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Chinese lessons: part I

May 11, 2012

I’m not in the habit of talking to old men in parks, but sometimes you have to buck the trend and go with it. And so it was on Sunday, whilst sitting, reading by a lake in Solidify Lake Park, that I became embroiled in a conversation with an elderly Chinese gentleman. By conversation, of […]

Sunshine on a rainy day

May 8, 2012

Shiny, glitzy, sparkling – that’s what Hong Kong is supposed to be like. But when I looked out of my window at midday, reviewing the notes from the previous night’s focus group, it was so dark that it looked like it was ten in the evening! Rain, rain and more rain – interspersed with a […]

China: Day one…

March 27, 2012

…I’ll be honest, expectations weren’t high on moving to Beijing. But they weren’t low either. Because somewhere in the swirl of last minute meetings, with clients and friends, baby Leo being ill and trying to sort out all the practicalities of the move, I’d somehow managed not to set any real expectations at all. That […]