Return to Singapore 1995

Guo Hanyue said: "Last time, when a few Malaysian colleagues took Mengchen and me to visit Tampines and Bedok, we saw that the street electrical appliance stores were selling famous brand electrical appliances, such as Panasonic, Sony, Philips, Pioneer, and the prices seemed not very expensive. There are also many types of VCD players you mentioned..."

Li Xiaofan laughed when he heard this, and remembered a story from the past. In his previous life, he applied to Lin Qianxue for his first return to China to visit relatives at the end of 1995. I remember that before returning to China, he went to Forest Electrical Plaza and spent more than 800 Singapore dollars to buy a set of the latest Panasonic 3-disc VCD player on the market. The so-called 3-disc means that three types of discs can be put into a tray at the same time, and it also comes with two high-fidelity HIFI speakers.

The effect was very good during the trial broadcast in Singapore. He excitedly brought this set of speakers back to China with a lot of bags and gave it to his uncle and aunt as a gift for his first return to China.

Unexpectedly, when he returned to China, he was dumbfounded. This most advanced Panasonic 3-disc VCD player did not work at all! Why? At that time, most of the VCDs on the domestic market were pirated discs. The original Panasonic player that Li Xiaofan bought could not handle domestic pirated discs at all. Basically, after playing for a few minutes, it would either freeze or go back to the starting point to play again. He changed dozens of VCDs bought in China, and each one was like this.

However, the small BBK player that his uncle and his family bought earlier worked very well, because domestic players have strong error correction capabilities. When domestic VCD players were designed, they were aimed at pirated discs on the market. The designed VCD system control software would coordinate the dynamic working state of the movement and decoder chip, and replace, cover, and shield the error signals, making the display of intuitive images cleaner and more comfortable.

Domestic player advertisements claim to be "the king of reading films" and "coarse". The VCD player that can read low-quality pirated films attracted a large number of consumers.

However, the big brand machine that Li Xiaofan bought in Singapore did not take into account the large number of low-quality pirated discs in the mainland, and its error correction ability was very poor. Therefore, when the laser heads of these machines read data from domestic pirated optical discs, random and sudden errors will occur due to the quality and damage of the optical discs. The software cannot compensate and correct these errors, resulting in mosaic, screen splitting, pauses, noise and other faults.

Later, this Panasonic 3-disc VCD player was placed in my uncle's house and became an audio decoration. Occasionally, when guests and relatives came to visit my uncle's house, they would play the original VCD that Li Xiaofan brought from Singapore to show off...

Li Xiaofan said to Guo Hanyue: "You must not buy VCD players in Singapore. You must buy domestic products. Domestic products have strong error correction capabilities and can deal with any pirated and inferior discs! In addition to VCD players, other electronic appliances can be bought here in Singapore. Local Singaporeans here will go to the Sim Lim Square area to buy electrical and electronic products..."

"Sim Lim Square?"

"Sim Lim Square is called Sim Lim Square in English. It is located in Bugis. It is the largest electrical and electronic market in Singapore. It is a bit like the electronic market street in Zhongguancun in China..."

"Oh, really? I'm planning to buy a CD recently. Walkman, how about we go there together?"

"Sure, I booked a flight for Sunday, and I want to go to Forest Plaza to buy some things during my break on Saturday afternoon. If you are free, let's go together!"

"That's great. Mengchen and I will try to go there with you on Saturday afternoon!"

When talking about the street of electronics market in Forest Plaza and Zhongguancun, Li Xiaofan suddenly thought of someone: Brother Qiang, the founder of JD.com!

Before rebirth, there were several books on Li Xiaofan's bedside, and "Liu Qiangdong's Autobiography: My Business Model" was one of them. If I remember correctly, Brother Qiang should still be studying at Renmin University. He only set up a stall in Zhongguancun in 1998, three years later. He used one character from his first girlfriend's name to set up "Jingdong Multimedia" and started selling products such as burners, compression cards and sound cards...

Jingdong's self-operated e-commerce companies are indeed worth studying...

After returning to his room on the third floor, Li Xiaofan recorded some of the contents of the book "Liu Qiangdong's Autobiography: My Business Model" that he could recall in his notebook.

When he wrote until ten o'clock, he felt sleepy and wanted to lean on the bed for a nap, but he fell asleep directly...

The next day, the alarm clock woke him up at six in the morning.

He went downstairs to wash his face, changed into sportswear and running shoes, and went out to the NTUC Club Resort.

Before leaving, Li Xiaofan found that the reminder note left for Liu Mengchen on the dining table in the living room was written by Guo Hanyue. Recalling this, he realized that when he was writing notes last night, the door of his room was not closed. Guo Hanyue should have helped him close the door before she went to work, and the thin blanket on his body was also covered by her...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.

...

When Li Xiaofan jumped into the resort swimming pool, Lin Qianxue had already swam several times in it.

Today, Qianxue wore a light blue swimsuit with slender straps around her back and tied around her neck, highlighting her smooth and beautiful back and graceful figure.

This time, Li Xiaofan swam behind her, keeping the same rhythm, and not surpassing her. He just quietly admired her beautiful body and swimming posture from behind.

Lin Qianxue swam more than a dozen times in one go. When she stopped to rest against the pool wall, she realized that Li Xiaofan was following her.

After Li Xiaofan touched the jade and stopped, Lin Qianxue poured a bunch of water over it.

"Li Xiaofan, when did you come here? Why didn't you say hello to me!"

"Report to the officer, he has been here a long time ago! I don't dare to disturb your old man's swimming!"

"Glib talk! Why are you so honest today and swimming so slowly?"

"Reporting to Officer, I've been drinking too much recently, I haven't exercised enough, and my physical fitness has seriously declined, so I can't beat you, Officer!"

"Is it true that your physical fitness has declined so much after just two or three days of drinking?"

"Well, maybe I worked a lot of night shifts before, so I couldn't get over the jet lag, didn't sleep well, and was feeling weak..."

"Don't you have to work during the day now?"

"Well, thank you so much, Officer!"

"You are like an old man, an old man, am I that old?" Lin Qianxue said angrily.

"Haha, old man is a respectful title for leaders in our country. Officer, you are not old at all, you are very young and beautiful!"

Lin Qianxue was a little proud when she heard this, and said angrily: "You are getting more and more glib! By the way, I want to ask you something, what is your academic qualifications in China?"

"I studied in a technical secondary school, and my level is equivalent to your POLY, Polytechnic Institute!" Li Xiaofan deliberately raised his level a little higher.

"I went to the Human Resources Department to look at your resume a few days ago. Were you studying part-time at university before coming to Singapore?"

"Well, yes, it's a computer course at a part-time evening university. I studied it for two years before coming to Singapore..."

"Then when you return to China this time, find the university to issue a certificate for you, and then it's best to notarize it and bring it back!"

"Officer, what is the use of this certificate?" Li Xiaofan asked curiously.