All of a sudden, my world turns turmoiled by various shocks and surprises at work and in my personal life.
A favor on resource locating for a colleague at another dept turning into a business line potically incorrect judgement. My email closing signature, with all the correspondence removed, is now used as the arrow in the complain letters shooting to my dept heads and that colleague's dept from everywhere by those 'gladiators' who claim to own the correct process... wait... excuse me...what is the definition of "correct process"? Who can judge if their "correct process" complying with other's?
Moreover, some accusations are based on a second hand and incorrect information. Interestingly, those big heads who shooting complain letters never ever ask their doubts to the email sender, who? ME! Instead, they simply speak from their viewpoint, based on a distorted truth... how ironic! This just so reminds me of our current president election dispute...
Some say that this is just politics. When you are at a certain level in a large company, you are not doing the business anymore, only politics remained... I can understand why they send out such complain letters and cause the snowball effect to strive for their "rights"... hope not, but I probably do the same if I were at their positions. Yet, is this common and a must to survive in the business jungle? If so, my disappointment will be added on the top of my depression... and if really so, is this time for my changing?????? i am soooooooooooo depressed and struggled...
sigh... the shock and arguement in personal life to come in the next posts...
Monday, March 29, 2004
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Friends gathering in Taipei
Seems many of my friends are gradually gathering in Taipei...
Andreas is now living in Taipei along with his family for an overseas assignment. Franziska is thus attending a Chinese language course to fit herself more into the local life. Little cute Jakob now greets "Xie Xie!" during the weekdays after spending most of his day times in the local daycare center. He switches to "Danke!" during the weekends when spending more time with his parents and back to "Xie Xie!" in the next week. In addition, Andreas' sister will come to Taipei for a short visit next week. The last time I met her was in Newcastle, wow, in 1996 or 1997!! Oh, then our old time common friend Ruth would certainly have a visit to Taipei sooner or later...
Ralf, Andreas' colleague, will also have his business trip here next week. We become friends thru Andreas when their first business trip to Taipei. It's just so coincidence that we often miss meeting each other. His arrival date to Taipei is usually the same date of my departure to Raleigh. Last year in March, he arrived Taipei in the morning and, the same day, I flied to Raleigh in the afternoon. We had a quick lunch together near my office, along with some of my colleagues... ahh... in a vegetarian restaurant... This Jan, the same thing would almost happen again. He decided to postpone his business trip and we at last will meet each other next week too...
My French friend, Laurent, is having his 1-year Chinese language course here. He is very brave to make such a big move in life, stopping his freelancing jobs, leaving his flat in France, and being a student again. He works very hard on his study, dedicating all of his time on practising pronounciation, conversation, writing and memorizing Chinese characters. By the way, another French friend, Myriam, is planning to move to Taipei for a short stay later this year too...
The interesting thing is... while friends are flying and moving over here, my plan of leaving this city is soon ongoing and my craving to life change is growing larger and lager... why so... i dunno...
Andreas is now living in Taipei along with his family for an overseas assignment. Franziska is thus attending a Chinese language course to fit herself more into the local life. Little cute Jakob now greets "Xie Xie!" during the weekdays after spending most of his day times in the local daycare center. He switches to "Danke!" during the weekends when spending more time with his parents and back to "Xie Xie!" in the next week. In addition, Andreas' sister will come to Taipei for a short visit next week. The last time I met her was in Newcastle, wow, in 1996 or 1997!! Oh, then our old time common friend Ruth would certainly have a visit to Taipei sooner or later...
Ralf, Andreas' colleague, will also have his business trip here next week. We become friends thru Andreas when their first business trip to Taipei. It's just so coincidence that we often miss meeting each other. His arrival date to Taipei is usually the same date of my departure to Raleigh. Last year in March, he arrived Taipei in the morning and, the same day, I flied to Raleigh in the afternoon. We had a quick lunch together near my office, along with some of my colleagues... ahh... in a vegetarian restaurant... This Jan, the same thing would almost happen again. He decided to postpone his business trip and we at last will meet each other next week too...
My French friend, Laurent, is having his 1-year Chinese language course here. He is very brave to make such a big move in life, stopping his freelancing jobs, leaving his flat in France, and being a student again. He works very hard on his study, dedicating all of his time on practising pronounciation, conversation, writing and memorizing Chinese characters. By the way, another French friend, Myriam, is planning to move to Taipei for a short stay later this year too...
The interesting thing is... while friends are flying and moving over here, my plan of leaving this city is soon ongoing and my craving to life change is growing larger and lager... why so... i dunno...
Thursday, March 04, 2004
odd country name for Taiwan
How come the country name for Taiwan in the ISO 3166-1 Code List as "Taiwan, Province of China"?
Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Okay, the followings might explain the country name source coming from:
Fourth, the country names used in ISO 3166-1 are all from United Nations sources. Using these country names officially notified by the countries to the UN Secretary General helps in keeping ISO 3166-1 politically neutral and thus acceptable to as many users as possible.
Yet...Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Yeah, we may take the "China" in the "Taiwan, Province of China" as that in "R.O.C". But, to be practical, a letter with Taiwan, ROC on the envolope may directly be sent to PROC and the recepient may never receive it ever since...
*sigh*.... now, I am blaming myself being lazy and not joining the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally human chain activity...
Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Okay, the followings might explain the country name source coming from:
Fourth, the country names used in ISO 3166-1 are all from United Nations sources. Using these country names officially notified by the countries to the UN Secretary General helps in keeping ISO 3166-1 politically neutral and thus acceptable to as many users as possible.
Yet...Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Yeah, we may take the "China" in the "Taiwan, Province of China" as that in "R.O.C". But, to be practical, a letter with Taiwan, ROC on the envolope may directly be sent to PROC and the recepient may never receive it ever since...
*sigh*.... now, I am blaming myself being lazy and not joining the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally human chain activity...
Monday, March 01, 2004
Peanuts
Just read the Peanuts 2004 daily calender bought in Raleigh and find this hilarious comic strip.
A cool site for Peanuts:
- Snoopy first appeared in Oct 4, 1950!
- The very first Peanuts comic strip and the first time Charlie Brown is called 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown!
- and for the other characters...
Charles M. Schulz, what a great author!
A cool site for Peanuts:
- Snoopy first appeared in Oct 4, 1950!
- The very first Peanuts comic strip and the first time Charlie Brown is called 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown!
- and for the other characters...
Charles M. Schulz, what a great author!
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