Beijing: MontaVista, shopping, dinner

On Wednesday, my last day in Beijing, I first met Haitao Zhang who wanted to take me to the MontaVista office to introduce me to his colleagues. I talked to his boss for a while and we went through the standard picture taking routine. We then went back to the city because I still had to do some shopping but the traffic was crazy again and I arrived much later than expected.

I managed to meet Alex Lau, whom I met at the Debian mini-conference, at a shopping mall. I figured that it would be really helpful to have a local with me to help with bargaining and with translations. The first item on my last was new shoes. I should've replaced my sneakers a year ago but never found the time but I figured China was the ideal place to buy some new shoes. I found a pair I liked, and bought two of them (in different colour) since they were so ridiculously cheap compared to Europe. Then we got some souvenirs, some sweets and some cooking stuff. After we were done with the shopping, we went out to dinner and Anthony Fok, a Chinese developer, joined us. We had some really good conversations on China, and I'll probably summarize my thoughts about this at some point in the future.

In any case, it was a nice evening. I really enjoyed my trip to China and I'm seriously considering going back soon for a while. I'd like to thank the organizers of the conference again for all their efforts as well as everyone else who spent time with me and helped me getting around. I had a great time here!