05.18.09
May15th
May 15th marked in calendar as “interview day” is an important day for Gordo and I.
This day in 2002 we met for the first time as the interviewer(the boss, which is Gordo), and the college graduate(obviously me) looking for her first job.(Although, today the “boss” role took a 180% turn…)
I didn’t think I left a good impression to the HR manager at the time, probably due to my cheap make-up melting away just after a 2 hour bus-trip to that “God-forsaken place”, or my yellow blouse with deep red flowers screaming on it, but luckily I spoke some “decent” English. After a 15 minutes chat, HR still decided that I meet “the boss”.
“Boss” was a nice person, but the only thing I remember is leaving my long email address on a piece of paper, and he asked me what that name means.
I explained and he said:”Good. I asked a lot of Chinese what those mean, and they normally told me”nothing, it’s just a name…”
In the middle of the interview someone came in and told him he can look at his new car now, and he wrapped up the conversation quickly and left.
Later when remembering that day I always tell Gordo:”You saw your new car and met your wife, what else can one expect out of a day?…”
The misconception about me being a crazy night club frequent, or someone “unstable” gave way to the fact that I seemed to be quite qualified for the post. After all, personal life and job don’t mix. However, I can only blame it on my lack of experience in interview dressing codes.
We’ve been through a lot in 7 years. Some I don’t remember.
But I remember this date when everything started to change.
Beautiful but pity it bloomed and died in 24 hours.
This one is home-cultivated. What a nice surprise. My plants normally never bloom.
In 2002 Gordo took me to a flower market, he asked me what I thought after I made a quick walk around the place.
Trying very hard to not yawn too much, I quickly pointed at the nearest plants and said:”I think you can take this, this, and that.”
It was after that he knows not to take me to a botanic garden. It was not my type of entertainment.
It was pretty obvious when he told me “All my plants died” after I moved in for a month. I said:”Plants? What plants?…”
Of course I am capable of realizing the existence of plants around me NOW, but it is a fun thing to look back and realize the evolvement.