While I absorbed the news of impending fatherhood, the annoyances and idiosyncrasies of a City wrestling with itself were relegated to the background and I couldn’t bring myself to write this Diary, but now as I attempt to create certainties for my family, the rumour mill of Beijing has me reaching for the keyboard again. [...]
Tonight the firecrackers are going off with a vengeance as it is the last night of the Spring Festival, and it feels like life is returning to normal both for the Chinese and me which I find, I realize, a bit disconcerting. ‘Western binary logic is predisposed to focusing on the measurable, bivalent terms of [...]
It has taken a full day of recuperation to manage to write this diary entry, and even then I am not sure that this is how the Romans’ wrote forty – amazingly I have managed to write 40,000 words about my new life here in China and starting the agency here since January 25th, 2006. [...]
This week saw the work start in earnest, a week when I could have been in any big city meeting with the former CEO of Apple & Pepsi, attending my first Rotary club meeting and flying to Phuket to present my thoughts on marketing satellite mobile communications. The main tangible difference between the Big Apple [...]
This was a week when I started to mix more with other entrepreneurs, interviewed candidates and experienced the Gobi desert attempting to suffocate Beijng in a blanket of fine sand. The Chinese word for entrepreneur is???(qi ye jia), the first two words are the same as business, but interestingly with the addition of the word [...]
