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Life and Times on the World’s Factory Floor. Random observations from an American Expat living in Dongguan China

It’s never a good day when you look at obituaries, and see someone you know, but it’s really a strange day when you look a the town obituary and see that your father passed away.  And that’s the only way you knew, because you happened to look at the obits that day.
So it seems that [...]
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Already it’s January 1st, 2009, geez, where did the millennium go?  For ChinaFubar it was a quiet New Year’s Eve, spent snuggling with Mrs. ChinaFubar and watching the festivities on Hong Kong TV.
Currently sitting at the local pub having a post new year’s lunch, and catching up with the New Year’s Eve happenings.  Apparently there [...]
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Just reading an article from New York Times,  “Chinese Savings Helped Inflate American Bubble” which attempts to make the convoluted argument the reason for the current recession, which was basically based on the party of binge borrowing coming to a halt, is not because Americans borrowed so much, but because Chinese saved so much.  Thus, [...]
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Well, it’s Christmas Day in Dongguan, and rather than presents under the tree and a scene from the movie “A Christmas Story,”  I’m typing away on the computer, the wife’s sleeping on the couch, where she was when I woke up this morning, (no reason why so far) and the construction workers are banging away [...]
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Used to be an old China Expat Urban Legend about the expat wife shopping in the fresh markets in Guangzhou.  She comes across a vendor selling live cats destined to be someone’s dinner later in the day.  This particular vendor’s practice was to pick out the cat, break it’s neck and plunge into boiling water [...]
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During this morning’s perusal of the news,  a multimedia article from New York Times,  “Fashion on the Street - Some Imagination”.  It’s a multimedia slide show, so may take some time to load all the photos, you may see blank screen while the narrator/author Bill Cunningham describes what he sees.
While everyone’s expecting a down year [...]
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Well just in case you were wondering where I was at for the last month and a half since the last post, lets just say I was at the Dark Side of Shoemaking.
Lets just way working for a Chinese owned shoe factory was (and I say WAS) interesting.  Being the only Laowai was even more [...]
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