2012-11-26

First Day



Finally, my life has moved to a new one. It's my first day in the new company. I felt a little bit excited though it's a bad raining day. I had a lunch with Sun. 

I also knew other 2 new employees while I got registered in the main building of the company called Technology Building. They seemed very professional and experienced at their jobs but I didn't exactly know what I should do here instead.

I hope everything would be fine and I can adapt here very soon.

2012-11-25

Trip In Taoyuan


Today was so busy cus I made 2 reservations for traveling with my family. The first was 後慈湖 and the other one was 天空步道. I thought I won't go these 2 places again. There weren't very worthwhile to go or stay for a long time.

The only good thing was hang out with parents, niece, and my sister.

Before we arrived at home, we went to see a doctor to cure my Mom's wrist and my back. He is like an angel, helping people, saving life, and give patients correct concepts for dealing with our own bodies.

2012-11-24

3C Market

I went to 3C market, 光華數位新天地, with my cousin to kill some time. That meant I could take a look at some auto stuffs like car GPS/SmartPhone holder and a cigar lighter with 2 more sockets extended and 2 USB sockets. I'd started to be very worried about the quality of the stuffs after I bought them.

Made in China. Sigh...

2012-11-22

Ttraditional Hand Puppet Movie

I watched new Pili movie series with my brother in front of a new 32" LED TV. It's been years since we did last time. The new TV has a HDMI input so that I could connect to my computer and play it by a hot pluggin CD-ROM.

It's a good feeling that enjoy watching Taiwanese traditional famous puppet movie with my family. Btw, 一頁書 died again but I know he is always as alive as 素還真.

2012-11-21

Homemade Soy Milk


I went to traditional market to buy black soy beans (黑豆) and GM-free soy beans (非基因改造黃豆). The first try we only put 黑豆 in this machine and got very deep and nature black soy milk drink after 30 mins.

The second try I mixed with 3 ingredients such as black soy beans, soy beans, and rices. The same I waited for 30 mins, taking it out, putting a little honey and...do you know how tasty it was. It's fantastic. I loved it so much.

The most of the important things is it's very healthy if you choose the right beans.

2012-11-20

Diablo III

My first time to play this game, Diablo III. It's really amazing in regards to its fantastic characters, weapons, movie effects, skill effects, sparkles, and particularly its attractive story. In the beginning I just wanted try a little in order to understand its UI, Layout, the way to play, speciality and some features. But now, I can't wait to play again until I finish its story.

I chose Monk as my first character.

2012-11-19

Brother

I stayed at home with my 3-year-younger brother all day. We used to play games together before but we hardly did since we got older. Today I just watched him playing online game called "League of Legends" or LOL in simple. And then watched youtube videos about TPA's couple matches of LOL and Sen's ones of Starcraft II together.

It seemed very boring to do such kind of things at home but it really meant a lot for me. I also cooked for him, hoping him eat more food with more energy and nutrition, not just instant noodles instead.

Maybe I really had nothing to do, I couldn't believe I washed the dished and trays in the kitchen. I meant I was supposed to do it very often before, however, I didn't. My Mom's hands' conditions weren't very good so I should help here much more often than before. I promise, I will.

I love my family.

2012-11-18

On Sale

My Mom bought a soy milk maker, 九陽豆漿機. It costed $5290, same as the price on internet. So afterwards, we could make very healthy soy milk with less sugar after buying soy beans. In addition, she bought a microwave with an auto-senser-heating function and in bigger size around 25L. We got 10% off discount because of the opening at 全國電子.

The last, Mom also bought a 32" LED TV of Heran tied in sale of a big speaker at 愛買, costed $14,xxx. I checked the comments on internet after home and found its quality wasn't stable. I hoped this one will be cus this was our first time to buy Taiwanese brand TV.

