small gas king!

My distributor is so small gas, I feel suffocating working with them!!!! They are all sibeh small woman behavior, small small thing also think it is after them and then angry at me. tiu nia sing. Beijingnese again!

Help!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~

Can you stop talking?

I realized I cannot work with 2 types of people, coz as soon as they start talking, I am immediately turned off. If they talk longer in their local slang, I feel so agitated I swear I can slap them if my self-control is low.

First type is Beijing-nese, or people from north part of China that speaks in those northern tone. I feel so tired everytime I listen to them talking. The tone is very "circling", a bit like ah-neh-neh type, I feel I can die immediately. And, they love talking. The non-stop sense is very killing me.

Second type is, French whose English is poor. Their frenchie tone, can kill me too. And 50% of the time while they are talking, I totally don't know what they talking about. Arrrghh... torturing.

Today, is my not-so-lucky day. The above 2 types of people, called me at different period of time.

They are so persistent, although my tone (over the phone) is already showing them I very busy (including typing while talking to them, drinking water and making the gulping sound, kept on "eh-hem.. hmm.." all the while they talking), they still talk, and talk, and talk...

Men really do not listen to us carefully....

Last night, something happened, and it proves to me again, Men are from Mars...

It started like this:

Hubby: "I am going to do laundry tonight, but Black colors only tonight. You have any black dress and shirts want to wash?"

Me: "YES! Wait for me, I go get it!"

So, I throw a total of 5 black shirts to the laundry bag, and continue my cooking session in the kitchen.

After 2 hours later... hubby went to take out the clothes from the washing machine and hang them.

Me:" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! WHY YOU WASH YOUR TOWEL??!!! It's not black!!! And it got a lot of mao-mao that will stick onto the black shirt!!!!!!"

Hubby kept quiet, coz he dulan I yelled so loud.

Look lah, I yelled because I hate all the mao-mao stick onto the black color clothes. They are so irritating! Actually, nowadays I try not to buy black color clothes because they are so easy to get sticked by the mao-mao... eee...

So, proves again, Men really do not listen to us carefully. His towel is not black color. It's blue.... and with mao-mao!!! >_<

肚懒！

今天在单位里，被自己的老板‘激’(gek) 到。第一次和她的意见不和，第一次觉得她如此地霸道不讲理。其实事情很小的，但是我这个人很讲原则。她叫我做的那一件事根本就是和我的做人原则不配，所以我气！而且根本就可以用另外一种方法解决，她说烦。我更气！

人，真的很容易被这种蚂蚁般的小事激到，真他妈的！肚懒！

我这个人一肚懒就希望有猎头公司这时候找我。我他妈的，就不信其他的公司也有这么多的肚懒事！更令我肚懒的是，有人在那边说风凉话！妈的，为什么街上的野狗不来强奸她！（这个她不是我老板，是那个说风凉话的大波妹同事！她妈的！）

越想越生气！为什么我还要出来受气？真的是赶快弄大肚子在家相扶教子算了！

>_<

Huangshan Trip #1

We, 6 of us, went to Huangshan over the weekend. It was a short 2 days trip, by bus (6 hours through, another 6 hours forth). P.M. asked us how was the trip today, and here's what Winston replied in the email "foggy, raining, tired, and dai-D (Big 2)". Hahaha...

Yah, it was very foggy, and raining. 1st day was practically wasted. We reached there around 1.30pm, had lunch and by the time we get on the cable car to go up there (yah, we lazy ass, not climbing up. But how to climb? It takes 5 hours to climb!!), it was around 3pm something. Checked in the hotel, dumped the heavy back pack, and it started raining so heavily outside!! So, our Dai D session started at 4pm til 6pm (dinner time). Luckily we came in a group. If not, what to do in hotel besides you watch me, I watch u?

We must say the hotel standard is much better than what we thought and imagined. It was small, but cozy, and clean (esp carpet and toilet). I hate to say this, but this hotel is much much much better than the 1088 yuan Zhao Long Hotel!!

1st night, was Dai D session til 11pm again. Outside hak-ma-ma, nothing else to do also. But, a lot of campers camped outside the hotel. I don't know why they can do that. But most importantly, I cannot understand how they stand the wind and rain at night. It was so windy at night, I can hear the "woo woo" wind sound on and off. Poor them.

