Like an angel

到不了

2010-06-14T08:02:00.000-07:00

你的心是我再也到不了的地方。曾经的亲密无间已经没有可能。仍然当你像以前的同学，可是也许你已经不是你了。

Is this called love, why it is still lingering?

在这座小小的城市里，却离你前所未有的遥远。还记得那时候总是会打越洋电话给你，两颗心可以那么近。

是不是你，也随着那年华逝去，纵然相见，也追不回你。

上帝啊，请给我一颗安定的等待的心，等待上帝的安排和恩典。让这一切过去。

Second weekend

2010-05-30T06:17:00.001-07:00

I met Zack today, and had dinner with Frings, Emily and Jasmine. I am so happy that, despite of such a new city for me, I still have some old friends here.

We had dinner in a Vietnamese restaurant. It feels so good, at least among these people, we are open to make fun of each other. I can somehow imagine how life would be like in Hong Kong. People's conversation is almost nothing but food, shoppings, travelling, and gossip in the company. Listening to ABBA's album, it reminds of my first time in HK in 2009, for APXLDS. That was such great memory. Even now I am in the same place, but my feelings and thinkings have changed so much. I am afraid I would never go back again.

Then I know that Hong Kong is not for life-long time. There must be someday I will be leaving to a "dream country", maybe somewhere very far away, exotic cultures and surroundings, somewhere you can live up your own values, in your own way, do your own things.

I know I will. Just a life-long dream takes a life-long time to pursue.

Tactic

2010-05-29T03:49:00.000-07:00

I wasn't going to do any shopping after this morning. Then Jacque came asking "Do you feel like having some desert out? " I said yes. Then we went to a restaurant and she had a burger and I had a milk shake. She said, " I would show you around here. There is a street called Star Street, it is a premium area in Wan Chai." Then cool, and we went there. Down from the hill, she walked towards West and said," It is Pacific Place right there." Then we went down spent so long time in Pacific Place.

If she would have asked directly saying" fancy to go for Pacific Place? " I would definitely say no. However, this is how she is able to lead me to do what she wants. In our conversation during the meal, she told me that "HK people are shrewed, they might think, act, and talk differently. " Now I really got it.

Life starts anew in Hong Kong

2010-05-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

I moved to Hong Kong and finally have an access to blogspot, thinking it would be a good idea to rebuild my blog here.

This is just one week into it. I enjoy my work and my boss is a very nice and experienced person. I admire his devotion to the company for more than 12 years, and the clout he has built in this area.

I am getting used to the office hours, starting from 7am in the morning. It is a bit challenging especially I get extremely drowsy in the early afternoon. But that's one thing I'll have to face up and deal with, thinking I should get up earlier and adjust my bio-clock to it.

I had lunch with Mindy and JacSo, two local HK girls I met in AIESEC. It turns out three-of-us is a perfect combination to set up Cantonese conversations, as JacSo doesn't speak much Mandarin, and talks to Mindy in Cantonese; Mindy talks to me in Mandarin or English; I talk to JacSo in English. Then the only workable language for us is English, which none of us really wants to. Then we started to talk in Cantonese and I struggle with my little crabby Cantonese but it turns out not that bad.......and my Cantonese actually improved a lot after the meal.

Hong Kong is materialistic and superficial maybe. I just realized that I did nothing but 1.work, 2. shopping after work 3. sleep after shopping. I feel myself flippant and not as upbeat and proactive as before. Luckily I realized it now and make a point to adjust myself.

Tomorrow is Sunday and I will go to a church very close to Wan Chai. The one I went last week, St. Johnson Church, was impressive with all its ritual, but I'm afraid not my cup of tea. I still prefer worship like Shanghai-style, having lots of stories to share, and inspire people not by recite the messages but by insights and stories.

How can I get a sb.nomadlife.org blog?

2007-03-03T20:41:00.000-08:00

It is like aiesec membership qualification, but still not sure how could change "blogger" into " nomadlife.org" address.
lovely visitors, pls kindly let me know.

Happy Golden Pig Year!