2012-11-17

IGX

I had a lunch at MOS with my previous IGX friends, Sun, 方丈, 啟森 and a new friend who is very good at 3D programming, 阿周伯. We just gossiped, talking about games and bumbler IGX. We all have a dream to make our own game in the future. It's hard but you won't get it if don't start to do or to change.

Afterwards, we played a dota-like game, tank. It's a home made map on WarCraft III of Blizzard. We had very fun battling with each other. We should make this kind of game easier in the future.

I don't know why they like play remote control car so much.

2012-11-16

TOEIC

YA !!!!!! I got better scores than last time I did TOEIC exam.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 495->705 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I know that it's just a beginning. I couldn't stop practicing otherwise it will get worse very fast.

測驗日期:2012/10/28
測驗類別:REDESIGNED TOEIC
英文姓名:Beaver!! It's me!
聽力成績:340
閱讀成績:365
總成績:705

Keelung

It's a dramatic day. My home came my sister's boy friend who was allowed to enter since they have had a relationship. It's hard to tell what is right or wrong. This is what love shows all the time.

Mom wanted to go to a temple, 道玄宮 in Keelung so we drove 2 cars to there with my little brother who hasn't had good sleep yesterday. Hence he slept in the car on the way to there and back. We guys just prayed something like safety, health, and good life in front of God at the temple. Hope my Mom will get blessings from the God and get over it very soon.

2012-11-15

Accident

My Mom broke her wrist at 3 am. She's supposed to work after my little brother. Today when she got up, she knew my little brother was still sleeping so she got in a hurry to the working location with my Dad. Once they just arrived there and my Mom wanted to get off the motorcycle immediately. Suddenly and unfortunately she got hooked on her pant and in consequence she fell down, using her hand to lift herself. Afterwards, I got call at 3 am while I was suffering from getting annoyed by a mosquito.

30 minutes later I arrived at Emergency Room in a hospital with my parents. My Mom got a X-Ray picture towards her wrist and luckily the doctor said she just needed have her wrist fixed by a plaster cast without a surgery. My Mom needs take a rest for at least 6 weeks and then everything would be fine definitely.

I got a deep sleep after finishing breakfast at home. It's a long morning.

2012-11-14

Interview


Actually it's not an interview, it's a Q&A time with HR staff after I finished English exam and filled in the form of my personal info. I asked a lot about salary, welfare, bonus, performance evaluation, insurance, OPEN-LiFE, working time, leaves, training, English lessons, etc. Thank you, Mency, for answering me so clearly and sincerely.

Btw, I was surprised at my English's getting worse so quickly, though I still got more than 600 scores.

In the afternoon, I went to Shulin to arrange my skeleton by a pharmacy doctor. It's so amazing that he said he learned by himself and he just likes to help people so just charges a little money for each cure.

2012-11-13

Mission Complete


MOD: for my Dad to watch sport programs, for my niece to watch cartoon programs, for myself to watch English programs. We also got a free home wifi. I think I can keep using data service on my mobile phone with only 500MB quota per month. Oh yeah ~

EDR(行車記錄器): to prevent some bad guys from making fake car accidents, I bought the first EDR for my family. But the size of screen is quite small and the quality of video is low.

Job: I've made a choice.

2012-11-11

Kaohsiung


左營自助新村, it's a famous "Military Dependents’ Villages" in Taiwan. I've visited the other two before, 彩虹眷村 and 四四南村, respectively. I like this one the most because of its big area and creative paintings, drawings, and decorations. I just stayed here for an hour because my friends seemed to avoid taking photos together and it's very strange. They are a couple for sure and obviously they're having a cold war between each other so they didn't like taking photos. That's really embarrassed, especially when I yielded to tell them to take a picture together.


In my mind, I wanna say "stop arguing" to my friends. To maintain a good marriage relationship isn't easy so plz listen to your partner carefully and find a solution for each discussion. The magic will happen.


