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I just wanted to share Roman’s sketch of how a bow is designed. I didn’t really get it, so have a go at it and post some explanations.

Where’s the frog, Roman?

Some of you already know that we’ve left the lovely weather of Hong Kong for the severly less lovely climate of Shanghai. In fact, it’s very windy and quite cold here right now. In order to save some money on the air fare, we chose to take a flight from Shenzhen on the mainland instead of Hong Kong.

Shenzhen Airport, waiting for our flight to Shanghai

As for work, we haven’t really been that busy the past few days. A very rewarding interview with representatives of a major Swedish furniture company and a visit to the Swedish Trade Council is really all we’ve done so far. I’ve also spent a few days in bed due to a sore throat, which, contrary to popular belief, really isn’t any more exciting in Shanghai than in Stockholm.

But wait a minute, you say, what did you do all day while waiting for your flight? Well, I’ll tell you. Noon-time, after Mikael had try to fit everything into his suitcase for a few hours, we checked out of our hostel and told our friendly host Mr. Kwon that we’ll be back in December. He was kind enough to let us leave our suitcases at the hostel for a few hours until we had to leave HK for Shenzhen. During that time, we split up and I went to Kowloon park to contemplate and write some e-mails.

In Kowloon park, taking candid photos of people passing by.

I also came across some people doing Tai-chi, and I have the pictures to prove it. I wanna go training. I miss my sticks. Poor me.

Floor-hockey, Cantonese stylee.

Don’t know what that guy’s doing. Looks like he’s fishing. With a bucket.

Anyways, it’s nice to be back in Shanghai. See all the new buildings that have sprung up since last time I was here. First thing I did was to call up my old friend Roman, the Franco-German bow-maker. I was in luck, as he’s leaving SH for Graz, Austria next week, to become a full-time apprentice bow-maker for some seriously major dude in the industry. We had a cup of chocolate at the local Starbuck’s while Roman was trying to sketch the components making up a first-class bow.

Roman hates to be in pictures. Deal with it, I say.

The next day, we met up with another old friend Ferdie, the Philipino soon-to-be hotel manager.

A Reeb beer. And Ferdie.

The other day, Roman and me went out to a rather new place called Zapatas. Lot’s of laowai and, consequently, a lot of prostitutes. One actually grabbed me when I came out of Zapatas and wouldn’t let go of my arm. When I told her that I wasn’t interested and that there were a lot of laowai around to spend her effort on, she said that she didn’t like tall Westerners because they have “such big ones”. Chinese girls sure can make you feel like the man. Oh well, eventually she got the picture and left. Not long afterwards, when I was getting into a cab, two others approached but left when I tried out my newly-learned phrase “chi lei si te le” which means roughly “I’m tired to death (by you)”. It’s Shanghai dialect, which works a bit better than Mandarin on hawkers and prostitutes.

Ok, so from time to time we actually do some work. It looks like this.

This picture is meant to convey my serious, hard-working side.

This picture is not fake.

The above pictures are from my friend Nana’s apartment, which she’s been so kind to let me live in while she’s in Thailand. Thank you, Nana! So nice to have a real home to stay in, and a real desk to work at. Why doesn’t I have a place like this?

Sen sist har det formligen strömmat in önskningar efter fler bilder på mig i spännnande miljöer. Därför har jag tagit denna bild, föreställande mig i Kowloon Park, avspänt stirrande på något avlägset. (Jag såg en örn häromdagen, men inte där.)

Avspänd, men närsomhelst redo att ta till våld

In actual news: Igår träffade vi en företrädare för en fackförening som ägnar sig åt att hålla koll på fastlandsarbetarnas situation. Det var mycket intressant, men tyvärr ville hon inte vara med på bild. Vi ska försöka ta lite mer bilder i framtiden, för att visa hur det går till under våra intervjuer (det är klackarna i taket, kan jag säga).

Ryktet säger att det är snö i Sverige. Tråkigt för er. Här var det lite ruggigt igår, inte mer än 20 grader på kvällen.

Today is our last day in HK. We moved out of the hostel at noon, and have since then aimlessly wandered the streets. I rode the tram, which was fun. Too excited to hold the camera steady, so no pictures unfortunally.

