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When You Need Cash

Money, without it living in Hong Kong is very miserable. I don't like having to pick and choose what I do here because I need to think about how much money I have. I did a cashflow analysis recently which has strengthened my resolve to save money by not needlessly spending and going out. It pretty much cuts out my plans for a new cell phone. I turned down going to a birthday party hosted by one of Connie's friends. I ended up going to one last night since it was Gloria's birthday. Lets see what's ahead, Priscilla's birthday, and then Phoebe and Erine's wedding. It was amusing when I carried the wedding invitation into SME. I learned the term "Red Bomb" (in reference to the invitation in the red envelop) and how costly it is to attend such a wedding. Looking forward to clubbing with Priscilla and her friends this weekend for her birthday at Sugar.

The educator's role has really come upon me. Tonight is suppose to be my first night tutoring a girl that works as the new Manager for SJSJ. She's one of Gloria's friends but her commitment has been lacking. I need to start designing a curriculum to teach her, which could eventually lead to teaching other managers and execs. On top of that I had lunch with some of my old students yesterday after they wrote the BULATS exam. I had a lot of feed back about how hard the examination was, apparently almost all the questions were what they considered level 3-4. One of the mothers wants me to tutor her child so I have been thinking about how I could use this opportunity to develop a working curriculum to be reused or modified later for China.

A side note, a lot of interesting things in the IT front. I especially like Google's new analytics service. I've attached it to my own domain and to Readership as well to track the usage. If I end up developing more websites this will be a great free tool to gauge the success of my designs.

Lets end this posting with something interesting. I finished off a writing class yesterday with some students and we got into a discussion about how independant girls are in Hong Kong. What girls pay attention to here are much different then what girls pay attention to back in Canada. For example, some girls commented that guys should always have tissues with them. Additionally, girls commented that it is common, and an accepted practice, that guys should be carrying a girl's handbag. I feel so sorry for the guys in Hong Kong...

posted by Tempest7 @ 13:48