Welcome Back, My Dear Blog

When I turned on my computer this morning, my blog was back, it can be opened again, what a happy time :)

I went back to BBY this afternoon, we talked about the problems we are accounting with and Walden gave each a solution direction. I presented a question: If there are two intern offers, one is top3 in the industry, the other rank 6 to 10, which one is preferable? The truth is if you choose the former, all your could learn is just a little part of the whole industry because of the labor division, if you choose the latter, maybe it will be easier for you to learn more about the real business of the industry, when it comes to pursuing a full time job, the former has advantage for better reputation, but the latter may provide more stories to tell when interview. Walden’s solution was identical to my own analysis, we should first figure out which function or department interest us more, that means what is you really want! If the industry and function is fixed, then the problem gets easy. Actually I haven’t got many offers till now, I just think that it’s very possible to get one if I really want it. So what I am facing now is just to locate my target, and then do my best to get it, that’s always the way we do things right, isn’t it?

We always complain that we don’t have too much time to finish our works or things we want to do. But if we do a simple summary, count the time we spent on doing things and hesitating what to do or how to do, we will find that most of the time is wasted on hesitating. We always attempt to get 100% ready before starting doing something because we want to accomplish perfect. The results of pursuing perfect always end with chaotic or lower product. Walden gave us a vivid simple example to explain how we should learn or do something. We don’t have to be 100% ready to start, we just do it while preparing at the same time, we practice while learning, to make it simpler: we learn by doing! We won’t learn how to use Excel by practice on the computer after reading out the whole text book, we will practice it on the computer right after reading some new commands.

I will resume my ICP research; I know I may not have time to do it after this semester.

Problem with this blog

I don't know what's going on with my blog, I can't open it but I can login to the blogger, it's said that the domain name "blogspot.com" is forbiddened by Chinese government, what a stupid... I tried some other blogs with blogspot.com in their address, they all couldn't be opened. Anyway, I will wait for some time to see if it can be reopened, I really don't have that much time to open a new blog now.

There is still no call from Schneider, neither from ABB, Chen Cong didn't get a call, neither.oh.. I almost forget that today is the international children's day , WangQiang, WangBin,Caoqingjie and I went to Zhiyougang to KTV for 3 hours, my collegue LiuMiao at Lvying came after seeing a detist in fifth people's hospital. My throat is aching now....pain...

What's the problem?

I can't open my blog in the IE!!!

Review and Action Plan

It was real happy and busy time when I was in BBY. The reason that I joined the training was complicated, getting away from the boring life in the campus, preparing for the future job, maybe just inrational decision when unconcious. Anyway, If I have to choose in or not again, I'll still choose in to this battle team. I'm not used to writting diary, past things easily get ambigous in my mind, tomorrow is the deadline of review&action plan, during the past two weeks, I tried to finish the review many times, but all failed for unknown reasons. Now, I've just waked up, feeling that I have to figure out two questions, if not ,those precious memories will fade soon...

1. What I've got from BBY?
(1)Practical skills: impressive sel-introduction in 30 seconds, a perfect resume, apropriate answer to the questions asked by interviewer. These a all normal skills we can learn from many places like the BBS,or other internet resources. But BBY has taught us much more than just these, its is far beyond pragmatism
(2)How to know myself? Who am I? This question has bothered me for a long time. BBY told us to focus on the advantages first, by indentify our achiements, we built our confidence, we come to realize that we are excellent people. By appreciating others, I come to know that everyone is special and there is still much I should learn. I'm not good at listening, never, and I never realized that before I meet so many good friends in BBY, they are all good listeners. Snow is a beautiful girl who never gets angry, from her , I learned that I should deal with problems carmly and rationally.
(3)Selling book is one of the craziest and most exciting thing we've done together. Everyone has learned so much from it. I miss U: Vivian, Tina, Wang Hong, Yezi, and Rena, and all BBY fighters and trainers:)
(4)Some abstract harvest: Nothing is impossible, set a goal, divide it to specific objectives, step by step, persist to the final, use proper methods, and success will always be there waiting for you.

