Posts Tagged ‘beijing’

I had no idea that Yeppy has for almost this whole week in Beijing until this morning. My girl friend and I invited him to dinner in one of our favorite restaurant. Unfortunately it gave us far worse an impression than anytime we went there before. Sorry for that Yeppy! (BTW, 3p was here last week and we had a good big meal)

Yeppy was the first guy I worked together at Kingsoft, who became one of my best friends in Zhuhai. Compare his resume with mine(if I have any) you’ll find we graduated from collage and went to Kingsoft at the same time. But his is not “rich” as mine - after my moving from one city to another this few years, Yeppy’s still there devoting himself to the company, and perhaps will always be there. He’s such a friend even when you’ve been far away from him for long you can’t stop missing and worrying about him.

Yeppy’s leaving tomorrow morning. I hope there’s more chance he can come to Beijing, on business or not. Good trip and take care man!

过年了。

第一次在外过年，没能回家陪父母。北京街上难得的空旷，坐车第一次觉得舒服快捷。

感谢女友一家对我的照顾。他们没回老家，在北京过年。跟他们在一起，让我觉得就跟在自己家过年一样。

It’s Christmas, such a great moment, I have to write something.

First off, I’m sooooo happy for my best friend Daniel, who is getting married this Friday.  Best wishes to him and his beautiful bride! Years ago we were all in the same high school. After graduation from collage Daniel went abroad to New Zealand, while the girl Great Britain. They met each other after coming back to China and got together. What a pair! BTW,  I bought a suit to wear on that special day as I would be the groomsman (or one of the groomsmen ^-^), yeah I’m a little bit excited and nervous.

Second, my girl friend received the watch I bought on m18.com. Wish you a Merry Xmas sweetie! I have to say m18.com sucks! Ordering and paying was such a pain. There’re so many steps before you could finally make the order. When I paid (online) via credit card, the process was blocked because of the networking problem. After I retried and they received the money, I found the order’s status had been automatically changed to “Cancel” due to the failure of the first attempt to pay! And, it took their “express deliver” 4 days to ship the watch to Beijing from Shanghai!

Finally FYI: I came back from Beijing on 20th. It feel good I can sleep late every morning and don’t have to catch those crowded buses for a while.

Visited Beijing Aquarium this afternoon. Although the aquarium is not as huge as I had thought, it’s really a wonderful under-the-sea journey (I’m a Finding Nemo fan).

See alll the fotos on flickr.

The aquarium is located right inside the Beijing Zoo. The ￥100 ticket not only is for the aquarium visiting, but also gives visitors the right to take a look around the zoo. Yeah I tried to say hi to those animals after I came out of the aquarium but only to notice that most of them were so shy or lazy to show them off and make the visitors happy in such a season. I found a FAT cat, which made me believe a cat in the real world could be big as Garfield. A little fox drew my attention. I thought I should take a picture ’cause I guessed finally I found out the source of the Firefox’s icon.

PS: please excuse my poor photo taking skill.

Luers and another WPS guy 小炒张 are flying here in Beijing on a business trip this afternoon. How long are they gonna stay I don’t know but we’re definitely going to meet and have a long talk, and most importantly, eat something:)

So who the hell are these two guys? Well, back in 2003 when I went to WPS and started my career as a software engineer (3 months before I graduated from college), 小炒张 and 知了 kindly shared their apartment with me. Two years later before I left Kingsoft Zhuhai, I spent a lot of time living with Luers in his own house (of course not in the same room^-^).

BTW, Tell ya an industry secret, these two guys are core developers of ET, the Excel competitor as part of the WPS Office.

Let’s warmly welcome them to the great capital!

颐和园墙头随风摇摆的“狗尾草” 。

I’ve been temporarily living and working in Beijing for almost 3 months. The main purpose of a four-month trip here is to help my friends and their company refactor their online book business site welan.com, which was built on Windows with Asp technology.

To be honest, I DO NOT like Beijing a bit. Okay I HATE this city! The dusty air and the damn traffic drive me into crazy every day. I really dislike those bus conductors - I admit they’re hard-working and they make a living - I guess most of them don’t know what politeness is and how annoyed we passenger feel when they shout at us ordering us to move to someplace … “not so crowded”. I always wonder why the hell a bus should needs two conductors.

Crossing the Haidianqiao on foot is the experience you won’t forget easily. Buses, cars, bikes and walkers come in all directions at the same time. The traffic lights seem to have nothing to do with this system. If I had ever stopped to read those advertisements on the ground, I’m afraid I would have already lost my life.

Stop complaining.

I’ve met and made new friends here. We have good time working together. I feel lucky to have a chance to see how an online book store is running.

As planned, I’m gonna go back home in the middle of Dec. Now that it’s a plan that won’t be changed, the only part of the decision that’s hard to make is when exactly I’m setting off. Tired of answering this question over and over again, I double checked the calendar and guessed the time would be Dec 17th - 20th.

For the one I really don’t want to leave, I must say the unknown future can always be fought.