One more thing, yesterday was my first time to eat 老四川 which is very famous restaurant for spicy foods and was treated by my good friends, a young couple. His wife asked me the main feelings about my trip in Canada for around half an year. And I just felt Taiwan sucks which meant Taiwanese people aren't competitive. Compare to Korean people, it's a huge difference. Korea is very strong in the world now and the reason is they've tried very hard for a long time. I acquainted some Korean friends in Canada and I could tell they studied English since very young and spent a lot of money to learn English and moreover, the Korean companies only choose graduated students with good English skills. As a result, Korean companies are so competitive that Taiwanese couldn't catch up with them.

Try harder, okay ?

2012-11-10

Happy Birthday


Happy Birthday. I'm lucky 7.

My family celebrated my niece's birthday. This creative cake was bought by her Dad, my little brother. And I ordered 2 big size of pizzas. Sooner came my aunt, uncle, and cousin. We all felt very excited, esp. we hardly had this kind of party in the past. To be pity, my sister couldn't join us because her bf wasn't allowed to enter this house.

The cake and the pizza were very tasty. Hope she enjoyed her 7-year-old birthday. I'll show this photo for her when she gets old. :P

I left home at around 1pm to Kaohsiung in order to visit my good friends, a young couple.




2012-11-09

Malt Syrup


自製麥芽糖餅乾,不會很厚工,但會搞得到處黏黏的。配方如下:一罐麥芽糖漿跟餅乾,把糖漿塗抹在兩片餅乾之中,很簡單吧。餅乾一包30,麥芽糖一罐60,如果直接去市場買做好的大概要150,所以老爸老媽才打算買來自己搞看看。還不錯玩,畢竟麥芽糖是比較健康的糖,拿來當零嘴吃起來比較安心點。

說真的,老爸老媽的感情真的越來越好了,老來融洽,大不易阿:P


here is the receipt : a can of malt syrup and raw cookies. and then put the syrup in the mid of 2 cookies. that's it. enjoy ~


2012-11-08

Sweet


My Mom and Dad washed dishes and preparing fruits together in front of the sink. I looked at their backs and thought they were just like new couples. Know what ? I was feeling very happy at that moment. Hope you all love each other forever.

I applied for MOD service today and by accident found out we've paid this service without working since 2005. What the hell did they do ? Anyway, I fixed this problem and got refund, applying for real MOD service successfully. Hope my Dad can enjoy watching sport games from next week.

2012-11-07

Career Plan ?


Today was supposed to be the deadline for me to choose a company to work on. However, I couldn't make a final decision in 3 of them. Tonight, I had a dinner with my friends, Sun, Maxwell, and 方丈. They all had some ideas in terms of game industry. So, moreover, I got a chance to join a project which is kind of the 4th choice. The weakness would be low salary and welfare, and would be likely to get failed in the future because of its high risk. On the other hand, this would also be the only chance I can handle a project to do what I wanna do regarding a game platform upon MOD.

2012-11-06

Interview


Finally, I finished the last interview. It was a fantastic ending. I talked with interviewer for 2 hours. He is a great .Net MVP so is definitely full of excellent ideas for how to design programs and debug. Moreover, in spite of his just staying in this company for 1 year, he did very good job and got highly trust from the 2 bosses.

I'm not good at .Net language, frankly. But I think I'll choice this job for improving myself in order to make better life after 3 years or even 10 years although I still have the others 2 jobs to choice, which are easier to work and even having higher salaries.

I hope I can make a best choice for myself.

2012-11-05

Interview


Interviewing trip is getting to the end. I still can't tell what I want, what I want to be and my career plan. Dreams, interests, salaries, welfares, visions, locations, cultures, etc are some things I need concern about, including salary for sure.

After finishing 2 interviews today, I can tell I can't choose the tough one cus I'm not young any more and not so healthy at present even though it's almost the top company in Taiwan, probably in the world.

Maybe I'll choose the game company again. I still have high interests in game designing.


