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Weight and cultural differences September 4, 2009

This week I was in Chicago in order to attend the common JBoss World/Red Hat Summit event and it was a great opportunity to meet with many friends and colleagues I hadn’t seen for a long time.

During those reunions, I realized that the most frequent comment I’d get related to … my weight. “Everybody” would tell me that I looked great and that I had lost weight! Hey, that’s good to hear! Well, until I realized that they were all either European or American and that I met with an ex-Chinese colleague who told me: “Oh, you look good, didn’t you take on some weight?”…

Truth be told, since I left RHT, I have the exact same weight