The Great Fair Adventure

The trip to Guanzhou was a great disapointment: despite our best efforts, we didn't receive a single free pen. That's the main purpose of trade fairs. Free pens. Second most important purpose is to make good business connections. However, in comparison, it falls way behind the free-pen-factor. Last year at the Guangzhou fair we managed to pile up at least five or six pens per person - a fair result in my opinion.

Nevertheless, the Great Fair Adventure experience wasn't tarnished by this bitter defeat. With roughly four hours of traveling per direction and additional five to six hours of walking at the fair managed to convince me that fairs are the greatest human invention - ever. Even greater than sliced bread. I mean, who wouldn't enjoy walking through a selection of hundreds similar company displays - none being what we were searching for. It is peculiar how even from a group of 20,000 companies there, we couldn't really find what we were looking for. Well... Luckily we found some good companies so it wasn't all an utter waste of time. Yet, it could've been better.

There will be plenty of fairs still to go within the next month. My feet will literally climb up from below and kill me. I'm sure.

.. ah, the great fair adventure.

On a side note, I went out last night with friends and it was fun. Lan Kwai Fong is ever so generous in good scenery to behold at. Unfortunately we didn't stay there for the whole even but were dragged to Wan Chai's shady areas and so the evening became night, and night became morning. So, yeah... history repeating itself: I was back home at 06:00. Fun as fun can be. Well, it wasn't all bad; going it out is fun and this time it wasn't too expensive in the end. It's great having someone pay for everything but it's also something my liver usually disagrees with. (More info on some of the other blogs.)