Looking back at one of the great FCGroup events: 17 Dec 13

Oh well, summer time is the right moment to work on my retirement issues (what worse could you have to do?) but also post some of the past events, for the record.
Since at least one year I am skipping most of the networking events, making an exception for the ones done by the FCGroup, managed by Colin Friedman.

This event, in one of the usual venues being the Zeta Bar in Hilton Hotel, was pretty exciting as you can see with the pictures: “Got Talent” drew a number of enthusiastic participants.
Always good to meet some friends and have a quiet conversation.
More pictures of FCGroup events to come soon.

Old China Hands lunch 4 July

As a warm up for our American friends, we had our monthly lunch on the first Friday of the month – the 4th of July.
Despite the hot weather, many people also being away on holidays or business trips – or stuck in meetings – we managed to be 24 of us.
As usual the lunch was at Morel’s Restaurant where the boss Renaat being away we had some delays in being served. Next one that will not happen again, so be ready for 1 August, sauna weather or not.

I am expected to stick around over summertime but I might skip away for a short business trip to Xinjiang (at the border with Kazakhstan). Presumably…

Rotaract social evening at Great Leap Brewing

At our Rotaract Club of Beijing we do not always have “serious” meetings, we also enjoy social evenings. Many of those have been at Great Leap Brewing (near Chunxiu Lu and the Holiday Inn Express Hotel). A Great place indeed with a wide range of home-brewed beers and delicious hamburgers (probably the best in Beijing). A bit noisy as it is usually packed. Here our evening on 16 June.

I could not fail to notice that that sign could also be read LGB-T, if you get the point… Instead of GLB T-shirts…

Exploring The Pho Laboratory with Rotaract

On 27 May we had an unplanned gathering of Rotaract friends in the tiny restaurant “The Pho Laboratory”, a Vietnamese noodle outlet across the street from the Great Leap Brewing restaurant. Thanks Jaime for setting this up.

 

I should go back there again to have a real dinner as the noodles tasted great but I had had another dinner that evening. And I need to find out more about their banner “Notre Dame Club”: every year I talk to their (E)MBA students visiting Beijing. A very well known U.S. University.

Birthdays and more birthdays!

I did not post yet the pics of our birthdays. We have pretty unusual dates: myself 31 December, Sun 14 February. Valerie follows on 21 February.
Sun got two cakes on Valentine. As usual we celebrate in Morel’s Restaurant.

Except for Valerie as she had to work, she wanted her Japanese sushi and we had other friends joining.