So happy to see you again, Peter!

I remember I made a post for Peter when he retired from our company after working for more than 30 years back in May 2021, it was sentimental to seeing he leave our team during the pandemic meanwhile I didn’t see my wife for one and half year backward. I still remember what I said to him “Even you are leaving HK and back your home, I have no idea when can I go home to see my wife in Shenzhen”, that’s the last word I said to him at the office before he leaves.

And I was surprised to seeing his picture when my team visit London in Jan this year, he looks much slimer and depressed, absolutely he looks 5 years older than he is, what’s wrong with him after he back to the UK in the past 18 months?

Heard that he got nothing to do everyday after left for the company, no golf, no social life, everyday simply sitting at home watching TV and reading newspaper…what the fuck…that’s what I did during my hotel isolation in Shenzhen these 2 years, no wonder he looks so depressed now.

Old man encouraging him to play golf with friends again no matter if he still want to get involved in the job, of course he has no obligation to do so as he doesn’t get pay from old man anymore. But it’s still good to take old man’s advise to play golf or meet his friend more often.

He came to London to see us during our exhibition, and I was so excited to seeing him in person there, couldn’t wait to tell my story after he left the company, letting him know that I also back to Shenzhen to quarantine myself for 14 days, then got super bad mental issue, mainly the depression and anxious, ended up spent additional US$ 3000 for the treatment, fuck that.

Anyway, soon we changed the subject talking many stupid shits to each other and both him and me laugh our ass off, old man though it’s not good to asking him just sitting at the conference and do nothing, then Peter went down to say hello to his friends, you know, he had been in this industry for more than 50 years, surely he has got many friends and he could be busy in just saying hello to everyone in the exhibition.

After we had done for the meeting by 6pm, old man asked Peter to dinner with us, during our ride on the taxi, I still talked lot of stupid shits to him but sounds he rather to listen these than the lesson from old man hahaha.

I wasn’t too hungry when arrived the restaurant especially tired the dark cuisines there at the first day of my visit. So I let old man and Peter decide what to order a the Chinese restaurant. Will show you what did we order during our visit at this shop.

記得我2年前寫個一個帖, 是關於我們家老外同事Peter, 他在老頭那裡做了三十多年了, 因為疫情的原因, 他決定退休和太太回英國安享晚年. 他最後一天上班的時候, 那個情況是好傷感的, 他傷感, 老頭傷感, 我也傷感. 因為那陣子我也一年半沒見我老婆了, 他臨行前, 我跟他說的最後一句話大概是 “你也要回家了, 我都不知我甚麼時候能回家見我老婆”

今年初大伙去英國出差時, Peter有去探他們, 然後看到他當時的照片我驚呆了, 怎麼樵悴那麼多了? 還瘦了不少呢…他看起來比實際年紀還老了五年呢…這一年半以來, 他在英國經歷了甚麼?

聽說他退休後, 日日無所事事, 沒再打高球, 也不和朋友出去聚會…完全零社交生活, 天天就坐在家看電視和報紙…TMD...這不就和我當初在深圳隔離的生活一樣嘛? 怪不得他變得如此抑鬱了…

然後老頭就鼓勵他重新去打高球吧, 搞不搞公司的事都沒所謂, 最重要是等自己有些寄託. 當然, 他都沒羡務去理公司的事了, 他沒再受老頭的薪水嘛. 但老頭建議他去打高球或者多見下朋友這個建議還是挺好的.

今次的展會Peter也來看我們了, 見到他的時候我好興奮呢, 就跟他說他回去之後我的故事, 我跟他講後來我也回深圳隔離了, 但期間鬱出病來了, 主要是嚴重的抑鬱和焦慮囉. 最後還花了差不多3000刀去治療,媽的.

一堆傷感過後, 我們開啟智障模式, 一直在說一些白痴的東西. 然後老頭見他坐著無聊, 叫他不用呆坐等我們下班, 可以先出去和老朋友打招呼. 他在這一行做了50多年了, 肯定好多朋友, 光是去和人打招呼都有夠他忙的了

無驚無險又到6點, 夠鐘吃飯, Peter當然有跟我們一起吃飯聚舊啦, 坐的士的途中我仍然在和他講白痴話題, 我猜他情可跟我說這些多過聽老頭說教吧.

到餐廳時其實我不是特別餓, 因為第一天吃過當地的暗黑料理, 都不是很想吃東西, 所以點菜一事, 就交給他們了, 明天再晒一下我們在這裡的東西.

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