Revolution of print media

This is just an example.

The trend is ongoing, and it's really cool!

Inspiration from Drucker Centennial Week

The Drucker Centennial Week celebration finished with Drucker Centennial Day yesterday. We had Jim Collins, Charles Handy, and many other great guest speakers coming to Claremont and share all kinds of insights with us, especially about "Why we need Drucker now, more than ever"!

I was really excited that we have the chance to meet Jim Collins and can hear from him about Drucker's philosophy. And he didn't disappoint me at all! One sentence that really touched me is this, "The great leaders are extremely ambitious, but not for themselves!"

People tend to think the basic stuffs are not as important and new thoughts or innovations. Although some new ideas are pretty excited, the sincerity, honesty, trust, etc, are still the most important characters for a successful leader. And people usually forget these things because they are simply too basic.

There must be reasons that great leaders/thinkers are always talking about the basic things. However, many people focus only in narrow field and ignore the importance of the big picture. Human beings have unlimited capability, but we like to limit ourselves all the time.

One advice that Jim Collins offered was to "build your own personal board of directors. People selected not for their accomplishment, but for their character. The people you will be embarrassed talking to if you are thinking if this is really a right thing to do."

Every of his suggestion is just so deeply touching my heart, and I almost agree with every of them sincerely.

When Jim Collins talked about the first meeting between him and Peter Drucker. When Drucker left his advice for Jim Collins, Peter was not worried about Jim's survival in academic, nor about Jim's career or financial success, but Peter asked Jim to think about how to be useful. And as Jim Collins recalled, that 10 seconds conversation changed his whole life.

This week truly reminded me how great Peter Drucker is. The week also convinced me once again that I am extremely lucky to be in this fantastic school. Thanks for Jim Collins, I again listened to a speech with tears in my eyes.

As a co-director of Marketing Club in Drucker School, I was proud that I really have some trustworthy partners to work with now. The result can be so easily seen as we presented the club booth. On that booth, we had the collaborative work of many people in marketing club. The booth was beautifully designed and decorated. We had Prof. Darroch's new book presented on the booth. The certificate of being one chapter of American Marketing Association was so shining. I am also grateful that members designed different materials that make our project successful. To present the business card the member designed in the booth, I felt really proud.

This semester, the Drucker Marketing Club is having many activities and events going on. We are having guest speakers coming in next two weeks, too. I am really glad we are having members keep joining our events!

The final part I'd like to share is about the conversation with Masatoshi Ito, the founder and honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group. His friendship and working relationship with Peter Drucker spanned more than three decades. Ito San is an amazingly humble person and a great leader in Japan. I am so honored to be in the school named Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School!

Ito San was really kind and took time to meet Drucker School students. Because this event was decided at the last minute, we were worried that we could not broadcast the information fast enough to draw people to this event. However, we soon found that the worry was so stupid. Ito San is such a great leader that his appearance drew attention by nature. We ended up with a room full of people, and crowd even outside of the room.

Ito San talked about his relationship with Peter Drucker and how he learned from Peter. In fact, Peter insisted to have Ito's name on the school because he believed Ito San is a practical side of himself! Seeing the true friendship with two great men, I was deeply touched and felt so proud to be associated with them.

Non-surprisingly, the values that Ito San deeply embeds in every aspect of his thought totally match what Peter and all other great thinkers believe. They all value social responsibility, honesty, and dignity. They all dislike the "money centric" and "profit-only" ideas. Just like Jim Collins said, "The great leaders are extremely ambitious, but not for themselves." Ito San is a great example and role model for us, which I truly appreciate!

In this photo, the person in the center who had the great smile on his face is one of our professors. He is teaching self-management in our school, a field that is very important for knowledge workers, but are not addressed by most "B-schools" at all.

I have been studying in Drucker School for more than 1 year. Of course, this school is not perfect, and it's small with limited resources.

However, where can you find a school that all the professors are really passionate about teaching and students' success? Where can you find a school that everyone is so friendly and so tightly working together, even as volunteers? In what kind of business speaking sessions, you can find your eyes wet all the time while listening to different great speakers talking about their dream and Peter's dream.

The Drucker School is great. I am extremely lucky to be here and to share all the great thoughts with many many great people.

Apple's new lineup for the holiday season 09

Apple just announced their quarterly report yesterday with profits surge 46% and record breaking Mac & iPhone sales.

Today, Apple released the new products for the holiday season 2009.

I have always been amazed by the way Apple introduces their product in a short video.

This iMac is a refinement of previous product.

