4 tips for you guys who ...

China is everywhere in the news, media, the blogs ...

I have selected here a few funny bits that can be summarized as a few tips for you guys who ... :
- who do not have a girlfriend yet, come to China, check the blog Misswold2007
- who want to invest in China, consider real estate in Sanya (bottom of article)
- who want to start a business in China, check this 'Brits get rich in China'
- and then to end with ... a matter of life an death : Chinese pilots and English …




(if the video does not load then use this link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNGZOY82_Cs )


They say that there are about 8 000 Chinese pilots in the air, but only 600 of them really master English. Yes they of course know the vocabulary of the airport rules, they studied it by heart … but to make a sentence, that’s out of their league.

Hey you guys who want to come here for all those good reasons … check who’s your pilot.

(now a little explanation for who cars ... It is a often ocuring situation of misunderstading with Chinese. Because in Mandarin you have to use 'ma' after almost every question. WHile in English for ex. you only raise the tone... So for Chinese it is hard to know if it is a question or a sentence)

Miss World 2007 and Sanya

And the winner is … CHINA …


My aunt just mailed me last week : ‘in the newspaper, the radio, turn on your TV, … everywhere it’s China you hear about’. And now this, the FIRST Chinese Miss WORLD. I fully disagree with the jury of the years before!But so … is it a coincidence that even miss world “has to be” a Chinese?




Miss China Zi Lin Zhang was crowned Miss World 2007 at a glittering event at
the Chinese tourist resort of Sanya Saturday, beating 106 participants. India's Sarah-Jane Dias failed to make it to the semi-finals.


But of course it would not be China if there were no rumors of fraud, bribes, ...
Then I started to search the internet, and passed by this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjujHiVfMOM

... and I thought what the heck, such a smile, every man makes every man melt, and that’s probably why she won.

But hey, wait a minute… this is also her, before the fame … There plenty of those here in Beijing!
Hey you guy who still don’t have a girlfriend, come here!

Now another interesting thing about this miss world business is that almost every year it is held in China! More specifically in Sanya
.

I got to know Sanya by a client who runs a luxury hotel there. He told it is the next hot spot in China, for tourism, a piece of paradise in the south. Then we found out that friends of us bought a flat there, part as an investment, part as a resort to escape the cold winters. A new Costa Blanca? Maybe… though much more luxurious. It’s rich and famous from HongKong who built this new city. Now all over China people are starting gain interest.

So if any one wants a good place to invest … go to Sanya! We’ve considered it, as you can have a new, 2 bedroom flat for about 70 000 EUR, in a good location. Prices of 5000 RMB per sq/m seem normal there. That is like Beijing 5 years ago … now it is hard to find something good at 15 000 RMB sq/m.