寫給自己︱Lionel.

We're having a messy situation this week after the ten days long shutdown. Things almost went screwed up, the daily output and shipment missed our target and failed customer's expectation every day, why?  

I'm still haunted by the first three days of this week, when our senior manager Kent called us for internal meeting after 17:30. The starting time is already horrible enough, you know at 17:30 we're supposed (or allowed) to leave office, but that seems just nothing to mention when compared to the meeting itself. In the meeting, Kent kept asking us two questions: 1) what are you going to do? 2) what have you done? Usually the questions would get answered after a long embarrassing silence, and the answers sometimes just sound so unpersuasive, under that kind of embarrassing environment every single reason spoken out would sound unpersuasive actually, even it's sadly true.   

As a relatively new and inexperienced guy who still doesn't take over truly important tasks, I guess this sort of meeting makes me feel less uncomfortable than that it does to other members, like Ken, Jason or Ryan, who have their own models and businesses to be responsible for. But i felt bad too, esp when i looked at Ken, who has coached me and rendered great kindness and support to me since i came. I'm supposed to help him in many ways, but up till now i'm still not helpful enough, the reasons are mainly that i myself am not very interested in the job and he as my coach is too busy to teach me and assign me tasks. And probably one more reason: our team members (except Anny & Jancy) in general and Ken in particular are so down-to-earth that they'd rather do many things themselves, which to some extent sacrificed our opportunity to grow faster and more independent. 

The morale of each dept is not so high these days, esp under the world economy crisis circumstance. Our company has adopted many new policies to reduce cost, such as OT control or even cancellation, which's definitely a bad new for DLs, who receive 1000 or some basic salary on average and expect to earn more by working overtime(that's what OT stands for). For us IDLs, the quarterly bonus we enjoy is affected by the overall grooming economy as well, according to some, their Quarter 2(July ~Sept) bonus received at the beginning month of Q3(that's December)is even less than their monthly wage, which never happened before and made them really disappointed. On a micro level, where our nVidia project is concerned, the demand from customer is always changeable and hard to forecast; the CS team and our project team are having a long lasting subtle relation; and sometimes we as PAs are not proactive and aggressive enough to follow up and push things, as Kent put it, we're too tolerable and considerate of others...and last month IBM project was segment-internally transferred to us and we began to have two projects running with the total manpower resources remaining unchanged ---sounds a little bit unreasonable but it's true, there're simpily no new PAs or engineers added. 

Things began going better from yesterday on, but based on the previous delay and newly-added POs from customer, plus the IBM production, our spring festival holiday schedule have to be postponed. Per the review meeting this afternoon, where all functional dept representative or even managers & directors attended, the optimistic estimate to finish all the backlog and new build will be 23rd(2 days from lunar new year!). No one is feeling good about this, everyone wants to go back home asap for the holiday, but the damn work things are keeping us occupied in this damn place! 

I don't want to complain much, as i've got approved to go back, but the date has to be changed from the previously planned 18th to 23rd, and the transportation has to be switched from train to plane! Wow, i'm now quite cost sensitive actually, I planned to buy a train ticket before, but now i have to fly home, good sounding but more RMB spending= =!Lol. 

I never expected to have two flights before and after the short CNY holiday. I booked an air ticket from Hangzhou to Guangzhou online on the last day of Dec, taking the then reasonable price and my would-be first flying experience into consideration. But two flying experiences within such short time are way too much, at least for the current me, still a poor guy hoping to apply for more credit cards...

Photo taken @ Dec birthday party, Shanli Palace, South Campus of Flextronics Zhuhai.

It's my Lunar Birthday today!  

The 1st Day of the 12th Lunar Month. 

Actually i decided last year (or more specifically, right after my last birthday) to set and celebrate my birthday by solar calendar, as the traditional lunar one is a little bit complicated and seldom used in our life. So you can imagine how pleasantly surprised i was by the fact that two old friends still remember the lunar date, without their phone call and text message, i'd have spent the whole day today totally unaware it's possibly kind of a special occasion for me.  

And i'm again so pleasantly surprised that the company monthly birthday party falls on today! Our company has a tradition to hold birthday parties on a monthly basis for its employees, and this December party happened to meet  with my lunar birthday. Such a coincidence!

45K PO that will bring us approx $12 million in additional revenue suddenly pulled in…then…

1)  We took it as no big surprise, demand intractability is traditionally a characteristic of our nVidia project;

2)  Ken is busy with planner Sandy and others working out the build plan, and again I feel like being an outsider…I don’t need to get involved, which I almost take for granted, as these kinds of things are too complicated and boring for me---the only point is, I’m afraid I’m getting Ken more and more disappointed.(Remark: Ken is my coach) 

3)  Some fellows, me included, are worrying the shutdown will be ruined. Yesterday I was even told we’d have no holiday at all, which I find really a bad news. But per Kent(our senior manager)’s mail this morning, our holiday schedule will largely remain unchanged; we just need to work two more extra days. The bottleneck is material shortage, my estimate is right this time, haha;

4)  Hope the build plan as attached in Kent's mail will be fixed, I don’t want to see any change that will ruin my long holiday to happen anymore.

