Day Two: 1st Day at work @ Jiangmen Hongda

So I promised some photos of the dorm... here it is...Not too bad really, with the exception of the following;

1. The silly teeny weeny fan





2. Dirty floor which means you gotta wear your shoes around, not to mention their habit of spitting in the corridor





3. The bed which looks deceptively comfortable but is as hard as a wooden plank...ok...maybe i'm just exaggerating a little...

Otherwise its really all pretty good.

Not too bad eh...









This 1-man room is for all the guests and managers...









The rest of the staff bunk is 4-person rooms which are about the same size. And then there's the sub-contractors who get 8-man rooms....also the same size...amazing...Didn't get to see their bunks though.









One thing I gotta say...the view in the morning is pretty amazing....check the following out!

Only in China will you see this....Paddy fields next to construction sites and shipyards!...LOL

Morning breakfast was a simple fried vermicelli....(they seem to love vermicelli, what we know as Mee Sua)...

Pretty good...nothing to complain...

It almost seems like a routine day at work....except no one speaks english....and they're all amazed I SPEAK ENGLISH AND FLUENTLY TOO...LOL

Nothing much really happened...spent most of the day clearing work remotely. The broadband connection here really helps a thousand-fold...

I leanrt a new idiom about them China Chinese today... "The Chinese eat when its time to eat, not when they're supposed to eat"

How very true.

At 12.00, right on the dot, everything just goes down....lights, doors, windows, the lot.

LUNCHTIME!

And right after that, a siesta until 1.30pm.

DAMN!

I wish that was so in Singapore....but then again, we wouldn't be able to get any work done...

Its the same case at 5.30pm. Either they have nothing to do, or they really respect that idiom too much to care.

This time, add in the locking of doors as well....so that no one sneaks back to work overtime and make the rest look bad...LOL

Night in Jiangmen...is well...night...

Pitch. Fucking. Dark.

You couldn't see your balls in the dark without a light....sorry for the language...

Anyways, I got to go see the town at night...

Here is Shadui Village's equivalent of ... Orchard Road!

Impressive eh? LOL

Got a hair wash too... only RMB 10. That's like S$2! lol...

A view of the hairdressers....dyeing hair is like only 300 RMB...or 60 bucks..

And here's a view of the local version of Tangs...

And a view of Harvey Norman..oops...I meant Shadui Central Electronics Store

And this is the IRAS...oops...nope... Shadui Village Tax Centre

Citycab.............on two wheels.

Everything pretty much shuts down after 7....only these few shops were the die-hard ones....

Went for a drink after that....Kingway Beer...3.3%. At RMB 5 per bottle, it is cheaper that a bottle of Sprite!

Sprite = RMB5.5

Amazing...like I said...

Adios to all for now.......

Wan An....