I'm just a boy trying to find my place in life. This is my personal blog where I blog about my personal life. If you are so inclined to get to know me, you can also findstalk me on tumblr or twitter. ;)
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James
A few weeks ago Dr. Ted, the former Chief Scientist at my previous work, Veoh, contacted me and asked whether I would be interested in working for a new company he just joined at their Shanghai office. The company concerned was Infovell. They were one of the 77 companies at this year’s DEMO. I was interested but didn’t really expected the opportunity to go anywhere. However, after a dozen emails and a few conference calls later, I found myself on a flight to Shanghai for 4 days to check out the office and meet the guys I’ll be working with in a near future. I was there since Thursday and came back just last night. Ted was there as well for a couple of weeks. Qianjin, the company founder, was really hospitable; treating us to nice dinner every night and providing great accommodations. It was my first time going to Shanghai and it was a pretty impressive city, certainly catching up quick to Hong Kong.
I accepted the offer mainly for the opportunity to see more of the world while I’m still young and for the work experience I will get working with a group of smart people. I will be leaving my current position at aNobii and joining Infovell sometime near the end of next month. I always say, life is so unpredictable. Sometimes you just need to go with the flow and see where it takes you.
Google is a tech company with many great products defining this generation of the web culture. Despite their company motto of Do No Evil, the amount of information they obtained certainly has raised many people’s concerns and worried others. Personally I’m more or less on the side of admiration towards a company that has accomplished so much with unwavering determination. However, this official blog post of Co-founder, Sergey Brin certainly has me convinced of the founders’ sincere belief of Do No Evil. To stand up and speak up against Proposition 8 and declare the position of the company on such controversial issue with little to gain but a lot to lose, Sergey has earned my utmost respect. Let’s hope that many more Californians can recognize that this all boiled down to an issue of equality and join Google in doing no evil.
Here is a wonderful video I came across with a simple and clear message. Even though this commercial was made in support of legalizing same-sex marriage in Canada, I think the message is universal and fits quite well here.
The long awaited season 3 of Heroes is finally here. With the shortened second season due to the Writers’ Strike, I was excited to see how the story would evolve and where season 3 would take us. However, little did I expect the story to go off on an entirely new direction… I think the new development has lost the original essence of the series, and it appears that they’re more focused on going for the wow factor than actually developing the story based on where it left off on the second season. Don’t get me wrong, it is still a great show and the new development certainly has its potential. I will still be a dedicated follower and patiently awaiting to see where this is all going. But what happened? It seems like the characters have changed their personalities between seasons. What happened to Hiro and Mohinder? It really feels like the original creator of these characters left and someone just picked it up and continued to develop these characters with their own perceptions of them. Perhaps they have hired new writers? Perhaps the returned writers are upset with how the story was going towards the end of season 2 and decided to clean up the mess and start anew? This season definitely has a new flavor to it, and I mean not in a good way. Did I mention how much I hate the new Hiro and Mohinder?
