China Romance
All About China => Your trip to China => Topic started by: Philip on May 20, 2009, 06:31:36 pm
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Not far from Changsha, there is a national park of outstanding beauty called Zhangjiajie. It is famous for its trees, varieties of plants and animal species, and its karst rock formations. Two of these massive towers of sedimentary rock have been given the name 'Qian Li Xiang Hui', which means, 'Long distance meeting between man and woman'.
What is Alex rambling on about, I hear you ask? Well, this place is the location of my lady's dream about me, and 'Qian Li Xiang Hui' seems to us to perfectly symbolize our relationship.
I am off to Changsha this Saturday and don't know when I'll get to the internet next. At the moment everything is hunky-dory, so I am travelling hopefully. I will visit the agency and see if I can smell a fishy rat, it being the infamous Changsha Love Bridge Agency. The rest of the time we will be playing table tennis, badminton, climbing, karaokeing, eating, walking, holding hands, and perhaps a practical demonstration of behaviour my lady only cryptically describes as 'naughty'. Hmmm.
I will try and update when I can. I am going armed with the wise counsel from you guys, so I hope I will survive the experience intact.
Cheers,
Alex ;)
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Alex...have a blast in Changsha! Even if you can not get on the Internet, we will all be backing you up at this end..hoping all the best for you. Changsha is a wonderful city! Enjoy the awesome Hunan food...it is one of the things I miss most from my trip to China.
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Hi Alex! From some of the descriptions of Changsha food Martin has given, I suspect rat can be pretty delicious if it is cooked correctly! :D Good luck on your trip and enjoy the time with your lady.
Carl
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Alex , forget all the back-up by the Guy's . If you pay for my Trip . I'll go in front of you , making sure the coast is clear for you . How about it ?
If that's not possible , have a wonderful Trip anyway .
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Rock out this trip and play it by ear and don't played. If the agency starts thier crap stonewall the scum. I did this and told my girl to break contact completely. They will make attempts at negoiating lower terms, don't buy into it you or your girl don't owe them a dime. They know these bogus contracts are not actually enforceable. Authorities could care about thier extortion scams besides the police are too busy collecting thier special money as the Chinese like to call it. Enjoy your woman the sights and make it count. Happy trails brother.
China Shark Mike
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Alex , Enjoy Changsha , it is a terrific place with lots to see and do , you do not say where you are staying , but for a very cheap price you can always log on from the hotel business centres , the girls always like to practice their English , all the best for your trip , regards Robert .
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Have a nice time in Changsha Alex...
I had no problems with Internet when I was there in April. My hotel had Internet so just look in the drawer in the desk.. I later moved to a flat but this also had Internet that was even better that in the hotel.. You will have a very good time in Changsha.. Like Martin told you the food is fantastic..Try the Hot Pot and I promise you will love it.. Got to the Martyr Park, it is great.. Visit the museum and so on.. I was also planning to go to Zhangjiajie but I hope I could got in July when I return. You have also another place to visit Phoenix town if you have time.. But most of all spend your time with the lady and have fun ^_^
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Best of luck Alex, have a great trip.
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Enjoy your trip. Make it the best experience of your life. As they all say keep your ears and eyes open but most of all just enjoy it. And yes, we will all be here for whatever you need. We are all envious.
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Have a great time ! Live it and learn! :D Good luck and best wishes
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Brother, go and enjoy the company of your lady,:cool: good luck and best wishes. :D
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Dear Everyone,
thanks for your messages of encouragement. I am rather tired and emotional after a rather frustrating first evening.
Got to Changsha at 6.20, but didn't get off the plane for another 40 minutes due to the aliens in white coats scanning our brains for signs of cavorting with pigs.
My luggage didn't turn up, so I couldn't effect a last minute spruce-up. I was met, not by my Quan, but by Irene her translator, the head of the CLB agency and the driver. Irene helped sort the baggage situation. and the CLB head floated around like some deathlike ice queen, not saying a word. Irene explained that Quan had a load of unexpected work and she would meet us at the hotel at 8.30.
After checking in and the ice queen leaving, Quan arrived like some natural goddess - I felt like throwing all the studio pictures into the recycling. I hugged her in greeting (we had said we would) - she was a little shyer than I thought. And the three of us went for a meal (we needed the translator).
