I delivered my second Toasmaster prepared speech last night at the Gunpowder room, 4F, Sigma building. According to my boss' request, I chose the topic that I talked in previous IEG brownbag meeting.To make this happen, I tailored the PPT and the script and also did a lot of practice before the meeting.
But, the feedback from my evaluator and other meeting attendees show that there are still many things that I should improve next time.
The first one is my pronunciation and speed. Many people say that I spoke too fast and make the pronunciation not very clear, and also make it very hard for the audiences to understand the content of my speech.
The second one is that I only gave those dry theories, no vivid real world case studies. It will be more interesting if I can mix study cases with theories together.
I know these two problems the speech, they came out on purpose, not by accident. It's just because I don't have enough time to show all the content that I could afford. I prepared a lot of case studies and practiced giving my speech in normal speed. But as every prepared speech can only last for about 5-7 minutes, I have to cut off those real world stories and speed up my speech. It seems that I made some mistakes when I made this decision. I should have reduced the number of dry theories and keep more case studies, just give up those that dose not matter so much.
But I also got some positive feedbacks from this speech.
I added interesting pictures into my PPT slides and had good content organization. Nearly every body said they like them it's a really positive feedback! I know why people like it and what characteristics normal people expected on speech PPT slides.
Another thing is that I did a lot of preparation and practices before giving the speech in front of so many members. So in the live meeting,my speech seems fluent. And also, I delivered everything that I prepared, nothing left, and have very good time control on this speech. If you try your best to do something, you will make it. This feeling improves my confidence.
The last thing is that, I sent my script to dwight, the english editor of MSRA, to review it. He gave me detailed feedbacks and comments, I really appreciate them and learned a lot from them. For example, what's the proper format and structure of formal speech script, how to split complex sentences into simple ones. Proper words to use in oral English etc.
