It is freezing again. Well. Perhaps just cold, but cold enough to kick me back into hibernation mode. I just want to sleep and sleep but it is never enough and stupid things like work get in the way of sleep.

Well I guess I cannot really decide not to go to work, as they just paid me my annual bonus, so I guess that is incentive for me to keep on working. Anyway, in times like this, I guess most people would rather have a job than no job. So continue working. The lucky part is that I do like my job. Well, actually, I enjoy my job very much. I have a great boss and a great team, fun to work with and small enough to be close knit.

Just the other night we had dinner together at the Shanghai Club, where we just had wine, and played drinking games, and talked about cars, mortgages, traffic police, horse racing, and so on. I must say, even though the youngest one of them was at least ten years older than me, I had a really great time. I think it is an advantage being so young as well, as currently I am not seen as a threat, so everyone is willing to teach me. At the same time, bright enough (lol) to do what they need, so it is all good. Work is good.

So good in fact, that I will miss it very much when I go on holiday, and in fact I have resisted the urge to go on holiday for a very long time. But in conjunction with training, I shall be home for 3 weeks, from 14 March to 6 April. Aw. Though I do not really miss home, there is a kind of eager anticipation and excitement to be going home. It is rather like a holiday.

One of the good things about my job is of course the brokers. While I was in corporate banking, I had clients, and we had to bring them out for lunch, remember their birthdays, and basically keep them happy. Now that I am a client of the broker the opposite is happening to me. I just casually mentioned how much I enjoyed scallops and the next thing I knew, I was having a buffet lunch at the upscale Conrad hotel, having scallops. It was fun. On average, I get about 20% of my lunches taken care of. It is great because they bring me to restaurants I do not think about going to, and also teach me a lot about the market as well. These people are of course all at least ten to twenty years older than me too.

That is why I do believe that I will miss work. But everyone needs some time off sometime.

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