I was tired by this point after not getting any real sleep on the plane - I was visibly disappointed when she said her unexpected new work selling Maybelline make-up would mean she wouldn't be able to see me much in the daytime - this after we had planned on doing so much. Who knows, maybe it is Maybelline. Ha ha.
It wasn't all bad. She asked me why I was interested in Chinese women. I said I wasn't, I was interested in her. She smiled. I asked her why she was interested in me - she said because she knew I was serious and because I was a teacher.
Generally, it was harder work than I thought it would be and I'm really not sure about the level of embellishments in the letters. Maybe I'm just tired. I know. 24-hour rule.
She is gorgeous and real and I'm here. That's something
Alex
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What hotel are you using ??
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Peter,
it's the Southern Pearl International Hotel
I'm sampling its delights till the afternoon when I visit the agency and the evening when I see Quan.
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Alex hang in there.It will be a little ruff for the first couple of days.But it should start getting better. Keep your Head up and your eyes open
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Thanks Maxx,
As far as I know, Quan joined Chnlove on Feb 25th, I contacted her when I joined a week later and she hasn't refreshed her profile since. The letters have got steadily more serious on both sides since then. So far so good, I thought.
I know it was only the first meeting, but her body language was not encouraging. I know I should expect her to be quite reserved, but her letters were all about hugs and kisses and holding hands when we met. So I am more than curious to find out from her translator how much is Quan and how much is the translator.
I am using the hotel computer - the keyboard has the word SHARK written on it with the picture of a shark next to it. I feel the brotherhood is looking out for me even here. Ha ha.
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Alex no worries.My wife acted like she didn't even like me for the first 3 days.It took her a while to get over her shyness.And I found out latter that all the lovey dovey words were from the translater.
Just be yourself and you will do ok.SHow her your smile.Don't push the girl just let it take it's own course.
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I am maybe a very lucky man because our translator did a very good job and didn't put in a lot of her own stuff in our letters. When I meet my Lady there was no problems at all with her or mine feelings for each other. We started to hold hand on the first nights 2 hours after we meet and our first kiss came after 4 hours.. We both knew each other very well and our feelings was true from the start... :D
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Hi guys,
an update on the agency. I have just visited it with the translator. It is in the same building as the Southern Pearl International hotel where I am staying, on the 5th floor at the back. I took photos. Quite plush with about 20 translators there with up to about 40 terminals. Arlene the translator says most of them are quite new. She has been there a year and I suspect has better English than the rest. I met the owner who founded the agency in 1996. A bit oily, but didn't say much, except that if it doesn't work out between me and Quan that they have stacks of other possible stand-ins (my words, obviously). I said politely that I wasn't thinking that way at all.
I asked Arlene if Quan had said certain words in her letters, quoting copious uses of phrases about love, may we never be apart, you are the best gift in my life, etc. She flat out denied those were anything other than the words that ushered directly from Quan's lips. Not paraphrases, the actual words. I wasn't convinced, but smiled politely.
Then came the piece of paper to sign, a supposedly innocuous listing of helpful hints, which it was COMPULSORY to sign. I read the helpful hint about not sending the lady expensive gifts. OK, I've read and understood. Don't have to sign for that. Then there was a paragraph about the translator's fee and whether she had provided a good service. Well, firstly, I don't know yet, she hasn't finished providing it, but I added sweetly that it should be good based on my experience with her so far, so, there, I've said it and I can tell Chnlove if you want. Don't need to sign anything for that, surely. Lastly, hidden somewhere in the middle was the money shot, me signing to say I had met Quan. Arlene had earlier declined to tell me about money that Quan paid when I arrived, so I acted all innocent when she said her bosses needed to know that we had met. OK then, I will talk to your bosses and confirm. They can take a picture of us if they like, adding, I don't like to sign things if I don't understand the reasons. There followed frantic running about for 15 minutes and Arlene conceded I didn't have to sign. It was fine. So it wasn't compulsory then. Right. They'll find some other way of getting the money from her.
So, that was my fun afternoon, and I hope that when I meet Quan this evening, we can communicate a little better.
Watch this space
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Yes, it's me again.
