帶爸媽去旅遊

從小就很希望有一天可以帶爸媽出國去玩，雖然說還沒有真正賺大錢，不過爸媽的結婚30周年也快到了，幾個月前就有念頭想要帶爸媽去她們最愛的日本去走一走。

還好我新航的account里程數夠我換兩張來回機票，另外再買一張機票、定好飯店就搞定了。

京都真的很美，唯一的缺點是日本人不說英文。所以在問路的時候就形成一種我講我的英文、她們講他門的日文的畫面，說實話還滿鬼打牆的。最後，還是大家用漢字來紙筆溝通最快。

平常每天幾乎跟爸媽見面都不到一小時，有時候還好幾天見一次面 (瘋狂加班的時候)。所以我很珍惜這次旅行，每天24小時跟爸媽相處。一路上聊天講笑話，還有狂拍情境照片(我叫爸拿地圖站路中間，假裝是很專業的背包客之類...)；跟日本人一起大排長龍買章魚燒；也跟爸媽聊到最近煩惱的事情還有之後想要做的事情。

這禮拜一回到台北後，把相簿的link傳給同事們看，幾乎大家都跟我說 "挖好棒喔可以跟爸媽出去玩"。我想這接下來會蔚為風潮吧，呵呵。

京都照片: http://picasaweb.google.com/dr.maglee/Kyoto
大阪照片: http://picasaweb.google.com/dr.maglee/Osaka

I got promoted!

Initially I didn't want to spread this news out, trying to keep it low-profile. But then I saw Hope's display name on MSN says "當稱謝進入祂的門! Make a joyful noise!", so here I decided to write it down loudly, and making noise :-)

All my close friends know that actually God gave me this job based on his direction and also my requirements. So basically what I pray for everyday isn't actually such things like "let me get the finance goal" or something really specifically. Instead, I pray for one same thing related to work is to let God lead me to the right direction, and make all of my work accomplish smoothly and also honor my Lord.

I always talk to my colleagues that I have fun at work and really enjoy to work with the team also includes challenges; well, I said that because I know and I feel God is always right there for me and my biz idea just come out one by one by one from my instinct.

There are more and more challenges and responsibilities coming up, and I'm looking forward to it.

Keep it up!

海角七號 (Cape No.7)

最近有往宅女路線發展的趨勢了...

周六晚上沒有安排約會，大家也都在家。想說阿爸一直吵著要去看海角七號，在加上我的MSN名單中老是看到"海角七號超讚" 之類的暱稱。所以叫妹定了票一堆人就出發了。

這片可以說是從頭笑到尾 在加上尾巴結局會讓你有眼淚在眼眶中打滾的電影 (我爸笑得快喘不過去而且超大聲)。的確是一部難得一見有深度又容易懂的台灣電影。

上禮拜跟同是吃飯時也聊到這部電影，由於我同事是電影癡 (可以當影評的那種)。就他的觀點，這部片其實只能算是個小品。但是會受歡迎及回响的原因是；年輕一代的小朋友(20歲以下)，從小就在藍綠對抗狀態下長大 沒有很重的國家觀念，所以會對片中老人堅持要用在地人樂團這件事情感動。那麼比較年長的人，會覺得這部電影很真實的說出她們心裡的想法 (例如:礁警察開罰單這種事) 以及對家人、愛人及這塊土地的愛。

我其實沒太多意見 但這部片真的很不錯。但是我的電影排行榜第一名還是李安的臥虎藏龍啦 (握緊拳頭，你甚麼也沒抓住；放開手，你擁有了全部)。

預告片在此: http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=NWs9ilMOIr0

10 years anniversary in NASDAQ

Congrates!! DR had been in the highly, most competitive market for 10 years. There are many companies die or cannot survive in this cruel biz world. That's why we celebrate~YAY

Very very proud of being a member of DR!

http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/200808/market_open_081108.stm



ADVISORY, Aug. 8, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- "Joel Ronning, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digital River, Inc. (DRIV) will preside over the NASDAQ opening bell to celebrate Digital River's 10th year listing anniversary on NASDAQ."

