2009年4月28日星期二

Why it's so hard to work with Chinese clients?!

For the past week, I've been talking with this small tool export company who is interested in our English website design service and communicating with them is like pulling teeth. For example, the other night I spent almost half an hour just trying to set up a phone meeting with their VP of Marketing, because everytime I asked him about the time "so will 9am work for you or 10?" he said "okay"

As for working on their mock-up, the only content they provided is this tiny photo of a brochure with even tinier photos of all their products, which I can't even see clearly. As a result,I've sent about 20 emails to ask for MORE details, as they never give me what I asked for. After a while, I felt like I'm talking with an alien from Venus.

How on the earth do these people manage to run a company?!
I can't wait to hire more local interns to free me from playing this talking-with-ET game. Too much entertainment for me...

2009年4月20日星期一

2009年4月19日星期日

First Pool Day of 2009

今天San Mateo温度终于达到了90F,昨天电梯里就听说游泳池开始加热了。下午刚回家就冲到阳台,看有没有勇敢者已经下水,左看右看池子里一个人没有,岸上却坐了一圈儿晒太阳。 我们俩决定得给大家做个榜样,跳进水里的一刹那,感觉真得像冬泳一样,谁说池子给加热了来着?

游了2分钟后才感到久旱逢甘雨,浑身的细胞都活了,翻了几个跟头后就更是精神百倍。 发现岸上有好几个野餐的桌子,恩,等有钱了一定要开个pool party...

2009年4月12日星期日