In a word, there is still long way to go, but the future seems bright! Thanks everyone who gave me helpful feedback.
Keep fighting ......
6/18/2007
飞一般的乱
首先，严重怀疑自己的眼光
从工作到生活，从男到女，自己几乎从来没有看准过人，闹了无数的笑话和尴尬。
总是一次又一次地失望，无比愤怒却又无可奈何。
太多东西实在是越来越没有信心了，不知道该坚持什么，放弃什么。棱角分明时摔得头破血流，妥协退让依然让自己无处藏身。究竟是这个社会已经无可救药地坏掉，还是自己冥顽不化、太脱离现实？
估计自己这二十几年的遭遇，可能已经把别人一辈子能丢的脸都要丢完了，不知道接下来还能出拿什么东西来丢。
sigh，以前欠下的功课，现在要开始接受不及格的惩罚了。
来吧，统统都来吧，我倒想要看看人生究竟能有多难！
其次，又要面临好友分离了
昨天晚上和蜜蜂夫妇聊到很晚，虽然我们谈了很多，他们也有很多顾虑，但我知道，他们是注定要远走高飞的了。有的鸟儿，用笼子是关不住的，因为他们每片羽翼上都闪耀着自由的光辉！
从今往后，北京可以蹭饭的地方又少一个了，可以敞开胸怀聊天的地方又少了一个，无聊了可以去骚扰的地方又少了一个。
亦友亦亲的两位，高飞吧，即使不舍，即使此去不知何日再能相聚，依然祝福你们，你们应该拥有这样的自由和前程。
最后，当然是工作
到处都在update，满地的reorg，而明天的我，又将走向何处呢……
乱世出英雄，而乱事能出什么？沦为庸才、慢慢在岁月中蹉跎，还是振臂高飞，绝尘而去？
从工作到生活，从男到女，自己几乎从来没有看准过人，闹了无数的笑话和尴尬。
总是一次又一次地失望，无比愤怒却又无可奈何。
太多东西实在是越来越没有信心了，不知道该坚持什么，放弃什么。棱角分明时摔得头破血流，妥协退让依然让自己无处藏身。究竟是这个社会已经无可救药地坏掉，还是自己冥顽不化、太脱离现实？
估计自己这二十几年的遭遇，可能已经把别人一辈子能丢的脸都要丢完了，不知道接下来还能出拿什么东西来丢。
sigh，以前欠下的功课，现在要开始接受不及格的惩罚了。
来吧，统统都来吧，我倒想要看看人生究竟能有多难！
其次，又要面临好友分离了
昨天晚上和蜜蜂夫妇聊到很晚，虽然我们谈了很多，他们也有很多顾虑，但我知道，他们是注定要远走高飞的了。有的鸟儿，用笼子是关不住的，因为他们每片羽翼上都闪耀着自由的光辉！
从今往后，北京可以蹭饭的地方又少一个了，可以敞开胸怀聊天的地方又少了一个，无聊了可以去骚扰的地方又少了一个。
亦友亦亲的两位，高飞吧，即使不舍，即使此去不知何日再能相聚，依然祝福你们，你们应该拥有这样的自由和前程。
最后，当然是工作
到处都在update，满地的reorg，而明天的我，又将走向何处呢……
乱世出英雄，而乱事能出什么？沦为庸才、慢慢在岁月中蹉跎，还是振臂高飞，绝尘而去？
Labels:
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6/17/2007
一年之后
一年过去了，在七拼八凑下，影协一帮老家伙们又碰头了。
这一年都有些什么变化呢……
上次是Joeytry的喜糖，这次是Phinix的喜糖。
而已婚男人Joeytry同学重新回到了青年公寓，正为下一篇论文发愁着。
上次缺席的Jinglei同学这次不仅带了夫人，还带了大眼的小宝宝，当然还有他重新返校读书的消息。这位仁兄本科学的新闻，硕士学的管理，去英格兰游历了一番后又到新东方去忽悠了几天一门心思想出国的小朋友们，现在又去未名湖畔研究哲学去了。
为了Ph.D学位抗战快八年的Pluto还是那么腼腆安静，据说出头的日子快来了，祝福之。这么几年的时间，爷爷奶奶们把日本鬼子都赶出中国了，当子孙的要是连个纸片片都搞不定，那也无颜活在这个和平的世界了。
Lonski脱光了，可惜没有看到真人，也没有照片。欧洲公司确实比美洲公司更人性化、更懂享受生活，几天不见，这个小伙子已经和同事一道出没于Angel Club, Babyface和唐会之类的场所了。
Robin在Lenovo Research做Linux Smart Phone，我们给他提了一个Idea: CUI based mobile phone.上市之后一定可以得到Geek一代的追捧。
Adihe同学也有变化，穿上了难得一见的白色连衣裙，其间点缀着星罗棋布的红点，倒有几分蝴蝶的味道。
Spreader同学同样也看到了胜利的曙光，但是手头正有一个Conference的dead line，吃饭似乎也都没甚胃口。
Jinglei夫妇为了我们中的光光着想，还带来了自己本科的一位mm，用意大家都知道，只是最后好想似乎都没什么下文。其实到现在都还悬着的，总是有自己各种各样的考虑，一时半会很难破局。
而我这位标准的IT民工呢，工作一年了还是一副落魄学生的打扮，听起来好像变了不少，其实一切还是老样子，什么都没变，全在原地东张西望着。
去年聚会，我们还是在谈论着八卦、娱乐、活动。而今年，我们大部分都在谈论着婚嫁、生儿育女、股票基金、房价工资，偶有提到现在协会的情况，但是我们好像已经完全忘了电影，忘了我们头上顶着的名号。这就是所谓岁月流逝，这就是所谓平淡生活。不知不觉中，我们还是被这该死的社会改造了，不少人在这个改造中，努力不再记得自己曾经是谁……