At 5am, those campers already making noises. Sunrise time is around 5.49am, according to the hotel forecast system. Hotel also implicated the chances of seeing the Sun rise was 40% that day. Of course lah, so foggy and rainy. I was a bit disappointed. But I still woke up Babe to go to window see whether the sky is clear or not at 5.00am. He went to window unwillingly, open up the curtain, and said "i can't see anything honey.." I said, "did u put on your glasses?" Babe replied, "honey, I mean it is very foggy, I can't see anything!". So we went to sleep again.

At 5.20am, my alarm snoozed again. I was hoping the wind blow the fog away in the past 20 minutes. So I ask babe go see if the sky was cleared. My babe murmured "why don't u go see yourself. so unfair". I just pushed him off the bed, he no choice, go to window and replied, "i still can't see anything honey"...

So, I was indeed disappointed. Sleep until 6am. Can't sleep no more coz the campers outside were really very noisy. And got tour-guide speaking through the microphone too, "bla bla bla". WOW, they sure wake up early and climb few stair case (from another hotel I suspect) to reach here to try thier luck to see sunrise. I picked this hotel because i know we can see sunrise just outside the hotel. Haha... smart or not? But luck was not on my side lah, can't see no sun that day at all, don't even hoping for sun-rise.

But we were lucky, the next morning was not raining anymore! But fog was still on and off there, so we managed to snap a few pictures when the fog was thin. And climbed some stair case to cover some tourist spot. Jay and I really enjoyed the view even though it is quite foggy. We plan to come back here again, soon! (That's why I put the title of this post as "Huangshan Trip #1, coz #2, 3, 4 is definitely coming up soon! hehehe)

p/s: one thing we love huangshan is, 95% of the area was NO SMOKING ZONE! Haahhahaa.... the air was so clean! I love it!!!

Cable Car view. Cable car took 15 minutes, 80 rmb. If climb, takes 5 hours.

Just got off cable car.
6 of us (I holding the camera lah. haha) - left to right: Calvin, hubby, Winston, Keng Fei, and Wendy.

See my hubby is so excited. haha..
Can u see different shape of the mountain rocks?? I wonder how they form like this, especially the left first one. Looks like a chestnut.
Campers that camped outside our hotel. I took this picture just from our room's window.
This tree is called "lover tree" wor... can u see it looks like 2 person sticking together:)

Can u see the locks? The lovers come here to lock up the lock, and throw the key down the mountain to signify their love is forever and ever. It's quite not environmental friendly though.

Huangshan -- I love you!!!!

relevancy... differentiator... brand development stage!

I was busy this week, yah... again.

Anyway, we were in the meeting room, coz the big guai boss is here, and we have media review. Yes, they want to review if the money spent is worth the sell-through results we have or not.

For easy reference sake, let's say we have 3 brands in the company. Each is called Brand A, B, and C respectively.

Brand A is the biggest sales contribution. So, TVC (tv commercial) is doing great job. Brand B, was second big, until 2 years ago, the brand I handling (Brand C) has overtake it's second position. Muahahhaa... happy.

Anyway, we were discussing why the TVC of Brand B generates more than 100% of M/S ratio. more than 30% is pretty bad already. Imagine Brand B has the figures like more than 100% in some of the tv commercial.

The Brand B in charge person was sitting beside me.

She was reading some ppt, I key poh, I read too. It was just some Marketing Slides from somethin like text book material. Talking about brand relevancy, consumer experience, and brand development in a market. Something like that. She even turned to me and ask how do I pronounce "differentiator". I was thinking, you having exam later is it?

Guess what happened in next 20 minutes? I was so shocked, I have to calm myself down if not others will see my panic look. She started to comment! And the words that coming from her mouth, was those terms that she was "revising" minutes ago!!!

"Brand B might not be ready for TVC, because, the consumer don't feel the relevancy with the product, and they cannot experience the ownership, bla bla bla, and the years that this brand has entered into this market is very early, we cannot compare to U.S., bla bla bla... differentiator bla bla bla (i cannot remember what she said about differentiator).

Anyway, I am shocked. These chinese people, first of all, really is a great pretender. They can open up a text book kinda ppt and start revising the terms, and start bull-shiting. They can be thicked face too, got people force u with a gun meh? if you know about this "relevancy or not relevancy" at the first place, then why still go tvc?

I learnt a lesson yesterday. Bull-shitter is every where. And, they look like just anyone of us.

I really respect her yesterday! Coz after her "text book terms" comment, the boss simply did not chase after her why her M/S ratio is so high. The boss just concluded maybe the big chunk of money she has should give to Brand C to further brand develop. (hahahaha...)

"nah!!"

I every morning watch 15 minutes of news before go do my "private business".

