Lunch with Shin

Tuesday morning I checked my facebook, I found that Ah Shin was in Beijing and see if I want to have lunch with him. I had not checked facebook for weeks, it was such a coincidence. I guess God really wanted us to meet.

I took Shin to Lan Lou Kung Xian – a hip hutong area. We walked along some local shops, had dinner at a Taiwanese place, and then had coffee at a fusion café. We spent a wonderful brunch together. I knew Shin at college, it was already eight years ago. Actually we did not meet often, but whenever we are together, we had endless topics.

Shin is a very good storyteller. I love listening to his life stories. One of my favorites on that day was that one of his subordinates faced the toughest moment in her life. During last two years, her closest family members die one by one. She needed to pay off the debt from her families. Her life was in a serious mess, she thought about suicide for a couple times. Even my tried very hard to comfort her, coach her and train her, there was no breakthrough in her career and living. With his persistence, my friend finally helped her close a 30 million deal. Her commission helped her pay off all the debts, and gave a restart to her life. I really feel proud of Shin, he has such a strong stand to others. I wonder if you can help a person for two years, I can’t imagine if I can help as much as he does.

Shin really loved Beijing, because it is such a clean and comfortable place to live in. The street are clean, the food are great, the Beijing people are friendly. The only one thing that he can tolerate is the attitude how local Chinese treat the cultural heritage. When he was walking at the Old Palace, he saw a guy holding his son peeing at one of the Towers in Old Palace. An over five hundred years old world’s heritage was stunk by the pee.

Shin loved writing so much, writing his own book was always his dream since he was 13 years old. He wrote a story plot about his own novel series, he planned to finish his book in 5-10 years. It was a real dedication to write a book, I hope his book will be as successful as Harry Potter – even though I had not even finished one of the Harry Potters.