Location: Beijing Millennium Hotel Havana Bar First Visit
Travel note summary: (Note: This is a hotel and bar I visited many times later.) Arrived in Beijing around 7 PM for a visa on arrival, but the system crashed,折腾 until almost 9 PM before clearing customs. Got to the hotel past 9. Tonight, Mr. Liang booked me a行政房 here (1,600 RMB). Honestly, for someone like me who isn’t picky about accommodation, it feels a bit wasteful @@. I’ll just make good use of the internet to write posts remotely on my Taiwan server. After arriving, Mr. Liang invited his goddaughter Lele, who works as the executive secretary to the chairman of China Film Group, and her producer boyfriend Xiao Zhu to gather at the hotel bar. It’s been years since I last visited Beijing, and I don’t know many people here—aside from senior Ziyi from graduate school, there’s only my university classmate Naiwen, who’s a manager at Goldman Sachs Beijing. So I invited Naiwen over to introduce her to Mr. Liang, a senior in finance. Naiwen was really nice; she had just spent the whole day shopping with her parents and must have been exhausted, but she still came to meet and chat with us. Due to their work, Lele and Xiao Zhu kno…
