16 July
In answer to the enquiry about the egg culprit
he is Shi YuLiang our interpreter
Actually a local business man who collaborates with our chinese partner and is filling in to help
his friend out for a month. we cant quite figure how he manages to get the time off - it is quiet time - but his company has offices in beijing, hohhut, erinhut and some other place in between and it is an importing business. has brought at least 2 ship loads of cattle into china from new zealand and australia, fertiliser from russia, etc,,,, and every now and again he gets off his mobile phone and says he has to rush back to town to sign some sales contracts by fax and it turns out these are all worth at least 1/4 million dollars a piece. he is a good negotiater for us - and will make sure that my visit to beijing on my way home will be a good one - and i think i can now be assured of a secure trip to the great wall. when he leaves here he is off to egypt and several other countries on an inner mongolia trade mission.
and he doesnt drink beer, or eat pigs - he is a chinese muslim!
tonight he and i are going shopping for mongolian fabric.
you see i have a friend who likes to cut beautiful fabrics into tiny little pieces then switch them about with the other little bits that she gets from her friend who also has this fetish. they then combine to reassemble these thousands of little bits of fabric into one big piece by stiching them all together and sticking them on my hall wall. this is called expensive wall fabricing. but if you are lucky, you get to be warm in the winter and they can also become a clever disguise for covering old worn out furnitures.
It was probably the most unusual request made of the mongolian traditional costume makers shop this decade - could i please get a selection of your scraps of fabric so my wife can make a quilt from them - they parked up their peddle sewing machines and after i made an initial selection from a HUGE pile of neatly folded fabrics - they pulled out all the good stuff and i got the rest - oh well it was a start - and it cost $20 for a big bag of material that i bet no other quilter in nz has seen the likes of. probably all fall apart once hit by the scissors.
see ya - i am happy to answer any of your interesting enquiries!
In answer to the enquiry about the egg culprit
he is Shi YuLiang our interpreter
Actually a local business man who collaborates with our chinese partner and is filling in to help
his friend out for a month. we cant quite figure how he manages to get the time off - it is quiet time - but his company has offices in beijing, hohhut, erinhut and some other place in between and it is an importing business. has brought at least 2 ship loads of cattle into china from new zealand and australia, fertiliser from russia, etc,,,, and every now and again he gets off his mobile phone and says he has to rush back to town to sign some sales contracts by fax and it turns out these are all worth at least 1/4 million dollars a piece. he is a good negotiater for us - and will make sure that my visit to beijing on my way home will be a good one - and i think i can now be assured of a secure trip to the great wall. when he leaves here he is off to egypt and several other countries on an inner mongolia trade mission.and he doesnt drink beer, or eat pigs - he is a chinese muslim!
tonight he and i are going shopping for mongolian fabric.you see i have a friend who likes to cut beautiful fabrics into tiny little pieces then switch them about with the other little bits that she gets from her friend who also has this fetish. they then combine to reassemble these thousands of little bits of fabric into one big piece by stiching them all together and sticking them on my hall wall. this is called expensive wall fabricing. but if you are lucky, you get to be warm in the winter and they can also become a clever disguise for covering old worn out furnitures.
It was probably the most unusual request made of the mongolian traditional costume makers shop this decade - could i please get a selection of your scraps of fabric so my wife can make a quilt from them - they parked up their peddle sewing machines and after i made an initial selection from a HUGE pile of neatly folded fabrics - they pulled out all the good stuff and i got the rest - oh well it was a start - and it cost $20 for a big bag of material that i bet no other quilter in nz has seen the likes of. probably all fall apart once hit by the scissors.
see ya - i am happy to answer any of your interesting enquiries!
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