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First of a New Month

It is now the First of August. Things have slowly started to change for me and plans need to be made. Ming Jian is suppose to be going out to Shanghai on the 5th, Willa should be coming into Hong Kong after the 8th of Sept. I need to start arranging my time. I might look to go to GuangZhou for the 20th. There is a good possibility but now I need to figure out when Ming Jian is planning on visiting Hong Kong.

I still haven't heard from the immigration office about my Hong Kong ID. That could be useful about now, the sooner I find out then the quicker I can make a few decisions. I need to work on my August budget right now. Luckily today I got paid, I still have to wait 2 days for the cheque to clear but now things are looking up. No more instant noodles, I'll keep with my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on my whole grain.

interestingly enough today a bunch of my Japanese friends decided to e-mail me at once. I haven't heard from Tomoka for a while but she sent me a short message today saying that she's been super busy with work. Yoji sent the same thing (what does this tell me about working in Tokyo? And in that case working in Hong Kong?) but he mentioned that he's moving soon with his family to a new condo by the river. I now have naked pictures of his son Max playing in the water. I'm sure these will haunt him when he grows up. Akira's birthday passed recently and I had sent him an e-mail on his birthday. I haven't heard from Yoshiro or Yuki for a while but I hope they're doing well! I expect to have a lot of fun when I go visit them in Japan.

I started putting up the Readership course data up on the website I'm missing a couple of courses and for some reason the Chinese writing doesn't like displaying unordered lists. But apparently people have started checking out the website and have been asking why there isn't any course information. I have some old site usage information hopefully after a month I can review the new data and we'll see if people are starting to visit the website. But even in its incomplete stage compared to the old website it is like night and day.

But the question I need to resolve is what my focus will be in the short term. I've taken Kevin's advice and have been spending more time in the Library. I've been going over economic magazines trying to understand a little bit of the world. The information has been useful in terms of refocusing myself. There are some great magazines like China International Business and The Economist. Is growth slowing in China? Sure probably a sure sign is the revaluation of the RMB. When I cam to HK HKD > RMB. Now after July 21st RMB > HKD. There are some great articles in terms of speculation about how China affects world Economy (inflation rates in the US due to Oil consumption and surplus exports in China) but what interested me is the continual references that China really does not have enough skilled (read MBAs) to help run their businesses. Lenovo is just the first step and probably the biggest example. I haven't yet explored what opportunities exist for me, but for sure one thing I need to do is fix my resume and buy a suit.

Summer sales are still going on but I need to be careful of my budget. I need to plan for my trip, I need to plan on buying a suit and dress shirts/pants. I've been looking at buying a single dumbbell as well. I have gotten just too skinny lately. Hopefully I can improve my eating habits to counter it but I think the lack of exercise has really affected me. I have nothing left for Alison, Coral and the girls to play with now. I wonder what they'll say about my long hair? Even my co-worker Rosalind told me that I need to cut it. She's been getting me to do Yoga moves at work.

posted by Tempest7 @ 23:50