Diary 0531: 修身，养性，齐家，治国，平天下

When I reading, when I am a living in this world. I think all about how to become a better one, become a responsibility husband, how to do a little thing to help my country and how to do some good research to improve the life of someone in this world.

I am a man, and a   common one. Although I can handle all my thoughts and keep peace and push of my life, the wealthy, healthy of family has never been realized, further, the positive influence to my country have never been shown also. In my heart, I always told me that: I should do more to push myself, to love my family and to help my country. But nothing have been done until now. How sad am I.

But it will never become true, if I want to realize all dream in the short time. I should do one by one, just like what the ancients said: as a man, you should take care of you and your family firstly, and then you should think more about the enterprise and country, and  the world.  For me, I should take care of my knowledge and ability to become a good entrepreneur, to earn money and obtain knowledge to take care of my family. This should be realized in this 5 years. After that I should take care of the market and all the partners in a big company and I will become mature, I should take care of this company just like a little country.  You can think about the affairs of whole nation and the world, but you shouldn't do anything before you obtain the ability to  change something.

So we should take responsibility of our ideas, talk and behavior. 

ESL 0529: 584 Calling in sick to work

584: Peter and Lane. About someone decide their too sick to go to work.

P: I was fed up with a work, and want the day off. I decide to call in sick. I wasn't prepare those to be peppered with questions. Hello, this is Peter. Is it Melder?

M: Yes this is Melder.

P: Hi, Melder. I want be come in today. I am not feeling well. I think I will come down with something.

M: ...nnn....What seems to be the problem? 

P: The problem? Oh, I have been throwing up all night and I feel terrible. 

M: Didn't you have something like this two weeks ago, when you call in sick

P: Two weeks ago? No, I had food poisoning for two weeks. 

M: What about a month ago, when you call in sick? 

P: That was a twenty-four hours bug.

M: Didn't you just take  a day off from work because of a death in the family.

P: Yes, I had to go to the funeral.

M: I see. That's one day off from work a week four weeks in the row.

P: I will be in within a hour.

M: I am glad you have a miraculous recovery?

ESL 0528: Going to a SPA

This episode is called Going to a SPA,  dialogged between Tim and Jane, using the vocabulary in a SPA. Let's get start it.

Jane: This is the life. Spending a day in a SPA, is my idea of paradise.

T:  Yeah, It is great.

Jane: Aren't you enjoy yourself?

T:  The massage is OK, but why do i need to a facial and body wrap. I am a guy.

J: Men need to rejuvenating too. These are holistic treatment. And you will feel like a new man when you done. Just enjoy the pemplerring.

T: I feel like a idiot. How am I suppose to relax?

J: Why don't you get enjoy the body scrub, a schlep massage stead. Maybe that will calm your nervous.

T: I don't need a body scrapped or another massage. I just want to get out of here. When we will be done?

J: After this, all we have left are manicure and pedicure.

T: What? I don't want to get in  manicure and pedicure.

J: You promise with me to the SPA, if I agree your invitation 4 college friends to  stay in our house for two weeks, remember?

T: Yes, I remember. All rights, Let's go over with.

J: Just be glad. I didn't let sigh  you  up for  waxing.  

Diary 0528: The meaning of Pros&Cons

Pros and cons refers to the positive and negative outcomes that may be derived from executing a certain act, shortened from the Latin phrase, pro et contra, which means for and against.

Advantage and Disadvantage.

ESL 0527: Working in a lab

564: Working in a Laboratory.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 564. I am your host Dr. Jeff McQuillan. Coming to you from the center of development of  in beautiful Los Angels California. Our website is www.eslpod.com. Go there to download a learning guide for this episode which will help you improve your English even faster.You can also take a look at other ESL course on the website. The episode is called working in laboratory. It is dialogged between Tiny and Galer.    ****  Let's get start it.

G:  I was working in the lab as usual when my colleague brought 3 years son in the world

T:   Hi Gal. This is my son Flip. There is a problem with his daycare today. So he will spending day time here with me. I will teach him all about doing research.

G:  I am not sure this is a good place for a toddler. Should he be playing with Microscript like that?

T:   Oh. He will be fine. I will just keep the beaker and test tupper  out of his reach. And he will be all right.

G:  Whoa. he almost tip over a trail out of . I am using those for experiment what I am running. And there are pretty some dangerous chemical materials there.

T:  Good thing you saw t him before he could do any real damage. I think he just want to help, right? You just want to collect some data for Gal, right?

G: Don't look now. Just empty a solution of out of parts your lab code.

T:  Oh. You silly guilts. You just want to make a work more fun and interesting for us, aren't you?

 Thanks you for listening. Welcome back.

Copyright to 2009. From Center for develop.

Dairy 0527: The Road Map from Idea to Product

We have so many good ideas, but a little will be pushed to be popular product.

It is normal in the research area. It is so bad for all innovators.

From idea, to product, we need some steps, the typical road map should be:

Idea  -->  Mind Map  --> Prototype   -->  Product 

As a research, we should finish the steps from idea to prototype.

