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September 27, 2006
A Russian In Singapore
Eugene was in town yesterday. He stopped over in Singapore on his way back to St. Petersburg. I met him after I had breakfast with YF. The last time I saw him was perhaps a year ago and it's nice to be talking about life and the universe with him again.
We were talking about Aiesec U.S. 50th Anniversary alumni gathering that's happening in New York end October. Both of us are not gonna be there. So many of our friends are now living in NYC - Anu, Joe, Sapna, Scott, Dave, Rickesh...
We ended up talking about peaches and coconuts. I was commenting that Americans seem to enjoy and feel more comfortable interacting in a big group. And he likened Americans to peaches - soft outside, hard inside, and Asians to coconuts - hard outside, soft inside. For a moment, I thought he's gonna say Asians are hard outside, hollow inside. Then I would have punched him :-)
We met up with Jessica, Cecilia, Elvin and Pavel for dinner at a japanese restaurant in The Esplanade. Here's a picture of one Taiwanese, one Hongkie, one Malaysian, one local and two Russians.
Posted by loganw at September 27, 2006 04:20 PM
