Travel by Train

If I could get a train ticket, I would like to travel by train instead of by air. In China, more likely trains can arrive on time. There is a larger space for you to walk around in a train carriage than that of in a plane cabin. I am happy to enjoy flowing into beautiful scenery along with steel rails, whereas you may find it boring with unchanged sunshine and clouds. There are a lot of interesting people, with whom I can share various experiences, and it makes the journey even shorter than flying in the air.

Homework: 5-Sentence Paragraph as How You Will Open a Meeting

Good afternoon, everybody! In today’s meeting, we will discuss the policy of our internal CVS system. The list of topics has been sent out this morning and hope that everybody can contribute to this meeting. I would like to thank colleagues from our IT department for their coming since they will help us in system installation and administration. We hope that we can work out a document on the policy in this 1-hour meeting.

Perks and Drags of Our Current Job

We are having an English training program recently. The first home work is to write 5 sentences on the perks and drags of our current job, dream job and future career path. Here is mine.

As a TechLead of the runtime components of the Galileo Project, I always have to catch up with various new technologies in the industry matured in an even shorter period of time. It makes me sometimes frustrated while we are hammering our product in office, there is a new technology mushroomed out in the world elsewhere. Further, we have to be more careful and patient to every single step in the lifecycle of software development, from coding to QA. A recent famous accident of the F-22 Raptor Fighter of the US AF provides a worldwide example, whose Global Positioning Inertial Navigation Systems crushed when it flew across the International Date Line in its maiden deployment. These must be the eternal challenges a software engineer has to face in the technology career.