Women: better at financial planning

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickl father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.
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One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
Her natural beauty took his breath away. ‘I may look like just an ordinary man,’ he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I’ll inherit US$ 20 million.’
Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

Five rules for men to have a happy life!

1. It’s important to have a woman, who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.
2. It’s important to have a woman, who can make you laugh.
3. It’s important to have a woman, who you can trust and who doesn’t lie to you.
4. It’s important to have a woman, who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.
5 . It’s very, very important that these four women do not know each other.
gossipingAccording to Chinese tradition, (rich) men are very good at the above and call some of the above “er nai” (second wife).

Gilbert and Sun (soon) on BTV1

Journalists love us, probably because we are easy victims. Hopefully also in part because we are soooo good-looking.
Beijing TV came by to shoot a bit to prepare for a special show on “couples”. This week we’ll have to hop around in their studio, going to be one of those “fun” exercises that demand total brain switch off as it always takes lots of time and patience.


I had to come up with a “slogan” or better – according to Gilbert the sarcastic philosopher – with some deep thoughts on “successful marriage (in China)”. Here, in avant-première:

“A successful marriage is like a good dish of Sweet & Sour. You need to mix extremes, like Ying and Yang”

Dongguan LOVES pollution

Will they ever learn? Every day people here complain about pollution but some “leaders” love a big polluting fire. See the article from China Daily dated 8 January 2009.
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Just imagine what horrible smoke must have come from burning “poor quality sweaters”.
Dongguan (Guangdong) Administration: you’re not very clever are you? The same city wants to promote “eco city for companies”. Ok…

Missing those old TV programs

Maybe I am getting too old but all the crap you see on TV these days, leaders being US sitcoms avidly followed by other countries. Was doing a quiz on the old programs (Facebook), scored badly because I have a gruyere head but at least two of my favorites I got right.


Fawlty Towers and Alo Alo. Miss them.