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Epilogue: The Trip Home (And That Darn Lego)

So we’re due to fly at around 12.30 in the afternoon for 56 minutes, transit in Melbourne an hour and 20 minutes, then long haul 8 hours 50 minutes home to Hong Kong and land just before 10pm. This is … Continue reading

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The Price of Nesting

A picture says a thousand words… Those are in square feet and HKD dollars… Kings and I were in the banking industry for a bit over 10 years. While we didn’t make the obscene amounts everyone reads about other bankers … Continue reading

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The Family Inc. Annual Offsite

Years ago, Kings and I struck a bargain: After marriage, whichever of us made less would switch career paths. (We didn’t think both of us on the “sell side” of investment banking would a marriage make – we’ve had bosses … Continue reading

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Significant Conversation #94

3 degrees Celsius this evening in Mornington and the hot water in the shower dies. I join Rockstar in his bath. After he’s washed my hair, I jolt. “Did you just pee in the bath?” “No. <Grave shaking of head> … Continue reading

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Snow, but are we still in Hong Kong?

Welcome to… Hong Kong? It’s Saturday at Lake Mountain resort and in case we’re homesick, the queues are just like back home. There are queues to drive in, queues for coffee and dim sim (yes, it’s dim sim here and … Continue reading

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The Banana

So we land after a 9 hour flight and get totally reamed out by Immigration. There is (wait for it) an undeclared banana in our bag. Not just any banana, you understand – a Hong Kong banana. From the land … Continue reading

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