Just had dinner with Quan, her sister and her sister's boyfriend plus Arlene the translator and her manager, the ice queen (who seemed to have thawed somewhat)
It was better than yesterday, less tense, partly because her sister was there and was a bit of a laugh and her boyfriend was nice and tried to speak English. Quan sat next to me, didn't really look at me, but managed a smile when I paid her a compliment. The best bit was when I said to her sister's boyfriend that Quan's sister was beautiful, but that Quan was very very beautiful. Her sister's boyfriend disagreed with me, we both laughed and the two sisters were very curious to know what we were talking about and laughed when they found out.
It turns out Quan's sister found her (Chinese) boyfriend in the Chinese part of the same agency. Maybe their parents were looking for a two for one offer or a buy one, get one free knowing my luck. Haha.
I gave the sisters presents which they seemed to like and I ate some stinky tofu, which is not as bad as it sounds, quite nice actually.
Give her credit, Arlene was helpful, though I'm still no wiser about the letters. Could it be shyness? I made no attempt to touch Quan in any way tonight, except for a hand on the shoulder, which I suppose was the right thing to do. She didn't want any photos of the four of us as she says she doesn't like seeing herself in photos. If only you guys could see her!
Onwards and upwards. Tomorrow I'm sightseeing on my own, then hopefully seeing a film with Quan in the evening
good night.
Neither happy nor unhappy now!
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Alex, good for you. People don't realize or know, including my own family members, that you don't have to sign a contract (which that basically is) and if there is something you don't like in it. Cross it out and initial it and hand it back for them to initial before signing. I hope there are others here to back me up on this.
I do accounting and at times work from agencies. When "signing up" for one agency they gave me a load of pages to sign. Read/sign. One of the sheets had said, If I left the position during a week for any reason not fulfilling the required hours (40) The amount of hourly wage would drop to minimum wage? WTF? I didn't sign that page. Besides it is against the labor law. I waited for them to ask, why I didn't? or see if they attempted to enforce it later? But they said nothing and did nothing. To me it was a stupid move on there part. Part of doing accounting is knowing the laws such as this.
With anything you sign, you are to receive a copy of, always. In this case it must be in english (or your basic language) readable to you.
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Quite funny.. When I visited the agency and meet the owner there wasn't any talk about signing anything... He never asked me or told me that I had to.. Is this something new that the agency's have come up with to tie the ladies to their contract ??
Is the hotel a suggestion from you lady ?? Sometimes the agency book a hotel for you so the have a little bit of control over the situation and you said that the hotel and the agency was in the same building..
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The agency's have come up with to tie the ladies to their contract ??
Most definitely. It's proof that there was a meeting of the two of you. Giving them the go ahead to collect a fee for the meet.
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Words from the front
For those of you with a delicate constitution, you might want to skip the following long polite rant and stick to the short version, which is:
DON"T USE THE CHANGSHA BRIDGE LOVE AGENCY
And the rant:
Chnlove don't need to get free advice from us, when it's much simpler for us to pay to go to China and do our own detective work. I have found this to be the purpose of my visit. *a wry smile plays on my lips*
I got a call from Arlene a couple of hours ago, saying she would like me to come to the agency, speaking in an artificially chirpy voice, which makes me think a close relative or pet has just died and she wants to break the bad news. She informs me that instead of arranging with Quan for us to see a film tonight, Quan has decided after careful reflection that, after our meeting with her sister, that we have no chemistry (Me and Quan, not me and her sister, ha ha). Arlene asks if there is anything I would like to say. I assume a dignified silence for about ten minutes, which allows her to visibly squirm.
Then the grim reaper arrives AKA Mr Boss man. He is here to give me the spiel about pulling another bunch of lovely ladies from his hat to assuage my disappointment, with the added benefit that I can actually meet them first, have the chemistry, and then mortgage my house with EMFs later.