On contrast to other computer companies, Apple is not trying to put a touch screen on the iMac, but build a multi-touch mice instead.

The reason is simple: "To add meaningless feature is never a good thing."

Differentiation is not just being different. Whether consumers perceived the value is the key of product success.

The following is the introduction video from Apple:

NSHMBA 2009

This is the 2nd time I attended NSHMBA career fair.

The event is one of the biggest for MBA in the US, and I have always learned a lot by just struggling in the career fair and talking with people.

Finding a job under this economy is really difficult even for Americans, not to mention for the international students.

As international students, it's just the reality we are facing.

In fact, I do think going back to Taiwan is also a good option. However, I also want to learn more in the US, since I really feel the diverse cultures here in California inspire me a lot.

Last year, the NSHMBA conference was in Atlanta and I went there with many classmates. Senior students taught me how to network with people, and we even debate whether trying to make friends with strangers is a necessary thing to do. The experience really shocked me because I had't understood how difficult for me to find a job in the US.

This year, Drucker School had much fewer students going with us even school is aggressively trying to send us there by sponsoring hotel fee. Several of us still went, and I felt it's totally worth it. The event is actually a bit smaller than last year. Companies are offering more internship but maybe not as many full time jobs. I practiced talking with recruiters again, and I realized I improved. My improvement really makes me happy, although it may be very little.

Also, this year, my brother joined me in job hunting in the US.

It's great to share with him and try to help.

The NSHMBA event itself may not be too much fun, but going there with friends, learning from practicing, talking with all kinds of different people, and confirming my own understanding of myself all are really useful for me.

I am glad I joined again this year. And I really enjoyed this trip with friends and my brother.

Drucker School Golf Competition

Before my internship started, this is my last social event.

It's really fun to play golf with professor, EMBA student, alumni, and school director/dean, especially under the Spring weather of Southern California.

If you ever wonder whether this golf competition is worth to join, it is strongly recommended!

I was teamed up with MBA director, our OB professor, and an EMBA student. They are all very very nice partners(Drucker's culture!) The rule of this game is basically based on the team performance. We played only "the best ball" in each team each shot, so every team seemed to have really good score and people had little pressure on individual performance. It's a relaxing game, really.

Since I came to California, golf has really became enjoyable to me, and it's my pleasure to attend Drucker School's social event. It's so lucky to study here and to find out the fun of golf. Thanks to everyone who has played, talked, practiced golf with me!

Movie: Departure(送行者-禮儀師的樂章,おくりびと)

English Website

Japanese Website

Last week, there was finally a chance for me to watch this movie, Departure(送行者-禮儀師的樂章,おくりびと).

After seeing the movie, I could totally see the reasons that this movie could receive so many awards, and I recommended this movie to everyone.

Departure(送行者-禮儀師的樂章,おくりびと) reminded me to use a totally different perspective to observe things,

and it also contains many heart-touching stories. The family, the friendship, and the love between couples are all showed in the movie.

Among movies I recently saw, Departure is definitely an outstanding one, with impressive story, great actors(actresses), and deep meanings.

If you are waiting for a movie that may change your feeling about life, this may be the movie to watch.

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Funny ad sharing!

Info Sharing: The Annenberg Space for Photography

This is a post of my friend. He is an expert in photography, font, and design.

I am planning to visit The Annenberg Space for Photography.

Here is the article about it in WSJ: Annenberg's New Gallery Space

Please let me know if you are interested in it, too.

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Author: Paul Hung

想要知道快門，光圈，相機，王鏡的人士請止步，因為這個組織的重心並非在儀器，但是展示的作品都是用傳統的 C-print。很多都是印在 Fujiflex Supergloss 上面，所以有 Cibachrome 的感覺，很有生命的影像。

The Annenberg Space for Photography 在 3/27/2009 於 Century City 開幕。位於 Century Park 的南邊，The Annenberg Space for Photography 是著名的 USC Annenberg School of Communication 與 University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication 背後的 Annenberg 基金會主辦的一個專門為視覺/攝影而設的展示館。

Century Plaza
2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10
Los Angeles, CA 90067
tel: 213.403.3000
fax: 213.403.3100

