shanghai baby!

coreans..... hmpf... hehehe (yeah YOU stevie n charlie).... so today and yesterday i met with some potential corean partners for our commercial division. they were sooooooo... corean (!>@#>!@). this is their first time in shanghai, and only one of the three speaks english. so when they meet my boss (the owner of the firm) - they said - "wow - you are a woman!". they are so old school that they cling to the male chauvenistic role of yester-eon. so they didn't just stop there. they were like - 'how can you own company?' 'you are woman?' 'we thought you were man from name' (HER NAME IS BEVERLY!).... they were so shocked.... anyway - that aside - they were good people. smart and capable, with a good platform to build business. so tonite, they off to visit our HK office, and when they were told a woman was going to take them around.... AND, that this woman was the head of commercial division.... oooohhhh booooyyyy - they started cracking up in the car. some people... some societies.... got a lot to learn....

otherwise - i gotta say shanghai is great. i wouldn't quite say it's as glamorous as some have said. i've been around these past couple days to quite a lot of sites. the highlight today was going to the grand hyatt atrium that runs 30 floors up the core of the jinmao building (currently the tallest in china)... it's so spectacular - you can sit and have a coffee at the lounge and just stare up 30 floors to the top. what would have been cooler would have been a glass ceiling... but oh wells... anyway - the coreans were impressed with that... hehehe

one thing weird about china - i can post blog, but i can't see it. how weird? censorship gotta wake up! all told - our office is pretty nice here - it's in the shanghai center at some port(uh)man hotel, which everyone one and their taxi drivers seem to be real familiar with. and - the weather opened up nice too... nice as in not hot! it's actually chilly out - and NO sun during the day.

oh - another corean thing... last nite after dinner - we were headed to the trendy spot in town @ xintiandi for a drink. in the taxi, the english speaking dude was like - 'so... wat's this place.. blahblahblah'. and i was like- just a trendy spot - have a drink, relax.... then he's like.. 'ughhhhh - it's been a long day - i really would like-uh massage'.... 'yes - that would-uh be relaxing'..... 'and then ... maybe some-uh thing after'.... 'yes... some thing would be good'... so i'm sitting there in the front like.... 'ok... watever dude'... i ended up taking him to have milkshakes (and then home!).. hehehe - oh wat a sense of humor i have!