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I found that recently I had more chances to do sports activities. Can play table tennis after work with some of my colleagues, Alan and Billy Wang are my tough rival. However, I also practice playing during the weekends with my dad in XinZhuang.

Cost of Table Tennis in Software Park: 15 RMB / hr
Cost of Table Tennis in Xinzhuang: 10 RMB / hr

In Software park anthor sports you should defintely try is billiards, they had 2 tables. The big one is standard snookers and the small one is US 8 Ball. I kinda like the 8 ball. In a small table and 8 ball there always something you never know gonna happen sometimes. Viking is my tough rival I have to say.

Cost of Billiards in Software Park: 20 RMB / hr

On some weekends, I play tennis with my friend Dahong in TianLin Sports Club.

Cost of Tennis in TianLin Sports Club: 35 RMB /hr

Recently I was encouraging my friend Keen on buying a Pocket PC, telling him that the Pocket PC made everything a snap for me. Finally he got his Dell X50, which turned out to be a pretty bargain. Clear & brighter LCDs, much faster CPU, replacable batteries were much a advantage over mine.

However, I felt pretty much confortable by using my own Audiovox Maestro. I can even describe my life now as a fascinating pocket life. Recently I was watching the recorded courses by University of Florida business collegue downloaded from some ftp (Keen helped me to download some part). Thus I can get more knowledge on Business, Marketing and Management which I’m pretty interested in. Currently I’m watching the marketing3023 by prof. Luz, which is pretty informative and interesting.

This helps me to make full use of the time spend on the trips on the train to office in the morning and back to home at night. Sometimes, I do play some games on my PPC. I love the Virtual Pool Mobile. It gives you the real feeling of playing billiards, and I felt it really helps on my skills of playing real billiards.

Another most common feature is Reading. RepliGo is the application I use. It almost satisfy all my needs. And I recently found that RepliGo has a PDF batch converter which has better result of page optimization for some Chinese PDF books.

Today I met Randy, Thom who were just back from the US and Mike who had been staying here for all these months. The dinner in the Sichuan Flavour restaurant was fabulous. For me to know more about current Red8 business achievements was pretty exciting, and I agree with Mike who also fully embraces the oursourcing trends on technology and creatives to China. Yet, there is still much to improve or learn to adapt in the meanwhile.

Pleasant that we could freely exchange our ideas, I felt that I’d learned so much from you guys. I now have much more confidence in my work in my current project in BearingPoint.

As recently the knowledge sharing demand in our project was pretty much strong, we felt much like utilizing the Wiki technology to establish our internal knowledge base for project use.

Twiki was the first implementation that I thought to be the right one for our project. ‘Coz it was also a great success in many other corporations such as SAP, etc. And I was designed for corporate knowledge sharing. I was based on perl scripts. Frankly, I really don’t think it is pretty much straight-forward if you try to install it on a windows box. You had to set up all the tricky stuff such as cygwin and many modules to establish the right environment for Twiki. It cost me so much time doing so. Well, the advantage is obvious nice page style out-of-the-box and powerful privilliges control on pages and settings. If you interested, you may like to check out the one that I’d setup on my server here.

Well, we eventaully using another implementation called JSPWiki. It was highly recommended by Keen, since its simplicity and Java based (which means pretty easy to extends if we want to). Only thing you need is Java SDK and Servlet Container, we used the Apache Tomcat 5.5 in office and I used 5.0.28 to setup my own one here. Noticeably, you can see that I used Apache tomcat JK2 to integrate it with my IIS web server which was hosting on the 80 port. The disadvantage for JSPWiki is that the page style comes from the installation package is too ugly. Owing to Viking’s work, it looked pretty nice now. (BTW, Viking is our new intern web designer, who was a pretty nice guy).

Larry, a guy who knew that I’m a employee from BearingPoint China through my blolg finally visit BearingPoint GDC (Shanghai) with other students from University of Tempa on May 16th.

They attended a presentation session hosted in GDC by my operation manager Mr. Yep, Billy. We discussed a lot of interesting questions of BearingPoint’s current business practices of software outsourcing.

It was also much a pleasure of mine to have met so many friends and talked with them.

BTW, I also met Marc from the U.S. who’s now working in BearingPoint GDC as his internship experience who seems to be a pretty nice guy. Good luck for his success in our company and for his studies when he gets back to the US.