Wed-Sun: 11am - 6pm

Century Park 的主要建築是 Century Plaza Towers，是由 Minoru Yamasaki 所設計的。一眼望去，可以看到 NYC World Trade Center (WTC) 的影子。沒錯，WTC 也是 Yamasaki 設計的。多年來成為洛杉磯法律等行業的第一選擇。律師的住址要不是 Century Plaza 的話，就無人問津。因為如此，幾年前 Century Plaza Towers 以南的空地加建一棟新的大樓，命名為 2000 Avenue of the Stars。在同一個時段，Century Plaza Towers 的大廳也重新裝修，與新的建築的風格呼應，成為一體。南加州沒有多少代表性的建築，而 Century City 因為離高速公路有一段路，所一一般觀光客不知道這棟大樓在七零年代曾經是最大的立體停車場之一，而且規劃完善，直到今天，還能夠讓擁擠的汽車出入方便。

說到停車，因為這裡是辦公大樓，所以週末毫無人煙。因此平日 8:30—16:30 (M-F) 三個小時 $3.50 （蓋章後的優惠價）的停車費用在 16:30 之後入場，或者週六/日全天的三小時停車費用是 $1.00。

第一梯次的展示已經開始，6/28/2009 截止。這一次的展示可以看到以下駐於洛杉磯的攝影師的作品：

Julius Shulman
Tim Street-Porter
這兩位的作品大家可能都很熟悉。他們的作品多半與建築有關係。Julius Shulman 的處女作與多數的作品是 Richard Neutra 設計的建築，而 Tim Street-Porter 以他的現有光源與 'lived in' 風格，改變了大家對建築攝影的刻板印象。

Douglas Kirklnd
Greg Gorman
這兩位攝影師出名於他們與明星的融合力。在他們的快門前，明星可以毫無顧忌地流露真情。
以下幾位是駐洛杉磯時報多年的攝影記者
Carolyn Cole 在多次的戰地攝影融化了敵人與戰友的界限，也讓她多次得到了 Pulitzer Prize。
Lawrence Ho 在 1992 年的洛杉磯大動亂作品也為他帶來了 Pulitzer Prize.
Kirk McKoy 是洛杉磯時報的資深 Feature Photo Editor，也得了兩次 Pulitzer Prize
Genaro Molina 也是洛杉磯時報的資深攝影記者。

Catherine Opie's 的 "In and Around Home" 將她特殊的親身經驗經過視覺淋漓盡致地表達。

John Baldessari 的社論式的重點（黃/紅/藍) 塗鴉博人一笑。

在這個建築的正中心有兩個面對面的光面，後投射的螢幕。非常高的品質，把多有展示的照片用多媒體的方式呈現在觀眾眼裡。不過也因為如此方式，大家可以親身體會，沖印在 C-print 上面的畫質還是無法被投射式，甚至 Quad-HD (3840 x 2160) 所取代。

每個星期四的晚間 18:30 開始有攝影師的演講與示範，要事先預約。


微軟是贊助這個組織的成員之一，所以裡頭有兩個大螢幕 (42 吋） 的 Surface。不讓我驚訝的，就是工作人員說，那兩個電腦的作業系統承受不了使用者的正常使用，整天當個不停。更妙的是，研究室裡頭有兩部電腦，一部 Windows Vista，一部 Macintosh，可是都用 23" 的 Cinema Display。就算 Cinema Display 的影像品質普普通通，整體上來說，這個空間對設計的風格要求嚴格，所以只有 Cinema Display 通過考驗。對了，那兩個 Surface 的玻璃桌子也設計得非常漂亮。

最重要的，不要看 MapQuest/Google Map。我告訴各位一個捷徑。

I-10, exit at National
Turn west at Manning
Turn north at Motor
Turn east at Pico
Turn north at Avenue of the Stars
Turn east at Constellation




當你出來的時候，千萬別看路標，跑到 Robertson 去（E)，或者跑到 Overland （W)。照原路回高速公路。照路標往東走，上 I-10 東向的話，會跑到 Robertson 去，那就毀了。上列的那些路徑會碰上五個 Stop signs，但是路上都是西洛杉磯的正點住宅區。非豪宅，但是非常高雅的住宅區，很養眼。在上下班時間很快的就能夠到達高速公路出入口。這個是電影界與當地居民才知道的路徑。

Info Sharing: Dell Adamo review - Engadget

It seems that the beautiful design is only skin-deep.

Although Adamo is even thiner than Macbook Air, the weight is not lighter.

Also, the performance and battery life are not as good as people expected.

For people who are interested in buying this machine, maybe checking the review out first is a good choice.

Sources:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/dell-adamo-review/

根

最近一直接收到同樣的訊息, 我從哪裡來, 又該往何處去?

從小對於出國唸書就有著一個幻想: 想著在國外唸書, 英文變超強, 然後在美國找到很好的工作, 之後頂著光環回到台灣, 之類的種種不切實際幻想...

