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Coming back is always a great feeling… back to familiar surroundings to people i love and the place i call home.

Will post more pictures of the trip soon, but first i’ve gotta clear a ton of work thats waiting for me in my inbox.

Residential skyline of Guang Zhou.

Bejing Lu mall.

The Fair.

Back alley.

Street Vendors.

Cool Jeep.

Factory visit at Pan Yu.

Guang Zhou subway.

Long bus rides was common to travel to towns out of the city. The mountain at the back is “Fo Shan” where “Wong Fei Hong” is from.

Looking for jobs?

Night scene in Kai Ping.

Sleeping arrangements in a small town. I have to say my bunk in army was way better.

Padi fields behind factories.

There is a sense of feeling that the city is growing faster then it can catch up with itself… what ever that means… i like the subtle art in urbanism.

Breakfast chinese fastfood style, “chee chong fun” with soya bean drink for 5 RMB = SG$ 1.

More photos to come as the trip develops.

I miss my girl.

Mr San gave alot of his name cards during the fair and he started getting emails from these suppliers. There are a few quite interesting ones.

Dear Jeremy San,
i see, keep touching
thanks
tony

Your sweet memory with us is still kept in our mind and just this maybe bring an unmatched business to both of us on base of mutual equality and mutual benefit.

I think they are using some kind of translation software… I read on another good one on a big neon signboard above a restaurant.

If you tleased please tell your friends if you think the best enjoiest please tell us

The “tleased” was an expensive neon typo at the most expensive restaurant in that town.

Have been taking long buses for the past 2 days going to rural areas to visit exhibitions in small towns and also visiting factories. Tommorw will be going even furthur away from Guang Zhou and will be staying over for one night at the country side.

I took tons of photos already, but forgot to bring my camera’s data cable along + i got no SD card reader so i think photos will only come when i get back to Sigapore.

A few interesting things happened on the public train (similar to MRT in Singapore) a few days ago and thought it was good blogging material.

1. White People

It was the evening rush hour and the fair just ended too, the train was jam packed. In front of me was three caucasian men, they also attended the fair. Then a few stations down a couple came up and their converstation was quite funny to me.

(translated from mandarin)

girl: what are those?

guy: oh, they must have came from the fair.

girl: why do all foreigners look so scary? They all look so horible.

I found that quite funny, cuz the girl’s lack of exposure made her comment in such a way.

2. African People

The following day, again on the train this was what happened between a petit Chinese lady and a huge big African lady.

African lady: Do you speak english?

Chinese lady: *afraid. Did not know what the African lady wanted*

African lady: *leaned forward and spoke loudly as the train was pretty noisy* DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?

Chinese lady: *freaked out, got up from the seat and offered the her seat to the African lady*.

African lady: *puzzled by the action but sat down anyway*

African lady: *looked at the same Chinese lady while sitting down* DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?

Guang Zhou Trivia

Did you know the whole Guang Zhou area and its surrounding is also called “Pearl Delta”.

Did you know that Guang Zhou is the manufacturing capital of China.

Did you know that many people go to Hair Salons to wash their hair and it means washing it for 4 cycles (shampoo + rinse + massage of the head + washing of the ears), then drying of hair, massage of head again, shoulders and arms. The whole thing lasts from 45mins to 1hr while it costs only 5 – 10 RMB (SGD$1 – SGD$2).

Did you know that due to the huge amount of industry + traffic, the sky is constantly grey and usually no one can see the sun.

Did you know that alot of the major road have 3 tier carriage ways.

My feet aches like crazy…