Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Arrived in France alone.
I checked in and then was told that my flight would be transitted to Beijing at first place which i was so shocked, i never expected that and just worried if it would be late for Paris, actually i worried too much.
Well, i was lucky to get a window seat and a french man sitting next to me, but i swear to the God, we didn't talk at all during the flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Around 90 minutes' flight, we were in Beijing international airport. The funny thing is the staff in Beijing Custom was telling me i looked extreamly slim than the photo on my passport, it made me feel great, ghahaha.
The flight from Beijing to Paris was absolutely long for me, especially without hubby, i wished my hubby was with me on the plane, well, not too bad, as the french guy next to me chatted a lot with me along the way about his chinese wife, impression, finacial crisis around the world, different foreigners' personality, blah blah blah, at least it didn't make my trip way too boring. Additional, he helped me for finding and moving my heavy luggage and took me to the exit, afterwards he said goodbye to me and left for Lyon where he lives. Who said french people is a$$hole?!
Volia, i got out on Terminal 1 and saw no one from my family which was extremely upset, i kept waiting for over 40 minutes, plus i was way too exhausted after 12 hours' flight without good sleep, then i started nervous and tried to find someone for help, well, one chinese woman just made a phone call to her french family, after she ended the call, i asked her if she's chinese, yes, she is, then i asked her if she could make a phone call to my hubby's home, she did for me, however no one was home to answer. Then i chatted with her a little bit to release my nervous. She also was waiting for her french hubby to pick her up. Suddently i saw my hubby showed up and walked forward to me, hmm, i felt so security finally. My mother-in-law, sisiter-in law, father-in law all came to the airport to pick me up, i'm the happiest girl in the world.oyho.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Memory of Grandfather forever
The most impressed memory is that my grandfather always was in the living room when we visited them on holiday, he was just sitting over there and waiting for us coming back home to get together. He always cared of us about of our life and work, sometimes we thought the overly caring was annoying, however we are not going to hear his voice anymore, life is short which is so true. I had grown up and lived with them until I was 16, afterwards I moved to Shanghai with my parents. I left my grandfather nearly 9 years which I visited them regularly once a year, that was so less.
I really do miss my grandfather though his body wasn’t here anymore with us, but I do believe he lives in our hearts forever. I tried my best to stay with his body in the living room in the past three days, he was so skinny that his face wasn’t be recognized by those people who haven’t seen him a lot. I know, he was my grandfather, sleeping so peacefully in the coffin, just peacefully.
The toughest time for me is the farewell for grandfather’s body in the crematorium, it was the first time for me to visit so serious and scared place in the world, the video man made a tape for us, after the farewell, we went to buy the stone box for grandfather’s bone ash, we picked a stone one with nice décor finally and asked them to carved grandfather’s name, birth date and death date. Later we were waiting in the restroom and was told that we could watch the video together, it was extremely sad and I saw my grandfather for the last time before he was sending to the first cinerator, I hate this. A couple of minutes later, the staff sent my grandfather’s bone ash to the restroom which was wrapped by the red silk. My dad took it and put into the stone box, the big body turned into a box of ash, this is the most astonished thing I ever experienced before.
Well, life needs to move on, i do miss my grandfather! Rest in peace!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Updated: How long will it take to get married with Mickael?
Oct.9.2008--Single document notary, including French translation, Certification letter to Foreign Affairs(220RMB)
Oct.16.2008--To pick all notary documents. Yeah
Oct. 17.2008--Foreign affairs for the certificate of the notary. 200RMB (50RMB/document+50RMB delivery fee to French Consulate)
Oct.29.2008--An interview for marriage with Mr. Motier in French Consualte(Present all documents)
Nov 14.2008--Pick Marriage qualification paper in French Consulate
Nov 15.2008--Marriage register on Caobao Lu. FAILED, damn!!! Because French consulate made a mistake of translatation for Mickael's name, how could they make this kinda STUPID mistake?! So choked.
Nov 17.2008--French consulate correct the mistake of Mickael's name+ Marriage register on Caobao Lu(we're husband and wife now!!!)(9RMB)+ Notary office for marriage and translation(230RMB)
Nov 18.2008--Translate my ID card(70RMB)--In fact, VISA doesn't require it, i hate their website, i misunderstood.
