Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Sunday, August 13, 2023
China Personal Experience
WHAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL?
When we find excuses to not preform simple tasks, duties, or just a positive mindset that moves us forward in Daily life, we are already on a slippery slope, Why? We have disconnected from our worth and values, what else is then left to drive us to achieving anything?
We have days of low moods, distracted from our frame or direction to complete what makes us actually feel good, however that standard should not become the norm.
The Maintaining your MONEY, MUSCLE, GAME AND FRAME should never be normal it should be the Goals you set in your daily life style.
Another Notable Birthday
What have i learnt from another day of my life and socialital norms? that Keeping my Standards, Values and Ability to Manage and adapt to challenges i face with a smile,optimistic view, see it simply as experience that life throws at me one that is neither GOOD OR BAD just Experiences
Relatinships
Values and traditional Eastern women offer men the simple expectations and requirements in a girlfriend and wife, there just is no comparison, the West a have lost the plot, a huge drift away from what was once stable and normal between the genders and sexes
Time will correct but what of the 'now generation' of women with living the life of Independance, social freedom and boss womenship? suffering and the wall is about to be a deafing reality sound and blow to them.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Chinese Students Studying Abroad
Chinese Students Studying Overseas
During my Three Months in the USA and May, I return to the UK
I Came to Realised from my interactions in both countries and social connections with Oriental Asians, primarily, Chinese Hong Kong and Tai’s that another perspective exists
An Interesting Aspect and refreshing view for me of these people working and living abroad so-called overseas residents or [ex-pats] to begin with I asked this to everyone i meet ”Chinese Student Study Abroad – Choice Or Peer Pressure?”
This Is A Big Surprise that leaves a unique awareness, of how society and our environment crafts the person, However, given the opportunity to change these parameters of circumstances the person has a choice to review, reassess, comprehend, challenge, and decide on options that are now available
Many Chinese Students Study Abroad
Ching and Snow!
Chinese Medical Students
In the UK, Eastbourne I had the fortune to meet several Asian women and men, some were students on a couple, in particular, are studying medicine one in Oxford the Girlfriend in Cambridge.
Then had to take time out to travel down to the seaside resort Eastbourne for a break from studies and some TLC seems, I came upon them during my usual morning jog and around 7 am
they were taking refuge under a shelter as the rain began falling in a light but consistent drizzle, I decide to impose on them and engage in a chat from both curiosities and for selfish reasons too Practising Chinese, ..why not
The Conversation Was Smooth from the start talking about life and studies and how they met and so forth, strangely and enough they both just arrived a few months ago from SHENZHEN the very city I was living and working in for several years.
That piqued my interest even more as we had found a commonality of districts and Shenzhen has intentionally known the Electronics market world. All the same, we moved on to the aspect of good, bad, or indifference to studying abroad in the UK.
The Consensus was that it was a great treat to experience the UK and its high-end university establishment, together with the quintessential sedate and relaxed from the pressure of Chinese family expectations around you daily.
Then the idea to stay and work in the UK was appealing though they showed a distinct fear of what is needed to achieve in securing a working position in the UK, it seemed too complicated and involved for them to consider.
A Discussion on how it appears from the outside of china and security or freedom to express and be yourself as you really want was raised, Snow then-girlfriend, was subjective yet believes that china suppresses information and availability to real-world news.
she claims that she sees free information being withheld from the Chinese people systematically and selectively that can upset the norm in China [ ”more power to the people will bring more dissatisfaction”]
From Ching the Guy, clearly, the conversation reflected he was a patriot, and rightly so, however not a blinded one, but an intelligent and clear-headed individual
Ching’s standpoint on this was that china is powerful and needs to realize that power came from its connection with the world, he states that Chinese working and/or living abroad are better position and informed to appreciate and understand the reality.
Ching also wanted to return to China to work for his master’s degree to gain the skills he needed to become a doctor. Snow was open to any choice Ching made.
UK Resident Software Developer
Days later I felt like eating some junk food and tested my craving in MacDonald also desperate for a coffee and apple pie, I was in the sun and decided I needed to find a good spot to see the screen of my computer to write my blog articles.
Hence I Collected my things and headed upstairs finding a small secluded area then a funky style single sitting podium style area. Laptop ready i began researching, looking up I saw an Asian woman glancing at me Hello !! …that was my queue to approach and start a dialogue.
I Revel In This Situation; we ensued on a long conversation as if we knew each other for years; it was easy and without discomfort, Her English was at a high level and I found out she was a software developer with a real interest in the job these days.
She Moved From London from the fuss and busy environment to Pole gate near Eastbourne, the quiet life and seclusion from the limelight were perfect to hear needs, having 2 kids and entertaining mum and dad from north China was a good family environment and outside of China.
Min Originally from Taiyuan, in Shanxi, is a UK resident after studying and finding work in a company in Brighton, has lived here for over 10 years. As a mother of 2 girls she considers herself as happy and self-contained with her current life, Min displays assertiveness and an international attitude, less focused on material things and position, different from the Chinese I met in China or holiday travelers.
