3Q2U - Posts from April 22, 2008

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Posts from April 22, 2008

April 22, 2008

20 years and a snack

I'm having a little private celebration today, sitting in a hotel room in Beijing, waiting for a train. Today marks the start of my 20th year here. I stepped off the plane in Taipei in 1988 and thought to myself, "What is that smell?" Now whenever I arrive in Beijing I think the same thing. Actually, to be fair, the past couple of days it's rained the hardest it's had in 40 years apparently (felt like a normal afternoon storm in Taipei to me), so today everything is clear and beautiful and fresh and green with that just rained feel in the air. A good day to mark 20 years.

Anyway, to celebrate this historic event, I went down to the convenience store to pick up one of my favorite snacks, the tasty Twix bar, to enjoy with my afternoon tea and conference calls.

After paying RMB15 for my crunchy chewy snack, I'm thinking, gee how much is that in NT$? Because it seemed to me that a Twix bar in Taiwan costs something like NT$20, which is only RMB5. How's that for Olympic sized inflation?

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