Archive for the Thoughts category

OCE Discovery

The Project IRIS team went out to the OCE Discovery conference on Monday and Tuesday to check out some of the innovations taking place right here in Ontario as well as taking away from valuable information from the conference presentations. We met a lot of interesting people at the conference and learned about their organizations’ [...]

Plan B [Update 1]

It is a go! ^^ I’m so excited.

Soliciting for intern jobs

I made an extra effort this term to seek for jobs outside of the Jobmine system because there simply wasn’t enough jobs that is a good match for my interests, technical skills, and business experiences. My last job at Business Objects was, I’d say, the job with the widest set of responsibility that I could [...]

Which one wins?

This is my schedule this week

Kind of insane? Oh yea. There’s only one employer info session that I have scheduled in too. There’s also a bunch of things that didn’t make it into the calendar this week… i.e. passport renewal, student loan interest free paperwork, etc etc. =( I think this term will end up like the 2B schedule in [...]

Deviant Art

For some reason, my web surfing brought me back to my deviant art account that has been inactive since first year. It was really fun to look at some of my old pictures and photochopped pictures haha. Well… I definitely had the most fun with one particular tutorial that was done back in high school. [...]

Crackberry addict

Hmmm, less than a full week into the world of crackberry messaging, I’d say I’m already addicted to reading and sending emails on my phone. Even when I’m sitting at my desk, the phone always gets the email before I get the little pop-up from outlook. Also, now I have something to kill time with [...]

SAP to acquire Business Objects

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) and Business Objects S.A. (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB) today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together two of the information technology industry’s leaders, resulting in an unmatched offering for [...]

情人節快樂

祝大家七夕情人節快樂哦 突然很懷念以前的日子的說

Effective Communication (Part Deux)

In today’s lesson, we covered aggressive, passive, and assertive communication behaviours. We also worked on expressing our feelings, and ways to influence people in a conversation.