As the end of my China trip approached…I kept on meeting more and more people- this more and more places to go, people to see, connections to make – yesterday I got in touch w/ Mainland China Trading & Consulting I work with from Texas, Murray and Hui, as well as had a 2nd meeting scheduled w/ the China Internet …
words of encouragement from Felicity
Today has been a reflective day….spent the majority of my day finding an office in the business district…man I need to learn Chinese….no one here speaks English….and I find the IT / internet company – and I meet with the VP of Strategic Development…and I pitch my idea…he likes it overall (it seemed) but of course I have a lot …
Climbed the Great Wall
at the base Friend I met on the Walk up BIG fishie I saw at a pit stop before the great wall one hell of a day of some tour company saying 50RMB to get to the great wall, just get there at 8:30am – hahah didnt get to the Great Wall until 4:30pm!!! so many side tracks, bus changes, …
Getting around in Beijing – and bought flatscreen monitor
Day 3 in Beijing…making it alright solo – had a nice guy – Mr. Law – friend of my friends in Hong Kong – show me around for a couple hours yesterday morning so I had to get to a 5 star hotel to get an English version map – now I’m good to go…even though NO ONE speaks English …
halloween night in Shanghai – today Beijing..
so I ventured out of my hotel solo last night to take advantage of the Shanghai halloween festivities….usually I go out at least w/ a supplier, friend of a friend, or random dude from the hotel, but no dice this Halloween night and i’m not one to sit hotel on a night like that!! so off I went…had a bartender …
laptop screen cracked
been difficult to access internet now that my laptop monitor is formally smashed to the point I wish it had that white fuzzy flickering it once had…ah well….need to fous on experiencing the culture than surfing the net anyway… been using starbux as a base for my research and development….have a bunch of coffee, notepads, cell phones….and a book on …
flair bartending in Shanghai
bar hopped a bit last night w/ some suppliers and their friends..played some dice game that’s popular here and saw some awesome flair bartending and other stage acts behind the bar….
Shanghai
whoever told me you don’t need to speak Chinese in Shanghai was full of it….at least where i’m staying, the taxis – no one speaks english! I have to use my friend’s text messages in Chinese characters to tell the cabbie where to drop me off….and the volume of bikes, scooters, people walking, running, cars driving in the left lane …
my chinese name
extremely exhausted from my last 24 hours of Shenzhen Trade show, factory visit, dinner and drinks w/ supplier, early morning flight from Shenzhen to Shanghai…and all the detailed madness in between….. detailed madness….I like that though I sound british… Mike in Chinese Update – It was changed to be more unique – 迈理倪 (Mai Li Ni)
Survived some food poisoning – minor speed bump
so it was bound to happen…hit some food poisoning sunday evening….still hit trade shows, visited factories, and snapped some pics w/ trade show models… getting good at this game….but more questioning of the food…. Met some Manufacturers I’ve done biz w/ before and gotta get the trade show models….
goose feet and entrepreneurship
hong kong / asia / china – I have never been surrounded by such hard working, ambitious entrepreneurs ever in my life! It is like a kid in a candy store…so many people to talk about – FROM ALL OVER the world….south america, dubai, canada, australia, india, pakistan, china, phillipines…its amazing – maybe its just this sourcing fair that is …
First Day In Hong Kong
arrived late last night – to start it off 1) my friends weren’t expecting me for another day…took a couple calls from a payphone to reach their mobile! 2) airport lost 1 of my bags. 3) sat in the middle seat next to a window seat guy that had bladder problems (or something that kept him hitting the bathroom…)…on a …
final boarding call for flight 99 from newark to hong kong…
hustler trying to make us a millionaire usin his craps method….and a pic from “The Pool” bar in Harrah’s casino last night blog entry – wed oct 10, 2007 currently in newark airport sitting on the floor to get a freakin’ power outlet…..you think by now these airports would realize 2 outlets per terminal ain’t gonna cut it…maybe there’s a …
Rate cut – time to make some bigger bets
Well, Fed lowered their rate today 5.25 to 4.75 – nice lil rally in the stock market….also means my money market rate is going to start moving downwards…which implies I need to start betting some more money on myself and my ventures! == Yahoo Finance Excerpt ==http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070918/wall_street.html?.v=53 The Fed lowered the benchmark fed funds rate to 4.75 percent after keeping …
Credit Market Mania affecting my businesses
hmmm… So I’m thinking about a company actually coming up w/ the money for these large deal I’m brokering…..obviously the credit markets is out of control…but I didn’t put two and two together until our today. But these transactions, if financed, are asset backed on inventory goods, so that has to be a safer loan than others, and hopefully these …