I have shied away from updating for too long and broken my promise of weekly updates. I have been busy with nonessential things and inexplicably tardy with matters of importance. This is a battle I continually face with myself.
One thing about me, and one thing about being always ready to question the status quo, is that things change. alot. a friend just got in touch with me about my plans to sail the Carribean this summer – what a long time ago that seems! You can ask me about my plans for my future, but be sure to check back with me often. I do not flip-flop, and I am the opposite of indecisive – I simply change my decision when new information comes to light.
Me Montage
My prose gets lengthy; therefore point-form updates are in order:
- Books: Reading Quantum, Wicked, Travels, An American Hedge Fund, Prague: A Literary Companion. I would recommend them all. I guess I have taken an unplanned hiatus from my business-and-management-book archival project
- Work: It is week 3 at the Four Seasons and I have done well in my projects (thanks to VBA and some plain old elbow grease) but already I have taken 4 days off to join my dorm-mates in our trips to Berlin, Germany and Cesky Krumlov, a UNESCO site deep in Czech country itself.
- Life: I enjoy hanging out and being young again with my dorm mates, and they are great dinner and beer company. I think my bubbly Indian-American friend Natasha is a great model for me to follow in terms of social relationships. I have strange on-off connections with my two Kazakh friends. I wonder if I will ever like French-Canadians, or Frenchmen by extension. I wonder if it is ever valid to tell someone how they annoy you and either make them change or just make them simply aware of it – this as opposed to simply changing yourself to become more tolerant.
- School: Getting on the Dean’s list, being named a Wharton Research Scholar, dropping my Entrepreneurship concentration to take up Legal Studies and Business Ethics (this was last night), considering applying to LSE-Financial History and Stanford-Fin Math for graduate study. Also, CEIBS in Shanghai, although Shanghai itself is a real turnoff for me (I have become a Beijing loyalist)
- Randoms: Enjoying photography with my new secondhand Kodak P880 bridge camera, having to move out of these dorms and trying to get into the Four Seasons, meeting Brother Cheolyoung Choi, moonwalking in my floofy green crocs, drinking Zombies in Berlin, walking the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, imagining the Fall of the Wall at the Brandenburg, seeing the Cathedral at Prague Castle, seeing a couple get wed at Prague’s Astronomical Clock (the groom was wearing a metal ball and chain symbolizing the bonds of marriage, and the wife’s task was to saw it off), growing fat again, installing Linux Mint Gloria on a too-small partition, the laundry machine that wouldn’t drain, persuading my Mexican friend to go to Rome, talking to Nico Aguirre in Botswana
