{"id":3434,"date":"2012-01-16T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2012-01-17T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T02:15:46","slug":"monday-night-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/01\/16\/monday-night-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello from Beijing.. I had just one day here this time.. and I worked hard to make it worthwhile.. This is my forth stay in this hotel.. and it brings back memories.. I remember buying the weirdest white socks I ever owned here.. another time I remember going to the lost and found and ‘finding’ a pair of running shoes because I’d forgotten mine (I ‘lost’ them again after I used them).. I also remember going to a whole in the wall restaurant a few blocks away and having a blast trying to communicate with the folks there.. they had as much fun with us.. One of our group (Hi David !) had the presence of mind to have brought a Chinese restaurant menu from the states.. we used that as our rosetta stone… .. so from then on we called the place ‘rosetta’s<\/p>\n

Most of all, I like running from this place.. it’s a block off of a canal..there are cobblestone paths on either side of the canal.. and it’s just a perfect place to run in an otherwise unrunnable city.. this morning it was dark and about 20 degrees when I got out to the canal.. it was completely iced over an beautiful<\/p>\n

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before the run I improvised a quick breakfast in the room. instead of paying for the $35 breakfast I ate a whole package of oreos from the minibar.. and then ate an apple.. i think it balanced out health wise.. .. ying and yang..<\/p>\n

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Next stop was work.. I got on a shuttle bus with a bunch of other ibmers and had a great talk about work stuff on the longish drive to the site.. one of them was a Colony fan.. so we talked about that too.\u00a0\u00a0 Next week is the Spring Festival here.. so work was pretty quiet wiht many folks already out on holiday.. but I was able to meet with most of the folks I wanted to see.. Her’ my freind Yong-hua and her team.. they gave em a great (!!!) demo of the stuff they’ve been working on.. I was so impressed..<\/p>\n

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Yong-hua and Ling Shao and I grabbed lunch in the caf.. you can see how empty it was…<\/p>\n

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I had several great meetings there at the lab..\u00a0 then new freind JY showed up from Shanghai and we headed over to a client.. You could really see the cities famous haze in the air as we drove..<\/p>\n

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The client meeting was fun and interesting.. After that JY and I went outside to try and find a taxi.. no dice.. the streets wore completely packed with traffic and all the cabs were filled.. JY made the great suggestion that we eat first.. then find cab later.. We found a great, great, great !! place that served high end Beijing style food..<\/p>\n

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You simply have to check out soem of the things on the menu.. ‘numbed and hot camel tendon’, donkey skin role, jew’s ears (a yummy fungus) , pine needle salad, stinly tofu, multi flavor intestines .. the list goes on.. !<\/p>\n

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JY made soem expert choices from the menu befitting my non meat prefernce.. and we ate like kings.. It was great talking to JY.. what a great guy !!!<\/p>\n

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We got back to the hotel around 8:30.. now I’m goign to sleep. I have a 6:50 am flight which means I need to leave the hotel at 4AM.. ugh..
\ngood day.. good trip..
\nmore from the road tomorrow..
\nnite all, nite sam
\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello from Beijing.. I had just one day here this time.. and I worked hard to make it worthwhile.. This is my forth stay in this hotel.. and it brings back memories.. I remember buying the weirdest white socks I ever owned here.. another time I remember going to the lost and found and ‘finding’ … Continue reading Monday night – Beijing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beijing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}