China Romance
All About China => Your trip to China => Topic started by: Peter on July 11, 2009, 01:30:07 pm
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Well my brothers... It is time to go back and finally make my dream come through. One week from now I will be a married man again and have a lovely beautiful Chinese wife.
I will try to update you all when ever I can but as we are planning to travel this time I am not sure when I can.
This will be quite odd because we will appear in a commercial for the agency that will be showed on Female Channel in China. I will take it from the beginning:
One month ago I got a suggestion from Mr Tang. He told me that he wanted to do a commercial. He asked me if I thought it will be OK. He told me that he will sponsor our wedding. The deal is that a camera crew will do some interview with both me and Tina. They will then shoot the whole wedding and mix this together with some video I have made of my apartment. Mr Tang will pay for the whole wedding except for the food. Tina and I discussed it and finally told him that we would do it. My LaoPoa works as a business woman so she took care of the negotiations.
Two days ago she went to the TV-building to do an interview. Yesterday we had web cam together from the TV-building and the took a short film from it.
On Monday I will land in Changsha if I make it. The problem is that I only have 1 hour to catch my next flight and I am a little bit afraid that I wouldn't make it. All this problems comes from the Flue.
If I make it there will be a big reception when I landed. The crew is going to shoot more film when I step out so I guess the other passengers will ask them self what kind or famous movie star was this white guy on the plane and why is he kissing and hugging a Chinese woman while they are taking it all on a film.
I wish someone could take a film of the other people in the airport just so I can see their faces. I guess it will be as close as I can come from 5 minutes of fame....
The schedule for next week is still something I haven't got a clue about. Tina just say that everything is taken care of. I know that there will be more filming and more photos taken. I have leaned that I should bring a big book to read when we are taking our wedding photos...
As I understand they are filming the whole wedding so it would be nice to get a video from all this. I doubt that it could be more professional than this. By the way I have learned that a small wedding in China is 80 guests...
If everything goes as planned we will travel to Zhangjiajie ( excuse my bad spelling ) next Sunday.
So tomorrow I will start my trip by taking my car to Copenhagen. Then next leg will be to London. Finally I will leave London for Hong Kong tomorrow evening.
I will try to update when I can.
Peter a.k.a I Spy
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Good Luck ISpy!! Where's the blog?
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Good Luck Peter. I hope everything goes exactly as planned. Our thoughts are with you Brotha.
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Great story Peter good luck to the both of you....:icon_biggrin:
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Peter, if there are any decorations left after your wedding, don't throw them away. I could use them in October. Haha
Have a wonderful time and make sure you experience every moment, forgetting the cameras and all the fuss surrounding you.
Best wishes
Alex
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I guess I will say good luck now. You must be leaving soon? So good luck and PHOTOS PLEASE.
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Ha. Vince is right, with all the success stories of late, there's a distinctive lack of photos!
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To Peter and Ting , have a great wedding , I am sure Mr Tang will look after you both , as he is a very honourable man , but still a business man , enjoy the days ahead .
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Peter, I wish you both good luck, have fun and enjoy the day, oh and welcome to the married mens club Haha !!!
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Hi Peter,
All the best for your wedding and future movie career, it is really up lifting to hear of the positive stories coming out of Changsha.
All the best.
Alan and Qen.
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Peter, I wish you all the best and will cross my fingers for you to have your flight in time once you'll land and have to pass some exams...
1h should be enough, in fact... because once there, controls/checkups are quite quick...
So, enjoy your trip ;)
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I'm beginning to stress about my flight, I have a 20 minute stopover in Hong Kong before leaving for Guangzhou.
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Relax Neil Hong Kong is really easy to get threw.You are going to have to hurry up a little bit if you have only 20 minutes between flights.But otherwise I wouldn't worry.
If you do miss the flight just go to the help desk they can scehdule another one for you.Or you can take the bus or the train to Guanzghou.Make sure yo have your ladies phone # or your ladies translater phone #.If you do happen to miss the flight.ou can call them and let them know you are going to be a little late.
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Neil.
I don't know what to say, but as I can easily remember, my fligth at Beijing was at 01:10 am and I went there at 01:00 am thanks to a driver :D
in 5-7 mins, I did all (check-in, check-up, and so on) and ran up to the boarding queue.. 10 mins later, the plane landed off...
