Shanghai Tech WriterTechnical Writing, Technology, Web2.0, Google, Shanghai, China

Recent few weeks, security has tightened around the Shanghai office in light of all the news/media coverage regarding Google and China. There’s a security guard standing in the hallway between the two office entrances, making sure that everyone who enters the office has an employee badge or is accompanied by a Google employee. It’s the [...]

Around Christmas time last year, all the Google employees in the U.S. and several other countries received a Nexus One Android phone to dogfood prior to the official release. China employees had to wait for all the official paperwork and channel (strict regulations in China) to clear, which was estimated to be anywhere from several [...]

After almost two weeks of construction, the new Guanglan subway station (Line 2) finally opened! The area around Guanglan station is still a big plot of dirt/construction junk. There’s only one entrance/exit (or maybe two?) that is all cleaned up and open to passengers. Even though the new station is just one block from my [...]

Just read a translated article from ChinaHush about the life of a migrant construction worker in China. The original article in Chinese was written by a construction worker in Hainan, China. He shares his thoughts about being a migrant worker, earning 1600 RMB (~$200 USD) a month, building a luxury apartment high-rise in Sanya, Hainan [...]

Here at the Google Shanghai office, the majority of engineers are men. I can count the number of female engineers with one hand! At my last job at National Instruments, the majority of engineers are also men. However, I sat with the rest of the technical communication department where the gender ratio was almost 1:1. [...]

When I was working at GooglePlex in Mountain View a few months ago, I saw these futuristic-looking pods where tired employees can crawl inside and take a nap. How many companies do you know that allow their employees to take a nap on company time? At my last job, I got in trouble for falling [...]

Zhangjiang Hi-Tech subway station will be closed from 2/14 to 2/23 in preparation for the Line 2 extension to Guanglan Road (2 additional stations). Line 2 will eventually extend to Pudong International Airport in time for the World Expo 2010. Zhangjiang station will be closed all next week because of the connection construction that will [...]

One really cool thing about working at Google is the amount of collaboration that takes place between different offices. I can’t speak for all the products and services, but the product I work with has people in several offices. There’s a lot of collaboration between the development team, global services, customer support, marketing, legal, etc…  [...]

When I got to work this morning, I saw caterers busy in the kitchen preparing various trays of food! I was surprised because they usually come around 10ish to prepare for lunch, but today, it was only 8 and they were already preparing food! I asked what the occasion was and they said as part [...]

Recently, I’ve been playing the Mobsters: Big Apple app on the iPhone. It’s an online multiplayer mafia game where you complete missions, build territories, earn money, buy equipments, grow your mob, and fight with other mobs.
I’m not usually into this type of games, but Mobsters really grew on me. I guess it’s a nice 5 [...]