3 great news today… We gave a successful executive steering review for the initiative I’m leading. Development team has completed a key software feature and cross-functional teams are preparing for the January rollout. We celebrated initiative’s 15 months anniversary and progress: we have built 2 new systems and enhanced 2, doubled the job processed (automation), …
Category Archives: Joy
燒餅油條 Biscuits Fritters
燒餅油條 (pronunciation: shao bing you tiao) biscuits fritters is very popular in traditional Taiwanese breakfast. It’s a crispy sandwich; 燒餅(shao bing) is a baked layered paddy and cut in half to put 油條(you tiao) a fried hallow sticks (usually come in pair, side by side). When you bite it, the you tiao melts in your …
Nice Work
Aunt texted me that the lights I put on her Christmas trees didn’t work and she doesn’t know what’s going on. I rode bike there to check as exercise. While I was slowly riding uphill, one paddle at a time…a lady running passed and said ‘Nice work’ to me, I was caught in surprise for …
Thanksliving
No shopping this Black Friday, instead, I ordered two things online. In the past, aunt’s banquet easily had 20+ people and 15+ dishes, today just 4 of us with 3 home-made dishes: rice cake stew, shrimp, string bean; plus roasted veggie pizza I brought from a local shop, simple and delicious. We ate on the …
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! Last year I went home and spent the week with family. This year, due to Covid, I along with many stay wherever we are. I saw a friend’s text comparing last year she had a Thanksgiving dinner with friends in NYC then flew to Asia for class reunion trip, this year, she’ll have …
Gen Z
I contacted Skillers, a Toastmasters club in Lublin, Poland twice on its website expressing interest to join its meeting and requesting the virtual meeting link. I didn’t hear back. I messaged them on Facebook page, there was still no response, I posted on its board (less than 30 min before the meeting), last try…right at …
Staycation => Voluncation
Due to Covid, this holiday season will be staycation, no travel for me. I would enjoy reading, writing, and attending virtual activities yet I want to do something more and different. I read about Catch a Fire, a platform for skill-based volunteering, a while ago and decided to sign-up. I applied for two projects with …
“Spicy” Win
This week I’m working with teams to define and align 2021 priorities and estimate development efforts. For some, they are cautious about the expectation (how to estimate TBD?); for others, they’re eager (& perhaps inpatient) to see the projection. It’s also time to request and determine next year’s budget and resource allocation. It’s no surprise …
Give a Gift that Lasts a Life Time
I met Heather Beem, founder of Practical Education Network (PEN) at an MIT social innovation event several years ago. I like her/ PEN’s mission to improve learning outcomes by building teacher capacity with locally available materials. We became friends. I reached out to her recently asking if anything I can assist with my voluncation (volunteer …
Creative Volunteerism
After a heated election, Feel inspired, America brought me a big smile. One example… In 2016 Scott Duncombe, a software developer in Portland, Ore., saw on the news that Cleveland residents had to wait hours in long lines to vote. His heart went out to them. In Oregon, there are never any lines because everybody …