Business. Relationships. Love. Life.
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that finding love and an internship/job is more or less the same. Here are the many ways: 1) The one you end up with may be the least you’d expect. When I was looking for an internship, I came out with a target list […]
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Those who’s been reading my blog know that Trader’s parents don’t like me as much. They have done all they can to discourage him from dating me even to the point of once giving the ultimatum that he had to break up with me or else. At first, I was completely hurt by their judgemental […]
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I’m a bit tired on being in front, where I’m exposed and waiting for people to say things about me. Why is it that people judge you so harshly when they themselves refuse to put themselves in your shoes. “She is competitive, aggressive and I dislike her,” they’d say amongst themselves. Well, if they are […]
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My boyfriend wants me to shut up. He thinks I talk far too much and after a hard day’s work, all he wants is to relax in front of the TV, enjoy the silence, and have me cook a nice steak dinner for him. I told him he should start looking for another girl. Why? […]
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A lot of foreign girlfriends I meet wonder how Chinese girlfriends have such doting boyfriends. They wonder about the dynamics of these relationships that produce boyfriends who are attentive, adoring, and even willing to do all household chores. Often, these foreign girlfriends wonder whether they will be able to have such boyfriends too. Well, I […]
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Trader and I have recently been discussing travel plans and he’s tentatively invited me to his family holidays in South Africa this December 2011. Hence, not wanting to make any radical decisions, I’ve asked my mom for advice. Her wisdom surprises me. Just to give a context, my brother’s kinda-girlfriend accompanied our family last December […]
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Trader and I were discussing the successful Portugal bond offering tonight. Unlike many couples who talk about movies they watched or food they ate, our discussions in the evening can reach to the weird (i.e., how foreign companies handle Chinese JVs milking them and their technologies for all they’re worth — they think of it […]
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I am afraid that the WSJ would not give anyone access but here is a beautiful article on the difference of Chinese parenting. In my case, it’s my dad, who may or may not have scarred me for life. =============================== A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder […]
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Today, we were asked to defend the position, “The company should produce a very violent ad in a children’s toy (specifically an army helicopter) if ordered by a very important client even though the owner of the business believes that such move is unethically correct.” We prepared to the best of our abilities and I think we […]
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My family is kinda nuts. My father is strict, while my mother is a nervous wreck (aka praning in Tagalog). Put it this way, since I am not always in Manila and my dad was playing mah-jong this evening, my brother and I were given free reign to do whatever we wanted for the evening. After meeting […]
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2010 had been a year of new beginnings and many changes. Here’s a brief rundown: January 2010: Trader and I had already been together for the last eight months and our relationship is rocky. We fight a lot because he somehow makes a lot of hirits (underhanded comments) about other women and my weight. It […]
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We welcome 2011 after a long shower of fireworks in the sky. Celebrating new year’s in the Philippines has always been a blast. At times, it feels that a real war was going on outside given the noise of fireworks everywhere! As we welcome the new year, I wonder what lies ahead… Career-wise, it sounds […]
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