Nov 19.2008--Notary done+send notary to Foreign Affairs(100RMB for the fast process)
Nov 20.2008--Got my ID card translation paper
Nov 21.2008--Get foreign affair docs+ send all docs to French Consulate
Dec 9.2008--To get our french family booklet and french marriage certificate, at the meantime, i filled out the Schengen VISA application form and presented all documents which they require, she asked me to take my passport and visa on Dec 15. The visa fee is FREE!!! Valid time is one year with multi entry:D
Dec 15.2008--Get VISA, vaild for 1 year, mutil entry
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Our new apartment has the best view!!!
Gateway towers, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Jin mao Tower, World Financial Center.
Lu Pu Bridge
GoodYear dirigible balloon passed by Xujiahui
Railway Station
Our new apartment is pretty close to Caobao Road subway station which has the nest view from our 2 balconies(South&North).Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thailand shuts down the second airport
One American tourist weren't calm down and yelled as what they often do all over the world: I wanna go to Phuket, what's wrong with those people. A$$hole, don't you see those Thail pretesters fighting for their own right?! Shut up, loser! Do not never ever expect other people treat you like GOD when you're being a$$hole,dude.

Monday, November 24, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Wedding albums in advance! HOTTTTT!!!
Great, so finally got all products we ordered, including 3 albums(large+middle+mini), 3 small frames, 2 large inch typical wedding frames, 1 post, 1 big red suitcase, hmmm, so lovely, oh, and 56 pictures and 1 CD, and 35 invitation cards with inserted photo.
All right, photoes are more than any words, tatah, now is midnight so i'd like to post only 1 photo, to be continued tomorrow:)
Monday, November 17, 2008
We're husband and wife NOW!
Fine, Mickael went to french consulate to get new documents, what i'm not surprised is no one apologized in French consulate, come on. Due to their mistake, we lost one day for our marriage process, it's straightly related with getting family booklet and visa and flight ticket,etc. Losing one day maybe means lose one week. Yep, Mickael often says that, it's true.
And today, we went to marriage register again, well, everything went on very well, all documents were correct and we were required to pay 9RMB, after we filled out our declareation form, we were taken into that marriage presenting hall, the staff announced we're husband and wife, congratulations. Only 5 seconds, suddently we're a legal couple in China.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Updated: How long will it take to get married with Mickael?
Oct.9.2008--Single document notary, including French translation, Certification letter to Foreign Affairs(220RMB)
Oct.16.2008--To pick all notary documents. Yeah
Oct. 17.2008--Foreign affairs for the certificate of the notary. 200RMB (50RMB/document+50RMB delivery fee to French Consulate)
Oct.29.2008--An interview for marriage with Mr. Motier in French Consualte(Present all documents)
Nov 14.2008--Pick Marriage qualification paper in French Consulate
Nov 15.2008--Marriage register on Caobao Lu. FAILED, damn!!! Because French consulate made a mistake of translatation for Mickael's name, how could they make this kinda STUPID mistake?! So choked.
Nov 17.2008--French consulate correct the mistake of Mickael's name+ Marriage register on Caobao Lu(we're husband and wife now!!!)(9RMB)+ Notary office for marriage and translation(230RMB)
Nov 18.2008--Translate my ID card(70RMB)
Nov 19.2008--Notary done+send notary to Foreign Affairs(100RMB for the fast process)
Nov 20.2008--Got my ID card translation paper
Nov 21.2008--Get foreign affair docs+ send all docs to French Consulate
Dec...Waiting for getting french family booklet
To be continued.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I'm unloaded today.
Anyway we decide to move into the new apartment this Sunday, hope we will get the keys on Sat for good:-)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Who will win in the end? Let's see in one week!
There's nothing messed up more than our house contract and landlord issues. I really don't wanna recall the bad news i got from the old agent this morning about the current landlord changing his mind again, blah blah blah blah
All in all, he just wants to get some reibursement back as we informed him about our moving too late, nonsense, i double checked the contract and confirmed with the agency, we're right, just because this landlord can't accept this truth.
Good news is that our new agent has done a great job to find a "client" who claimed to move into on Nov 15, suddently the landlord called my cell phone which i wasn't expected all the time, it looked he had a good mood and told me that we need to move out before Nov 15. So we should postone our moving plan tomorrow, instead of visiting Seattle Residence, then go sign the new house contract with the new landlord and new agency.
Bad news is that i'm really not sure if when the old landlord will change his mind again on this issue, it looks like we can trust him this time without any paper, this is not fair for us. God, please, Mishi finds "that client" asap. If not, we should renew our contract with him for one more year which we need to face with, meanwhile we'll lose 4,550RMB as we'll sign the new contract with another person and tomorrow we'll only pay one month's rental as the deposit.
