From KL to Beautiful City of Qingdao

My flight was from Kuala Lumpur to Pudong Airport Shanghai.
Then to Qingdao Airport situated in north of Qingdao.


I was there to visit one of the metal stamping factory
"Pentair Enclosures" in Airport Industrial Zone.
After a visit, I spent my evening touring Qingdao
town and also have a dinner a one of very famous
seafood in town.
The food was marvelous.
HaiMengYuan Seafood Restaurant
Telephone: +86 (532) 8592-8488
Address: No. 3 Yan Er Dao Road.
ShiNan District, Fushan Bay Area
(Central Qingdao)
Qingdao, Shandong Province.  P.R. China


Qingdao City is situated at slightly south west of Beijing,
facing toward south Korea. People pronouce it as "Tsingtao"
and it is very famous with "Tsingtao Beer".

It is located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula.
An important coastal city in east China and characterized
by a unique blend of sea, mountains and a pleasant climate.
Qingdao is a key economic center and port city in China,
also famous for its cultural heritage and picturesque scenery.
It’s also one of China’s major seaports for foreign trade.

 Here are some photos in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Photo in Rennes, France

Here are some phote taken in Rennes, France.

Rennes is a city which located in south-west of Paris.
It is an old capital city of Brittany.
Among the famous place is a historical site which
show many grand architectural designs of last few
hundred years ago and some people say it is an old stone
wall building.

There are many students here which study at Rennes
University. You can meet many foreign students here
and most of people are very friendly.

Food is not a problem as there are many Asian
and Western restaurant available. but for me,
I did my own cooking.

Those familiar among local citizen bazaar, you
will find the day market which sell used items
such as clothes, kid toys, old coins, old furniture,
photo albums, table lamp, etc.
This day market is called "braderie".
One of the grand and famous at below link:-

http://www.mairie-lille.fr/fr

Lille's Grande Braderie dates back to medieval times. Any resident
can grab a corner of pavement and play hawker for the weekend
at one of Europe's biggest flea markets. Bargains galore are
guaranteed and haggling is mandatory.

 

Braderie market 

Factory visit to Sumitomo Metal Industries, Osaka

Sumitomo (Light) Metal Ind. was one of a few big vendors

to my former company in Japan. They supplied metal sheet that

we used to produce sleeving for automobile power steering. 

The sleeves act as a coupler to join metal fitting and high pressure

hose. I was attached to Nichirin Rubber Company during our 
technical training as part of my course.

Inside the Sumitomo plant, there was a huge oven facility 
to process raw metal to produce steel. End products would 
be steel plate and steel rod after extrusion.

The melting chamber was so big which we have to 
climb the stairs up to 3 storey building to enable us 
to see the operation and each process steps done to 
produce steel bar. 

All the visitors have to wear a fire proof uniform for safety reason.

It was a very challenging and interesting experience. The inside

room temperature was very hot and I could not image how the

worker was able to stand there on daily basis.

For Nichirin Rubber Industrial Co, it was established in 1914.

I was there in 1986 during a joint venture with Malaysian company

as I was one of the pioneer group. It was a good move by our

government to promote technical know how and to gain the

industrial expertise through " Look East Policy".

We spent six months over there doing the technical training 
and learning various machine control and operation. 
They have advance facilities and a very high tech

equipment to produce a zero defect components for

auto industries.

It's really an amazing experience.