May 1st! Day 1 of Canton Fair Phase 3. The crowd is noticeably smaller than Phase 2.
I’m pretty seasoned now. I walked through quickly first.
I found a few good bag supplier. Too many to choose from actually.
But period panties, not so much.
Ben A recently reached his $1MM milestone. I’m so jealous. I wish I could be there already.
Knot Theory is doing very so so on Amazon right now. $31K the past month. But seeing so many products I can sell, I should be able to do $1MM soon.
If I have 3 products that do $35K per month, then that’s $100K per month, which is $1MM per year.
I found McDonalds during lunch time. I was so thrilled! I decided I was going to get a burger, and not care about being paleo. I miss having something like that….fried chicken.
The chicken was good, but the burger was pretty lame. There was hardly any lettuce. Coke was not my thing anymore. And the fries were bland. The strawberry pie tasted alright, but so not healthy. $59RMB. Expensive for what you get.
A somewhat cute guy sat at the table beside me. But he spoke Spanish and was with all his colleague.
I think he was mildly interested. I was too tired to do anything. I wouldn’t know what to do anyway. I think I must’ve looked really uninteresting too. I was just sitting there, not really enjoying my crappy food.
An old, ugly Italian came to chat with me. He is an architect. He was showing me the houses he designed. It was impressive. But he was too aggressive in trying to meet me. It was creepy.
Maybe he was a really nice guy…but still….a bit too much. He told me about him helping a lady who lost her passport and wallet, years ago at the Canton Fair. He let her stay with him for 3 days! That was nice of him.
I left sort of in a hurry in order to avoid him. I forgot my invisalign. I was so mad! I had endured pain to get on that invisalign (because I thought I lost the set before it). Now I have to go back to that set…sigh.
I was so upset. And the meal made me feel even worse. After walking for a bit, I sat down to take some notes and just to rest. My backpack was in the way of me leaning against the chair, so I took it off. It crossed my mind that I might forget it, but then I never did, so I took it off still.
Fast forward maybe half an hour later….I was walking down an isle. I suddenly remembered that I didn’t have my backpack!!!! I freaked. I didn’t even quite remember where I sat! I just remembered seeing some furry clothing! Which section was that???? I ran around. I looked at my map. I could hardly think. I thought about the girl that the Italian guy had helped. Oh fuck. I did the same! My passport was in there!
I ran around aimlessly. I was lost. I looked at my map and thought, maybe section 6.1. That’s underwear section, but mixed with other stuff. I think I was there. I had gone through section 8.0 and 8.1 by then. God knows if my stuff was still there!
I felt a sense of calm and excitement, feeling that I will be alright, feeling that it’ll be a story to tell….but part of me was trying to tell myself that this aina’t no joke! What if I really lost my bag!!! And my passport! Both of my passports! And my Taibao ID! At least I had my phone with me, and there were photos of my Ids on there.
I ran into section 6.1, and to my extreme relief, my bag was right there by a chair! A Norwegian man was sitting beside it. I think it helped that he was sitting there. I was secretively appreciative. He was really nice. We chatted for a bit while I calmed down. He was accompanying his daughter to do some fashion purchasing for the course she is taking. Lucky girl.
Funny how I was feeling so shitty about losing my invisalign, and two things happened:
- I was letting this smaller thing overtake me, which possibly caused me to let a bigger thing happen (forgetting my bag)
- When I found my bag, I was no longer as bothered by my lack of invisalign. Put things into perspective!