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Mike61
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"It's not getting old that stops you doing things, it's stopping doing things that makes you get old."
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- UK
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- Back to the UK
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- Consultant
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- About me:
- I spend half my life in Shenzhen and half in the UK. I have travelled the World for the last 35 years, living in Hong Kong, Singapore, Algeria, Bolivia and the USA as well as visiting about another 30 countries. Honestly, I often think that it would be good to act my age, but it is so difficult.
Outline of my Travels
For those who requested it. There were many other short stays in other countries, but these were places that I lived in a house or flat.
1946-1965 Home and school just outside London
1965-1968 Studied Pure Mathematics at University of Bristol – an interesting historic city in the west of England. A great time.
1968-1973 Worked in London and lived as various places, at home, in flats, with gfs – usually no money by mid-month.
1973-1976 Moved to HK for a big salary increase, so “rich” at last. Lived in the mid-levels with plenty of social life. My HK gf wouldn't marry me because it would mean leaving HK.
1976-1978 Moved to Algeria a mixture of Arab and French background. Interesting cities and splendid mountain and desert scenery. Good strong wine and excellent food. Met my wife – a long and romantic story, both in the normal sense and Jane's.
1978 Columbia, SC, USA – not very interesting.
1978-1980 La Paz, Bolivia, South America at 4000m elevation in the Andes Mountains. Everything about the place was great – the people, the parties, the incredible scenery. Go to Bolivia if you have the chance.
1981 HK again. Birth of my elder daughter, Kathleen, now living in South Africa.
1982-1983 Singapore – quite boring after HK. Birth of my elder son, Alex.
1984-1985 HK yet again. The two kids limited us, but we had a good time.
1985-1988 New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It was time to settle down, so we went to live in America. We made very few friends and were poor again.
1988-1999 HK once more. Rich again – my wife was in property and earning more than me. The peak of my career – if you talked about transport in HK you talked about me. Birth of my younger daughter, Shelly, and my younger son. Chris. Death of my elder son.
1999-present Bought our house in Worcester for a nice quiet life and I commute to various places – mostly SZ – for work and excitement.
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A Beautiful Flower
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 8:19am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The flower is dead now. Killed in the harsh unrelenting cold of a summer it could not withstand or understand.
I remember it in bud, a dramatic innocent bud, so full of hope for life to come. I remember the winter flowering, such a glorious time, to see that bud open and bloom. No one will forget the splendid joy of January. I remember spring bringing the chill of anger.
If the flower had been of silk it would have looked as fine, but never lived. The flower will come… Continue
I remember it in bud, a dramatic innocent bud, so full of hope for life to come. I remember the winter flowering, such a glorious time, to see that bud open and bloom. No one will forget the splendid joy of January. I remember spring bringing the chill of anger.
If the flower had been of silk it would have looked as fine, but never lived. The flower will come… Continue
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dear Mike , wish you are fine and happy as always . and wish you have many happy returns :)
Take care...
A friend met by 2009 in SHENZHEN FOURPOINT SHERATON