Pre-Olympic Games

I just got back from Xiamen business trip. Thoguh i managed to achieve what i wanted to do there, i was unwittingly dragged into the pre olympic games competition with the chinese there.

Event number 1: Withstanding the cold wind at night while walking along the streets.
I duno wats the temeperature there but im only wearing a normal long sleeve business shirt while my chinese counterparts are warmly fitted with sweaters. Of cos, as a singaporean representative, i have to keep my cool or in this case, fire and brave thru the bone piercing wind as we take a slow walk after dinner. It was so cold that i break into shivers sometimes and when i speak, it was close to mumbling. I dun really have a business wear for cold weather. Maybe i shud get one of those, say, trenchcoats like Jose Morinho.

Event number 2: Beer drinking competition.
The manager of the company had his frens from Qingdao visiting him and we had dinner together. The 11 of us head to a restaurant where practically everyting is buffet style; including beer..... As i waited for their arrival, i saw a man sneeze and subsequently spit his mucus out from his mouth just beside the place he is sitting -.- When the group arrived, they wasted no time swooping for the bottles of beer in sight. 30? 40? i duno how many bottles we had. When we realised all bottles are still capped and need to be opened, they did not call for the waitresses. Instead, they took out their own beer bottle opener from their pockets. Who da hell will carry beer bottle opener around! These men are the stalwarts, the pros. I look at my china female colleague who was sitting at the next table and somehow i tink i can read from her eyes: 'good luck fren'. They took turns to 'cheers' their new found singaporean fren and i dun really want to talk abt wat happen to me after dinner that night.

There we have it. The score after the two events: China 2 Singapore 0