24 days later
I didn't plan to update my blog on a 12 day base. However, I try to squeeze time to update friends at different corners of the world.
1. More on equality:
I once saw a news saying that Sweden ranks the highest on gender equality. I have very little interest in discussing about gender equality because I believe it can never be equal from how physically men and women are constructed, the way we mate, etc. Here is more on equality of hierarchies in Electrolux. I attended a training regarding product management flow and had the VP HR of Elux Group Pia Hovland in the same group for 4 days. When we were asked to clean the rooms we used for our group work, she went as the 1st to clear out all the papers. Just a small example on the egalitarian culture.
2. Old people's activities:
Aron and me always end up in the middle of those of 50s to 70s: Stampen (a jazz club in Gamla Stan), a Mozart concert (in a church in Gamla Stan). I personally cannot grasp what are the young people up to in Sweden yet. Probably there aren't that many young people anyways.
3. Adoption:
There are many Asian kids (especially Chinese girls) got adopted by white Swedish parents here. Because 1) the parents really wanted kids and couldn't have their own; 2) most of the Chinese (especially in rurual China) don't want daughters. Perfect match?!
4. Växjö:
I found myself in 3 different airports (Stockholm Arlanda, Brussels and Copenhagen) last Friday and 4 different cities because I ended up visiting Aron's family in Växjö. It was quite a long day started from 4.50am. It did remind me of an AI director's life: airports, checking in, waiting to board, etc. It was very special because I was visiting Aron's entire family. We spent a lovely weekend in English conversations (which we all struggled a bit to use the easiest to understand words), in nice cozy cafe for fika, in musuem for interesting exhibitions, in walking through the forests long the lake side, brunches and dinners around the table, table tennis games between the big Swedes and a tiny Chinese girl and my favorite moment was looking through Aron's album since he was born till his teenager time. A very loving family indeed.
So much to update for now. I need to go home, relax after a very tough day, hopefully book a laundry time, check friend's blog and skype my parents.
1. More on equality:
I once saw a news saying that Sweden ranks the highest on gender equality. I have very little interest in discussing about gender equality because I believe it can never be equal from how physically men and women are constructed, the way we mate, etc. Here is more on equality of hierarchies in Electrolux. I attended a training regarding product management flow and had the VP HR of Elux Group Pia Hovland in the same group for 4 days. When we were asked to clean the rooms we used for our group work, she went as the 1st to clear out all the papers. Just a small example on the egalitarian culture.
2. Old people's activities:
Aron and me always end up in the middle of those of 50s to 70s: Stampen (a jazz club in Gamla Stan), a Mozart concert (in a church in Gamla Stan). I personally cannot grasp what are the young people up to in Sweden yet. Probably there aren't that many young people anyways.
3. Adoption:
There are many Asian kids (especially Chinese girls) got adopted by white Swedish parents here. Because 1) the parents really wanted kids and couldn't have their own; 2) most of the Chinese (especially in rurual China) don't want daughters. Perfect match?!
4. Växjö:
I found myself in 3 different airports (Stockholm Arlanda, Brussels and Copenhagen) last Friday and 4 different cities because I ended up visiting Aron's family in Växjö. It was quite a long day started from 4.50am. It did remind me of an AI director's life: airports, checking in, waiting to board, etc. It was very special because I was visiting Aron's entire family. We spent a lovely weekend in English conversations (which we all struggled a bit to use the easiest to understand words), in nice cozy cafe for fika, in musuem for interesting exhibitions, in walking through the forests long the lake side, brunches and dinners around the table, table tennis games between the big Swedes and a tiny Chinese girl and my favorite moment was looking through Aron's album since he was born till his teenager time. A very loving family indeed.
So much to update for now. I need to go home, relax after a very tough day, hopefully book a laundry time, check friend's blog and skype my parents.
posted by Jingwei @ 6:03 PM
7 comments
7 Comments:
I personally agree with you that most (not all) men and women do have their differences...
doesn't mean that men are better or women are better...they just have their own uniqueness :)
hey,i miss talking to u Jingwei...
have a great time there.
with smile,
ali
interesting...
Hey Jingwei...
I read L-O-V-E !!! I am really happy everything is going so well. When are you guys coming to NL? You have to send me your number once. We need to catch up!!!
So its "Meet the Parents" now right?
This might be a bit more serious than I thought...
Good stuff Jingwei! I am very happy for you :)
Ladi, bro : Serious and girls dont go together with you, and anything coming from your mouth on that is definitely a rethink :) - I think you should take mentoring lessons from Jingwei about this! Hope you doing good in the other part of world, lets skype on the coming weekend!(Saw your pics from the X-mas party - *guffaw*)
AHOY!! what are you doin in Sweden?? Interesting to see you are back in Europe...how bout a trip to the lil islands on this side of the world?
Take care -- Harman
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