racking up

It's like a moving target. Just trying to wire starting capital to our PVG company. I flew overnight on biz class back from YVR so that I could get Friday morning to get things done for it. I did. 3 biz days later. Got rejected. R U serious? You know what was the reason for rejection? The receiving bank said "one of the characters was composed by a complex form Chinese; therefore, your entire amount is rejected. Your company name in the sender form does not match the account number exactly to our bank". Really!!! Chine$e is Chine$e! And we started it!!!!

Hence I went to MFM the second time in less than a week back in Asia to facilitate the second time of transfer. And today, got a message from the MFM bank: rejected due to foreign exchange rule. What? What the F*****!!! The agent bank was the ICB(sh!t)C. That wasn't a real reason. So we had no idea what went wrong!

Perhaps, 3 is a charm? Welcome to doing real biz in C h!n @. Home of you really don't know what the F*** happened. Just roll with the punche$... yes, that $ has a $pecial meaning.

And today as well, got a letter from the beloved biggest motherland owned telecom. It said we owe them $ from 2007 on a payment. It was an outstanding bill and early termination of contract of our home #. Wait, we have been paying since 2005!!! And we have been using this line forever for Internet - ADSL. So what the F*****.... The letter was such as shoddy quality print. I could not make out the location of the office, the phone numbers to contact. I found out the office was about 45 minutes away south east of our apartment. Noooo... there was an office just 2 minutes walk from our apartment, that one didn't count! So I tried faxing a copy of our paid bill in from the number listed in the letter. No answer. Nothing.... So I called the number. Turned out it was an actual office number! Someone picked it up. He indicated that the computer said we owe $. Right... So convenient... The letter said if we don't pay, service would be cut off unless we have proof. If we didn't pay on a previous month, shouldn't the billing system carry forward that to the current month's billing? If so, we would have paid that back in July of 2007!!!! What a system. So I photocopied our paid and stamped June 2007 bill and mailed it in. Wonder if that is a way to collect extra dough because someone would not possibly has kept a paid stub from that far back. We did!