So We Can Draw from this that people of cultures and backgrounds can raise their ideals and concepts even break the Traditions and Values placed on them by parents, peers, and families, Allowing a degree of options. As Min stated, she still faces the cultural mindset of the mother who tries to enact and impose in her home here in the UK
Amy Tailand
English Student
Amy a 6 Month improvement student from Thailand, speaks pretty good English possible a level 7
We Met in a Bookstore at Eastbourne center, a very approachable young lady with an interest in books, her question me was what’s the best way to learn English and improve
I suggested maybe starting with some simple poems, find a genre she liked and begin basic layout and appreciation of the content and point of the poem, she was thankful and later searched the section mentioned.
Amy Enjoys The Opportunity to mingle and interact with the university’s multicultural students, meeting all nationalities in the class and exchanging and sharing experiences, difficulties, and lifestyles, she has spent some time in HONG KONG.
She believes the importance of traveling and cultural sharing is the cornerstone to the richness of intelligence and understanding, Amy also is adamant that one future, vision, and creativity are part and parcel of Openness and appreciation of the world.
Her View on Language is that we only get better or driven by language if we can take part in the counties and its people. Amy is a firm believer that her skills and interests will be heightened by her travel and appreciation of what is out there, good or bad
Amy Speaks Tai Language but has embraced Guangdong Hua [ Hong Kong Chinese ] she sees Chinese here in Britain and states they surprise her how open they are to what she first experienced in her home country by Chinese tourists
Conclusion
Students from Asia and particular China have a great prestigious attraction to UK scholarship, the historical backdrop of UK and Eaton, Cambridge, Oxford as high profile educational establishments to make employers eyes raise in good hopes of impeccable credentials
Learning and developing internationally for students naturally, organically, brings into focus the need to rationalize and re-assessment of ”what was to what is” challenges to values predetermined ideals and previous beliefs, in-turn a clarity and self realization of worth and choices is reached.
Chris Jones
Monday, April 10, 2023
Taichi China
Welcome to Taichi Page
Who are we?
I am christopher British National, Allan is Chinese, we are long term friends and my teacher!
I am from UK, living in China 15 years, Allan is in Shenzhen just over the border from Hong Kong.
Why this page and classes?
Let's offer some background to help understand our purpose and our strategy and genuine purpose ''We'' Allan and Me Chris (aka) Yi Yang created and promoted the Art to you guys.
Friendship
I met Allan while living in China, and we connected in early 2010 if I recalled, he was interested in learning English and learning more about foreign lifestyles, Additionally about starting a business that I was running in Shenzhen for years. 
We spoke mainly via WeChat china's famous app that grew from the QQ standards, but better,
We planned to meet in person many times but for one reason or another denied that event, finally in 2019 on a return trip to China from the UK we causally enquired about our lives, and boom, a plan was formed to meet and discussed possibilities.
Allan has always been in Martial arts, Taichi boxing, and Taichi, also Kung fu, his idol was Bruce Lei, Jackie Chan, and Jet Lei, famous characters of the art.
He once told me he imitated how they behaved in the early days, however, developed his own approach and was genuine in his quest to be top in his field.
Telling me the history of how he started, his mentors and masters, and the competitions in mainland China and hong kong he attended, with accolades as long as your arms.
Impressive and not boastful just plain factual. Allan by nature is a gentle unassuming guy anyone would get on with and humble in many ways too, speaks English at an intermediate level too.
He wouldn't let me pay for lunch, even invited me to meet his family, saying to his son to regard me as Uncle Chris..lol
We spent more time getting to know each other's goals and ideals, finally spending time on the mountains videoing some of his movements with stunning scenery sometimes accompanied by his son and wife. Allan took me under his wing to learn the art too.
Starting and our Plan
One Eventful day we sat down after a workout to discuss how we could promote his dreams and goals of taking his taichi worldwide, allowing others to learn this beautiful activity and its related philosophy.
I started by offering to write blogs on his experiences, the benefits to participants of this activity, its philosophy, who can do it, and why they should engage in it.
It was crystal clear that everyone and anyone could adapt this art to their own speed, strength, and daily life, what's even more interesting is the more you learn the more you are drawn into the philosophy and culture as I found out personally.
Website Promotion
I took it upon myself to open a blog site called Chinese4idiots, a strange name, thanks to Mum in the USA for that one? the site was my way of expressing my life in China offering advice and travel information on all you need to know from money matters, apartment, nightlife, love, working teaching, or startup business as this list is endless, and experienced.
The site was popular, however, I had a debate with the host company and I had to park it up until I could spend more time and give it my full attention, ...W.I.P
What is Taichi?
