New gallery posted here.
Zermatt is the tourist town from which you can take train to Mt Matterhorn, the most photographed mountain of Alps. Notice you can only reach here by train, no car is allowed in this town.
1 comment June 30th, 2005
During one leadership development class, we were introduced to this cool tool called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI for short). It is used to measur a person’s preferences, using four basic scales with opposite poles. The four scales are: (1) extraversion/introversion, (2) sensate/intuitive, (3) thinking/feeling, and (4) judging/perceiving. A person just need to choose answers from a preset of questions, and the results of the various combinations are 16 personality types. Mine came out to be ESTJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking and Judging).
I think the result is pretty accurate and if you haven’t tried before, give it a shot.
The following are quote from the analysis of my MBTI.
ESTJs thrive on order and continuity. Being extraverted, their focus involves organization of people, which translates into supervision. While ENTJs enjoy organizing and mobilizing people according to their own theories and tactically based agendas, ESTJs are content to enforce “the rules,” often dictated by tradition or handed down from a higher authority.
ESTJs are joiners. They seek out like-minded companions in clubs, civic groups, churches and other service organizations. The need for belonging is woven into the fiber of SJs. The family likewise is a central focus for ESTJs, and attendance at such events as weddings, funerals and family reunions is obligatory.
Tradition is important to the ESTJ. Holidays, birthdays and other annual celebrations are remembered and observed often religiously by this type. The ESTJ is inclined to seek out his roots, to trace the family heritage back to honored ancestors both for a sense of family respectability and for a sense of security and belonging.
Service, the tangible expression of responsibility, is another key focus for ESTJs. They love to provide and to receive good service. The ESTJ merchant who provides dependable service has done much to enhance her self image.
ESTJs have an acute sense for orthodoxy. Much of their evaluation of persons and activities reflects their strong sense of what is “normal” and what isn’t. ESTJ humor is frequently centered around something or someone being off center or behaving abnormally.
ESTJs promote the work ethic. Power, position and prestige should be worked for and earned. Laziness is rarely viewed with ambivalence nor benevolence by this type.
Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying1 that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up.
–Harry S. Truman, Mr. Citizen
1″If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”The ESTJ is outspoken, a person of principles, which are readily expressed. The ESTJ is not afraid to stand up for what she believes is right even in the face of overwhelming odds. ESTJs are able to make the tough calls.
Occupations attracting ESTJs include teaching, coaching, banking, political office, and management at all levels.
P.S. Jane said she did several tests before and that type turned out to be: INFJ. Read the following for this type…
Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists — INFJs gravitate toward such a role — are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.
INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of ‘poetic justice’ is appealing to the INFJ.
“There’s something rotten in Denmark.” Accurately suspicious about others’ motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.
INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.
Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.
Add comment June 29th, 2005
(I am writing this blog while sitting in my room facing at the square, through the window the big ad screen looks to me like a TV)
I worked for one of my clients this week so I have to live in NYC, because I booked my travel in the last minute, no hotel near my work location is available. Unlucky me has to pick the next closest hotel, which ends up with Double Tree at Time Square. When the receptionest told me “you will be amazed by the view from your room”, I smiled and told myself, “yeah.. give me a break”. But when I entered my room situated at the corner of 31th floor, what a pleasant surprise! I have to admit this is by far the best view of the Time Square!
The Doubletree is located at Broadway St and 47th St, across the street is Marriot (which is another freaking expensive hotel, ~$400/day), I can view many people workout at its Gym (15th floor). My suite room is close to the top of the building, and the corner room has a really good view of the square, more than 270 degree!! The entire square is in my view from my living room. I have three large windows, now I can find many different view of those interesting things, such as New York Times building etc, even the aircraft carrier (Intrepid) museum on the Hudson river can be seen clearly from the room.