I then embark upon a charm offensive, intended to give him enough rope to hang himself. We have a reasoned discussion about how the letters were so full of love, but as soon as she saw me she was so repulsed that she forgot to give me a hug, or hold my hand, or kiss me, like she had said she would about a million times. Funny thing, this chemistry lark. I didn't state the obvious, which is that Quan wasn't writing the letters, but merely posited the idea that there might be two Quans (a la Anthony Perkins in Psycho). After much pointless digressions on the inability of the CLB agency to read the minds of their ladies and the importance of family approval in Chinese marriages (er, DUH!), I finally wormed out some stuff that amused me, even in my present state. One of the reasons why her sister didn't approve of the match was her discovery last night that I am follicly-challenged (bald). At this point I really got into fifth gear, ladies and gentlemen of the jury:
1. Let us presume that the defendant, Quan, knows the value of family approval, including her sister
2. Let us further presume that from about the 2nd EMF letter (of 51) between us, the fifty or so photos of me would have alerted Quan to the dangerous lack of hair on my head
3. Let us also assume that she, knowing of her sister's hair issues, she might have put two and two together and realized after the first letter, that our relationship was ultimately doomed, even though I was hot stuff in every other department.
At this point, the boss man starts looking for a trap door, and is feeling sad that the quietly-spoken gentleman in front of him is beyond his grasp in the scammable stakes. He asks what I think of my experience with the agency; he reads nothing into my poker face. And I have to say that his final attempt to offer some more ladies to me was half-hearted, to say the least. Poor guy. He's only trying to make a dishonest living. He leaves the scene.
Which leaves me and Arlene. She really lost herself in translation (Get it!) during our exchanges with the boss and found it hard to hold her feelings in. Guilt does that to you.
At this point I burst into tears, firstly because my heart is broken, secondly because I want Arlene to feel bad.
Anyway, chin up, I say. I have some serious solitary sightseeing to do for the rest of the week.
If you can excuse my sarcasm (it's just my broken heart talking), I really am a solid dependable all-round nice guy and if you know of any ladies in the 25 to 35 age bracket who are real and real attractive, I would be happy to hear from you and be tempted to get back on the horse, so to speak.
Thanks for reading
Alex :(
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Alex, sorry to hear about the situation.
If you have your computer make the best of your trip. Contact other ladies ASAP. Here's your opportunity to meet them face-to-face. I would do a search on ChnLove and Changsha specifically ( since you're there ) and sent out cupid notes and 1st EMFs to 5 ladies at least. Then arrange some lunch/dinner dates.
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Alex so sorry to hear that mate...............:(
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Mike said it all, try to make the best of the situation my friend. a lot can happen in the next few days. Stay positive!
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Alex, sorry to hear the news , but been there done that in Changsha , and now have my own Princess who has moved towns .
I would say firstly check out P218 ladies and if you can find someone in the hotel who speaks very good English have them find and phone the agency for you , from memory Mr Tang is the owner .
And if you want have one of their translators pick you up and take you to their offices .
Whilst remembering no fraternizing with hotel staff [ instant dismissal ] the ladies who speak good English may know someone , this worked for me in a roundabout way , no chnlove or agency involved .
You should not need a human translator for more than a day at the most if you have a good electronic translator like a Besta with a stylus pen , then you are in direct contact with the lady and can chat all the time with English to Chinese translation and the reverse .This can be fun with no one looking over your shoulder .
So pick yourself up and get cracking even to checking out and going up to the Huatian Hotel , 300 East Jie Fang Road , Changsha ph : 731 4442888 , with an email of resv@huatian-hotel.com , good luck , regards Robert .
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Alex so sorry to hear what happened to you. I know exactly how it feels when it doesn't work out and you meet an ice queen over there. I knew something was up when I first met Hui and it was an electric bolt went through her when I tried to hold her hand on the first day.
I did meet someone else on that trip and it was one I will remember with fondness for the rest of my life. I know it feels rough right now but you are there, you have a few days left to salvage it, go try and meet another girl, at least if you meet them there, it will be all upfront and genuine and real without misunderstandings.
You have our 100% backup here, keep you head held high and try and make the best of the situation hard as that probably seems to do right now, believe me it is FANTASTIC when you meet another girl that responds there so soon after something like this, and it is possible, very possible if you have faith in yourself.
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Alex I'm sorry to hear that.Like Chong and Ronan and everybody else said.Contact the other agency get the ball rolling you can still have a real good time in China.
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Gotta go with the guys on this one. See what might be there waiting for there to spend quality time with a nice folically challenged man.
I hated to read what happened but I sure hope you can have a great trip otherwise.
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Alex... Robert is quite right. Talk to Mr Tang and I think that he will help you. I visited the agency and there was a lot of nice ladies..
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To spend quality time with a nice folically challenged man
:D
I like that one.