饭毕去翠宫玩保龄球，在下宝刀未老，前两局勇夺全场最高分，然而不幸于第三局晚节不保，白白浪费两次Double，十球下来，沦落到倒数第一！明显的体力不支导致的动作变形，看来应该加强锻炼了。
说到锻炼，我的Bodyworks的会员卡到现在也没消费过几次，这一年马上就要到期了，不知道又便宜了那帮吃闲饭的人多少会费。
今天面对众人，说的是一年之后，而明年这个时候，回首往事，似乎也用得上“十年之后”这样的短语了。妈的，“十年之后”这样的混帐短语也能应用到自己身上了。
时光总是在这样不经意间就偷偷溜走，你所能做的，只有无奈地向她挥挥手，然后努力让下一个十年回首的时候不再那么沧桑无奈……
这一年都有些什么变化呢……
上次是Joeytry的喜糖，这次是Phinix的喜糖。
而已婚男人Joeytry同学重新回到了青年公寓，正为下一篇论文发愁着。
上次缺席的Jinglei同学这次不仅带了夫人，还带了大眼的小宝宝，当然还有他重新返校读书的消息。这位仁兄本科学的新闻，硕士学的管理，去英格兰游历了一番后又到新东方去忽悠了几天一门心思想出国的小朋友们，现在又去未名湖畔研究哲学去了。
为了Ph.D学位抗战快八年的Pluto还是那么腼腆安静，据说出头的日子快来了，祝福之。这么几年的时间，爷爷奶奶们把日本鬼子都赶出中国了，当子孙的要是连个纸片片都搞不定，那也无颜活在这个和平的世界了。
Lonski脱光了，可惜没有看到真人，也没有照片。欧洲公司确实比美洲公司更人性化、更懂享受生活，几天不见，这个小伙子已经和同事一道出没于Angel Club, Babyface和唐会之类的场所了。
Robin在Lenovo Research做Linux Smart Phone，我们给他提了一个Idea: CUI based mobile phone.上市之后一定可以得到Geek一代的追捧。
Adihe同学也有变化，穿上了难得一见的白色连衣裙，其间点缀着星罗棋布的红点，倒有几分蝴蝶的味道。
Spreader同学同样也看到了胜利的曙光，但是手头正有一个Conference的dead line，吃饭似乎也都没甚胃口。
Jinglei夫妇为了我们中的光光着想，还带来了自己本科的一位mm，用意大家都知道，只是最后好想似乎都没什么下文。其实到现在都还悬着的，总是有自己各种各样的考虑，一时半会很难破局。
而我这位标准的IT民工呢，工作一年了还是一副落魄学生的打扮，听起来好像变了不少，其实一切还是老样子，什么都没变，全在原地东张西望着。
去年聚会，我们还是在谈论着八卦、娱乐、活动。而今年，我们大部分都在谈论着婚嫁、生儿育女、股票基金、房价工资，偶有提到现在协会的情况，但是我们好像已经完全忘了电影，忘了我们头上顶着的名号。这就是所谓岁月流逝，这就是所谓平淡生活。不知不觉中，我们还是被这该死的社会改造了，不少人在这个改造中，努力不再记得自己曾经是谁……
饭毕去翠宫玩保龄球，在下宝刀未老，前两局勇夺全场最高分，然而不幸于第三局晚节不保，白白浪费两次Double，十球下来，沦落到倒数第一！明显的体力不支导致的动作变形，看来应该加强锻炼了。
说到锻炼，我的Bodyworks的会员卡到现在也没消费过几次，这一年马上就要到期了，不知道又便宜了那帮吃闲饭的人多少会费。
今天面对众人，说的是一年之后，而明年这个时候，回首往事，似乎也用得上“十年之后”这样的短语了。妈的，“十年之后”这样的混帐短语也能应用到自己身上了。
时光总是在这样不经意间就偷偷溜走，你所能做的，只有无奈地向她挥挥手，然后努力让下一个十年回首的时候不再那么沧桑无奈……
Labels:
生活
6/14/2007
向刘润老师学习
那些不能把你击倒的，终将使你变得更加坚强
不要高估自己的实力，不要低估自己的潜力
一个人之所以成功
不是因为他改正了所有的缺点
而是最大程度地发挥了自己的优点
在生活中
一些东西可以去学
另一些东西需要去悟
还有一些东西，则是需要去闯
哪怕一开始撞得头破血流……
Reference:
面对变化的思考
榨干你所能学习的一切东西
时间管理三招
“自己2.0”
不要高估自己的实力，不要低估自己的潜力
一个人之所以成功
不是因为他改正了所有的缺点
而是最大程度地发挥了自己的优点
在生活中
一些东西可以去学
另一些东西需要去悟
还有一些东西，则是需要去闯
哪怕一开始撞得头破血流……
Reference:
面对变化的思考
榨干你所能学习的一切东西
时间管理三招
“自己2.0”
6/05/2007
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the ∑- GALAXY
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the ∑- GALAXY
Part I – Introduction
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
- Chinese proverb
In the beginning, there was NEO. And for a while, it was good. Then someone said, “Let there be some guides besides that!”. And here it is ......
