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I have a new realization today while doing volunteer work with my team from work at a Food Bank. If any company is to interview a bunch of candidates, the best way is probably take the whole team and the candidates for some 2-hour volunteer work which involves working in some sort of an assembly line. You can see the person's social skill, his work attitude, his ability to be flexible and work with others. I, myself also learned something new about myself today. I found out I can not stand bottlenecks. I left my position to a guy whom I have worked with for the past 2 years (and is very dependable) and relocate myself to where the bottleneck was in the assembly line. I can't stand people working inefficiently. I always have to figure out a better way to do things and improve on the process and spread it to others like it's a competition or something (even when there is only one assembly line with absolutely no competition). And I would like to know the result on how many food baskets we end up packing at the end of the day, so it was a bit disappointing when that information is not available (because the fork lift was too busy taking all the completed food baskets out of the way with us churning one every 5 seconds). While working at the assembly line I saw some people like to take their sweet time, some people will pick and stay with the easiest task, some take 3 bathroom breaks in 2 hours, some are very talkative, some are extremely quiet, some are very selfish and would not help others when the line is not moving, some are day dreaming ... I know it's just volunteer work and you are supposed to take it easy, but how often do we do volunteer work? If we are there for just 2 hours, why not try to do as much as we can and do the best job? Well, at least that was my thinking... People must think I am very bossy or crazy...? Oh, well, that's me. But at least I know who I will pick and and who I will not - clearly. And some people probably will think they will not like to work with me ever. Good! We can try to stay away from each other. :-P

*Today I saw an article on an インタビュー with 吳倩蓮, whom I like a lot in the entertainment industry. I like her because we have a lot in common in terms of thinking, peronsality and some of the previous experiences. She is very cool and love to travel. Anyway, she said:
「原來，人不需要在每處地方留下太多痕跡。」Something to keep in mind.