Being a Singaporean, I joined the GZ Singapore Club which held a Singapore National Day dinner last Saturday at Westin. At the dinner, I met a lot of Singaporeans who are working here in Guangzhou. FYI - Singapore National Day is on 9th Aug, but Im not sure why did they only have the dinner until end Aug, probably because of the Olympics...
The dinner was great, manage to meet up with a lot Singaporeans, exchange a lot of namecards.
We are even thinking of organising a weekly soccer game soon.
The only negative thing was the host, who is the chairman of the club was obviously drunk towards the end of the dinner and was talking some nonsense... made a fool of himself.. heh..
Therefore, if you are an expat, I will strongly suggest you to get into such clubs and associations where you find your fellow country people. You will click with one another instantly.
Most expats, when they first arrived are real lonely people - I have been through it myself. Unless you come with your family.. if not, you are really going to be real lonely, having dinner alone, shopping alone.. etc...
If you are from Singapore, you can join GZ Singapore Club: www.gzsingclub.com/
and/or SingCham: http://www.singcham.com.cn/
I'm sure if you are of other nationalities.. there will be other clubs.. Example:- my Swiss boss is the president of SwissCham..
Have fun and take care!
4 comments:
I agreed with you. Dinner was great. After seeing your comments and my own observation on that night, the host is a pretty friendly person, doing what he can to make the dinner enjoyable. Let's help him make the environment more adaptable for Singaporeans like us, else, how to tahan alone. heehee. Of course, try not to be as friendly as him.
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Hi Young man,
I suppose you were there at the dinner? I didnt know the host personally therefore, i cant comment much.. just that i see the way he behaves when he was on stage was not very appropriate though.. heh.. take care!
Hi Raúl y Pablo..
i suppose you are trying to type spanish here.. but sorry.. i cant understand spanish..
thanks for leaving comments though!
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