Matts blog

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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I’m waiting for my broadband to be installed, and the CDMA network has stopped working so I’m using dialup internet access, its provided by the phone provider, its reasonably priced, and you don’t need an account:
Phone number: 16900
Login: 169
Password: 169
or
Phone number: 16300
Login: 163
Password: 163
Very handy and should work anywhere in China as far […]

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So after 2 crazy weeks in terms of amount of work and socialising I’m back in China, with the welcome of 30C and high humidity and failed airconditioning, but its amazing what a 97RMB fan can do to cool you down!!!!!
The first week in erding was very productive, but working 12+ hour days wasn’t quite […]

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So, I think I’m convinced…  Moving to Beijing would be a good thing, and looking at the apartments here I think it’ll be a very enjoyable time.  I’ve visited a new development called R&F in the East of Beijing, not far from the metro, and surrounded by good bars and restaurants, including a Papa Johns, […]

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We took a daytrip to Hangzhou this weekend, thanks to a taxi driver that didn’t know where the station was we missed our train, but handily a bus to Hangzhou runs from Shanghai Meilong station to Hangzhou, and takes about 2 hours on the expressway through rice paddies.
We spent time at the west Lake […]

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I never thought I’d find a decent curry here, and certainly not one that came to the excellent standards and price of Brick Lane in London, but it seems I was mistaken. Last night after a hard hour shopping at Xiang Yang Market, buying some work shirts, I felt the need for a nice […]

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I’m currently based in Shanghai working for a US company thats been operating here for around 18 months, I’ve been based here since January 2005.
I live in the Pudong on the east side of the Huangpu river which runs through the middle of shanghai. Pudong is a very new area of Shanghai, development of […]

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