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Dear friends,
never let it be said that I don't listen to advice. Taking Chong's advice, I EMF'd 5 girls yesterday (well, 8 actually) saying I was in Changsha, come and get me, well, ish. I then took Robert's advice and got the phone number of the Mei Yin agency. Within half an hour, a couple of translators were knocking on my door to whisk me away to their agency a couple of blocks away. And a sweeter bunch of women you never met.
Coming to China is like an odyssey. I arrived thinking I had a 'Sure Thing', but like in the film of the same name, realized there is no such thing.
I spent the day with the ladies of the agency and a couple of women on their books. Within a few hours I understood what you guys mean when you say 'sisters'. I now have six of them. One of them cooked a meal for all of us in her flat, then we went to karaoke (I was shit hot, by the way) and I danced with everyone. And it's only Tuesday.
I had a date yesterday and I've got three more tomorrow. I picked myself up from my symbolic Irish place under the hotel bed and smiled at the Changsha drizzle like it was blazing sunshine. The smile never left my face.
It's only a day at this agency, but I have no reason to doubt my extremely positive time with these people. I even sneaked a glimpse over their shoulders in mid-translation and they were happy to talk to me about ladies they knew and if they were in relationships or not. Strangely enough they seemed to be in the business of introducing men to ladies. Shock horror. Hold the front page!
And if none of those ladies turn out to be suitable, I won't be poorer for being screwed by translators taking a fee, I will be richer for having met my new sisters and for becoming a bit more Chinese.
Xie xie Maxx and the crew for your philsophical perspectives
Alex :)
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This is good to hear. I imagine there is a big smile on your face all day and night. Seems like it's almost worth having some trouble to experience that.
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That is the right Alex, life is supposed to be fun! You only live once! I´m for the mishappening but you might end up with the right like Ronan! You never know what is waiting for you around the corner! Enjoy your stay in China!!
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Well done my friend, after reading your post I'm going to have a smile on my face for the rest of the evening!!!!
Looks like you turned the whole thing round. Down and out ,but not beaten. That's the spirit,sounds like the next few days are going to be fun.All the best to you:D
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Good Man Alex ... before you leave, get as many personal email addresses, QQ numbers & telephone # as possible. One of these sisters may be your future partner or they may know someone for you. Network as much as possible & Have lots of fun the rest of the week. Do you feel like a "Gwai Lo Giggolo" celebrity ??? :)
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Hah, great stuff Alex, live it up buddy, you will have a great time and have some fantastic memories to bring back with you :)
Maxx goddamn you and your Irish story that people are forever gonna associate me me, i'm gonna have to start telling everyone about your application for Canadian citizenship that got turned down....
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Alex I'm glad we could help.Live it up budddy have the time of your life.
Yeah never hide under the bed like the Irish do.All you do when you hide under the bed is get your shirt dirty.
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.....Alex,
..Pull your boots on, and hang on.....That is a regular first trip for selveral of us here, just remember this is your trip, and do not allow one, or two Ice Queens to ruin your trip.....You are doing the right thing, jump back into the game (as much as I hate to use that word).....To a few of the ladies, it seems to be a game, but to most of the ladies, this is the most important thing in their lives.....My first trip was much like yours, but I made the best of it, and sent cupid notes to over 30 women, as soon as I got back to my hotel, after I found out that she did not write any of the letters.....And ended up meeting about 20 more women in person, and out of those 20 or so, that I meet.....I have three chinese sisters, that mean the world to me, and we chat, or talk on the phone at least once a week.....And they were all great guides, and we taught each other many things.....So hang on, and enjoy every minute to the fullest.....When I had to go to the airport to leave from that first trip, two of them took me, and the other one met me at the airport, and we all cried, as I had to say goodbye, now all three are good friends......When I return this September, two of them are now planning to travel to Changsha to see me, when I am making this trip to meet a Lady, at the same agency (CLB # P216)you just ran into a brick wall with......I should have you contact, Daphne to see if she plays a game as well.....But we talk on the phone, and continue to write EMFs to each other all the time......
..I hope we can stay in contact, so you can give me all the details, on the Agency, as I plan to see them in 4 months....
..Best of Luck, RC
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Our thoughts are with ya Alex. Keep yer chin up!
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Alex , buddy ... six is enough though from one agency ... leave some for the rest of the brotherhood .
