The Great Hakim has a Phatty* Apartment, turns out
Went to dinner with boss James and Hakim the other night, he was back in town from Qingdao [yes where the beer Tsing Tao or however they spell it comes from] and I was notified moments after procuring other dinner plans that I Should with a capital S come to dinner with Hakim. C’est la vie here. We went to a delicious Yunnan restaurant [southern province that borders Vietnam/ Burma/ Laos] the food was very different- I had something very close to a Latke and dare I say a non- mayonnaise salad. At the dinner were a number of Hakim’s friends, including some healthcare industry guys, one of which was clearly from China but had spent considerable time in the US and had a US passport [he informed us] and therefore said he was from “The US”. Hmm. I guess that’s kind of the same way I say I am a Beijing ren [person].
I sat next to a young man named Ben who went to Qing Hua [their version of a tougher Harvard] and during a business planning workshop [while still in school] he created a software company and got people to invest in him and now at the age of 29 he is the CEO of 100 employees and is the #1 company or something like that in whatever software specialty he does. Bright guy. В
Additionally, Hakim decided I should move into his Beijing apartment, as he has the lease until April 15th and will be in Qingdao with his fiancee. I went to see the place, turns out it is a lap of luxury, and I am guaranteed to be able to sleep in to my required 9 am rising hour. This morning my roommate was up before the cats at 6.15. Shoot me in the eye. So I may move in this weekend.
Boss ain’t here today, he’s at a conference in Kunming [capital of Yunnan, but this is not a geography lesson] which gives my fellow co-workers a chance to slack off. One girl is out cold napping on her desk. I think the rest of them are packed into the lunchroom watching TV. Working in a Chinese company does give me some insight into how China works and keeps from working. My coworker Wang Wei, from Inner-Mongolia, youngest of 10 brothers and sisters [he’s over 30 so he was born before the one child policy was put into effect], occasionally uses our nice work bathroom for a quick shower [in the sink] and frequently wipes his hands on the curtains to dry them off. Yum-my.
For those of you interested on reading funny China stories, my friend Alison [who is here still] wrote this a while back about her experience in Harbin [northern most city in China] and it’s hysterical. At least I was laughing out loud at the office [drawing the attention of Wang Wei, and when I tried to explain why it was so funny he didn’t really get it.] The article is here:
http://www.theglimpse.com/newsite/viewarticle2.asp?articleid=1
It is kind of long, but if you skip to part II, about fatness in China, you will get into and read the whole thing. Part III is about food poisoning, and part IV about conversation in the public toilets. A good read.
*Vocab for those not in my generation: Phatty, as in phat, as in cool, ausome, rad.
I sat next to a young man named Ben who went to Qing Hua [their version of a tougher Harvard] and during a business planning workshop [while still in school] he created a software company and got people to invest in him and now at the age of 29 he is the CEO of 100 employees and is the #1 company or something like that in whatever software specialty he does. Bright guy. В
Additionally, Hakim decided I should move into his Beijing apartment, as he has the lease until April 15th and will be in Qingdao with his fiancee. I went to see the place, turns out it is a lap of luxury, and I am guaranteed to be able to sleep in to my required 9 am rising hour. This morning my roommate was up before the cats at 6.15. Shoot me in the eye. So I may move in this weekend.
Boss ain’t here today, he’s at a conference in Kunming [capital of Yunnan, but this is not a geography lesson] which gives my fellow co-workers a chance to slack off. One girl is out cold napping on her desk. I think the rest of them are packed into the lunchroom watching TV. Working in a Chinese company does give me some insight into how China works and keeps from working. My coworker Wang Wei, from Inner-Mongolia, youngest of 10 brothers and sisters [he’s over 30 so he was born before the one child policy was put into effect], occasionally uses our nice work bathroom for a quick shower [in the sink] and frequently wipes his hands on the curtains to dry them off. Yum-my.
For those of you interested on reading funny China stories, my friend Alison [who is here still] wrote this a while back about her experience in Harbin [northern most city in China] and it’s hysterical. At least I was laughing out loud at the office [drawing the attention of Wang Wei, and when I tried to explain why it was so funny he didn’t really get it.] The article is here:
http://www.theglimpse.com/newsite/viewarticle2.asp?articleid=1
It is kind of long, but if you skip to part II, about fatness in China, you will get into and read the whole thing. Part III is about food poisoning, and part IV about conversation in the public toilets. A good read.
*Vocab for those not in my generation: Phatty, as in phat, as in cool, ausome, rad.
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