Day: August 16, 2008

Being a Happy and Successful Lawyer

I came across this nice story on being a happy and successful lawyer from David Maister’s blog: Passion, People, and Principles.

Stephen C. Ellis is the managing partner at the law firm of Tucker, Ellis & West.

What follows is the commencement address he gave at Case Western reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio on May 19, 2008.

The title of his remarks is “On Being a Happy(and Successful) Lawyer”

Do enjoy it.

On a side note, I’ve been having a blast since setting up my WordPress blog last month. I was fortunate also that I decided to have wordpress.com host it as opposed to setting it up on other hosting sites (e.g. bravenet, doteasy, godaddy) because of the tag surfer feature. This allows us on the wordpress.com blogosphere to know who else is blogging. And using tag searches, you can find other like-minded bloggers posting about the same things you’re thinking about. Awesome. There are a whole lot of extremely knowledgeable people sharing wonderful experiences. The downside with using wordpress.com is that it doesn’t allow much customization – quite vanilla. Hosting on wordpress.com is all about the sharing and blogging, not about the other (commercial) stuff.

Blogging has been “therapeutic” but a great way for me to learn as well. I’ve been a bit on a tear with what originally was meant to be a part time deal but has turned out to be a daily item for me. Let’s see how it works out. My blogroll has grown exponentially and I can’t help but expand my RSS feeds because there’s just too many good stuff out there.

Finally, B- and I went to a food conference today at the HK Convention Center and it was amazing. The crush of bodies was like rush hour traffic. Food lover’s heaven. We’ll probably go back again. In any event, she needs to go for research.

And before signing off – last weekend, B- and I went to the Macau Venetian for the 2 days 1 night package. Great stuff. As a said in my FB – it’s a lot of fun and a lot of dangerous. We’ll be back there I’m sure.

Oy! The Olympics! (and other stuff)

Michael Phelps is The Man.

Apparently, Milorad “Mike” Cavic, the guy who won silver (by a mere length of a hair in touching the wall after Phelps) – he’s an American-born swimming for his parents’ homeland of Serbia. If the NY Times is correct, he’s apparently not too unhappy with his silver.

Interesting profile on the Team USA’s Women’s Volleyball team coach, Lang Ping (aka “Jenny” Lang Ping), as her current team played against her old team, Team China (and won).

The USA Women’s Gymnastics made quite a gold-silver pair – Nastia Liukin (Russian-born, Texas-raised) and Shawn Johnson (Iowan with a Chinese coach).

Too bad – Team China beat Team Chinese-Taipei (aka Taiwan) in baseball. Oh, c’mon – they actually like baseball more in Taiwan than in mainland China!

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent the week vacationing in his old home state of Hawaii, to re-charge before the convention. I had to gnash my teeth over the brouhaha over whether this could be perceived as “elitist,” and had to be grateful for the posts and articles that say, “No” since Obama was born and raised in Hawaii and still has family (including his grandmother, sister, and others) there. It would also be where he can pay his respects to the loved ones he lost.

Plus, last I checked, Hawaii was one of the 50 states; to refer to it as “exotic” is nice, but it’s not exactly foreign either.

Plus, Senator Obama did such “elitist” things as … body surfing (umm, that’s what they do in Hawaii; you and me and Joe Schmoe may not do that, but people in Hawaii do), eat snow cones (that’s what they really do in Hawaii), had dinner with his wife, enjoyed his kids, and watched Batman (like millions of other people have).

Sad news from the area of NY Sports Radio: Mike and the Mad Dog of WFAN are breaking up. So weird to think that Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Mike Francesa have split. 20 years and it ends. WFAN’s going to have to figure out what’s next. The NY Times article by Richard Sandomir has more details. At least Mad Dog called in on the show on Friday for a final goodbye to the fans.

Oh, and yeah, five years ago, on August 14, 2003, we had that blackout. Yeah, I don’t think I want another one. Really. But, nice of the NY Times for doing some observance of it.

But, this particular NY Times article seems to posit that maybe this summer might be the nice quiet summer in the city (well, with the waterfalls, the new Ikea, and inconsistent baseball teams). Maybe!

Asian Alumni picnic — well, plenty of food – always something to look forward to having.