I have to say it’s the best party I’ve been to in my life, or perhaps because I’m not a party animal. The food is nice and we were lucky to have a beautiful weather after a short heavy pouring rain at lunch time. I invited my flatmate Greg as a guest and I believe he enjoyed it more than I did, with all the free bears and Pimm’s.

Here are some of my photos from the party. Just realised there are a few Bloomberg fellow colleagues in Flickr. You can find more photos, or have a look at a group created by Dr.Max.

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I went last weekend with Greg. Although I’m not a car person, but the exhibition was definitely worthy going, especially in the Ferrari area, took up quite a bit memory of my camera :)

Anyway, there is no much to describe here, I will let the photos speak. (Flickr | Flash)

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I’ve been quite busy with company training lately. It will last for another two weeks, but that doesn’t mean my learning will finish by then. I’m enjoying what I’m doing now, really learn a lot everyday. Sometimes I even got a bit frustrated by the amount of knowledge that I need to learn and given not enough time. But anyhow, I’m still enjoying it.

Financial industry is a whole new world to me. I didn’t think of myself being in the financial sector before, but now I will start to get interested and trying my best to learn.

I’m going back home (by home, I mean my home in Shantou, China) in late August. Finally after more than 18 months, it’s about time to go home. It’s going to be a good break, I’m sure.

I went to the Fund raising event today, organised by GetActive and several other organisations (see post in Dimsum).

Me and a few other members from Dimsum joined the volunteering team and took actions to help raising funds for the Sichuan Earthquake. Only in about an hour and half, five of us raised about £150. People were very active and most of them were Chinatown residents and Chinese students. One old man brought his cheque book and wanted to donate £70 on behalf of his family. I was moved but felt very happy to see people’s active responds.

A concert-like event was held in the middle of China. Singers and committees from Chinatown were gathering together to encourage people to donate for the earthquake. They were singing in Cantonese and give speeches to audiences and people passing by. But to those who don’t know what’s going on and can’t understand Cantonese, eg. tourists, it might be a bit like a party.

While we were walking toward Leicester Square with our donation box, we saw a Buddhist group were holding a celebration for Buddha’s Birthday, which was the same day when the earthquake happened. I talked to one of the staffs there, she told me they also encouraged their community and audiences to give donation. In China, they even sent their own team to Sichuan with donated funds and human resources to help.

I think there will be candle memorial gathering today at 8PM in Chinatown. I couldn’t make it there but if there are anything worth to share, I will put them here.

Some of the photos I took today are uploaded to my Flickr, you can have a look there.