Chris Egi Commits to Harvard

[keefe]

I'm like a 12 minute drive from Yale U. & DT New Haven.
Good call staying in Asia.  I used to love my business trips to China.  I switched jobs back in 2007 simply because it would take me to Asia (not just China) more often, but that ended in 2009 with the economy crash.  A must do in a visit to Connecticut is pizza.  My brother and other friends (born Nutmeggers) when they visit home, their first request is always "can we go somewhere to get a real pizza please."

I agree on the CT pizza experience. There is a little hole in the wall place in Stamford that makes incredible pies. The owner must be worth a ton of gold as he gets huge orders daily from GE Cap.

We  had a meeting today with the Governor's Office as he is headed to China in November to lead a trade delegation. We have been selected as one of three new WA-state Technology Enterprises that will be featured. In our case, we are not just based in Seattle but our tech was developed in the U Dub School of Engineering so Gov. Inslee really likes our program. We are taking our Mercury Technology as China is the worst global offender by far. As much as I would like to participate I am restricted from any fight longer than 2 hours for the next couple months because of the stage in treatment for the shrapnel in my lung.

I thought I had sworn off China but it looks like she's back on my radar scope. I am anxious to have some real H a i n a n Chicken Rice though I am thinking my days of slugging down Maotai all night should be over. Given what I now know about the water in China I should think everyone should give up drinking in China.

Where did you travel to in China?  

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Orange.  My mother-in-law lives in Stratford.

[4everwarriors]

Therefore, you probably would want to live in Taos, New Mexico, hey?

[keefe]

Therefore, you probably would want to live in Taos, New Mexico, hey?

My family has had digs near Santa Fe for decades. I learned to ski at Taos. Northern NM is one of God's masterpieces. The Sangre de Cristos at sunset is awe-inspiring.

 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I agree on the CT pizza experience. There is a little hole in the wall place in Stamford that makes incredible pies. The owner must be worth a ton of gold as he gets huge orders daily from GE Cap.

We  had a meeting today with the Governor's Office as he is headed to China in November to lead a trade delegation. We have been selected as one of three new WA-state Technology Enterprises that will be featured. In our case, we are not just based in Seattle but our tech was developed in the U Dub School of Engineering so Gov. Inslee really likes our program. We are taking our Mercury Technology as China is the worst global offender by far. As much as I would like to participate I am restricted from any fight longer than 2 hours for the next couple months because of the stage in treatment for the shrapnel in my lung.

I thought I had sworn off China but it looks like she's back on my radar scope. I am anxious to have some real H a i n a n Chicken Rice though I am thinking my days of slugging down Maotai all night should be over. Given what I now know about the water in China I should think everyone should give up drinking in China.

Where did you travel to in China?  

My former company's manufacturing facility was in Guangdong Province like everyone else's.  It was in Hengli, a small city by Chinese standards of only 125,000.  It was about an hour train ride outside of Hong Kong halfway between HK & Guangzhou.  Took the KCR train from HK on the way there and on the return trip home.  (I recall flying into Guangzhou once.)  I always made sure to find time on the bookends of the trip to spend in Hong Kong.  It was needed especially on the way home to decompress after 8-10 days in the mainland to grab a burger and pints in a British Pub and watch Premier League soccer. 

Everyone referred to the hotel as the "Hengli Hilton" despite it being a 4* hotel and a very good place to stay.  Interestingly, it was only $40 a night to stay there and I always made sure I came home with my laundry clean & pressed in those vacuum bags. 

China definitely needs your new technology.  It had the worst air pollution I ever saw.  Nonstop overcast smog.  My first day on the first trip I thought I was going to die of choking.  I went for my morning run and came back and coughed horribly for 10 minutes.  I scarily seemed to acclimate by day three.  One of my trips I actually had 2 days of clear blue sunshine which is extremely rare.

The next company I worked for I had a multi-stop visit to Shandong Province.  I visited Qingdao (city founded by Germans and is home of the Tsingtao brewery), where our JV partner was located.  Then I got stuck for 3 nights at a customer's tire plant in Zaozhaung about 6-7 hour van ride from Qingdao.  Then I visited another tire plant in the Baltimore of Beijing, in the city of Tianjin.  I would have preferred to be stuck here for 3 nights.