Beautiful Saturday

Today I have my first brunch in Shanghai at Tai Kang Road, the Arts district in shanghai. I had the best bloody mary ever in China. I was having brunch at a wonderful sunny day with a fresh water melon salad. It was so amazing.

After that I walked around the areas, it is very similar to 798 but in a smaller scale. Tai Kang Road is full of cafes, boutique fashion stores & some mini arts galleries. The walk was relaxing.

Then I went to have coffee with a cute Shanghaiese coworker and chatted for hours. We talked about the difference of Shanghaiese, Beijinger and Cantonese. Then I went for apt hunting, unfortunately there were nothing interesting, I need to keep on looking tomorrow.

I went back to hotel and took a rest, then I went for a massage at Dragon Fly. Then I got a call from Andrew, and went to Muse 2 for drinks. His friends were totally fun but a bit crazy, keep drinking & dancing all night.

I need to be a good boy to do some swimming tomorrow, so I went back at 2:30am. A wonderful time in Shanghai.

Hope I can find some apt I like tomorrow. Keep finger-crossed!

My first day in Shanghai

Finally I ended 7 days Beijing trip, now I am back to Shanghai. Today I moved into Ramada Hotel, which is much nicer than motel 168.

I was bombarded with meetings and Powerpoint today, I am so exhausted. Luckily the work goes very smooth. Today I will see the Shanghai client for the first time, Good luck to me.

I got so many calls from friends in Beijing to ask me out for dinner. Damn, I wish I can be in Beijing. And even my coworker call me up to see if I am bad to death in Shanghai.

Gosh, I need to meet up some friends in Shanghai.

Long weekend in Beijing

After the crazy working days in Shanghai, I come back to Beijing and meet my friends in Beijing. I release out all my pressure and enjoy the party with friends.

The weather in these few days are super awesome. We had brunch under wonderful sunshine, picnic at the park and sightseeing at antique areas. I fully enjoyed the sunshine of Beijing.

Beijing would be a perfect place to live if it has sunshine like these days all the time.



More pic will come soon!

Crazy workload in Shanghai

Though I joined this company for 18 months, I never work directly with my regional director and CEO. I guess my boss was too excited about my arrival, and they want to test how good I am and where my limits are. They flew out 5 initiatives to me once I arrived.

I worked for 4 days non-stop from 8am to midnight, finally I bumped out 1 pitch brief, 3 activation ideas, 1 award entry and 1 brand presentation. I never work so efficient ever in my life.

I really pushed my limit. I got brief in the morning, then review rough ideas and bounce off with my regional director in the afternoon. And I develop brand strategy options to review with him at 8pm, we confirm a strategy and write a brief. Then I brief in the creative team the next day morning. Doing a pitch strategy within 24 hours is something I have never done before. I have to say that my regional director is super fast thinker, giving solid directions for me to think. Otherwise I could not finish the strategy so fast. I think I can learn so much from him.

I feel like riding on a express train, I really need to catch up the speed of their working style. Wow, I am ready for the ride!