I wish you would have enough time as I had ;)
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Well brothers.. I owe you a big update...
This trip didn't start too well.... My flight to London was without any problems but then it all started.. Sitting in Heathrow and waiting for the flight isn't very funny. When you flight is expected to come up with a gate number and you could go to the gate is so much better... In my case there wasn't any gate number coming up, just Wait.. After another 30 minutes the sign was still telling me to Wait. Then there was a new message telling the gate will open later... As you all know I had only 1 hour between my flights so I was getting really nervous.. A new message came up when the gate number was supposed so show up telling me to wait again. After 2 hours and still no gate number we was called to Cathay's desk and was told that there was some kind of problem with the aircraft. The staff told us that we can get a meal while we was waiting. I already knew that I wasn't coming to Changsha on my scheduled time so I send a text message to Tina about this and also one to WenWen, our translator. I think that those messages did,t come through..
After 6 hours delay we finally left London. Sorry you guys from London but I was very pleased about finally leaving London. The captain told us that there had been some hydraulic problems that they had to repair. Finally I came to Hong Kong...
In the airport they told me that I had been booked on the next flight to Changsha but the problem was that there wasn't any flight the same day so I had to wait until 16.40 next day. I also got a couple of text messages from Tina asking me where I was. I understood that she never got my messages from London. When I was supposed to land in Changsha I was still in the air 4 hours from Hong Kong...I got a hotel room and free meals but all I want to get was a flight to Changsha as soon as possible. I tried to contact Tina that I will come the next day instead. After spending the night and half the next day on the hotel I finally got off to Changsha.
After the health check, made by 4 martians, I finally got off and after clearing the customs and immigration I came into the entrance hall but no Tina and no crew from TV.. Immediately I was offered a Taxi but refused. There was a couple of taxi drivers that asked me but i said that I was to be picked up by someone.. They almost gave me the bad eye..
I tried to call Tina and after a few tries I got her on the phone. She said she was on the way and soon be there. Just a couple of minutes later the crew from TV arrives and started to talk to me because I was the only one still at the terminal.
We went inside again because it was hot even if it was 7 o'clock in the evening. Short after my Lao Poa arrives together with her sister and finally I got to hold her in my arms again. The TV crew had a short interview on the airport before we all went to the cars to go to Changsha. It takes about 30 minutes from the airport to the center of the town. You should have seen the taxi drivers faces when I first was interviewed by TV and then went to a police car to take the ride to Changsha. Tinas sisters husband is a police officer and he got a big police car to pick me up..
Finally we arrived to the apartment Tina has rented for our stay. It is just one block away from the river with the view to the river. Really nice apartment with a western toilet and shower with our own warm water boiler. I was very tired so we got to sleep immediately.
The next day we went to register our marriage and to get the Red book. This took about 45 minutes to be married again..
After the registration we went to a restaurant for a Hot Pot. Martin have his Dumplins but I have my Hot Pot..
The day after we had our 4 hours of fame.. The wedding photos session.. It really took 4 hours shooting both outdoors in the heat and indoors in a studio. I guess I lost about 2 liters during this and all of the night I dreamed about " Smile Peter, smile"..
Later the TV-crew came back for a longer interview, about 1 hour long. They was very pleased when it was done so now they will show up at the wedding. An hour later a friend of Tina came to visit us. She is also looking for a love on the Internet but prefers a man from Sweden, sorry guys.. I guess they are trying to stick together or maybe since I am the "perfect man" they think that every man from Sweden is just like me LOL
The days have been really busy.. Today is our wedding day so we will leave to go to a hotel later today and at 6 the big thing is beginning. It will be about 80 guests which is a small wedding in China. I will try to update you as soon as I can but can't say today when it is going to happen. I can only say that Changsha this time of the year is very hot, between 35 and 40 degrees. Thanks for the invention of the air condition..
Peter
Peter
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Congrat's to you I SPY and Tina . At least at the Hot Pot's , you get to relax from all of this happening so fast and so many thing's all at ones . After you relaxed some , can you send us some Photo's ... like quickly .:icon_cheesygrin:
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I will try Arnold :icon_cheesygrin:
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Don't feel bad , if you take care of Tina ... before Us . We can live with that .:-/
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Peter glad to hear you finnaly made it.Have a good time.And Best of luck to you and Tina
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Great Peter! Congratulations on the marriage! Hmmm...about the friend of Tina wanting a Swedish guy, are you really sure of that? She has not met a Dane yet, ha ha!
