Monthly Archives: August 2010

Our Nutty Adventure – Part III: Going Solo in Montana

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Banff National Park in Alberta Canada.  The grand mountains in the near distance are shrouded in heavy mist and I am sitting next to the fireplace in the bistro lounge of our hotel with a glass of wine. My husband is tinkering with technical mumbo-jumbo to figure out how to move this blog to a more powerful platform.

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Part I – The Allure of Partnership

Posted on August 27, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Missoula, Montana. Since my husband left for New York last Sunday, I have been traveling around Montana by myself. Like what the lyrics say — “life is a highway and I want to ride it all night long” — long-distance driving alone always puts me in a contemplative mood reflecting on where I have been and where I am heading.

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Part I – The Allure of Partnership

Posted on August 27, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Missoula, Montana. Since my husband left for New York last Sunday, I have been traveling around Montana by myself. Like what the lyrics say — “life is a highway and I want to ride it all night long” — long-distance driving alone always puts me in a contemplative mood reflecting on where I have been and where I am heading.

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The Story So Far

Posted on August 24, 2010 by admin
Thanks every one for reading my blog. When I first decided to start a blog, I didn’t think that many people would read and react to it. Now that I seem to have a more or less of  a steady following, at least according to Google Analytics which I’m resisting to check as often as my stock prices, I am encouraged.
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Our Nutty Adventure – Part II

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Waterton Lake National Park, the Canadian sister park to Glacier National Park. We are sitting in Prince of Wales Hotelwaiting to see the sunset. After what feels like days without internet access, I am finally back online (expensively roaming on the MiFi).

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We had driven 750 miles since my previous trip post at Bremerton on Monday.… Continue reading →

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I Had An Allergic Reaction to Eat, Pray, Love

Posted on August 19, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Kalispell Montana, about 30 miles from the Glacier National Park. It is nice to be close to nature. Last night, we stopped in the (overrated) resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where we watched Eat, Pray, Love.

I’ve been wanting to watch the movie because it has an interesting premise of taking time off to find one’s bearing.  … Continue reading →

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Our Nutty Adventure – Part I

Posted on August 16, 2010 by admin

Greetings from Bremerton, Washington, about an hour west by ferry across the Puget Sound from Seattle.  I am starting day 4 of the 25-day Northwest road trip.

For this road trip we didn’t plan any specific itinerary or book any hotels.  This may seem an odd way of vacationing especially given that I am the kind of person who have always craved structure and predictability.… Continue reading →

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Perpetual Wednesdays

Posted on August 12, 2010 by admin

I used to hate Wednesdays.  It is smack in the middle of a working week.  You are tired from working two full days already, yet there’s no respite in sight.

When I was a first year in Hong Kong, I worked on a deal that won the International Financial Law Review Debt Deal of the Year award. … Continue reading →

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The Gym Non-perk

Posted on August 10, 2010 by admin

Now that my gym membership is no longer subsidized through work, I recently changed from Equinox to New York Health and Racket Club (NYHRC).

The Equinox rate for hoi polloi is $145 per month for an individual location or $175 per month for “all access”. Both Simpson Thacher and Davis Polk offer a generous gym membership benefit like most Biglaw firms. 

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Deja Vu

Posted on August 10, 2010 by admin

I had a dream last night — a dream so real that my heart was pumping fast when I awoke. The logic and the details of the dream are now a blur, but the angst and the dread I felt are the ones I knew all too well.

The dream began with me getting a call from a client asking me to do something.… Continue reading →

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