Meeting

While going through where I dined for my birthdays in the past, I was summoned to attend a local business meeting.

It was a Friday evening, and the agenda was supposedly simple. Nonetheless, it turns out to be the most remarkable meeting that I had in the past few years – ever since that dramatic dinner symposium in 2009 (see http://ccszeto.blogspot.hk/2009/12/powerpoint.html).

To begin with, the meeting took place at a hotel that is farther away from most of us than Shenzhen but is within Hong Kong. (I agree it is physically quite impossible but the sponsor was ingenious, or ingenuous, enough to find – and to decide to choose – such a place.)

And, since it took such a long time to travel, most of us were late. (One of the attendee did really come from a hospital close to Shenzhen and was late for over an hour.) For that reason, we had to start late; the meeting was scheduled to kick off at 6:30 PM, but, at the end of the day (literally !) formal discussion eventually began at 7:15 PM.

(To be continued.)