Shanghai

This is my first business trip to Shanghai. I am attendng a series of focus groups from beijing to shanghai, shanghai to guangzhou. The concept testing n beijing was not very well, so we need to develop more concept. I guess I am still not 100% ready for work yet, I wanna give up to brainstorm but luckily Connie (my lovely coworker) insisted to work on the concepts, we have some better concepts at 2am midnight. The shanghai groups went very well, except I got an strange email from my boss Charles - saying that it is easier to be an account manager to play politics than being a planner. I was a bit pissed off from the email, but I manage to control myself since I really have not 100% focus on the work yet. Charles is a good guy, hope it will not hurt our relationship.

I have not been to Shanghai for over 5 years. I am really excited to see Mr. Ma again. He took me to have dinner, bar and karaoke. He lets me test the "glamourous" life in Shanghai, but I am really worried for him that his spirit will be worn in Shanghai's life. I wish he can be happy and find the way of living that he wants. Tomorrow I will go to see my regional boss - Ratan and Tom, hope it will be a good meeting.