top 10 china adventures to come
Filed in china, top10, travelogue, November 2, 2008, 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):done
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?
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.
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.
opening ceremony
Filed in china, sports, August 8, 2008, 3:38 pmjust finished watching the opening ceremony and too excited to sleep, capping more than 12 hours in front of the TV today (more than total number of hours that i’ve spent on TV all year).
very exciting and impressive opening ceremony, a few observations:
graduation!
Filed in hbs, June 9, 2008, 12:33 amafter a month of vacations and traveling, graduation finally happened!
we wore our fancy gowns and cheap caps then braced ourselves for some classic Boston freezing rain (after a week of balmy beach weather).
so how much does HBS cost?
Filed in hbs, May 27, 2008, 11:36 pmso the school’s official budget for married students reads like this:
Tuition: $39,600
University health services: $3,200
Health insurance: $4,100
Program support fee (books/materials): $3,900
Housing: $15,000
Food, personal, miscellaneous: $15,400
Total = $80,200
In reality, this has been my experience this last year:
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