Test Time

Been working in the current company for nearly 3 months. The best benefit so far was having a business trip to Vegas. It cured my allergic nose and switched on my brain to think in English again. Oh, maybe you can count that I could play PS3 and Wii earlier than most people in Taiwan a benefit, too. Besides these, been learnt so many jargons that I was not familiar with before. So, here's some for your reference.

RoHs (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive), usually requested by our European area clients. It's one kind of certification that proves our electrical product doesn't use any six hazardous materials. You can pronounce it "R-O-H-S", "ross", "rosh", "rose" or "row-haws".

FCC (Federal Communications Commission), while RoHs was adopted by European Union, FCC is an organization which is charged with regulating all non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum, and all interstate telecommunications as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States.

UWB (Ultra-wideband), cause we are dealing something related to wireless now, so digital, analog, bluetooth, 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz appear here and there in our daily conversations.

CMYK (short for Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key), we use this term when we design and print the artwork of the gift-box/clam shell package. Sorry I just uttered more lingo.

Are you still there? I myself even have a headache now. Hope you are not too confused.

Worst of the day: I just got scolded by my boss cause (he found out I wrote this article while working? no way) I didn't put his mom who's on the phone to him. Holy crap, I did but he was on the other line, of course I couldn't put her through. Never mind, he even criticized me when we ate buffet together in Vegas cause they piled up their dishes with expensive seafood while I preferred to have my dish "organized". Hmm, forget I said the business trip is a benefit in the very beginning.

Wii will rock your world

Could you image how popular Wii is in Taiwan?

Let me start the story from its competitor. The very first thing I entered my current company was trying to buy a PS3, which was only released in a very limited 200 consoles in the middle of November, 2006. Therefore, I stood in lines two days in a row, wasting several hours of waiting, just to get a Play Station 3 console for my company. The PS3 package comes with 2 games. I admit, the image is so gorgeous. Yet, I was so bad at the car racing game. So my passion towards this gigantic monster (it's the most expensive one compared to Wii and Microsoft's XBOX 360) equipped with blue-ray disc playing function suddenly faded out after we got a brand new Wii from a Japanese client. Wow, I'm just so fascinated by the Wii sports. And almost everyone in my company wanna touch it, no matter it's bowling, baseball, tennis or Zeida, one of the most popular games of Nintendo. After a weekend, the Wii just disappeared. You must wonder how come the thief knew we just got a Wii? Wrong answer, our boss took it home cause his 10 year old son wanna play it. OK! YOU ARE THE BOSS. At least I had a wonderful time playing tennis.

Some successful points for Wii, #1: the remote controller with the censor can be called the best device in 2006 (a little bit exaggerating, I know); #2: Wii sports (the software) is so handy that even you call yourself a game idiot that you can learn how to play it in seconds.

I only heard my friends asking me where to get a Wii while the distributor in Taiwan is so reluctant to announce the official selling date for Wii. Meanwhile, it seems nobody cares about if they can get a PS3 or not. So, if you haven't tried Wii, what? Oh, forget to tell you it's out of stock everywhere, including Japan and US. Anyway, ask your friends or family who live in these areas try to get one for you. It's worth a try, believe me.

Somebody told me

Does this music sound familiar? OK, you don't know who The Killers is, but I know you'll move your body when you push the play buttom.

When my boss is away

My boss went to Mainland China's factory for a couple of days.
Usually when he's around, he sits in his own room and obverses everyone from everyone's back.
Things go back a little bit, when I had a business trip with him in Vegas two weeks ago, I can assure you it's just like being in the hell. I had to wake up at 6 in the morning and then ate breakfast with him at 6:30. After that, we headed to the exhibition hall by taking the shuttle bus at 7:30, our work began "officially" from 8. After several hours' presenting our 3-C products, OK, I could go back to Hotel/ or at least go shopping by myself, right? HOWEVER, our schedule included the package of going back to Hotel, resting for a while, then eating dinner all together. What a XXXX! It reminded me of the days when I served for the military. I just had to devote my 24/7 to him, that's it.
Oh, almost forgot I'm already back in Taipei now, anyway, this morning the first thing I entered the office started from eating my breakfast, the behavior which is totally prohibited when he's here. We even made fun of one of our colleagues. She's kinda late today, actually, the last one arriving in the office. Therefore, we turned off the light, locked the door, pretending no one's here, giving her the illusion that she's the first one here. This is like the kid's trick, right? I agree. But who cares?
The good moment stops here? Not really. I plug my iPod to my computer, am listening to my favorite music. Oh, and updating my blog. Let me tell you no life is better than this.