The room itself is pretty decent, it has two rooms, one living room with a very large sofa, desk with wired DSL modem etc and another very comfy bedroom. The hotel has pretty good security, people need the hotel suite key in order to enter the building. Overall, I am pretty happy with the hotel except the internet service, first of all, I have to pay $10/day, and the connection is keep dropping (this is wired, not even wireless!) I don’t really mind the distance, I like walking in the city with other people, it make me feel busy, and for the best part, I can visit my favorite smoothie store - Jumba Juice every day!
Add comment June 20th, 2005
I think I just found out the limit on how little sleep that I need in order to survive… I slept about 3-4 hours last night because my client’s was having trouble to use my product so I have to fly over at client site at St Paul, MN, to work with them and try my best to help them fix the problem so that they can meet their original product delivery schedule, that said, the sleep starts around 4am, and I got up again around 8am to meet my client, got some light of the tunnel around lunch time, then I was totally gone in the flight (13:20) home..
Add comment June 18th, 2005
Wow, can’t believe I have been at Lenovo for 2 days already! As I am in the “ramp-up” period, I have not done much yet - just trying to settle in, get my badge to work, get acquainted with all the business processes/acronyms/tools, and understand the different areas of responsibilities. The coworkers have been very friendly and helpful and my manager seems to be a great manager so I am really looking forward to my time at Lenovo! I think what makes it especially exciting is the fact that since the company (Lenovo International) is new, many things are up in the air so there is a lot of opportunities to learn and try out different things!
1 comment June 14th, 2005
Started reading a NY best seller “The Little Red Book of Selling” and it described 12.5 Red Principles, which is quite eye-opening because I never delt with sales in the past, but the sales activity just happened every day in our life - talking to the leader about implementing new ideas, get approval for new projects etc, these principles can be applied so easily..
1. Kick your own ass
2. Prepare to win, to lose to someone who is
3. Person branding IS sales:
Its not who you now, its who knows you.
4. Its all about value, its all about relationship. its not all about price.
5. Its NOT work, its NETwork.
6. If you cannot get in front of the real decision maker, you suck
7. Engage me and you can make me convince myself.
8. If you can make them laugh, you can make them buy!
9. Use CREATIVITY to differentiate and dominate.
10. Reduce their risk and you’ll covert selling to buying.
11. When you say it about yourself its bragging.
When someone else says its about you its proof.
12. Antennas up!
12.5 Resign your position as general manager of the universe.
Add comment June 14th, 2005
TigerYao.com (beta) is now fully operational!! Now the new site should be much faster and many new features are added, e.g. new photoalbum software (gallery2) has direct print from some vendors, full screen slideshow and download all selected photos in a single zip file etc.
It took some effort to transfer applications over from my home PC because many online applications are 3 tier applications, meaning there are databases, web servers, applications etc need to be transfered. To make it even worse, the transfer is from windows to linux, there are so many issues that I had to fix, e.g. windows file system are not case sensitive while linux is so I have to manually touch the database dump (1 hour of manual work!!)
Anyhow, enjoy the new site and feel free to drop your ideas for improvements!
2 comments June 11th, 2005
Wow, I just surprised myself by watching the entire movie by myself! This being a drama, I was for sure I would not be able to last through the whole movie, but I did and was actually really touched by the movie!
Although I have heard of the play countless times and have a little knowledge of the story, I have never seen the play and/or the movie. As often with romance stories, I was not as touched by the romance as by other “things” - this time, it is the poor Phantom who has never known love in any shape or form in his entire life. The three parts that seem to touch everyone the most are the roof scene, the scene that recounted Phantom’s story, and everything after Christine kissed him at the very end. Even though I didn’t cry, I have to admit I was pretty close. Gerard Butler does an awesome job of playing the Phantom - his eyes and facial expressions reveal such loneliness and sadness it’s heart-wrenching…
If you haven’t seen this movie yet, really give it a chance - you may be pleasantly surprised!
P.S. Another note: I didn’t realize that so many of the famous songs came from this movie/play!
1 comment June 8th, 2005
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « May | Jul » | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||