Always thinking

Dinner to go

It's been raining for days now. If it's Shanghai it would be depressing. But it's not. Bay area's winter is all green, it's specially pretty when it rains. So I love the rain at bay area. I have been eating "in and out" for dinner for passed few days and today I took the exit aiming at it again. Somehow I ended up at the Chinese resturant at the corner of Alma and Rangstorff. The owner seems to be scholar type, he speaks the perfect mandarin. The hostess has a friendly face, shanghainess, of course. She recommanded the "hongshao rou and defupi", which is the shanghai style. While waiting for my dinner, we chatted about the jobs, the careers, and so on. The owner studied Phd, quite impressive, both of them thinks education is extremely important because education prepares one when the opportunity strikes. I mentioned education is not that important: maybe because I got too much of it so that it does not appears the magic anymore; but for those who did not get chance for education, they admire educated people and the opportunity they have. The hostess simply said to me:"you just have not got the right opportunity yet so you don't think it's important, when the opportunity strikes, you will appreciate your education." The phd owner also said to me: "real world job often demands very narrow, or small part of what your education prepares you, but that very narrow part can be very powerful".

I never expected a simply dinner to go at a simple Chinese resturant can teach me so much about what troubles me for months.

posted by Road less travelled @ 11:43 PM