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i love my job. not only do we have casual fridays, we have whiskey fridays! i had johnny blue label today. it went down really really smoothly. there's a decanter that sits on some guy's desk, and they can't fill it with anything but the best whiskey or else the market goes bearish (apparently that means it drops). no bear whiskey for credit suisse (btw, most ppl do pronounce it credit SWISS). and right after we drank whiskey with alex (a managing director...he owns his own racing team...8 cars!), mary came around with the beer and chips cart. how much better could a friday get?! oh yeah, for lunch, karthik (the other new hire) and i went to lunch with both md's (managing directors)...a really nice place called the china club where they have a lot of art hoarded from the cultural revolution. and for the afternoon, we did nothing but socialize with the other ppl on our floor. and then after work, we went to an intern's place to play hold 'em. this is the first time i've played cards for anything more than candy, so i was pleasantly surprised when, at the end of the night, i'm sitting with the high stack of chips. i netted $280 hk, which is like $40 US, but i'm pretty proud of myself considering the buy in was only $100 hk.

in other news, i'm getting very tired of karthik. the guy just doesn't shut up. and he always has to be right, even when you've got amazing evidence on your side. and he's a little condescending. i think he's got a pretty skewed view of the world. like a certain kind of guy comes out on top, and everyone else is weak and undesirable, so then of course, he has to emulate the cocky assed behavior that "confident" guys exhibit. during dinner, he actually said that engineers have small dicks (he did engineering in college, and then got a masters in financial engineering). i think the context of the statement was something like, "oh, i tried to go into engineering, but it wasn't for me. those guys are such wusses, they let you walk all over them, they just all have small dicks." to which i immediately replied, "oh, you've seen a lot of engineer's dicks?" (i'm pretty proud of myself for that one...i'm not usually so quick with my comebacks). and then later, he said something like "in the world, there are dicks and there are pussies, and if you're a pussy, you get screwed." it's weird cuz he's such a climber and a suckup, but you can tell it's due to his weird idea of what constitutes success. like he's not at all conniving or malicious...underneath he's a nice guy, just misguided. he's so afraid of being weak. embrace your inner yin, karthik, lest the yang engulf your soul. whatever, i've no patience for fuckers. and! the boy tries to buy his friends. his dad owns a textile factory, and he tried working for daddy for a bit, but he left to get out of his dad's shadow, but not far enough to escape daddy's pocket. he bought us all kinder surprises when he went to the super market. KINDER SURPRISE! i haven't opened mine yet...gonna save it for the flight to london. sweet! yeah, but a terrific day overall.