Blog 19 May

hello all

Off to China to visit our factory. We have a mock-up to erect next week & SCF (the imaginatively named South China Factory) is due to ship the units out this Saturday. So far they've been late with everything they've ever done for me, hence the follow up.

My job, more & more, revolves around delegation & follow up rather than actual work so this has become somewhat routine. A trip to SCF, however, requires more time than sticking your head over the wall of your QS' Dilbert cube & chasing up invoicing...

Taxi to the train station in Hung Hom then train to Kowloon Tong, deep in the Dark Side. This takes around 45mins. Stop for coffee & buns then board the bus for the 3 hour journey across the border, arriving mid morning at the factory. Return bus leaves at 5 so then it's a case of rinse & reverse, arriving back home at around 9. F tried for a while to do this by video conference / telephone etc but it's just not effective, mostly I believe because most of the guys up there (& certainly the HK staff) resent being stuck in such a soulless place as Dong Guan & need the morale boost that comes with having someone share your misery.

Sod them, I'll be back in the valley by tonite.

Movies & we watched Enough last night. This is a movie set in a world where Juliette Lewis and JLo work in a diner together... Andrea said something about JLo going psycho & I thought we were up for Monster With A Big Ass but no. She learns how to box. How pathetic. I suspect that the much fantasised Juliette Lewis and JLo lezzer scene was trimmed from the final cut, also.

One to avoid unless you have the Roman Polanski cut.

Bomber out