2007-03-02T21:01:00.000-08:00

Almost three months past since my last artical. I am a lazy girl in blogging, but will try to improve:o)
National Conf' at the end of Jan was about MCP election-and you may have already known that vincent got it by 5 votes and me 4 votes. There is a lot to say about election, it is so rewarding, say, I had never been so active in learning, in working, in communicating, in thinking since I joined aiesec-I like living with a clear goal in mind, you wake up determined, joyful, full of hope, everyday , saying" today is a brand-new day! There is so much to do, to learn to fulfill your dream"
It was once hard for me 'coz I really took it seriously-- even got visa to Egypt already. But looking back, I always hold that " you are not so lucky now, that means you will be lucky in the future!"Then I chose and was chosen to be MC VP OGX . It gonna be one of the most challenging jobs in China!
Soon following National Conference is Chinese Lunar New Year-it starts from 18th Feb. Traditions of Chinese New Year vary over the country, but for young people, it is almost about having fun, hanging around and meeting old people. My life was like: slept till 1 p.m., snatched some lunch, then hanged out with friends, visiting classmates, or playing mahjong -kind of Chinese gambling game I learnt since kindergarten, then expected another big dinner, usually is for classmate re-union- we have elementary classmates re-union and junior high school re-union this year. Sometimes went to the countryside or hills to play fireworks at midnight--it was amazing, my best momeries back home this year , or maybe Mahjong again, or Karaoke, then dined at restaurant. -That called it a day.
I was also getting interested in fortune-telling- It was part of Chinese tradition prosperous in Hokkien, Canton, and Hong Kong. Many fortune-tellers, feng-shui experts are around running bustling business, popular among senior people. It may be superstition, but sometimes it really tells something. My grandmother dabbles in a lit bit, got the same message from several fortune-tellers that the person I will marry shall be a superman, elite,celebrity, tycoon, or anything like that. --interesting.
Life back home is radically different from one in shanghai. I would be sofa potato, Mahjong nut, forget about aiesec, university to the hilt, enjoy life pleasure in the here and now. In Shanghai, you feel pressure every minute, so I only read TIME, daily press, watch NatGeoChannel, CNN, met aiessec people. I tend to avoid anything entertaining,movies, novels, would rather die than singing Karaoke or playing mahjong-things make me feel guilty that I am wasting my life! :o) What a paradox!
Tomorrow is our registration day for new semester-also the last of my school. In the upcoming months before MC term starts in July, I will go to EuroXPro in Belgrade, and take an internship in a consulting company.
Happy Golden Pig ChineseYear!

from HBR

2006-12-31T19:49:00.000-08:00

I have been reading Havard Business Review these days. There is a article in recent issue-Nov.2006 about Theodore Levitt--a scholar renowned as a founder of modern marketing,who sought above all to use his insights to serve the needs of businesspeople.After a doctorate in economics in 1951,he joined the faculty of Harvard Business School,where he remained a professor until retiring in 1990. He was also one of Harvard Business Review's most prolific authors, publishing 26 articles-a number exceeded only by Peter Drucker. Levitt carried his practical approach to his tenure as Harvard Business Review's eighth chief editor,from 1985 to 1989. Levitt's ideal businessperson was someone who, amid the clamor of meetings, phone calls, stock-market,updates, daily papers,weekly magazines, and consultants' presentations,was fed up with hype and showed an insatiable appetite for expertise...In that ideal, he was his own best exemplar.

