The DressMonkey's surrounded their not-so-distant cousin, but attempts at communication seemed to be going nowhere.

Tomorrow I will embark on what will hopefully be our final round of fabric sourcing for this MMM3. I'm going to the gigantic textile trade fair and I hope to get some good contacts and hopefully better leads on sourcing the last of our fabric for MMM3: The Final Countdown.. Thats right, in about a week and a half, you'll be able to order your very own DressMonkey. Jeff has outlined how to do so in an earlier posting, and we'll be following up with more details soon so keep posted.

Now, back to the trade fair. We've done this before, and found some great sponges and the occasional velvet. But now the pressure is really on. Adam and I will be going there tomorrow with the intention of buying a lot of fabric to offer you future customers. We've got all of our specs in mind, and essentially its going to come down to how much I can bargain some of these people down. As I almost always mention, doing business in China is about volumes, and people won't talk to you unless you can order 900,000,000 of something from them. Tomorrow's fair is going to be big, with a lot of buyers with much more capital than we at DressMonkey have. My hopes are that either they are astonished by my strikingly average good looks, or better still my bargaining Chinese.

I've had a busy day working since 6:30am on the ordering sheet that you'll be receiving if you request it once we're ready, and I'm pretty sure that you'll be impressed by its user-friendly nature. After that, its time to play some dodgeball, where the Chuck Norris Fan Club will extend its domination streak. Then, I'm off to Pudong to rub shoulders with old guys named Stan from the midwest who are here for 3 days for the trade fair, yet still need to go to Hooters to remind them what chicken wings taste like (believe me, you would be surprised how many foreigners come to Shanghai for trade fairs for literally 2 days, yet still need that "taste of home"). Wish me luck readers.