Travel
Dec 7 2009
October of 2007, I left San Diego, leaving all I had come to know behind and starting over back in Hong Kong. Exactly two years later, September of 2009, I’m back in the states, not to familiar faces or places I recognized, but a new place where I’m once again starting anew.
So after a couple extended business trips and a worrisome incident, which turned out for the better, my work has decided to get me a work visa. I have now officially moved to the Bay Area. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunities that have presented to me, and to everything that has happened leading up to this point in my life. Until this day, I still don’t know how I managed to go through the past 9 years since the day I first left Hong Kong. Obviously there were bumps on the way, but I guess there wasn’t much I would choose to do differently if the choices were to present themselves again. Looking back, things had always worked out for me in the end, and now I’ve learned to worry less and have more faith in life.
For the past couple months, I have been hectic with all the business of moving and settling down — finding a place, getting a car, etc. Now that I’m once again settled (let’s see how long it’ll last this time), I’m starting to reach out and find my social circle again. It’s always intimidating starting over, but I’m also excited about starting this new chapter in my life.
May 17 2009
My last post was about taking up the new job and moving to Shanghai… That never ended up happening. Well, I did take up the job but I never gone back to Shanghai since that initial trip. Instead, my company brought me out to the headquarter in the bay area twice since. First trip was a month long from January to February. In fact, I’ve been here in Sunnyvale since late March on my second trip. The current plan is still 3 months and I shall head back home in late June, but we’ll see how it goes. Things have been going great. Friends from So Cal have come up to visit and I have made a trip down as well. It’s certainly a lot more exciting than living in Hong Kong, partly because of my not knowing that many people there but I think mostly it’s my perspective and attitude. Either way, I’m surely enjoying it a lot more here.
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m slowly slipping back into hiatus… And I don’t think I can give anymore excuses about being busy and what not, since we all know that if you care enough about something, you’ll always make time for it. Perhaps it’s because I feel like my life is no longer interesting enough to deserve blog posts, or perhaps I have just moved on to easier, cooler, hipper, geekier microblogging systems, or perhaps I’m just too lazy to write lengthy blog posts. But I can never abandon dabs, especially after so many years of happy and tearful memories we shared.
Oct 20 2008
A few weeks ago Dr. Ted, the former Chief Scientist at my previous work, Veoh, contacted me and asked whether I would be interested in working for a new company he just joined at their Shanghai office. The company concerned was Infovell. They were one of the 77 companies at this year’s DEMO. I was interested but didn’t really expected the opportunity to go anywhere. However, after a dozen emails and a few conference calls later, I found myself on a flight to Shanghai for 4 days to check out the office and meet the guys I’ll be working with in a near future. I was there since Thursday and came back just last night. Ted was there as well for a couple of weeks. Qianjin, the company founder, was really hospitable; treating us to nice dinner every night and providing great accommodations. It was my first time going to Shanghai and it was a pretty impressive city, certainly catching up quick to Hong Kong.
I accepted the offer mainly for the opportunity to see more of the world while I’m still young and for the work experience I will get working with a group of smart people. I will be leaving my current position at aNobii and joining Infovell sometime near the end of next month. I always say, life is so unpredictable. Sometimes you just need to go with the flow and see where it takes you.
