Category: Hong Kong

With the new Star Trek movie the amount of hits daily to my blog went up 4-5 times.  Apparently people were clicking on one of my pictures where I was comparing Star Trek with successful IT people. Funny really, I’d never have thought that before.

Anyways, it’s nice to be back blogging there although I know that my blog stats are artificially inflated.  On the other hand, an out-of-work CIO from NYC put me on his blogroll after finding me (not sure where).  I feel bad for him somehow.  It’s about “branding” now I guess.  Don’t know but will try it out too.

New cool toy I found on The Pogue’s column: MIFI — Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed.  Looks great to try out in my field force.  Luckily they’ve got in HK, TW, CN markets.  I’ll have to get someone to look into it and what we can do to increase connectivity and information sharing with our back-end systems.

Back to the grind …

Then off to Taipei and KL again.

It’s been a very long while since I last visited/posted here.  I’m sorry to have missed out on the musings here.  Life certainly has been extremely hectic and too many little things compete for my spare time.  Anyways, it’s the Labor Day holiday here in HK and much of Asia.  So it’s been good downtime and the weather is good too.

3 days of my team in HK and we had a lot of productive discussions/meetings on what the rest of 2009 is going to look like.  Also started getting back into my personal blog again and enjoying it.  I do need to resist falling off the wagon and try at least once a week to post something.  Once a day is probably too much.  I recently mentioned how interesting my blog stats were and even more so that a lot of people searching star trek find my blog.  Not exactly what I had intended but cool.  And the readership is really spread all over the place.

Anyways, enjoy all and Monday is an anniversary for me and B-, our first date which was @ Yankee stadium.  Time does fly.  Take care of it and enjoy it while it lasts!

2008 is winding down and man, it’s been a heckuva year. Am still working through and busy and not a lot of down time.

Still, got a chance to go out and hook up with some fellow walkers/hikers in HK through a Meetup Group. I really like it. So looking forward to more hikes and a bit of photography on the side too. Treated myself a nifty new Nikon D40 and I’m very happy with it. I also really liked Ken Rockwell’s site and donated as well.

Today I had my first alumni interview with a prospective student. This young precocious man was amazing. I felt stupid compared to him but was so energized by his youthful enthusiasm and outlook toward life. A very enjoyable 2 hour chat with him and his parents. I do hope he gets accepted.

Going into 2009, the operative word is to survive, build on for the future, try to improve on my health hopefully through regular hikes/walks, hobbies and forget about the work more. Continue going back to my blog and get a couple of IT certs here and there. And let’s see what happens!

Warmest wishes – be safe and joyful!
=YC