All in all, I'm not customer-oriented at all, because I'm getting more and more bored with my job...

I enjoy reading the magazine. The first day I came to the office, our clerk Jancy handed me an issue of the FLEXcom.Asia (hard copy) to read, which I find pretty informative and…readable (how to say 可读性强 in English?). Later I happened to see many archive issues in PDF files on company public folders (the earliest dating way back to the year 2004), so you can guess what--- all of them found their way to my own computer via my newly-bought oppo MP3…

Nowadays, soft copies are always much more readily available than hard ones, Jancy has only that issue, which I asked her to give me for memory not long ago… Where reading is concerned, I still prefer the hard copies, though I’ve got to admit reading soft copies on computer has become more and more dominating in my daily life…

看着很喜欢，这换了新banner图的bus博客，如此美妙的湖光山色，金台寺的选址可谓相当了得！今天的金台寺之行不错，谢谢Shelly的提议和陪伴～

起来方便，完了本还想继续睡，接着刚刚的梦境，但打开手机看了时间后决定还是不睡了，23:05，我不知不觉已经睡了4个小时，一直睡到明早8点这种事我倒是做得出，只是，这会不会显得太嗜睡了点？ 

 

今天感觉特别地困，吃完晚饭在报刊亭买了本《电脑爱好者》回来宿舍，钻到床上看了没到一半就想睡得不行，也许是有点感冒了吧。睡之前犹豫片刻还是关掉了手机，主要想着不要被打扰，晚上本来应该是有活动的，一个同学同事明天要走，有人白天在邮件里群发时建议晚上大家聚聚聊聊，响应的人倒是不少，但我不是太想去，上周日为了这送别的“名目”已经在Wes家聚过了，歌也K过了，对于不是太有交情的人，我不想表现得太腻腻歪歪。 

 

说到邮件，工作后才真的发现邮件的重要。今早Kent让我们去他办公室，交代了一些事情的同时也提到了邮件，他说邮件是很有效但有时也很危险的东西，让我们平时在写邮件发邮件时要多拿捏，对此我深有感触。这周一我就被一封回邮气得不行，当然首先可能还是要怪我，不小心操作，让一封完全不知所云且没调格式的邮件发送了出去，随后recall了但还是晚了些，很多人还是看到了，但我不是马上就另发了一封完整的表达无误的么？可这回邮，是在我错发的邮件基础上回的，而且，在已经那么多CC的人之外还另外特别加进了Kent，也就是我的高级经理。有些人的真面目从一两件小事情中就可以一览无余，平时对你表现得很友好，但关键的时候却会抓住你的错误无限放大上去。 

 

我的本本现在也用起了收发邮件的客户端，不过不是公司那种outlook，而是windows mail， vista系统下outlook已自动升级到wm，但感觉差不多了，可能是上班时用习惯了outlook，对于wm,我一开始还觉得不好用。捆绑了gmail账号，上次把里面所有的邮件转到wm时我还挺有感触的，大学里邮件用得虽然不多，但还是有一些的，转的有点慢，但我却得以重温那一封一封历史邮件，当全部转完时我也差不多reread完，删了很多我所定义的垃圾邮件，保留了将近100封，对我来说有点纪念意义或价值的email. 

 

有个想法，上班时的一些邮件我将转发过来，以后把这些邮件专门放到一个文件夹，Work @ Flex DM，诸如此类。这是我的第一份工作，无论如何对我有着特别的意义，把一些重要的有价值的，或者趣味的有意思的，工作中收发的邮件往来通过这样的方式收藏起来，我想绝对不会是无聊人才会干的无聊事。 

 

公司里有很多类似搞笑的或八卦的邮件流传，大多数我收到都会一删了之，但还是有一些让我想收藏。当然了，我上面提到的邮件收藏，主打肯定还是工作相关的，比如我工作以来发的邮件中比较有成就感的，很长，来回好多次，但最后搞定的，再比如，来自公司高层的message，等等一些……

公司的住宿，是我一直以来很满意的地方。山水花城，虽然没有如名字般那样美丽，但总的来说还是相当不错的，尤其是这样角度下的夜景，看起来是不是很有感觉？至少我有点陶醉其中了……

谢谢Anny的分享，同时有些纳闷兼郁闷，为什么我的相机拍不出这样的效果？

深圳是一座年轻的城市，到处都能感受蓬勃的朝气，所以当我在拍地王大厦，这个老头蹒跚而过出现在我镜头前时，我抓拍了这一幕，老人和高楼，朝朝与暮暮，那一瞬间我想到了很多……