Pl8er trip v. China [Archive]

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:15 AM

I just arrived back from a business trip to China. Simpy put, exhausting!!

Went from Columbus to Chicago
Chicago to Beijing
Beijing to a city in China
Drove 2 hours to a smaller city to meet a supplier
Drove back an hour to our hotel for 2 nights
Back to Beijing
Met another supplier the next day and then went to the forbidden city
Next morning got on an airplane and had a layover in Japan from there to DC and then back home.

Not all that much exciting to talk about because it was mostly work but some cool pictures and the food was great!

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pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:18 AM

Beijing International airport

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First Hotel

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Dinner first night

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Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 09:21 AM

now I'm hungry, hey that doesn't look much different than your bathroom @ home

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:26 AM

Random driving around pictures

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Second hotel

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driving around

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pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:32 AM

LOL

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Main supplier is in a very cold desert

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my homies from the east

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new hotel room

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dressed for a new day

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coming down the elevator (top floor, you know how we do it)

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Oh look, more driving

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best meal I had (Peking duck, receipe was 600 years old!!)

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mrogowski

01-21-2011, 09:34 AM

man, you can sure see the smog in beijing. i sure wouldn't want to live there. did you do the driving? and how long was your flight? did you fly first class or were you strapped in the cheap seats?

Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 09:38 AM

Gobi desert?

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:40 AM

Tiananmen Square

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Forbidden City

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pretty big tv

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pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:43 AM

man, you can sure see the smog in beijing. i sure wouldn't want to live there. did you do the driving? and how long was your flight? did you fly first class or were you strapped in the cheap seats?

Smog was AWFUL! It's actually very high end city, minus the smog. No, we had a driver at each location. Driving is SCARY as hell. They drive however they want wherever they want and really follow no laws for it (driving on the other side, speeding, cutting each other off, running red lights, driving on the side walks etc) No way that I could possibly drive. We flew economy. Economy from here to there was 1600 and business was 5200 and 1st was 22,000. Total trip home was 24 hours going there was about 16 hours.

Gobi desert?

I'm not sure. Lanzhou area.

Randy Savage

01-21-2011, 09:43 AM

Did you tell everyone you were Jason Statham of famous American films?

Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 09:44 AM

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l156/sweets4ever48/China/622c7c57.jpgbet it was pretty cheap also

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:46 AM

more forbidden city

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pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:47 AM

Did you tell everyone you were Jason Statham of famous American films?

:laugh: no. However it is very common for them to stare. So I would be places and they would just walk up and stare at me ha ha ha

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:50 AM

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JimJ

01-21-2011, 09:53 AM

bet it was pretty cheap also

Yeah, I can't compete with that.

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:54 AM

and more driving...we hit the rush hour only once luckily. We were on the 4th or 3rd outbelt and 40 miles took about 3.5 hours to travel.

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not the best picture of it, but they are building a brick wall to do construction. here, we bring in cement pillars and put them in place to prevent injury to workers. There, they bring in like 40 guys and build a brick wall....they make repairs to the roads and destroy the brick wall

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back at the hotel and exhausted

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Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 09:58 AM

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pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:59 AM

Fin.

Couple of interesting things that I discovered. First, they have WAY better cars than we do. Most of the cars I saw were Audi A6 or A8, Mercedes, JW, etc. I thought they would have more older generation cars but they were mostly new.

Road conditions are awesome! They actually replace many of their roads twice a year. We didn't have any pot holes, very smooth driving.

They are far more caring of their guests. The second supplier we have purchased only 2 parts in 10 years and they still sent a driver, brought us to their company, took us to lunch, drove us an hour to the forbidden city!

Clothing costs way more in China than in the states. Inflation is a bitch (part of the current valuation of the RMB).

pl8er

01-21-2011, 10:00 AM

Don't drink the water :P I brought one of the tags home where a bottle of water cost me 12 bucks LOL

mrogowski

01-21-2011, 10:01 AM

i will go there one day.

pl8er

01-21-2011, 10:03 AM

I'd recommend it.

mrogowski

01-21-2011, 10:05 AM

yup. just as soon as i find my china bride i'm gone.

rangerbitch03

01-21-2011, 10:49 AM

Pretty cool pl8r. +1 for the amazin pics. I lol'd irl at the wall comment.

J31Bro

01-21-2011, 11:30 AM

Hell yeah Pl8. Good shit ITT.

HagaBanned

01-21-2011, 01:23 PM

cool pics of the forbidden city thanks for posting.

G1ock

01-21-2011, 02:28 PM

Transporters looking sharp as hell ITT...I admit i'm jealous of that suit! and stop leaving out details, we know you weren't sleeping in those nice beds by yourself!

pl8er

01-21-2011, 03:27 PM

Jet lag is killing me. I just woke up again ha ha ha.

Fun you say that PyPy, whores are everywhere. If you want to get a massage and they are not blind or dont have a certification, pretty much bet that it is prostitution.

