Still Alive!

It has been exactly a month since my last writing. I was just too busy to write. So many things have happened last month, that I actually don’t know where to start my writing. The time I wrote my last blog I was still in the preparation of Harry’s November trip, which seems ages ago already. The trip was a success. We made some good deals and the strategy for 2010 is totally clear. The Dutch Chinese Entrepreneurship Program was launched successfully and we did three other well attended events (two workshops and a network meeting) during his four day stay. Next to this we made a nice deal with the NFIA to host six China-roundtables with them in 2010 - four will take place in the Netherlands and two in China.

Just before Harry’s arrival I made crazy 12-hour days and weekend of overtime, after his departure it’s a little easier, but I still work a great deals of hours. Just to cope with all the things to do. I guess this is what ‘entrepreneurship’ is all about. I made the Baak Shanghai strategy outline for 2010 already, and almost finished the Business Plan 2010 – if everything goes well this will be a profitable year. Let’s hope so!

On the 21st of November I went to Beijing for little over a week. It was great to see Angie again, and even though I had to work also we enjoyed our time a lot. It was my forth time in Beijing and slowly I get to know the place. My favourite day was the one on which we went to the Hot Spring. Hot bathes and showers outsides on a very cold Winter day in Beijing, combined with nice massages and beautiful light in the evening. I can definitely recommend it. The only very shitty thing was I left my brand new beautiful photo- and videocamera in the taxi on the night of arrival. Wasted EUR 1.000 of equipment in 5 seconds on ignorance (let alone the emotional damage). Still feel a little shitty about it.

Came back to Shanghai this week and directly had to move house the first weekend I came back (Sinterklaas - weekend). It was a very busy weekend with a rehearsal and a gig at the JZ Christmas party and the moving of the house. Started packing a the Gao’an Lu at Saturday 17h and everything unpacked again in my new house at Wangping Lu at Sunday 14h. It was a crazy ride, but the new house (with garden) is great. Hope to be able to update you all a little more frequently in the future.