One week Offsite

From 06/09/08 - 06/09/13, our whole Lab attended the exciting FY07 offsite in Chengdu and Jiuzhai, Sichuan province. It's a very nice trip to Sichuan, where I lived for over twenty years.

Here is the summary:

Day One:
1. Fly from Beijing to Chengdu.
2. Meet with college classmates in Yan Fu Ren Jia, at North Kehua Road, near the West Gate of Sichuan University.
3. Music house at Yulin life plaza, where Jane, the 2005 Super Girl had ever sung for several years.
Thanks Cathy, Jedi and Lincx for spending such time with me.

Day Two:
1. One day Whole Lab conference;
2. Transforming MSRA by Harry;
3. Research 2.0 by Hon;
4. Cool Demo Show;
5. Hot MSRA IDOL Party;
From the cool Demo show, we know who is CB(Cray Bird), and know the best Mic Controller Xiao'Ou, and what our Lab are doing research and development on. The idol part is really great, we see so many great singers, actors ,dancers and even talk showors.

Day Three:
1. Fly from Chengdu to Jiuhuang airport;
2. Half day visit to Huanglong;
The road from Jiuhuang airport to Huanlong is very tough. We claimed over a 4500m moutain and the snow there never melt. Huanglong is famous for its Calcified Pool(钙化池) . These pools reflects sun ray into various colors and make themself very beautiful. It is said that it took about tens of Millions of years to form those colorful pools. It's really a miracle that they are protected from being destructed in such a long history.

Day Four:
1. One day trip in Jiuzhai Gou.
It's really really a miracle place. The water is so blue and so calm. I can't describe my feeling in any written or spoken words. If there is a place that you must visit in your life, it must be Jiuzhai Gou, I think.

The Long Sea

The Arrow Sea

The Wuhua Sea

Day Five:
1. Paradise Hotel to Jiuhuang airport by shuttle bus.
2. Fly from Jiuzhai to Chengdu.
3. Fly form Chengdu to Beijing.

For the past week, I would say: exciting but tiring; for the future, I must say, there is a long long way to go ......

Boot up ends

At "Fei Teng Yu Xiang" near Sigma building, we hold a celebration party to end our exciting boot up training session.

So many exciting things I learned from this training:
1. How to develop a software product in a industry life cycle.
2. How to collaboration with guys who may have many different opinions on many things.
3. How to persuade people to agree with you on what you think is right.
4. How to do English presentation and express yourself in public situation.
5. How to write high quality code.

Thanks those managers who set up this training. Thanks Xin and Peter, who gave so many useful instructions to us in such a short period of time.

What's next? As Dean said on the ending meeting, 'Welcome to the real world!'. I still remember the great American SitCom TV: Friends. When Rachel cut her credit card, her friends said to her, "welcome to the real world, it sucks, but you will like it!"

I am not very sure about what exactly tomorrow will look like. Bout I will try my best to survive in the great Lab and in our great group.

搬家

经过半个月的折腾，终于居有定所了。
看着简单却透着精致的居室，稍觉安心。

在这个繁华的大都市里，到处都是诱惑，守住自己。

Your Fate Is Just In Your Hand

混战时代

今天和一个来自竞争对手公司的一个朋友吃了顿饭，在位于满庭芳园的“回到丽江”。

在饭桶网上定餐的时候，看到去年这个时候的一条就餐预定记录。时间过得很快，没想到这个小插曲过去竟然也快一年了。回首往事，我承认当初还是太勉强自己，也太勉强别人了。感情上的事情，还是来得自然的最美好，不经意的东西最难忘。我也承认，要找一个和我生活在同一个世界中的人，并不是那么容易。

午餐时间的座位，并不如传言的紧俏；服务员的态度，也算差强人意。第一次尝试的米酒，倒是给人不少惊喜；菜品的分量，居然超出我们的预料。只是吃到后来，大厅开始满员，各种声音汇集在一起，实在嘈杂。总的说来，这顿饭，还算不错。

席间谈资，免不了时下新闻界对双方公司的热门炒作。幸运的是，我们都还长了自己的脑袋，还算其中的清醒之人。我还有几天才正式入职，因此没有多少内幕可以暴料，倒是他那边的小道消息不少，也算窥探了一些这个向来神秘的公司的内幕。对于现在几个著名外企在中国的研发模式和布局，也算看得更加清楚，对于各自将来可能的发展路线，也看得更加明晰。

在这个混战的时代，为点风吹草动就兴奋不已的是各种新闻媒体，对于我们这等小人物，还是和气一团。最有趣的例证，莫非有一间三居室的屋子，住着来自Baidu, Google, Microsoft的三位工程师，他们每天在这里和睦共处，即使外面的PR们拼得不共戴天。

在目前热闹的割据纷争中，保持一份置身事外的冷静，不是因为我们对双方公司的不忠，而是因为我们都清楚地知道，这些斗争，其实离我们还很遥远，真正由我们主导较量的时代，还远未到来、供我们挥洒热血的舞台，还需要慢慢搭建。

不过，有什么样的理由，能让我们不对这未来的时代，满怀憧憬呢?

当下的时局，则是我们最好的课堂：好好观察，仔细研究。

Time to say goodbye

一路珍重……

希望你在那个中西合壁的都市，找到自己内心的安宁。

希望你在淡视人性的时候，还能体味到人情的温暖。

希望沉痛的现实，依然无法束缚你翱翔的双翅。

希望岁月的积淀，丰富了你的生命，而非成为肩头的重担。

希望你洞悉世事、思想深邃，但却能开心、快乐地享受自然的恩赐。

希望你，成为你自己。