets dark all the students and other people came out to run or walk. We just got to sit at the tribune and watch them. It really were best nights out.

4) ShishaHai

It is the toury area but it is so amazing. The area goes around three sees and are little shops and restaurants. At night everything is colourfull and everywhere os live music. If you need a place to go, go there. More infos will follow.

5) Peking Duck

Okay, eating is really important and that peking duck is amazingly delicious. I never ate peking duck before. So i had no idea what to expect and it looked a little suspious when my friend showed me but it taste really good. More infos will follow.

6) Lamma Temple/ Confusius Temple

I love this temple so much because it is still used as a place to pray. What makes it really make special place in Beijing. More infos will follow.

7) The Forbidden City

It is the sighting in Beijing and i really love this place. It is so huge and beautifull. I could stay the whole day there and just watch the building. But there is just so much that makes the other places just a tiny bit more amazing for me. More infos will follow.

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September 3

DW: The War Doctor – Infernal Devices: A Thing Of Guile

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yeah i know that i need a really long time to actually listen to the second part of The War Doctor – Infernal Devices namend A Thing Of Guile. I really liked the first box of The War Doctor – Only The Monstrous. The second box is not bad but something is missing. I really don’t know what it is. The Doctor is the Doctor and the stories are really good…
This story is playing after the ‘Legion of the Lost‘ and this time the Doctor is as a prisoner in mission with Ollistra and the other the Doctor get to know in the adventure before.

War efforts

The stories are all very simular. The time lords find a weapon and try to use it in the war. They found a weapon and the Doctor should find out how it works. But at the same time they find a Dalek projekt. Like the Time Lords the Daleks are trying to find a way/ a weapon to win the war. It is really hard to see the differents between the Daleks and the Time Lords in these stories. The War is making everyone the bad and a victim of the war.
Which is really interessting to see. What does the war make of the people. Also the double standards that never change. The Time Lord are shocked at the unhuman experiments but they are not better. Is the only thing that counts that you win the war or does it matter how you win the war? Is it worth to lose everything that makes you human?

I really love the dark athmosphere and deep question about war and humanity. About losing yourself and be forced to make decision nobody want to make. It is good stuff. But maybe the problem is that it is the same in all the adventures. I am not big fan of War Movies and this shows me that war audio plays are not mine either. But it is way to good to not get the third box… i think.

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August 30

iZombie: Season 1

Hey Guys,

i really don’t know why my family and me started watching ‘iZombie’. I heart about the serie and thought that doesn’t sound like you had to see it. The story is nothing really specially and sound trashy. I doesn’t have anything about a good trashy show. Just say i had no intentations to look this serie. But like you see it ended very differently.

First Look

I didn’t had he hopes and apart for the story i didn’t know anything about it. Just that a court medicine is a zombie and eats the brain of the dead people and get their talents and memories. The last part is not quite correct but that were my information about this serie. Trashy… and it is like it seems. The story is really like this. She doesn’t get their memories she kinda gets flashbacks when something triggers it. Because of that her boss – who need like 5 minutes to find out that she is a zombie – is telling the police that she is like a medium/clairvoyant and she let the officer to solve crimes.
Still doesn’t have many arguments to look the serie. Since the original story was a comic they kinda tried to bring that in. The have like cheapers in the episode with a headline and a drawn picture. I am kinda annoyed be it. But hey maybe someone likes it.

The Actors…

What does the serie have why i still watching it and will be watching season 2? First Robert Buckley! I loved to see him again. His character is a little boring the perfect nice guy that tries to save everyone and always gets himself nearly killed. But it is good to see him in action. The reason we (and i mean my whole family with it) we didn’t stop watching was the main character. The character is played by Rose McIvoy and she does a great job. She brings a charm into the serie. She is cute and you kinda have to like her – at the start. I think my parents still like her. I on the other hand doesn’t like her very much in the end. She is still cute but she lives in her own world and doesn’t seems to know much about the real world and it is kinda annoying how the situation escaled through the season because she just doesn’t get it and is sooo passive. Really i have something about passive characters.
The reason i still watch is Ravi her boss – played by Rahul Kohli – is nerd cool. He is so sweet and good and i just love his whole character. I watch the show really mostly because of him.
But they serie has a few other actors how are worth a look. Bradley James is just one of the amazing cast. David Anders or Bex Taylor-Klaus are just the ones i really liked.

Reminding me…

The show is reminding me of ‘Chuck’. The charm of the serie is not so different. You just have to kinda like the nerdy, trashy serie. ‘I can Kung-Fu.’ – Chuck as Liv Moore in iZombie. It is fun. Really one episode is totally like ‘I know what you did last summer’ and it is fun to watch the people actually pointing this out.

Watching or not?

How really love a little nerdy stuff and a little trash. Is here in the right place. The story is nothing really great and it at some points you just want to slap everyone because they are so stupid but the characters have charm and aren’t flat. They are nice to watch and even when they are a little dump sometimes are so sweet that you want to know were this will end.
So for me it is totally a watching serie. It is something nice for the in between.

Like i said ‘I can Kung-Fu!’!

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August 27

DW: Renaissance of the Daleks

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welcome to the 93th big finish main range adventure – Renaissance of the Daleks. This adventure is with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. They are not alone on this adventure. They have four new companions in the TARDIS everyone out of a different time. Mulberry is a knight of templar and met Nyssa in 1320. Nyssa and Mulberry are landing in Petersburg 1864 at the time of the american civil war and met Floyd. 1967 they save major alice hunniford and take her with them. The Doctor is traveling with Wilton how seems to be out of a parallel universe. 2158 a year after the Dalek invate the earth but it didn’t happen.

Big group

This is really good. So many characters in the TARDIS. They are all very different even when they all are soldiers in a way. There is so much potential in the conactions between all this characters. This is the best part of the story. All that stuff about the different times and characters. It is fun to hear them try to work together and find out what happend. There is way more potential between them than just this adventure. But sadly they will not travel together longer.

Same old

Okay, i know that every Daleks story is in away the same old story over and over again. But this one of the story i didn’t like very much. The story is in away very boring. I like the characters but everything else seems so act on the survice. So many things doesn’t make much sense to me. Also i am i not a fan of humind Daleks. So the story is not getting me.

I am really sorry for the short articles. I will give my best to change that again.

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