Well, it's been awhile hasn't it, since I last scribbled anything here.  I've tried several times, but for some reason I couldn't connect to the page, so I gave up trying to update it.  But here I am!

So, what's new?  Welsh Boy, a mutual friend of mine and the Banker's, got laid off and finally high-tailed it back to Wales at the end of last month, just before I was due to arrive in HK for my holiday.  Bummer.  The Banker, I should probably now call him the ex-Banker, as he too got laid off, either on or slightly after his birthday.  That's even more of a bummer.  But he had something going on at the side, a bar that he was opening up with a bunch of other guys, called The Ashtray, in Lan Kwai Fong.

Earlier in the year, I found out that he got himself a girlfriend.  Well, in all technical terms she was his girlfriend.  But it turns out that things weren't at the serious level as he once explained to me would be what he considers a girlfriend.  It didn't work out in the end anyway.  Too bad, because she could totally whoop his ass at pool.

The world decided to take a tumble as I tried to get into investment banking. Talk about bad timing, mine is perpetually terrible, and not just in the job hunting department.  So, after more than two years, I am still doing the same thing at the same place I had vowed to be out of by now.  It's terrifying, to think that I may be stuck here longer than I intended to.  I know that I really need to get out and will not be satisfied nor happy til I am, and yet I am at a loss as to what my next step should be.  There is thought of just moving to an apartment in the city, but that doesn't solve anything, it might help a little but on weekends I'd still be expected home and even worse, I'd probably have to give up my car so that I can afford to live out.

And lastly... I miss my friends.  I miss Superman, and wish he had been there with me in HK.  I miss the Artist, and how we used to talk.  I miss my best friend, whom I feel estranged to nowadays.  I feel like me and my troubled thoughts are a burden she shouldn't have to bear anymore.  I miss my Princess, so far away you are.  I miss the Auditor, whom I think everyone takes for granted, myself unfortunately included, such a great friend she actually is yet I think people don't appreciate her enough.  And I miss me.  The me who could get it all together, whip things into shape, had better control of her life.  The me who knew, without a doubt, that I would get out.