New York Recall

I have been to New York for more than 10 times, but it is my first time in the last decade that I am here on vacation

When I was young, my dream was to work for the American Company and to live in the States

My dream came true and I have been working for the US based companies since 1990 until May this year. And I have married to Andrew, whose family is in Sacramento

New York was the first State that I landed when I worked for Merck, the Pharmaceutical Company

Coming back to New York this time , it brought back a lot of memories - - the first trip with Andrew was to New York in 1995after visiting his family and Anna (his schoolmate) in Sacramento and Los Angeles respectively, we came her to see Vincent, one of his best friends. and my handbag was stolen in Soho while we had lunch in a very high-class Italian Restaurant. And I used to have an uncle lived in China Town of New York too.

Vincent and my uncle became history...

I came back to New York without a job and I am on vacation and not sure about what will be my destination in life..

The first time in New York that I have my camera with me, taking photos here and there. I could really stroll along the streets and walk in the gardens, sitting in front of the fountain doing nothing

All the sudden, I discovered that though I have been on business travel for over 17 years but I have never taken my camera with me and I have never taken vacation taking the advantage of companies' business trip. I used to be there before the event/meeting and then caught up the earliest flight to return to Hong Kong. I thought I was a very loyal, honest and responsible employee... and I am a person with integrity, always put the interest of Company in front of everything. However, it doesn't mean and guarantee that the Company would treasure you in return.... What a joke!

Now, I am not sure if I am still fancy about this country and I even have the doubt if I would work for another US company in the future, I guess the answer is "probably not"

Why I came to New York again ? It was because of all my ex-colleagues in DoubleClick. I wanna to see Lauren Tan, the legal counsellor , she has moved to work in New York from Hong Kong last year. And Ralf Hirt, the ex-Managing Director, who is origin from Germany, got married in June but I was in Tibet, would not be able to attend his wedding. And Caliopie, the ex-HR Director, who got married in New Orlean in end of Auguest, who is also resided in New York.I have promised them I would visit them in New York and I keep my promise as usual

I stay with Lauren and we have good walk every day. We walked from the West side waterfront of Hudson to the East side of the town and spent time to appreciate the flowers at the Central Park.

I have met Ralf and his wife Jean and congratulations to them as they are expecting their babe girl in March , we will have diner again on Monday.

We had dim-sum at Flushing at Queen, with Mr. Lee, whom I have known him for over 24 years , We met each other on a trip to China (I was still a student by that time)

I don't miss the New York but I do miss my friends here

I treasure the friendship and relationship, as I do believe we have souls and we meet again in this life, would not be a co-incident, it is the Karma and we are here to serve the purpose for each other. Though we may not understand the purpose behind

Today is another beautiful day, don't miss the sunshine and the breeze, I am going to have another walk with Lauren now...

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We walked along the Hudson waterfront again for about an hour and we were able to see the sunset

The sunset is beautiful, I always think it is much better than the sunrise

But it will become dark after the sunset!

We just sat on the bench to watch the sun going down, it was beautiful

I love seeing the sunset

Of course, if I would have a house in front of the waterfront and I could watch the sunset from there, it will be perfect. However, if I could not afford, it makes no difference for me to watch the sunset, as it is the same sunset to everybody and it is beautiful anyway

I had another beautiful day