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NEPALIAUSTRALIAN’s Blog Award 2016 Nominations Announced

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Hello everyone, my first midweek Blogpost is already happening now after being without it for 1 1/2 years! I had actually planned to wait with it for a few weeks but M from Nepaliaustralian gave me the perfect opportunity to have one already now as I have been nominated for the “Best Personal Blog” at the Nepaliaustralian’s Blog Award 2016.

“A moment please that sounds familiar” you might think and you are right. I had actually the honor to win the “Best Personal Blog” at the Nepaliaustralian’s Blog Award 2015. So in order to increase my chances in repeating this feat I herby force all of you to vote for me!

Nah just joking. Please do check out the other blogs, not only in the Best Personal Blog category but also in the other categories as well as there are many very interesting blogs which you might not know yet!

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Thank you everyone for getting behind Nepaliaustralian Blog Award 2016 and nominating your favourites blogs. So now the nomination has closed and it’s time to vote for your favourite blogs to win the title.

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Following are the nominations in each category.

  • Best Blog for 2016
  1. https://witlessdatingafterfifty.wordpress.com/
  2. https://megaworthit.com/
  3. https://atkokosplace.wordpress.com/
  4. https://passionfruitgarden.com/
  5. https://anewlifewandering.com/
  • Best Photo Blog 2016
  1. https://milliethom.wordpress.com/
  2. https://kcsantoshphotography.wordpress.com/
  3. https://travelswithchoppy.com/
  4. http://www.retireediary.wordpress.com
  5. https://thesnowmeltssomewhere.wordpress.com/
  • Best Food Blog 2016
  1. https://recipereminiscing.wordpress.com/
  2. https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/
  3. http://cookingfromheart.com/
  4. http://foodpleasureandhealth.com/
  5. http://ministryofcurry.com/
  • Best Travel Blog 2016
  1. https://enchantales.wordpress.com
  2. https://lostinprettyeurope.wordpress.com/
  3. http://annasherchand.com/
  4. https://irene-travelogue.com/
  5. https://amandacoxdesign.wordpress.com/
  • Best Fashion Blog 2016
  1. https://lifewithtisha.com/
  2. https://fashionandmoore.com/
  3. http://sylandsam.com/
  4. https://disasterdavis.wordpress.com/
  5. https://fashiongirlanonymous.wordpress.com/
  • Best Personal Blog 2016
  1. https://aftertheraincomessunshine.com/
  2. https://kenthinksaloud.wordpress.com/
  3. https://alinabarac.wordpress.com/
  4. https://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/
  5. https://crazychinesefamily.com/
  • Most Diverse Blog 2016
  1. https://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/
  2. https://hungrydai.wordpress.com/
  3. https://joliesattic.com/
  4. https://aloversmuse.wordpress.com/
  5. https://shiviiamphoenix.wordpress.com/
  • Best New Blog 2016
  1. http://www.sustayableme.com/
  2. https://southmeetssoutheast.wordpress.com/
  3. http://enchantales.wordpress.com
  4. http://annasherchand.com/
  5. https://hello1am.com/

How to vote?

Please copy the following on the comment box and type 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 next to each category.

  • Best Blog for 2016
  • Best Photo Blog 2016
  • Best Food Blog 2016
  • Best Travel…

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Crazy Family, Travels

Looking back at 2016

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Once again a new year has begun and I am really looking forward to it. This is not only because we are expecting in May a little sibling for Nathan but because the past two years were kind of – meh. For one there was the incredible terrible year of 2015 in which I got ill and then 2016 when recovery started.

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I deem this year unworthy

Though things got better last year it was a really strange year as well. Not that anything bad happened during that year to us, in fact things were going rather smooth in total especially with our business. I’d say all the negative news during that year were putting everything and everyone a bit down. At points my wife was just too scared to fly as she expected terrorist attacks at the airport and we did not visit the local Christmas Market due to the attack in Berlin in early December. Perhaps also having MIL for three months with us put a dark stain on the year but then again it would have not worked without her here at all with us being busy with our busy business and Nathan not having any spot at the Kindergarten (on the waiting list now for nearly three years…).

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I have a bucket

Not all was bad about 2016 especially as we were able to do some travelling. I think it was actually the year we travelled the most ever. First we had a lovely trip to Cologne in the end of March together with my parents and shortly thereafter we went together with my father to China for nearly three weeks. There we had also the memorable crazy city tour, an experience I shall never forget and of course the weird countryside experience for the rich. During the summer months we drove to Dresden together with MIL to visit some of my old friends and experience that lovely city with its surroundings. Just one week later we flew to Finland to visit my parent’s cottage and then stayed with some of my wife’s Chinese friends in Helsinki for a few days. I’d say that is pretty impressive when it comes to travelling for such lazy people as us and especially as there was still one more trip in autumn to Prague!

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Busy Nanjing Lu in Shanghai

In retrospect it appears that 2016 was actually rather good! It always depends on the perspective in the end. Though 2016 was after all pretty good I do hope for a better 2017 with less madness in this world. With this first post in the new year I also want to start blogging more regularly again, somehow I had always some excuses in the past half-year to skip one or two posts a month. My plan for now is to stick with the basic Sunday posts and hopefully being able to throw here and there some mid-week posts again about food, hobbies or actually some videos I am supposed to have uploaded already a year ago on my channel.

How was your year 2016 and what do you have planned for this year?

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Crazy Family, Crazy Germans, Our cute son

Our Christmas 2016

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First of all I hope you all had some nice Christmas days whether you celebrated it or not. For us these few days from the 24th till the 26th of December were the first real “holidays” for a very long time. Not really any customers to deal with, no purchasing to do and of course no packing and with it no trouble with MIL.

 

This Christmas was also a bit special as it was the first time in years that both my brother and I were at home for the festivities. During the past 10 year it was always either me who was in Finland or my brother being somewhere else in Germany over Christmas. So this year my father had finally both of his sons home again. This also meant that Nathan had some time again to annoy his big Uncle as big uncle is barely ever here due to his work all around Germany. Let’s just say that Nathan surely enjoyed terrorizing big Uncle.

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We even stole my brother’s Christmas Pyramid (Weihnachtspyramide)!

As for what we did over the past days: eating, nothing but eating. Oh, of course we exchanged gifts in between the eating but that is about all we did. Originally we had planned to go to the Arche Warder on the 25th but as usual the Northern German weather decided to come around with storms and tons of rain. I think this might have been even the greyest and wettest Christmas for me thus far! As you might imagine staying at home for three days and do nothing but eating is not really the healthiest you can do in your life but as my dad would say “You only live once so you have to enjoy all the food while you still can”, what a wise man.

 

So here I am still stuffing myself silly with food while checking the calendar with dread as my goal weight for the end of year seems a bit impossible to achieve within the next 5 days (that is if I do not find my own Room of Spirit and Time from Dragonball).

P.S. it is the first time that I use pictures/ videos from Instagram, hope it works.

So what have you done these past days?

Be sure to follow me also on Facebook and on Twitter as I will post there occasionally pictures which do not find their way into my blog posts. Furthermore I also have a YouTube Channel in which some videos might pop up from time to time

https://www.facebook.com/CrazyChineseFamily

https://twitter.com/CraChineseFam

https://www.youtube.com/