What a great Job you have done , to do a 180 of a seemingless and aweful start .
Your smile is contagious !!!
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Glad that it has all turned around for you Alex , because of the size of Changsha guess there is only 180,000 young ladies left for the other guys , just keep posting as I am sure the newer members will take heart , as they did with Ronans story , and now you won't want to leave that town .
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Mate I am so pleased for you.........Well done;)
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now you won't want to leave that town
I wonder if we have to send the Navy Seals in to pull him out of there? While he's screaming "No! I don't want to go!"
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Mike you look like your to big to be hideing under the bed.I think your more of the closet guy.More room in there.
Just messing with you.Good luck To you and Jessica
Alex I'm glad we could help.Live it up budddy have the time of your life.
Yeah never hide under the bed like the Irish do.All you do when you hide under the bed is get your shirt dirty.
:dodgy:
Hang on there Maxx, I'm Irish, and I do not hide under beds!!!!
Do not apply that to all of us ! :@
Alex - Good to hear you pulled yourself up out of a sad situation, you keep going buddy, and have a great trip !!!
Mike
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Hi,
the Navy Seals may have to mount a rescue operation for a different reason. My smile has made me a victim of my own success. A woman I met today wants me to have lunch with her parents and her son during the dragon boat festival tomorrow (usually reserved for families only). One of my sisters from yesterday has developed a thing for me and I spent this evening being inspected (in the nicest of ways) by 20 various parents and cousins during an evening meal (My Chinese pronunciation and deft use of chopsticks got some rave reviews) .
My default perspective has changed from 'Why would she be interested in me?' to 'Now look, ladies, one at a time, please?' I jest, of course, but things change so quickly here, it's hard to know what to think. I am going with the flow, as they say.
The agency is closed for two days for the festival, so the rest of the ladies of ChangSha are safe from my charms (maybe ;-))
Alex
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HAHAHA...I am so happy that you are having a great trip! Isn't Changsha a fantastic city? I absolutely love it there. I will be going in July to see Peter and Tina's wedding, and am quite looking forward to Hunan food once again.
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Alex there's an Italian saying but I'll say it in english. "Feast or Famine" To much or to little. I think this explains what your going through.
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Well Alex.. I suppose you will be visiting Changsha more in the future.. Leave WenWen alone because she is my translator and she is getting married this year ^_^
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A STORY OF TWO AGENCIES
I started out, as you know, with The ChangSha Love Bridge Agency. They charged me 300 yuan for their car from the airport to the hotel. It will cost me half that for the hotel car back. I don't think they got me a discount for the hotel room; it was 400 yuan a night. I'm sure it could have been less. And it was in the same building as the agency. I am wiser now. Information is power. There is a large proportion of twenty-something eye-candy EMF-eating potential honey traps in that agency. (Check on Chnlove). I have fallen victim to this trap.
The Mei Yin agency is completely different. It is like a family. The women on their books are mostly forty- or fifty-somethings, with some twenty- and thirty-somethings. There are usually five or six ladies hanging around the offices chatting with the translators. I don't think they get much male interest, but they are lovely ladies. One of them is my first sister, Yurong. Yurong is in love with me now. I don't feel the same way. Plus I want to start a family with someone a bit younger. I think there could be someone there for me; not this time though. I have the QQ numbers of a couple of the translators there (They are 2 of my sisters.) and I think I could get direct contact details quite easily if the lady agreed.
Combining Western and Eastern Astrology, Yurong is an Aries Rabbit, which is quite a strange combination of full-on ram and shy rabbit. Example: this afternoon she picked me up from the hotel to take me for a meal with her best friend (who is another sister and has much better English than Yurong). It was pouring with rain as we walked to the bus stop and it became clear that her small umbrella would not cover us both unless she put her arm through mine. The way she did it was to ram her hand through my arm, then a few moments later she shot a quick glance my way as if to say, 'You don't mind, do you?' I am a Cancer Rabbit, so I have some shyness mixed with crab claws to grab on tight if I'm interested or sidle off sideways if not.
At her friend's I was greeted by the friend's 19 year old son, who was cruelly extricated from QQ-ing his friends to be subjected to some squirm-inducing translation duties regarding Yurong's lovey-dovey stuff about me. He was quite sweet really.
