金曜日, 10月 13, 2006
Forming Friendships
One of the best things about the CRM project is the friendship that I was blessed to have found in some of my colleagues. David, I and Julie started this project and over the years we've been throught the project phase' thick and thin. David took me and Julie to a very famous restaunt. He introduced us to his wife whom he unfairly (but lovingly) referred to as 'fat'. I enjoyed the dumplings at this world famous 'Din Tai Fung' restaurant where apparently Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson dined in once. The food was really good and everything here was done handmade. They have efficient service and evidently over-staffed. The most interesting one was the dumpling with the soup inside of it. It's their trade secret. It's ashamed I couldn't get myself to memorize the name. Another yummy dumpling was the veggie gyoza where the veggie were sliced so thinly and the wrapper was really really yummy. For the first time I associated eating out with heaven! I also met for the first time Julie's husband. Seeing the two of them together so sweet, holding hands, whispering sweet-nothings after 35 years of marriage really warm my heart. I told Julie that I wish I could find someone like that, and she told me 'I'll tell you our secret. You have to concentrate on your career, have time for your husband, go on biz trip so he'll miss you, cook for him, care for him and fall in love every waking day of your life.' Whew! Very well-said. # posted by Unknown : 4:43 午後
Siebel Analytics Training
I've been to the Siebel Analytics training. It's an opportunity to learn good stuffs from Siebel, to master Enterprise CRM and to build up your resume. I realized that even in the IT industry, product development and innovation is not the name of the game anymore. It's adding business value to an organization, offering total solution delivery - people, process, technology. It's all about selling strategy and not tool. The techie side I didn't benefit much because I've been to Siebel trainings before. It was worthwhile though to be aware of the little add-ons that could potentially tickle your stakeholders' imagination. I would rate our instructor from 1-5, an average of 3. I'd rate the class as 3 as well. And my take-away from this? Siebel certificate, what else?! # posted by Unknown : 4:13 午後
In-N-Out
Finally American Food! I, Julie and Michael had dinner at In-N-Out last night. 'Twas nice to finally have something American especifically Californian. I'm no fan of burgers but In and Out is really good and healthy. It's the only fastfood restaurant that I know really uses fresh potatoes to make French Fries! They use fresh ingredients and the veggies are really crunchy, yum yum.
Too bad In-N-Out is exclusively found in California alone. The burger patty is really rich and veggies are so yummy! Not to mention that the fries are sweeter. Price is average, not too bad. Which reminds me, I should take Lanye to one of these. I won't allow her to miss the In-N-Out burger experience, only in California!
While devouring our burgers, Julie, Mike and I chatted about the negative side of segmentation and we all agreed that operations should not be segmented.***
I have a feeling that Julie is trying to get my support so she'll be re-assigned to OHP. I can tell she doesn't have passion to manage the QA team. ***
I'm so envious of Mike's iRobot, an intelligent vacuum cleaner for lazybones like me! Ahahaha***
Finally, I came face to face with Dave. He looks really good and he'll fly to Taiwan next weekend. Good, good. My flight's Friday and I don't need a perfect excuse not to go to the airport together. I really suck. Hahaha.
# posted by Unknown : 12:33 午前
木曜日, 10月 12, 2006
Modestly aside, I believe editing is an innate talent I have. My first loves include line editing, newsletters editorials, screenplays and poems. I've recently been destressing thru film editing. I love putting the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle and create something constructive, positive and mushy! With too much to do today, I decided to compose myself first and mess up a badly taken photo of HB. (Turned out great I think)I'm quite satisfied with how this ended up, mostly describing the latest chapter of our turbulent 2-year (has it been 2 years?!) story. Dark but distinct. If this was a painting, I would have loved the way the face is tilted relative to the angel of the eyes. Life's complexity is acknowledged but not questioned. This is his moment here at the crossroad - and all I can do is give him time...
Hmm....I should start my Heart Series again. Oh one hand, nah! Such a shame that I'm wasting away my thoughts on petty stuffs. My dailies are all about mushy stuffs lately. I should be discovering something more worthwhile do to and find my purpose in this world! But I will have my fair share soon. The only other thing I can be proud of myself is providing for my brothers' education. I would give anything for my siblings. Hardly a heroic deed.
On the side
- Omi-san is also resigning. Sad thing.
- I can't decide where I'm going for my vacation.
- I opened my Mixi for the 1st tme in 6 months.
- Should I take my brothers to HK this Christmas or not???? Oh, I can't decide.
- Have a little goosebump at the thought of facing Dave..hahaha, I don't know how to tell him.
- Debating if I need to buy a new camera or not.
- The thought that I can be NOT CONFINED in this company is kind of liberating.
- Read Ton's blog and wished that I was eloquent enough to say the right words.
- Glad for Oggie, seems like he's doing great. I absolutely love his photos.
- Looking forward to the catch-up lunch or dinner with Sherwin, classmate of mine in PUP. It's been like 10 years?!
- Looking forward to going home....
# posted by Unknown : 1:10 午前
火曜日, 10月 10, 2006
We worked really hard today reviewing Lanye's Tech Spec. This is the first time I worked withMike and I think he's great person and really good. A great plus is he's also down-to-earth. I hope there are more of his kind. Certainly not the most exciting thing to do in Cupertino especially at 10pm but as they say, 'Don't Quit Your Day Job!'. I bet Liz is not used to working this hard and this much. I can guess Wilson too.
Today's gonna be a full day for 2007 Planning and the rest of the night will be for completing the Tech Spec review. I'll also give time to VBMS remaining activities tonight. My meeting tomorrow doesn't start until 1pm and I have a small window. Thu and Friday would be solely dedicated to CRM...and I just narrated the remaining days of my usually busy week.
I'm looking at the tourist guides and I'm beginning to regret not staying at least a couple more hours to visit Lake Tahoe. I hope to go to Sta. Cruz this Friday with UAG members and enjoy the BoardWalk there. October's a little bit cold but I want to get fresh air and I hope my UAG children would oblige and endulge me Friday afternoon.
# posted by Unknown : 10:05 午後
It dawned to me that I really look like total mess especially when the US immigration officer asked me yesterday if I were tired. After checking in, I looked at my mirror reflection and realized that I was being totally unfair to myself. I have not been taking care of myself, have not made any effort to even look presentable. Tsk tsk bad, bad!Things would probably not improve now and I'm gonna be stuck in this situation (and depression) for a while but I've gotta give myself a break. I then made a commitment to myself to smile a little, spend time with myself, go back and work out.
I cannot let all the bad vibes rule me. That's not the Emzi I know. How can I let all these silly circumstances defeat me. I don't have to look like a loser just because deep inside I'm struggling. After my 60-minute workout, I felt a little happier and a bit more alive. I've gotta lose some flabs here and there. I declared to myself. Today's work prevented me swimming time but I'll try to do some laps tomorrow morning. I still need to do tons of work but I have this detached feeling. I have sustain right now, it's an operations error. Strange that I feel really detached....Sure I'll do it, but....I guess I'm really ready to go.
# posted by Unknown : 2:01 午後
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