Strange, that during my most busiest times I decide to something in my blog.
So what's new with me these days?
I went to shanghai last week during my May break. It was a funny situation, I got my friend's mom to help get us discount plane tickets and then stayed at another friend's Mom's house. I never knew networking meant asking a friend's moms for help :)
so ya, Shanghai was pretty cool and stuff. All I can say is that traveling during a chinese holiday is not necessarily the best time to travel, especially if you don't like crowds. It's not just a little bit busy it's SUPER busy. People are everywhere. We went to one shopping area and the streets were filled with people. Insane. It was like the starting line of the Bay to Breakers (marathon). Basically a sea of people on the street, but this time everyone had black hair so all you see are black heads ;) I'll try to upload my photos to my usually photo website.
So we also went to the shopping district. insane as well. We got there just as about the stores were going to close but managed to walk around the building a bit. Anyways, I think there's a least 8-10 of these buildings that sell fake stuff and clothes. Well, after the stores closed, which was around 5, there was the strangest sight. Once the stores closed, many of the shop owners started pushing out there racks of clothes outside onto the street to start street selling clothes. At this time the streets became full of clothes with people yelling discounts here and there. It was like a crazy flea market. Not sure if I have any pictures of this.
Shanghai is definitely "the place" for clothes shopping.
So what have I been up to?
Lately I've been pretty active trying to promote some changes in the MBA program. Just today we organized a pizza lunch for our class, where afterwards we talked about the overall MBA program. After talking about internships, lectures, etc. I finally came to a conclusion, Chinese students for some reason lack self-confidence. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty in their life, so they approach MBA life very cautiously.
anyways....oh something funny I heard today in class. I think most chinese people know what "guan xi" or "face" means, right? well, in class we were talking about how different people have different requirements for buying shoes.
In one case we said "Young chinese teenagers need to buy brand name shoes otherwise they will lose "face" among their high school friends"...amusing...when we talk about face it's usually mentioned in a business context :)
well back to studying..
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