And then, you will lead a team to develop the product which can be replicated and provided to customers.

Note 0527: The Regional Distribution of China Industry

从区域角度来看，整个中国当前可分为有着不同社会发展程度和行业重心的六个地区。

东南地区：东南地区是中国最先开放的地区。这一高度开放的地区以其电脑行业闻名于世，并且在零部件生产方面属世界第一。当地政府如今的关注重点是行业基础设施的发展。

长江三角洲地区：由上海引领的长江三角洲是中国的商业和金融中心。信息技术和生物技术是该地区的发展重点。当地政府目前致力于城市化建设和港口开发。

 渤海湾地区：北京是渤海湾地区的政治和文化中心。天津于2006年推出宏伟的发展计划后，也吸引了众多眼球。该地区的强项在于IT研发，以及山东省高度发达的食品行业。受2008年奥运会的推动，城市发展令北京进一步实现国际化。

东北地区：东北地区是中国传统的首要重工业基地。目前，这一地区的高科技公司也在经历快速发展。此外，通过为韩国和日本公司供货，该地区离岸业务增长迅猛。

华中地区：华中地区的地理位置决定了该地区是中国的运输中心，尤其是铁路运输的心脏。当地政府现正大力投资高速公路和水利事业。

 西部地区：西部地区明显落后于东部沿海地区，但充足的自然资源有利于发展现代化重工业/化工行业。2006年到2010年，预计对该地区的投资将超过200亿美元，有助于实现东西部地区的平衡发展。

中西部地区拥有充足的自然资源、成本相对低廉的劳动力和强有力的政府支持，因而有着大量新的机会。政府鼓励劳动/材料密集型公司从东部沿海向中西部地区迁址，以提升自然资源的开采能力，并通过撤销管制和财政支持，鼓励外国直接投资。

同时，从行业角度来看，中国的行业发展也在不断变化。重工业正在经历深度整合，而服务行业（如：物流）的需求很大程度上未得到满足 。国有企业纷纷开展大规模投资以求发展，而公众对高科技产品和服务的需求快速增长。政府因势利导，增加了对出口和外国直接投资流入的限制，也放宽了对医疗保健相关研究的限制。

受这些因素的推动，我们认为消费品、物流/配送、机械、建筑/环保、医疗和金融行业是最具吸引力的领域。化工、汽车、造船、IT和钢铁/金属行业也存在适度机会。

战略和运营改进不可或缺。中国市场庞大复杂，每一项投资机会都有着独特的风险。经验告诉我们，投资者必须理解并把握哪些在中国市场成功的关键因素。

投资者需要真正理解“关系”。如今许多投资者都知道了“关系”在中国市场的重要性，但却总是苦苦挣扎于道德、甚至法律问题。现实的确如此。所以必须制定“可行的关系建立”的明确原则，并为相应的后果做好准备。 同时，由于需应对越来越多的投资者，并且事实上中国市场尚未完全实现自由化， 所以“关系”的复杂性不断加剧。 需要说明，在中国做生意不能仅仅依靠“关系”。在中国，关系可加速工作，但却不是万能的。

投资者也需要警惕政府不时更改的政策。在中国这样快速转型的经济体中，经济政策时有变化，包括中央政策和地方政策。成熟市场的投资者对此感到困惑不已。 为此我们建议投资者的战略是，为政治实体提供清晰的价值定位。从这个意义上来说，外国公司的投资价值将吸引政府更多地为投资者考虑，给予更多的转型时间和空间。

投资者需要明确地区选择和投资重点。 与许多外国投资者的认识不同，中国不是单一的市场。我们在前文提到了六个有着不同特点的地区，彼此之间的差异远大于许多外国投资者的预期。

还有，需要正确面对人员流动问题。人员流动成了许多外国投资者最头痛的问题。中国员工的这一特征是由多种原因造成的。面对这样的现实，外国投资者需实施人力储备制度，包括建立基于绩效考核的薪酬体系，提供培训课程和制定快速升职计划。

投资者需要合理决定“单身还是结合”，因为合作伙伴关系是如今许多外国公司面临的另一个头痛的问题。经验表明，合资公司的缺点常常超过其益处。因此我们建议避免采用合资公司这一进入方式，除非必须这么做，或是对合资益处有十足把握。同时，投资者必须充分了解相关法规，以便保障自身利益。最后，应制定明智的战略，确定选择弱势/被动合作伙伴，还是主动/增值合作伙伴。

最后，投资者需要正确应对“中国价格”。许多外国投资者将中国价格视为低廉劳动力成本的结果，但事实并不尽然。外国投资者应对“管理成本”和“合作成本”给予足够的重视。需要提醒的是，随着改革开放的深化，减少对外国公司税收优惠势在必行。

