Quote: (05-07-2013 03:44 AM)chinadawg Wrote:
I look forward to seeing how your business goes. I'm currently looking at some import/export options myself.
Here are the details of what claims to be the first cigar lounge here in Chongqing, if you ever feel like coming out this way:
http://www.cqexpat.com/i_forum/show.asp?id=50218
Thanks for sharing chinadawg.
It's been a while since I've updated this thread. I've been going out alot here lately and just having lots of fun.
The place I mentioned earlier is the 国家烟草专卖局 (
The Tobacco Monopoly Bureu in English). I tried searching for it on Google Maps and got
a few places as results.
So today I decided to go look for Option B, which seemed the most logical one. After arriving at the closest Subway Station, I managed to find my way to the place indicated by Google Maps, luckily I didn't get lost this time. After asking around to people walking on the streets, it seemed that this place is no longer located here... Tough luck.
I might try Option A or Option D tomorrow, as they are a little close to Option B. Hopefully one of these is the correct place.
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On other news, I was surfing through a Beijing website called
The Beijinger, which has many activity articles of stuff happening in Beijing, as well as Employment, Housing, Volunteering ads and other stuff. I came across and add of some people looking for aspiring entreprenurs to interview foreign entrepreneurs in China. It seemed like a cool idea so I started exchanging in emails with the ad poster.
After exchanging a few emails, I mentioned him that I am a Computer Systems/Software engineer and he mentioned that he is working on a project regarding
Sina Weibo (which is like China's Twitter) and that he is looking for people in similar tech areas. He summoned me to a meet up in the company's office yesterday and I went to see what was up. I will hold the company's name as anonymous for now.
At the meetup, he explained me what the project was about and we talked about it. It seems like a really cool project, and he is looking for people to work on it full time/part-time, which sounded like a very nice idea to me. I asked him if they would provide a Work Visa arrangement and he told me he would look into that and let me know.
To test my skills and review my skills, he wants me to build a small application that interacts with the Weibo API and extracts information from a Weibo user, like number of followers, number of tweets, etc. It doesn't seem a hard thing, except that the Weibo API is all in Chinese, and it has lots of very very specific terms and vocabulary, of course...
Just thought that little experience might be useful for someone here. I might share more details on it later.