After a full 28 hours of traveling (40 including the ride from Kimmy's wedding), I an finally at The Eton Hotel. Very much ready for a good night of sleep. Tomorrow we will visit some stores in Shanghai for inspiration. Night.

Karaoke KTV For the most part we have nothing like this in the US. Basically it is a large building that houses many rooms that contain a big screen tv, karaoke system, and some form of seating. Everyone takes turns singing songs. It seems like most people in China take this form of entertainment very seriously. The really get into the singing and try very hard to hit all the notes. Since I don't sing well, I decided to improvise and add some dancing to my...

Snooker and Karaoke Tonight we had dinner with the general manager of Homebon, Mr "John Wanye" at least that is how I pronounce his name. We have met on many occasions and I seem to have developed a report with him. He actually was the man that gave me the really nice set of chop sticks. He is always joking around and during the dinner he started in on playing snooker against me. I reminded him that I had already beaten him twice and that it wasn't fair that...

Last night we ate at an authentic Cantonese restaurant. Instead of ordering food at the table, we walked through a cover area similar to a fish market and pointed out everything we would eat. Everything was tested great, except maybe the fried tofu. I especially love this sweet potato that was toasted.

It's been a few days since I write something. Once I got to the Homebon plant on Thursday afternoon I was anxious to get started on the new products. They gave me a list of species a textures that they wanted to develop colors for and it totaled around 30 new products. There are many challenges that are presented when working with: different coating materials, people that really want to help but don't normally work in a plant, and people that can't speak the s...