Matts blog

If anyone actaully reads this blog, they may remember 6 months ago when Elong acidentally sent me a thread of internal emails about lack of customer service, the original entry is here. Well they’ve struck again, I just recieved a 14Mb email with the following text:

Dear Paul and Matthew,
Firstly, many thanks for taking the […]

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Theres been an awful lot of discussion in the media about Google and exactly what it is up to in China and having been in Googles offices in China I was in a position to comment. So I started punching various things in to google.com and google.cn, obviously I was doing this from outside […]

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I thought I should write something about my long and almost painful process of transferring my RMB salary in to a GPB account held in the UK. There seems to be a lot of posts on expat forums and newsgroups asking how to achieve this, but very few answers, and I’m the only person […]

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So after finishing work today, there was only one thing to do….. Have a leaving party, so I knocked up that old classic - Spag Bol and invited my best buddy Sting and his girlfriend Yang around, and Lizzie’s friend Ramona also came. As its -7 or so, we decided the only viable option […]

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But hopefully not unemployable, it exactly 6 minutes time I will officially finish work for Cyclades China, and for the second time in 18 months be voluntarily unemployed. I feel happy. Now, wheres that bottle of Bubbly gone???

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No matter how much investigation, planning and preparation you do here, when you finally come to implementing the process in invariably goes wrong - today I had to prepare to send my money to the UK, I had a pile of paperwork and thought I was all prepared. Upon arrival at the bank I […]

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An early start lead us to McDonalds for a Egg & Bacon McMuffin and Orange juice to cure our slight hangover from yesterday night in Lan Kwai Fong, then we headed up The Peak on the tram to go find our first Geocache located on the peak overlooking Stanley and Kowloon, The last […]

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After a quick trip up the mid-level escalator, and a walk back down to Lan Kwai Fong for a couple of beers and a pub quiz we walkd back down to central and found that in front of the HSBC building was Father Christmas walking round his house. Sourounding his houe were trees covered […]

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After a quick trip up the mid-level escalator, and a walk back down to Lan Kwai Fong for a couple of beers and a pub quiz we walkd back down to central and found that in front of the HSBC building was Father Christmas walking round his house. Sourounding his houe were trees covered […]

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Its getting cold here, I think today is the coldest w’ve seen so far, its 8pm and -4, but witha 45Km NW wind its -13C, pretty chilly, and its SO dry, only 14% humidity (the Namib desert is around 5-10% as a comparison!

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