Day 3
Our first item on the agenda for the day was food. Yao wanted to try okonomiyaki, a savory pancake with meat and vegetables added in. The place we went to had an all you can eat option, but
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I got a bit lazy while in Tokyo and decided to wait to post my updates until I was back in the states and over my jet lag. Before I get into everything we did, I want to comment on Tokyo in general. If I could describe it in one word it would be orderly.
Shanghai Day 2:
After grabbing breakfast at a nearby Singaporean restaurant, Yao and I headed to Cheng Huang Miao (City God Temple). The temple and nearby Yu Garden were beautiful with their traditional architecture, but
This post is coming to you from behind the Great Firewall. Luckily for me, I’m staying with Yao’s friend, Yuming, and he has a VPN that lets us still access things like Facebook and Google.
Yesterday, Yao and I got up early and left to get xiao long bao (soup dumplings).
Yesterday, Yao and I decided to head over to Lantau Island to see the giant Buddha and monastery. I’ve really enjoyed taking public transportation in Asia and it starts with the escalators.
Bantu tribesman, it is said, sneak into the rooms of their children as they sleep and whisper in their ears, “Become who you are.”
At the end of my Fundamentals of Business Thinking course in 2007, my professor, Jeff Sucec, gave us his book “Become who you are.” It is a compilation of quotes and thoughts that have inspired him. On the first page is the quote above.
Recently, I decided to leave my job as a technical project manager at Google working for the Wallet risk team.