People who on line for Iphone

Today is an important day.

Why?It is the day iphone launch.

Me and one of my friend left office one hour early and went to apple store to see it.

So many people waited there and prepared well.

Something like chair, water even sofa..etc. haha.

And I had checked web. Some people had broken it and shot the picture for it.

Really awesome  job!! ha ha..

check it out!! 

http://thinksecret.com/archives/iphonetakeapart/index.html

someone is praying for you

Yesterday,one of my roomate tell me I need to empty myself to let others come inside.
I think probablly I show some upset to her.
I am truly sorry about it.
And I am really thank for her encourage.
I do need it.
And thank for many people who pray for me.
You guys rocks.

The Day

Today,I almost lose my courage......

Happy birthday to Shsha_062007

This should be posted at 2007 June 20.

Happy birthday to Sasha.....

Happy everyday to all.........

What weekend!!(Gay parade)

And sunday is Gay parade once a year.
We went to see it after church in civic center.
Many kinds of people wear strange suit to express themself.
I can only said so.
It's a exciting expreience for me also.
Specially when I seat in a train which was full of Gay,punk etc. special people.
That's what I called exciting.
maybe I can finish this later and I also see my sousin.
We went to italian aera and he treat me a very nice meal.
Write it later.......

and you also can find some picture through web site listed below.
http://events.yahoo.com/pride07/.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gay+pride&m=text

What weekend!!(baseball game)

This was a really busy weekend since friday.
Connie, her boyfriend and some friends of mine went to a pun which I already write at last post.
And....ha ha we went to see baseball game at satarday.Who is the pitcher? Wang......cool
That's a very exciteing experiencr for me.Specially our seat was located at Giant's fan seat.
Yahoo news said this is Giant baseball field but SF has many Chinese.So It will be like wang's home town.
I guess yahoo was right or wrong.
Because I saw many Chinese and many of them were Taiwaness.
But It is a small baseball field which contains 400,00 people inside.
So still,many Giant fan there and we were a little afraid to sit inside them.haha
Specially when the time Giant lose or judgement seens not good for them,they will shout ,a lot.
Before opening,me and my friends went to frontest set to see their practice,specially for Wang.
I almost touch him,just in front of me.
We shout his name and he iignore us ,of course.
I almost got a baseball after their practice.It's pity.
It's a awesome experience for me and I want to so it again.

I will put my photo on web later.

extend topic of yesterday

It is really touch something when I saw the band yesterday.

When I saw their face had many enjoy and happiness.

I understand they are really like what they were doing.

Like always , it reminded myself. During me and Jane's discuss,I said:the thing that I want most is I can really enjoy what I do everyday. That's what I want. 

And so many people here I feel they all try to do so and try very hard.

We are all different soul which put in different bottles.

But there are some desires what we both want it.

Enjoy life ba.....

what friday night

Today before we left,connie talked with us and asked what we will do this weekend?

I though he might just tried to be nice. But she said maybe we can hang out sometimes.

oh!Really? I said maybe today.So after he asked her boyfriend then,we go to a bar.

By the way,her boyfriend's name is Francois who work at smart design.

A nice guy. Really nice,cool place just like an sport bar in Taiwan(but it's not).

We ordered some beer and got a upstairs seat. And enjoy the live band which had one man for guitar and one woman for violin.Oh! she is hot...... ha ha

After pub,me and Jane 'd like to go home but there was no MUNI after 9.00 p.m..

So we took S to Costure and shuttle bus to West Ferro.

It took a long time and thank for a guy who came from Singapore pointed the right bus for us.

Although he kept talking with us and I guess it made June nervous.So we took taxi to home.

It spent 6 dollars. Each one paid 3 dollars. Faster,safer and warmer.

It's worthy.

 

First day work

I start understanding why they always said life style matters.

People mountain,people sea

Today,after staying at home about 6 hours,I decided to go to music concert.

It is nearby the W street.

I took bus to there and stop in front of a park which is called LARSEN PARK.

I was walking on the sidewalk.

There was a old lady came to me and asked  are you going to concert?

Yes,I said. And she pointed a way to me and tell me how to get there.

What a nice lady.

WOO!!So many people there and what nice music here.

People danced with music. After looking for a seat about 10 minutes.

I chose a mountain seat finally and enjoy music.

Did I am lucky today?

Not only a concert that I can enjoy but a church family also invited me to join their dinner.

So many kind of food made by Keren's husband.

They treated me so nice.

Such huge Oyster、steak、mutton-chop、pork chop and potato salad with a cup of white gourd tea.

I am so satisfy.

Thanks for Keren's family and her friends.

You are so nice.

And I am happy about Wang wins the game.

oh also happy father's day. 

Church

This is my second weekend at SF.

So this is my second time to go to church. Same church,HOLY WORD.

But today,Jane and I decided to go to first at 9.30 and speak English.