I wish you all the best of luck for your future! May I ask if you have come closer to how to get Tina to Sweden? Is it going to happen soon? I am sorry, but I am curious! ha ha!
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Well Hajo. We are starting the papers as soon as possible. First I have to get our marriage registered in Sweden so it will show that we are married when Tina send in the papers to the embassy.
Just some about the wedding too...
Just as I wrote before there where about 80 people at the wedding. It started with us coming in but they forgot to put on the wedding music so we had to go out again and start it all over. We had a very good woman from the TV channel who did all the introduction at the ceremony. She spoke English fluently so it was a good help for me. The TV-crew was pleased about the wedding and so was Mr Tang and his wife from the agency.The ceremony was a bit simpler than Nik had on his wedding according to his video as a request from Tina but everyone was very pleased with our wedding. The only thing was that we didn't have time to sit down and eat because of all the photographing and talking with everyone. It was of course Tina who did all the talking and just followed her around the tables to be introduces to a lot of people that was relatives, friends and neighbors to Tina's parents. The only setback was that we could not show our wedding photos because the restaurant didn't have a computer that supported Jpeg photos on a CD.. very odd..
In the end of the day we finally got home again and found out that we was hungry abd that we didn't have anything to eat so we just left for a hamburger at a nearby hamburger restaurant.
I asked Tina if she was pleased with the wedding and she said that she was. I think we showed a lot of good face to very one and as you know this is very important.
Tina's daughter had to play truant to be able to come to the wedding and found out that the headmistress have grounded her for a week. When I woke up this morning Tina's daughter had gone back to the school and I guess Tina went with her to make some thing straight with the headmistress... I will know when Tina comes home again.
So finally I am married again in the Chinese way.
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Peter , what no Dumpling's ? Remember Martin wasn't there , there was no need to hide them .
My best wishes for you and the new Mrs. I SPY for the Future .
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Big congratulations on the Wedding Peter! It is nice to hear that it went well. I hope Tina will be able to fix the things with her daughters school!
Enjoy your stay!
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congradulations Peter to you and TIna.
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Congratulations, Peter and best wishes to you and Tina :)
It's really nice to see how many brothers from here are married with chinese women :)
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Congratulations Peter and Tina, it all sounds wonderful.
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Well Arnold.. I guess that is why Martin didn't show up.. no Dumplings on the menu..
Tomorrow we goes on a 4 days Honeymoon to Zhangjiajie and Phoenix Town... We travel by bus and it will be nice if the bus driver doesn't drive as the bus drivers in Changsha..
Today we was ball dancing.. If you haven't seen Chinese men and women do Ball Dancing you haven't seen anything yet. If anyone got the chance to go and watch take it because you will se people that is very good at it. The also do some kind of line dancing as in US. Quite fun that they only get hot tea to drink.. not a beer in sight anywhere. In Sweden most of the people should have been more or less drunk. The dance starts at noon and ends at 16.30.
I put a photo of two from the wedding in my Photo thread..
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Peter...I am loving the trip updates. Where is the apartment? Is it near the place where they were painting the Chinese characters on the sidewalk with water? This was the place where Zhifang and I met with you and Tina before we went for supper with Tina's friends...where all the kites were.
It is fun to hear your stories, because I can visualize where you are.
All the best to you and Tina.
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Well Martin.
This time Tina rented an apartment one block down towards the river from the building we rented last time. We have a apartment on the 22 floor with a view over the river..
Last 4 days we went on a bus trip to Zhangjiajie and Funfang. I must recommend Zhangjiajie to every one that is planning to visit a place nearby. It is fantastic... I can't describe it because you have to see it for your self. Photos can't show you how it is in reality. The whole nature park is very well organized and even if there are a lot of tourists it doesn't get crowded... The mountains are spectacular and the caves is fantastic. I had the fortune to have the Solar Eclipse standing near a stream surrounded by the high peaks.
Funfang is also a must but we only spend a couple of hours there. I could have spent a whole day just walking...
