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Raining

CaoLu Qianlan got flowers from her boyfriend
CaoLu Qianlan got flowers from her boyfriend

I don’t particularly like raining, but it nourishes new life in the earth.

It is like the grey gloomy days in my life, that nourishes new virtues.

It is interesting how I felt when I saw this girl – Caolu Qianlan – got into a relationship. I felt upset, nervous, and in-confident.

Somehow I consider single girls in my network as a asset that I can lay my hope on. When I got depressed by how long I have been single, I could start counting the number of single cute girls that I come to know since I started work in Detroit.

There is a sense of achievement. It is not easy to know so many single girls, considering I did this by myself and most other workplace folk single guys know less than 1 single gal.

But, I was depressed every time any one of them got into a relationship.

I mean, I was right there, trying to throw all kinds of fun events to know all of you. And yet, you just ignore me and chose that guy that didn’t even help?

So, I put forward this question:

Who is my next target?

I am tired of my singleness. I want to be out of it ASAP.

I was driving to work when I asked myself this question. I turned off the radio, and started arguing with myself.

Bin Qin is obviously an easy target. She is smart, reasonably good-looking with some makeup, and caring. She has some affection on me, constantly asking me out and attending all my events by herself. On the downside, she is short, and only reasonably good-looking.

Chen Shuai is much better in looking. Ridiculously, her look is the major reason I gave her up in the first place. I only realized she is much better after I met Jin Yingzi in Virginia. The side of the coin, being that she is lazy and untidy in housing keeping.

Well, I will keep posting how the next chapter of the story is later, cause Shuai just agreed to go out for lunch with me. Easier than I thought.

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Confession to the boss

Several days ago, I was selected to fill out a survey as a feedback to my supervisor in the company. It was a rare opportunity to express my opinions toward his way of management, and give suggestions for future improvements. Here is what I wrote:

Strengths:

Andy, you have always been supportive. No matter when and where I caught you, you are almost always patient to dig into the issues, and even lead me around the building to find helpful resources. You are also very frank about things. You admit things you don’t know, and encourage me to find the right answers with proper advices. As a result, I feel I can talk to you about the setbacks as well as the achievements in my job, leading to better productivity.

To be improved:

Meeting efficiency could be improved, although I am part of the problem too. More than once I felt it was time to step out of your office and I still had more in my plate. In my part, I will try to list things to address so the “one last question” is indeed the last question. Also, talking to colleagues could be encouraged more and earlier as a key advice to new employees. I recently found this extremely useful and I hoped I could be advised to do it more frequently when I first joined Ford. Now that I am already motivated, this suggestion is mostly for future new group members’ sake.