The Blog of Rob Eaton » China http://www.robeaton.org Tales of an Englishman abroad Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:21:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc All Drugged Up http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/02/06/all-drugged-up-3/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/02/06/all-drugged-up-3/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:06:47 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=1148 Since I got back from China last Sunday I have had a pretty vicious sore throat. This was not helped by the really bad dust storm on Thursday either.

It did however make some of my early morning conversations quite entertaining as I was as husky as a husky dog eating husks (or should that be

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/02/06/all-drugged-up-3/feed/ 0 All Work and a Small Hint of Play http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/01/31/all-work-and-a-small-hint-of-play/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/01/31/all-work-and-a-small-hint-of-play/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:03:09 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=1146 Before I start the following is a brief synopsis of my recent trip to China for work. As you can understand some if not most of the trip must remain confidential for many reasons so I’ll discuss what I believe I can.

So I finally made it back from China Today some two days later than

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2010/01/31/all-work-and-a-small-hint-of-play/feed/ 0 Work Hard Play Hard http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2009/11/04/work-hard-play-hard/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2009/11/04/work-hard-play-hard/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:04:39 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.com/?p=1004 It’s now Wednesday (I think) …. I’m still deaf after the Grand Prix and Areosmith Concert on Sunday. It was a great event! I”ll update more when I have a spare five minutes.

I’m sat in my hotel room in Beijing doing some work and thought I’d update whilst I was here.

We were picked up on

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2009/11/04/work-hard-play-hard/feed/ 0 Return from the land of Hu Jintao (part 1) http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2008/10/26/return-from-the-land-of-hu-jintao-part-1/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2008/10/26/return-from-the-land-of-hu-jintao-part-1/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:10:34 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=214 Okay so I guess the first question on your lips is “who the hell is Hu Jintao?” – Well he is the President of the People’s Republic of China amongst other things.

I returned from another business trip to China early last week. I was there for almost a week this time. As always it was action packed.

The

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