Back in Shenzhen Alright, this is an addendum. Actually I got back to Shenzhen on July 13th. After I returned I met up with some people, and then started work on the 18th. But as I suspected, I’m not cut out for a long-term office job — after one week I switched back to developing from home, going into the office only when necessary and dropping in on clients now and then. Since coming back to Shenzhen my rhythm of life has become regular: three meals on time, in bed before 23:00 every night, up a little after 7 in the morning. These things matter. Yeah, not bad at all.

I’ll be heading back to Shenzhen at the end of July 2011.

They say Aquarius is extremely calm, extremely rational. But somehow, come summer, I turn sentimental. Maybe only warm sunshine and scorching heat can melt a heart of cold, glassy stuff. Only when summer arrives each year do I suddenly feel like a living creature. Every year, my personal emotional eruptions happen in this blazing summer — the days when school lets out for vacation. Lately I’ve been feeling down, tinged with a faint sadness. I’ve realized I’ve wasted so much of my youth and accomplished nothing. Right now my biggest wish on the work front is to build an interesting game product.

Been swamped lately with a few websites, running myself half to death, but my resource pool is finally about to free up. Recycling worker thread 0… recycled successfully, resources released. Recycling worker thread 1… recycled successfully, resources released…

People keep asking me these questions on QQ, so I’ll just write them here instead. You’ve graduated by now, right? Yes, I officially graduated at the end of June this year.

On 09.5.12, the first anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, I left Qoolu Network, where I had worked for a full seven months. Back to a freelance career full of boundless dreams.

Departed at 7:20 AM on the 11th, arrived in Shanghai by noon, and got to the company (QooLu.com) in the afternoon. Starting work on Monday: AS programmer. From today until October 13th of next year, I’m not taking on any outsourcing work.