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5/15/2012 9:26:18 PM
The dreaded Canton Fair just ended here in Guangzhou, and good riddance for a few months until the next one rolls around in October. For those of you who haven’t heard of Canton Fair. It’s an import and export convention that brings people from all over the world to Guangzhou looking for Chinese products to import from China or to find buyers in China for their own products. Needless to say it turns Guangzhou into hell on earth twice a year. The Canton fair runs from about April to the beginning of May in the spring and from October to November in the fall.
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5/13/2012 3:57:58 PM
It feels like happened yesterday. When I came to Canada almost 30 years ago I was having a coffee with a Chinese gentleman, a witty businessman and his words sounded like a prophecy. He took a deep breath, his eyes looked like if he could envision the future and he said “In just a matter of few years, China will attain an immense growth and wealth and become incredibly powerful and this will surprise a lot of people”. The success of Great China in every front is something really awesome and undeniable.
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4/29/2012 9:22:25 PM
About one thousand years ago, a young girl who named ZhuYingtai, lived a small village, Zhujiazhuang, Shangyu, Zhejiang. ZhuYingTai was a beautiful elegant and very smart girl. She was fond of reading and loved to attend school. But in her time women were not allowed to go outside and acquire an education. Although Zhu was the only daughter of his parent, she didn't get his father's permission to travel to Hangzhou to attend school. Zhu felt so disappointing which made her ill. In the end Zhu's father gave in and agreed her to go to Hangzhou to attend school but she have to disguised (dressed) her self as a man. That means she have to pretend to be a man to go outside.
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5/2/2012 8:51:22 PM
When I left off I had just returned from Hong Kong and nearly didn’t make it back because of a “passport malfunction” aka washed twice in the wash. I decided that it was time to get serious about getting my paperwork straight just so I didn’t have to go to Hong Kong so much because once in a while is ok but when you have to go all the time, it gets old fast. So I put in all my paperwork and prayed for the best, because I had been advised by many foreigners online and in person in China that it would be a long shot for me to get my work visa.
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4/29/2012 8:16:25 PM
People refer a man who is afraid of his wife as henpecked. Philosopher Socrates says, If your wife is kind, you are lucky; if your wife is evil, you will become a philosopher. Ha ha, I guess this is why Socrates is the greatest philosopher.
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3/25/2012 11:35:33 AM
I got my PMP result on 25th, April. Although I passed the exam on 24th, March, but 3M2B score gave me a thump. I’m a team head, lead 7 members. My classmates were relied on me and another boy who were thought the best students by them. Someone asked me taking them to go to Hu Bei University every weekend. I called them together 4 times. We tided over the last three week-ends in cold class-room in Hu Bei University. A boy read PMBOK twice, had never done any exercises before the last three week-ends. He had to do these exercises on the last evening before our meeting, and even not finished all the exercises until we started discuss them next day. After our meeting, his emotion always came from top to low. He always expected our meetings on week-end, relied on high-hands giving him information about these exercises solutions. In the end, he got 2P3M score.
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4/14/2012 7:16:47 AM
As you will know if you are a regular reader of the profiles on this site, many of the women describe themselves as traditional Chinese woman (传统中国女性). The word can evoke different responses from different people. I got an interesting perspective on it the other day from a friend, the Chengdu poet Liao Hui, during one of our bi-weekly languages exchanges, which are rapidly becoming my favorite part of being in Chengdu.
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4/5/2012 10:40:49 AM
The monotone and noise in the cities will make people feel there is no way to escape. So it's better to leave the house and go into the mountains! There you must experience special quiet and cool charm. I am very lucky to live near the mountains. What I like to do in the mountains is:
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3/18/2012 5:05:40 PM
It’s a nice day here today, sunny and warmer in the day. Now sitting in my teaching center, I can smell the vegetables and flowers from the garden from five meters away. It is so quiet at night. Are there any frogs in it? I am wondering….
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3/12/2012 3:30:07 PM
It is funny how you can measure progress in something - most people would say that when learning a foreign language, progress should be measured against the number of words you know, or the number of lessons you have mastered or how well you write an exam. But my putonghua (Chinese common language) is mostly self-taught by flailing around in China using language badly, getting help from teachers and friends every now and then for a month or two (but not doing any homework) and listening to others.
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3/6/2012 9:33:36 PM
The call for stardom came quickly and unexpectedly as do most things in China – like earthquakes and cultural revolutions.
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2/22/2012 3:14:07 PM
I was watching a young girl and her foreign boyfriend the other day as I was sitting in a bar - as he was pontificating and espousing to her about every topic in China, she was sitting beside him looking intently, smiling and snuggling - obviously not understanding any viewpoint he had (American political history meets global conspiracy theories and China), I couldn't help but notice it was a match made in indifference - well, intellectual indifference anyway, since she understood “hello - goodbye - how are you” English and he understood “another beer - too expensive - hello sexy girl” Chinese.
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3/3/2012 1:30:50 PM
“A question ain’t really a question/if you know the answer too”
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2/22/2012 3:12:09 PM
I was doing some Internet searches last week - I am creating some brochures for my company so I was looking for happy, smiling portraits of Chinese people. You know, people satisfied with the services I offer, business people in suits that benefit from my limited knowledge, cute girls (without the duck-face pout or the V pose... that’s a hard one!) and handsome boys with slick hair and crisp shirts who become professional corporate ladder-climbers through my assistance... anyway, you get the picture.
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2/24/2012 8:49:59 PM
So I arrived in Chengdu with nothing more than I could pack into carry-on baggage. The reason I was limited in this way was because I had flown over on what is known as a buddy pass, which is something you can get if you know someone who works for an airline. It allows you to fly free (you pay the tax on the ticket) and often to fly first/business class, but you have to essentially go standby, which means you can’t check through any bags.
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2/22/2012 3:10:38 PM
I was feeling a bit under the weather last weekend and decided that a day “on the couch” might be a viable option. I selected a few favourite DVDs and wrapped myself in a few blankets and got comfortable.
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2/11/2012 7:52:10 PM
Wow, where do I start catching up on what’s been going on in my life in China? It’s been a crazy 6 month sabbatical filled with some personal losses on the home front back in the states and with some successes here in China. Even though I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with everything going on, it’s not really an excuse for going MIA on you guys on here at CLM and I hope that by starting by filling in the blanks for everyone I can make sense of my descent into isolation.
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2/9/2012 8:06:28 PM
I’m continuing to search for gainful employment in Beijing (and elsewhere in China) and I’ve been able to cobble up a few freelance gigs, which pay grocery bills though not much else.
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2/7/2012 6:59:58 AM
That loud clicking noise just as the wheels of the plane touch the ground reminds me that I am not in Kansas anymore.
* It is the sound of dozens of seatbelts being unhooked almost simultaneously with landing. As in America, the announcement has been made to keep your seat belt strapped until the plane reaches the gate. The only difference here in China is that for the most part people choose to ignore it. On the one hand, I admire the lack of deference to authority. On the other hand, if the plane suddenly stops I don’t want the fat guy sitting next to me to do a face plant into my lap.
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2/2/2012 8:27:54 PM
Funny how karma can unexpectedly come around years later, in distant places. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is not a household name, except with blues and jam band musicians and fans of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, both of which he co-founded.
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