#ibmcsc China 30
The biggest work-related accomplishment for today was that we were able to develop an activity plan for our team. We decided on 6 major work-streams that we need to work on which are primarily the pain points of the customer. We then divided each work-stream at the task level and assigned each task's ownership to one of the team members along with the target date for closure of that task. We believe we have a good plan in place to ensure we get all the deliverables prepared in time.
Not too much to talk about work today so I think we have time for some history lesson now ;)
We visited the Baishui county in Shanxi province on Saturday (22nd Aug) for apple picking with our clients and one of the places that we saw during the visit was a tomb of a historic figure called Cangjie. Legend has it that he had four eyes and he invented the Chinese characters. Many people do not believe that he was the sole inventor of the characters but they still think that he existed and contributed to it.
The tomb or we may call it a temple, since there is a statue of him and people offer prayers there, was an interesting place to see. The place was full of Cypress trees and as per the guide, all of them are more than 3000 years old. In fact, I did not find anything at the temple less that 1000 years old, except the priest there, or maybe even he is that old :)
This mix of history and modernity in China still amazes me.
The biggest work-related accomplishment for today was that we were able to develop an activity plan for our team. We decided on 6 major work-streams that we need to work on which are primarily the pain points of the customer. We then divided each work-stream at the task level and assigned each task's ownership to one of the team members along with the target date for closure of that task. We believe we have a good plan in place to ensure we get all the deliverables prepared in time.
Not too much to talk about work today so I think we have time for some history lesson now ;)
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| Canjie |
We visited the Baishui county in Shanxi province on Saturday (22nd Aug) for apple picking with our clients and one of the places that we saw during the visit was a tomb of a historic figure called Cangjie. Legend has it that he had four eyes and he invented the Chinese characters. Many people do not believe that he was the sole inventor of the characters but they still think that he existed and contributed to it.
The tomb or we may call it a temple, since there is a statue of him and people offer prayers there, was an interesting place to see. The place was full of Cypress trees and as per the guide, all of them are more than 3000 years old. In fact, I did not find anything at the temple less that 1000 years old, except the priest there, or maybe even he is that old :)
This mix of history and modernity in China still amazes me.
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| Ring the bell three times for good luck! |
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| Two trees in one...both more than 3000 years old |
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