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&lt;b&gt;8:30 a.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Walk down the escalator from Mid-Levels to the office. Check e-mail and voice mail.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;9:00 a.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Drink coffee or Chinese tea delivered to the desk by breakfast cart lady. Start pitchbook request sent via voicemail from VP left late last night.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;10:00 a.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Sit down with desktop publishing guys and ask for special graphics pages and color images. Ask them to complete them by 3 p.m.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11:00 a.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Sit with loan syndication group meeting to discuss major client financing needs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11:30 a.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Check up on analysts in the group to assign them work and answer any questions. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;12:30 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Lunch. It is too crowded at most eateries in Central to have a pleasant meal. Pick up sandwiches at Seven Eleven or Starbucks. For a sitdown meal it is best to wait until late afternoon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;1:30 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt;  Conference call with an MD in Korea and a client&#39;s CFO about meeting next week in Hong Kong for a loan syndication deal.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;3:00 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Read through and check work completed by desktop publishing. Complete your section of pitchbook. E-mail draft to VP for review.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;5:30 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Meet with analysts to dole out work such as research and financial modeling.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;7:00 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Take the elevator to the fitness center for 30-minute run on treadmill.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;8:00 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Order meal and eat with others in the large conference room overlooking Victoria Harbor.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;9:00 p.m: &lt;/b&gt;  Log on to global conference call run by New York media and telecoms group for deals in the pipeline this week.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;10:00 p.m.: &lt;/b&gt; Call VP at a dinner meeting to go over schedule for tomorrow and current pitchbook sent to him.&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11:00 p.m.:&lt;/b&gt; Take a cab home or walk back home via escalator if the night is not hot and humid. (&quot;The Hong Kong office is the hub for Asia and thus is rather busy most days. I would stay until I am done with the most immediate deliverables. Once or twice a week or so, the associates and an MD who is still single will meet up at dinner time in Lan Kwai Fong for a drink or two and return to the office at around 10 p.m. to continue the work at hand.&quot;)

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