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The engineering gap

1st Feb 2010 30 0 News Clips

My experience agrees with the articles that many Indian engineers are not as good as they claim to be. But I don’t think a new standardize test will solve the problem. The test only would work until some PREP school cracked the marking scheme… [...]

Bangalore once again

18th Aug 2009 69 4 Daily Scribble

I just came back from my 3 weeks Bangalore business trip. As usual, I got sick every time I went to Bangalore. I have been coughing, running noses, watery eyes, skin rashes, lack of energy, allergy reaction, all thanks to the heavy polluted environment… [...]

Stupid Cricket Sales

13th Aug 2009 16 0 Daily Scribble

I went to an interesting restaurant to have dinner tonight. The restaurant is owned by cricket player of the Indian Cricket team. Attached to the restaurant, there is a small cricket hall of fame with some collectible in display. Next to the… [...]

Indian bonding

31st Mar 2009 85 3 Daily Scribble

The visiting VP is taking the team out for dinner tonight, thank us for the hard work during the project. Business with your boss, your boss’ boss and your boss’ boss’ boss is usually timid and boring, you can’t talking… [...]

The two extreme of children

23rd Mar 2009 68 1 Daily Scribble

I read two news article about children today. One talks about children in Canada, the other talks about children in India. One talks about the problem of having too much, the other talks about the problem of having next to nothing. The article… [...]

India’s new soft drink

12th Feb 2009 107 6 Daily Scribble

The Japanese had pioneer urine drinking as natural medicine, now the India push the edge eve further, marking a soft drink from cow urine. I can’t believe it is real, but here is what I read form the news, see it yourself at this link. We all… [...]

Slumdog Millionaire 一百萬零一夜

10th Feb 2009 260 7 評影說戲
Slumdog Millionaire

在香港印度電影應該是冷門中的冷門﹐若果不是《一百萬零一夜》橫掃金球獎和英國電影電視獎﹐相信不要說在戲院上映﹐恐怕連翻版DVD也買不到。嚴格來說這套不是Bollywood而是英國電影﹐製作班底是英國公司﹐導演更曾拍攝荷里活大片28… [...]

Be careful what you ask for

3rd Feb 2009 38 4 Daily Scribble

This is the second speech in the Toastmaster humorously speaking manual, leave them with a smile. The objective of this project is to prepare a serious speech that opens and closes with humorous stories and the closing story should reemphasizes… [...]

The greatest Indian + Japanese + Canadian fusion idea.

15th Jan 2009 51 4 Daily Scribble

We were talking about single engineers at work are having a hard timing finding girlfriends. They are distracted from work for looking for a mate, so they are not performing at their peak productivity. Here we come up with a great idea to solve… [...]

Mumbai rampage

26th Nov 2008 94 4 Daily Scribble

The Mumbai gunmen rampage catch the headline of the news today. It also catch the attention of everyone in the office. Our company outsource to India and many in the team had traveled to India, so any news in India has great interest among us. Today… [...]

Is it a cultural problem?

19th Nov 2008 191 7 Daily Scribble

Like many companies outsource to India, my company come to realize outsourcing is not as effective as the business magazine claims. No one can escape from the fundamental law of economics, what you pay is what you get. Yes, going to India seems… [...]

Farewell Bangalore

17th Oct 2008 44 1 Daily Scribble

It is my third time visiting Bangalore. The city still sucks and I don’t have any pleasant experience with it. However, I am getting over all my uneasiness of India and become indifference to the surroundings. I just came to release Bangalore… [...]

Watching Cricket

12th Oct 2008 34 4 Daily Scribble

Cricket to Indians is like hockey to Canadian. The Australian team is playing the Indian team in Bangalore this week. A cricket match last 4-5 days, and 8 hours per day. The game will start in the morning, then players will have a lunch break, and… [...]

Bargaining

12th Oct 2008 29 1 Daily Scribble

As an engineer, a market perfectionist, an inspired to-be-economist, I hate bargaining. Bargaining is a very inefficient way of trade. The sellers use their advantage of having asymmetric information of the transaction price, getting… [...]

Toilet Papar

10th Oct 2008 47 2 Daily Scribble

Before I come to Indian, I heard that Indians don’t use toilet paper, they use their left hand. I thought it was a joke or it is stories from last centuries. Now I am in Indian, I can confirm the story is true. In a typical Indian toilet, you… [...]

Driver’s job

8th Oct 2008 30 1 Daily Scribble

A driver’s job is taking you to your destination and back.  I am surprise some of my colleagues feel sorry for the driver doing their job.  The traffic is insane in Bangalore, so we have drivers to drive us around the town.  The driver… [...]

Dinner plan

7th Oct 2008 29 6 Daily Scribble

I am the unofficial Bangalore food guide.  Whenever I am in town, I will take care of dinner arrangement for everyone staying in the guest house.  It does not take much time, but the return is great.  I only have to spent 5 minutes every day to… [...]

Back to India

4th Oct 2008 32 0 Daily Scribble

I am back in India for two weeks.  I am not very excited, but work is work.  This time I am taking dragon air and make the transfer in Hong Kong.  The new 777 from Air Canada is pretty comfortable, the seat is wider and it has power sockets.  I can… [...]

India round 2

17th Sep 2008 25 3 Daily Scribble

This year I really travel a lot.  I went back to HK last Christmas, then I went to India twice in Spring.  I just come back from my honey in Rome and Mediterranean, now I am preparing to go to India again.  I have been kinda expecting to go back to… [...]

Interviews

29th Jul 2008 32 1 Daily Scribble

I have been doing lots of interviews recently.  My project is half way and it is very behind in the schedule.  How do we get into this mess in the first place?  As usual it is bad management decision.  Somehow we underestimate the complexity… [...]

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