Category: Hong Kong

Change!

That’s the key word…

I dropped by on my Saturday day off and found so much change on this site! I think it’s good… but nowadays I don’t know what change is good or bad. Change is… just change.

B- is out today in her cooking class and she’s come up with some great recipes and stuff. She also has been doing flower arrangements as well and I liked the Yellow Chrysantheneums next to the TV in the living room. Very nice stuff.

Meanwhile, next week, I’m back on the CX shuttle again to KL Malaysia for an IT conference. After about a couple of months of no travel, I’ve been to Malaysia during Merdeka week and Kunming China for company department team building the previous two weeks. The Kunming trip was important because I got 3 new managers on board plus some helpdesk people. Getting the right people have been quite difficult this past year but i can say that at least for the Business IT group of the team, we’re complete. Still need some more work on the Technical IT group side of things…

More change coming at the work front – reorgs coming down the pike and 2009 will be quite the interesting place to be. I’ve shattered my record for staying in a company – 2.5 years this past week. I might just make it into my 3rd year, early 2009. That would be quite a milestone in many ways.

Looking forward to next month and seeing you all 🙂

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.

Resistance is futile – am now part of the blog-o-sphere

How could I resist?  Well, combination of (l)user error and less than optimal tools, I didn’t have my own blog.  Now, thanks to F C and a HK blogger/consultant named Dan, I got off my fat butt and got one going.

The credit of my blog’s name completely goes to F C.  His genius came up with it in less than 60 seconds no less.  Definitely fast and the furious :).  I’m indebted.

So I’m soft launching my blog now through some of my online professional networks, but of course, need to share here as well :).

The Pai Mei (白眉) Guy’s Blog has “gone live”!