Day 2 in HK

During the breakfast in the hotel, I met Kent and Michelle. We chat briefly as we knew we would discuss more during the workshop.

The breakfast was ok; mainly chinese food with fried noodles, shrimp dumpling, shaomai, bau etc. I was surprised that Kent knew how to use the chopsticks correctly. He told me he spent some days in China. During that period, he either learnt how to use the chopsticks or starve.

A mini-bus brought 21 participants together with 2 lecturers to the Office. A walk to the Office would be about 20-30 min. The journey took a slightly shorter time because the traffic was heavy.

I met more participants from other countries. There are quite a few from Cook Island, Kirabati, Solomon Islands etc which I do not know where exactly these countries are. What a shame!

Finally I met my ex-classmate of 20 years! She looked the same, except slightly fatter. Growing fat is normal and common at our age. We talked briefly and agreed to meet for dinner.

Kent, Michelle and Queenie delivered their lectures. Chris delivered his using webinar. His voice was loud and clear. This is a new learning experience. This helped to save cost and time as Chris did not have to come to HK to deliver his lecture.

A buffet lunch was hosted by the organiser. The spread was of great variety with chinese, western and japanese food. During lunch, I met Edwin and was introduced to Shawn. Edwin did not seem to remember that we have met about 20 years ago in Paris. However, I was pretty sure as I still have the photo with him on a glass boat cruise on River Seine.

It seemed that Shawn would be a better person to provide advice to my questions. However, I have yet to find time to discuss with him. I made an appointment with him to discuss more tomorrow morning.

At 5pm+, Sandy came and I visited her office to know more about her office and work. We went to a chinese restaurant and had a good dinner. We talked almost everything under the Sun. She even remembered things such as spending about GBP 600 to tour Scandinavian countries, bringing a small rice cooker to cook rice during our tour, trying to find a power source to connect to our rice cooker in the room of a hostel, having just bread and jam as meals to save cost etc.

We tried to catch up since our last meet-up about 13 years ago. Her 2 sons are aged 13 and 10. The elder is even taller than her. Her husband is still in the same line but grown fatter. They are still living in the same place.

Sandy and I agreed to meet again for dinner tomorrow night but at her home.