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		<title>Observations from Wharton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would take 30 seconds to write a quick blog (my first since I started at Wharton). Things are getting fairly busy, but I feel like I&#8217;m still very much on top of everything. Two years was a long time to spend in a developing country, so I&#8217;ve noticed some adjustments I&#8217;ve needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nostalgia: The first day in Beijing, I felt a bit down after leaving Vietnam. However, I’m sure the pain would have been more acute had I returned directly to the U.S. Instead, the culture shock of visiting another country has fully occupied my thoughts and senses. Language: Interestingly, everyone here thinks I look Chinese. Blending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=25</link>
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		<title>English or Vietnamese in Vietnam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a delayed entry, but I thought I would put it up later rather than never. Given Citigroup is a U.S. Bank, all employees, including the local-Vietnamese, must be proficient at reading, writing, and speaking English; it’s something everyone is screened on during interviews. This is the case for local staff across the 100-plus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Been out here too long?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I flew over to Singapore recently for my Wharton interview. While out clubbing one night, I walked by a McDonalds with a sign saying &#8220;open 24 hours&#8221;. I turned to my friends there, and said, hey I didn&#8217;t know they had any of those open all night. Everyone laughed at me, so I laughed along. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Angkor Wat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Bank of Cambodia, in Siem Reap Certainly an interesting design for a bank branch. Not sure why I posted a picture of this. Guess I&#8217;m &#8220;into it&#8221; since I&#8217;m in financial services. Cambodia is one of the few countries in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) that is more poor than Vietnam; average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Mosquitos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t get to sleep right now as I&#8217;m being tortured by a mosquito(s) again. I&#8217;ve been too lazy to buy a mosquito net for my apartment as they haven&#8217;t been a consistent problem. However, when one does get loose in my vicinity, the results aren&#8217;t pretty. I&#8217;m seriously thinking about the net right now. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Traffic Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At midnight, the evening prior to leaving for Hanoi for the Tet holiday, I got pulled over by the traffic cops for forgetting to turn on my bike&#8217;s headlights. Without thinking, I responded to the officer&#8217;s questions in Vietnamese, which was a mistake. About a year earlier, I was pulled over for the same offense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=17</link>
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		<title>B-School Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve hit my first hitch in the application process. Got waitlisted at Harvard Business School (after interview). From what I&#8217;ve read, the chances of getting admitted off the waitlist is something dismal, like 10%. While it&#8217;s certainly a better outcome than getting rejected outright, it could prove to be the more psychologically painful outcome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Quality of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve hosted over twenty different groups of family and friends since I’ve been in Vietnam. One thing everyone is curious about is what my quality of life is like here. This, of course, has much to do with how much I’m getting paid. Contrary to what most people believe, I’m not on a cushy expatriate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Back Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. For those of you I haven’t kept touch with, the past six months of my life have been absorbed by the business school application process. First Round results are due within one week (keep your fingers crossed for me). Studying for the GMAT and writing my B-school essays took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kendo.mindtangle.net/?p=12</link>
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