2.What should I do?
Actually this is a vast topic, I believe that everyone has his own dream, I have my dream too. But what I can do now is just doing what I am supposed to do: be a good student. This noon I stay in the library for about an hour reading a book about city development, when I read, I regretted that I didn't spend enough time in the library. If possible, I would like to sit quietly in the library for a whole month, reading books, learning various kinds of knowledge. After applying for so many interns, I realize that English is the most important hard skill that we can learn in the campus if we want to work in a foreign company. Recently I've read most of the posts in BBY's blogs, those articles are really graceful and moving. I even thanked god for my luck to read those blogs, because I made a important decision after that, I decided to write an English blog, post everyday to improve my English and memorize my last year in university.
As a summary of my action plan: I will focus on my courses in the following month, at the same time, I wil do ICP research as I committed before.

How to change the font ?

How can I change the color and scale of the post? It's so convenient to post through email, but the font can't be changed through email. I have to logg in on the web if I want to have different colors and add some pictures, it's really so unconvenient....

Today is the second last day of May, and most companies have ended their intern recruitment. Bosch started recruiting days ago, I send resume to four positions in Hangzhou,Changsha&Wuxi, there is still no more progress with Foxconn, they just told us that we passed their selection, when will the contract be signed? Bebeyond is pushing us to hand in our reviews...
Simulation work is due to 1 June, but only quite a few of us have finished it, I have absolutely no idea what the detail objective of the assignment is ...what a headache...

Exhausted

Time to have midnight snake:)

I did a very stupid thing this afternoon, When Prof.Wang asked if anyone want to share their Access work during the MIS class, I volunteered to show the whole class my homework, but I didn't talk much about the work, I kept talking about the course, kept saying that the whole course is stupid....That really offended her I think, because she gave me so many criticizes right after my presentation...and the whole class laughed stupidly....

International Business Etiquette

Went to a lecture given by Iain Young, CEO of Metro Education, basic etiquettes of business professionalism.Learned some funny knowledge: Chinese drink warm water, foreigners don't,either hot water or cold water.When foreign clients come to China the first time,take them to Cantonese restaurants to have dinner,remember to be the first person to use a spoon instead of chop sticks, don't be stupid to ask the waitor to bring folks and knives, because that makes foreigners feel they are not that clever. Man should use chewing gum and aftershave(not "perfume",perfume is for woman) before working. Email is a very formal communication tool, so, never use icons like smile face":)", sad face":(",etc. Always rememeber to check your spelling, grammmar mistakes are acceptable because we are not native speakers,even natives make grammar mistakes, but spelling mistakes make really bad impression.
During the presentation, Mr.Young asked "How many of you speak English fluently? Please raise your hand" After a long while, only one person raised his hand. But nine in ten would write "fluent English" in their resume in China, said Mr.Young, a British funny man with heavy accent.In many cases, English is not the most important thing, for example,maybe accounting experiece is more important when accountant is applied. Most of Chinese students are just at "good at "level, to be honest, they just have to write "good at" instead of "fluent".Iain said he cares nothing about CET-4 and CET-6, he knows that Chinese students are good at exams.
Iain told us a way to get a intern: Go to the British Consolate in Shanghai, they have all the British company contact information, send each company a email telling that you are interested and want to get a intern in their company.You send 400 emails, you may only get 4 or 5 responses, but that's enough, you only need one! I was so happy when I heard such a special and interesting way of getting intership, but soon depressed by the price of that company list, 400 RMB, that's enough to buy a very good suit!

Happy Birthday, Grandma

Happy birthday, grandma:) though I'm thousand miles aways from you now,I send all my greets and best wishes to you. You have made your life journey to 81, and I wish you will live for another 81:) I tried to call you to say happy birthday to you, but the phone couldn't be connected all the time. I could imagine many friends and the whole family having dinner with you and giving you their presents.It's really happy time,isn't it? I wish you have heard my congratulations to you here in Shanghai.

4 New Members join in Our CPC Branch this night, Gong Xieyu from our class and three from others. After a simple ceremony of singing national song, they read their pledges,and then brief comments from their supervisors, after that we eligible memembers vote, all processed just like before. Boring words ,hiarachical expressions, all-member-agree, nothing unregular happened. The whole meeting last for 45 minutes and then we have four more fellows. Although the central of the party have reduced the figure of new members planned to develop, there is still over seventeen million members all over the country, equal to the poplulation of Shanghai.