China Romance
All About China => Your trip to China => Topic started by: Ed W on April 12, 2009, 09:35:00 pm
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well gentlemen.... im leaving tomorrow for my sweetheart. I'll be updating my blog as often as possible so here's the URL..
http://edchangchun.blogspot.com/
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Best of luck my friend, I hope it all goes smoothly for you! :D I'll be following your blog so keep us updated.
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All the best Ed have a good time bud.
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Ed good luck, I am sure you will have a great time on your visit. We will be thinking of you while you are there.
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Live the dream my brother.
Shark :mrgreen:
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Hope you will be as fortunate as me Ed
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Rock on Ed...
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Have a nice and safe trip. Good luck with your lady.
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Best of luck Ed, looking forward to the updates already!
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Best of everything Ed, the brotherhood will be looking to hear from you and all your updates from your trip
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Yes Ed , also wish you a happy trip and kick some butt over there . Make it work , for all the trouble you went through . Good Luck and have a good flight .
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Greetings from China! so far jetlag has been at the most, insignificant. Our plan worked like a charm and were married yesterday.
Today we've been running around with one document and I'm clueless what it's all about. Something about registering with the police but that's all i know and Xindi won't let me concern myself with it. We just stopped by her place, a one room box with a bed, desk, dresser and armuar(sp). She ran down and got me a pizza and some smoked sausage and grabbed the bags with the papers and pulled the bed covers for me to rest while she heads out to get whatever this thing is done. Figured I'd enjoy my chinese pizza and write ya guys.
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:mrgreen: That's my jealousy face Ed. Congratulations on the marriage.
I've heard that you have to register with the local police as a foreigner if you're not in a hotel. I believe hotels take care of that for ya.
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Congratulations Ed and xindi way to go mate.
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i heard that too but we just changed hotels to a nicer one that was slightly cheaper and larger. more convenient to downtown too. Her cousin works there or something. Just not sure what she's working on for certain but I'm not supposed to worry bout it so I need to sit here and listen to American easy listening music, listening to downtown horns or the taxi commando force and relax till my baby returns.
updated my blog btw. It's day one but really covers like two days since with the 15hr difference and passing the international dateline. I'm hoping we can stop this running around so I can start taking gobs of pictures. There's so much to shoot around here. China is an amazing place. The mayhem of traffic even has it's own sence of order. It's like some secret courtesy that everyone abides by, even pedestrians.
I was tellin Xindi I was hoping to find some milk. That's not such an easy thing here and the first attempt must have been something for children cause it was super sweet. So shortly ago she shows up with my chinese pizza and something called Monmilk. It's not the same but for someone like me who has a passion for whole milk, and not a light passion at that, it's not a bad substitute.
the whole bare feet, socks, slippers deal is something that as far as i can tell only needs to be accepted. There's no other answer. Don't even think of explaining you like hanging out in your socks cause she wont buy it. HAHA. If I'm not fast enough, I can be in mid-stream of taking my socks n shoes off and she'll come over and take over. I'm slowly but surely being spoiled. haha.
Ya know folks. The language barrier isnt too bad if you just be patient? Xindi and I use quite a bit of body language? the pocket translator? googletranslate? Notice the funny periods?Her comp has started trying to do chinese for me again and I cant figure out how to shut it off?haha?
ok? too hard to type like this? I'll write more from my laptop when we're back at the hotel
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Well done my friend. Best wishes to you both! What a shining example you are to all of us. :mrgreen:
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Congrats Ed and Xindi I am really happy for you both, and I am very sure she is spoiling you big time, and I am like the rest of the bros very envious and jealous Again Best wishes to you both, wonder if it catching like a cold... :lol: :mrgreen:
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Hey Ed, let me add my congrats to the list. I will be in your shoes, or is it socks or is it.... whatever I'm headed over in a couple weeks. Mine is pretty much a done deal as well, I just got an email that said she reserved our banquet hall. I find it hard to believe that she got seating for 48 and 15 different foods for 1350 RMB which is less than $200 USD. I am sure you will spoil your laopo a little too.
Best wishes to you and the Mrs.
Tom
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Way to go Ed, Happy for the both of you and thier is no jealousy on my part here. I've more than enough to deal with on my plate here now. Tell your new bride that Michael says hi from Shenzhen. If you are ever around these parts both of you need to come visit and I'll buy you dinner. We're all behind you brother.