After the Sale Is Over...
Excerpted from Sep.--Oct.1983 (it is old but I find it very illuminating for AIESECers who do business with companies)
The relationship between a seller and a buyer seldom ends when a sale is made. Increasingly,the relationship intensifies after the sale and helps determine the buyer's choice the next time around. Such dynamics are found particularly with services and products dealt in a stream of transactions between selller and buyer-financial services, consulting,general contracting, military and space equipment, and capitcal consummates.
The sale, then, merely consummates the courtship, at which point the marriage begins. How good the marriage is depends on how well the seller manages the relationship. The quality of the marriage determines whether there will be countinued or expanded business, or trobles and divorce. In some cases divorce is impossible, as when a major construction or installation project is under way. If the marriage that remains is burdened,, it tarnishes the seller's reputation...
...In the [traditional] selling scheme the seller is located at a distance from buyers and reaches out with a sales department to unload products on them. This is the basis for the notion that a salesperson needs charisma, because it is charisma rather than the product's qualities that makes the sale.
Consider, by contrast, marketing. Here the seller, being physically close to buyers,penetrates their domain to learn about their needs,desires, and fears and then designs and supplies the product with those considerations in mind. Instead of trying to get buyers to want what the seller has,the seller tries to have what they want. The" produce" is no longer merely an item but a whole bundle of values that satisfy buyers-an "augmented" product.
Thanks to increasing interdependence, more and more of the world's economic work gets done through long-term relationships between sellers and buyers. It is not a matter of just getting and then holding on to customers. It is more a matter of giving the giving the buyers what they want. Buyers want vendors who keep promises,who will keep supplying and standing behind what they promised. The era of the one-night stand is gone. Marriage is both necessary and more convenient. Products are too much of a hassle and too costly. Under these conditions, success in marketing is transformed into the inescapability of a relationship. Interface becomes interdependence...
During the era we are entering the emphasis will be on system contracts, and buyer-seller relationships will be characterized b continuous contact and evolving relationships to effect the system. The "sale " will be not just a system but a system over time. The value at stake will be the advantage of that total system over time. As the customer gains experience, the technology will decline in importance relative to the system that enables the buyer to realizedthe benefits of the technology. Services,delivery,reliability,responsiveness,and the quality of the human and organizational interactions between seller and buyer will be more important than the technology(Trainee) itself...
...It is reasonable for a customer who has been promised the moon to expect it to be delivered. But if those who make the promises are paid commissiions (our 1000kuai) before the customer gets everything he or she bargained for, they're not likely to feel compelled to ensure that the customer gets fully satisfied later. After the sale, they'll rush off to pursue other prey. If marketing plans the sale, sales makes it,manufacturing fulfills it, and service services it, who's in charge and who takes responsibility for the whole process?
Problems arise not only because those who do the selling,the marketing,the manufacturing, and the serving have varying incentives and views of the customer but also because organizations are one-dimensional. With the exception of those who work in sales or marketing, people seldom see beyond their company's walls.For those inside those walls, inside is where the work gets done, where the penalties and incentives are doled out, where the budgets and plans get made, where engineering and manufacturing are done, where performance is measured, where one's friends and associates gather, where things are managed and manageable. Outside "has nothing to do with me" and is where" you can't change things"...
One of the surest signs of a bad or declining relationship is the absence of complaints from the customer. Nobody is ever that satisfied,especially not over an extended period of time. The customer is eithor not being candid or not being contacted-probably both. The absence of candor reflects the decline of trust and the deterioration of the relationship. Bad things accumulate. Impaired communication is both a symptom and a cause of trouble. Things fester inside. When they finally erupt, it is usually too late or too costly to correct the situation.
We can invest in relationships, and we can borrow from them. We all do both,but we seldom account for our actions and almost never manage them. Yet a company's most precious asset is its relationships with its customers. What matters is not whom you know but how you are known to them.

Transition

2006-12-10T07:22:00.000-08:00

Today is our LC transition day.
We introduced "AIESEC 2010 BSC, Global Competency Model, Issue-base @XP, DAAL Q3 Data" to new EB members. Everyone was so amazed and motivated, especially Sinky, VP OGX showed us how @Mainland of China made its way to this far, from No.35, to 5o+ (due to SARS 2003), then back to 30+, then 16 in 2005, but now TOP 8 in the world!
We are so confident to catch up with Romania and U.S., which are just twenty more exchanges in front of us.
Though young AIESEC in China is, still so many problems out there, but China definitely find its right path to AIESEC 2010. " We are less of an exchange organisation for the first time" Up to now, at least "Jolin, Ameko, Vincent, Echo, ken, michelle, verona, houstan, kitty" willing to run for MC next term. That's why we wanna our incoming EB members to have a good understandiing of AIESEC 2010 at the first beginning. AIESEC is deep in my heart, not only for the self-development but also the vision. It feels so coool you have something as deep-held as faith.
I heard from Leon,Belgium. MCP before Dexter. Leon as my coach, taught me something I never learnt before but has been and will be playing an important role in my future life. Time really flies, now I am packing up my term and preparing for MC in the next year.
Looking back, nothing changes me so much as my LCP year!