Sandra,
Apologies for writing such a short email but I am leaving on my trip tonight to Vietnam and Taiwan and things are very busy at work. I will respond to your email below at a later time or we can talk in person. :)
Which brings me to one important point – Grace @ MSFT emailed me regarding 11/29 and visiting MSFT Taiwan. She says we will be having dinner together with many students. Let me know if you would like to meet before the event. Also, please make sure that you copy my personal email (will not have access to my work email while I am gone) : XXXXXXXXXXx@hotmail.com or XXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com
I will try to make some contact with you once I arrive in Taiwan. I have your phone number and MSN IM but just in case, here is my flight information so you know my schedule. I will be going to southern Taiwan (Kaoshiung) for the first two days(11/26-11/28) and arrive back in Taipei Friday 11/28. I will be staying at Hotel 73 for the nights of 12/28, 12/29 and 12/30. Please feel free to share my information with Grace @ MSFT if she needs it.
Here is hotel website for contact information:
Here is my airline schedule:
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
2008年11月21日 星期五
2008年11月20日 星期四
From Taipei: a fish story.
Hi Catherine
Sorry for the late reply. :P I just finish my terrible midterm. Now I’m waiting for the grade and hope that I can pass all of them. I was thinking about to reply you short e-mail, but I’ll worry about that will make you feel that I didn’t take this e-mail serious. So I still prefer to write you a long e-mail and can exactly express what I want to say.
My health problem is good. I know health is most important things for everyone, but sometime I don’t take that so serious. Maybe the reason is I think I still young, really childish right? But I bought a lot of insurance for myself.
Saigon sounds really great. I was thinking about to work at Vietnam. These several years Vietnam and Taiwan have a lot of industrial cooperation. That makes me think of the 1990’s China. Although Vietnam is a potential country, Vietnam still got cancel in my list, it’s too close to Taiwan, and what I want is something totally new. Anyway, share with me after your great travel.
Grace mom told me she has to change the time to let people meeting with you. Because the IT-month is coming, it’s from Nov.29th till Dec.7th. Everyone will be there. But we still can meet; you can call me when you have time.
Actually, many things happen in this month. And the biggest thing is I move to a new apartment. Moving to a new apartment make me happier, is a better environment. My new apartment is my aunt’s old houses, now she moves to another bigger place. This means, I don’t need to pay the rent! House is really big and has four floors and only me in there. My aunt left her one Labrador and three big turtle, and I have to take care of them. And I raise a cat. Can you image how noisy in my house? Ha ha ha ha.
After the house moving and midterm, I got the terrible influenza. After few days fever and day off, now is better. That make me easily achieve my goal, I lose 3kg. happy happy~.
I got the point of what you former CEO said. “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. In other words, if I always say yes and accept the thing I don’t like to do, people won’t know what you really feel and will misunderstand you. That occurs me another real story from my family. This story is in my mom’s childhood. Every time when there was fish in the dinner, my grandma always ate the head of the fish and yields the fish body to my mom, aunt and uncle. At that time, my mom thought that my grandma really loved to eat fish head. But that was a big mistake. However, my grandma always eats fish head for many years and makes her used to that. When my mother found out that my grandma wasn’t like to eat the fish head is too late. Now my grandma is really enjoy in eating fish head. I think this is a sad story. But I believe in my grandma point of view is opposite. Probably, when the reason is strong enough, than you can accept the thing you don’t like. And finally you’ll be enjoying that?? Haha…it’s weird to put this story here.
Recently I have a big fight with my ex-boy friend. It’s another complicated story…and also stupid. Anyway, it’s all because my hysteria and too emotional. And I’ll reflect myself these days.
See you soon.
Sandra
Sorry for the late reply. :P I just finish my terrible midterm. Now I’m waiting for the grade and hope that I can pass all of them. I was thinking about to reply you short e-mail, but I’ll worry about that will make you feel that I didn’t take this e-mail serious. So I still prefer to write you a long e-mail and can exactly express what I want to say.
My health problem is good. I know health is most important things for everyone, but sometime I don’t take that so serious. Maybe the reason is I think I still young, really childish right? But I bought a lot of insurance for myself.
Saigon sounds really great. I was thinking about to work at Vietnam. These several years Vietnam and Taiwan have a lot of industrial cooperation. That makes me think of the 1990’s China. Although Vietnam is a potential country, Vietnam still got cancel in my list, it’s too close to Taiwan, and what I want is something totally new. Anyway, share with me after your great travel.
Grace mom told me she has to change the time to let people meeting with you. Because the IT-month is coming, it’s from Nov.29th till Dec.7th. Everyone will be there. But we still can meet; you can call me when you have time.
Actually, many things happen in this month. And the biggest thing is I move to a new apartment. Moving to a new apartment make me happier, is a better environment. My new apartment is my aunt’s old houses, now she moves to another bigger place. This means, I don’t need to pay the rent! House is really big and has four floors and only me in there. My aunt left her one Labrador and three big turtle, and I have to take care of them. And I raise a cat. Can you image how noisy in my house? Ha ha ha ha.
After the house moving and midterm, I got the terrible influenza. After few days fever and day off, now is better. That make me easily achieve my goal, I lose 3kg. happy happy~.
I got the point of what you former CEO said. “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. In other words, if I always say yes and accept the thing I don’t like to do, people won’t know what you really feel and will misunderstand you. That occurs me another real story from my family. This story is in my mom’s childhood. Every time when there was fish in the dinner, my grandma always ate the head of the fish and yields the fish body to my mom, aunt and uncle. At that time, my mom thought that my grandma really loved to eat fish head. But that was a big mistake. However, my grandma always eats fish head for many years and makes her used to that. When my mother found out that my grandma wasn’t like to eat the fish head is too late. Now my grandma is really enjoy in eating fish head. I think this is a sad story. But I believe in my grandma point of view is opposite. Probably, when the reason is strong enough, than you can accept the thing you don’t like. And finally you’ll be enjoying that?? Haha…it’s weird to put this story here.
