This year I am travelling less for work but few weeks ago I was sent to Broadcast Asia in Singapore. In a previous post I already explained my views about Singapore (I do not like it too much) and, don’t worry, I am not going to bore you with my work stuff :) Singapore is […]
Sure that at some point you have heard or you have used the expression “to work as a Chinese”. So that is how it is, Chinese spend many hours working and in some cases they are even devoted to the company as it was part of the family. We are talking in this case about […]
One of the many surprising facts of Taiwan is that it hosts some of the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the world: Giant (the largest in the world), Media and Ideal among others. It is then not a shock to know that biking is the most popular sport in the the island and that a […]
When we decided to come to Taiwan, my first intention was to study a bit of Chinese and right away to look for a job. But as the research of a job was getting more difficult than expected and I got into the Chinese course… I stopped and I was fully dedicated to Chinese. 9 […]
I had to go to Europe for couple of meetings and Anna just finished her 3rd term of Chinese, so we arranged to spend almost 3 weeks in Europe. Specially for Anna it was starting to be mandatory to have an Asian break after more than 9 months at Taiwan. There is no better way […]
Stan (a workmate) and myself had to visit various locations of the company around Europe (Switzerland and Poland). We took advantage of that to arrange a weekend stay at Barcelona and Mataró. You can imagine that a “quick” business trip to the other side of the world combined with a leisure weekend at Barcelona is […]
As you could see from the theme of the Weyia party, this year India is on the ADB map. Although we have a local team in Mumbai I was asked to help a little bit on the organization of the demonstrations for the Convergence India trade show at New Delhi. I went there with 3 […]
Last week I had to go to Kuala Lumpur on a business trip. Let me use this trip as an example to explain what a business trip to an unknown place is. Going there I had to be at Kuala Lumpur on Monday at 10:00am, so I had to travel on Sunday afternoon. At Asia, […]
Last January 29th, ADB (the company I work for) celebrated the “Weiya party”. It would be the equivalent to the Xmas dinner in Europe. The party takes place various weeks in advance of the actual Chinese New Year (14th February 2010) The Weiya is very important for the Taiwanese people and the company spends a […]
In a recent visit to Taipei 101 bookstore I purchased one of the few magazines I could understand, The Economist. It features a very interesting article about the fact of being a foreigner in 2010 society Being foreign: The others (Dec 17th 2009)
