finally, done packing! why is it that i always put things like this off until the last minute ??
and to the critics of my return to SG...my response to them..

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." -Henry Miller

hopefully, another way will open up~^^

tired of those telelmarketers?

i feel sorry for the dude!!

Ad wars!

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And Bentley's response?

I love my job!
to put it more specifically, i really like my colleagues and senior co-workers...
it's only my 5th day and already they went out of their way to show us the ABCs of phone development, introduce us to people...pretty much made us feel very welcome. on top of all this one of our mentors(or seniors) got me a phone to use during my trip to SG next week! er.. a SG field test/trip that is...haha!
thanks LG MC lab 4 HW!!

oh yeah...we won 1st place for our efforts in 'customer insight'!! got $50USD worth of gift-certificates..a nice puctuation point for the 6 weeks of orientaton that we went through =)

2nd day of work!

finally! started work at mobile comm lab 4... the atmosphere isn't as intimidating as we once thought. everybody's very nice and eager to make us feel comfortable. I was going to take pictures of the place but they have very strict security regulations so i wasn't able to take my cam inside the building. anyways here are a couple of pics of the building's exterior

oh yeah, i gotta chang my phone to a LG one. I can't register my samsung phone through security.....booooo...(even after 6 weeks of LG corp. brainwash, I still think samsung phones are better than LG's haha!)

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YES!! I can use a one-day leave to extend my thanksgiving holidays til the 30th. also was able to book a last minute air ticket to SG!!

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the cloud patterns of the night sky were really beautiful coming home from work yesterday. so i took a pic of the road in front of my house

it's my last day of orientation at the learning center. I know i bitched about this place a whole lot but lately, i begun to realize that this is my last buffer from the dog-eat-dog real world. i regret that i didn't take enough pics and didn't blog as much....but i made some really good memories w/ friends here so i don't think i'll be forgetting this place soon.

our team was planning to take it easy today...catch a morning flick, eat a slow lunch, maybe chill out at starbucks.... we did watch 'bourne ultimatum' and had a nice pizza lunch, but spent the rest of the day interviewing kids, taking pictures, and agonizing over how to do the presentation. personally..i think we should finish first place. we have the most inventive surveys, our powerpoint slides are well organized and we went well beyond of our call of duty and conducted/filmed interviews with kids to see what they wanted in a cell phone....

well, tomorrow is the final presentation so i'll let all of you folks posted on how we did..keep your fingers crossed!! =)

a breath of fresh air during orientation

Just started a new training module dubbed the "Customer Insight" where we go out into the real world for 2 days to survey and find out what real people(for us: high-school & middle school kids) want from their handphones.........or that's what our instructor told us what we should be doing. however, being the freedom thirsty trainees that we are, we decided to finish all our work by today so we can relax and have fun tomorrow!

destination: anyang (my neighbourhood~!)

instead of asking hundreds of students to complete a list of questions on a boring survey sheet, we used our heads and made a placard/poster where we list multiple answer questions on different areas of the poster and people could just put a little sticker on their answer. it was a hit!!

me & a colleague @ mickey D's making our "what handset brand do you use?"poster

finished!

last minute checkup before showtime!

steak out in front of pyungchon high school before the kids get off

and here they come!

go crazy kids! oh, and don't forget to get your complementary highlighter pen!!

now, all we have left to do is make the powerpoint file for our presentation on friday and we are free to party for the whole day!!

I got my camera back! warranty for my cam covered all the expenses for the repair. here are some great pics from this week's orientation.

my new teammates for this week

playing mafia into the wee hours of night. that's why..................

we sleep during class

we...as in all of us =)

having a good time at the learning center! the atmosphere here is gradually changing into a campesque one rather than the hardcore training we went through before. with pingpong and pool during the evenings and camp games during the night hours. more and more people are dozing off during class b/c they aren't getting enough sleep during nights..haha! (will post some pics later)

in class....blogging through my laptop. wireless internet, invention of the century haha!
oddly enough not asleep.

The topic of today's class - writing technical reports. makes me wonder about my own writing skills. it's a bit scary to think about the amount of korean writing and agonizing i would have to do when i finally start work. i've tried and tried just about forever to improve... it has gotten better, i mean i can write a decent essay if i'm given sufficient time. well, i shouldn't get worked up for nothing. if it happens it happens..i'll roll with it. if not, good =)

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got really drunk last night. however, had loads of fun.
felt good to unwind like that in such a long time here.

hahahahahahaha!!!

sooooo..tired
need to sleep at nights but somehow i keep listening to music, watching movies..... arrrrrgh
sleep man sleep!!

why asian men can't get white girls (damn funny!! just take it with a pinch of salt or else it won't be..) btw, can somebody give me an translation on the chinese characters on the guy's t-shirt? white guy something don't something......hmm

If you watch this 100 times you will still laugh



poor dude

it's always the people you care about the most that you can't get close to.......what an irony...