Shanghai. Oct 2010 The Scheaffler Group holds a key product launch every our years in Germany. In 2010, it decided to have it in three places: Germany, Detroit and Shanghai. I was asked to organise a one-week long, five-star symposium for 500 Asia Pacific customers and key staff in Shanghai. It was a very ambitious,... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Sep 2010 Actually I never played with LEGO when I was growing up. My father was a shipyard welder and my mum was a housewife and they had five mouths to feed. There was no money to buy LEGO. But when I finished my university and started working, I bought a LEGO set. I... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Sep 2010 My family usually gets its cravings for Singapore food fixed in a Malaysian restaurant in Shanghai called "Food Fusion". We totally love this place and we have been there almost every other week for years. Today we had roti prata with gravy, Hainanese chicken rice and char kway teow. But I think... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Aug 2010 I have to say that one of the benefits of moving from Singapore to Shanghai to work was the possibility to work with not only highly talented Chinese colleagues but also with people from other countries. Here I would like to give thanks and appreciation to two extremely hardworking talented ladies from... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Jul 2010 According to Wiki, various foreign powers leased parts of China, including Shanghai, during the Qing Dynasty in 1842. Initially by the United Kingdom and later by Austria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia and the United States. In Shanghai, the Huang Pu river divides the city into Puxi and Pudong.... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Jul 2010 Colleagues from India, Japan and Korea were in Shanghai for couple of months to help me to organise a large APAC marketing event for customers. A colleague from our head office in Germany also joined us in Shanghai for a short business trip. I hosted a dinner and a river cruise for... Continue Reading →
What the sign is trying to say, of course is, one car at a time. They just did a literal translation of the Chinese phrase and have gotten it wrong. The management of this residential compound is completely by local Chinese. English is not their first language and they are just trying their best. Every... Continue Reading →
Shanghai, 2010 246 countries set-up pavilions in a 5.28 square km site visited by 73 million people over a 6 months period. This was Expo in Shanghai back in 2010. I was the project manager for an important Asia Pacific marketing event happening in my company in Shanghai at that time. And as part of... Continue Reading →
Shanghai, 2010 In 2010, when I was working for the Schaeffler Group, our HR Department organised a really memorable Christmas party. I think we did not have an offsite event every year, but in 2010, it was. It was held in a hotel function room complete with catering. Every department put up some funny acts... Continue Reading →
Shanghai, 2010 The JinJiang Action Park was one of the first places I brought my kids out when I started settling down in Shanghai. The place had every possible fun ride you can ever imagine and also had a huge array of food and game stalls. The park was so big that you can easily... Continue Reading →