"In SZ free spirit, because I am only shopping for myself mostly. In UK it has to be a list, since I'm buying for the family. When someone complains - "Why didn't you get xxxx?" I can answer "Was it on the…"
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Ageism
Started this discussion. Last reply by JIMMY YU Dec 28, 2011. 189 Replies 0 Likes
We have our resident blogger on the evils of racism, but I’m not going to put that much effort into it, so just a Discussion. For me to enter a club in Worcester means that I get stared at, at…Continue
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Where is your life in Shenzhen going?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Coffee Break Mar 3, 2010. 142 Replies 0 Likes
For me I have had the career and family – both still continuing – so my life doesn’t really need to “go” anywhere. I have enough money to last the rest of my life and my main interests are in seeing…Continue
Cute guy or sexy guy,which do you prefer?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike46 Jan 3, 2011. 134 Replies 0 Likes
Important question,As the title.........PS Any girl who manages to include me in either category gets a free dinner and a big kiss.PPS Thanks to Bunny for giving me the plagiaristic idea.Continue
You can't fool all the people all the time - but it's fun trying
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ning Oct 17, 2009. 125 Replies 0 Likes
I notice that there are none of our standard discussions showing right now so let's talk about playboys again - ready Kami? One in particular - that Mike61 guy.In my days as a moderator [retired for…Continue
Girls - Do you prefer to date single or married guys?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike46 Aug 12, 2009. 107 Replies 1 Like
OK, if you're looking for marriage then that narrows the field down a bit, but what if you're looking to develop yourself and have a good time?Advantages of married guys:....Don't get ridiculous…Continue
Where would you hide your sex toys?
Started this discussion. Last reply by EK Apr 25, 2012. 96 Replies 0 Likes
A friend of mine has a few sex toys and may have a male friend staying in her flat for a while - some of the time when she would be out at work. I asked if he would approve of them and she said that…Continue
How do you decide where to live?
Started this discussion. Last reply by MissFortune Mar 26, 2011. 92 Replies 0 Likes
In particular, do you take into account the probabilities of natural disasters? I’m not talking about the people who were born and grew up there, but we mobiles who choose where we live to some…Continue
What Will You Do with One Million RMB?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Hell en Sep 29, 2009. 88 Replies 0 Likes
You have been left a million in the will of a rich uncle, but there are conditions. You are only allowed two choices about how to spend it:1 Buy an apartment for 0.7million, a car for 0.2million and…Continue
Soulmate? Bullshit!
Started this discussion. Last reply by SD Apr 18. 87 Replies 1 Like
I disagree.No man is an island entire of itselfI think that it is possible to find people who complement oneself so perfectly that soulmate makes a good description. I think that I have found two…Continue
Plan A - Progress So Far
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike46 Sep 18, 2012. 84 Replies 0 Likes
OK – it is underway – I talked with the solicitor yesterday and know what I have to do for the divorce. My company say they will transfer my contact to Shenzhen office and that will enable me to buy…Continue
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"It's not getting old that stops you doing things, it's stopping doing things that makes you get old."
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"I checked to be sure you didn't have the opportunity to change it after his comment - you didn't - past the edit time limit."
"That's in Huizhou county, but a long way from the city
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"What they have to play to make a living and what they want to play may not be the same."
"Back in 2008 there used to be after-hour jam sessions at the Base Bar in Shangbu Lu. Coffee Killer [Paul - bass player in the Mind the Gap band of that era] used to come and join and I went along with him a couple of times. The place is…"
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"So the visa is in the old passport and you'll get the entry/exit stamps in the new one? Yes - I've done it and it works as long as you have both with you."
"I don't shop in the big malls - like you say they are just too expensive. However, I'll happily spend hours shopping, real or window, around places like Fore Mountain with my favourite [female] shopping companions."
"So how many 8-14 year old western girls have you dated?"
"Growing Old Is Inevitable Growing Up Is Optional"
"May I suggest an excellent investment. I happen to be the owner of the suspension bridge linking to Lantau Island and CLK Airport. As you may expect the toll revenues from this bridge are extremely high, but owing to a temporary cash shortage…"
"Hi Emily,
If you don't like meeting strangers then maybe you'd better avoid me as I'm stranger than most other people. However, if you'd like to have a quiet dinner sometime or join a group of us one Friday, then let me…"
Emily Liang left a comment for Mike46"Hello Mike :) I'm working in a trading company which is in Nanshan and living in Futian.I'm optimistic, interesting, but always feel constraint when meeting strangers:)"
"In recent years, having a girl sitting on my face on the terrace of El Divino nightclub in the Sheraton. I didn't even realise why we had gone out there till she started looking for somewhere a bit secluded."
"Hi Emily,
Glad you like my profile - I live in Futian too. Would you like to tell me a bit more about yourself, because your profile is not too specific.
Mike"
Profile Information
- Relationship Status:
- It's Complicated
- Hometown/Country:
- UK
- Where are you now?
- Packing then flying this evening and back in SZ on Monday evening
- District (in Shenzhen):
- Huaqiangbei
- Job:
- Strategic Transport Planning Consultant
- I'm looking for...
