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Japan OTP

It's been 10 years since I came back from my Japan Oversea Attachment Program with Fujitsu. I was attached to Fujitsu R&D department for about a year. While I was there, I get to travel around Japan. I missed Tokyo and I missed those great memories that I had with my Japanese friends and attachement friends. I was fortunate to be attached to a lady supervisor who speak english very well. I'm happy that I still stay in contact with her. Her name is Yamada Ayumi san.


Yesterday, we had a gathering to mark 10 years since Japan. Here are my friends who went to Japan together with me. They are attached to NTTDoCoMo and Panasonic.

News from CTIA Wireless 2010

Top 50

Here is the 50 most admired companies from the survey done by FORTUNE.

Rank Company
1 Apple
2 Google
3 Berkshire Hathaway
4 Johnson & Johnson
5 Amazon.com
6 Procter & Gamble
7 Toyota Motor
8 Goldman Sachs Group
9 Wal-Mart Stores
10 Coca-Cola
11 Microsoft
12 Southwest Airlines
13 FedEx
14 McDonald's
15 IBM
16 General Electric
17 3M
18 J.P. Morgan Chase
19 Walt Disney
20 Cisco Systems
21 Costco Wholesale
22* BMW
22* Target
24 Nike
25 PepsiCo
26 Starbucks
27 Singapore Airlines
28 Exxon Mobil
29 American Express
30 Nordstrom
31 Intel
32 Hewlett-Packard
33 UPS
34 Nestlé
35 Caterpillar
36 Honda Motor
37 Best Buy
38 Sony
39 Wells Fargo
40 eBay
41 Nokia
42 Samsung Electronics
43 Deere
44 L'Oréal
45 AT&T
46 Lowe's
47 General Mills
48 Marriott International
49 DuPont
50 Volkswagen

Test your IQ, here is the story, 3 friends went to a restaurant to have a meal. After the meal, they decided to split the bill. The total bill is $25, so each of them came out with $10. Three $10 total to $30 and after minus $25, they are left with $5. They took back $1 each and gave waiter $2 as tips. While walking to the car park, suddenly one of them who looks very serious in his thought turn to his friends and started to complain and claim that his friends cheated $1 from him. So, how could this be possible? Let's examine his case. First, each one came with $10 and took back up $1. Therefore, $10 minus $1 equal to $9. This means total bill should be $9 times 3 equal to $27. Plus the $2 waiter's tip, it should work out to be the amount equal of $29. Aha, mysteriously missing $1. So, what do I miss here? Can you figure how could it happen? Well, the answer is BODMAS.

Recommended Reading

Time to get some education. Recommending Mario Bartiromo's new book '10 Laws of Enduring Success' for your reading pleasure.



Mario Bartiromo is the familiar face on CNBC, she is a anchor and host/managing editor of Wall Street Journal Report on CNBC network. She shares her knowledge and passion for business news and life in this new book.

I already read the expert and it already caught me thinking about the questions like Where do I want to be in five years?, How can I beat the steorotype and be the only me? and How to create your own measures of success?

W.TV

Last night I tried out this W.TV (手机电视) app developed by Rumtel Communications Technology CO.Ltd. This app streams TV program from most provincial TV stations, popular Movies and updated Drama in China. It also provide the daily news update from local and oversea channels.



It comes with features like Live Videos, Categories, DVD Videos and Topic Videos. It also include browse featured videos and browse categories videos functions which you can use to browse through the available videos. What I like about this app is it allows me to download DVD videos and watch it offline. Go check it out!

Agilent LC Calculator

Agilent Technologies just released a free liquid chromatography (LC) calculator for iPhone and iTouch on app store.



It was designed to quickly determine flow rate and back pressure under a variety of conditions and column dimensions. The LC Calculator app includes hundreds of Agilent column configurations and other method parameters to improve chromatography.

Having said that, I know nothing about chromatography and since this app is created by my company, why not just post in my blog for your reference.

Get Well

It's been a week I'm down with flu, sore throat and cough. The antibiotic given by the doctor is not affective. My cough is getting worse. This cough is so irritating and it's making me feel so fatigue. It also disturbed my colleagues in office. Gosh, hope they still able to concentrate on their works. Plenty of rest is what I need at this moment.