Postcards from Hong Kong #008

Despite having been in Hong Kong for almost a year (yes, first anniversary coming up pretty soon!), I have to admit that I haven’t seen much of Hong Kong.

The most famous thing I’ve been to is The Peak. And I’ve taken the Star Ferry and the trams, and I’ve been to a couple of beaches. Oh and of course every well-known watering hole on Hong Kong island. But not the Big Buddha or the outlying islands.

Perhaps this ought to be rectified pronto.

Wheeler-dealer

One of the deals I worked on while here in Hong Kong got nominated for ‘Best M&A deal of the year’, so we attended the awards dinner this evening.

I’ve never been to one of these things before.

Well, I’ve been to many of these dinner events before – where you sit around in a nice dress, sip wine, make small talk to the person seated next to you and eat average food, whilst an emcee makes bad jokes and every once in a while someone gets on stage and mumbles something or other. But never a law awards dinner. Surrounded by lawyers of every ilk from all over Hong Kong.

I wondered, at some point during the dinner, how long I’d have to be in Hong Kong for before I could walk around that banquet hall and be able to find familiar faces from other law firms to say hello to and to catch up with. Or how many different firms I’d have to work for.

And then I realised that I haven’t even been qualified for a year, so really, I was just getting completely ahead of myself. But still, it never hurts to dream.

We didn’t win in our category, by the way. But we’re working on being ‘Best law firm’ next year.