My entries nowadays are pathetically short. Well, let's see how this one goes. So I have been busy for the last two weeks since my genius teammate left amidst a hectic earning season and it's down to just me and my boss covering all these stocks. It was a bit hard to adjust for that team attrition, worsened by the advent of this whole framework change to be implemented to every of our model. every model... I felt like stuck in a queuing system with multiple new tasks/client requests lined up daily, and just like an over-utilized working station trying to clear things out with absolutely zero tolerance for mistakes. well, I still made plenty of them so sometimes I think I am lucky getting paid to learn and make mistakes. My boss is very patient with me, and I really appreciate that. Retrospectively, I think I was going through this de-bottlenecking process, essential propellent to the next level, to another limit. It's like for the first month I was working in the technology team, getting used to the softwares/workflow/daily routines; for the second month I was in operations, checking all published numbers, financials, preparing exhibits for reports; all along as a part-time PR person charting business trips/company visits for our clients; and a part-time journalist (rather euphemious for paparazzi) calling up companies asking questions that I was told to ask while trying to figure out what that actually means. I am still doing all that right now, just more confident, poised and sure of what I am doing. The little "follow-up" flags in my outlook are disappearing, fast, from more than 60 to 8 right now, and I start to have time for some actual research and strategy thinking. That rejuvenating prospect certainly warrants more passion and dedication to this seemingly workholic arrangement. Pursue excellence, pursue it like an obsession. I am a baller.

 

My colleagues and I are trying to organize this basketball game for tomorrow and maybe make it weekly, make it something we look forward to during the week. Hope all goes well... Since I started working two months ago, three people in my division have left the firm. It's sad to see them leaving, and like, the first and also last email you got from somebody is a farewell letter. People tell me that's how this industry works. One day you are someone's bitch doing all the shit work, the next day you might be a bitchy client dumping on that same guy. Moral of the story? Be nice to everyone. New people are coming in. 5 so far. one more coming after the golden week. Nice. oh and, Xiaodong came by two weeks ago. We had coffee on that Sunday afternoon. The dude's got a gf by the way, from Beijing, Tsinghua University I think. And Yongpeng swung by last sunday, en route to LSE in ... London... duhh. Minyi said hi on msn, from london. I want to go to London. Tinaga's bf came here for a german barbie doll exhibition and a PhD candidate interview in Peking University. A few other fellow singaporean friends came over here for internship and job interviews. If i had the time, i would bring them to MIX and VICS. :))) bring them to see the cultural scene here too. The locals are culturally indulgent, sometimes in a charming way. Centuries of Chinese history have left the city with traces of the same stigma that gets the nation into a turmoil back in the 30 years ago. Some things, like the view into the forbidden city, stay the same even with the backdrop of the craziest ever stock boom. Ugly can be beautiful. Beautiful can be dangerous... i totally forgot what i wanted to say... i'm sleepy, i got a game to play...

 

This song is looping. 当你在穿山越岭的另一边，我在孤独的路上没有尽头~~~

 

How transferable will my skills be?

1. 有时候过分理智就会变很婆妈。 

 

一个曾去宁夏支教的人跟我说在城市里的大部分民工都是山区/农村里优秀的青年人。他（她）们在老家的孩子们每当提起爸爸妈妈的时候也都会很自豪地说我爸会造房子，会干这干那的。他们的劳动换来了孩子读书的机会，而他们孩子的孩子就很有可能走出山区来到城市。所以请尊重民工，他们是伟大的。