People from China asked me if I still have some acquaintances working for Lenovo, as they needed to work something out through internal relationship. I asked myself, after so many years of having been away from there, am I still able to get someone who is powerful enough to do something? Or, another question is, have I ever been able to do so?

I probably wouldn’t say “yes”. Well, I had a good time in Legend, and made lots of friends there, but I never thought I could one day make best of use them. And also, my position was really limited to the postion which had secondary importance to those people standing at the frontline, like sales, external customer service and manufacturing. HR is really not a section who can actually generate profit for the company, and nobody really cares if there is one exists or not.

So, as a natural result, I actually had never purposely developed a network to fix the issue like today. Or say, I couldn’t get my hands stretched that long. Well, for this moment, I am thinking that I might be able to eventually find a way, but the question is, how many other people I will have to get involved to finally get to talk to the last and the most important one? Legend never worked this way. And neither did I.

The thought of getting myself once again into that “relation loop” exists everywhere in China really worries me, and to be honest, I don’t want to get into it, though nowadays there is no one who wants to be successful in China can not bypass this.

I have gotten used to work the things out just through the simplest mean, no ass-kissing, no bribing with expensive meal treats, no being careful all the time to watch the changes show on those powerful people’s faces, no worries about what my boss would think about me if I don’t stay and work overtime till 9:30pm, and no need to beg people around for just get a very small favor from him/her. Mind you some of these people actually played a very tiny role, but they acted as if they were the most important person and the most unapproachable person in his/her field.

I wouldn’t say I was sick of all these crazy things that happen in China everyday, as I was one of them. And I know, except adjusting myself to it, there is no other way. But I wondered why there is no simple way to do things out there. And also, I suppose that the situation I have today probably will turn out being very funny. “Guanxi”(relation) and “Liyi”(profit, money or benefit) are the only two things will drive the new generation of Chinese to help others out. I don’t have money. Even I had, I am not going to spend money for what I am asking. And also, my “guanxi” has started to fade with the time passes by. I wondered what cards I actually have in my hands that I can play out?