Mr China went on a long 8 day trip to find biz and to show the locals how to run a lens biz, learnt and experienced alot in his long adventure, his summary:
20 May
12pm - Embarked on 18hr train ride from Xinji to Chang Chun
Rather interesting experience to be squeezed into a 6 bed cabin bunk
1st half an hour was interesting, with the endless plains of farmland
But it gotten boring after 2hrs of the same "picture",
21 May
630am - Disembarked on Chang Chun, searched for a hotel
Located one near area of biz, Mr China is tired n took another nap
10am - Went to XS eye hospital - Met a nice lady that noticed his Hugo Boss perfume
They are reorganising and wanting to eliminate some brands
luckily Mr China came in time to halt this and bring forth a propo
12 pm - Went to WP, a high end retail chain store, very well decorated.
Met the Ah Beng Boss that likes to poke fun at pple
Interesting discussion and headed to lunch
3pm - Went to a big departmental store , no biz there, funny difference in china
All prescription optics doesnt exist in retail departmental stores
They all have specialised buildings catered to their professional
9pm - Rested enough after dinner and did some running.
Rather hilly area in Chang Chun, did 10x slope with strong winds
22 May
5am - Awoke and made preparations to leave
Headed to bus station to Harbin
Long Bus Ride
Noon - Reached Harbin and located a hotel near the Train Station
Train stations are where all the nonsense take place, messy area
Mr China's partner decides to drag e luggage n walk instead
Imagine carrying/dragging 20kg+ thingy for 15min - 30mins in summersun
Headed immediately to a wholesaler's office
Enquired abt the problem and status - resolved some problems
Requested for Mr China to give presentation next mth in his seminar
Booked a hotel for his conference/seminar to retail bosses
Lunch with him, ordered 1L beer for himself, scary.....
Till Evening - Went to town area and met several bosses of retail chains, chances are slim
Have to keep the spirit high.
Went to st spohia church, beautiful , big sq with alot of pple, dancing,
skating, skipping , etc, lights are nice with gd music, inspirational
Walked thru the russian street with interesting slights. Gotten to a seaside
Beautiful........
23 May
am - Woke up to run, explore Harbin abit
Ladies are a pretty sight there with their unique features, bit russia like
Noon - Went on more visiting of bosses, difficult work, established stores unlikely
to give me a 2nd look, all the carrying of big bag up offices is killing me
Had a bad debt to collect, stupid lady kept delaying and acting dumb
Feel like givin her 2 tight slaps, made us run here n there.. pissed
pm - on Board on a long bus ride to Shengyang , 7 hrs ?
Night - received call from a eye hospital that he wanted to give me a presentation slot
Damn, did my PPT on board the bus, wanted to puke with all the bumps
Caught in a bad jam, very delayed
Mr China took his eye off the laptop and looked at the traffic:
He wonders if the driver is an F1 driver? with his "horrific" driving ability
Mr China decides nt to scare himself and concentrate on his work
24th May
- Midnight, arrived at Shengyang finally, stupid Chinese salesman decides to drag
luggage again
Finally taken a cab to a hotel, checked in and found no place for dinner.
Walked 15mins to find a Mac, 24 hrs , thank god... but Mr China hates the "M"
Bo pian and have to succumb to the Clown
130am - Mr China is awoken in hotel room by awesome orgasmic screams from nearby
Some lady is enjoyin her nite and giving Mr China the shivers....
530am - the screams resume , bloody nonsense .........
7am - Mr China wakes up from an "eventful nite", wants to go out for a run, Rain..damn
Did excerises in the room instead
Till Noon - Went around meeting 3 - 4 partners, Sheng yang's optical trade is unique with
no retail chains, all are 1 BIG MEGA high end stores.
Stuck up and arrogant bosses.....
Night - Another bus ride to Da Lian.... ard 3-4hrs , tts fast.....
Rushed to meet one of the Clients, running late, had a nice conversation
Shld be ok with the deal , hopefully
Checked into a beautiful hotel, open the windows and you face the mountains
Took a walk at the beautiful coastal area, imagine cosy bay x 10 the area size
Very peaceful and nice. Had a big castle nearby, a seashell's musesum, its huge
25th May
4am - awoke to run, ran up some hills and peaks in a park. Overseeing the whole of DaLian
Beautiful
till Noon - Rushed off to visit more partners and the endless sales talk, Mr China is getting dry.
Night- took a ship to Yan Tai, big ship, all the train stations and all are not user friendly, plenty of steps and all. Luckily Mr China still have some strenght to drag his lugguage up n down endless stairs.....
Slpt thru the sea ride to Yan Tai, please, its nt some cruise, its a big big ship with 6 pple in a bunk. Mr China is so tired that he knocked out
26 May -
4am - arrived at Yan Tai, have to rush to the bus station to catch the bus to QIng Dao
Caught it , luckily, with time to spare.
Excellent bus service, akin to air travel , Mr China is impressed.
noon - checked into a coastal hotel, nice and beautiful, plenty of tourist also.
Met a client and prepare for the presentation to the eye hospital
4pm - arrived at the hospital, they cant find the eye to the auditorum, what a joke.......
Found it after much effort, even after much preparations and all,
Tiredness drains into Mr China and he blanks out looking at the crowd
Suddenly duno wat to say and stared blankly for some time
Excellent learning experience as he overcomes this and made it. Luckily.....
Night - walked around Qingdao's coast, beautiful with the sea winds blowing.......
27th May
Woke up early to run - nice morning run along the coast, beautiful sights with the sea breeze
Pm - meet one of the clients, gd discussion and went for lunch. N of course, the famous Qingdao beer, damn... he can really drink, every glass is a toast and have to gulp down.
Mr China had to check into a small hotel to rest after that effort of drinking in noon.
NIght - train ride back to Xinji
Arrived back at home at 3am to finish my reporting at 5, knocked out then...... house in a total mess with endless clothes to wash.........
and more follow ups......
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