Lost In Beauty-

Saturday

Insane!

For the past 3 days, I woke up at the time I slept usually, would be either stoning or awe-ing at the view on Benjamin Sheares bridge at around 5 past 6 in the morning.

The conference "Pan Asia Rising Stars" Conference by Merrill Lynch was a exalted. These days, the finance sector is booming. Their budget seemed umlimited, at least to me. Deals were clinched in millions or billions, corporates were trying to impress the investors. An eye-opening experience to me.

My expected styrofoam-packet lunches were actually high class set meals in a very grand ballroom with people serving us and/or Ritz Carlton's buffet lunch. Refreshments were served like there were free. By the second day, the ladies, especially ZhenZhu was complaining about the guilt instilled in her (me too) and conversations were already on how to burn those calories. The ultimate solution was, besides exercising, to dump food we couldn't finish onto the guys' plates. Ha! My poor partner! Zhen Cong had to finish what ZZ n I could'nt.

The job? All I had to do was to do some administrative matters during the hourly intervals. ZC and I either chit-chat, lame, draw on papers, teased the security guards or coffee/tea for while waiting for the interval. Talking about security guards, they were very professional and smartly-dressed. So cool. The younger security guards, especially James, were quite friendly. We chatted all the way, exchanging experiences and talking blah to kill time.

Merrill Lynch's staffs were either very friendly or too "cool". Managed to exchange conversations with a lady called Carmen Schwender from New York and a HK stock broker. Very interesting and intellectual conversations about their work and I received very good advises from them. They were friendly but on the other hand, I was quite disturbed by some stuck-up and proud investors and corporates -- they had the "do you know you are wasting my time look" and their noses were so high up in the air! Yes, these people were either highly influential or damn rich bankers but no need to despise us -- anyway we were quite redundant, we were present just to make Merrill Lynch looked good and professional, to quote it nicely. Merrill is just too damn rich, lah.

I have an idea of what I want and do in life, a little stimulated by this conference. For now, I had to settle alot of other stuffs before I go for my job hunt.

May's Birthday last Sunday. So, Chris's house is just a walk away from mine. Duh. Michael and our uncle red and all the others were so fun. Didn't help out much in the BBQ though. But it was a nice BBQ! Good food.

Aw, food makes me... gratified yet guilty.. A jog and swim today make me feel so much better today.

Okies, a few forgotten events here and there. Update again soon!

Feel so nua now. But yay, guild war later! *Grin*

the beauty exposed ;