3rd week of work. For the last two weeks, 4 ppl in my group left. One of them is from my team and left because he can't stand our VP. Right now my team left with 3 ppl including my manager. My manager is from taiwan, another guy is a chinese and guess what we conduct our regular meeting in mandarin! Well, the whole company is like 80% asian. Employee turnover in the group is pretty high. But this is silicon valley. People come and go. It seems like the VP is not easy to deal with. He sits at the far end from my cubicle but I can hear him scolding ppl now and then (even the scolding is in mandarin, isn't that funny?). Luckily my manager seems to be a nice guy. Not sure if this is a good company to stay on but it's my first job I guess it doesn't really matter.
Job wise: I am in Marvell processor team. Marvell is one of the 3 companies (intel and qualcomm) that licenses ARM architecture to produce ARM compatible processor. The processor developed by us is used by other Marvell group to create SOC and stuff. Particularly my team is taking care of the debug unit and mmu. I like the job being very relevant to my field of studies. All the good stuff that I learnt in 18-765 and 18741 play major roles in it. Being in a small team will probably mean that I might be overloaded. From the meeting yesterday, we have a tape out in the end of June. I am actually excited to see the whole front-end chip development, from understanding spec to microArchitecture, from verilog to verification then to FPGA. It pretty much sounds like a school project.
Still bumping around at friend place until I can move in the end of the month. 3 weeks is enough for me to taste the so called working life. Commute in the morning -> work -> lunch -> work -> dinner -> commute back home and sleep. I actually had plans for after-work hours that I thought I should do, but I just got tired and doze to sleep. For sure many ppl are in the same situation. It's life. But can I get out of it?
Was trying to look for squash courts around bay area. There are all in those posh sport clubs that requires over 100 dollar monthly membership. Well, I can afford but still, it's like freaking rm400 on membership, a whole big chunk of a typical malaysian fresh grad paycheck. Squash is just not popular here. Tennis court is everywhere nonetheless, for free. Maybe it's a sign to switch sport. The only problem is I hate picking up a new sport, coz going through the learning curve like hitting air ball etc is just awkward. But I definitely need some exercise soon. The last time I exercise was 3 months ago.
Was hanging out with friend and meeting friend's friends. I guess that's how you build a new circle in a new place. People here are either rich or the BMW is cheap. Many of them, who are about my age or slightly older are bringing BMWs. I guess some of them just got rich from stock options. A friend of mine joined google 2 years ago and he already had a house in Seattle. Owning a BMW and a house in malaysia at your twenties? Dream on. Anyhow, I met a Brunei Chinese. How many of you guys have actually met one although brunei is so close to malaysia? The reason is that, Brunei has less than 380, 000 ppl! What a small population as one of the richest countries in the world. If the sultan were to evenly distribute his oil, everyone there would be a millionaire.
This is a must watch. Though rude, you can't deny his creativity:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmmjPbYU1og
Another favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxR49TXv5Dc
hhahahaha... still cannot stop laughing
Job wise: I am in Marvell processor team. Marvell is one of the 3 companies (intel and qualcomm) that licenses ARM architecture to produce ARM compatible processor. The processor developed by us is used by other Marvell group to create SOC and stuff. Particularly my team is taking care of the debug unit and mmu. I like the job being very relevant to my field of studies. All the good stuff that I learnt in 18-765 and 18741 play major roles in it. Being in a small team will probably mean that I might be overloaded. From the meeting yesterday, we have a tape out in the end of June. I am actually excited to see the whole front-end chip development, from understanding spec to microArchitecture, from verilog to verification then to FPGA. It pretty much sounds like a school project.
Still bumping around at friend place until I can move in the end of the month. 3 weeks is enough for me to taste the so called working life. Commute in the morning -> work -> lunch -> work -> dinner -> commute back home and sleep. I actually had plans for after-work hours that I thought I should do, but I just got tired and doze to sleep. For sure many ppl are in the same situation. It's life. But can I get out of it?
Was trying to look for squash courts around bay area. There are all in those posh sport clubs that requires over 100 dollar monthly membership. Well, I can afford but still, it's like freaking rm400 on membership, a whole big chunk of a typical malaysian fresh grad paycheck. Squash is just not popular here. Tennis court is everywhere nonetheless, for free. Maybe it's a sign to switch sport. The only problem is I hate picking up a new sport, coz going through the learning curve like hitting air ball etc is just awkward. But I definitely need some exercise soon. The last time I exercise was 3 months ago.
Was hanging out with friend and meeting friend's friends. I guess that's how you build a new circle in a new place. People here are either rich or the BMW is cheap. Many of them, who are about my age or slightly older are bringing BMWs. I guess some of them just got rich from stock options. A friend of mine joined google 2 years ago and he already had a house in Seattle. Owning a BMW and a house in malaysia at your twenties? Dream on. Anyhow, I met a Brunei Chinese. How many of you guys have actually met one although brunei is so close to malaysia? The reason is that, Brunei has less than 380, 000 ppl! What a small population as one of the richest countries in the world. If the sultan were to evenly distribute his oil, everyone there would be a millionaire.
This is a must watch. Though rude, you can't deny his creativity:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmmjPbYU1og
Another favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxR49TXv5Dc
hhahahaha... still cannot stop laughing
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