Random thoughts in a busy life

Sunday, October 24, 2004

What do you want to achieve in life?

Recently I read something when I have some free time. Mostly blogs and some websites. One of the advice is very important.

Periodically clear your thoughts and think about what you want to do in your life.

What a good suggestion. I think I need to think about this carefully now.

I graduated from Nanjing University 12 years ago. In these 12 years, I studied in Shanghai and aborad. I worked in ECI, SGI, IBM. And I worked as consultant and as employee at Oracle. I worked both in China and USA and Europe.

Now I am facing a difficult choice. What should I do next?
Stay at Oracle does not look promising. With current situation I think it is better for me to move on.

I probably should find a good positon to stay for another 2 ~ 3 years, during this period of time, I should seriously think about what my next career would be. Or in other words, what I should do in the next 10 years...

Life is short. I should cherish it.

Monday, October 18, 2004

career development etc.

Today one of my coworker stopped by, asking me "When do you want to be Hai Gui"? It is funnly as he is Indian.

Ya, after staying at Oracle for almost 5 years, it is time to seriously consider career movement.

Should I go back to China? Should I stay in the USA? It is such a hard question for me to answer.

I started my job searching last week. I focused on three areas:
* Bay area
* Chicago area
* Seattle area

Hopefully I will have some good news to post soon.

Monday, October 11, 2004

what is life

Just heard the news that the actor in Superman is dead. He died of heart failure. He paralized 9 years ago after a car accident.

I can clearly remember the movie superman. I watched many and many years back when I was in China.

What is life? It is so easy to lose it? In my opinion right now, it is just to experience it with your heart. Life is journey, you have to carry your heart with you along the way.

I read all the blogs by Christina. Such a nice girl and nature.

Saturday, October 09, 2004

Anxiety at work

In the last 4 months, so many colleagues left my team due to many different reasons.

* Two of them were laid off right before the fiscal year ends. One is my good friend and my stock pal. We discussed a lot about stocks.
* My manager and another manager internally transferred to ST.
* Two of my co-workers left in the last month to join other companies.

With the peoplesoft deal looming, we become more and more concerned about our team and our future.

Uncertainty is really painful experience.

Settle down with this blog...

Today I settle down with this blog name, I think it reflects what I am going to do in the weblog.

Around one year ago I first tried blog, here is my first blog.

Test blog in 2003 I plan to use this as business communication tool.