This blog entry is made from my hotel room in Guangzhou. I shall be returning to Hong Kong tomorrow morning.

Unexpectedly, this trip has been extremely fruitful. Apart from meeting the company staff here, I have picked up a new interest in the area of Ziwei Astrology. While I have already been sufficiently exposed in areas of religious, occult and western numerology / astrology methods, this form of Chinese astrology fascinates me to no end.

Thanks to us living in the age of Infotech, I need not go through the trouble to but books and browse through hundreds of pages to grasp the topic. Instead, calculation softwares and a bunch of e-books kept me entertained throughout my stay here in GZ.

I have always fought a battle within – whether we live in a random world or a world of cause and effect. I guess I have not found the answer here either, but it opened my mind to a new paradigm, one that moderates between randomness and cause / effect. I love the way the life charts and tables here so interestingly integrates the various aspects of human life, as if it were an interwoven fabric of material and immaterial aspects. All the hail wise ancients!

Of course, I am never a wasteful person, and I wouldn’t fork out 2 days of hotel stay for nothing. Apart from a newfound hobby, the main agenda of this trip manifested (finally), into a physical plan. Finally, after laying business entites all over the world, I am looking at the China Market, one that has been laid right before me but I simply didn’t have the energy to attend to.

Since my wife is from China, and I will be based here for a long long time, it is only right that I develop something here. It will be done! Coincidentally, I helped a person who is has gave me, and continues to give me endless trouble. I guess I am out of my mind, by oh well, forgiving is part of life, isn’t it?

Some photos taken from this trip (I really don’t have time for photos here).

The recent milk craze in China almost drove me mad; since my wife loves milk products and all her favorite brands seem to be those listed to be contaminated. Thankfully, I managed to contact her despite her mobile being out of service (all attributed to my skills of searching info on the net, hahahaha).

Things are busy as usual, but it is good I finally have an alignment of direction between myself and my boss (his direction for the company), so I guess I will be staying here for the time being. Of course, the other reason is personal, because no matter what, HK is way nearer to China than Singapore!

My wife wrote this poem / message to me today. This is the first time she tried anything like that... but I guess it is quite nice and heart-warming. I shall share it here with my family and friends.

If the first 3 months of this year were the happiest moments of my life, they are now second to the last one week. While I must admit to having spent considerable time worrying over how this would all turn out, I guess my worries are all uncalled for.

Of course, there could only be one person in this world who could make me feel this way. 4 months apart seemed to have passed in a flash, and we looked back together at the memories we shared as if it were only yesterday. Every speck of the past seemed to piece together, and being together just seemed so natural it felt more like an inborn habit.

Of course, the main objective of the trip was to meet the parents, and so we did. I did learn a lot about the Chinese cultures and traditions during this trip, which would probably help a lot in my future dealings in the region. The city of Wuhan is really like Guangzhou 10 years ago, so laden with opportunity.

Getting back to 6 days of simple living also cleansed my internal system completely. Oh how I love this kind of a healthy lifestyle. And I must say, the food there is really fresh, simply because everything we eat is of local produce – fish, eggs, meat, vegetables and rice. Oh, and the fish is really, really good. Have never tasted better fish in my life.

So, the future, our future is pretty much laid. I have found the person I am so very determined to spend the rest of my life with. Now it is my turn to work hard to make that future possible!

In a long long time, I have not paced my life ina very healthy fashion, much owed to the rather busy schedule that has become some sort of a norm. Today, I made the extreme attempt to skip my sleep and last a few more hours to wake up for a morning jog at 6am (the sun is already hanging high up in the sky at this time, quite inhuman, I know).

The breath of fresh cool air, the sight of old men and women doing the morning exercise reminds me of the very healthy lifestyle I once had back in my school days (when I was 16 and 17). The regular morning runs and intensive kayaking sessions then was such a lifestyle, and such is a lifestyle that reminds us of the simple joys in keeping our body healthy.

I wonder how long I will be able to keep this up, before the next wave of errands hit me again. Nevertheless, I have realized what truth there may be in the many written text of how our mind responds to our body, and vice versa.

If we feel negative and our mind is constantly ridden with a myriad of weird thoughts, our body will fall sick easily. If we feel good, take it easy and try less to fight what will eventually become of destiny, our bodies are generally more well off and function more efficiently.

The power of the mind, and the power of physical suggestion are two things I have once again relived today.

It has been quite some time since my last blog post. I guess my schedule has been keeping me busy, especially during the last 2 weeks of last month, due to the ridiculous amount of media and publications I had to generate for the event.

Anyhows, things have finally come into a slower pace, and I will be taking my long awaited leave to meet a most important person, and of course, to “close a deal” that would decide who I would spend the rest of my life with.

Life has been rather strict during this period, with numerous obstacles to overcome. I must say I have not been this hardworking since a long time ago, and I wonder where I find all the fuel to spur myself on and on, spending every waking hour on work. I guess love is truly the greatest power around.

I have never thought much of motivational courses, for to a certain extent I would say I could pretty much do the same, and have done so before. However, being a student again brings oneself back to the basics, and the course of experience is significantly different. If I had any valuable take home, it would be the ingrained reminder of who I am fighting for.

I may not be able to give anything significant to those I love in my current predicament; my family members, my girlfriend and my friends. I have also faced more obstacles than I thought would have existed, and have been driven to the brink of hopelessness and madness more than several times. But… I have not given up, and be doubly assured I will never do so.

With each blow, my heart grows strongly, steelier, and more able to take pain. I admit to being impatient, and perhaps am not the best team player around. But there is a reason for this impatience, for I while I am able to tolerate incompetence, I am not able to tolerate laziness. I know the saying goes that an empire is built with more than 2 hands, but I am not at the stage of building an empire, but instead, I stand at the beginning, trying to get an engine kick-started.

I recall the days of my youth, when I often asked my teachers to not give me any project partners, and yet my projects would have topped the class, if not the entire school. Perhaps, some things can be done with my own two hands – this is my honest realization after many a disappointment. If I so desire, there is perhaps one last skill I lack – programming. I shall take 1 month to learn this.

In the darkest hour, the true champions will rise…