Funny Email from Client

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I have been here in China for almost 2 years, writing and reading in Chinese, learning to use Chinese platforms, Weibo, QQ, etc. SMSing, Weixin in Chinese, and all that stuff.

When I write emails to clients for the first time before meeting them I tend to write in English, since most clients can do English, although sometimes broken, but some clients really can’t read Chinese since they’re foreigners here in China. So I stick with English for the initial email.

But once I meet them and I establish that they’re local Chinese, I do my presentations in Chinese and communicate with them in Chinese, phone or emails etc. But this particular client, when I wrote back to her in Chinese, I got this reply:

Had to forward this to the office. Too funny! hahaha.

 

Typical Sunday Golf

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For those of you guys who aren’t following my Instagram, I now have it and it’s one of the few western social networks that are available in China! And more so they are finally available on Android. I post a more on Instagram now coz it’s easy, and also the Chinese Foursquare – Jiepang, that very much functions like an Instagram but with the check in feature a must for every post.

Follow me on Instragram: davidwpy. Same username as Facebook and Twitter.

Typical Sunday golf. Arrived at the course 1 hour early for some driving range practice. Most of the time I don’t like to practice, but what am I going to do if I’m an hour early.

 

Waited long for the flight in front of us so decided to take a picture. These 3 guys are from the US, their kids are all older than me. Fun people to play with as they were quite lax and not stiff with the golf rules. However, I did have a good day playing that day and played less than 100! (that’s good for my standards)

 

A food massage right after golf is always the best. This massage was RMB100 (RM46). Thai Odyssey is priced at about RM60.


This RMB100 massage also includes:

Yep, bacon spinach salad, egg sandwich, chrysanthemum tea, and strawberry ice cream. Damn this sure is good value. I had no choice for the strawberry ice cream. I wanted Chocolate.

 

But the best part of yesterday’s golf:

WOOHOOOO with a handicap of 26. You sure can get some amazing net scores when you play 95. hahahaha

 

Make money by making my wife pregnant

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Yes. These ads always appear on Beijing bus stands, roadsides, pillars. I’m not sure if I understand correctly, but you get paid millions for impregnating someone’s wife because that guy is infertile. I’d be surprised if people believe something like this. If they do, there has to be a business model that can be worked out of this.

White Collar – What I’m watching now

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After Gossip Girl and Nikita are on a break now on tv.sohu.com, I’ve started to watch White Collar, courtesy of Huiwen and Anita. Huiwen who introduced it to me with the first episode of the first season, knowing exactly the type of shows I’d like to watch. She knows I won’t get stuff too deep, or stuff without beautiful people. Anita who enabled it, lending me 2 full seasons of White Collar to get me started.

Am done with Season 1 and on Season 2 now. Wonder what I’ll watch when I’m done. Madmen?

Chinese Play 话剧 – Beijing, I love you

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I’ve been asked to watch a play before previously, but never thought much about it as I probably wouldn’t understand much since first of all, my Chinese sucks, and secondly, they’re going to be talking a lot about Beijing local stuff. It’s basically like a non-Malaysian watching Douglas Lim or Harith Iskandar’s comedy. They probably would be wondering like wtf??? when Douglas sings something about Bumi etc.

But since Shirly asked me to go last Friday, I thought, it’s one of those if you’re in Beijing you should “go to the great wall” check out once since you’re here kinda thing. So I went. Shirly knew someone in the play and got us front row seats. *Thank you Shirly!

2 hours of understanding 50% I think I’m proud of that. A year ago it would be not understanding shit. I did however doze off at the 4th of 5 scenes. Just like how I did 2 years ago at Wicked at London courtesy of Ming and Tim. Somehow these chairs are too comfy I tend to fall asleep. Unless of course there are hot dancers, or funny scenes. Emotional scenes, or sad scenes, or mostly “Deep” scenes just put me to bed.

It was a good play. I’m glad I went. We ended up at Xiu and Spark after that (no surprises there), and ended the evening (morning) at 4am.

Camwhore Feb 2012

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Just in case I forget how I look like Feb 24, 2012. Shot taken right after recent haircut about 5 days ago. I must say styled hair is way better than not styling.

Although these days I just don’t give a shit anymore and just go unstyled.

So much easier to lie down and rest my head on something and not have to worry if the hair goes out of place, because it wasn’t even styled in the first place. Or, putting sunglasses on your head, as when you have product on your hair and it’s all styled nicely,. who wants those sunglasses flattening like the middle portion of your hair. When you take it off, it just looks ridiculous.

Now I can’t believe myself talking about my own styling sense when I obviously don’t have much. Can’t blame me for being vain, once in a while.

 

Haidilao for Mashili’s Birthday

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It was Mashil’s Birthday sometime after CNY, and as how we do it in all Nuffnang country’s tradition, we all shared to buy him a lunch. His choice was Haidilao. Haidilao is a famous hot pot chain here in China. I’ve heard their service at the restaurant is impeccable. However, I’ve never had the chance to go try it out, but they also do delivery service, and I heard that their delivery service is pretty damn good too. I’ve heard delivery for McDs, KFC, fast food, or even rice dishes etc. But hot pot?!?! HOW!?

Well, in China, nothing is impossible (Adidas tagline), haha. They basically come, set up everything, you don’t have to lift a finger, then when it’s ready, you eat, and then when you’re done, call them, and they’ll come clean up and made it seem like they were never there.

Amazing you say?

Welcome to China.

A group photo before we attacked the food:

L-R: Mashili (ex-Churp Churp operations), Ningzhe (front end developer), Jihongwei (web developer), me, Rachel (account exec), Joyce (community exec), Kongxiangmei (creative designer), Julia (Churp Churp), Linda (admin).

We of course couldn’t wait to dig in:

Price wasn’t the cheapest. It was about 100RMB per person, for that price, we could have pretty much gone to Sky Fortune hot pot to eat, a lavish hot pot restaurant. Cheap hot pot at Xiabu Xiabu can be as low as RMB30 per pax. But at least we all got to experience it.