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trip to yangshuo
Filed in china, travelogue, November 15, 2008, 12:05 pmround trip flight to guilin: RMB 2,200/person
airport transfer to B&B: RMB 220/car
farmhouse B&B: RMB 380/night
float trip down li river: RMB 120/boat
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so how much do consultants make?
Filed in work, November 2, 2008, 8:49 amaccording to HBS’s annual survey, first year post-mba management consultants in china makes around USD 100,000 a year. given the demanding “lifestyle” (working hours) in this industry, let’s see how much on an hourly basis is a consultant worth.
Realistic case:
- $100,000 divided by 12 months = $8,333/month
- Working 5 days a week = $333/day
- Working 14 hours a day (9-11) = $29.76/hour
top 10 china adventures to come
Filed in china, top10, travelogue, , 8:29 amChina is a huge place, after watching BBC’s “wild china” (highly recommended!) i got a few more inspirations:
10) float down Li River at Yangshuo(Guangxi): to be completed this month
9) swim in the Changbai Shan caldera lake (Jilin)
8) trek across Tianshan (Xinjiang)
7) ski at the largest winter sports development in China: pingtian resorts
finally, back to work!
Filed in china, work, September 13, 2008, 5:04 amafter 2 years of vacation b-school, a whole summer of traveling, and a week of orientation and training, i’m finally working!
it’s a strange and almost foreign feeling. to attend meetings and discuss strategies (in real life context). but the best thing is, of course, earning money!!
b-school was great but it sank my finances to a bottomless pit. (this is how much my hbs degree cost me) now at the poorest point of my life, i’m eager to start digging out of this hole.
very glad to be assigned to a project located in shanghai (no traveling). even better that it’s a big shot CPG (consumer package goods) client! i’ve been trying to get out of high tech related projects and am currently interested in the consumer/retail sector. currently the only downside is that the client is located near hongqiao airport, which means about an hour commute each way every day. but the endless free ice cream we get at the client site makes up for the long commute!
let’s see how long it takes for me to yearn for those hbs days…
how to score 107 points against the redeem team:
Filed in sports, August 24, 2008, 12:12 pm6) have kobe cover his guy 10 feet outside of the 3 point line: how can kobe be the best defender on the best team in the world (which makes him the best defender in the world) when he is constantly beat off the dribble or off high picks? maybe if kobe don’t try to steal every pass/dribble or over-play his defense outside of the 3-point line, he might not have been burned so many times? (maybe he should just play like he played in the nba…)
5) let dwight howard onto the court: why would you ever let a guy who can’t play defense, can’t shoot free throws, actually, who can’t shoot (period) onto the court?
shanghai romance
Filed in china, August 23, 2008, 2:14 amrecently a friend asked me to recommend some date places around shanghai so i came up with a list. after reviewing with julia here are some of our favorite date places (shhh… keep this between us so these places don’t get overrun with tourists), not in any particular order:
* tai-kang lu area (泰康路): though this area has changed a lot over the years (more commercialized), it’s still quiet and quirky enough to retain most of its charm and secludedness. rows of quaint galleries, charming cafes, and curious craft stores.
olympic stories
Filed in china, sports, August 19, 2008, 2:40 amsince i don’t start work until early september, i’ve concentrated my energy on reading every single olympic-related article on the web. here are some of my favorites:
* so far the most interesting story belongs to microsoft’s “blue screen of death“. combine this with the opening ceremony & li ning then we have a winner.
a day at the beijing olympics
Filed in china, travelogue, August 17, 2008, 12:09 ampair of plane tickets to beijing: RMB2,000
subway ride to olympic park: free (for ticket holders)
pair of olympic track & field tickets: RMB800
what does it take to have a perfect olympics?
Filed in china, sports, August 15, 2008, 6:06 amrecently there have been some backlash/reactions on china’s questionable decisions on “perfecting” the olympic games, such as the 9-year old girl’s lip-syncing controversy and the fake firework footprints at the opening ceremony. obviously some people are not happy about it as they may feel somewhat “cheated” by such theatrics. but if one examine a bit deeper , one may find such perfectionist tendencies to be consistent with china’s immense effort to prove herself to the world.
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