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.

frog.cafe | 蛙.咖啡

TGIF 歐耶

今天台北的天氣非常好，再加上今天公司很多人請假只剩下五隻小貓，Charline提議中午去松江路伊通公園旁，他以前的同事自己開的咖啡廳。

為什麼要叫蛙咖啡哩? 很簡單，因為老闆當過蛙人....



這間咖啡廳的老闆總共有四人，之前都是在科技業待到高階主管級的腳色，因為都愛好戶外活動及攝影，就合資開了這家可愛的咖啡廳。在廁所中掛的這張照片，是四位老闆為了紀念玉山攻頂，而在玉山頂留下的紀念照........(傻)



老闆是攝影狂熱者，店裡面除了有液晶螢幕展示照片外



店裡面也提供老闆攝影的明信片，可以買來送外國朋友喔。這就是愛台灣啦對不對? 對.....



在戶外的座椅，聽Charline說蛙哥也很熱愛自行車運動 (聽說有一台20萬台幣的腳踏車，比我的小March還貴)，所以除了門口有停車位，牆壁上也提供掛自行車的掛鉤，就不用擔心停外面會遭竊等等的問題而無法好好用餐



沒甚麼裝潢卻讓人覺得開心跟放鬆的環境...

空間非常寬敞，還可以包租場地辦展覽或活動喔。我打算年底要在這幫我爸媽辦30周年紀念趴...兩老應該會很喜歡...呵

Life is short....so enjoy it and have fun :-)

valueable democracy

Hpaay Peace Day!!

塔克辛回泰國了...這位被起訴貪污的前泰國總理回國的新聞一小時輪播一次。當他抵達國門時，跪在地下親吻自己的土地。先不管他的貪污是不是屬實 (還未完成調查) 但是這一幕真是讓我感動。

去年聖誕節，去泰國找朋友時剛好碰到當地的議員選舉。當時還陪著朋友在高溫40度的太陽底下投票。當時的感覺...一切都好祥和。當然在投票結束後，政論性的節目也會討論選後的局勢等等的。當時我非常感興趣看著哇啦哇啦講一堆泰文的政論節目，然後拉著朋友問一堆問題。

泰國的選舉 -




好像是選舉公報之類的 -


奇怪的是，每當問到關於泰國皇室對政局的影響，或是提到塔克辛，我的泰國朋友Golf就會說...let's not talk about the King and Thaksin at all (btw, Golf是我在美國的室友，在美國上班好多年了)。所以讓我非常的困惑，因為Golf對我來說已經是個老美，幹嘛要顧忌談論政治性的問題?

後來再去市區的路上Golf告訴我，其實泰國沒有表面上看起來這麼自由的。曾經有一個澳洲人因為公開談論泰皇的"長相"就被關入監獄。在泰國....似乎皇室是最不可侵犯.....

I'm very proud to be a Taiwanese, 民主自由真的是得來不易。尤其當我從泰國回來後，有更深刻的體會。在台灣，每個人都有權利批評政府，罵總統，公投選舉。雖然大部分的時間這讓我覺得非常煩，但也只有在高度民主化的國家才有這樣的情形產生(美國罵得更兇呢 哈)。

希望下一個新總統，能夠提升台灣的國際地位阿，不然老是要跟各國辦公室的同事解釋台灣跟中國的關係，或者台灣跟泰國其實是不一樣的兩個國家....之類的蠢問題。也夠累的了 -_-'

更希望台灣能有一天成為被國際社會認定的獨立國家, God bless Taiwan

New Year plans

Still suffering....
But I'm fine. I know God, my family, friends and partners are supporting on my back, that's very warm and touching.

Well wel well, the biggest plan for me this year is gonna be my travel to Greece. For a long time I didn't really travel along. The last time should be back to year 1999, myself travel to Osaka, Japan. That was super exciting and fun, especially when you don't speak local language and basically I'm a huge direction blind....so the best part for me was to looking for directions from strangers.....with my body language haha.

After this, I always go somewhere with frens, colleagues. Or went to the countries and visited my frens (doesn't count a back-pack travel I know). So this Greece trip will be a big challenge for me. People said in Greece, people don't speak English a lot. Actually since last year i started to do many research, including where to go...the map, subway and others. Lucky for me one of my colleagues Pearl had been to Greece, she also went there travel alone. That's great to have a expert to share experiences with me.

The ticket and hotel are all booked hehe...I'm always doing things quickly after making decisions. Really...Cannot wait to go, YAY.

The other plan will be in nex half of this year..no gonna saying it out loud now (low profile-ing). Keep praying~~~

Mag's update

It's been a long time from my last post... (反而在美國上班比較有空寫blog)

最近很忙，自從七月在總公司開完會後，就開始kick-off第三季最大的案子 (這邊就不方便說了)。又開始每天加班到半夜的日子...再加上客戶那邊在八月初幾乎換新人進來，扣掉幫客戶教育訓練以及trouble shooting的時間後，剩下的工作只好晚上弄完了。

這個新案子美國老大給的壓力很大阿....甚至放話說本公司可以不賺錢但是這案子一定要如期完成。哇靠，我跟小老闆可以說每天汲汲營營 (阿...怎麼忙都不會變瘦) 。終於這個案子已經進入final階段了，感謝主。

除了工作之外，最近的這幾週都會去參加主日，上禮拜還跟阿香&小英一起去 (還有口愛的思岑....好命的小孩阿)。好像很久沒有高中姐妹的聚會耶.....有看到的人提意見看看想去哪唄..