We have all talked about the cabdrivers in China.... If you haven't been on a bus ride, where the driver read the Einsteins theory about that the faster you can travel also will slow down the time and if you think of doing that on a roller coaster where you also got traffic coming towards you, you ain't seen nothing yet..... This happend to us when our bus broke down and we had to wait for a new bus.. The driver on the new bus thought he could pick up some time on the way. The only problems was that there also is other traffic on the road. He thought that if he just use his horn before overtaking another car or lorry in a dark corner it would be ok.. I must confess that there was no scratch marks on the bus even if it was close a couple of times..
The second problem was that when we was going back it was the same route but this time it was going even faster..
I am glad that Tina took a pill against travel sickness so she slept during the whole trip.. I couldn't sleep because I was trying to help the driver to hit the brake all the time...
Now we are back in Changsha and will spend the day sleeping and to get some rest...
I added a couple of photos to my photothread..
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I couldn't sleep because I was trying to help the driver to hit the brake all the time...
I could imagine that there is a hole in the bus floor?! :icon_cheesygrin: And your foot must hurt after so many attempts to hit the break :blush:
Peter, it is nice to see that you are having a nice trip. I wish you all the best!
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Peter, Happy to hear you and Tina are having such a wonderful time
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Yes Peter, we wish to see the secret spy, movie star in disguise.:fi_lone_ranger:
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They working on the Lip sinking right now , that takes a while , especially Swedish to Chinese .:icon_cheesygrin:
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They will probably not manage at all Arnold... :icon_cheesygrin:
I bought Tina a " learning Swedish CD " so now are we talking Swedish all the time. I have thought her the most important words like " I want to have coffee " , "Where is the shop " and so on. Every evening before sleep we do some more words so she will know a couple of new words.
Today we are going to the agency to see if there is anyone that can translate documents from Chinese to English. We need some kind of Notarization to confirm the translation later. There are a lot of papers that we need to translate. Maybe someone have done this before and can give me a hint...
Later we will probably go to the Orange Island in the river if the rain stops. I must say that all the parks are very well taken care of. It must be in the Chinese culture.
I also want to see us on TV but right now they are sending the same kind of advertisement with a man from US. His name is Lee and about 60 years old. I don't know when Lee was in Changsha to get married because they didn't tell.. I guess I will have to sign autographs all day after the advertisement have been on TV and probably will have a bunch of young girls screaming my name wherever I go :icon_cheesygrin:
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Today we are going to the agency to see if there is anyone that can translate documents from Chinese to English. We need some kind of Notarization to confirm the translation later. There are a lot of papers that we need to translate. Maybe someone have done this before and can give me a hint...
Peter we saved a bit of money by having a lawyer that could also speak English. She did the translation of the documents and notarized them at the same time. We paid about 1500 rmb if I remember right. Or since you are a spy, you could have the secret branch of Ikea do it for you.
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HAHAHA...Rhonald...too funny!
Peter, I am loving the updates! I am so happy to hear you are having another great trip. Please give my best to Tina.
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Peter , about the Paper's ( document's ) . When I got married , all the Paper's were send to the Notary Public Office in Shanghai , four day's later we pick them up , Chinese version and English version in nice little Booklet's . I don't know if ChangSha has a Office like that , but this is what we used to have them Translated while I was there , to take them Home for my Lawyer later . Was all good to go , except the Police report for Qing which they ask for later .
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Thanks Arnold
I tried to find a Notary Office in Changsha but no one seems to know. I also tried to ask my Swedish Tax authority but got a very odd answer back. I sent a new question and told them I wasn't satisfied with the last answer. All I wanted to know was if the Red Book itself was enough... We'll see what their answer will be.. I will get translations from Chinese to English on Xerox copies of the House Book and of Tina's Red book by our translator and the translator is also familiar with the situation.. I have only one week to deal with this because I want to register our marriage in Sweden as soon as possible. Tina require a document from our Tax authority in Sweden that say we are married before she will send the Visa documents... As soon as I got our registration I will send the document by Fax to her. We will do all the other papers we can before I will leave next week..
Rhonald.. I am not supposed to talk about matters like these but I must say that you could become a very good contra espionage. No one knows about the connection with Volvo and Ikea except you... Please don't say this to the other brothers ^_^
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Good luck Peter , I know it is a hassle whatever Country you dealing with . Note too , that most of them must be Originals not Copy's .
