Archive for July, 2006

Weeklies.

Monday, July 31st, 2006

What a week! Was in training most of the week and met amazing people from Chicago, Charlotte, NYC, and UK. We always went out to eat somewhere different for dinner. Partied it up friday night – let’s just say my ears were numb when we grabbed a cab home. Saturday was sort of a tourist-y day where we visited the foundation of WTC and rode the Liberty ferry in the NY harbor for close to an hour then had some great dinner. Sunday, found Macy’s by accident. It reminded me of malls in Korea. Then went atop the observation deck at Rockefellar center at night and had a breathtaking view of the city. I feel a bit guilty for having such a great time here.

As I always do, I’ve been following the news lately. What is going on over there in the Middle East? One War isn’t enough? The Lebanese Government needs to be replaced or they need to suck it up. It is obvious that the Lebanese Government fear Hezbollah yet Hezbollah still participate freely in their government. I am not understanding how Lebanon says they are an innocent bystander in this yet a fraction of their Government is fighting a war. According to Wikipedia, Hezbollah holds approximately 11% of the seats. So that means 11% of Lebanon’s Government is fighting a war and the other 89% is just crying about it. Even more ridiculous, that 11% of their Government apparently has a militia of its own. Imagine, the democratic party and the republican party having separate armed services. In such a situation, if the democratic party’s (since they are currently the minority in Congress) militia kidnapped a canadian border patrol; Canada will blame and fight the democratic party?

A Government of a nation, no matter how many different parties are affiliated with it, is a single entity. A Government needs to represent the citizens of a nation and act together. If Hezbollah wants to be a part of the Lebanese Government, they should merge their militia into the Lebanese army so that there is a centrally appropriate line of command. Any political party that goes against the wishes of the government it wants to participate in should be considered as rebels and dispelled.

Consider me ignorant, I admit not knowing too much about Hezbollah but the makeup of the Lebanese Government and Hezbollah’s participation boggles my mind.

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NYC.

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

New York City is pretty crazy but I don’t think I would mind living/working in this enormous metropolis. Most likely, if it was not for the financial reasoning, I would be here… living and working. It’s not that I don’t like working in Charlotte; I like my job. I like the environment where I work. I like the people that I work with. But there are important tradeoffs to each location and it’s very difficult to try to balance the tradeoffs because they are in different spectrums.

While I do post a lot of details about my life on this blog, I don’t think I’ve ever posted the specific details of the jobs that I’ve had over the years.  I will continue this tradition and will abstain from posting anything specific about my profession.  But of course, my friends know and if whoever you are really wanted to know, it wouldn’t be very hard for you to find out.  Now with that, I would like to comment that every single person I’ve met that is part of this corporation is simply amazing.  I’ve met a lot of different people and on many different levels.  I am so impressed and proud to be part of this organization.  While I can’t possibly be the most objective person to say that and make anyone else believe it’s true, there is no other way for me to put it.  Yea yea~ I’m sure my job will have its ups and downs but I feel that just as long as I’m dedicated to it, it’ll have more ups than downs.

Have a good night.

-john

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