A short, final Shanghai blog, which I will finish mainly with photos.
We closed the doors to our Pavilion on 31 October - a very strange feeling after having spent so much of the past 6 months there with the same people each day.
For a small Pavilion, we exceeded all targets, welcoming some 547,000 people to our public show - which depicted a day in the life of the Chen family in 2020 and showcased the amazing technology we will all consider commonplace in but a few years. We also exceeded targets in terms of Customer satisfaction and welcomed more than 10,000 cusotmers to our VIP technology showcase.
A few days after the Pavilion closed, and deconstruction had already commenced, we had one final party to thank all of the incredible staff who worked at the Pavilion and made it such a resounding success. The photos you see are from that night and from our final days in the Pavilion.
My last days were spent packing, saying farewells and of course, visiting my favorite eateries, including Mr & Mrs Bund, Ye Shanghai and Glamour Bar.
Shanghai would not have been such an amazing experience if it weren't for Mayte, Anthony, Arna, Tom, Jared, Gary, Greg, Aki, Colin, Lisa, Kevin Wang, the amazing Miss Alice, superwoman Kathy and all of the other incredible people I worked with day in and day out (far too many to list but many I will remember forever) - so to all of you, a very big, heartfelt thank you for making 2010 so memorable and enjoyable.
Whilst this chapter closes, the next one begins. I start my new job as Senior Manager, Business Operations for Greater China with Cisco next Monday - working from Sydney until I move to Hong Kong on 7 January 2011. Juz and Vegas will follow a few weeks after - giving me time to find us somewhere to live in Happy Valley. But for now, time for us to sort out what to store, what to take and what to toss... and the 1001 other things one needs to do when moving to another country!!
A new blog to come once we move to Hong Kong in the new year. Thanks for reading my about my Shanghai adventures this year.
G
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