Here's a blurry photo of the sad event.
I also got in about 30 minutes of badminton doubles which I greatly enjoyed.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Another one bites the dust
My team decided to go bowling for our Q1 team event. And thus the streak that started so quietly on September 21, 1957 came to an end on March 9, 2007 with my second visit to the Shanghai International Bowling Resort; but this time I could not opt out and so bowled for the first time in my life. I think I bowled an 83 and an 87. It's over. My epitaph can no longer be "He never bowled."
Here's a blurry photo of the sad event.
I also got in about 30 minutes of badminton doubles which I greatly enjoyed.
Here's a blurry photo of the sad event.
I also got in about 30 minutes of badminton doubles which I greatly enjoyed.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Working at Intel
What's it like working at Intel in China?
I commute to work on company provided bus. The ride to work lasts about 23 minutes. The ride home a little longer. I am a quite popular seatmate as one gets a free English lesson by engaging in small talk with me. ;-) I try to get a bit of a free Chinese lesson in return.
Our building has a small car parking lot since most of us commute by bus. There is also a bicycle parking lot.
There a cafeteria on the first floor. It serves breakfast and lunch. Breakfast costs about 50 cents US. Lunch is about $1 US. There is a small convenience store and Starbucks-like coffee bar in the cafeteria. A latte is $1.50 US.
I sit near a west facing window on the 2nd floor in a 2 meter by 2 meter cube which is similar to any cube in the US. All Intel employees have a cube, even the CEO. My "desktop" PC is an IBM laptop (T42) running Windows XP. We use Outlook for email. [We also use Sharepoint and shared network drives.]
We have a break area on each floor (referred to as "the pantry") with a water cooler (hot and cold), several small tables with chairs, microwave, fridge, and coffee machine. Free coffee, crackers, 4 varieties of tea bags, Sprite, Orange drink, and Coca-Cola (with straw) are also available.
With the cheap local labor supply, the bathrooms are in a state of constant cleaning, complete with the yellow plastic "CAUTION WHEN WET" signs in English and Chinese.
The meetings I attend are usually 100% in English, even if I'm the only native English speaker present. Occasionally, the discussion switches to Chinese for a few minutes while some point is hashed out, but then returns to English with a brief summary provided to me.
[I will write more later about S/W engineering in China and how it is similar and different from S/W engineering in the US]
I commute to work on company provided bus. The ride to work lasts about 23 minutes. The ride home a little longer. I am a quite popular seatmate as one gets a free English lesson by engaging in small talk with me. ;-) I try to get a bit of a free Chinese lesson in return.
Our building has a small car parking lot since most of us commute by bus. There is also a bicycle parking lot.
There a cafeteria on the first floor. It serves breakfast and lunch. Breakfast costs about 50 cents US. Lunch is about $1 US. There is a small convenience store and Starbucks-like coffee bar in the cafeteria. A latte is $1.50 US.
I sit near a west facing window on the 2nd floor in a 2 meter by 2 meter cube which is similar to any cube in the US. All Intel employees have a cube, even the CEO. My "desktop" PC is an IBM laptop (T42) running Windows XP. We use Outlook for email. [We also use Sharepoint and shared network drives.]
We have a break area on each floor (referred to as "the pantry") with a water cooler (hot and cold), several small tables with chairs, microwave, fridge, and coffee machine. Free coffee, crackers, 4 varieties of tea bags, Sprite, Orange drink, and Coca-Cola (with straw) are also available.
With the cheap local labor supply, the bathrooms are in a state of constant cleaning, complete with the yellow plastic "CAUTION WHEN WET" signs in English and Chinese.
The meetings I attend are usually 100% in English, even if I'm the only native English speaker present. Occasionally, the discussion switches to Chinese for a few minutes while some point is hashed out, but then returns to English with a brief summary provided to me.
[I will write more later about S/W engineering in China and how it is similar and different from S/W engineering in the US]
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