郭媽 & 思岑

眼睛變好大，贏過Andy了....

Great re-union

No need too much wording to discribe how great is the re-union in California, so let the pix talk.

The most beautiful Golden Gate Bridge

Food, Fun and laughing in Pier 39

This is where I left my heart, city of San Francisco

My previous house in downtown Berkeley, my room is in the 3rd floor on the left.

Where I went almost everyday in year 2004, UC-Berkeley

Sisi's kitty

Such a quality time with Yen & D in LA

After helping Golf to move...exhausted but good exercise.

Me with Sisi and Sisi's mom.

突然想起Jack Johnson的一首歌 "Better Together"

There's no combination of words

I could put on the back of a postcard

No song that I could sing

But I can try for your heart

our dreams, and they are made out of real things

like a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving

Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like...

Why are we here? And where do we go?

And how come it's so hard?

It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving

I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together.

Team outting

Jon, me and Sam

The best thing about going back to home office is the team outing. Our papa, Jon, knows all the great restaurants in the town and this time we were in Axel's Steakhouse, Chanhassen (http://www.axelsbonfire.com/axels/Location.cfm?idx=99)

The stake here.....yummy....I could say it's the best stake I've ever had by far! But the price is also very expensive. There are 7 of us and we spent $460 total.....

Weekend in MOA

It's been a while I didn't update my blog...

Well, I'm back to Minnesota home office for the 2nd QBR, it's been finished smoothly but to be honest....meeting is normally boring and a lot of blah blah blah....

Antways

Yesterdat on Saturday afternoon, as usual people go to Mall of America (MOA)...I even met some of my team mates in the mall...looks like ppl are no where to go :-)

My very first iPhone experience

The desk top of iPhone

I almost wanna buy one hehe...but this have to bundle wiht At&t for 2 years contract...

Roberto's wedding

It's such a pity I couldn't join Roberto's wedding on April 22, due to my biz trip in the US. It was like I'm in American, and south American is just beside me but I couldn't reach my friends in Chile >_<

Well even tho I couldn't join Rob & Javi's wedding, still my best wishes for them. I will definitely visit Chile one day and see you guys.

By the way, thanks for Tugba sharing these wonderful pix from Chile! AWESOME!!!!

Tugba joined Rob's wedding from Turkey!!! I miss you very much Tugba deyoooooo

The wedding church - Lutheran Church

Here comes the gloom, Roberto, aka the ROCK star. And Tugba on the right!

The happy couple, Rob & Javi

Cutting wedding cake~

My Berkeley friends, Tugba, Rodrigo and Rob!

You might see this big guy from the movie "nights of Museum". It is originally from Chile Easter Island ( Isle De Pascua ), it's a art made form the nature power, can you believe it?

Our Yen flew to Cal

Many people might probably think that I must have many many friends because what I do for work and my personality. Somehow the more people you know, you will find out there are really few friends can really into your life that you care about each other. Luckily I still have many :-)



These are my sisters from high school, we have known each other for over a decade, we till now we are still very close to each other. Yen flew to the US yesterday morning, but I never worry about not to see her often. My friends are very important to my life so I will spend my time to be with them even they are far away from me, such Ann....we meet each other often and she works in Singapore (we will meet again this end of month again, Hope will go with me too).

Best luck for Yen, you will be just fine and have wonderful time in California! And friendship FOREVER!

First weekend in Twin Cities, MN

Man...what a fulfill bis trip. I average work for about 10 hrs per day since I'm in headquarters office. So during the weekend, me and my boss decided to visit some famous spots, as our reward of hard working for 5 days in a row..

This is one of the lake in uptown Minneapolis, there are more than 10,000 lakes in Minnesota state, I also have a lake beside my hotel, but it's too small so my colleague said it's just a pond ....


The other big lake in Wayzata, it's so big and people do sailing in this lake too.


A famous spot in Minneapolis called Minnehaha....and we was expected it's going to be a spectacular waterfall....but.....whatever!


Me in Mall of America, LAGO store.

This....is the biggest mall I've ever been.....I spent an afternoon and just go around quarter of it. These is a theme part in it. I think it might be the place for people in twin cities to spend time in during the 8-months-snowing-winter

Alrighty....time to get back to work!

My Office

TGIF!
Now here is my new office seat, actually it's my 2nd week in the office and it's kinda mass already. That's why I need to take photos to memorize when my desk is still organized, since it's gonna to become horribly mass after probably a month......

Now it's my desktop.....what a mass!

My Blackberry....now I feel like anxious if my BB is not w/me.

A cutie doll from Chile, Roberto gave it to me and I like it very much. It makes me laugh...haha

I will share some of my colleagus pix next time, stay tuned!