To be mentioned that in this pix, except for our CEO Joel in the middle, the others are those who work with DR for exactly 10 years, which is very honored moment. Nice to see Vincent & James in the pix too.

外婆走了..

在我到希臘的第二天 外婆他不等我自己先離開了

因為外婆已經肝癌好多年了 直到最近越來越惡化 甚至到了肝昏迷的地步

原來以為可以很容易接受外婆走的事實 因為從他可以離開所有病痛這角度想對他是好的

不過 在送走外婆的那天 我才知道對我來說要接受他離開我門的這件是對我來說是很難的

之前在醫院看到外婆睡著 只要輕輕叫他一聲 他就馬上會起來跟我聊天

不過這次 他不會再醒來了

喪禮當天 外婆總共有十幾個孫子 就屬我哭得最慘了

因為外婆從我一出生到現在 參與我所有的成長過程

出生 -> 上學 -> 學音樂 ->交男友等等 ....

印象很深刻的事 因為我交男友都會跟外婆報告

去年同樣也是 結果外婆第一句就問我說: 是不是又是阿兜ㄚ....超逗的

太多跟外婆的回憶了

我好想你阿 阿嬤碰...

meeting Ann in Singapore

YAY....我最愛在出差的時候順道去拜訪老朋友以及認識新朋友了
I met my best best best friend Ann...this time. 想說反正怎樣都要在新加坡轉機加上進去新加坡不用簽證。

雖然只有兩天，但是我們一見面就吃吃喝喝 嘰嘰喳喳講個沒完，照慣例 (again...)又是喝到半夜三點多早上睡太晚甚麼地方都沒去 哈哈

另外這張經典照是Ann想出來的 有沒有給他一個很白癡....

在Singapore機場照的 -_-''

Welcome to Singapore



Aska是Ann的同事，他雖然是印尼人但是一出生就在台南長大，直到高中畢業才回新加坡工作喔。是個很道地的台灣人(他媽媽是台灣人BTW)，一看到我就用很親切的台南腔台語跟我聊天....這時候我的破台語真是丟臉到家阿....唉

這小朋友很厲害喔，他是做graph design，得過幾個國際大賞。所以他才能以台灣高職學歷進入Dentsu AD (全世界排名前幾大的廣告商)工作

Ann & Aska可能在八月份要來台灣找我玩，超期待的。Miss you guys already :-)

piccadilly circus

英國出差的當周，每天會議 & training排得滿滿滿，下班後就累得要命。終於在禮拜三我死拖活拖把Winnie拉到市區去逛大街，才不用過著吃便利商店的三明治過活 @@

好了，花了18英鎊買了來回火車票，我門就先到Pattington, 同事推薦的義大利餐廳吃飯。我跟Winnie都認為這是有史以來最好吃的義大利麵跟紅酒...老闆很熱情喔，一直過來關心我門 (英國沒有給小費習慣) ，所以麵包沒停過，上菜也很詳細的介紹食材，很濃的義大利腔差點忘記我們在英國.....




影片中就是著名的 piccadilly circus , 在BJ單身日記中常出現的場景




UK Trip其他照片在此: http://picasaweb.google.com/dr.maglee/LondonCity

DR UK office

First QBR (Quarterly Business Review) of 2008, everyone decided to meet up in UK office for the first tme. Usually we do this in Minnesata, this year people wanna try something new.

I realy love UK office, it's very cosy, feels like home. And most importantly, UK colleagues are very friendly and easy to get alone with (especially after couple of beer/wine) haa. Totally different from my typical English People images.



Phil in the left, he is Maggie in UK office (same position as me). Big & Special thanks to him for sharing tips and experience of daily work with me. And we found out some ways to deal our client too..Woohoo :-) His tatoo is super cool btw..



Team outing dinner, as usual some ppl work and eat at the same time. Winnie in the left and Luke in the right.



UK ADM Ross, he is my another leader in the UK. He is really cute to me neeee :-)
This big pizza was his very own lunch.




Alex and uncle V are our dedicate designers, always help me to solve our store problems when we are sleeping. uncle V in the right is a very very funny guy and really like to work with him.

Now the plan is, 2nd QBR in Taipei, all the delicious food are ready hehe.