儘管許多長輩不斷給我建議: "你終究不是美國人, 還是要知道自己的根是在哪裡, 誰會提拔你, 誰會給你機會, 不要不切實際" 但我總還是抱持著原本的想法, 從申請學校的essay, 到美國來之後找的intern, 一個個動作都表明了我想在美國找工作, 想證明自己在這邊是有辦法生存的...

經過了八個月

可以說我終於漸漸夢醒了

姑且不論我實力根本就不夠, 就算在這邊找到工作又如何? 能有多大發展, 學到多少東西?

和我在學校的mentor聊過, 一些台灣來的前輩聊過, 自己花了好幾個月找尋工作之後, 漸漸我發現, 我必須要承認, 在這邊找尋工作的難度, 尤其在這個經濟狀況下, 實在是不容易實現的目標, 而且, 即使真的可以在這邊找到工作, 能夠為自己增加多少能力, 我真的是相當懷疑...

亞洲才是我的根

但 即使是和台灣人最容易相處的日本人 語言依然是個隔閡 文化依然是道牆

要如何跨越? 是接下來我應該好好思考的問題

anyway, 繼續學習日文吧!

International Fellows Program Graduation Day

Since I started school in June, I have been learning English from four kind professors in IF program. I met many kind and intelligent Asian people, who are from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. We learned together, drink together, poker together, and now celebrate the program graduation together.

Yesterday, 15 of us finally graduated from this language program. In the beginning of the summer, we were so afraid of talking in English, and were so new to here that everyone was busy settling everything. Now, we worked so well. Even in OB class, comparing with American students, our presentation skill, analysis ability, and participation were all beyond the average. Of course, we need to thank IF program for the progress and all the help they offered.

I really appreciated IF program and I believe it is really a helpful program for international students. Of course, without it, we can still survive, learn, and perform, but it's like a buffer for me. After almost two years empty(military + school application), I was very close-minded and even stupid. However, during the two months in summer, IF program was so intense and the instructors were so aggressively demanding hard-working from us. I was totally recovered in the summer and prepared for the fall semester.

In short, thank to every great member in IF program, including faculty, staff, Drucker staff, and of course, my favorite classmates. Because of you, I gained a ton of great memories and improvements. Thank you all and let's cheer to our future!

The message.

Sometimes, I feel life is delivering some messages to me, and in order to let me really understand, it expresses its ideas by different people's words and attitude. 

In college, I realized the importance of open-minded from Chinese Medical class, Mathematical logic, and a very good American teacher, Steve Wallace. These classes and people did not tell me, "You should be more open-minded," but they inspired me through the power of open-minded attitude.

Yesterday, I talked with one friend and we discussed about my future career a lot. By his experience, the glory of getting into "marketing devision" may not be necessary a good thing. Since everyone has the pride of being a part of the most competitive devision, in his experience, working there reduced his life quality a lot. He suggested that if he got into some "top-ranking" MBA school, he may feel high pressure and can not really make good relationship with people because everyone thinks they are the best.

When I applied MBA schools, I did try to apply by ranking on major magazines. However, I really felt I was wrong. I somehow feel this is my fate to come to Drucker, although it does not even attend most of the rankings because of small size and short history. 

Since I was in Taiwan, one of my high school friends has strongly suggested me to choose Claremont because of the location and small size. At that time, I worried about the ranking and reputation of school, so I could not easily decide to come here. Now, I know she was right. 

I was told by one of our Taiwanese American classmate that in top ranking schools, only the top students got the benefits. That makes sense. Who will want to hire the worst performance student in any school? Also, the huge class size of traditional top ranking MBA school leads the atmosphere not intimate and not close. These are not the qualities I am looking for in my MBA.

There is one friend, who is also working on  her MBA, told me, "it take something to make my MBA's top ranking." when I suggested her to maintain healthy life style. To be honest, I felt I am lucky to be here because Drucker School matches my priority of life choices.

To know Japanese students is also helpful for me to understand myself. It's obvious that Japanese spend more effort and time on studying and working. I really admire and respect this attitude. However, when this leads to irregular or not enough sleeping time and little time for eating, I really can not agree.

In short, there are many choices in life. People choose what they think is right. However, there indeed is nothing right or wrong. Only one thing is for sure, different decisions lead to different results. I am grateful that I chose Drucker School and I hope everyone makes the choice that he(she) really desires!

This is the one of the messages I received recently...