Anyway, this morning, the news have something which shocks me -- more than half of the teenagers in Shanghai nowadays think that "honesty" is stupid and worthless!

I was showing middle finger at the TV screen - "nah!"

Come to think of it, no wonder any thing in China also can be fake (e.g. eggs, oranges, chopstick, water, lipstick, etc etc I can go on and on for days with the list), because honesty, is STUPID! haha...

Sigh...

The earth is sick - still cold in April, and snowed so many days in Shanghai this year.
BUT
The people is sick too...

HELP~~~~~~~~

Ching Ming

My colleague said this food is only available during Ching Ming festival (thomb sweeping). So, I buy and try.
Nothing fancy lah. A bit like our ang-ku-kuih, except ours is much more better. Inside is dao-sah, it's sweet. The flour is hard, not like our angku kuih, soft soft.

I miss hometown food again. Sigh...

For my mom, who is crazy about flowers:)

Went to 鲜花港 yesterday with Purple mushroom (from now on, I will call her P.M., save my typing), winston, and 2 of P.M friends, name is hooi hooi and E C.

It was so freezing and windy. This year winter is longer. I am in my turtle neck and 棉袄 today again, and heater was on for last night too.

Anyway, I love the tulips so much! (If only yesterday sunlights were more sufficient...) And I believe my mom will be crazy over it too. Haha.. Since many of the jpg I wanted to share is already on P.M. blog (yah, same spot, same post, haha), I will just share the rest.

Mom -- if you want to witness this with your own eyes, come visit me during this time next year loh! hehehee:)

p/s: as if I went to Hollland yesterday. hahaha:P

《高兴》

最近实在是太忙，冷落了我前一阵子在读阅的《高兴》，作者为贾平凹。

不是我买的啦，是妈妈叫我这边买好，下一次带给她（她给了我一张清单，还不时地加一些新的书，每一次回家都好担心行李会不会超重，但是妈妈开心就好啦）。我是看他的封面很有趣才开始读的。你看，又一次证明“外表”实在很重要。呵呵。

这本书，暂时是这两年里我看了以后觉得很有意思的小说。有时会令我笑，但很快就会觉得很伤感，所以我觉得他的手法很厉害，这一秒钟令你笑，下一秒钟令你感伤（有一点像《长江7号》，呵呵）。一个农民，卖了肾也做不了西安的城市人，可悲吗？

有一个小小的愿望，希望这一阵子别再这么忙了，好让我回家后还有精力看完这一本小说：）

p/s: 中国买书，实在是便宜到不能形容。

blue color tooth?

I know I am biased... but hey, don't you think he looks like a blue color tooth??

It's a 海宝 for 2010 Shanghai Expo.

Don't know who approved this. This thing doesn't represent Shanghai at all. And the song associated to it also sucks. English some more. Very silly. Shanghai=english song??

My Beijing trip

I am still alive. hahaha... ok ok, I have so much to tell over my business trip in Beijing.

This trip, I was living at ring-4 area (四环）because it was close to where I am attending the meeting, and it makes me realized Beijing is really big... wide spread. Beijing has a total of 5 rings. Each ring is big, and jammed with cars...

Anyway, I want to tell you about this hotel, called Zhao Long Hotel. It was said it's a 5 bloody star, and the price is 1088 yuan per night, I only picked this hotel because it was close to where I having the meeting (it was a daily meeting). I don't want to sit in cars for more than 1 hour because of stupid traffic, so I stayed at this hotel where I can walk to that place. And thinking 1088 yuan per night is so expensive, it couldn't be less than what I expected what a 5-star hotel is.

I was WRONG. Dead wrong. The hotel is old! Checked-in officer is sibeh rude (I made a fuss about his attitude, asking what's his name, and complaint to his supervisor, yes, I am that fussy. Tell u why shortly), and the room shower place, looks like this:

Can you believe it? I cannot believe this. The interior really looks more like 3.5 star ok. Fuck shit.

OK, tell you why I complaint the officer. Upon checking in, I asked, is the room equipped with broadband, can I go onto internet? He answered, "yes, got the internet line, but without the laptop." And with sibeh face ok. I was dulan already. Who will expect a broadband room will come with laptop?? nia sing. Then, when he took my deposit on the credit card, he swapped 10,000 yuan! I asked him, why so much? He answered, "The deposit should be more than your rental fees." He said it in a way that implies I am so stupid, first time business trip, doens't know about the rule. I immediately asked for his name, Daniel Shi. And I asked for his supervisor to come see me right away. She came, this lady face is very sweet. And she apologized on his attitude. I wanted to say to her, "if your staff is sad because his gf dumped him or his pet died this morning or if he lost all his money in share market this morning, then please give him a day off", but I hold my temper. At least she has a pretty face and her attitude is very good.