Anyway back to Taichi, Taichi- (some refer it as Tai jie) is first based on philosophy, cultrally acquired, traditions and a defensive mechanism origonally. Taichi is about the flow if Yin and Yang, the global balance of everything we know, feel think, spirit and inner self equibrium.
The icon is the black and white entangled sperm-like shape in a circle as below. a representation or good and bad, hot and cold, high and low, life and death, in effect BALANCE!
Allan provided the videos and when I was around training with him I would do the videos live. samples of these are online here for your viewing, you are seeing Allan in person and can appreciate his level of English. remarkable for one that was self-taught.
We had agreed on offering classes feely to interested viewers, and give them the opportunity to engage with a teacher of experience, teaching ability, and compassion to newbies, something he is doing in schools, academies, events, social venues, and private groups around Shenzhen where he lives, many foreigners are his students, tai-chi chuan.
For Allan, this goes past making money and he seeks it to leave a legacy for himself, he has the talent, capacity, and mindset to achieve it.
My Distractions
I have been back to the UK, USA, UKRAINE so some neglect on my Facebook blog and page has but I have in the past few months reconnected and pushed his dreams and goals, we have also spoken about keeping it going and depending on your responses to go live, given the time zone differences of course but that's the way we would like to see this develop a global school for everyone at all levels.
What we Need from you (yin yang)
We don't seek special favors what we do hope is that you are honest and give us your feedback so we can improve and provide better engaging scenarios that gain your attention and fulfill your needs.
We don't seek special favors what we do hope is that you are honest and give us your feedback to improve and fulfill your needs.
Thanks for your time and interest see you on our page with many videos of china its culture, lifestyle, quirkyness, humor, family insights, ages, timelessess!
come join our community ask qiestions!
TAICHI FACEBOOK:
shorturl.at/KMSX8
Allan and Chris
ni hen gao xin ( we are happy to see you )
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Tourist Visa China
China
Tourist Visa
If you are into Nightlife and the social scene, bars and clubs, outdoor sports activities, promenade walks and parks, hiking and mountain walks, business events, shows, and so on…no problems
Canadian Coffee Shop: Get a Tourist Visa China
Yesterday I came upon a Canadian Coffee shop, These coffee shops ai am advised are new in the area, fortunately, a good experience with discounts on their coffee and food wrap at a respectable price.
Intrigued to find out more, I started researching the company a conglomerate from Brazil, Yet managed by an American group, This Arm of the Conglomerate is based in Canada, and extending into the China marketplace
Opinion on Product
- Standard Coffee medium Cup 18rmb ~ good balanced beans taste!
- Wrap (scrambled egg and ham) tasty and nutritional not salty, good size!
Business Expectations:
Quite recently I received interest from SME’s to cooperate in businesses wanting to get on the European and international platforms. Well works for me, however, each fell short digging deeper their agenda and required was not investment, instead, looking for an established retailer, company, b2b, b2c, and not interested in investing themselves, only at supplier basis.
Forging cooperation in business is possible in China, but you need to be clear on their agenda and be an established player coming to the table with SME businesses in China.
Personal Space and Friends: Get a Tourist Visa China
Personal Space, is only as good as the quality of Friends you keep, relationships I found are plentiful, be aware that relying on them may be costly and a fool’s errand, many see a target on your head with their personal benefits, ”give nothing take all” mentality in the majority. Don’t be fooled by foreigners either they have another level of greed. Caution and awareness will be your Best Friend and Alliance
Stormy Weather: Get a Tourist Visa China
Shenzhen is weathering Bouts of Sporadic infections, together with Nature’s Very own late Summer Stormy Periods. traveling requires careful consideration, I personally hit the (EC) English corners randomly, partly because I need another level of communication and variation, sometimes, fortunately, I meet other foreigners seeking the same outlet, also meeting a few traveled and seasoned Chinese who speak acceptable English. It’s an amusing setup with intriguing responses and attitudes in unusual ways
Summary
2021 has accumulated changes for me as a traveler and ex-pat, and the world changes do impact your cross-border travels. The ability to rebound when things go downhill or sideways is essential, the lifestyle by its very nature is open to unexpected incidents some turn sour too.
It’s the price we pay for following our dreams and inspirations. What we should take from these episodical experiences is what doesn’t break or kill you makes you stronger, wiser, and character-building
I believe it’s a test of our metal, our capabilities, our capacity and freedom
Cj
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Excellent, China is a very beautiful country
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Hello your response is well received and noted feel free to comment on anything i have written as it helps to refine articles and get readers feedback
regards
christopher
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Hi,dear Christopher.
good day for you
Hi there i am very excited and glad to read your experiences, you are a good writer,your this article expresses a fulfilling and amazing energetic travelling lifestyle, yeah! I appreciate you writing an informative article, a good read at leisure time and learning new things here from your wisdom and rich capacity in life’s activity. Seems you have travelled to many difference countries, a rich treasure of life experience.,China welcome you, i believe you can be considered a new Marco polo.. LOL
your sincerely friend. Kevin
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