Ad for Apple's iPod Touch

The interaction between the whole web page and the ad is so impressive. Also, I always love the music of Apple's ad!

Boston Trip - Boston Career Forum

Back from Boston, I was so grateful that my school is in California with great weather. Although I like the atmosphere in the comparably old city, the low temperature is still a huge problem for me.

This trip is valuable, I think. Despite no jobs for me, the opportunity to see and participate the biggest Japanese job fair in the US is still a useful experience. I interviewed with Vp of Amazon.jp. He is really calm and smart. In fact, I believed I did a good job in that interview, although I failed to get the intern because of the lack of my experience and language ability. 

In the event, one may realize the stereo type: "Japanese can not speak good English." is totally wrong. There are so many new generation Japanese who can speak English much better than me. Maybe Japan will change dramatically in the near future. Who knows.

I am glad that I could meet the recruiter of Wunderman again. I regard this is a great company to work for and also a place really attracts me. 

The Taiwanese shabu shabu in Boston is the most impressive surprise for me. I enjoyed the shabu shabu which has 麻辣鍋底, 蒜泥 and 沙茶醬 with Japanese friends. We even ate two times in different shabu shabu restaurant during out very short stay.

In fact, I feel guilty by flying so far without getting a job back. However, I can only keep trying and practicing. I believe some day those dots in my life will somehow connect to each other. I can only keep my faith in myself.  That's all I can do.

Atlanta trip:NSHMBA career expo

I came back from Atlanta last Sat. night. There are lots things that I learned from this event. First of all, the economy is really shrinking right now. All the companies are offering much less openings than demands. Although that might be the truth for anytime, the difficulty of finding a job is extremely high right now.

Second, the opportunities for international students are even fewer. There are few reasons that a company needs to hire someone from other country, especially at this moment. They may want to hire me in their Chinese branch or Hong-Kong one. And that may be the highest possibility my intern will be.(if I can really get one)

Third, I need to learn and get used to American culture in order to get an offer here. All those social events, greeting conversations, and strong confidence in expressing oneself make me uncomfortable, but I need to overcome it or I will never get a job here!

It's a tough mission and I do not think I can achieve it. However, this is also a chance to grow, to learn, to be open-minded, so I will keep trying. Boston career forum! I am coming soon!

Start to worry about internship

The problem of getting a job finally showed up recently. 

If I am in Taiwan and seeking for a job in Taiwan, I will not worry too much about this issue Although I do not have much experience, I do have confidence in my ability. But finding a job in the US or even in Japan is totally different.

First of all, there is language problem. No matter how much I've improved since I got here(which is not much), my English is still way below an average level American. How is it possible to fix this problem before next summer? Furthermore, seeking chance to get job in Japan, I need to learn one more language of which I am really a beginner. I really should spend more time on language to be more capable for future.

Second, the problem is about experience. If I have lots working experience and outstanding performance which can be the evidence of my ability, the windows will still open to me even my language is not so perfect. However, experience is also my weakness, a huge one. I am glad I worked part-time before but those are not enough.

Anyway, I am a little depressed recently because of dealing with job fair and finding such little chance to succeed.

Good luck! To everyone and myself .

久違了的中文網誌

好長一段時間沒用中文打網誌了

但是 有些東西 沒用中文打還是沒感覺

英文也沒有因為寫網誌而進步 

今天就暫時切換回中文模式吧

開學一個禮拜

課業壓力很明顯的愈來愈重了

但大學我也不是念假的 統計啦 會計啦 對我來說都不算太難吧

這個週末 去了LA Downtown 的 Little Tokyo

還有去找一間在日本很popular的店Book-Off

昨天去play golf & poker

今天卯起來趕作業之外 還參加了Taiwanese Student Association 的 Welcome party

每天都是這樣的好忙碌呀

英文說進步嘛 其實是不滿足的

單字的累積還是少的可憐 課業嘛 老師都很棒 

但是內容因為是剛開始吧 又都是我學過的東西

倒不至於太興奮 將來可以選課 或者上有關Drucker的東西

應該會比較讓人期待吧

老師和同學的水平都很高

不是說腦筋好就是水平高

怎麼說呢 聰明和好相處和有很多工作經驗和懂得人和很多其他東西都是很重要的

這裡的氣氛很好 非常肯定自己選對了學校

同樣是花一大筆錢 花兩年時間 

環境的重要性自然是不在話下 能進到這裡 是緣份也是好運吧

昨天 去打Golf 

感覺很好 一陣子沒打了

前兩洞的表現不是用"爛"就可以形容的

但之後愈來愈穩

打到七八九三洞 整個感覺都很穩很好

有種"我真的會打耶" 的那種感覺

真好呀 一直以來都那麼弱 終於有點進步了

或許這兩年內 我的golf skill真能有點突破呢!

