I just celebrated 25 years with my company this week. Hard to believe all that time has gone by. I realize that many of you will not even have been born yet (maybe someone out there is my love child?). I remember thinking about all the old guard who had been there for a while, and now it looks like I am the old guard. Nevertheless, I still feel like I am a kid just out of school. And I don't think I have ever been in better shape that I am now. I think I also look better than I did then. I was really skinny, and had a baby face - always used to get carded. I hated looking a lot younger than I was, but now am really happy that I still do.
I will always remember that I started work at the same time that Tiananmen Square occurred. I was talking about this with a friend at work last week. I was surprised to hear that she was at Beijing University at the time, and attended several rallies in the square. Fortunately she was not there for the crackdown, but she knew several people who were killed. She also remembers the repression and witch hunts afterwards. This kind of thing makes you realize how trivial some of our so called problems really are.