Hello from Chaozhou 潮州
Saturday, 3 November 2018 08:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekSorry for not interacting much. Life has been busy after my office move. I do need to commute by bus but it’s like a 6-minute ride across the bridge to get to the island and then I’m back to walking, so I don’t really have much time to check on messages and stuff on the bus.
Then our HR had a weird policy change. Without going into actual details, the gist of it is, we get to work less hours and we get more holidays. Like yesterday, All Soul’s Day, it’s a public holiday but not a statutory holiday. We used to only get statutory holidays (10-days yearly), but the policy change now lets us have all the public holidays (20-days yearly). And we now work 45-hour weeks instead of 50. It’s weird.
So with this long weekend, I’m off to China, went on that super rail thing and am in a place called Chaozhou 潮州. They say that’s where a lot of the good food is. So far I’m not disappointed. Last night we had 2 dinners LOL. First to a beef hot pot place (had a weird dish, don’t even know which part of the beef it was), and then went for a second dinner of raw marinated fish.
Dinner #1
Dinner #2
The hotel I’m staying at is right in front of the West Lake 西湖 so I can do a bit of walking and looking around too.
The only down side is I bought a China SIM card and it worked for a few hours, but then it didn’t work, darn it. I’m going back to that shop when I’m back in town to complain about that but it’s China, I think they’re gonna play some kind of hooky on me.
Anyway, that aside, it’s gonna be more food today!
Then our HR had a weird policy change. Without going into actual details, the gist of it is, we get to work less hours and we get more holidays. Like yesterday, All Soul’s Day, it’s a public holiday but not a statutory holiday. We used to only get statutory holidays (10-days yearly), but the policy change now lets us have all the public holidays (20-days yearly). And we now work 45-hour weeks instead of 50. It’s weird.
So with this long weekend, I’m off to China, went on that super rail thing and am in a place called Chaozhou 潮州. They say that’s where a lot of the good food is. So far I’m not disappointed. Last night we had 2 dinners LOL. First to a beef hot pot place (had a weird dish, don’t even know which part of the beef it was), and then went for a second dinner of raw marinated fish.
Dinner #1
Dinner #2
The hotel I’m staying at is right in front of the West Lake 西湖 so I can do a bit of walking and looking around too.
The only down side is I bought a China SIM card and it worked for a few hours, but then it didn’t work, darn it. I’m going back to that shop when I’m back in town to complain about that but it’s China, I think they’re gonna play some kind of hooky on me.
Anyway, that aside, it’s gonna be more food today!
