September 30, 2007

• Wowwww it's been a long time!  So much for blogging. :p
  Lots of work lately... month-long co-source in Lujiazui (Puming Lu @ Shangcheng Lu) which was more like a secondment... met a Melbourne counterpart from ITA; very chill Malay guy whom jus does not know despite going to Monash togezeur.

  I am in need of massaji.  Xiao waaaaang!!

  Still recovering from my client's auditor's cold... -_-;  the phlegm (and hence man-made cough) are still present... albeit at daily-weakening levels.  Spent 2 days in the office before 4 days at FuDan University's Crowne Plaza hotel doing graduate recruitment... Seeing some Shanghai Hunniez (lolz0rz) and getting a better feel for motivated Chinese youth.. it's kind of scary.  I spent the last 4 days (which included sat and sun thanks to guoqing - national day holiday) in the office, one half day of which was spent giving a brief orientation to the new A1s... similarly, meeting these new hires also scares me.  Now I have pressure to perform at a higher level than someone, whereas previously, there was nobody less important at the firm.  :-/   Weeee'll see!  In some ways I think that's a good motivation for me.

  GP has incorporated!!  (In HK) - as of about 3 or 4 weeks ago, I think.  (check gmail for d337s)... quite the exciting.  I'm excited to see how this will take off (or flop....)  I have the feeling that despite my somewhat lacklustre response to this concept, it will in hindsight prove to be one of my career's (if not my life's) pivotal moments... reaching the top of one (of many) flights of stairs... or perhaps the start of my ascension of the next flight.  In any case, I think it will prove to be a bigger deal than I can't help feeling right now.  (SHHHHHH DON'T TELL THE GUYS.)
  I think it has to do with my primarily advisory role - not being in HK, it's hard to get involved in the hands-on, cut-up-knuckles, dirt-on-the-face nuts and bolts side of the business.  The thought of ditching my firm and heading for the wild woods has crossed my mind a few times... but for the time being I think I should build on my technical, soft, managerial, and administrative skills before taking a leap out of this "school".  Of course, I have much maturing to do, too, but that's somewhat different.  Somewhat.

  I think a lot about NYC and LA these days... the lifestyles primarily (as different as they were - and they actually were different!) but also the environments, the food, the people... there's so much I miss, so much I linger on these days.  I feel like it may be inhibiting my forward-movement.  It's as if I only move laterally these days; in all aspects of life.
  Urth Cafe... Santa Monica Mountain driving... Citylights on Fig... SCathons... northernish down-town LA... SC campus (remember the "SCampus"?...) Traffic... Danny's... drift events...
  29th at 8th... the low sun casting long, slow shadows on my walls... the timed coffee maker which I now so dearly miss... the Subway... wine... city tours... Red Bamboo... (Can't help but think of "big bamboo" when I think of that place!)

  In other news my right thumb is good well and torn up thanks to the abrasive green side of the dish sponge. :p  I further tested my ambidextrosity by attempting, late in the cycle, to use my left hand for the scrubbing, but it just didn't work out.  Anyway, though the kitchen still isn't quite as spick-and-span as it was that week that we had an Ayi, it's way better than it was earlier!

  I think I'm going to go tend to my beginning-to-be-over-grown nails now.  Scritch scratch!

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  addit:
  Guoqing kuaile!

  Free food at Cal Kitchen on Dagu Lu near Chengdu Lu today (Oct. 1) if you mention my firm!  See you there!

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