A funny thing happened as we watched a ChangSha TV channel programme about the meeting and engagement of an American guy, Clyde to a lady from the Mei Yin agency, Song Li Qin. Even stranger was when they showed the engagement party. Guess who could be seen in the background? You guessed it, Yurong! She was a friend of the fiancee.
Tomorrow I am going to visit the Hunan Provincial Museum with a few of my sisters. I will see a perfectly-preserved 2000 year old woman. A bit old for me, I know. But those oriental ladies age much better, don't they? :D
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Lol Alex, i'm loving reading your updates, you are having one heck of a trip!
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I forgot to mention that when the CLB agency were scamming me, my head was replaced by a donkey's head, like in those old Warner Brothers cartoons. Hee haw!
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Alex.. You can see that the Mei Yin agency is quite well organized by Mr Tang. I think he is doing his job very well .. There are quite a lot of lovely ladies but like you said they are a little bit older.. If you come back to Changsha in the future you could see my wedding video on the Female Channel.. Mr Tang have made me and my Lady a suggestion that if we agree to have our wedding video as an advertisement he will pay for our wedding. My Lady and me have agreed and the only thing we have to pay for is the food in the restaurant, I know that will be expensive now that Martin is coming, but it will be a fair deal for us.. He will organize everything and will give us the wedding video before it goes on air.. I hope you will find a lovely Lady from Changsha and that you are having the greatest time of your life..
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Mr Tang have made me and my Lady a suggestion that if we agree to have our wedding video as an advertisement he will pay for our wedding. My Lady and me have agreed and the only thing we have to pay for is the food in the restaurant, I know that will be expensive now that Martin is coming
Mwaahahahh!!
Martin you Canuck eating machine, gonna bankrupt poor Peter!:P
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HEY!!! I will be bringing a Red Envelope (http://www.chnlove.info/showthread.php?tid=305) (Red Envelope is a link)
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Martin.. I hope it will be a very big one ^_^
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Just enough to cover the dumplings.
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Hi guys,
I am back in England now.
On my penultimate day in China, I visited the Martyr park and the Hunan Provincial Museum with two of my sisters. Very nice too. then I had a meal with Ding, my second sister, Yurong's best friend. Ding talked about her rather useless ex-husband and about her lack of dating success. She is a successful businesswoman and will not settle for someone who sees her money and doesn't see her. Yurong phoned her from a party in a drunken state, wanting me to come and Ding dissuaded her in a slightly irritated state.
On the last day I spent the morning in the Mei Yin agency, sitting at a computer and chatting to the translators. They asked me what kind of ladies I liked the look of and why, asked for suggestions about which profile pictures I thought were most effective, and asked if the real ladies I knew there were correctly represented by their photos.
I noticed that whenever my cursor went over an English word, the Chinese translation came up immediately, with alternative meanings and spoken translation. The translators rely on this for doing a lot of their translations. A translator showed me the programme I needed to download, though for the life of me I can't download it in England. It's all in Chinese, so if someone who is better than me at reading Chinese can read it, it is a really useful tool. The addresses are: www.baidu.com , www.skycn.com/soft/31325 and http://account.youdao.com
When I left I hugged my two best sisters at the hotel and they both said 'I love you'. I hope I will be able to say that to someone next time I go and hear her say it back to me. Now where did I stash my pot of gold. lol
Alex
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Are you thinking of going back to Changsha again ?? It is a great city as you found out and the ladies are beautiful too.. I am going back on the 12 of July to meet my Lao Poa
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Dear Peter,
of course I am going back to Changsha! Not in July though, much as I'd love to see your wedding. If we meet there one day, I can impress you with my little bit of Swedish. I can count to ten and say 'I love you' and 'I am English' and other useful phrases. I can even say seventy-seven, which, as you know, is not easy for a non-Swedish person!
I may go back for Christmas, if I've saved up enough by then.
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Wow Alex what an adventure you had. This will be something you remember for the rest of your life. And good for you to make the most of it rather than letting it get you down. Did you take any photos? Would like to see them if you did.
If you really liked Mr. Tangs(?) agency, it would not be a bad idea to let Chnlove know that and show that we are not just a bunch of moaners and groaners. I think the first couple of weeks after I got back was the hardest, now I think the next 70 days will be the slowest.