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Having my mother and sister in Beijing is proving to be a wonderful experience, I believe for all of us, as we celebrated my 100 day anniversary in China with good friends and a sense that I am managing to balance the stresses of starting a business with my need for companionship. Wednesday May 11th...
14.05.06 04:50 PM - Comment(s)
This week I have had the essential documents for Government approval translated by a junior accountant, employed an unfailingly happy full-time assistant and started on the media charm offensive with 3 of the 1,922 daily newspapers; as Mao said, “a long march begins with the first step.” jim_4In Novem...
04.05.06 09:31 AM - Comment(s)
This was a week when the largely academic and logistical challenges of starting EASTWEST in China became superceded yuan_100by practical issues of sifting through resumes,  the moral dilemma of ‘cash for coverage’ and the realization that even some simple tasks are open to misinterpretation. In respon...
15.04.06 11:06 PM - Comment(s)
officeThis week I made progress in transitioning the Jianwai soho unit into an office, started the recruitment drive and felt what it is like to commute between cities, a fatiguing experience destined to be the fate of a growing number of mainland Chinese. On Tuesday Guosheng Qi, a serious young IT gradua...
09.04.06 06:31 PM - Comment(s)

I have missed writing the diary, a function of a rather stressful and purely self-imposed extraction from my comfort zone in Singapore. Moving three different apartments in as many weeks, missing out on more horse racing with the Queen, and moving 2,791, has led me to question why, at the age of 39,...

19.03.06 10:31 AM - Comment(s)