interview

have you ever got a call, from a Chinese potential employer who knows English but chooses to speak Chinese with you just in order to test your Mandarin level?!@#$%
I just have... a full '5 minutes' chat in Chinese :)

beijing half marathon

was great. and extremely cold. did it in one hour, 43 minutes and 57 seconds.
will write more about it later on

status

i have officially, temporarily, retired. that's my new status.

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you
become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall
one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you
shall at last unveil."--James Allen