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Offline Sylvain D

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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #90 on: March 09, 2010, 02:18:38 am »
Wow....
Congrats for your lovestory and your future wedding, so ;)
when will it be, so?
Will you go there ASAP?
Because if so, I would like to know which is your bank, as I see you travelling so fast in China, when you come back, you just want to go there again on the following month... :D

But I can understand ^^

I wish you all the best, I really enjoyed reading your story ;)
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #91 on: March 09, 2010, 03:03:09 am »
Willy

I dont want to rain on your parade....but most modern airliners crash tail first....!!!

At the speed they travel...about 0.85 Mach (speed of sound) the major hazard to flying is called a "jet upset"...because they are so high and the air is so thin that the stall speed is very , very close to the cruising speed.

If the Driver or the computer gets it wrong then the whole kit and kaboodle falls out of the sky !!! At that altitude, profile drag does not figure in the equation and she usually comes down flat or slightly tail down....due to the C of G being behind the centre of aerodynamic pressure........that is, if it stays in one piece !!!

With a "T" tail configuration (Boeing 727 style) , she will be in a "deep stall" and be very definitely seriously tail down. So much so, in fact that there is zero control available from the elevators, because they are in the disturbed air from off the wing surface that is stalled. So the Driver cant do anything at all about it anyway......

However, if any of this should happen, it matters little where you are seated....just put your head between your knees and kiss your A** goodbye :icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

David

ps..Statistically, if you were born on an aeroplane and flew non-stop, 24/7, you would not have an accident until you were 167 years old. How about arranging to be born on an aeroplane and getting off at 166 years...what an interesting life :icon_cheesygrin:

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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #92 on: March 09, 2010, 03:30:39 am »
I am very envy you,Frank. I guess you already show her photo to your son,and he nod his head said I also like this lady to be my step mom.

Here is totally different situation I heard from one of my friend just start a relationship with his lady.I ask how do you feel these days.He replied me clamly :we are good. I asked why I donn't feel you feel exciting.It should be excited when you find the right one,isnn't it. He still replied me clamly:that is because I donn't want her to feel big drop after marriage. We have a long way to go.wow,what a rational man!I do know many woman complaint about the drop after marriage.So he was just try to tell me "love me little ,love me long".
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #93 on: March 09, 2010, 06:17:41 am »
now Yan dont you think all men are rational:dodgy:

please dont comment on this hahaha

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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #94 on: March 12, 2010, 04:34:43 pm »
Wow it seems I'm late ... busy with paperwork and accounting, both are progressing slowly but the paperwork sure isn't the easiest thing I've ever done. But I think I figured out how to proceed and am about halfway to getting my single certificate equivalent. Monday it's back to Paris again to retrieve the legalized documents from the Chinese consulate, I'll Fedex them to my love, she has to get them translated and then check if they will accepted as they are by the civil office in her hometown ... the Chinese consulate seem to think it's ok what I have produced, but their French is as good as my Chinese so I am prepared for a surprise or two still. Then we have to get her paperwork so our marriage documents can be accepted by the French consulate in GZ, which would allow an immediate (I hope) issue of a 3 months spouse visa, which will be extended into a 5 year residency permit once we're back in France ... so it seems anyway. Thanks to Hajo I am aware of the EU citizen advantages in a foreign EU country, I am so glad I never changed my nationality to French, otherwise we would be in paper war for 6 months... If all goes to plan, she could come back to France with me in April, wouldn't that be something?

Sorry Ted, I miss my fiancee, she's a little cuter than you :icon_cheesygrin:

Yan, don't envy me, you'll find your luck soon, I'm sure of that! My son already chatted on QQ and webcamed with her, he does approve so far, he thinks she is very pretty (very important to him apparently) and really nice, so we'll see :blush: It's funny because I think I am very down to earth in general, and even with this new found love, there is a lot of reason in me. I am not afraid of the drop after marriage, there will not be one becase we somehow skipped passion and started with love first. Sure there is some passion now and sure it will maybe fade with time, but love will remain. If I have learned anything at all in my past experiences, it's that it is easy to maintain a loving relationship as long as one is aware that maintaining it is required. I know my fiancee will take care of me in a way I have never experienced before, and our relationship is so natural that it's almost too good to be true. I will work to keep the fire going, and she does not need to do much in that field, just her smile is enough for me, everything else is a bonus ... Of course nobody can predict the future, but this relationship is not built on passion, so I am not worried.

