Month: March 2013

Kunshan night out

Invited to night out in Kunshan to round off Friday I guess.

tinglinpark_kunshanWent to place called Fubar which was an English style pub at the top of a three storey waterfront cylindrical tower block.

Pretty posh. Nice beer.

Scrabble

Played Scrabble which was pretty unusual.

Moved on to place called the Whale bar in Kunshan which had a live band playing and was a lot more lively.
More bar-ish, no scrabble boards in sight.

Had a few drinks and a shao kao to top it off. Nice.

Kunshan KTV

Last night went to the KTV, which I had been warned about. Had the full room laid on by one of our pupils, as much weak beer as you could possibly wave a stick at, or a microphone. They had a little booth, you could stand in or you could walk, or sit.

Was fun, much more fun than doing it in a pub full of people.

So…

My camera doesn’t work. After the flight, I took it out of it’s case to take some pictures of the carousel in Po Dong.

Brand new one day old. It’s developed a spot on the screen the size of about 2-3mm in width.

I looks as if the screen membrane has become separated and it’s something which will require a visit to the manufacturer to get put right.

The shop that I bought it from is called ‘Sunning’ which is a big electrical chain in China.

I’ll drop in at the one around the corner and find out what and how they want to handle it. If they don’t want to deal with it, I can contact the manufacturer.

Camera shopping – Tsim Sha Tsui

Samsung ST67

The camera I have, a Samsung, has issues…

It’s like a epileptic, with Alzheimers. It just goes into spasm and forgets everything when I turn it on.

Canon A2600

Samsung have expanded too quickly and this product has done nothing but tarnish the image of it’s brand. It’s over-complicated. It takes crap pictures. The viewfinder is crap. But it looks good, and it does fancy things.

Did a little bit of searching round in Tsim Sha Tsui and found nothing that would give me an exchange on this useless compact.

Canon A2600

Opted to buy a Cannon A2600. It was cheap at $1,180 which is just short of £100.

I like Canon. They don’t blow up like the Samsung which I will be throwing into the Yangtze very soon.

 

Canon A2600

China Visa in Hong Kong

After filling in the app. yesterday, queing up and submitting it, it was refused due to the lack of photograph and the non-chinese medical.

90 Day L Visa
90 Day L

Sunrise Visa Agency

Better than re-queiing after the lunch break, I decided to visit the Sunrise Visa Agency which is located in the same building.
This clarified a few things for me:

  • That my documents were wrong: Unless you happen to be able to read Madarin, you wouldn’t have spotted the fact that the 2 documents required for the agency, (invitation letter, experts certificate), were not matching.
  • That the Visa agency would not issue me with a Visa from China without a medical from China.

After chatting to the bloke at the Sunrise Visa Agency, I saw the queue was huge, and decided to take him up on his offer to do a 90 day tourist visa for the same price as a 30 day.

I got the Visa within 1 day and have no complaints about the service.

It’s a 90 day single entry Visa.

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