NEVER, never ever stayed in Zhao Long Hotel if you come to Beijing! It's just a blardy 3 star hotel, charging you 1088 yuan per night without breakfast some more. Nia sing hotel.

After 3 days fuck shit trip in Beijing, and working more than 10 hours everyday, I am back to my home-sweet-home. Yes, I called Shanghai as home~~~~~ haha... Missed my bed. And I feel glad to shower in my comfy shower room. Yay!

p/s: Beijing standard of living so much lower than in Shanghai. I don't know why I realized this so much in this trip (it's not my first trip to Beijing). Cab fees are so cheap. Eating also cheap. My colleagues also told me the house in Beijing is cheaper than in Shanghai too. So I am not surprised that the group of people who can afford our product is much less than in Shanghai. haha.

March

My calendar for MARCH is full of circle and words, reminding me which day got what kind of meeting or tel-con waiting for me.

Why huh??? WHY HUH??? Why our big guai lou boss cannot leave us alone to do our business, why must always come kacau us with this meeting, that meeting, this telcon, that telcon, this store visit, that store visit??

HELP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Today, I shut off 2 phone calls, yelling at them "don't call me this week and next week. No time talk to u!". One sibeh guy, so bodoh punya, still continue talking, I tell him I really cannot talk and I am putting down the phone now, then only he bye bye. nia sing ah..

For Horny Ang Moh

This was taken last week. Immediately remember I owed Horny Angmoh a picture of panty along roadside.

Can you see the red panties, and each side they fully use up the space to hang the women's stockings?

THIS IS CHINA!!!

Busy like an octopus!

This is me in past 10 days -- BUSY LIKE AN OCTOPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nia sing!!!!!!!!! I want my old relaxing life back!!

Golfing

We had so much sunshine on Saturday, weather was just fantastically great. So, bui suggested we go to play golf.

We googled where's the nearest golf course, and went there by cab.

We played at driving range. More like bui bui played at driving range. I learnt. There were many people that day. Bui is very patient on me. I can only hit out the ball one in every 4 hits. hahahaa... anyway, I like this sports. Yay...

This is bui at... "patcher" I think. I forgot what's the term. Anyway, u were supposed to hit the ball into that hole..

My hand was in pain the next day. But, we decided to go back there again next week, if weather is still great:)

7 million vs 24 million; 24 million vs 1.3 billion??

Last year, inflation was hitting high in China. In December, it was 4.6% CPI I think. And January, it was 7% something. Anyway, in quarter four of 2007, the China Government raised the minimum retirement monthly salary to the lao-bai-xing, everyone is happy, although the amount is small, but whenever the TV station interviewed those old ah ma and old ah pa of what they think of this action, they answered with tears in their eyes "谢谢国家领导对我们的关爱”. Can feel they were sincerely touched.

And, the China government also doing a lot of thing, to help the non-shanghainese (e.g Ningbo, Hunan, etc etc) to get a job in Shanghai. They have a website, that those local people can log in to find job (something like jobstreet, but more advance, and it's government effort). Every info is on the website. As long as you can read and write, you should be able to find a job, well, as long as you are not lazy as pig also. They even open lots of child-care specifically taking care of those 外来劳工的子女，so they can build houses for shanghainese (hard labor) without worrying who is taking care of their kids.

Recently, they also have opened up a lot of, they called 社区医疗中心 so those old people or people who cannot walk properly can seek doctor advice more easier (just around thier living area should have 1 of this kinda center), and no need to take transportation to go to city to visit hospital. And, they were lowering prices on medicine, so more lao-bai-xing can benefit in the medical area.

They built new subway line, connecting all places, with all places. Though I hate subway takers (I always think only loser take subway. Yah, I am a loser in the morning, coz I cannot catch a taxi in peak hour), I respect the China government who makes 老百姓出行 so convenient! And from what I can see over here, whenever public voiced out something that the government should change, to make life more efficient, the government really listen, and really got action, and changed, within short period of time.

Government also constantly upgrading the road condition, though I hate this becuase this means traffic jam for that time being, but hey, they upgrade the road condition in the city, without asking the 老百姓 to pay toll ok. And, they don't take YEARS to just build a bridge... and they don't build a bridge so near to 老百姓 house and break 老百姓 house wall with shaking noise and movement. Yah lah, I am referring to the Sri Petaling KLP highway lah..