Thank you for NOT Smoking

My boss started smoking cigar when we came back from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas. You know what, the smell really stinks, and the whole office protests his behavior strongly. Yet, what can I say? Thank for you smoking and makes me so dizzy. Oh, forgot to say, he even asked me to bring two packages of cigarettes for him when we finished our exhibition. Actually, he didn't ask, he just handed me those cigarettes and then I had to put them in my luggage case and take them back to Taiwan.

Word of the Day: Boxing Day

"Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom and most other Commonwealth countries on December 26, the day after Christmas Day." That's the definition I got from Wikipedia. Hmm, I guess the reason I have never heard of it is I live in the States.

Who's next?

Miss Dunkin' Donuts? Now you can have it in Taiwan. Yet I wonder where it is cause I can't find any information of the exact address. http://udn.com/NEWS/STOCK/STO4/3690916.shtml
And here's the link of Dunkin' Donuts' having its first branch in Taiwan's report. Unfortunately, it's in Mandarin.
The following are some trivia about Dunkin' Donuts:
1) You can find 鄧勤圈餅's sign if you visit Dunkin' Donuts in Boston's Chinatown.
2) It was first founded in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA in 1950.
3) My favorite beverage in Dunkin' Donuts is Dunkenchino. (should double check the spelling since I haven't ordered it for so long)

Climates

Dying to watch it, especially after seeing this trailer, or you can find a better quality one from http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/climates/

Not a happy ending

After a year, I went back to United States. Though it's a business trip and the destination was not Boston, I was still in a very good mood.
Everything was so perfect except a small episode happening during my last day when I tried to pass the custom in San Francisco. The only reward I got from my work was going shopping every night after waking up at six o'clock every morning and standing in the Sands conference center promoting my company's latest 3-C products without eating any lunch. Since I'm a Kiehl's lover, how could I be in America ending getting nothing? Therefore, I bought 2 shaving creams that the package is not sold in Taiwan for my dad and couple of lip balms for myself and some friends. Besides these, a body lotion from Bath and body works and more lip balms from Carmex (Now you can tell how fragile my lip is that I need to buy lots of lip balms.) lay in my carrying bag waiting for me to transport them back to Taiwan. Unfortunately, due to the terror attack/ bombing incidents, not only drinks are prohibited to bring to the aircrafts now, but also any kind of cosmetics (when is shaving cream counted as cosmetics?) are not allowed to carry if they are over 3 oz and not in "one" zipsack bag (Yep, one means one, not two or more.)
It's a lady who took my luggage to the examination desk for the first time. We stood of the two sides of the desk and the only I could do was seeing her wearing a pair of gloves and doing her best trying to mess my new clothing up. The only response I got was I really wanted to shout her something like "Hey, bitch, take off your dirty hands out of my brand new clothes." Moreover, the only solution she provided me was throwing all my stuff in the trash can or go shipping them in the post office. Compared to the notorious girl, the second guy was much better, at least he told me where I could get the zipsack bags so that I could put all my stuff in. Of course, because the shaving creams and the body lotion were oversized, I gave them to the people who sold the zipsack bags to me. So, I kept all my "cosmetics" (including my toothpaste and face wash) except two shaving creams and one body lotion. Because of this incident, I was the very last two to board, at the same time, got so upset cause it almost ruined my whole trip.
Nevertheless, Little Miss Sunshine calmed me down and stole a few drops of my tears. That'll be another story so I'll stop here.