Wrestling Blogs - Mike Tamillow

Brian doesn't understand the concept of money in China. Let me make something very clear. Money in China isn't money in the United States. The mosty accurate way of measuring gold standard is not big macs. It's not the exchange rate, which right now is 1:6.85. The best standard is the hour wage stardard. Why? because this is another way of measuring the GDP of any given country. I tried to explain economics to chinese people but it is tough. Now a chinese teacher makes 300 USD per month. An american teacher might make 2000 to 3000 USD per month. Seven to ten times the price. Well Brian is still measuring in USD which is tough because the best way of being confident of a purchase is to see what other consumers are willing to pay. Yeah... well when the other consumer is unfamiliar with the market and is still thinking in USD it really plays with your head. Brian also makes six figures a year and I make zero as of now. That being said I could give some tips on how to bargin but it's not worth it. Simply said, find a consumer you can trust and get his price. Then offer less, threaten to leave. If she doesn't respond - because I gaurentee it's a she, even the chinese know women sell - say you've been rude and offer a tiny bit more, smile and flirt, look pretty if you do, and see what she says. Now Brian and I go out on a romantic afternoon. Not romantic in the sense of a date. Listen to this closely. What is really romatic is time, comfort, events, and naturalness. Which means if you want a girl just be yourself. For example, pick her up for a date without flowers, then when she answers pick some of her flowers and give them to her. Then you act like 'oh my god I just picked your flowers, I'm so sorry'. Personally, I've gotten stopped by the cops twice so far on a first date and those turned out to be the longest relationships. In other words we spend all day together just being ourselves and touring. I get back from the day pass annoyance and I see Brian who says 'screw it let's go out' He tells me that I can't worry about Larry, it's in his hands now, which I agree, although I have a little more optimism then he does (I'm sometimes a completely unrealistic optimist. We go down to the the forbidden city. It is huge. I know Askren said he would get bored but that's only because he saw the city dead. It looks so empty dead. But imagine it with five thousand girls doing your will, another group of castrated men also doing your will, and free food as well as the any video games (entertainment) at the time at your fingertips. For example, you are the emporer, you see two guys walk past and you say 'fight to the death now' bam they do it. Now that's what I call fun. So that hurt my ankles because it was HUGE. Then it takes us to a 'rickshaw' I think that's how the guy said it. Basically this 100 lb guy biked around 400 lbs of weight for forty minutes and gave us his best english explanations of the area (which was really historic). Brian really felt for him but I thought 'this guy is making his money. It was 120 yuan or 17 USD. 17 USD an hour in china is HUGE! I try to think in chinese. That means if we gave him 20 yuan it would have been fair. Then I went and spent 3250 Yuan on 3 custom made suits. AHHHH! But I have some new friends, you'll find out. I hate feeling like a stupid foreigner but as of now I am. Please watch every dollar that every leaves your pocket ok? GOSH DARN IT.