This thing normally should be done in about 5 minutes in North America or anywhere that has no "firewall".
Sunday, February 20, 2011
slow
Saturday, February 19, 2011
fly enough
Yes, I think so. Maybe....
Seemed so long ago but looking back, I flew three days in a roll. On Wednesday from YQR->YVR. Thursday from YVR->HKG arriving Friday morning. Saturday from HKG->PVG. Sunday a day of rest.
I really did plane, train and automobile. Planes were obvious. Train, the airport express from HK airport to town, then ferry to Macau. Taxi at Macau Ferry Terminal to mom and dad's. Yes. I had done everything. My head spin. Thank god for Peet's Garuda coffee beans from Christmas.
And to top it off, I am on the go again. This coming Wednesday, PVG-HKG-MFM again. Saturday the reverse. There are other trips pretty much every week .... I have to check. Good thing there is a no personal Carbon tax; otherwise, we will be hurting.......
On the flight from YVR to HKG, the purser handed me an envelope at the beginning of the meal service after we took off at 2am . I was wondering what that was. My b'day card. Wow. Damm... just a card! I thought they would give me a refund on my tix because I was flying on my b'day! No such luck. O well. At 3am YVR time, I just had a glass of scotch not to celebrate but to knock myself out so I could sleep. It was a long flight - 13 and a half hours due to strong wind. We had to cut through Russia rather than the normal routing. Landed in HKIA without any problem. Seemed the entire trip from the starting point in YQR to final destination MFM was smoooooooth.
opening
I walked into the ICBC just across the street. Fill out a form with only my name, ID and address. Waited for my term. 15 minutes later, I was at the counter at ready for my Chin@ experience. The clerk looked at me, photocopied my ID and then handed me back the form and a sign in Chine$e. She said, write this phrase at the bottom of the form. Huh? I read it first. It said " I am opening this account with my own free will that allows me to do banking via ATM". I wrote the phrase in the form. Couple clicks on the computer by the clerk and a RMB15.00 service fee later. I have my debit card setup and my account opened. That was it.
Compared to opening up a company account, it was night and day.
$tack
We have 3 chops (stamps) for the company - one for company on documents, one for the company accountant for banking and then one for me as I am the legal person for the company. Complex.....
Then the company needs a capital account to receive capital fund. Another set of photocopies and originals.... That was when a little problem developed. See the certificate in the picture. There are two of the same. Both looked the same except a little two-character words said "copy". Because of that, I could not have my capital account opened.
By that time, I already paid all sorts of fees related to the account opening. A stack of receipts. So my accountant had to come back another day.
Wait, here got "funnier". I need to provide the original paid receipts to show that I have paid the account opening. But it was in the system. Too bad. Still want to see those receipts again for the capital account opening. And I was suppose to be there in person to "overseeing" the entire capital account opening process. Good thing of the Guangxi. My personal appearance was waived.
You think it is done now? Not quite. The bank will do a visual verification of the physical address of the company's registered office. Yes, to make sure that the company is real. That did make sense with all sorts of scams and all. Plus this is C hi N@ everything goes. The bank being an extension of the company must make sure.
After the visual verification, I need to do one final step. That is, I NEED TO OPEN A PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNT WITH THE SAME BANK! The bank's reasoning was because it does not know me, so I must need an account to substantiate my existent. The bank hence be able to chase me down in case there is a criminal problem w/ the company. Right.... As if it cannot make a phone call to the police and then Immigration. Within 5 seconds, everything about me is pull up. ICBC the largest depositors in the world. Well, yes by its rules the number is artificially made up.
This coming Monday hopefully the account is all set. Step 2 begins..... And yes, I still have hair. Have not pull them out because of the idiosyncrasy. When one is here, roll with the punches. Otherwise, it just gets to you.....
choked
Due to the continuous harmonization going on here, my speed is about 10K/sec. Taking me over 35min trying to do things that I could have done in 2minutes.
Bloody ridiculous!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Dancing Water
Courtesy of the Queen of Macau, A and I got a set of tickets to see Dancing Water last night, Feb 3. It was a HKD 2billion production. It was such a fantastic show. The performers were so fit. We could see every single muscle on the back, the arms, the legs, and the abs. Wow. And most of all, they were afraid of heights and water. The stage was so unique. It could be raised out of water completely dried in seconds or had water totally filled the stage worthy of a 4-story high dive. Man.... We were on the seats 99% of the time until we got lost with the motorcycle stun performance in the middle. Still trying to figure out what was that all about with the story. The links are the official site and the youtube videos that outside of Motherland can view.
sunny day
A very sunny and warm day in Macau on Chinese New Year day, Feb 3. What a day! My b'day according to the Chinese Lunar calendar, our wedding anniversary and 1st day of the new Lunar year. What more can I ask for? Well.....
These pictures were taking after a very nice vegetarian lunch from the light house just above our apartment. As the pictures indicated, very massive development in Macau now. Could not really tell where Macau ended and China began.
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Damiao Lo (罗诚兴）
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