Sylvain, my bank? Hmmm I don't go there in person anymore, it's surely not easy financially with so many trips in a short time (and my business closed while I'm gone), but I manage so far. My best selling season is the summer, I'll make sure I sell as much as I can then to compensate for lost revenue the past few months. You probably guessed that the wedding will be ASAP !!! and I surely hope to spend Easter in Guangdong to get this done. But the paperwork might say otherwise, so wait and see.

Back to my slave work now ... if this all goes after plan, I will write up the entire administrative procedure in the appropriate forum section, just in case another expatriated EU citizen in another EU country has the same issues.
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #95 on: March 12, 2010, 04:52:12 pm »
Wow, a good trip report :icon_cheesygrin:.

I wouldn't recommend Air China - the in flight entertainment was ancient movies or Chinese opera lol. Very nice air hostesses though (as you'd expect). On the way back my seat was broken. Cathay are great. Virgin so-so, JAL quite good (if they're still in business).

Expedia seem to be featuring aeroflot a fair bit these days :dodgy:.

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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #96 on: March 12, 2010, 05:22:38 pm »
Hmm Aeroflot on Tupolevs? :angel: I'm kidding, they are good planes actually, and Aeroflot are not all bad, neither is the Moscow airport ...
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #97 on: March 12, 2010, 05:36:08 pm »
Frank, thanks for the update. Well, 'seems like you don't want to go to your bank, but it is strange that nobody knocked at your door so or that you don't have any "cupid note" from your bank... haha ^^

Good luck for the papers, I wish to do same too :)
and if you marry soon, and if you come both back in April, then, it is very "close", as date:)
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #98 on: March 12, 2010, 06:08:24 pm »
sounds like it is rolling along Frank
soon her new life in france will be a
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #99 on: March 26, 2010, 07:29:34 pm »
Hi Ted, yes, things are rolling!

I'll be back in China in 2 weeks and guess what, we're getting married !!!!

The info the Chinese consulate provided on getting married in China for foreigners is right, my fiance got my documents translated after I got them legalized by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Chinese consulate in Paris, and showed them to the marriage office today, they say everything is ok to get married :icon_cheesygrin:

She had to take a trip to GZ for the translation, and she found a better deal than the initial 950 RMB quote from the first office, although I don't know what it cost in the end ... but I sent her plenty anyway :angel: She was extremely efficient in getting everything sorted, I am full of admiration because she started from scratch ... I at least have been around and worked with the French Government so I am used to the administrative messing around.

The other good news is that once we are married (no wedding ceremony now, we'll do that later), she will get a 3 months Visa to Schengen in 48 hours in the French Consulate in GZ, I already verified that with them. It is quite handy not to be French in France in this situation, if I was the procedure would have been more cumbersome and taken much longer. I need to figure out how to get our marriage recognized in the EU, but that shouldn't be too hard, I guess notarized, legalized and translated. My future wife can then apply for her 5 year residency permit (which has no conditions except proof of marriage to a EU citizen), then in 5 years for a 10 year card. We'll probably be based in China by then but will keep a foothold here for medical/retirement benefits and her resident's card, easy enough.

Now I have to find a decent price plane ticket for her, ideally coming back with me on China Southern (she has taken a plane only once in her life), but she'll have to look into that with a local travel agent tomorrow, even a one way fare is higher than a rountrip bought from France, completely ridicolous ... I can get a round trip for 600€ on the same flight for her, a one way is 780 ...??

And guess what I'm doing? Buying a nice engagement ring, wedding rings, gifts, her birthday is coming up too ... So I'm accepting donations, I think I'll be broke by the end of April and my business is slow as hell, so if you have some change to spare, let me know :angel:

All the same, I'm a happy camper ..., married in 2 weeks and 3 days!

Frank
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #100 on: March 26, 2010, 08:49:56 pm »
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All the same, I'm a happy camper ..., married in 2 weeks and 3 days!

Frank


17 days and counting - happy trails fellow adventurer and best wishes for a safe journey.
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #101 on: March 30, 2010, 05:35:43 am »
well Frank thats great news   i hope you look us up when you
arrive here in two weeks. what hotel will you be staying at??

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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #102 on: March 30, 2010, 04:57:41 pm »
Hi Ted, of course I will, things permitting ...

For the moment I am staying in Jiangmen, don't know about GZ yet but the hotel close to you is a good choice :)
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #103 on: March 31, 2010, 11:19:35 am »
Frank, please let me some place beside you in your next flight for China :blush:

or bring me back Liyan ^^'
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RE: Guangdong Reloaded
« Reply #104 on: April 05, 2010, 07:26:36 am »
Sly, I think I'll be loaded with things to bring back for my soon to be wife, but did you ever consider UPS? :icon_cheesygrin:
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