- Friends
- About Me:
- I spend half my life in Shenzhen and half in the UK. I have travelled the World for the last 35 years, living in Hong Kong, Singapore, Algeria, Bolivia and the USA as well as visiting about another 30 countries. Honestly, I often think that it would be good to act my age, but it is so difficult.
I don't have msn so don't bother to ask. I prefer that we talk on the public comment boards here so that I can remember what I've told you. At the moment I'm getting a lot of comments and, while I try to respond to all, I may miss one. So if you think that I'm ignoring you, I'm not so just resend it.
Outline of my Travels
For those who requested it. There were many other short stays in other countries, but these were places that I lived in a house or flat.
1946-1965 Home and school in Slough just outside London
1965-1968 Studied Pure Mathematics at University of Bristol – an interesting historic city in the west of England. A great time.
1968-1973 Worked in London and lived as various places, at home, in flats, with gfs – usually no money by mid-month.
1973-1976 Moved to HK for a big salary increase, so “rich” at last. Lived in the mid-levels with plenty of social life. My HK gf wouldn't marry me because it would mean leaving HK.
1976-1978 Moved to Algeria a mixture of Arab and French background. Interesting cities and splendid mountain and desert scenery. Good strong wine and excellent food. Met my wife – a long and romantic story, both in the normal sense and Jane's.
1978 Columbia, SC, USA – not very interesting.
1978-1980 La Paz, Bolivia, South America at 4000m elevation in the Andes Mountains. Everything about the place was great – the people, the parties, the incredible scenery. Go to Bolivia if you have the chance.
1981 HK again. Birth of my elder daughter, Kathleen, now living in South Africa.
1982-1983 Singapore – quite boring after HK. Birth of my elder son, Alex.
1984-1985 HK yet again. The two kids limited us, but we had a good time.
1985-1988 New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It was time to settle down, so we went to live in America. We made very few friends and were poor again.
1988-1999 HK once more. Rich again – my wife was in property and earning more than me. The peak of my career – if you talked about transport in HK you talked about me. Birth of my younger daughter, Shelly, and my younger son. Chris. Death of my elder son.
1999-present Bought our house in Worcester for a nice quiet life and I commute to various places – mostly SZ – for work and excitement.
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Chris - the young years
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Birthday Party - 2012
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Chaos on Wheels
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Birthday Party 2008
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CNY 2012 - Australia - Whitsundays and Sydney - Part 2
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CNY 2012 - Australia - Whitsundays and Sydney
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Birthday Party 2011
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The Kids in China - 2011
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Changsha Trip
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Kelly's Beach Wedding
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Bangkok - CNY 2011
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Jane's Birthday - 2011
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BIrthday Party 2010
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Family Trip to Guangxi - 2010
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Mike46's Blog
Missing a Plane
Posted on April 17, 2013 at 10:05am 13 Comments 1 Like
For the first time in my life I missed a plane last Thursday. I have probably caught close to a thousand.
I was going to go via Luohu and thought to catch the bus at Sheung Shui, but it was pissing down with rain and there was a taxi waiting for me so I jumped in and headed for Huanggang. On a good day on that route it takes an hour to the airport and the worst I’ve had previously is two hours, so I allowed myself three hours for the trip to arrive an hour before take-off. It took…
ContinueEstablishing a Relationship
Posted on April 5, 2013 at 11:00am 5 Comments 1 Like
It started last autumn, chronologically centred around a trip to Saigon. I thought that no relationship was likely or reasonable and continued on that basis. Too many of us are captives with no freedom of choice. Then a chance meeting just before Spring Festival forced me to look at the whole thing again.
I thought for a long while and eventually started doing something about it a week ago. As of yesterday, I had decided that I had been right, and there could be no relationship. …
ContinueAnnoying Links
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:30pm 25 Comments 0 Likes
I am seeing a bunch of blue links on posts, usually underlined in some way. I thought that it was a problem with my son's computer, but I ran a full scan and nothing significant shows up. The properties show it to be:
http://api.viglink.com/api/click
which is an advertising service, and it seems installed by the site owner, according to my google searches. So if you want to make money for David, then click away, but if you're a…
ContinueThis is China
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 12:18pm 7 Comments 0 Likes
I’m not sure which is the busiest shopping street in Shenzhen, but for electronics and clothes, Huaqiangbei Lu [HQB] must be right up there. About four weeks ago I saw them digging up all the attractive palm trees that lined HQB and the following week some hoardings went up, and now the full scale of the disaster is apparent.
The road is closed to traffic and the previously broad footpaths are restricted to about 2 metres in many places, but there still seem to be about the same…
ContinueBuying a Newspaper
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:16am 17 Comments 5 Likes
I'm in the SZ Daily today so I want to buy a paper edition. I know that none of the news stands very close to my home carry it but, as I was going to HK in any case, I thought I could buy one easily near the Luohu border crossing or railway station. I couldn't. I wandered for about 30 minutes, found three news stands, but none had a SZ Daily. So I'm stuck with the online edition. It starts off like this:…
Man at Work
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:18pm 9 Comments 0 Likes
Some people seem to be under the impression that I spend most of my time idling around. Well maybe that’s true, but sometimes I do some work. Last Friday I did part of a presentation at Legco in Hong Kong for the Public Consultation on the Road Harbour Crossings project. For the last one I did the whole presentation, but this time Transport Department did the numbers part and only left me with a brief slot on the transport model.
