In Shanghai

Leaerning PXI programming with VC...

Met Joonhyung yesterday...

Talked too much about private and personal things. He was so inquisitive. I felt worn out after revealing so many secrets about me :))

The beer house was good.

insecure vs. stable

The British tend to try to be viewed as having a high ego, resulting in looking arrogant to others. Why? Nathan told me that that's because they are, in fact, "insecure."

On the other hand, Americans are stable and so they relatively easily admit their mistakes when they are made--British tend to be hard-pressed to admit their faults and behave and talk like laywers and politicians, the symbol of meanness.

Such attitude of theirs is partly rooted in their long history of being an empire, wielding power over the world, and it partly proves that they are actually incompetent. They are fearful of admitting mistakes since they feel doing so could reveal their incompetence. They are fearful of losing their self-proclaimed status of king by revealing their weakness.

I think it's a meaningful point.

Avente promoter...

For the second day, I picked up Nathan, an LTE engineer from Cambridge, from his hotel to Samsung, Suwon. There was an instance when he stayed alone in my car while I went to a toilet. After being filled in by me on my car's fuel mileage and price, he seemed so much impressed with the car, Avante. He said, "OK. This is my next car. I will buy this one back in Britain." I said, "Good choice."

So, am I qualified to be called a patriot because I successfully promoted a Korean-made car to a foreigner?