PART II – Work [Mainly for Coding Guys, NOT for Papering Guys]
First of All, Remember Where this Space is Located:
1. It’s located at 39°58'32.60"N, 116°19'52.35"E and just looks like this and also this
2. Don’t forget to come to this fantastic place every morning, when you wake up with a feeling of exciting for difference technology will make for people's life.
Then you can ……
Get to Know $, ∑ and Your Team:
1. $ Internal Portal. http://$w
2. ∑ Internal Portal. http://∑
3. Your Team Internal Portal. Depends on your group, X’s portal is located at http://teamsomewhere/sites/X/default.aspx .
Get Hardware/Software Access
1. $ Beijing File Server. \\/\|-=-
2. ∑ File Server. \\∑
3. ∑ IT support.
a. Alias: ∑IT
b. Phone: 38**
4. All software on these severs are free and have register key embedded, no need to crack, no need to search a valid CD Key from Baidu ,Google or Live.
Get Familiar with ∑ Development Environment:
Option One: Using internal tools
1. Source Control: ** - http://**/Pages/default.aspx
2. Build Tool: ++XT - http://++xt
3. Editor: Visual Studio [VI/EMACS is also permitted as far as this guide’s author know]
Option Two: Using Visual Studio Team System
1. Source Control: Team Foundation Server
2. Build: MSBuild
3. IDE: Visual Studio
4. Go to MSDN for these tools’ documentation.
Script Language
1. With Power Shell, you can throw away batch file and command window now.
2. Internal Portal: http://@@/Pages/default.aspx
Do Some Performance Profiling
1. Visual Studio Integrated Tool:
a. Access Path in VS 2005: VS->Tool->Performance Tools;
b. VS Performance Team Site: http://team/sites/!#$/^&*/default.aspx
2. Office Profiler:
a. http://!@#$%^&*
Or You can Make Code Analysis
1. FxCop for Managed code
2. PREfast for native code
3. VS Code Analysis Team Site: http://*&^%$#@!/Home.aspx
Then Have a Look at Our ∑ Internal Tools:
1. ∑ Jump Start
a. To Share Your Knowledge With Colleagues, please go to ∑ Jump Start: http://$wikis/∑jumpstart/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx
2. MOT
a. Want to resolve more algorithm/data structure problems than what you had done in your interview? Please go to ∑ Online Training site: http://...
3. Springfield
a. When you feel you are short of labor force, please go to Springfield to hire intern: http://,,,
4. XXX Brown Bag
a. XXX Brown Bag is a regular meeting for group members to share the latest technical information and new technology
b. You can find the historical documents and slides HERE.
PART III – Life [Drinking , Eating && Playing]
We have dining room in B1, which is not free, but most likely, you will never pay for it using cash.
We have cookies, little bread and popular instant noodles in our front desk.
We have Coca Cola, Pepsi and other similar drinks in the refrigerator of our tea room. [Yes, totally free]
We have a fruit time at 3:00 PM, every work day, which is happed in tea room.
So, we also have food within one hundred paces, although we have no super Chef, nor luxurious “乌鸡甲鱼汤”.
You eat, you drink, and so you need to do another stuff. Fortunately, there are Water Closets in every floor, which will meet this kind of requirement. Use your nose to locate them - corporation service team put so much perfume in those rooms, you can smell it beyond 100 paces.
If you need to entertain yourself, we have table tennis, foosball, billiards and cool Xbox 360 games in 4th and 5th floor’s lunge room.
If you want to do some “add water” stuff, we have a most powerful web2.0 application called Tango. Please go there to find those interesting undocumented features. The more time you spend on investigating it, the happier you will be. As to the unexpected behavior or so called bug, be patient about it. Tango dev team will deploy the latest version weekly, most likely it will get fixed in next deployment.
PART IV – Conclusion
We know you come here to follow your heart, it’s really great and welcome! You will make big progress as time goes by, because there are so many stuff you need to learn and get familiar with.
Your FTE career in ∑ will start in a cool training. Your training instructors are very experienced and nice, you can learn a lot from them. But as to the training projects, I can only say, “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!”.
Welcome to ∑, welcome to the HOTTEST lab on this planet! (You will know how hot it is this winter, especially for those sitting in XXX corner)
Best Regards
-It's Me
Part I – Introduction
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
- Chinese proverb
In the beginning, there was NEO. And for a while, it was good. Then someone said, “Let there be some guides besides that!”. And here it is ......