I can realize what she said on the stage but I cannot find where bible words is?

So I concentrate at what she said.

Roughly,she told about how God watch each one of us.

Even though there are so many people on the earth. He still watch us personally.

I feel safe after her speech.

Yes! God is watching us , no matter where you are or who you are.

Lunar、Final course and city tour

Lunar design.....

we went to see it and the president John came to receive us.

I guess many friends of mine know about Lunar's podcast.

Thanks Leo for that information,so I listen to it at very first and became a audience loyalty.

I really happy about to see him although he only prepare a ppt just like a routine.

But i still ask some question about sustain design which was last topic in podcast.

My question was that I guess if we can extend product life ,we might lose our job.

Ha, It is a trick question.

He said many stuff about how to extend product life such as design for disassembling or use material properly and finally he said it is always a conflict , I believe it.

My friend of mine know me that I always support sustain.

I just curious about people who support that ,specially product designer.

I still can remember one time ,I discuss that with one friend of mine who work for fashion industry.

Obviously,She don't like it.I am happy someone agree my point.

 

Friday is last course that we need to take at Zoe design.

Kelly will be our lecturer at forenoon.

Another Lecturer is a market research company.

Kelly prepared many stuff about product process and how to find a target market.

Really good and well prepared lecture.

But maybe sometime his English was so fast that I cannot follow him and missed a lot.

I still learn some thing.

Actually ,one thing.

I can remember what experience used told me how to sever our customer.

I learn how to satisfy customer instead of guide them to right direction.

Sometimes,I fulfill what customer want not people or my desire.

I feel pain and frustrated many times. 

Today the lesson who kelly teach us.

I guess many stuff are important but most important to me is that find the true bull's eye.

It is market.

Although,I realize that some clint in Taiwan.

Market always means big buyer or channel and clint only listen to them.

And the only thing they need us is to build a different form for them.

Always a struggle like John used to said.

Afternoon,Steve was our lecturer.

The most interesting thing he shared with us is different point of view.

He showed us many ordinary photos.

But he see it through an extra-ordinary view and it showed different cultural inside.

It is interesting.

I asked him how he can see through this photos?

He said that is what he love to do and getting better and better.

I guess it is.

After class, I came to him and ask one more question.

Steve used to be a one man company.

He just hired an employee.

And sometimes,his clients are big brand.

I am curios about did his client will judge him through his office and how many people 

at his company?

He mentioned one time there is one client who came from Japan want to see his office.

But he work at home. ha ha

The result was good of course.

Most of his client will not care about how big his company is?Steve said.

Oh~I love this country.

 

one&co.、frog

One&co. and frog .......... we went to there yesterday..

One&co. is a real trendy company.

Through as I stay in Taiwan,I saw his portfolio and look like it is familiar with my old company.

But after this two weeks,I have to said it is real trendy company no matter interior or portfolio.

And what about frog??

It is only company we need to write a document of confidential.

It remind me about how I give that kind paper to our vendor,ha-ha.

the frog we visit is located at SF.

Most project they did is GUI or interface like not product design.

They said product design is at San jose not here.

I feel nothing about that company.

And during lunch time we went to see baseball at AT&T.

It was awesome!!

Actually,only very time I ever play baseball during my junior high.

I don't know why?I guess that there are no friends of mine play that sport,so...

But the feel is good and most important was the place we stood is free.

I like free stuff..... ha-ha.

True-brand&Receiver

the day before yesterday,we went to two different company.

one is True-brand another one is Receiver.

As we came into True-brand,all place are so quiet and little dark.

Look like we enter a place which is an old gentleman live inside.

Then,vincent came in.

and prepared a portfolio powerpoint for us.

many client he sever for are airplane company.I guess one that kind of project will be very helpful on company.

and many other big brand that I never heard before like wellsfargo etc.

Most interesting thing happen after he showed us same their presentation.

An airplane company project,he showed many elegant idea to us. But we saw some ideas are so wild that we cannot believe that are their design.

Kind of scary.

of course we asked the reason why?

he said client always want you try same thing more wild ,no-boundary design.

If you don't do that kind of design,they will asked you to do more.

So that kind of design is for scaring client.

and I asked he what is most important thing inside design?

He said is consistency.

I agree with him.

He also said if you did a great design but without consistency it will be a bad result.

If you did a normal design but have consistency it would be great.

And Receiver?

all stuff left my head which about that company is the slogan hang up the wall.

Absolutly no bu-shitting here.

The boss is so ...... special.

I will talk about next time.....