暑假去了那麼多地方

也真的見識到了

美國真的好大呀

中國也是吧 我想 

還有好多地方沒見識過 沒體驗過

這輩子怎麼夠用呢 呵

好久沒和台灣的朋友們聯絡了

繁忙的事務加上時差 

已經和乃倫說了 希望大家可以找個時間

要是可以用skype和大家聊聊天 該有多好

來這裡已經超過三個多月

好多事情都有了變化

其實 只覺得自己再探索

在orientation裡面聽到Dean of Drucker School說了一句話

讓我對這學校和我自己充滿了信心

他說"我問了很多很多校友,Drucker School帶給他們什麼,每個人的回答幾乎都是一致的:

          Drucker School就像指南針一樣, 讓我們找到人生的新的方向"

儘管日子過得很繁忙

倒不是真的很辛苦的

玩得很兇 書也唸得很兇

思考的時間也不至於沒有

總是想"這樣做對嗎?" 或者 "該不該怎樣呢?" 之類的問題

對於金錢 對於 事業 對於 感情 對於 朋友

我這才發現 我還有個赤子之心呀 儘管25歲了

沒有一件事情是有定論的

日本同學老是告訴我

Future will change

是呀 就是這樣囉

考慮那麼多不如體驗多一點吧

這兩年的目標

體驗 感受 找到人生的compass

繼續加油吧!

Wonderful Summer Vacation - 2

My second trip in summer vacation is to San Francisco & Yosemite. This trip is totally different from Vegas one because the beauty of SF and Yosemite is so natural and healthy! 

We didn't get on the cable car. The reason is the cars are too crowded to get on and they didn't even stop for new passengers. However, these cable cars are really cute, so I must get on one of them next time!

Fisherman's Wharf is a famous place to go. Although, for me, it's not so special but there are many interesting performers on the street and the atmosphere is pretty good.

To park my car besides the steep street in SF is really a challenge. Of course, it's fun, too. I like this strange city with many many up & down hills.

The Golden Gate Bridge is very unclear when we visited since the weather was not good. Although we have heard that to see such a unclear Golden Gate in fog is not usual and we should feel lucky, we still hope we can see clearly. Maybe next time, ha!

Yosemite is a wonderful place to go camping. We stayed in tent and it really recalled my memory of boy-scout!  The air, rocks, lake and rivers in Yosemite are all very beautiful and quiet. 

This rainbow showed after we finally arrived the waterfall by tracking 2 hours. I found I need to train my body since I am getting old...

There are ten of our traveling partners. This trip became so terrific because of them. Especially the night before leaving, I really enjoyed drinking with them!  

This one is taken in Glacier Point. The background is very spectacular. We can see the track of the ancient glacier. It's an amazing place.

The trip to SF and Yosemite is so colorful that I really want to go these two places again. Also, I appreciate all the partners who travel together and help each other during these days. Thank you!

The Adventure to Universal Studio

During four days assignment-free holidays, on 7/12, two Y's couples, Tian, Michi, Xiao & Sun and I went to the Universal Studio! 

This is a good place to go, of course.  Although it's a little bit childish, the atmosphere is interesting.  We went to the House of Horror first.  It is so fun to see Y push A to keep moving forward.  He is a really role model of husband.  Ha!

The show "Water World" is great and very entertaining.  We went to see the 4-D animation of "Shrek", which is kind of childish.  However, I felt I become a boy again and I enjoyed the feeling.  The "Mummy" and "Jurassic " are really fantastic and also terrifying!  I look so scary in the photo!  These games also made me feel exciting, too.

Anyway, we saw a lot of movie scenes in Universal Studio and played plenty  games, too.  It is so lucky that the weather was not too hot that day.  I had planned to go further during these four days, but we did not go anywhere further than 50 miles eventually.  However, I still got rest in these vacation and had a lot of fun.  

I am refreshed now.  Come and challenge me, IF Module 2!

Enjoyeable round of golf

This is the first time I played golf with just friends.
Dan, our instructor in IF program, played with us. It is a very enjoyeable game !
Everyone plays in a relaxing mood, so no people are pushy or in a hurry.
We just enjoyed thr game itself. This is the most important thing!

I am so glad that we can do this together. Maybe I will love golf more and more in the future!