Since Monday, I am on a business trip in Chengdu. The flight was real “fun”. 
First of all the flight was scheduled for 11:25, but was delayed for 30 minutes (11:55h). In the plane the captain told us, that the flight duration will be three hours and we will land in Chengdu at 14:25h. I was really wondering how she wanted to fit the three hours into the time slot from 11:55h – 14:25h (= 2.30h). Anyway…
Lunch in the plane was great. The concert of 148 Asian people (beside me, there was only one other western guy) slurping their drinks and meals was really relaxing. Afterwards, I was so fortunate to be able to listen to 1.5 hours of noisy and excited discussion of the couple, which was sitting next to me. This was accompanied by even louder snoring of an Indian guy on the other side of the corridor. After 2.5(!) hours we finally arrived in Chengdu. The landing felt like this:
Very interesting is, that all people were directly switching on their mobiles as soon as the airplane touched the ground with at least one tire, although the personnel explicitly said, that one should wait until the plane fully stopped. And did I mention, that Chinese people seem to like the start sound of their mobiles? That was the second concert of the day…
So, now it is my third day here and I like it so far. Unfortunately I did not see very much from the city itself. The company’s office is located in a software park a little bit outside. The building and its environment is very nice. Really interesting is, that the government seems to be pushing the development of the infrastructure. The streets in this area are even bigger than in Shanghai most of the time, but next to the streets much space is still free or construction work just started.
The last evenings we always went out to have dinner together with some colleagues. On Monday, we went to a mushroom hot pot restaurant. Those, who know me better, know that mushroom is not the food, which I prefer most, but cooked in the hot pot it tasted really good. Yesterday we had dim sum, which was very delicious. Afterwards we went shopping at Carrefour and then the others went for a massage. I was too tired and as well wanted to watch the recording of WWDC.
By the way…Oliver told me this morning that the massage was a little bit rough. 
These are some impressions from Chengdu (not very representative ):
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