China Cont.
Well one thing is for certain. I could never live in this area of China as my allergies have never been worse! It could be due in large part to the hotel room, but I'm not certain. Its a good thing I have Sudafed and one of the gotfrag guys gave me a package of Claritin as he had 40 pills or so.
I was able to see West Lake, probably the biggest tourist attraction here in Hangzhou, and it was really pretty. I met Steven Yong, COO of www.ggl.com who took us (4K.Tod, Jaczie, Jason (Fighter2g who came to visit us from Beijing where he is studying abroad) and myself out to a VERY nice restaurant overlooking West Lake. The food was good, Steven ordered us some local specialties such as Beggar's Chicken, which is chicken cooked inside of bread. I even ate some squid which didn't turn out to be too bad.
A few days ago I was able to get into a poker game with the Warcraft 3 players (note to those of you in any poker leagues I'm in, I won't be rusty when I get back =) ), only a few of them were good so I managed to do VERY well in that 1/2 (rmb) no limit game. 8 rmb = 1 usd in case you were wondering. I got into a second game last night, since I sort of felt bad about the first game (yes I did that well) I sort of played pretty poorly and threw money around. Even so I was only down 50rmb, but the players seemed to be in a better mood so all is good.
The second time casting went much better than the first! Things seem to go very smoothly and we weren't nearly as tired as we only had 2 matches for that day. There is another cast at 6am this morning, so if you're able to watch that would be great!
Oh one more thing, I posted quite a few more pictures, please use the link in the last post.
Comments are always welcome! I have it on moderate comments setting, as China has blogspot.com domain blocked (I edit using the blogger.com domain) so that's the only way I've figured out how to read the comments besides using a proxy.
Wish me luck for the next cast!
I was able to see West Lake, probably the biggest tourist attraction here in Hangzhou, and it was really pretty. I met Steven Yong, COO of www.ggl.com who took us (4K.Tod, Jaczie, Jason (Fighter2g who came to visit us from Beijing where he is studying abroad) and myself out to a VERY nice restaurant overlooking West Lake. The food was good, Steven ordered us some local specialties such as Beggar's Chicken, which is chicken cooked inside of bread. I even ate some squid which didn't turn out to be too bad.
A few days ago I was able to get into a poker game with the Warcraft 3 players (note to those of you in any poker leagues I'm in, I won't be rusty when I get back =) ), only a few of them were good so I managed to do VERY well in that 1/2 (rmb) no limit game. 8 rmb = 1 usd in case you were wondering. I got into a second game last night, since I sort of felt bad about the first game (yes I did that well) I sort of played pretty poorly and threw money around. Even so I was only down 50rmb, but the players seemed to be in a better mood so all is good.
The second time casting went much better than the first! Things seem to go very smoothly and we weren't nearly as tired as we only had 2 matches for that day. There is another cast at 6am this morning, so if you're able to watch that would be great!
Oh one more thing, I posted quite a few more pictures, please use the link in the last post.
Comments are always welcome! I have it on moderate comments setting, as China has blogspot.com domain blocked (I edit using the blogger.com domain) so that's the only way I've figured out how to read the comments besides using a proxy.
Wish me luck for the next cast!
posted by Joe Knizacky at 12:30 AM
3 Comments:
Wasn't able to view your transmission today. Except for the allergies sounds like you are having a great time! Take care and see as much as you can, and experience as much as you can, except for the "chinese bars". comment#2
ah ha! people making comments on posts i've left! take *that* scott! as for your amazing poker playing...well, we've got a couple of weeks left in our league for you when you get back....no using jet lag as an excuse! :-)
-andrew
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