This'll be the longest post EVER, crazy man's crazy thought.... You can read or please just ignore this!! This is for myself, not for anyone! Anyway... today, Nov 13th is actually my birthday(which is the day I hate the most of the year) and I want to make this day to preview my agenda / battle plan towards opeing P.S.I. in 2018.
So... let me start right here.. For opening P.S.I on 2018. I have my agenda which is 6yrs management jobs in next 8yrs. Between 6 management jobs I wanna 5 CJWDTs, couple months each. For 6 management jobs, I want to work as sous chef for 2 more years, then chef de cusine for 2yrs and at last working as executive chef for 2 yrs. It gonna be WORLDWIDE, different countries, different regions, different ingredients, different styles each and every single jobs.
Chef Gerald Chin of RM seafood once told me, if I really want to open my restaurant in Australia on 2018, I should move to Australia right now, no travling. Move there right now, work the biggest name for couple yrs, establish my name, know purveyors, make connections, learn local ingredients, find best produce, know the city, know the guests.... take least 5 yrs, he said. It completely makes sense and agree with him 200%, no doubt.
BUT if I move Australa right now, I feel I may never have the opportunities to work and live other countries in my life. I just turned 32, to me next 5-7yrs probably last chance to travel and work overseas. Say 40 yrs old go to Spain, people would sponsor me? I doubt it, think too old. Also this is a bit something personal, but right now I'm single, no wife, no kid. But how long it gonna last? I may see someone 1 month from now and my life could be dramatically change tommorrow!! I have to travel right now while I can or I must regret one day!
Well, I can move Australia right now and I can travel some countries I never been every years. But living and visiting never be the same. I want to live, breath and feel the country and get inspired. So I would say even this means I can't open my restaurant on 2018, I want to travel and live different countries before moving Australia..... Life is long, no rush. I have personally no problem to open my restaurant at 45. I have no intention to retire till my last breath anyway!! 70, 80, bring it on!! My biggest concern is I may completely change the way of my life when I have "family".... But it's not something I should think right now, I just PUSH for now!
So,,,, I'll travel and work all over the globe next 6yrs, then I say move to Australia the end of 2016 or beginning of 2017 to work as an executive chef somewhere and prepare for opening P.S.I. on 2018. The following is the PERFECT timeline for my next 8yrs jobs. As I learned on this CJWDT'10, things never go as planned (a bitter smile), but I can't just gypsy around without plan. This is basic timeline, but I'll be flexible and spontaneous at any cases!
2010-2011 Sous chef 2nd season (Tokyo, Canada or New Zealand?)
2012-2013 Sous chef 3rd season (Denmark or Sweden?)
2013-2014 Chef de Cusine 1st season (Spain or Europe?)
2014-2015 Chef de Cuisine 2nd season (Singapore or Hong Kong?)
2015-2016 Executive Chef 1st season (South Africa or South America, hopefully..)
2017-2018 Executive chef 2nd season (Australia)
2018 P.S.I. open
For CJWDT... People can laugh ass off when I say "Charles John World Domination Tour", but I mean what I say, dead serious. I want to travel, feel the country, see the local markets, taste the local regional dishes, go to stage, and get new inspirations.... But CJWDT is not just about expanding my culinary creativity, also to make my life "alive" as a human. Right now I'm on CJWDT'10 (European tour) and end up somewhere on this planet. /a bitter smile This CJWDT is just the beginning of my life journey, next CJWDT'12, I can cut down my backpack much smaller and plan things ahead and make it efficent, concentrate and more cost less than this year's for sure. I have 12 more CJWDTs rougnly planned out as listed below. It probably just cover 100 countires, not all over the world!! I have 174 countries I have to visit in my life.... The world domination, no shitting, I gotta fuckin' kill this!
CJWDT'12(Mediterranean Tour)
Fr Athens to San Sebastian via CROATIA, AUSTRIA, Roma, Genova, Zurich, Nice, Lyon
CJWDT'13(African Tour)
Fr Capetown to Madrid via MOROCCO, Lisbon
CJWDT'14(Asian Tour)
Fr Colombo to Bankok via Bangalore,New Delhi, Kathmandu, Yangon, Ha noi, Phnom penh
CJWDT'16(South American Tour)
Fr Santiago to Lima via Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Santa Cruz
CJWDT'17(Oceania Tour)
Fr Christchurch to Manila via Auckland, Jakarta, Medan, Singapore, Kuala lumpur
CJWDT'20(China Tour)
Fr west to east!! via Macao, Mongolia, Hong Kong
CJWDT'22(Japan Tour)
Fr Pyongyang to Taipei via Hokkaido, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Okinawa
CJWDT'24(Caribbean Tour)
From Haiti to Mexico City via VENEZUELA, JAMAICA, CUBA, Grand Cayman,Panama
CJWDT'26(Middle Eastern Tour)
From Ankara/Cairo to Moscow via Istanbul, Baghdad, -STANS!!
CJWDT'28(N.American Western Tour)
Fr San Diego to Hawai via LA, Vegas, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver
CJWDT'30(N.American Eastern Tour)
Fr Miami to Montreal via Atlanta, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Quebec
CJWDT'32(N.American Central Tour)
Fr New Orleans to Toronto via Houston, Dallas, Phoneix, Denver, Chicago
.....Am I insane? Yes, I am, I know, no question about it!! But I want it, I need it, I'll do it!! Once I give up, it never happens. I WANNA LIVE MY LIFE while I ALIVE AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT right this moment of my life. I don't want to just scratching my XXlls in my life!
So... this is something real personal plan of crazy American Japonne.... Absolute no necessary to post on the public space obviosly. But what the hell... I just did it!! It's just..... say: I have nothing to hide in my life which is something I'm really proud of. I live in complete honesty in the past, present and further future, true to my passion and my spirit....Keep my faith anywhere anytime. This post here just to kinda push and give some pressures on myself. As I said previously, I cook what I want to cook and don't really care if people like it or not! I believe myself and let me beleive I can do this... Countdown to P.S.I. continues....Labels: CJWDT
