Tea & Interview

The Japanese tea ceremony is a vastly underated thing. It's so peaceful and relaxing, but it is also a strangely good feeling serving tea to somebody. I played tea master for the second time today (everybody had a go), and complete the ritual in but 20 minutes. A vast improvement on my original one hour ceremony!

Everytime I do it, though, there are always new things to consider. Today it was feet placement when turning. I have also become concerned about what I'm supposed to be saying at different parts of the ceremony. The teacher said she would photocopy from her book, so that should be helpful... as long as it isn't all in kanji.

I had my Deutsche Bank interview this evening as well. Not sure how well it went. It was a total flop, like a UBS one that I did once, though I hadn't done any preparation for that at all. Wasn't the world's best one, though. There's was definately more preparation I could have done, although it's so difficult trying to preempt competency interview questions. I did ask some good questions at the end, though. Hopefully that should be a plus point for me. I found them on the internet... ah, Google!