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June 26, 2005

Some of my classmates in the graduate school in Wuhan University met these evening. We had not met since the graduation in 1986. ZW, LK, YF, XD, YTC. and WHL were present. Now they all worked and lived in Shenzhen. Some were government officials, some top management and some jobless. No matter what, it was so nice to see everyone after almost 20 years. We talked about those good ol’ days, what changed among us, and our plans for the future. Just by the amount of Chinese liquor we consumed you could tell how much fun we had. 7 of us all together drank 4 bottles of a famous Chinese wine of 130 proofs. Next day Dingbo and Kewei confessed that they did not know how they got home and one of them was driving. I was surprised that I could drink so much.

Guess who footed the bill? The owner of the restaurant. This was a rather luxury establishment. We had our own dinning room which was huge. It was equipped with its own first class bathroom. Three servers were there at our service. We could see a waterfall from a gigantic window. Since one of our classmates worked for the government, the owner wanted to be on the best side of him. This looked very much like a bribe but was very normal in China.

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