Shenzhou VII

The Shenzhou VII launched on Sept 25th at 21:30 China Standard Time.
Here is a review video on Youtube:



Here is a video of Mr Zhai out of the space craft, taking the space walk...




I feel very proud of my country and being a Chinese. =)

Oracle Open World 2008

another great conference in SF...
my friends and ex-coworkers did a great job and demonstrated their work in the annual party for Oracle employees and its partners.
over 30 years, the corporation has come a long way...
till today, the enterprise applications continue to evolve and get influenced by the consumer markets.
communications have always been one of the most voiced problems and issues in a large organization, especially distributed organizations.

enterprise blogging can definitely help employees in a large enterprise to empower the employees to communicate with each other and spark, especially in technology industries where ideas are key. (people are the biggest asset of a technology company and the ideas from people matter. )

check out the blogs.oracle.com for the blog facing the public by their over 80,000 employees across the world.

here is an example of the social graph that takes place in an event of such a large organization. it's really complicated, I have to say.
http://blogs.oracle.com/videoblog/2008/09/oracle_openworld_2008_untitled_631.html

if you are from a large organization and deals with massive amount of communications and collaboration, you might want to try out enterprise blogging... it can definitely help you.

Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai

Lately I visited Xiaoneil.com more than Facebook, primarily because it is so slow to load here in China... once in a while, it could be magically fast to browse through the facebook site. I love the new UI and I found it very easy and makes a lot of sense.

I heard many people still prefers the older version... well... maybe because I like to change and prefers new stuff... nevertheless, the new facebook UI is just so nice and simple... yes... come to think of the new UI, xiaonei also imitated the new facebooke experience and lauched the new xiaonei.com, claiming that the new change is because of "YOU" - the xiaonei users...

I wonder what it really means... the change... even facebook did not claim that... did it?

well... there is an exhibition tour starting this week on the Wenzhou University Campus. we will participate in the exhibition and we've prepared lots of goodies to give out to engage the students..

good luck!

why the title is shanghai? well... one of our staff is named shanghai. i was in shanghai on tuesday.
a friend of mine started her short stay in shanghai and another friend is not based in shanghai due to his work. lots of people are moving around...=) after all, in this big world, we just know so many people... and our world is just that big... it's undefined but just that big..=p

Teaching English here

Finally the first session of English learning kicked off last night. There were about 10 students showed up for the session. I was really glad that they came and talked to me about their interests in learning English. 8 out of 10 are girls and the other two guys are people that I've met before.
All of them are young, born in 87-90.

Some of them seemed very confident in speaking English, which was great!
we had three parts in the first session.
1. Self-introduction
2. Pronunciation
3. Greetings

It was a good start and we will have another session this coming Monday. I might go to Shanghai again to talk to our partners on our project. Hopefully i will not have to change the textbook session to another slot.

most of them want to learn speaking and reading. three of them expressed their interests in writing. i'll help them as much as I can while I am here in Wenzhou. I am not paid for all these hope they can truly take advantage of this opportunities. For me, I just want to make a few more friends and get to know they the students here are doing in their university years.

Good luck to their learning and my sharing.