{"id":386,"date":"2009-07-06T22:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T05:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-07-08T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T05:19:42","slug":"hong-kong-shenzhen-suzhou-shanghai-whew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/hong-kong-shenzhen-suzhou-shanghai-whew\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Shanghai&hellip; whew!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_3121\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3121\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3121-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to blog about things a month after they happen. Unfortunately that\u2019s about how long it took me to go through the roughly 1,000 pictures I took while in China over the course of two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_3433\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3433\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3433-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The short story was that I got the opportunity to go through work on a trip to help get partner teams ready to ship Windows 7. It was an awesome chance for me personally and professionally and I\u2019m glad I was in the right place at the right time.&#160; The work was hard, spending some very long days doing tedious work, but the nights more than made up for it! Admittedly, we could have gotten more sleep than we did, but it was well worth the caffeine-based survival tactics to be able to fit in all of the work and play that we did.&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3642.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_3642\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3642\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3642-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The best way to tell the story is through the <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/\" target=\"_blank\">full web albums<\/a>, but if you\u2019re interested in just seeing the best photos I put a smaller set up here: <a title=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/200906BestOfChina#\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/200906BestOfChina#\">http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/200906BestOfChina#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Singing karaoke \u201cSummer of 69\u201d with Paul on the streets of Hong Kong in the middle of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Awesome new work friends.<\/li>\n<li>In Shenzhen, the locals took naps at noon at work. Most brought in pillows. The industrious had cots under their desks. They even turned the lights off!<\/li>\n<li>Eating regularly at restaurants which are over 100 years old. <\/li>\n<li>Fresh noodles.<\/li>\n<li>Eel for dinner.<\/li>\n<li>Crazy fried fish with the head still look\u2019n at you like you did something wrong.<\/li>\n<li>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu \u2013 several times I suddenly would remember being the same place 10 years prior.<\/li>\n<li>Girls and guys walking around holding hands because they\u2019re friends. Very cute. Very awesome.<\/li>\n<li>Couples (and families) dressing identically. Apparently it\u2019s the in thing to do.<\/li>\n<li>Tailoring is awesome. Two suits, three shirts made on the cheap.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrating Philippine independence with all you can drink for $10 with Aussies, Mexicans and (of course) folks from the Philippines <\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s nothing like a cab ride conversation successfully conducted completely in a language you don\u2019t actually know to make you feel like you\u2019ve arrived.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_3512\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3512\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img-3512-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Random:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The belligerent old guy on the plane to Japan who delayed our plain because another passenger \u201ctouched him\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In-flight entertainment systems suck; how can people build \u201cintegrated systems\u201d with such bad performance?<\/li>\n<li>The massive number of Pilipino women sitting around on cardboard boxes in Hong Kong.&#160; Apparently there is a massive population of migrant workers which are mostly women, and this was their day off.<\/li>\n<li>Being continually asked by hookers if I&#8217;d like a &#8216;free massage, very good, you like&#8217;. No thanks.<\/li>\n<li>Being surrounded by friends who continually revert to a language you don\u2019t understand is simultaneously comforting and disconcerting. It\u2019s odd. That\u2019s all I know how to describe it.<\/li>\n<li>Sending your laundry out to get cleaned, and them fixing tears without asking. When I thanked the guy, he was like \u201chey, that\u2019s just my job&quot;.<\/li>\n<li>Finding pre-made clothes that fit me is impossible. The only shirt I found was a XXL, and it was skin tight. :)<\/li>\n<li>The number of times I was asked if I wanted to buy a watch, iphone, DVD, CD, or pretty girl was absolutely astounding. <\/li>\n<li>Most used Chinese phrase: \u201cbo yao!\u201d &#8211; \u201cI don\u2019t want!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to blog about things a month after they happen. Unfortunately that\u2019s about how long it took me to go through the roughly 1,000 pictures I took while in China over the course of two weeks. The short story was that I got the opportunity to go through work on a trip to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/hong-kong-shenzhen-suzhou-shanghai-whew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Shanghai&hellip; whew!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[218,28,27],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-china","tag-the-grind","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}