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The Unexpected Things I Met in Sun Prague Office

I'm lucky that I had chance to work in Sun Prague office the week before last week. There were several things that I was surprised or didn't expect to see.

People in Prague speak some Chinese. On the first day of my arrival, I met four people. The driver who picked me up from airport. One engineering manager, one senior engineer in Sun Prague office and one guy on the street whom I asked about the direction to go to Solaris RPE team's apartment where I lived during that week. Among above four guys, the latter three of them could speak some Chinese and I can tell that it's, at least, 2 - 3 years more learning efforts. Considering how difficult it is to study a foreign language, especially like Chinese, in another country, I give them more credit for that. There are some people in Prague who are looking for more challenge.

I didn't expect a lot of people would come and join my presentation regarding Beijing engineering center and Solaris QE team because there had been visitings and rotation engineers between our two sites for a while. However, there were actually 30 - 40 people showed up in meeting room and they had some very good comments about the topic.

I met and spent a quite bit time with a rotation engineer, from ERI, Beijing, who had been working there for 6 weeks and we never actually had chance to really talk to each other when we were in Beijing.

I realized that my level of alcohol tolerance is so low that after some beers in the pub with some Prague engineers who obivously felt almost nothing for those beers.

Things I expected but still impressed me so much  include the beautiful architectures, comfortable and convenient transportation system, etc. and people's tireless efforts to pursuit state of art level of work to build up such great city throughout the history.

Posted at 05:01PM Apr 16, 2007 by kzhou in Sun  |  Comments[1]