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Dragon fruit shake

Posted on July 24, 2007 by sinyaw

I attended Greater China's and Asia South's sales fiscal year kick-off and annual partners summit for 3 days. After such deep submersion, I now have a deeper appreciation on field organizations. We engineers sit in the air-conditioned rooms and click … Continue reading →

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Imagine your daughter was living overseas

Posted on July 6, 2007 by sinyaw

Mel recently blogged something that stirred up old memories. Colored Factoids: Each year, US Government allows 65,000 H1-B visas: a necessity for any foreigner to work in the US legally. High-tech companies snatch them up so quickly like kids do … Continue reading →

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Taichi & Taoism

Posted on July 3, 2007 by sinyaw

Every Chinese is part Confucist, part Taoist, and part Buddhist. The ingredients change fluidically. At work, for career, Confucism’s strict social protocols prevail. At heart, deeply, there is the desire to be harmonical with the nature: just let it be. … Continue reading →

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No more dongles

Posted on June 22, 2007 by sinyaw

Here in southern China gathered leaders of world's open-source community. GuangZhou city (广州: great foods, hospitable people, and warm climate) hosted this year's China OSS summit. A couple China Academy of Science Fellows graced this conference and heightened its prestige … Continue reading →

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Have I been here before?

Posted on June 19, 2007 by sinyaw

On May 4th, 1918, about 3000 students gathered in TianAnMen Square to protest the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in which Japan will assume all German occupied locations and render ShanDong (山东) province almost as its colony. It quickly … Continue reading →

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The iPod Industry (CompuTex, part 2)

Posted on June 10, 2007 by sinyaw

I knew TwinMOS as a Flash memory company: SD, CompactFlash, USB stick, flash-based MP3 player, etc. Before that, they made other hot electronic commodities. Like many other HsinChu companies, they are big enough for efficient manufacuring and small enough to … Continue reading →

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CompuTex, Taipei, 2007

Posted on June 9, 2007 by sinyaw

20 minutes of rain flooded Taipei. TV news showed people wading through thigh-high water, rescuing their things on make-shift floatation platforms. Undeterred, taxis packed the adjacent streets of the exhibit halls. It took 20 minutes to advance probably 100 meters … Continue reading →

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Driving in Beijing

Posted on June 3, 2007 by sinyaw

Ever since I came to China, I have a chauffeur. Mr. Bai is nothing like Sabrina Fairchild’s father or Kato for Green Hornet. He is quiet, reliable, and knowledgeable of this city. With him doing the point A to point … Continue reading →

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Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio

Posted on May 31, 2007 by sinyaw

As a novice in poetry, I am easily impressed. I knew these are famous poems that people have analyzed, praised, and been deeply moved by. And I will join them. Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio In the Shreve High … Continue reading →

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Flag Raising at TianAnMen Square

Posted on May 26, 2007 by sinyaw

The ceremony begins precisely at sunrise and last exactly 127 seconds. In the dark, when we arrived, a few hundred people have formed a long queue, waiting. When the guard signals the square is open — officially an hour before … Continue reading →

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