hello tbs spotted cat, i just completed arranging for difficult sourcing mission to be undertaken in the coming week.
way back at start of year i was supposed to visit, in my old mindset, the difficult to get-to spot in nowheresville shangdong province that geographically would be on par with visiting the mid-way point of boston and albany, middle of many nowheresvilles. i put the journey off because it was so forbidding by my momentarily unthinking mind.
i figured that if the journey is so daunting for me, one who speaka-de-language-and-can-figure-way-around, that is good to keep other sourcing agents from any valuable finds for a longer time ... a moat, as it were, along the way of globalization.
imagine my shock when i just arranged to entire journey using english (equally chinese had i chose to do so) websites, to book
hong kong to qingdao to boutique hotel in old colonial town amidst quaint bars and beach eateries and check out the town and its beer
the next day we will take any one of hourly bullet trains and zip for 180 odd kilometer or an hour away, just so
and visit this nowheresville city to talk biz
then exit the arduous location and back to the boutique hotel for afternoon drinks, reflexology, and dinner, before taking off for civilized hong kong by 2-hours flight, here
should china keep on trajectory per current momentum, 10 years from now we should be able to visit nowheresville in qinghai autonymous region in similarly deprived style.
i am hopeful that the predations of the journey would keep the not so entrepreneurial americans at other side of moat so that we in hong kong can operate our globalization schema for one more decade ;0) |
