Ultimate GE based post

now is for the time of goodbyes to all...

Note that farewell means the wish for a good trip, and for the moment my journey has not begun just yet. So worry not, for we will meet again soon.

I only say goodbye to the people I met here as to show them that I am sad to leave them so soon. It has been a gripping experience and I will surely not forget the most delightful time I had with all. There is no one person to thank, so I thank them all. I only wish I had more time to do so.

To say a word about GE, well, I now understand the enthusiasm my finance teacher had when referring to it. It has great values and really puts forward the one who matters the most: that small individual worker who with his neighbor will make things happen. It's like an ant's nest where coordination is key and when one member falls the rest feel. But it doesn't only see things small, it also makes things as big as the planet's health matter just as much; values are based on using the best out of people to make the world a better place for all; now this may seem ambitious, but the best one can do is try... and GE sure does.

Values aside, all that is left is for me is to note that i have absolutely no regrets and I wish to live such an inviting experience once more.


Life does go on, but now the path has gotten a whole lot nicer...

Penultimate GE based post

I can't find anything else to do so I am now going to list the different things I learned here at GE:

- if I saw an airplane in the sky and it were making a racket, I would then say: "IF IT WAS A G.E.-MADE ENGINE IT WOULDN'T MAKE ALL THAT NOISE!!!". Some people may call that brainwashing, I call it understanding values.

- workwise... nothing much, I spent half my time here, & I am being generous, fiddling with my thumbs, & I do regret not being more proactive. But I do have strong thumbs now! :-)

- I also finally learned that wherever you go you will always meet the best people in the world and that there's no need to go looking for them at the far end of this planet, mots of the time they will even be you next door neighbors.

- in a certain way it was also made clear to me that smoking is bad, drinking is bad, watching TV is bad, eating junkfood is bad, and a lot of other things are bad; but the real lesson is that there's no worth living if there is no risk of ending it, or in a less extreme way: carpe diem quad minimum credula postero... seize the day and trust not the morrow; nothing is sure about it, so why live on assumptions.

- enjoy...

Antepenultimate GE based post

Here I am living my before last day at GE Healthcare.
I must say that it has been a long stay, & in the end I realized that I really did enjoyed it.
But the goodbyes, regrets, and thank-yous will come tomorrow.
For now I can only regret leaving the people from the bi-weekly basketball games, I met some wonderful and very interesting people there. If it weren't for those matches I would have gained 20kg and grown long hair and a beard. Instead I now play like Vince Carter and only gained a few bruises.
:-)

Why is it called Bluetooth?

Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.


Source: howstuffworks.com

Ho, ho, ho!

Weekend under the theme of family and friends all in the spirit of Christmas festivity.

Saturday, with a colleague I went to this Factory outlet just outside of Paris to buy those xmas presents for Sis', Bro', Ma' & Pa'. Huge place, tons of people; very American style shopping & decoration; it even smells like an American mall!! One can even go through the indoor section with a small train that goes 'tchoo-tchoo' through the heard of people that pack up the place. You've also got all the rainbow-colored decoration and lights with Jingle Bells playing in every corner of the building. Christmas at its fullest..

Then Sunday, little trip to Normandy to see some family I hadn't seen in years. They all loved my passing by and I even got to meet my grandfather's cousin whom I had never even heard of before. I was amazed at how many people in our family own some sort of domain (one castle out of two we saw was part of the family's heritage).
Then I also laughed when I saw most houses in the area decorated for xmas as if they were trying to remind Santa that they still exist and where they live. Though strangely enough only retired people live there. I wonder if they sent their wish list to Santa as well.

What a world...