Our flight leaves tonight at 23.45 so we thought it was a good idea to stay up really late yesterday, so as to be really tired tonight. we achieved this by looking for a particular bar in the mid-levels on Hong Kong island for about one and a half hours. Eventually, we found the right address and went to ask the gatekeeper who informed us that the bar was closed. Since several years. I can tell you that we lost quite some face on that manuever.

On the bright side, we got some nice pictures. They’re in Mike’s camera so I can’t show you now, but they’re nice. And we met a rat, which took half a dozen pictures of.

Anyway, we decided to go to Lan Kwai Fong instead, which was interesting as ever. Nothing like it.

It seems as our plan is working, I am really tired already. We’re going to take the new airport express train. I tell you how that went later.

Here’s a picture I took today. Apparently, there’s some major reclamation going on. I guess that in fifty years, there’ll be no strait between the island and Kowloon.

Right now, it looks quite like a beach.

As I was wandering around (aimlessly, you remember) I came across some consumer-enlightment activism. These people are from Consumers Acting for People and the Environment and had hit the streets to make people think about the consquences of the Christmas-shopping spree. We had an interesting talk about the consumer role in pushing a more environmentally and socially sustainable system.

Give love, not (too much) stuff.

About the welcome-party: don’t overdo it. The roe doesn’t have to be Iranian.

If I can, I’ll write some more from the HK airport or London. Stay tuned and see you soon!

Some more interesting facts about our (short) stay in Beijing: as we were heading out to buy plane tickets to get back to Shanghai, Mikael inadvertedly (or so he claims) locked the door, trapping the Japanese guy watching manga in the living-room. After trying to get out for an hour or so, he called Erik who in turn called us to ask if we maybe could return home and let him out. Erik then had to spend some time explaining that it was a mistake and that Swedes do not normally lock people up like this.

It’s worth mentioning that the next day, in an act of sympathy, Mikael locked himself up in the apartment and had to throw the key out the window in order to get me to open the door from the outside. Reportedly, the Japanese very much appreciated this small gesture.

So, after handling these lock-related incidents, we went off to Shanghai, which I already told you about. One thing I forgot, though, was to tell you about when we almost got kicked out of a sushi restaurant.

Yum…

Ok, so here’s the restaurant. See the little conveyor-belt? We thought that was pretty neat. As for me, I’ve never seen one of those before, so you can imagine how excited I was. Anyway, the conveyor belt made a full circle around the kitchen area and naturally we wanted to see if something we put on the belt would stay there for a complete round. I started to fold an origami crane, which took forever and ended up looking like a miserable lump of paper. Instead, we put one of our empty beer bottles there and watched it disappear. Two minutes later we noticed a very determined waiter, jaws clenched and a grim look on his face, checking everybody’s orders for missing beer bottles. He quickly verified his suspicions and started to ask us if we were indeed guilty using the conveyor belt for our own amusement. As we felt the heat coming closer (one of the chefs also joined the exchange and chefs have knives you know) there was only one responsible thing to do. We pretended not to speak English and quickly left the place.

Finally, I just have to show you a picture of me in the sunlight on the terrace of Starbucks in Xu Jia Hui. Even when fighting the forces of global capitalism, one must sometimes have a coffee break.

Clean food, please.

Finally, we left Shanghai on a flight to Shenzhen and crossed the border to Hong Kong to stay the night. The next day a ferry took us to Shekou on the mainland where we met some company representatives. As we walked to their office, we happened to spot this bilboard which, by odd coincidence, had printed on it the very motto for our thesis and field study.

Our mantra for the trip.

The people at the office were very nice. They brought us ice-tea and soft drinks and then left. This was very considerate of them, since it afforded us the possibility to hang out of the window to take dozens of pictures of the much more interesting harbour beneath. There was some heavy on-loading and off-loading going on, I can tell you.

Look at all those cranes! On the ship to the right, they were on-loading corn.

Eventually, the company people came back, so we had to focus on our interview, but still managed to sneak up to the window to take an occasional photo when they weren’t paying attention. Here’s another one. You can see how the tug-boats help the large ship out of the harbour, like helpful squirrels clearing the way for an old armadillo.