They even do all tax-payer's evaluation timely. All 老百姓 who earned more than 12K a month ought to declare taxes paid before March of every year, regardless u local or not local. Our company submited for us (yes, so nice one, company submitted in group, we just sign), and we received the acknowledgement notice from tax authority that they have received within 10 days(fyi, that time was chinese new year time). Compared to our lhd*, phooh.... I got nothing to comment.

p/s: writing this, because suddenly remembered March 8th is the voting day for Malaysian... suddenly also, feel extremely sad. If you say Singapore can be so successful because the leader only need to 'manage' the 7 million people, and Malaysia cannot beat Singapore because our dearest leader have to "manage" 24 million people, then.... then.... China has 1.3 billion 老百姓, should it be worsed than us then? Suddenly, feeling more sad...

p/s: hey, I still hate rude cheena lang, though sometimes, just sometimes, I respect the government here, ok? ok??!

ALOOOOOO

My sotong assistant made a typo mistake on one of our important communication material. China custom picked it up, and refused to allow us to import that item.

This is not the first time she have typo mistake. It's OK, she is local chinese I know and she ought to get my merciful forgiveness.

But do you know what she replied to me after I wrote to her ask her to be more careful next time?

领导:
针对此个情况的产生,我想解释在由我一人翻译并负责跟踪事后的校对时.相信有些我自己的错误,我蛮难抓得出来.

我想针对此个情况,将来专门找家公司,负责我们最后的校验,主要是针对错别字和语法通病.使用范围为:中文说明书和catalogue等对外公众信息.

I was so shocked. They really can twist the fact around. The fact that she did not apologize on her mistake really pissed me off, and she wanted me to waste money for her to get an outside company to proof read her work?????

Holding my anger, I replied, "if you wish, with MINIMAL cost please."

I am so speecheless. Can anyone of you tell me it is OK for her to behave like this?

By the way, the piece of document she made mistake on, it's not 4-5 pages of articles full of words. It was just a simple instruction sheet, with lots of pictures and minimal words. ngo men nei sei mei?!

Torturing lunch...

Today, the Sales Manager of a Magazine company, die die also want to ask me out for lunch, to thank me for invensting in them this year. I told her no need, but she explained to me, her boss insisted her to make a lunch appointment with me, if I said no, she very difficult to explain to him. Aiyoyoh... ok lah if that is the case.

So, she came with her Vice General Manager. A very talkative man. His face look like 阿毛，a chinese 漫画 character, damn funny face looking.

Anyway, it was a very "difficult" lunch, coz he kept talking. At first, I very 礼貌，if he talks, I don't eat. Then I say to myself, "cannot like that liao, keep on like that I very hungry. This man never stops talking." So, he talks, I still eat and nod my head. Hahahaha... at the end, he asked me "Did I talk too much? Am I too talkative?". I have to lie to myself and him, "no... no... please go on."

You don't see I not talkative, but, from an 1 hour lucnh, I found out that:
1) He was born in 1973
2) Besides HK and Macau, he never been to any country outside of China (HK and Macao actually also not considered countries outside of China..)
3) He is Shanghainese, he thinks there is no place else better than Shanghai (of course, comparison base is so small, just HK, Macao, some other ulu places in China, and Shanghai)
4) His name is named as "swimming", coz while he was given birth, his dad was swiming at changjiang river in a winter (Wow...)
5) His friend brought a Apple phone back for him from U.S., besides SMS, making phone calls and receiving calls, listening to music sometimes, he did not use other functions on the phone. He thinks it is too troublesome to change the module to china-friendly to enjoy the internet service.
6) He asked me want to go to Ha Er Bin togehter or not this year. (He must be joking... this ain't gonna happen - first of all, me no like ha er bin, secondly, me ain't going with anyone other than my frens and hubby)
7) He has a driver
8) He is a heavy meat eater. Don't like to eat vege.

Ehh-hmmm... I think I still have the market-research skillset. Yup... Haha...

I hope no more of this kinda "business lunch" for me anymore. I hate. I gonna pass this task to my assistant next time. Let her go to ha er bin with these kinda business-partners. yayaya... hahahaa...

Anyway, there's a lot of sunshine from today onwards. I am so looking forward to Spring!

Pic

He thinks subway is his home, can simply sit on the floor, ignoring the fact that he is creating so much trouble for passengers, to jump over him to reach the door for exit. Do you call this stupid or selfish?
During a quiet hour on a street in the heart of the city Shanghai, I sometimes could mistake this is in a western country - no spitting, no quarreling... Just tall financial buildings all around.