China Shark Mike :mrgreen:
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Way to go Ed!, congratulations on getting married, I'm not jealous, no not me!!
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congradulations Ed It is alot different on this side of the fence.Hope you find the journey well worth the effort.
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Finally got a break yesterday from all the running around we had to do and got some leisure time with my wife. Today is our wedding, she only told me last night after I asked when it was, so she's out having her hair done and i'm hangin at the hotel relaxing.
I uploaded an assload of pics to my flickr spot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edchangchun/
Blog is at http://edchangchun.blogspot.com/ and it seems the only time i get up update it is at like 3 and 4 am each morning, or until she wakes and realizes im not there and drags my but back in bed. haha
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I am so happy for you Ed! Congratulations for you and Xindi! :D
I'll have to remember to bring my slippers to China! Hehehe...
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Ed read your blog congradulations to you and your lovely lady.It is a wild ride enjoy the trip.
good luck
Maxx
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Ed congratulations to you and your beloved and I am also blown away by your pictorial diary , I guess that is a complete memory to have for a lifetime , guess I will have to update my camera for my next visit as last time I only took about 150 photo's , regards Robert . :oops:
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In my wildest dreams, yes. Feet planted firmly on the ground?.... felt more like a pipedream.
But here I am and hangin on tight. haha.
Ya know. As the plane grew closer and closer to the destination I kept thinking what if, what if, what if....
Well, turns out she's more spectacular than any of my wildest dreams. She's fun, playful and got a good sense of hunor. She's not uptight and stiff and loves to laugh and smile. Her sense of duty is strong and she doesn't let me infringe on her "responsiblities" and it's something that takes some getting used to but it's in her blood. The old saying, and it's kind of an ugly one but it applies in concept but, you can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you cant take the trailer park out of the girl. Her society has raised her to believe this is her duties as a daughter, wife, and mother and there's no grey area. It's like the moon. It just is...
As for Changchun, it's an amazingly clean city with crisp clear air and the streets are remarkably clean. No litter to speak of since there's a force of workers who spend all day picking up litter of all kinds.
I've yet to encounter any hostility or rude behavior. In fact, everyone has been genuinely kind and understanding and I'm always greeted with warm smiles and friendly handshakes.
It's an amazing journey I'm on. Unlike anything I've ever done in my life....Does it get any better? So far, it does every day.
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Congratulations Ed.. I just found out that the big day finally did come for you !!!
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Sorry to not have been here for a while... :?
I've just readed the news and I just can read that here you, or better should I say : "there you are, Ed" :)
Congratulations about your lovestory and that you are married, it's a very good news ^^
I will look at your website and for the pics, too :)
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Ed love your blog mate you allways put a smile on my face the way you put things well cool bro.
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Hey Ed, I agree with Victor about your blog... you do a great job of writing it and it is great fun for me to read it. Xie xie!!!!
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Thanks for the cheers for the blog. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to capture the moments well enough with words but I guess i'm not doing to terrible a job. haha.
I was without any internet access yesterday while we spent the night in Jilin so I posted two posts one after the other since I keep my notes sorted by day.
I can't get my flickr pics up likely until i get home. I'm still doing the usb flash drive thing with Xindi's comp and I hate to install too much extra stuff on hers.
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I see you made it back safely and in one piece . Yeah , one piece ? I bet you could say in two pieces , you and your Lao Po ! How did your Daughter's greet you , after being away on your Fantasy wedding trip ? I can imagine how excited their must be , to meet your new Lady and their new Mom ?
Thanks again for a great Blog and letting us share your Story with you .
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Thanks Arnold. I did my best to portraite my experiences. My daughters has to wait for the following day since my flight came in shortly before midnight. My Chinese neigbor picked me up and we shared much talk about how it it and what I still missed.
I wish all our members could experiece what I have in the last couple weeks.
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I wish that for our member's as well , especially the ones with the bad " Ex 's experience behind them . It is truely a dream for us who did take that step and came away with the most wonderful Wife we could have ever dream of . I feel it's our Job now to help where help is due and needed . Pay it forward , as you would say .
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Jetlag is still seriously kickin my butt. At the least I can chat with my wife on QQ video call during her afternoon, my night. Going there the jetlag was so minimal but now that I'm home I can't seem to shake it. Not yet anyway....
just send me back and be done with it. haha.