2012-11-04

Rio


My good friend, Riao, gave me a free treat in this famous restaurant, Rio (里約Rio西餐廳), in Sanchong. It's very delicious, seriously, including the salad, soup, main dish, drink, and the dessert. This was the first time I met him since I came back to Taiwan.

I visited his new house in the beginning. I admired his braveness cus the price of the house in Taipei has been damn high for a long time; meanwhile I also envied he could have his own house. We talked for the whole afternoon time and couldn't stop. He is my good friend so I gave him my key chain of Canada and the real maple leaf. Hope I can give him good lucks and get good lucks from him as well.


2012-11-01

Career Plan ?

真的, 生涯是很難規劃的, 請面試官別再問我了

http://life.chinatimes.com/life/100309/172012110101244.html


推薦序/李家同:我從不做生涯規劃
 《天下雜誌》要出一本書,書中全是哈佛大學商學院教授現身說法,說他們自己的故事。《天下雜誌》也請我寫一篇文章,講講我的故事,我是一個非常普通的人,一生也沒有什麼非常特別的遭遇,我想了半天,決定寫一個我的特色:我從不立志,也不做什麼人生規劃。
 我很小的時候,有過志向,那時最想做的是當警察,因為警察的制服很漂亮,在街上一副很神氣的樣子。再長幾歲,我就不再立志了。因為我從小就發現一點點立志沒有什麼用,如果我立志做一個非常普通的人,那個志願一定可以達到,我在小學的時候,就發現要有非常大的成就,絕非易事,只有少數人會表現得非常傑出,我何必立志去做偉大的科學家或是文學家呢?也虧得如此,我現在已是快七十歲的老頭了,如果當年曾經立志要出人頭地,現在是要宣布失敗的時間了。
 我不但沒有立過大志,也從未分析過我的興趣,說實話,我從來不知道最適合我的工作是什麼,我念中學的時候,沒有生涯規劃這個玩意兒,更沒有興趣分析這一門。回想起來,沒有做這種分析,我也沒有蒙受太大的損失,為什麼呢?因為我們事實上是不太可能知道興趣之所在的。
 舉一個例,我當年念電機,是因為對無線電有興趣,不懂電磁波是怎麼一回事,等到念了電機系,才知道念電機必須數學非常好,電磁波就是一個典型的例子,數學不好,休想搞懂電磁波。很多同學在高中時數學考得不錯,就以為他將來可以念數學,其實大學的數學非常抽象,很少中學生在中學的時候,就能了解數學系念的是什麼東西。
有的時候,我們即使非常清楚地知道興趣何在,也用不上。舉例來說,很多人喜歡寫作,但是誰能靠寫作為生呢?
 我雖然不做生涯規劃,卻有一個好處,總把目前的工作做好,我認為這樣就夠了,做學生的時候,我好好地念書,這使得我比較輕鬆地拿到了博士學位,拿到博士學位以後,我沒有四處找事,第一個單位給我一個工作,我就去做了。那個工作是要做研究的,我就全力以赴,使我在研究上開始小有名氣。當時我在美國,幾乎所有在美國的留學生都不肯回國工作,理由很簡單,當時國內的環境太差,和美國沒得比。我回國以前毫無規劃,只知道我喜歡替中國人做事。完全沒有想到的是回國以後,在清華大學的幾十年內,我的學術聲望提高了很多,如果我留在美國,決不會有現在的學術聲望。
 我做暨南大學校長的時候,總以為自己可以做很久,沒有想到,沒幾個月就鞠躬下台了,這也是無法規劃的事,但是我也無所謂,我現在是一個陽春教授,就全心全意地將書教好,我從來沒有料到,可以在短短幾年內,學了不少新學問。
 總結一句話,生涯是很難規劃的,我們通常會碰到意想不到的事情,但是抓緊機會,將目前的工作做好,你就會在不知不覺中,出人頭地矣。
 (本文作者為清華大學榮譽講座教授)