PART II – Work [Mainly for Coding Guys, NOT for Papering Guys]
First of All, Remember Where this Space is Located:
1. It’s located at 39°58'32.60"N, 116°19'52.35"E and just looks like this and also this
2. Don’t forget to come to this fantastic place every morning, when you wake up with a feeling of exciting for difference technology will make for people's life.
Then you can ……
Get to Know $, ∑ and Your Team:
1. $ Internal Portal. http://$w
2. ∑ Internal Portal. http://∑
3. Your Team Internal Portal. Depends on your group, X’s portal is located at http://teamsomewhere/sites/X/default.aspx .
Get Hardware/Software Access
1. $ Beijing File Server. \\/\|-=-
2. ∑ File Server. \\∑
3. ∑ IT support.
a. Alias: ∑IT
b. Phone: 38**
4. All software on these severs are free and have register key embedded, no need to crack, no need to search a valid CD Key from Baidu ,Google or Live.
Get Familiar with ∑ Development Environment:
Option One: Using internal tools
1. Source Control: ** - http://**/Pages/default.aspx
2. Build Tool: ++XT - http://++xt
3. Editor: Visual Studio [VI/EMACS is also permitted as far as this guide’s author know]
Option Two: Using Visual Studio Team System
1. Source Control: Team Foundation Server
2. Build: MSBuild
3. IDE: Visual Studio
4. Go to MSDN for these tools’ documentation.
Script Language
1. With Power Shell, you can throw away batch file and command window now.
2. Internal Portal: http://@@/Pages/default.aspx
Do Some Performance Profiling
1. Visual Studio Integrated Tool:
a. Access Path in VS 2005: VS->Tool->Performance Tools;
b. VS Performance Team Site: http://team/sites/!#$/^&*/default.aspx
2. Office Profiler:
a. http://!@#$%^&*
Or You can Make Code Analysis
1. FxCop for Managed code
2. PREfast for native code
3. VS Code Analysis Team Site: http://*&^%$#@!/Home.aspx
Then Have a Look at Our ∑ Internal Tools:
1. ∑ Jump Start
a. To Share Your Knowledge With Colleagues, please go to ∑ Jump Start: http://$wikis/∑jumpstart/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx
2. MOT
a. Want to resolve more algorithm/data structure problems than what you had done in your interview? Please go to ∑ Online Training site: http://...
3. Springfield
a. When you feel you are short of labor force, please go to Springfield to hire intern: http://,,,
4. XXX Brown Bag
a. XXX Brown Bag is a regular meeting for group members to share the latest technical information and new technology
b. You can find the historical documents and slides HERE.
PART III – Life [Drinking , Eating && Playing]
We have dining room in B1, which is not free, but most likely, you will never pay for it using cash.
We have cookies, little bread and popular instant noodles in our front desk.
We have Coca Cola, Pepsi and other similar drinks in the refrigerator of our tea room. [Yes, totally free]
We have a fruit time at 3:00 PM, every work day, which is happed in tea room.
So, we also have food within one hundred paces, although we have no super Chef, nor luxurious “乌鸡甲鱼汤”.
You eat, you drink, and so you need to do another stuff. Fortunately, there are Water Closets in every floor, which will meet this kind of requirement. Use your nose to locate them - corporation service team put so much perfume in those rooms, you can smell it beyond 100 paces.
If you need to entertain yourself, we have table tennis, foosball, billiards and cool Xbox 360 games in 4th and 5th floor’s lunge room.
If you want to do some “add water” stuff, we have a most powerful web2.0 application called Tango. Please go there to find those interesting undocumented features. The more time you spend on investigating it, the happier you will be. As to the unexpected behavior or so called bug, be patient about it. Tango dev team will deploy the latest version weekly, most likely it will get fixed in next deployment.
PART IV – Conclusion
We know you come here to follow your heart, it’s really great and welcome! You will make big progress as time goes by, because there are so many stuff you need to learn and get familiar with.
Your FTE career in ∑ will start in a cool training. Your training instructors are very experienced and nice, you can learn a lot from them. But as to the training projects, I can only say, “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!”.
Welcome to ∑, welcome to the HOTTEST lab on this planet! (You will know how hot it is this winter, especially for those sitting in XXX corner)
Best Regards
-It's Me
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