Waaaa!! Its been four months since my last confession.....
I cannot believe that I have not written an entry here since April 2008. It is now the fifth of August 2008. I will do my best to try and summarise the past four months in this entry. So, here goes..............
At the time of writing my last entry, I was in Melbourne, Australia. I had gone there from Hong Kong with the purposes of moving our office to better accommodation. I originally planned to stay for two months but ended up staying to nearly 3.
Whilst in Melbourne I was able to identify potential office buildings in the form of office/warehouse combinations and at the right price. One in particular caught my eye and I focused on that one but also kept negotiations on other buildings continuing in reserve just in case I couldn't get the one I wanted. The building I liked was brand new, untouched and had a really nice corporate presentation. It is situated in the new Aero Link business Park at Tullamarine near Melbourne airport. In the end, I got the one I wanted at a much better price than I anticipated. Either I am a better negotiator and I give myself credit for all the real estate salesman who did the negotiations on behalf of the owner caved in to early. Either way I was quite happy with the result.
After the building had been negotiated there were obvious things that needed attention such as additional power points, telephone outlets, data etc. These were quickly attended to and the removalist organised. There were a great number of other things that needed to be done in relation to moving but in the end they were quite simple to facilitate as I had already planned them all before leaving from Hong Kong to Melbourne, so it was just a case of " following the bouncing ball" to get things done. Step one followed by step two followed by step three etc. Some of my new friends were impressed by the facilitation process but my attitude was that if we advertise ourselves as project managers, then we better handle our own project well.
Whilst in Melbourne I also engaged the services of a new employee, a project manager whose name is Glen. Speaking of names, some people ask me why I don't write more about my friends. It's quite simple, it's called private life for reason. I write a little about them, as much as is necessary for the purposes of telling a story but I don't like to delve into the right private business. That's for them to tell.
Also while in Melbourne I was also able to complete writing the content for all of our web site updates. These include www.trma.com.au , www.trma.com.hk , www.intersec.com.au , www.alanjbrown.com.au So, it's been a busy time.
We also restructured our business consistent with moving so we could separate our business into business units that were more logically set out to deal with the businesses that we are in.
Also, as a bit of a side project I wrote my own personal web site were I could coordinate various links to other web sites such as this one all from the same place. If you would like to check that out than please go to www.sushinoodleguy.com You will also find a song there that I wrote on a plane in September last year on my way down to Melbourne. It's called " The day you when away". I did the recording in one take sitting in my kitchen in Melbourne Victoria. I simply played an acoustic guitar and saying what the recorder did the rest, so any bum notes are not the recorder's fault they are my own. I wrote the song after reading about a lady doctor in Australia who was sick and suffering from either a leukaemia or Hodgkinson's disease (I think). At that time, this lady was pregnant and had a decision to make. Basically she had to decide whether to keep taking her medicine for her illness so that she could stay well but at the same time pulled her unborn baby at risk, or not to take her medicine which would put her at risk but give her baby a better chance at survival. In the end she chose not to take her medicine knowing the likely outcome. Her husband was an American gentleman who is also living here in Australia. I felt that there was a lot of love and that family. I believe that the baby was delivered prematurely after the lady died, or at the time of her death. I wrote the song from her husband's perspective. I hope you like it if you take the opportunity to have a listen to it.
I enjoyed my time in Melbourne very much. I was able to catch up with old friends and make relationships with new ones. I miss Melbourne when I'm away but I do accept that I'm trying to get a business going in Hong Kong.
After my return to Hong Kong to meet with some business people, I found the lot of business people have gone away on summer holiday. A number of the meetings that I was going to attend were postponed. Still, I turned my attention to marketing and similar activities and have been busy ever since.
As far as travel is concerned, I made a couple of trips over to Macau for business and also when up to mainland China a couple of times, mainly for pleasure and relaxation. I may have mentioned before that it's quite easy to get from where I live in Hong Kong to the Mainland China border, just a train ride away.
I have just returned from a short holiday in Thailand. I went there with the group of friends on July 31 and returned on August 4. I went to Bangkok and Phuket. I found Thailand to be a mixture of Vietnamese, Malaysians, Singaporean cultures, all very pleasant. The Thai people too are very friendly and pleasant and I really did find their custom of saying " Sawadeeka" or "Sawadeecup" to be a very pleasant greeting.
When I take a look back on the past four months, or indeed the past few years, I still think that I'm the luckiest guy on the planet.
Until next time, take good care, and don't forget to wipe.................
At the time of writing my last entry, I was in Melbourne, Australia. I had gone there from Hong Kong with the purposes of moving our office to better accommodation. I originally planned to stay for two months but ended up staying to nearly 3.
Whilst in Melbourne I was able to identify potential office buildings in the form of office/warehouse combinations and at the right price. One in particular caught my eye and I focused on that one but also kept negotiations on other buildings continuing in reserve just in case I couldn't get the one I wanted. The building I liked was brand new, untouched and had a really nice corporate presentation. It is situated in the new Aero Link business Park at Tullamarine near Melbourne airport. In the end, I got the one I wanted at a much better price than I anticipated. Either I am a better negotiator and I give myself credit for all the real estate salesman who did the negotiations on behalf of the owner caved in to early. Either way I was quite happy with the result.
After the building had been negotiated there were obvious things that needed attention such as additional power points, telephone outlets, data etc. These were quickly attended to and the removalist organised. There were a great number of other things that needed to be done in relation to moving but in the end they were quite simple to facilitate as I had already planned them all before leaving from Hong Kong to Melbourne, so it was just a case of " following the bouncing ball" to get things done. Step one followed by step two followed by step three etc. Some of my new friends were impressed by the facilitation process but my attitude was that if we advertise ourselves as project managers, then we better handle our own project well.
Whilst in Melbourne I also engaged the services of a new employee, a project manager whose name is Glen. Speaking of names, some people ask me why I don't write more about my friends. It's quite simple, it's called private life for reason. I write a little about them, as much as is necessary for the purposes of telling a story but I don't like to delve into the right private business. That's for them to tell.
Also while in Melbourne I was also able to complete writing the content for all of our web site updates. These include www.trma.com.au , www.trma.com.hk , www.intersec.com.au , www.alanjbrown.com.au So, it's been a busy time.
We also restructured our business consistent with moving so we could separate our business into business units that were more logically set out to deal with the businesses that we are in.
Also, as a bit of a side project I wrote my own personal web site were I could coordinate various links to other web sites such as this one all from the same place. If you would like to check that out than please go to www.sushinoodleguy.com You will also find a song there that I wrote on a plane in September last year on my way down to Melbourne. It's called " The day you when away". I did the recording in one take sitting in my kitchen in Melbourne Victoria. I simply played an acoustic guitar and saying what the recorder did the rest, so any bum notes are not the recorder's fault they are my own. I wrote the song after reading about a lady doctor in Australia who was sick and suffering from either a leukaemia or Hodgkinson's disease (I think). At that time, this lady was pregnant and had a decision to make. Basically she had to decide whether to keep taking her medicine for her illness so that she could stay well but at the same time pulled her unborn baby at risk, or not to take her medicine which would put her at risk but give her baby a better chance at survival. In the end she chose not to take her medicine knowing the likely outcome. Her husband was an American gentleman who is also living here in Australia. I felt that there was a lot of love and that family. I believe that the baby was delivered prematurely after the lady died, or at the time of her death. I wrote the song from her husband's perspective. I hope you like it if you take the opportunity to have a listen to it.
I enjoyed my time in Melbourne very much. I was able to catch up with old friends and make relationships with new ones. I miss Melbourne when I'm away but I do accept that I'm trying to get a business going in Hong Kong.
After my return to Hong Kong to meet with some business people, I found the lot of business people have gone away on summer holiday. A number of the meetings that I was going to attend were postponed. Still, I turned my attention to marketing and similar activities and have been busy ever since.
As far as travel is concerned, I made a couple of trips over to Macau for business and also when up to mainland China a couple of times, mainly for pleasure and relaxation. I may have mentioned before that it's quite easy to get from where I live in Hong Kong to the Mainland China border, just a train ride away.
I have just returned from a short holiday in Thailand. I went there with the group of friends on July 31 and returned on August 4. I went to Bangkok and Phuket. I found Thailand to be a mixture of Vietnamese, Malaysians, Singaporean cultures, all very pleasant. The Thai people too are very friendly and pleasant and I really did find their custom of saying " Sawadeeka" or "Sawadeecup" to be a very pleasant greeting.
When I take a look back on the past four months, or indeed the past few years, I still think that I'm the luckiest guy on the planet.
Until next time, take good care, and don't forget to wipe.................
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