I felt I had a sore throat Thursday, probably from the extreme temperature difference between a super air-conditioned workplace and the hottest summer in Shanghai in 140 years outside. This soon developed into runny nose, lasting for three days. Latest symptom is coughing. Though I see signs of recovery on the horizon. Mostly I feel it was valuable time wasted. I was supposed to go to church in Shanghai and meet more people and practice my new approach - the more groomed and attitude without sharp edges. All advices from the relationship books. Oh well, I guess that would have to wait.
I did meet up with my bunch of MBA friends for dinner this weekend. I hadn't seen one of them for a really long time, say 3 to 4 years, and found him just as annoying as I always found him. Time didn't make a difference. There was just a sense of arrogance and superiority oozing from him being a Taiwanese American in Shanghai. I originally thought the Taiwanese American category may be the most workable for me, being mandarin speaking, but also more international. But I can't ignore that some do have a sense prejudice inside them against my very core. They profited from China's opening up, with their factories and manufacturing facilities employing cheap Chinese labor. They had the education and capital a decade or so ahead of China's opening up and therefore could use it to accumulate much more. This just teaches me that money is not such a tipping scale sort of thing. Yet, at this stage, without the help from marriage, our financial status is more or less status quo. Accept the lot?
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