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I Spy, Ting good luck and many blessings. We now have a big star among us. No I spy more like the international man of mystery. haha
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Peter, my wife can tell your wife where the ChangSha notary office for wedding, police, & birth certificates are at.
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Well Nik.. I will tell my wife to give her a call.. Tomorrow we are attending a wedding.. A Norwegian man have just landed in Changsha and is getting married tomorrow evening. I will give him a hint about our brotherhood if I get a chance.. I guess he will surprised to see another Western man at the wedding... :icon_cheesygrin:
The big problems is that it is getting hot again. After a couple of days of rain the temperature was down below 30 degress Celsius but today the sun came again and now we heave about 35 again even late in the evening.. My wife's daughter is spending some time with us before going back to school.. I will give you a report of the Norwegian wedding later..
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Scott yes they have birth certificates. your lady will have to go to the notary public office in the city she was born..And get it from there.It wikk be written in Chinese and they should translate it to English for her.
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I know that everything is written in the House Book that every Chinese have....
Well... I didn't manage to get to the wedding yesterday because I got ill. All night I kept my wife awake with some fever and coughing. It seems that I got a cold... and hope not the Flue...
Anyway... yesterday was the day of the Premiere... At 7 pm our marriage was shown on Woman Channel that is the correct namn of the channel. I also found out that this is not a local channel for Changsha. It broadcast all over China... The report was about 30 minutes long with breaks for advertisements.. I must tell the truth that it was quite scary to see myself on TV and knowing that there was some 100 millions watching. Anyway it is done and I made my debut on Chinese TV.. All for the pleasure to write autographs for screaming Chinese teenagers and have 5 minutes of Fame :icon_cheesygrin:
The sad part is that my visit in Changsha is coming to the end. Today it is only 4 days left for me before I return home again. I guess there will be a lot tears from every one at the airport.. I will be leaving China as a married man and that fells very good.. I know that now the big work start about taking my wife and her daughter to Sweden. We will start to fill in the forms for the Visas and I have to send a document by Fax later but realistic I will have Tina and Diedei in Sweden in the beginning of next year if not even sooner. That depends on how much work they have in the Embassy in Beijing.
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Oh Man , what a way to get to spend your last few day's there , sick in Bed . I know , in your Wife's hand's ... your in the best of care . Hope you shake it soon and be good to go , as the departure arrives and you will get sick again ... leaving them behind . Ahhh ... Life ,
alway's easy ... isn't it ?
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I am in the best of hands Arnold.... She is nursing me like a baby.. I will probably get sick much more in the future :icon_cheesygrin:
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Haha, the dreaded "man flu", get better soon Peter, even though you are unwell you need to treasure every remaining minute there and try not to think about the flight.
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Peter you could always tell them you have caught the dreaded s---e flu and then you would all be in quarantine for another 7 days ,or maybe , just get better soon .
Ps; you could always request for your nurse to accompany you to your home town .
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Waking up to another hot day in Changsha.. Something that I haven't found in the city is one of those sighs that show what time it is and what the temperature it is.. Funny because in Sweden we see them all over my town. Not in every corner but almost...
Doesn't the Chinese people want to know what time it is or how hot it is. Not that this does things any better because when it is hot it IS hot...
My little cold got better in just one day thanks to the nursing from my wife.. She gave me a lot of different kind of things I don't even what to know about and I got better in just a day. That and her love cured me very fast. In China they seems to rely to traditional medicine even if they have the modern medicine too. Sorry Robert.. I will have to ask them in her Visa application that she needs to come faster just to treat my cold. Do you think they will buy that ???
I am running around trying to buy one of those Chinese traditional hats " Mouser" (or something like that) as a gift to my father. I saw a lot of them in Funghuan and Zhangjiajie but not in Changsha. I asked Tina to try to ask someone in a shop but she say that they will only refer to a relatives shop which of course doesn't have the hat I request and is selling something else instead. Funny because in Sweden you can ask for help and they will help you but I guess this is the Chinese way of things... I will try to find one and have 2 days to search for the hat. If someone who have been in Changsha knows where to buy one I will gladly accept any advise.. I did see one in a shop but it was too small for my father...
