How's your Thinksgiving? I certainly had a somewhat special Thanksgiving yesterday. For one, I spent the day "alone", because my wife still had to work in a very popular & busy Chinese restaurant. The other is that there was no "day off" for me. I decided to take the assistant of one of my client to inspect an apartment he is interested in investing.
The assistant is from Singapore and will only stay for a short while. So after the inspection I decided to give her a short tour of downtown Sacramento. She was impressed by the many trees along side the streets with leaves in yellow and redish colors. She said she can't see trees this beautiful in Winter in Singapore. The trees there are green all the time. She stayed in San Francisco for a while and she didn't see that many trees like here in Sacramento either. I showed her the state capitol and Old Sacramento and she said she's beginning to like Sacramento.
Anyway, that's pretty much how I spent the day. At night I attended my boss' house party for Thinksgiving and the Hmong New Year. My broker is Hmong and I am Chinese, so it's good that we can at least understand each other by speaking English. The office I work in has many Hmong agents and Vietnamese agents as well as white, black and Hispanic agents. The president of the company (he himself is Vietnamese) is especially proud of the fact that we have the most minority agents in all the Coldwell Banker offices in the area. Anyway, at the house party, I experienced the wonderful hospitality and tradition of the Hmong people. I was told a Hmong woman in Minnesota was elected to be a senator. As a Chinese American, I think we have many things to learn from them, such as unity and respect to tradition. The only regret I have yesterday is that my wife still had to work and not with me to share the great occasion.