Mochi's Buddy has been wondering about his identity lately because Mochi hasn't been treating him like a sports car...
He'd only ran 3600 miles in 7 months.
BUT! Buddy is about to discover his true identity soon 'cause Mochi, Onion, and the zoo are taking him down to LA and San Diego for a road trip this weekend!!!
Mochi can already feel the big smile in Buddy's heart :P
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Baseball Game
It's Friday! Bro got 6 baseball game tickets from a VP today, so, Mochi is gonna go watch my first live sports game!
Mochi used to be a big sports fan. Mochi would watch every basketball game with sista and stay up late to watch FIFA soccer. I guess this is another nice hobby Mochi lost during the busy busy Engineering Physics life...
The baseball game (San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers) is at the AT&T park in San Francisco. We took the train there to avoid traffic. On the train, we saw a bunch of people wearing Giants sweater, baseball caps, etc. Seeing all these excited people, Mochi got excited too! AT&T park is so pretty! You can see parts of the bay bridge on one side and the beautiful ocean on the other.
The stadium was filled with Giants fans. Even the announcer showed her side from her tone :P Despite fans' cheers, Giants lost to Dodgers.
It was a really fun night! Mochi wanna go watch a live basketball game next :P
I'm sure Vic is jealous of Mochi now, so I saved my ticket for Vic :)
Mochi used to be a big sports fan. Mochi would watch every basketball game with sista and stay up late to watch FIFA soccer. I guess this is another nice hobby Mochi lost during the busy busy Engineering Physics life...
The baseball game (San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers) is at the AT&T park in San Francisco. We took the train there to avoid traffic. On the train, we saw a bunch of people wearing Giants sweater, baseball caps, etc. Seeing all these excited people, Mochi got excited too! AT&T park is so pretty! You can see parts of the bay bridge on one side and the beautiful ocean on the other.
The stadium was filled with Giants fans. Even the announcer showed her side from her tone :P Despite fans' cheers, Giants lost to Dodgers.
It was a really fun night! Mochi wanna go watch a live basketball game next :P
I'm sure Vic is jealous of Mochi now, so I saved my ticket for Vic :)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Peer Recognition Bonus
Mochi is feeling kinda sleepy and unmotivated this afternoon. Screening through the sea of unread emails in my Inbox, Mochi picked the one that says "Congratulations, Michelle Chen" to read.
At Google, there is a recognition program called "Peer Bonus". All full-time Googlers can nominate another Googler to receive this bonus if you feel that somebody is doing a great job for the team and/or for the company. In order to prevent people from abusing the system, there are some restrictions like if A nominates B, then B can't nominate A within 6 months. There is also a small committee within each department to review the nominations. The bonus is $175 cash plus a cute little certificate proving the recognition.
After reading through the email for the first time, Mochi still couldn't believe what I just read. I mean, I really don't think I did anything so special or important that deserves this recognition! The tech lead of GMM, Mark, wrote the following as the reason to give mochi this bonus:
Right after Mochi read the email, Mochi ran into Mark on the hallway. Mochi really didn't know what to tell him except saying "Thank You"!! Mochi doesn't know how to express how happy I am or how much this means to me in words! (yes, present tense, 'cause Mochi still doesn't know)
(yeah, Mochi looked dumb and Mark must think I'm silly...)
At Google, there is a recognition program called "Peer Bonus". All full-time Googlers can nominate another Googler to receive this bonus if you feel that somebody is doing a great job for the team and/or for the company. In order to prevent people from abusing the system, there are some restrictions like if A nominates B, then B can't nominate A within 6 months. There is also a small committee within each department to review the nominations. The bonus is $175 cash plus a cute little certificate proving the recognition.
After reading through the email for the first time, Mochi still couldn't believe what I just read. I mean, I really don't think I did anything so special or important that deserves this recognition! The tech lead of GMM, Mark, wrote the following as the reason to give mochi this bonus:
"Michelle Chen has done a fantastic job in the role of SET for google maps for mobile. She's incredibly organized and very smart. She's provided much needed order to our testing process. I'm specifically nominating her for setting up an extensive prober script that has already picked up some existing unnoticed issues. Also, the prober will allow us to be more confident about server pushes in the future and will allow a quicker turnaround time from the time a server is ready to the time we're able to push to production."Yes, the highlighted parts are the ones that made mochi smile for the rest of the day! It means so much to me when someone I look up to give me this type of recognition!!
Right after Mochi read the email, Mochi ran into Mark on the hallway. Mochi really didn't know what to tell him except saying "Thank You"!! Mochi doesn't know how to express how happy I am or how much this means to me in words! (yes, present tense, 'cause Mochi still doesn't know)
(yeah, Mochi looked dumb and Mark must think I'm silly...)
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