China Trip fall 2008

Well I'm been busy and neglecting my blog, such a bad boy. Well hey give me a break, its summer and there is golf. My buddies are laughing at me as I'm not playing well. I went from a 12 handicap to a 15. I attribute this to the love of my business and not golf crazy as much as I was. Don't get me wrong, but from day one, I have always said I golf 50% just to be with my friends and 50% for the golf. I need to get out and laugh and have a few beers with the boys. Its important to me. When I die, I hope they say I'm Mr. Balance life. Work family and pleasure. I could, to be honest work a little more on the family part, but that is even getting harder with the boys working on their social lives.

So here I am in Shanghai. I'm in heaven. Could I live here? I'm not sure, but I certainly love to visit. I mean things are cheap and I almost forgot how cheap they are. I went to a convenience store and I bought two beers and two waters. The water was large at 550ml and the beer was a whopping 600ml. Total bill came to 12 something and change RMB. The conversion rate is 6.40 for the Canadian dollar. So basically less then 2 bucks. I love China. Ok the beer wasn't a twist top, but the waster was Nestle. Not the best, but wow, 2 bucks.

Today I will try to check out the worlds 3rd tallest building. You can download the video which was shown on the discovery channel a short time ago on this amazing construction project. I have stayed in the Hyatt next door which is shown on the video.

Following Shanghai, is a trip to Ningbo on September 3. I will take the bus and hopefully travel on the worlds longest bridge that just opened 6 months ago.

See you soon...after I take some photos from the Shanghai's World Financial Tower

Los Angeles

Well the show in LA is over what a great show it was. My Son, Gordon made is first appearance and did well. Finally after all these years it all made sense to him what we actually do. My other son Greg was in England earning his english credit for grade 12. He is back now and loved it. What a learnng experience for him.

We were in LA for AWN, and our wholesale division, BMS. BMS has flourished in recent years with addition of an excellent motivated graphic department, creating new ideas that mean new product and a factory in China now producing our very own product. I am so proud, and its one of my career dreams. Our products are well received and can be sold everywhere. They are soft yet powerful....

It is August everyone, enjoy the summer.