16 August 2006 (Lunar
July 23)
Beauty
Kills
A
young man stood quietly in a queue before
the window of the register office in a
hospital when a sexy young woman walked
in the foyer. Like all other guys in the
queue, the young man turned about his
head to look at the sexy babe. The girl
marched from the entrance towards an
inner corridor, and the man kept twisting
his neck to visually follow her movement.
Then suddenly he could watch no more - he
passed out and fell, hard, on the floor.
Fortunately, he was already in the
hospital, but it took half an hour for
doctors to revive him. A medical staff of
the hospital told the reporter from a
local newspaper Chongqing Shangbao, the
man who already had flu focused too
intensely on his visual subject and
twisted his neck too hard that caused his
brain to experience a temporary shortage
of blood supply. So the moral of this
incident is: beauty indeed can kill.
Crying
Alone – New Hobby Among Beijing’s
Young
A
newly invented recreational activity has
become increasingly popular among Beijing’s
young white collars. Ms Wang, 31, a high
rank manager in a large PR company,
admitted that her favourite pastime is to
stay alone at home, drawing curtains, and
read a sad story or listen to a
sentimental music CD until she could no
longer hold back her tears but burst out
crying. New she’s the member of an
Internet crying club and happily share
her experience of grief with 80 others.
Most of the crying-lovers are singles.
"Which gives you a freedom to cry as
loud and as often as you like," says
Ms Wang to the journalist of Beijing
Chenbao, proudly. "A good cry takes
out all my emotional garbage and after
that I feel detoxified," added she.
Feeling
Blue
17
August 2006 (Lunar July 24)
Secrets
to Business Success in China
Here
are some secrets that the General Manager
of Taiwan’s Longfeng Food company
disclosed in an interview by a Hong Kong
magazine:
1,
Timing: Join the party earlier rather
than later.
2,
Method: Don’t rely on your old
experience. In Taiwan, you can wage a
price war until your products dominate
the market - because Taiwan is a small
place. You cannot do the same in the
mainland. Whatever a price discount you
set up, there will always be someone out
there who is able and dare to challenge
you.
3,
Respect: Some Taiwan businessmen are
highly suspicious of their local staff
and have their employers under constant
surveillance. As the result they are
unable to keep the best workers. Our
cleaning lady was hired 13 years ago,
today she’s still here and we chat
everyday when we meet. Without mutual
respect and trust between the boss and
staff a company will not be able to hold
together.
4,
Be Creative: In China you have too many
competitors, and as soon as you come up
with a new way of marketing, it will be
copied by others at no time. So you have
to keep your innovative edge in order to
maintain your lead in the competition.
5,
Good Relationship: For maximising their
profit some Taiwan businessmen would try
to violate the local regulations. It’s
not short sighted. A good relationship
with local authorities is extremely
important.
6,
Best Products: Some Taiwan business would
allow outdated products and technologies
to enter the mainland market. With this
kind of shabby practice they’ll never
be able to succeed.
7,
Diversity: Mainland China is such a huge
place with diverse subcultures and
customs. A snack that is popular in
Shanghai may find no market in the
northeast provinces, and food loved by
Canonesses is sometimes shied away from
by the rest of the Chinese. So you’ll
have to develop a series of products to
cater for different geographical market
regions.
Shanghai
Tourism Festival Kicked Off
Water
Majiang
Have
you ever tried playing majiang with your
feet in water? Well, that was what 70,000
plus Chinese in Chengdu did
last weekend. The hottest summer in 50
years with temperature reaching 40C has
made the weather a hot topic. Now the
Chengdu residents greet each other by
asking "Where is the coolest place
to go?" Fortunately they don’t
have to look far. Last weekend more than
seventy thousand people visited
Hongkouxiang Forest Park (a Natural World
Heritage Site inhabited by Big Panda,
less than an hour’s drive from the city
of Chengdu), where they sat in a valley
at a hill foot. For just ten yuan (less
than US$1.50), they got a pot of greet
tea and a seat by a creek to play majiang
with feet dipping in the cool and shallow
water. With vendors delivering spicy
tofu, cold noodle, barbecued delight and
icy beer to their table and farmhouses
nearby providing dinner and bed when
night fell, why should they spend their
weekend anywhere else?
Cool ...
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