“…en fullriggare det var, och dess namn var Tai Fun…” (”Möte i monsunen”, Evert Taube)

We had a full day in Shekou, and in the evening we went to dinner with everyone in the CSR department. Lots of good food and interesting conversations about my supposed likeness to David Beckham (yes, the story continues…).

Dinner-time in Shekou.

Returning to Hong Kong Central by ferry.

Since then, we been quite busy making the final round of interviews with various NGO people and scholars in the CSR field. It’s been very interesting and also somewhat exhausting, but we’re very happy with what we’ve gained in understanding of these issues. Now, the time has come to analyze all this data and make something looking like a thesis out of it.

Saturday and Sunday we’ll spend taking a closer look at Hong Kong (I’m going to take the escalators up to Mid-levels, for one) and generally relaxing.

For last, I’ll give you a piece of Chinese humour

Haha, that’s some crazy shit!

Jag vet att det verkar som vi bara glassar runt här, men vi ska faktiskt göra en intervju imorgon, med en väldigt viktig snubbe. Så det så.

I alla fall var det vackert väder idag och jag tog en promenad längs Avenue of the Stars. Där har man gjort avgjutningar av diverse filmstjärnors tandavtryck och lagt som gatstenar. Mycket effektfullt. Här är en bild (dock ej av gatstenarna, utan av en tankbåt som passerade):

Båt med Wan Chai i bakgrunden

I jakt på en ersättning till min trilskande Palm begav jag mig till Sham Shui Po för att gå vilse i en enorm datorgalleria. Det var inte lätt att hitta något och därför gjorde jag inte det heller. Så kan det gå.

Nu sitter jag återigen på det dyra kaféet med den billiga uppkopplingen. Här ser ni undertecknad attackera en wrap med skinka och ägg.

Här ska du få! Nu är du inte så stursk längre, va?

Ok, so have really already left Shanghai for Hong Kong, but for various reasons I’m running very late with these reports. Sorry about that.

After our short stint in Beijing, which became even shorter than we first thought, and then bit shorter even. It was really short, that’s what I’m trying to tell you. If I were to tell you how short it was, you wouldn’t believe it. Ok, so maybe you would, but that’s just because most of you are used to not believing what I say. The point is that it feels like we stayed in BJ shorter than it takes to read this text.

I managed to take this picture as we zoomed through Beijing.

Now I assume you’re all very excited to hear WHY we stayed such short time. Well, basically we changed our plans when Mikael got the idea of focusing more on one of the companies in our study. A good idea, and so we agreed to return to Shanghai to do some more interviews. Then things got really messy, but that’s fixed now. It wasn’t really our fault. That much.

Short as our stay was (you’re getting the picture now, aren’t you? It was short.) we managed to meet Mrs. Anita Chan of the National University of Australia for an interesting talk. She was so kind to spend her Sunday afternoon answering our questions. Big thanks! She also agreed to take a picture with us, here it is:

It’s Anita in the middle.

Then we headed off to Shanghai where we spent a couple of days trying to calm down some upset people in the company we are focusing our study on. I think they finally realised that we’re harmless. I mean serious. I have no picture of the upset company representatives, as Mikael dropped his camera when they ran after us, but they looked upset I can tell you. You’ll just have to imagine.

We also spent some time in SH sight-seeing. Here’s the Pearl Tower in Pudong. It’s a very tall tower.

I don’t know what to write here.

Here’s another picture I took. It’s me (really) standing on a balcony somewhere. I guess you can almost feel like you’re there with me, right? Behind me is The Bund with the old riverside palaces.

Picture’s in black and white for artistic reasons.

We went to this really cool Japanese restaurant in Shanghai. It was so cool. Huge and very nicely designed in black and grey. Even the waitresses’ Santa hats were black. That’s how crazy everyday life is over here, imagine!

What’s that and how do I eat it?

After the restaurant, we went to a bar called 3 on The Bund. Very nice view over Pudong, but terrible service. We got luke-warm coffee, which of course made me furious.

Two minutes before they switched off the lights. True!

Then we had some fast-food at the airport. Again.

Party on, dude.

Ok, I’ll try to write some more about Hong Kong soon. By the way, we’re coming back on Monday, so you might want to prepare the welcome party. Mikael says he doesn’t drink any other champagne than vintage Bollinger.