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Guy Kawasaki kicks ass. No really, he does...and not for the reasons you may think he already kicks ass for because apparently Wikipedia says he's famous for a lot of things before starting Alltop.com and I just had no clue until meeting him on Twitter.

Yes. I am the Chinese chick version of Forrest Gump ok? Give me a break. I moved to Shanghai right after college years ago. There's no Guy Kawasaki fan club there...yet.

My first real tweet to Guy was months ago talking food porn regarding Chocolate Haupia Pie from Ted's Bakery that I missed from my days living in Honolulu. By then, I figured with 10K+ followers on Twitter he was some big guy from the tech industry. I'm not stupid you know, I eventually get these things.

So after landing on Alltop's Twitterati page a few months later thanks to my friend Julio. I reached out to Guy and asked if I could help out with an Alltop page for China...and from there, china.alltop.com and another Guy Kawasaki fangirl was born. :D

By the way, here's a tip for those looking to get on Alltop and subsequently avoid getting kicked off Alltop in the same week:

1. Be a cool person of the nice variety. Guy likes cool people on Alltop.
2. Don't brag about your MBA. Guy doesn't give a shit.
3. Pray there's no Sharks game that night. If there is, pray they win. (heh)

So I had lunch with Guy on Thursday before my meeting with Elliott Ng in Palo Alto. It was cool being able to thank him in person for connecting the China blogger community to those outside of China, connecting me with the VisualCV folks (press release coming soon) and landing me an interview with the Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic magazine. No seriously, it's inspiring to come across someone with such a laid back positive attitutude towards life who's managed to accomplish as much as he's done without giving a crap about what other people think. What an awesome person to hang out with in RL. I'm a total fangirl now.

*Guy, if you're reading this. There's a China Alltop party in Shanghai with your name on it in November. Here, let me know if bribing you with your own Alltop badge helps to sweeten the deal. Thanks again for lunch. :o)

Thanks once again to Guy Kawasaki's china.alltop.com page, National Geographic reached out to me after coming across my blog and wanted to let everyone know that May's issue features 10 stories on China from stunning Olympic architecture to the bewildering life of the middle class, to environmental concerns to life in a Deng village in Guizhou.

May's issue also features articles by Amy Tan and Peter Hessler, plus two articles originally published in National Geo decades ago: one by an Austrian POW who ends up as tutor to the young Dalai Lama, another by a young Canadian woman who returned to China after the Cultural Revolution.

Update: Now working out a time to interview National Geographic in an upcoming podcast. Cool! Stay tuned...