  

Fisherman wharf&Zoe design

Yesterday we went to fisherman wharf and today we went to Zoe design for class.
Same friend of mine complain about my English writing.
I'm afraid of my poor English is still need to be practice.
So I will writing blog by English.
I like the wharf ,crab and sea lion.
But I don't like acid bread soup at all.
Today we went to Zoe for our training program.
People who doing market research came to help us.
And we do some idea generation practice.
One for morning and one for afternoon.
The one we did at afternoon you can see it at my share photos.
It is a method which called IDEA BOX.
They usually do it with the customer they want to understand not designers.
But I think it is a good idea game for designer too.
Because sometimes we do design just by our own view point.
This game can help us change our mind and direction which we saw products.
I am happy to join this class and win a STARBUCKS' gift card.

Golden Gap & Sausalito

Golden Gap is so cold and Sausalito is so beautiful which they said like Europe.

Whipsaw & designafairs

Today we went to Whipsaw & designafairs.
Who know the company?answer it.you will get prize....haha
actually,Whipsaw has two parters,one is Daniel's classmate who called Hirotomi,another one I forgot.Jet lag....forgive me..(Dan Harden)
Whipsaw's history I don't want to explain,you might find it on the book,I want to said how I feel..
Hiro the Japanese , he is such a nice guy,answer our question in patience.They don't really have a design style about this company. But as I asked him,what's the most important different between Whipsaw & other design firm?Hiro said it is us(Hiro & Dan).Both of them,are more than 20 years design experience.And they will follow design any one of them.I said really??Because as we in Taiwan,usually there are 3-4 cases in one man,and a company of course, more cases than that.and many other stuff need boss to solve it.you really do see each case?At,first,he said.He and Dan also do design all the time and form model too.I shocked??no,Daniel do that too.Why should I shock?He really give me a familiar feel just like Daniel.Both of them are so passion to design.
designafaies,of course every designer in Taiwan,know Ben a lot.He is a nice guy.And only he, prepared ppt for us.Although , sometimes I fall nap. But guess what,It is the company that we spent most time.
Stephen is another parter who stay in Simems before.I asked him many question from what is American style(cause I used fall once to design for American and he show me a one cup coffee machine he said it is America style, so I ask him),to how you proceed a medical case;why designafairs used to think color & material are so important for a design firms.The most impression is that he mentioned terms which was step,jump and leap.It is means sometimes you design products more than now.Step probably several month,jump 2-3 years and leap 5-6 years up to you.And I also feel a feeling which I called customer judgment.Stephen mentioned several times, He always met customer's opinion didn't agree with him and finally he need to adjust it to what customer want.He is a man who has talented and version I can tell.Still has that kind frustration, no mention designers who in other country.
Today's tour, I like it really like it.....

IDEO..........for real?

Today we went to IDEO.
I don't need to mention how much I like this company again.
But I am not a 3 years old child so yes I went to see it .
Excited maybe......mostly just like a regular tour.
IDEO,kind a dream design company on the US.
today it is Bill Moggridge guide us.
He just published a book which is called Interaction.
And he showed us some of their environment and old works.
Of course,he also said the famous story about when vacation,your office will became a van and how they break the door to drive the car in.
public relationship?of course, same time I think a little promote can help a lot.
Maybe I said maybe same friends of mine will pity about I took few photo about it.
OK I let your guys down.But troust me what I saw today,hear today,you can find it on the book or internet mostly.Don't think you miss something ok? you need be here to feel.That's the real stuff.I can tell you nothing big.That's the answer.Don't believe?try it by yourself.

Another tour we went to Apple store and Stanford.
Not many people there..but as I called for help from a macbook,after ten minures,same one came.
I tried to ask him same thing about my macbookpro.But he is a new fish just came over here for 3 days.so,maybe next time.
I saw one Interesting thing,people in apple store,most of them are aged people.
and few teenager,quick strange.
Because I usually think Apple is a young&creative brand.

How about Stanford?
A beautiful school , of course.
I am tired,maybe next time.

Dragon

第一天

今天平安的抵達了舊金山，雖然路上有些小波折，可是結果是很美滿的，很棒！
坐在飛機上的時候，不知道是吃了豆子還是怎樣？肚子一直脹氣，一趟旅程下來我想應該放了二三十個屁吧！真是難為我旁邊的Kyle了，Kyle是我在飛機上認識的美國人，一個腳有點臭的好人，我想我們扯平了。
還有，其實要很感謝阿姨千里迢迢陪我到中正機場，一路上教我很多，阿姨的關愛，讓我很感動。在機場的時候，我並沒有發生像雯絜那樣的連環電話事件，是不是我要檢討我的交友關係阿？哈！
今天是第一天，我還記得Leo和我說的，要把每一天當作兩天在用，也記得阿姨和我說的要正常作息，還有許多朋友的關心與鼓勵，謝謝大家。
對了，Leo還有許多好朋友，我行前沒有找你們出來吃飯，不要生氣喔！實在要出去了，很想安安靜靜的，你們瞭的。

送雯去澳洲

在雯調皮留在我手臂上，那原子筆的痕跡漸漸淡去之際，
我才發現我對你的離愁越來越深。