Saturday, July 15, 2006

Buddies and Guanxi

One of the most important words in the Chinese business lexicon is guanxi. It means relationships(guan means "gate" and xi means "links") and the significance of it is that to succeed in business it is necessary to build up the right relationships with the right people.

This has remind me of what I have with my old buddies. Who are they anyway? well, for sure all of them are executives of big cos, people called them banker, consultant, expert or whatever...
First time I met them it was in Jogja long long time ago, and..... it would be a ten pages story if I tell you the stories of our madness...
So, here we are being a guanxi to each other... I hope it last forever :)




If life begin at forty then we just being a member of this life ( not all actually, couple of them had started it earlier :))
Twenty years..... hmmm... f**king twenty years...
Let's take another picture next twenty years... see whether you still there... :))