My time with Tina is running out now.. I feel more and more depressed about leaving her and Diedie here.... Now we can only do the papers and wait.. I hope it wouldn't be a long wait for us until we will meet again, this time in Sweden. I feel a bit comforted that we are in the final stretch of this Marathon race... and that we hopefully will have a smooth last leg. I do not envious my brothers from US that have to almost fight their way to the finish..
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Well Peter , I haven't exactly faught my way to the finish , but if things go wrong at the Interview , I definitely fight to the finsih . Their will be no one keeping us apart past this year . Us German's have way's to make them say " YES " . :@
I don't know , how you can catch a COLD in such HOT weather ??? You have to explain that one ! That Cat - Dog- Mouse leftover makes for a good Remedy for Cold's . Work's fast everytime , but hard to get in Europe .
If you can't find the Hat you want , just fly back through LA , and get one of those Sombrero's for your Dad .
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Hahahahaha ... well at least His Dad , could have a good Laugh with us . Maybe after a few Beer's , they will start to look the same ?
That's soooo funny Mike ... thank you , needed that .
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Even after a lot of beers last night the hats seems to be different so that didn't work Arnold... :icon_cheesygrin:
My relatives made a Farewell-Party for me and we ended up on the Pub-street in Changsha. Don't ask me where but somewhere close to the center.. A small street with bars and Pubs and one or two restaurants with some food. Learned how to play the game with dices that every Chinese play when they are drinking. Everyone in Changsha plays it and I am about to introduce it in Sweden too. Not that Swedes need to have a reason for drinking but the game makes it more fun ( Like drinking is fun the day after ) Anyway, the party was very nice and some friends to my brother-in-law also joined the party so in the end we where 12 people in the bar. I hope I can find the way back to the street in the future..
Today i will continue my search for the Mysterious Hat and spend it with my wife. I will leave all the problems with my suitcase and how in h*ll I am going to take everything I got to Sweden. I only bought a few things like 3 kg of tea but all the things my family gave as gifts..... It is hard to say no to them but I don't want to pay a fortune on the weight off the suitcase. I guess we have to send Tina's things as a package by the Chinese Postal office just like we thought off. Tina told me that 20 kg cost about 1 200 yuan the normal way and by air 1 600 yuan so it is much more cheaper to send clothes and other stuff you will not need immediately.
Just when I am writing this my wife tells me that we are having lunch together with a friend so I guess my searching will have to wait until later. A Chinese lunch is usually more than 2 hours long here in Changsha and a supper more than 3 hours...
Right now as I am writing this our wedding is on TV again.. I think it is the third time on 2 days I see it.... I am still waiting for the CD from the TV company... Right now they are showing the sad part when Tina is at the airport to pick me up but as you all know I didn't make the connection flight... My wife just said that there are many many people watching her and me right now... I can see how tired I was when I arrived at the airport... I hope that there is someway I can put it out on the Internet for all of your brothers...
I also must tell you that I found a very nice beer for you, who like me, likes dark beer. The name is Stoutbeer and you get it in a black can at the food markets in Changsha.I don't know if the name on the brewery is Naale but it is the only other word written in English on the can...
Now it is a shower and a cup of coffee to start my day..
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Peter can I have your autograph?
Dying to see the ad mate, think it would show the brotherhood the trials and tribulations that the ladies also go through, on waiting for us to get there, and would possibly give us an insight into their way of thinking.:icon_biggrin:
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Peter,
I hope you'll find that hat ASAP and so you could be happy to offer it to your father ;)
by the way, even if you could not find one, maybe your wife could bring it to you in Sweden, later? It would not be a bad thing, in fact. Do you know approximatively how many months you would have to wait for her to come and be with you in Sweden?
By the way, could you just tell me how you were recorded on the tv, I mean, was there any special event except your marriage, did someone contact you and so on? Just a bit curious in fact, and I don't remember there is any weblink about it.
Anyway, like some other brothers here, you realized a part of your dream, the best is to come, even if later ;)
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Well Sylvain.. I didn't find the hat so maybe Tina could bring me one later.
The total time to get a Visa to Sweden is according to the Migration Authority 6 months from the day she will give the papers to the Embassy in Beijing. It could be faster too if we are lucky. Before Tina could give the papers to the Embassy I have to registrer our marriage in Sweden and send her a document about this. I was hoping to send it by Fax but now I found out that I have to send it by Post..
