Archive for January, 2005
*Sigh* Just heard back from Ford…it was a ding. Although since it was out-of-state, I wasn’t that interested in it anyways, it is still a hit to the ego to be rejected. 
Without doubt, it was the technical portion that killed me - I could hardly answer the questions that the technical guru kept throwing at me. He asked all these questions on infrastructure and security, 2 areas that I am least knowledgeable about. Oh well, this just means that I am going to have to do more work off-campus now. So the journey continues…:)
January 18th, 2005
General Electric Co. was ranked the best company for developing executive talent, according to a survey conducted by a San Francisco firm that offers improvement services for executives. I, and as well as many other folks outside IBM, thought IBM is the leader to developing executive talents. Just to name a few, John Swanson, Recent CEO of Computer Associates was a former WebSphere chief and later IBM software sales chief.
January 17th, 2005
Although the story itself was kind of slow, DiCaprio delivered an awesome performance in his role as Howard Hughes! He played out the two faces of Hughes (one that everyone sees and one that he struggles with alone) extremely well.
Notice the tagline for this movie.. Some men dream the future. He built it. Howard Hughs was the world’s richest man, and with his billions bought himself a room he never left.
Hughs really had some styles
1. Very positive attitude, in his eyes, there is really nothing impossible.
2. Decisiveness, the part that Hughs almost took no time to reach to the decision to reshoot the movie “Hell’s Angels” just to add sound effect really grounded me
January 16th, 2005
Finally we got the ticket settled, here are schedules:
5.14 Leaving RDU
5.15 Arriving Switzerland
5.30 Return from Rome
5.30 Arriving RDU
January 16th, 2005
While we enjoyed the good food (very inexpensive comparing to Neo-China), we had a very nice chat with the boss from Peking-Garden Chinese resteraunt. He came from Taiwan 20 some years ago, and he has some good insights on to run food industry business: quality of food, building dining atmosphere, strong marketing presence etc. One thing the boss pointed out is that our favorite resteraunt - 35 Chinese resteraunt only got C in Wake County sanitory examination, that is barely a pass… no wonder we didn’t feel good every time after we eat there!
January 16th, 2005
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