Business trips are boring, especially you have tough assignments and you have to work over time till late to night – return to the hotel and find yourself in a completely empty space without the feeling of reality.
Beijing is not as interesting as it should be if the only time window for you to explore the city is from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. It is especially so if there are still a lot stuff in your mind to worry about – the work.
Longest Business Trip
This time, I will be in Beijing for at least two weeks, which is the longest business trip I had so far – even longer than the Seattle trip in 2001. Wendy is having a hard time during my absence since she cannot drive right now. She is learning but it takes time for her to get a license. The car (we call it Goudaner) is nothing more than a big case for her.
A City in a Business Trip
This trip gave me better idea of the mood of my readers. People visiting Shanghai on business trip usaually start their email to me with
- “I am going to visit Shanghai for the first time in Febuary 2005”
and continue with
- “Since I am on business trip and I don’t have much time during the daytime”
Their final question will be
- “Where do you recommend to see in two or three hours at night?”
This is exactly the informaiton I am seeking for in Beijing. I know there is no perfect answer to this question at all.
If someone cannot feel relaxed, no place is right for him/her other than either a desk at office or a bed at hotel.
Starbucks
Eric sent me a map of all Starbucks days before. I am considering to visit all Starbucks in Beijing one by one in one day, as I did in Shanghai. It seems not very possible since I may need to work on technical stuff this weekend. I tell you, I do enjoy reading the white papers and PPTs.
My Previous Beijing Visit
Here is the recording of my previous Beijing visit.
- Arrive in Beijing on Delayed Flight – 5-Jul-2004
- Beijing Impression – 16-Feb-2004
- Business Trips – 11-Feb-2004
- Crystal Clear Beijing – 5-Jul-2004
- Flight from Shanghai to Beijing – 8-Jan-2003
- Hello From Beijing – 8-Feb-2004
- I’ll be Beijing From Feb 8 to Feb 14 – 2-Feb-2004
- New Beijing – 9-Jan-2003
- The World is a Book – Back from Beijing – 10-Jul-2003
- Transit of Beijing Metro – 15-Feb-2004
- Traveled to Beijing with China Eastern Airlines – 7-Sep-2003
- Watch Out Bad Taxi Drivers in Beijing – 11-Feb-2004
(src)
BTW, Wangjianshuo in Google Approaches to 10,000
Searching Wangjianshuo in Google and I found there are 9,620 results:
Courtesy of Google.com
It was 9,400 items when I checked the day before yesterday. There is a 200 increase in the last two days. Now the webpages containing wangjianshuo is approaching to 10,000 . Interesting, isn’t it? This is the wealth of linkage currency I have.
“This is the wealth of linkage currency I have.” Heh. you may be onto something, Jian Shuo! The next international denomination. And with an even exchange rate, no less!
i usually get a copy of “that’s beijing” magazine from the hotel frontdesk. there are suggestions on restaurants and events. some art shows can be quite good.
i actually enjoy the flag raising ceremony at the TAM square in the morning and i am not even a chinese national :) followed by breakfast. beijing opera at lao she teahouse is good for me too.
for dinner, i love the malaxiaolongxia at gueijie. i think this is better than the best i can find in shanghai. but it tends to upset my tummy coz it can gets pretty spicy.
Reaching 10,000! Wow! Quite impressive. But how many of ~10k hits are unique sources?
If you copy the following to your favorite address browser’s address bar,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link:gBXKu7dv2YcJ:www.wangjianshuo.com/
It comes up with 260 results only.
These are the URLs that link to your domain ‘www.wangjianshuo.com’.
No mention oh how many unique sources, so I searched for your domain on Technorati,
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=www.wangjianshuo.com%2F
it came upwith just 25 Links from 24 Sources
Speaking of ‘wealth of linkage currency’ according to Blogshares,
http://blogshares2.got.net/blogs.php?blog=http://home.wangjianshuo.com%2F
your current valuation is B$36,773.22
Actually, http://www.wangjianshuo.com and http://home.wangjianshuo.com are two sides in Google’s eye. If you check reserve link to http://home.wangjianshuo.com and you will see “854 linking to home.wangjianshuo.com”. Link to http://www.wangjianshuo.com iis 260. So there should be 1114 pages linking to these two sites.
Technorati is the same. If you check http://home.wangjianshuo.com http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=home.wangjianshuo.com%2F
the result is “143 Links from 111 Sources”. So that is a little bit different than the result you gave.
Take Care. No matter how smart,creative and full of passion you are….
yes, beijing is really a very nice city, and great business there, the CBD is modern and excellent.