This is a good lesson for any of us, when we deal with the money stuff or the contract stuff, we should double read and think about every single details. Try to pay less as the deposit, even if we're in trouble, the deposit doesn't hurt our heart a lot.
My wishes now are:
1.Hope our current landlord doesn't change his mind anymore and keep his word.
2.Hope we can move out next weekend.
3.Hope our current landlord gives lefted deposit back.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
French consulate today, we'll be get married 2 weeks later.
We got there on time and we were waiting in the room a little bit, fine, i was still cool. Nah, actually the temperature was around 29 degrees, other people also complained it was to hot, or someting wrong with their air-con, whatever.
Voila, here we are, Mr.Jean-Claude Mortier called Mickael, so we followed him and went to his office, we were asked to present our passports and copy documents, plus he gave 3 pieces of paper to fill out which it was in french. I don't have any clue, i asked Mickael for help, suddently i realized that my hands were sweating, a lot, lol. What a serious and important moment for us!
After Mr. Jean-Claude Mortier got all documents he required, the INTERVIEW started, as follow conversation:
1. Jean-Claude: When did you meet each other? Where? Why?
Joyce: We met each other in March 17,2007.
Mickael: In Shanghai. That was a french party, a house party.
2. Jean-Claude:Have we seen each other's parents already? When?
Mickael: We met Joyce's parents last Mother's day.
Joyce: That was May 17, i guess.
Jean-Claude: So have you ever seen Mickael's parents? Or his parents visited Shanghai?
Joyce: Nope, not yet, we chatted on MSN and saw them.
3. Jean-Claude:How do parents feel like of Mickael? What was the first impression?
Mickael: Her parents like me .
Jean-Claude: They like you or more that like?
Mickael:Yes, more than like, the first impression was great, they're good people.
4. Jean-Claude:Do we live together? Sure?
Mickael: Yes.
Joyce: Errr, yes, i used to live with my parents, but now i live with Mickael most of the time.
Jean-Claude: Are you sure? Now you live with him?
Joyce: Yes, i'm pretty sure about this.
5. Jean-Claude:Do we have a plan to make a baby? When?
Mickael: We want to have a baby next year.
Joyce: Errr, nope, i want to have a baby after our wedding, so that'll be next summer.
6. Jean-Claude:Do we have a plan to buy an real estate in China?
Joyce: Yes, we used to have that plan, and now the real estate market in China is so weak and uncontrollable, we will wait a little bit.
Jean-Claude: Yeah, all markets, everywhere.
7. Jean-Claude:Has Joyce ever been to Schengen countries? Has Joyce ever visited France?
Joyce: Not yet, never, but i have a plan to visit them during the Christmas this year.
8. Jean-Claude:Do you have any plans for the future? Are you ready for your Chinese work contract?
Mickael: Yes, we will work and live in Shanghai for next few years. The Chinese work contract will be not a problem for me.
Voila, the interview is finished, simple and sharp, everyone needs to be honest. They will smell it if you cheat. Mr. Jean-Claude wrote down everything on that red paper as the proof, haha, and now we're told that we need to wait for 10 days as they will make a public notice about our marriage for us. I guess we need to visit him 10 days later to get French booklet.
12 sharp, our appointment was done.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Landlord issue,we're in trouble.
He said it was too late to inform him, so he asked us to find another new client to rent his apartment immediately. He accused that i should have told him 2 months earlier. What a nonsense! I double checked our rental contract, it's written we should inform the landlord if we want to renew our rental contract, if not, we just need to move out in 3 days before the contract ends. Obviously this landlord does misunderstood overly and overly!!! Even he asked me to read the contract carefully, this is so ridiculous.
The second day, i called him again and he shouted and screamed through the phone again, he didn't give me any chance to explain which he was compeletely WRONG on this issue. Damn, what kinda human being it is?! He brings us to a wrose situation, he asked us to stay one more months, then we can leave whatever he finds a new client or not, this is so unacceptable. He also said that he didn't wanna give us back 9000RMB deposit, gosh, this is a robbery. I asked him to calm down and let the agency to talk to him, he was so angry for nothing and crazy.
I called the agency and explained every single detail to them , they fully understand us and will try to talk to the landlord, still, no news from the agency so far, i'd better call again.
To be continued...







