Friday, March 17, 2006

Day 19 Friday March 17th �C Shanghai

This morning we were spoken to by Clark Johnson of Petters Group. Clark
graduated from the MIM program about 3 years ago and now is the GM and
president it of Asia for Petters Group. Petters group owns the Polaroid
brand (recently purchased for dirt cheap) and works as a liason between
retailers (like Circuit City) and the factories. Really they just put their
name on the products that the big box stores want and source them for them.
It was interesting to hear his stories and how he got to where he is.

After Petters group, a couple of us decided to wander "Food Cart" row and
just pick up food as we went, sharing amongst all of us. It was really good
food and by doing it this way were able to sample many different kinds.
After the food we still had some time before we had to head to the clothing
market to pick up the clothes that we had had tailored so we walked down the
Bund (I bought a kite.I asked her how much, she said 150, I just kept
walking and said 50, eventually she met my price with out me ever having to
stop and haggle��I never restated my price or changed it) It is amazing how
that works.

At 4:30 several of us met in the lobby to go to the "suit"place together
to pick up the clothes that we had tailored. Man do I hope that Kevin's
jacket fits him.

At 7:30 we met to go to O'Malleys to celebrate St. Paddy's day. That was a
weird experience. As soon as you walked in to the courtyard it was like you
were back in the states at a frat party. Strange to experience in Shanghai.

After a couple of hours there (expensive beers) Patrick, Siska, Vera and I
headed to out find food. We told the taxi driver to take us to Nanjing road.
He was a little confused as this road is a couple of miles long and he
didn't know where to drop us off at. We just had him drop us off at an
intersection. We grabbed a bite (several bites of several little dishes) at
a very nice restaurant and then headed back to the hotel for Mah
Jong returning to the hotel around 11 pm.

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