Enlightened sunday afternoon

It's been a while.

I chanced upon a distant friend's website and saw her entries about her passion. She managed to turn her passion into a career after 15 years. When i first saw the website, i must say that i am impressed. Very impressed. She is the first lady whom i came across to be an expert in this field. She is the perfect role model of the moderm world woman. She is gorgeous even at this age and no doubt witty and smart, certainly fun-loving. I have only met her briefly once or twice and i remember vividly a note of advice she gave me.

"不要被男人骗" .

I will continue to visit her website as it is one of the very few informative and intellectual blogs available these days. Ok, maybe blogs arent meant to be intellectual since they merely provide an avenue for people to express thoughts. Anyhow, im looking forward to meeting up with her again if the opportunity comes by.

There are many successful woman stories i come across in my life and I am very glad to have the opportunity to work and be guided by them. Whether they are my suppliers, brokers or my bosses, I think they make wonderful role models. Although in this moderm world we hardly see discrimination of woman being as apparent as they used to be centuries ago, but being in the business world myself, I know that there IS still a difference. Therefore i will always respect a successful lady more than a successful man simply because the society was never fair to both genders to begin with.

Gotta get back to complete my first meeting of minutes in chinese, finish packing my luggage, and also be ready for the family dinner before i leave for the airport in 10 hour's time. Sounds like a lot but i reckoned that I need at least 4 hours for the minues and dinner will take up 2 hours. Im left with 2 hours to meddle with miscellaneous stuff.

It has been a good, albeit hectic two weeks. Tomorrow marks the beginning of more adventures and it will also be the first time i have business lunch in Beijing. I have to prepare myself physically for this because i never had good experiences with red-eye flights.

I got myself two books in the past 2 weeks.

One of which i have already finished 1/3 despite holding it for less than a week. - The winner stands alone, by Paulo coelho. I got it just 30 min before I had to leave for airport in bkk. And the moment i started reading it, I couldnt put it down.

The other book - The tyranny of oil. I would like to start reading this as soon as i finish "The oil factor". I am intrigued by this oil industry. Even when i was watching this program on flight abt "the mystery of Haute Couture", they featured this lady whose husband is into this oil business and that sorts of backed up how she can fancy herself with all these Haute Courtures.

I better go.