Hot

  In such  hot days,  i can do nothing but stay at home, TV programms are boring , computer seems to be anther choice, but also no use at all, others may use it to play pc games, but i never got interest in pc games, i  sometimes watch movies, but there is no movie worth watching these days. it's so hot outside, my shirt can be wet by sweat soon after in the sun, god, please give us some rain, cool down the fire world. Last weekend, i went back to uni campus to swim, there was a small natatorium open in the afternoon and at night, each batch of swimmers could swim for an hour with 5 yuan, Many boys swim there, also some women and kids, the price is very low, so it's always very crowded, the ground of the natatorium is a slope,  women and kids often swim in low water, boys those swim well swim in deep water, my classmates, we went there together, but most of them actually didn't swim much before,so they just stay at the bank.  I'm going to swim again this afternoon, it's really hot.

 

Almost all my high school classmates are at home now, they have to do internship, but it's not the same concept as in Shanghai. I don't know if  internship is useless for them, or it's just hard for them to find a intern position, or there are other reasons. Last semester, I spent almost half of my time trying to find a good internship in a good company, revise my resume again and again, go to company presentations time to time,  applying on the internet, check Email box everyday or even every hour when in front of the computer. Finally, when the intern begins, it's not as expected before, excitement declines day by day, I start to think what's the real meaning of internship, frankly speaking, i don't like the life of being a company slave, especially in Shanghai, once wake up in the morning, you have no time to work out or excise, after running to the subway station, it's forever crowded enough to explode, then, you start a new day's work, after leaving the office in the evening, again, you have to squeeze into the subway again, after you get home, have a quick supper, take a shower, then it's time to sleep, if you don't sleep, the next day's work will be tough. I don't mean that we should work hard to make devotation to the society and the nation(which is regarded as a good character ), but I doubt it's a suitable life style for everyboday, at leat I don't think I would like it. Uncle Zhang suggests that I should take part in the civil service exam to become a goverment member, but I fear that the bureaucracy will eat me up in the end. I want to do something else, I want to be free from rules and regulations, I thought I could work for my own business, but all friends told me that I have to work for some company for several years to understand the insight of the industry, at least the segement I want to be in, all these sound reasonable. Now all my mind are focus on the future, on my first job after graduation, I don't know if I can handle the courses next semester well, what a headache! Those courses, which I think as totally nonsense, must be passed and rated as high as possible, but they may have no use at all once we work, why don't those teachers arrange some more practical courses?

The Purpose of Internship

 Bing told us today that the only thing we should do during our intership is to figure out what we are willing to do after graduation, simply speaking, find the right industry and right position that suits you. Maybe he is right, what we've learnt in campus seems so tiny.

 

Today I broke my chair in the office, i don't know why it's so easy broken, maybe it's used by a fat guy before i sit on it, the secretary told me to make it disappear anyhow, i gave it the cleaning antee, she thanked me again and again, for the chair just broke a leg, all other parts are perfectly good, it takes aout three hundred yuan to buy a new one.

 

 I improved the translation of the general purchase terms and discussed with Bing about some details, tomorrow i'll continue to revised some inapropriate interpretations. Frederique, a beautiful French girl helped me get the list of suppliers of VES branch, but there were no information about the components' suppliers, i sent an email to Didier asking for help.Ok, time to shower/. 

 Last weekend, Huixiang and I chatted very much about life and work, he worked as a sales man for a upholster company for two  years or so, and then started his own business. He told me many of his experience about the first job, I still don't know where i will be after graduation. People all say that we should find a job reflects our interests, but i don't know where my interest is, I'm interested in almost everything new, but may lose it once familiar with it. which industry should start my career? Manufacturing? Logistics? Consulting?or just a media-sized company no matter what industry as long as it has great potential?

Shanghai Metro

My traffic card is broken today, it's been used when i bought about 10 days ago, Shanghai subway station sell traffic card for 30 RMB each, most of the time, it's old card used by others before, we can also give it back to station and get our money back when no longer need it. Currently there are 5 lines on use, there will be more lines established during the next ten years, to 14 lines. I find a map of Shanghai's subway :

Hot Pot-Chinese Huoguo

Today, Yi treated us a delicious lunch in a hotpot shop. Hot pot is a Chinese food, you can see many hotpot shops in every city of China.

Summary of This Week

It’s very tense time the other days in VPO, though I didn’t show anything to my boss until the last day of the week, there were many things I had to learn, but all the other staff are always very busy, so I had to get my questions prepared, once any of them got a minute’s idle time, I seized it and popped up my question. On the first day in the office, Didier gave me some documents to read, it’s part of the department’s business, but not complete. I finished reading them very quickly, of course I didn’t read them precisely, just a general scan, then Didier asked me to have a meeting with him, he started to give me assignments, he talked for about two hours, there were many terms and expressions I didn’t understand, because I was not used to his accent and those business relative terms didn’t appear the materials I read, so there were many unclear points, but I always nodded my head and said “yeah”, I don’t know why I said yes when I actually didn’t understand him very much, the reason may be that I used to say yes most of time, so the answer to no matter what question is always yeah. A series of “yeah” caused a lot of problems latter, the director thought I understood what he said cause my answer was “yeah”, but actually I didn’t, after our meeting, he left me alone and gave no instructions any more. I stared at my key points paper he wrote to me (he kept all the key points of our meeting on a paper) but got no idea how to start mywork, his handwriting was totally different from the way Chinese write English, I don’t know if it’s also very bad when compares with other French handwritings, anyhow, I can’t understand those words on that piece of paper. I didn’t want to ask him again about my task, that may disappoint him seriously and make me stupid, I tried to ask Bing about my work, he is a Chinese, I though he may knew what I should do and where to start, unfortunately, he didn’t know it, and neither did other colleagues, then I started to think that I have to understand the system before I can classify those files and build a perfect folding system, in the following three days, I did nothing but reading those files and documents, and tried to figure out how the system works, the procedure of the whole department business, the role of the department in the whole group, the relation between our department and it’s divisions and suppliers, etc. After I finally got a little clearer about my work, some unexpected thing happened, I asked for leave when the end of August, Didier got quite angry like I said in my former blogs, the most impressive thing he said was that I had been in the office for four days and showed him nothing but was already asking for leave. I was a little surprised at that, I thought I was working so hard, I asked so many questions, read so many files, if I score my performance of those four days, I would gave 8 in 10, but he said I showed him nothing, which means my performance was very poor, the reason maybe that I gave him no results about my work, and that’s true. He told me not to think about doing big things all day, just do little things, and improve it day by day, then that would be a big thing. He was right, I was thinking about creating a perfect folding system by first understanding the system expressly, but no results came out. Learn while doing is always the best way.
OK, for summary, there are two things I think I learned this week:
1. Never say yes when you don’t get it, there is a Confucius saying in China: “知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也” which means say yes when you know it, say no when you don’t know it, that’s real know.
2. Never dream doing great thing or do perfect thing without start to try it. Never mind making mistakes, try it, and then improve it, that’s the way how big thing is accomplished.