各种困难在海外和国内的两个投资集团都存在。国外投资者在中国市场遭遇挫败之时，令中国投资者头痛的问题有过之而无不及。

中国公司必须为全球化过程中的重大障碍做好准备

我们尚未看到大量的中国品牌成为全球知名品牌，这与20世纪70年代日本经济快速发展时日本品牌的崛起不同。是不是这些品牌无意向全球市场扩张？

中国公司在全球市场上的地位不断增强。事实上，很多中国公司已成为了“行业巨头”。财富500强中，有16家中国公司。2004年，中国电脑公司联想收购IBM个人电脑业务，令西方投资者颇感震撼。 
但是不同的公司，有着不同的全球化动机。

垄断型公司：他们主要为国有公司，如中国电信、中石化和中海油。这些公司满足于当前在国内市场上的垄断地位，缺乏走向全球市场的动力。他们的海外扩张举措大多是为了获得更多资源，满足巨大的国内需求，并且这类举措大都受政府指引。

国内市场上的全球化公司：他们在国内市场遭遇强劲的外国竞争对手。他们因此把眼光放到全球市场，渴望从多家成熟公司获得技术。其中的代表包括正泰、中软、振华港机等。

当然还有全球市场上的全球化公司。这些公司是真正的中国企业的先锋，有着宏伟的抱负，代表公司有联想、海尔和华为。面对成熟的国内市场和行业壁垒，他们致力于渗透全球市场。

然而在进行全球化扩张时，无论是国有垄断公司还是强大的私营公司，都面临重重困难。

--
Adam ( Xiuzhong ) Chen
Email: xzchen@ucdavis.edu

Diary 0525 : The idea of SunRise Mobile Service Engine

The mobile internet will be normally in our daily life in the future because of mobile device and wireless broadband access network.

The essential reason is that we will live with nature/city freely without disconnect with our community and business. But the traditional

search engine provided by Google/Baidu is too old and too complicated to use when we in motion. What we need when we on the road 

out of our office/home.  Not a search engine, is a service engine. In another words, we will get service ordered/ correct information when

we in motion. Because we don't have enough time to filter the search results to what we need. When we travel with some friends in another 

city,  we need order a affordable/reliable restaurant, not a list of restaurants.

So a simple Mobile Service Engine (MSE) will be the direction of mobile services. It should have some important features as follows:

1. Easy User Interface, may be some touch key, or voice control.

2. Know the holder's demand exactly according the history of services, location and service providers.

3. Reliable Service.  Customer will trust in MSE, and lay the time, life and some import value on MSE and its services, so it can have just one mistake within 1000 services.

Some simple ideas are shown in attached draft. 

发自我的 iPhone

Dairy 0522: 婚后的幸福和责任

我们裸婚了，没有婚礼，没有钻戒，没有房子，在什么也没有的时候，她嫁给了我。

现在我又匆匆回到了美国，让莎莎一个人在北京又要工作又要学习，独自面对生活。 

当莎莎问我，结婚后的感想的时候，我不知道说什么，我只是在心里深深的铭记住

一个信念：我要承担责任，我要给老婆幸福。

领证之后，我们正式成为合法夫妻，这张证明我们俩成为夫妻的硬纸板承载着很多。

它告诉我，从此我心不再漂泊，总有一个人和我相互依偎。它同时告诉我，从此我

应该更多的考虑承担，去爱护我们这个刚刚组建的新家庭。在还没有新成员加入的

时候，我们就要加倍珍惜，不仅要尽快的创造财富，建房子，还要为这个家庭建立

必要的社会关系，为这个家庭筹备必要的社会资源。这个新生的家庭还要准备好迎

接新成员的到来，更远的看还要让这个新家庭爱开始向外溢出，温暖更多的人。

5月7日上午11点50分，我们领到了这张充满幸福和责任的结婚证，5月17日我就踏

上来美国的飞机，婚后的蜜月都只能安排在毕业之后。对老婆有无限的歉意，但幸

福的承诺一点也不敢懈怠。

10月份老婆即将来到我的身边和我一起完成最后的一段求学生涯，毕业之前，需要

找工作，需要为自己的职业生涯准备更多的papers和起步的资本。同时还要为我们

在美国的生活准备足够的资金。

Davis是一个宁静的地方，适合思考，适合精进，但是离市场，离职场有些距离，是

一个很好的学习地方，但是要想真正的体验职场，积累资本，还需要走进职场。

修炼项目一：宽带接入技术专家

在宽带接入领域再发几篇论文，找到这个领域的研究职位，是下一步的重点。

看paper，写paper，积累技术，了解开发，看书，了解企业现状，把握未来趋势。

修炼项目二：价值投资入门

同时作为财富积累的有效方式，了解价值投资（Value Investing）也是一项重要的

修炼项目。

修炼项目三：羽毛球业余玩家

为了保证锻炼身体和结交朋友，时刻加强羽毛球技术的进步，2个月达到俱乐部的

平均水平，5个月内完成超越。

修炼项目四：英语应用高手

听懂印度人，美国人是第一技能，能够轻松撰写英语Essays, Report, Papers是第

二技能，能够标准流利的说是第三技能。

祝成功

我爱老婆