I use minimal slides so that people will watch and…
ContinueThree Girl Day – Three Dog Night
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:44am 2 Comments 0 Likes
I spent much of yesterday in electronic communication with three emotionally significant girls from my last ten years. One is regretting a decision she made six years ago, one is making a decision that I hope she won’t regret, whichever way she chooses, and one is just a bit bored at home with her family.
Three Dog Night – Cold Cold Cold
Work, Wonderful Work
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:39pm 10 Comments 1 Like
A few people have been suggesting some get-togethers over the next few days. However, courtesy of HK Transport Bureau, my availability is limited. I have five meetings in the next three days, and to make a good start the first one is at 8:20am near Admiralty tomorrow morning.
Self-awareness
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 9:53am 12 Comments 0 Likes
"I know myself and I know the depth of my selfishness. I cannot be at ease (and to be at ease is my chief wish) if someone else is in pain. Sometimes this is mistaken by the innocent for unselfishness, when all I am is sacrificing a small good (my immediate convenience) for the sake of a greater good - a peace of mind - when I need only think of myself."
Adapted from The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
This seems applicable to me, but I have become aware recently…
ContinueComment Wall (2,764 comments)
- At 11:42pm on April 23, 2013, Emily Liang said…
Hello Mike :) I'm working in a trading company which is in Nanshan and living in Futian.
I'm optimistic, interesting, but always feel constraint when meeting strangers:)
- At 2:04pm on April 17, 2013,
David said… Thanks
- At 10:08am on April 17, 2013,
Sunnyday said… Hi Mike, i dont think you can turn it off, when you sign in, your name alreayd at chat room.
However, thanks for your kindly reply. Nice to meet you.
Ciao
- At 1:14pm on April 3, 2013,
Dr Miggins said… Yes, Mrs Miggins from Blackadder.....
- At 8:41pm on March 25, 2013,
Half sexy half cute Haley Lee said…
Hi Mike, I need to go to Huizhou for three days, so I can't join the dinner on 29th, thank you anyway
- At 11:07am on March 25, 2013, Dr Miggins said…
Mike....good to have you join hockey for future....
HK sixes this easter.....please join on our web-site and we will add you to our teamsnap site
Simon
- At 10:43pm on March 24, 2013,
I changed my phone and your phone No. is disappeared :P
- At 1:57am on March 24, 2013,
Hi Mike, Thank you for your invitation and welcome back to China. I don't know what is wrong with my mailbox, I just can't reply you. I will go to the dinner definitely if I don't have work to do on that day, looking forward to seeing you :)
- At 2:13pm on March 21, 2013,
Sarah Cheung said… Hi Mike,
Thanks for your post. and nice to meet you here. :)
- At 1:23pm on March 20, 2013,
Zen In FRED's Nutsack said… LOL
Made me smile. I hope you'll find an extra seat for me. I'll book the NEXT Friday, just in case ;-)
- At 1:03pm on March 20, 2013, Zen In FRED's Nutsack said…
Hey Mike!
When you said you're coming back next Monday, did you mean 25th March or April 1st? I always get confused :-P
- At 10:22pm on March 18, 2013,
Roger said… Yea, lets catch dinner when you are back in town Mike.
- At 5:27pm on March 15, 2013,
Shuang said… Well Shannon does really looks like Thai I agree, maybe because of her skin color. Yes no more face difference topic.Btw you know my name & face, what do you want to know more? I graduated last July and came to work in SZ like around half a year. That's it!
I do not really trust this kind of website stuff. ps: for ur request, accepted!
- At 5:27pm on March 14, 2013, Shuang said…
Check out if you can tell the eye difference between Chinese & Korea. We are different! what do you mean by making real effort.But I know the feeling when we meet someone looks like so familar. It happened last week. I just cant stop staring at them haha...
ps I did NOT turn down your friend request.
- At 2:45pm on March 14, 2013, David said…
It's possible someone posted a link which both you and Val followed to an infected page. However, I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty, according to Google, Comodo and other website malware scanners, that the code is not on this website.
- At 8:48am on March 13, 2013, David said…
- Is is still happening? I've done a malware scan on the site with both Google and Comodo and the site is clean. Whatever code that's executing that is on your computer
- At 8:54pm on March 12, 2013,
A vampire Richole said… The world is open,Mike.The people are connected.
- At 4:37pm on March 12, 2013, David said…
Which antivirus software do you have installed? Are you only seeing those links at this website?
- At 11:16pm on March 11, 2013, Shuang said…
Good to know that.you seem like a really expat! BTW Chinese faces are totally different from western's, shouldnt be hard.
Then the only one comment will be appreciated.Let's see your return.
- At 12:40pm on March 11, 2013, Shuang said…
ooh hi Mike...does she? might be a bit because we are common Chinese haha.
It wont be hard to work it out(I'm trying) but thx for your kindly suggestion. ps welcome back to SZ ^ ^
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