A whole new month

Just realized how long it is since I last blogged -- a month! This month has been quite a month, with my sister moving into my apt (so now it becomes our apt), transitioning to a new job - both for me and my sister, moving into the temporary apt my sister gets from her company, and unfortunately moving out two weeks after.., going into retreat with my church, interviewing with Google, interviewing with QRM, ... hmm... a lot enough right.
But for the same month, I feel more blessings than ever before. This grace that God pours out to me and the peace and love from Him, all day long every minute every day, sustains me really well. I can tell I change quite a lot these couple weeks :).
Well, maybe not physically, but internally.. spiritually. After all, that's what matters. I shall look forward with rejoice in the Lord, for He lives in me and I live in Him.
Got a lot to catch up here, so watch on!!

Another Google

Here I am, in the city of Sunnyvale, going to have a day of blast in the city of Mountain View. Hmm, sunny and mountain view, isn't life wonderful? :D not exactly. The place is more barren and quiet than Schaumburg. Doesn't look appealing to me actually hahaha. But that's not the point. I'm still excited anyway, just with the fact that here I am.. in Sillicon Valley!
Ok, I'm not gonna blabber as usual, but hopefully this will be short ;).

The Google campus is in Mountain View. From outside, the buildings look like regular office buildings, nothing fancy, glass windows and so on. The inside of the buildings and in-between the buildings however, are pretty cute. Well, they aren't old buildings, so they kinda have modern architecture. Ok, I'm gonna bombard you with all the unique fancy cool things I found at Google.
Many places have a very long white board (four boards all together) full of sketches of Google business/technology plans, a result from many engineers ideas. Some seem impossible, but some look cool actually! Like the idea of replacing traditional way of business and marketing, with Google AdSense. Hmm!

Oh, Google provides free food. You've heard, "There's no such thing as free food." But there is, in Google! Not only free breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but also snacks. They're not just regular snacks that I saw there. Different kinds of juices, nuts, chips, different kinds of water...
They have massages. Every few number of steps, I find electronic massage chairs; walk a bit more and I reach the massage room - this one by professionals. As an interviewee :) I get a free massage and it is really really good.

What else do you want? Well, people work hard there, day and night. But people have errands, too. Need to do laundry, need to cook, need to exercise, need to sleep late and wake up late.. :D. The 'need to cook' is solved by free meals. Now, the 'need to do laundry' is solved by on-site laundry rooms. 'Need to sleep late and wake up late' is solved by 'sure, you can do it'. Google provides free shuttle service from the city (SF) to office. People may start and leave work at whatever time they want, and if they wish, use internet and work (in the shuttle) during the one-hour trip to the office.

There are more, but I'll stop here :D. If you want to experience it, go ahead and apply there. It's not so hard to get the onsite interview ;)

By the way, I had the privilege to be accompanied by ce Yoke, one of my sister's best friends, and her aunt Emmy. We spent a few hours on Saturday morning on a Chinese shopping complex. A shot taken with her :)


Also, this shopping complex happens to be on the opposite of Cisco Systems, and Maxtor, and more! geez.. all the computer-related, hi tech companies.. and this is another shot in front of Cisco building :)