Recently I have a big fight with my ex-boy friend. It’s another complicated story…and also stupid. Anyway, it’s all because my hysteria and too emotional. And I’ll reflect myself these days.
See you soon.
Sandra
2008年11月19日 星期三
From Seattle: see you soon.
Sandra,
I am so sorry I didn’t write sooner! Things have been very busy lately – I moved to a different condo building, we have been really busy with the Halloween decorating in xBox buildings and I have been having interviews. So, please forgive me this time… I will try not to let that happen again – will always write back to you even if it’s a short email.
Wow, so your eyes are OK now? How did your midterm go? Don’t forget to get some sleep – it’s the most important thing. We don’t always realize it but our health is the most precious thing. If we are not healthy, we cannot achieve anything. So, make sure you are able to balance your work, school and personal life. Hang in there… think of this year as a learning experience after which you can do bigger and better things!
Yes, I know about Zhong Shang hall – I went there a while ago. I can’t remember all the places I went to in Taiwan when I was little but I know that I have been in and around Taipei. Last time I went there, I went to 101, Miramar and then went to the Shilin night market. It was a lot of fun. Also, I have some good news. I will be coming to Taiwan 11/26-12/1. I am traveling first to Saigon 11/22 and then will go to Taipei. I already had a conversation with Grace (your MSFT internship PM) and will plan to spend 11/29 with you and other students at MSFT.
So, you mentioned last time that you are getting upset with no reason. I need to check in with you now… is everything better now? Did you lose weight? (I saw your picture and don’t think you have a weight problem… ). Did you act as a different person? Are you able to reject people asking you to do many things? I have the similar problem as you sometimes – it’s hard to say no because it feels like you are letting the other person down. Or you don’t want to hurt their feelings by saying no. But one thing I would suggest is that it is better to say no and let people reset their expectations rather than to say yes and then not be able to hold up to your promise or to end up killing yourself in work in order to keep your promise. We had a talk from one of the former CEO of our manufacturers, and the one thing he said that I always remember is “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. His meaning was that people want to know the truth as soon as possible, rather than be told everything is OK and then all of a sudden find out that things are not OK at all. I think this is very similar to saying no to people… so have courage! Say no, or give yourself more time to get something done. Or negotiate what needs to do get done or get others to help, if possible! And don’t put too much pressure on yourself. You are not complicated and I feel you are very strong. I think it is hard especially for women because we have so many different pressures. On one hand, people in the business world expect us to be strong and tough, but at the same time people still want us to be like a lady – soft spoken and sweet. And then, on our family side, we get pressure to find the right boyfriend/husband and to be the good sister/daughter/granddaughter and take care of the housing things. It is quite normal so don’t feel frustrated and worry about being professional or not – be yourself and don’t let others or work define you completely. Remember what makes you happy and keep in mind that having side talents and other interests may not be useful now but it most likely will in the future~ Anyways, I better get back to work! Take care!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
I am so sorry I didn’t write sooner! Things have been very busy lately – I moved to a different condo building, we have been really busy with the Halloween decorating in xBox buildings and I have been having interviews. So, please forgive me this time… I will try not to let that happen again – will always write back to you even if it’s a short email.
Wow, so your eyes are OK now? How did your midterm go? Don’t forget to get some sleep – it’s the most important thing. We don’t always realize it but our health is the most precious thing. If we are not healthy, we cannot achieve anything. So, make sure you are able to balance your work, school and personal life. Hang in there… think of this year as a learning experience after which you can do bigger and better things!
Yes, I know about Zhong Shang hall – I went there a while ago. I can’t remember all the places I went to in Taiwan when I was little but I know that I have been in and around Taipei. Last time I went there, I went to 101, Miramar and then went to the Shilin night market. It was a lot of fun. Also, I have some good news. I will be coming to Taiwan 11/26-12/1. I am traveling first to Saigon 11/22 and then will go to Taipei. I already had a conversation with Grace (your MSFT internship PM) and will plan to spend 11/29 with you and other students at MSFT.
So, you mentioned last time that you are getting upset with no reason. I need to check in with you now… is everything better now? Did you lose weight? (I saw your picture and don’t think you have a weight problem… ). Did you act as a different person? Are you able to reject people asking you to do many things? I have the similar problem as you sometimes – it’s hard to say no because it feels like you are letting the other person down. Or you don’t want to hurt their feelings by saying no. But one thing I would suggest is that it is better to say no and let people reset their expectations rather than to say yes and then not be able to hold up to your promise or to end up killing yourself in work in order to keep your promise. We had a talk from one of the former CEO of our manufacturers, and the one thing he said that I always remember is “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. His meaning was that people want to know the truth as soon as possible, rather than be told everything is OK and then all of a sudden find out that things are not OK at all. I think this is very similar to saying no to people… so have courage! Say no, or give yourself more time to get something done. Or negotiate what needs to do get done or get others to help, if possible! And don’t put too much pressure on yourself. You are not complicated and I feel you are very strong. I think it is hard especially for women because we have so many different pressures. On one hand, people in the business world expect us to be strong and tough, but at the same time people still want us to be like a lady – soft spoken and sweet. And then, on our family side, we get pressure to find the right boyfriend/husband and to be the good sister/daughter/granddaughter and take care of the housing things. It is quite normal so don’t feel frustrated and worry about being professional or not – be yourself and don’t let others or work define you completely. Remember what makes you happy and keep in mind that having side talents and other interests may not be useful now but it most likely will in the future~ Anyways, I better get back to work! Take care!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
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