Hello again from Shanghai!!
Well not too much excitement has happened over the past two days. Just business as usual. I moved into my new apartment which is on the otherside of town like John's house. It is a change to commute for an hour twice everyday. He has his own car but he also has a subway station right outside his apartment complex. They both take about the same time, surprisingly, and I rode both, although the subway was really convenient and cheap. Riding the subway during rush hour is an experience, but it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The apartment was quaint, a 19th floorer, and I got my own room and bathroom, complete with PC access, TV and air conditioning. The couple was nice, they lived in england to get their graduate degrees from Lancaster University, but they had no children.
The new boss of the company just flew in from Texas, Genband just bought this branch of Tekelec and he is making sure the transition runs smoothly. He took everybody out for brazillian steak house. It was almost like home except a little less high class, I was very surprised they had one. Gee, Shanghai has everything. Right now it looks as if Genband wants to incorporate this office to fuel its products and will keep a similar layout, but adding a sales department. It is Genband's intention to go IPO, which I think some of the workers here are excited about.
EMS dept. is pretty easy, I am just playing around with some code but no real serious projects. Only 1 more day to go. John and I are presenting a powerpoint tomorrow about our experiences and our company impressions. I'm not sure what we're going to do on the weekend but we might check out the famous underground market that apparently has a bunch of cheap stuff (last minute gifts w00t!).
It's finally started raining here, not much of a rainy season this year.
Mark
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