Month: April 2013

z-visa checklist

These are the things you need to get your Z-visa. In this case, I’m visiting the protectorate, Hong Kong.

  • Passport: – At least 3 spare pages.
  • Experts certificate.
  • Invitation letter: – Obtained from your employer.
  • Medical examination: – Get this IN CHINA. One from anywhere else isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
  • Completed v2011A – Fill in your forms!
  • Completed v2011B

Without all of these, plus your fee, you won’t be getting a work permit, or residents permit.

I usually use the Sunrise agency, and I have this time.

FAF electronics – Kunshan

Farmfull electronics Kunshan
Making electronics ?

Usual rent-a-laowai activity. Consisting of white skins and smiley, white faces. Our boss invited us to take part in the outing to Farmfull electronics.

Wasted a lunchtime and we won’t get paid for it.

They wanted to take pictures of us with their semi-conductor components.

It was all very staged and false. But they seemed happy.

Taicang Dinner

Got this shot of a dinner at our Kindie.

You can see that we’ve switched to fish here. After the spate of recent poisonings, pigs and bird flu.

This is the government issue meal which looks very delicious.

Fish HeadsThe thing on the left is an apple.

On the right we have a healthy helping of fish heads. These are more tasty than they look. And they do look…. but don’t let that put you off Smile

In China lets get some Chinese food, (except here its just called food):
Do you fancy Sweet and Sour Pork 糖醋里脊?
-but pork is off the menu since 16000 dead pigs washed up in the city’s river.

Okaaaay lets get some Gong Bao Chicken宫保鸡丁?
-erm… about that, Chicken is off too since bird flu killed 20 folk this week.

Fine then, how about Peking Duck 北京烤鸭?
-actually all poultry is out!

Fuck it!
I tried your culture…. it doesn’t suit me.