work-life balance

I'm listening to a talk about work-life balance aimed for women engineers here in GG.

I think this talk might shine some light. I think i'm struggling a bit. But different people have different definition and level of happiness.

I'm probably 50-25-25 type of person. work-relationship(friends,parents....)-myself.

I would like to make it 40-30-30. but it's hard to say, 30 for myself could mean 20 for self development which could mean work...

They gave away mug (normal things to give away) and lipgloss. I wanna see what the lipgloss look like, too bad i'm in NYC, not Mountain View now. lipgloss? What a company!

๏ สงสารเอยประเทศไทย
จะฝากไว้กับใครดี
จะฝากฟ้าฟ้าก็สี
ฟ้าหม่นหม่น

๏ จะฝากไว้กับแผ่นดิน
ดินก็เดือดไปทุกด้าว
ประเดี๋ยวไหวประเดี๋ยวร้าว
เขย่าย่น

๏ ฝากพ่อครูปู่ผี
ก็ล้วนแต่ผีหัวขาด
ต่างหิ้วหัวเรี่ยราด
อยู่อลวน

๏ จะฝากไว้กับกุมารทอง
มองเห็นแต่ตี๋หลียุ่น
ต่างเป็นตัวเต่าตัวตุ่น
เดินตามก้น

๏ จะฝากปราชญ์ขยาดกลัว
เห็นแต่พวกหัวสี่เหลี่ยม
ไม่รู้จอบรู้เสียม
เสลือกสลน

๏ ประเทศเอยประเทศไทย
ฝากไว้ที่ใดก็ไม่ดี
ฝากได้ที่เดียวคือที่
ประชาชน !

๏ กระทงเอ๋ยกระทงทุน
พอเงินหมุนเจ้าก็ลงกระทงเหมา
มากลายเป็นกระทงที่หลงเงา
ลอยอยู่ในคลองเก่าเน่าน้ำลาย
๏ เอาบ้านเมืองมาเล่นเป็นผักปลา
พิสูจน์ด้วยราคาที่ซื้อขาย
นายทุนลอยกระทงทุนอยู่วุ่นวาย
กระทงทุนท้าทายคนไทยเอยฯ

๏ กระทงเอ๋ยกระทงทาส
สนตะพายผูกขาดอนาถหนอ
ล้วนเขากางตั้งคอกไว้คอยรอ
ใครคอกใหญ่ก็เป็นต่อได้ตั้งเมือง
กระทงทาสร้อยทาสสมมาดหมาย
กระทงสายผูกสายไปต่อเนื่อง
ทั้งธูปเทียนใบตองต้องเปล่าเปลือง
รังแต่เรื่องรกขยะกระทงเอยฯ

๏ กระทงเอ๋ยกระทงไท
อยู่ที่ไหนหนอกระทงจงเป็นหลัก
จงเรืองแรงแห่งเทียนเวียนพิทักษ์
ช่วยกันผลักกระทงทาสกระทงทุน
จงใจไททุกไทยไสวสว่าง
เพ็ญนภางค์กระจ่างตาไร้ฝ้าฝุ่น
จงฝ่าคลื่นฝนลมรู้สมดุล
ช่วยเจิมจุนใจไทยเป็นไทเอยฯ.

At the airport, working now..
Fortunately, my flight get delayed..have a couple of mins to propagate problem.
I thot we already fixed the problem at 6pm today..but it's not..why we need to have a problem at the day before Thanksgiving..

Big Sigh.

been there, done that....

I just came back from Kauai, Hawaii.

Surprisingly, I'm not impressed with this scenic island. May be my expectation was too high.

I have seen nicer beaches. I have been to more luxury hotels than the Grand Hyatt hotel. I have seen more beautiful fish, nicer corals, nicer cliff, more elegant water fall, more memorable sunrise. I have ridden more adventurous speed boat. I have seen more specular shows... so on and so forth... I think it's probably bad, that i'm not easily get excited anymore.

However, at the end, I'm so glad that I enjoy sitting on the beach, reading one nice book, listening to the wave hit the beach. I also enjoy swiming in the pool and play water slide.. simply the best....

As I have been to many places, have done many things, simple nice things are what I enjoy now.. (hmm..I'm talking like an old girl :P)

Final note.. No other places are as beautiful as home..Beaches in Thailand are the best!!! trust me..

San Francisco to Triburon bike route...

16 miles of biking, start from Ghirardelli square, across golden gate bridge, head to Sausalito, then end at Triburon. I can't believe I could finish this route in 3 hrs.
Too bad, I didn't get a chance to enjoy the view that much, I was in a hurry to catch the ferry back to SF bay at 4:10.

http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/11493725/bay_area_ca/san_francisco_to_tiburon_bike_route.html


background is the golden gate bridge pillar.

I do my thing and you do your thing. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not here to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I..

If by chance, we find each other. It's Beautiful. I think it's beautiful. Let's make it last forever.

You don't have to wear yellow or pink to show your respect.

I know that wearing tshirt is tangible. But there are million of intangible ways to show your respect to the king.

I think it's realy rediculous that some people cut in the line, fight with security guard or even amongst thai people who are in the line to get pink tshirts. What's the point?

Aren't we too materialistic?

*sigh*

I'm so sad..
I set my selling price to $745 in October. When the google share was approaching $745, I adjusted my selling price to be $10 higher. As a result of that my sell order didn't get matched this Wednesday. 2 days later,it drops to $670. I just lost $75 per share in 2 days.

Lesson learn: do not be greedy...

See you at the gas pumps

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202803523

I just got my formal annual performance review yesterday. I really like the performance review process here. I'm not sure that the process is confidential or not. But basically, they value peer reviews, not just manager's, which I think it's very different from other companies that I had worked with. We also do it on the quartery basis. The reason is that, we want to recognize any achievements as soon as possible.

I'm very happy with it. It proves that non-sense girl can be successful at work. It proves that you don't have to bullshit to be successful. It also proves that stealing bottle water from microkitchen everynight doesn't effect my performance.

I really like this comment from my manager. A quick glance, it looks like a very good comment, but if you think about it deeply, it seems pointless, and seems like i'm good at everything, but master of none. :P

"It's clear to see from Lisa's feedback that her strengths are many and diverse. I think Lisa's strengths probably even more diverse than the ones already discussed but haven't yet had a chance to show themselves because of the nature of the work we do in XXX"

Bomb learning how to ride..

Dong was teaching bomb how to ride a bicycle on Saturday at a park near Google main campus.





Thanks GG for your facility..

Aug 2007: Santa Monica trip
Nov 2007: Hawaii trip
Jan 2008: Santa Cruz Trip
Feb 2008: Disneyland trip
more to come ..i guess

How can I not love you, GG?....I won't complain when i work till midnight next time..

Hi 5 pic

Do you notice that there is one popular pattern of pictures in Hi5? Don't know why this posture is so popular among girl teenagers in Hi5.
1) self-taken picture
2) only see part of the face
3) a little bit blury
4) taken while sitting in the car or sitting in the nice place

So I decided to take one..look weird though.

Hordeolum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye

can't wear contact lens till it 's gone..
I really look like my age now.. :P