Pink lights are a dead give away. No, I was no where near anything like that and although medium level hotels usually will call your office and ask if you want a massage, we were in 5-star so there was nothing like that going on.

Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 03:39 PM

did you get your ears cleaned?

pl8er

01-21-2011, 04:11 PM

is that code? lol nothing besides work and a walk through the forbidden city happened

Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 04:26 PM

no they got street barbers there that clean your ears

pl8er

01-21-2011, 04:33 PM

no visits to the barber. I needed a haircut before I left but when I saw -18 C and no humidity I thought I'd cover as much of my bald scalp as possible.

Porch Monkey

01-21-2011, 06:16 PM

YouTube - Chinese Urban Ear Cleaning in the Street

I want to try it.

pl8er

01-21-2011, 06:20 PM

hrrrm....guess I missed out

pl8er

01-21-2011, 06:23 PM

Captain Ahab

01-21-2011, 06:35 PM

Nice pics bro.

Do not care about going there myself. lol

pl8er

01-21-2011, 06:36 PM

Biggest girl I saw was about 110, you'd hate it :P

impulse_ak

01-21-2011, 06:40 PM

Nice pics bro.

Do not care about going there myself. lol

x2 nice pics and memories, weres the chineese poontang tho?

HagaBanned

01-21-2011, 07:25 PM

letting a chinese bro jamb bamboo shoots in my ears on the sidewalk of some questionable area just does not sound appealing to me for some reason.

Tiger Bass

01-21-2011, 07:32 PM

That's really impressive. I had no idea China was so up-to-date and industrialized.

kurnlesbiskuits

01-21-2011, 08:41 PM

Cool pictures. Bring me with next time.

pl8er

01-21-2011, 09:14 PM

I was also impressed with how quickly they have grown into a modern culture. Now I was in a few parts that were totally NOT as well. But piles of trash are not worth taking pictures of.

Also, in the desert they dig big holes in the mountains where they live and store goods. I have a picture somewhere, I'll try to find one.

Tiger Bass

01-22-2011, 02:54 AM

Economicly speaking, if 4 chinese raise up out of poverty for every 1 middle class worker that drops down in these economically turbulent times, that's a pretty good deal.

SAD

01-22-2011, 06:15 AM

EXCELLENT thread.... I rated it 'high'.

Random pic threads of "hey look what i'm doing" > most other threads... Especially when they're taken in a land far, far away.

:thumbsup:

MR.Crunk

01-22-2011, 06:18 AM

the trip wasn't nearly as expensive as I thought. 2000 for airfare, including the internal flights...most likely would have been a grand on food for the whole week although my suppliers bought almost everytime. My point is anyone wanting to go could do it for not that expensive. Tickets would have been cheaper if we wouldn't have decided 2 weeks prior to travel.
would not mind going but would not pay to go. business trip maybe but thats never going to happen where i work now.

Biggest girl I saw was about 110, you'd hate it :P

:grin3:

no :sumo: bitches

Goremageddon

01-22-2011, 06:59 AM

nice pics bro

pl8er

01-22-2011, 07:48 AM

Thanks all :)

Yeah, I'd never have China on my list of places to travel to personally, also it would be hard to get the visa for fun.

hoss

01-22-2011, 09:04 AM

Looks like a cool trip bro, probably way better than those fags that went to vegas...

Pootie

01-22-2011, 09:09 AM

How well did the locals speak Engrish?

IamDeMan

01-22-2011, 09:30 AM

How well did the locals speak Engrish?

Better than 80% of this forum.

Pootie

01-22-2011, 09:31 AM

That doesn't suprise me.

Porch Monkey

01-22-2011, 09:33 AM

Better than 80% of this forum.
bro, you and your AE's are 80% of this forum

dcmcki

01-22-2011, 10:52 AM

+Juan and 5 Star rated thread. I always enjoy and am mad jelly of Pl8's travel threads.

Tiger Bass

01-22-2011, 11:00 AM

How well did the locals speak Engrish?

I can't speak for pl8er's own experience, but my guess is that about 95% of all the businessmen spoke damn near perfect conversational english. Locals and just tradesmen probably speak broken english, but enough to understand. The farmers and small town folk probably don't understand a lick of it.

pl8er

01-22-2011, 11:53 AM

Very broken English in conversation. Good travel tip for you guys. Hand gestures are easy to confuse. Instead, write down (formally) what you want. They all learn English and very proper at that. They don't practice speaking it, but they can almost always read and write some of it.

G1ock

01-22-2011, 01:29 PM

I like Chinese better than Japs...sometimes my dads company has American programmers and then Jap programmers from another company working together...one of the American guys screwed up something and the Jap was like move!!! "stupid american! american stupid!"...so the guy was like "if you say that again i will beat your ass" never have heard it anymore...they're cocky for one and think they know it all.