Five Years in Microsoft

Today, I celebrated my 5 year anniversay with Microsoft.

June 29, 1999 is the day I formally got on board in Microsoft after half year of internship. The 5 year gave me so much. I am lucky enough to enter a company that I love from the bottom of my heart.

The division I am working at hold a grant celebration party for me. Then I got my Microsoft Five Year Award. I'd like to show off the beautiful gift I was longing for quite some time.

The Big Box

Guess what is inside this box, which was shipped from Redmond, WA to Shanghai.

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Let me open the mysterious box.

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Smaller Box

There is a smaller box. What is inside this colorful smaller box?

Uncover the box - a nice silver clock appears.

The Clock

The Five Year Service Award is a clock. Oh. If the globalization team in Microsoft ever reviewed the proposal of sending clocks as gift, they will find it is not proper in China. "Sending clock" sounds the same as "sending someone to tomb". :-$ So people in China never send clock as gift. Anyway, I can understand. I love the clock very much.

My name was printed on the clock.

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The Card

Five Year Congratulation Card signed by Bill Gates (by print, not by hand).

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There is a plate. I assume I should stick it onto my shirt.

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The Party

Eric helped to took some photos of the celebration party this afternoon.

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by Jian Shuo Wang on June 29, 2004 under Microsoft

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Comments

Congratulations, Jian Shuo! That's an accomplishment many people *never* experience in this changeable world we live in today, and for you to be so enthusiastic about it, and so happy with your job, is an extra bonus. They're lucky to have such a good employee!

Posted by: Carroll on June 30, 2004 12:36 AM

Congratulations ! ;-)

I didn't knew that you had been in Bill's company for that long !
The watch is cool !

You have achieved almost anything from MS - exept Wendy (hmm, maybe she works in MS too ?!) and I hope your future with MS will be bright and prosperous.

MS has a huge potential in China if they do right, so when you go further upstairs in MS (I don't say "IF"), I hope that you still have some spare time to continue your fantastic blog.

Posted by: Carsten on June 30, 2004 1:04 AM

HRM in MS is very special and admirable.:) Congratulations!

Posted by: yimao on June 30, 2004 1:30 AM

wow.....
congratulations ;)

Posted by: tutu on June 30, 2004 9:32 AM

Five years with a multinational, very cool.

Now about all these bugs that your friends keep leaving in my computer software.

Posted by: Angry Chinese Blogger on June 30, 2004 10:15 AM

Nice souvenir ! Congratulations! GG

Posted by: Jessie Chen on June 30, 2004 10:29 AM

hey, dude. Congratuations~~

Posted by: Halcyon on June 30, 2004 10:48 AM

Well done, Jian Shuo! I hope the next 5 years will be as much fun as the first!

Posted by: julian on June 30, 2004 12:50 PM

Congratulations!

What did you see when you looked at the back of the clock? Let me guess: Made in China? :-)

Posted by: JH on June 30, 2004 2:28 PM

Microsoft is hated and loved. But still, it is one of the most successful company in the world. Congratulations!

Shen

Posted by: Shen on June 30, 2004 10:09 PM

Bravo and congratulations!

Posted by: Shanghai Slim on June 30, 2004 11:09 PM

Big Congrats!!! Microsoft is a better place with you on their side :)

Posted by: Robert Haynie on July 1, 2004 11:19 AM

Congratulations! What a happy life.

Posted by: deuteron on July 1, 2004 12:33 PM

haha i was thinking they were giving u the new windows

Posted by: ehD on July 1, 2004 1:39 PM

Thanks everyone!

Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang on July 1, 2004 2:09 PM

Thanks for everyone! I'd like to especially thank Alex and Claire who changed their MSN Messenger display name to honor my 5 year with Microsoft.

Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang on July 1, 2004 10:06 PM

Admiring ...

Keep on your good work!

Posted by: Levin Du on July 2, 2004 1:22 PM

Amazing! Congratulations, JS! I thought MS gave you X-Box as a gift. But the clock is really nice. Now, I know it's not a good idea to give clocks to my Chinese friends. Congrats again and keep up the good work! :D

Posted by: earthmilk on July 3, 2004 9:57 PM

On the back of the clock is

German Mov't
China Case

Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang on July 3, 2004 10:11 PM

yea i've gotten plenty of clocks as gifts here :) westerns wouldn't have a clue about chinese cultural on clock giving LOL

Posted by: dodo on July 4, 2004 12:58 PM

Congratulations to you!

Posted by: Lu Heli on July 5, 2004 12:17 PM

Congrats, JianShuo. I'm going to join the 5-year-service club in the coming Auguest. I'll meet you there :-)

Posted by: rangew on July 8, 2004 2:45 PM

Congrats, JianShuo on your 5 years and yes the clock was nice.I have just completed a li'l over one year at MS and hope to roll on for the remaing 4 years an dyeah congratulations on your joining MCS.

Posted by: Satyaki Panda on October 23, 2004 8:08 PM

Congrats !!!! Five years for me too las May.

Posted by: Carmelo on October 12, 2005 10:17 AM

Jian Shuo,

Congratulations! But shame on Microsoft for not properly observing Chinese custom! Don't they know that according to Chinese custom, it is bad luck to give a clock as a gift. You know? "song biao"

An alternative meaning of "song biao" translated from the Chinese to English means to "send someone to their death"!

Ai-ya!

- John

Posted by: John on December 17, 2007 2:21 AM

Songbiao = Song Zhong in Chinese, which means postmortem in China. So I heard they have changed that in the recent years.

Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang on December 21, 2007 11:42 AM