I first visited HK was in transit when I was 20 years old after spending a month in New Zealand to study English. That was my first time to travel abroad alone and had a unique feeling of something new had been starting in a new chapter of my life while I was laying down on the 3-person bench. However, I could not imagine my 20s would turn this way. To be honest, all I had my mind back then were going to the State for graduate study and become world well-known architect.
As some of the readers might know I made the first dream came true, but not so much for the second one. After coming back from New Zealand, I did study hard for all the courses related to architecture and prepared to study abroad by myself. For the last two and half years in college was a tough one given that I could not fit well on the teaching style of traditional architecture professor did. Anyways, I did get into the University of Cincinnati where I gained a new perspective on the world and life. Make the long story short, I was going to the right direction to be an architect that I wanted. However, the life after graduation was not easy.
This short Hong Kong and Shenzhen trip reminded me some better sweat and memories of my 20s, which had only success rate below 10% from all aspects including professional and personal life. Sometimes I would think back to these days and ask myself what I would do differently? Then three answers would be 1.predict the impact of what you have done one thing 2. work with friends for bigger impact 3. put yourself into the most exciting environment. the first one applies to my grad school. back then my goal was studying urban planning in the States without doing enough research about what are the possibilities of after graduation. If I could find out the impact to find good jobs are not that positive, then I might consider studying different subjects. For the second is something I always need to reminds me. One can only do so many things. Without getting empowered from friends and families, nobody can achieve big things. From elementary school, I was a kid who prefers to play video games rather than play with friends. This kind of characteristic, I found out later, is not positive for someone who can achieve bigger things. For the third thing was also related to my personality, which I can stand for and go through tough times. this may sound positive, and yes it works well most of the situations. However, the downside of this is you are not actively looking for exciting opportunities and waste for your precious times. I wish I could transfer to a college in the States, so my life ends up in a differently.
Oh, that is a long story for most of the readers. Anyway, let me continue what I had 4 days in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Day1.Had lunch and dinner my aunt and her family. stayed at Mojo Nomad, the coolest stay
Day2. Met Alfred, a future well-known architect, and had a city tour stayed on the 26th floor of an apartment
Day3. Was planning to meet Daniel, but ended up spending whole day to attend Tencent tech meetup and chilled out with host house. stayed at Young Artist House. the host was so helpful to open locker when I lost the locker key.
Day4. Met Liu Xin, a talented CEO, who own E-commerce company
Honestly, I really never planned any of them except for the places to stay for Day 1 and Day 3. Everything turned out great in the end, although there were some troubles like Google can’t be used in Shenzhen, and I had to cross the border of HK and Shenzhen which took me approximately 4 hours and I walked around almost 2 hours to find the place I stayed at Day 3 and things like that. Life is so good when something unexpected happens and that leads you to the new frontier. I am sure there would be a lot of changes happening for this 10 years. I am looking forward some positive outcome, say 30% of success rates ;) for both my professional life as well as personal life, in my 30s.
As some of the readers might know I made the first dream came true, but not so much for the second one. After coming back from New Zealand, I did study hard for all the courses related to architecture and prepared to study abroad by myself. For the last two and half years in college was a tough one given that I could not fit well on the teaching style of traditional architecture professor did. Anyways, I did get into the University of Cincinnati where I gained a new perspective on the world and life. Make the long story short, I was going to the right direction to be an architect that I wanted. However, the life after graduation was not easy.
This short Hong Kong and Shenzhen trip reminded me some better sweat and memories of my 20s, which had only success rate below 10% from all aspects including professional and personal life. Sometimes I would think back to these days and ask myself what I would do differently? Then three answers would be 1.predict the impact of what you have done one thing 2. work with friends for bigger impact 3. put yourself into the most exciting environment. the first one applies to my grad school. back then my goal was studying urban planning in the States without doing enough research about what are the possibilities of after graduation. If I could find out the impact to find good jobs are not that positive, then I might consider studying different subjects. For the second is something I always need to reminds me. One can only do so many things. Without getting empowered from friends and families, nobody can achieve big things. From elementary school, I was a kid who prefers to play video games rather than play with friends. This kind of characteristic, I found out later, is not positive for someone who can achieve bigger things. For the third thing was also related to my personality, which I can stand for and go through tough times. this may sound positive, and yes it works well most of the situations. However, the downside of this is you are not actively looking for exciting opportunities and waste for your precious times. I wish I could transfer to a college in the States, so my life ends up in a differently.
Oh, that is a long story for most of the readers. Anyway, let me continue what I had 4 days in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Day1.Had lunch and dinner my aunt and her family. stayed at Mojo Nomad, the coolest stay
Day2. Met Alfred, a future well-known architect, and had a city tour stayed on the 26th floor of an apartment
Day3. Was planning to meet Daniel, but ended up spending whole day to attend Tencent tech meetup and chilled out with host house. stayed at Young Artist House. the host was so helpful to open locker when I lost the locker key.
Day4. Met Liu Xin, a talented CEO, who own E-commerce company
Honestly, I really never planned any of them except for the places to stay for Day 1 and Day 3. Everything turned out great in the end, although there were some troubles like Google can’t be used in Shenzhen, and I had to cross the border of HK and Shenzhen which took me approximately 4 hours and I walked around almost 2 hours to find the place I stayed at Day 3 and things like that. Life is so good when something unexpected happens and that leads you to the new frontier. I am sure there would be a lot of changes happening for this 10 years. I am looking forward some positive outcome, say 30% of success rates ;) for both my professional life as well as personal life, in my 30s.
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