For Mum and Dad’s last full day in the US I suggested we rent a car and drive to Yosemite National Park, a 3-4 hour drive from San Francisco. We had an early start and were on the road by 7am. We got caught up in some of the peak hour traffic, stopped off, Read More
I celebrated my last night as an MBA student in style, inviting my family, Adriana and our family friend Arlene out for a lovely dinner at Julius’ Castle, a fancy restaurant about two blocks from my apartment up on Telegraph Hill with fantastic views of the bay, the Bay Bridge and the East Bay. , Read More
To celebrate the end of our MBAs we planned a bunch of activities to unwind, enjoy the moment and farewell many of our friends. It was a mirror image of the Orientation Week activities organized for us two years earlier, so it was aptly named Disorientation Week. OCEAN BEACH BONFIRE: This was a repeat, Read More
I always wanted to go to this tournament hosted by Duke University each year in North Carolina. Even before I began business school I’d heard about it, but since coming to Berkeley I haven’t been able to get a Haas team together because we’re a small business school and there just isn’t the interest, Read More
Darren Miao and I decided to go ice climbing with an outfit called Sierra Mountain Guides. I have a fair bit of experience on ice and rock in the mountains, but I’d never tried technical ice climbing – the steepest I’ve climbed before would have been around 50-60 degrees. Our destination was a one, Read More
Amazingly, I’d never done the most San Francisco of things and walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. We had some mild Spring weather in February so one weekend Adriana and I decided to finally do it. We started walking from my apartment in North Beach, and it was a good hike to the bridge, Read More
For the second and final year of b-school, I made the decision to move from East Bay into San Francisco. I started looking around with my friend Duncan Clendenin from school, but we couldn’t find any good two bedroom place for less than $2,500/month – well and truly out of our price range! We, Read More
One of the perks of my job as a student ambassador at the business school is that I get to travel to some of the MBA Admissions events around North America. In October I took a weekend trip to Toronto, Canada, to sit in on an MBA fair there. I wanted to get to, Read More
Adri and I took a day trip to Muir Woods, a park just on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County (ie. not far from San Francisco). Muir Woods contains a some of the largest coastal redwood trees in California – and they are HUGE! After a short hike through, Read More
Adriana and I took the opportunity of some fantastic Autumn weather and drove up to Mendocino on the northern California coast. Mendocino was lovely: a small town atop the sea cliffs with many cafes, artist’s studios etc. It was great to walk around the headland, spot for sea lions and watch the huge waves, Read More