There was a crew meeting me at the airport and asking me some questions. Later they had an interview with me and Tina. The woman who was helping us with the wedding ceremony was actually from the TV-station. They also recorded Tina having a webcam with me on QQ. The marriage was an ordinary marriage beside from that.. I got the movie from the TV-station yesterday and I hope to be able to show it to everyone if I just can find out how. It is quite big, 1,5 GB, so I hope I find some site to show it on and give the like to the page. I have to deal with this afte I come home again. If anyone have a suggestion about a site I will be happy to get that information..
In a couple of hours I will be leaving Changsha again....
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Thanks for the infos, Peter ;)
About the movie, well, I know you can upload it on some links, and there are many possibilities :
- www.rapidshare.com or www.megaupload.com :
it just asks you to send files up to 700 Mo, but you can not view in real time the movie, you first have to download it
Maybe you could upload the movie on a stream server, but I don't really know how to do this; I also guess you should resize the movie, too, but maybe could it be a good choice?
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Hopefully you can host it at Google Video like I did with my wedding video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4543168625482651306&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4543168625482651306&hl=en)
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Google Video doesn't accept new video's...at least it didn't for me.
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mpo4747.
Wow!!, it must have been an X Rated Video!! ... hahaha!!
Just kidding ...LOL!!
David....
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Yeah those close ups of the dumplings can look like other things?
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I would like to see those Dumplings :icon_cheesygrin:
Now I am back home again and it is time to do some kind of summary of my 3 weeks in Changsha...
The first and most important thing is that I got married to the woman I love.... The purpose of the trip is for filled...
The second is that I finally could visit Zhanjiajie and Funhuang (Phoenix Town) as a honeymoon trip....
For the third is that we started the work with the documents that have to be done to get Tina and her daughter to Sweden...
One funny thing happend on my last day. We got out to buy a shirt for my father in a big shop just beside where we lived. We picked out the shirt and Tina went to pay for it. When she came back she was laughing. As soon as we got out of the store she told me that the woman who was a cashier in the shop had recognized us when we came into the shop. When Tina payed for the shirt the woman couldn't hold back the question and asked Tina if we where the couple she had seem on the TV. Tina said that we where and the woman got excited and told my wife what a wonderful marriage it had been. I couldn't hold back my laugh and we laughed about this for 5 minutes outside the shop. People that came by looked at us like we where crazy... For me it seems that we had not only the 80 people in the restaurant at the wedding.. more like half of China was at the wedding..That is what I call a big wedding. :icon_cheesygrin:
Now it is time for get some sleep. It is only half past 8 in the evening but I am tired from the journey. It took 27 hours door to door. I manage to get about 6 hours sleep on the plane from Hong Kong to London. We was almost struck by the typhoon before we took off in Hong Kong. The warning level was 8 and this is quite high. The plane from Changsha got in some heavy wind when we got close to Hong Kong but the landing was without any problems. The last 10 minutes was quite bumpy and I even heard someone screaming back in the plane. When I got out of the plane and into the bus it was raining heavy so most of us got quite wet. I had 3 kg of Puh Er tea in my backpack so it could have been a very big cup of tea it it got wet... :icon_cheesygrin:
I will maybe start another thread about getting my wife to Sweden but this will be a later issue... Thanks to all of my brothers for the replies in the thread..
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Peter,
That sounds like a killer of a trip home for you, Get some sleep mate.... as much as you can take in!! haha!! And yes Typhon 8 is a s very heavy storm, i dare say Hong Kong was shut down by the time you arrived there. Everyone goes home at Typhoon 3 and public transport stops..... Including the underground (MTR)
So when do we get to see this professional Video then??
David....
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As soon as I found out how to distribute it. It is a large mpg movie 1,44 GB...
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Peter, hearing a typhoon level 8 and that you were on a plane not so far away from it, just let me understand why you could hear someone screaming in the plane...
I then would imagine the tragedy about the plane in the ocean, and your bagpack, full of tea, which would then be in the ocean.
Then, looking around you, findind someone close to you, and singing :
"Tea, for two...
and two, for tea"...
:D
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Sly you are nuts....lol
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I just thought it could make someone laugh, even a bit :D
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That was a good on Sylvain... Feeding the sharks in the ocean with Chinese Puh Er tea... :icon_cheesygrin: