Currently.
So, it's probably time for a update, don't you think?
Work
Dividing my time between Kunming (provincial capital of Yunnan) in southwest China, and Shanghai. I'm still getting used to this whole "teamwork" business, and when you put a group of young people (I'd guess the mean age of the consultants to be about 28-30) in a city away from their homes there's going to be a lot of mutual meddling/fraternisation/interest in fraternisation. But my new colleagues and I get along fine, and I get automatic social leniency for being foreign, so that's mostly under control. The main challenge is the language barrier and getting used to verbalising/writing/reading in Chinese. Also, HR is a PAIN. Who has time to fill out time-cards and expense reports and such?
Food
Chilies! Yunnan food puts chilies in everything. I try to limit myself to one chili-containing meal per day.
Wearing
Boring. Lightweight suits at work (which for the last couple of weeks has included weekends and nights, what with all the overtime), and lounge-around clothes in my out-of-office hours. Kunming is not known for its high fashion, I've got to say. I had to break out the red lipstick last Friday and go bar hopping before I could literally get sick of myself.
Watching
Series 2 of Dance Academy, which has just ended with the very emotional death of a best-beloved character. Also enjoying The Legend of Korra, and the return of Game of Thrones, The Borgias (CESARE AND LUCREZIA I<3U), and Mad Men.
About The Borgias: I can't believe they had Lucrezia go homicially dark as early as they did, but I loved it. Knowing what historically happens to Juan, I now wonder whether it was Lucrezia (instead of, or as well as, Cesare) who had more of a direct hand in his death than most historians theorize. Finally, who do you suppose Noah Taylor (The New World, Lara Croft, Shine) is supposed to be in this story? He's playing Micheletto's spy in Naples, the taxidermist who stuffed poor Alfonso's body, but based on the striking anatomical drawings he has on his walls, I have my suspicions that we might have just met Leonardo da Vinci.
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Work
Dividing my time between Kunming (provincial capital of Yunnan) in southwest China, and Shanghai. I'm still getting used to this whole "teamwork" business, and when you put a group of young people (I'd guess the mean age of the consultants to be about 28-30) in a city away from their homes there's going to be a lot of mutual meddling/fraternisation/interest in fraternisation. But my new colleagues and I get along fine, and I get automatic social leniency for being foreign, so that's mostly under control. The main challenge is the language barrier and getting used to verbalising/writing/reading in Chinese. Also, HR is a PAIN. Who has time to fill out time-cards and expense reports and such?
Food
Chilies! Yunnan food puts chilies in everything. I try to limit myself to one chili-containing meal per day.
Wearing
Boring. Lightweight suits at work (which for the last couple of weeks has included weekends and nights, what with all the overtime), and lounge-around clothes in my out-of-office hours. Kunming is not known for its high fashion, I've got to say. I had to break out the red lipstick last Friday and go bar hopping before I could literally get sick of myself.
Watching
Series 2 of Dance Academy, which has just ended with the very emotional death of a best-beloved character. Also enjoying The Legend of Korra, and the return of Game of Thrones, The Borgias (CESARE AND LUCREZIA I<3U), and Mad Men.
About The Borgias: I can't believe they had Lucrezia go homicially dark as early as they did, but I loved it. Knowing what historically happens to Juan, I now wonder whether it was Lucrezia (instead of, or as well as, Cesare) who had more of a direct hand in his death than most historians theorize. Finally, who do you suppose Noah Taylor (The New World, Lara Croft, Shine) is supposed to be in this story? He's playing Micheletto's spy in Naples, the taxidermist who stuffed poor Alfonso's body, but based on the striking anatomical drawings he has on his walls, I have my suspicions that we might have just met Leonardo da Vinci.
This entry was originally posted at http://the-grynne.dreamwidth.org/972603.html and has
comments.