I went to the CPod meet up last night and...
xiaophil
January 21, 2010, 01:04 AM posted in General DiscussionThe ChinesePod staff is a bunch of friendly people. Really. I never doubted that they were, but now my perception has been verified. It's a shame I only had a limited amount of time to chat (my fault, not theirs). I was able to talk to most everyone. I saw Suxiaoya, but sadly I couldn't connect with her as she was busy doing CPod promotion stuff. I don't think John was there, but then again, there was one guy who could've been him.
Anyway, as I was talking to them, it really hit home how hard they work to answer our questions (mine especially sometimes, haha). We can't see how hard they work because we only have our computers in front of us. This is why I would like to take the opportunity and say "Thanks for all the help CPod!"
中文播客员工是一群友好的人。真的。我从来没真怀疑他们，不过现在我知道我观念是对的。可惜的是当时没有很多时间跟他们聊天（这是我的错，不是他们的）。我看到了Suxiaoya，可是不幸是我之所以没跟她交流，是因为她很努力工作。我觉得我没看到John，而那里有一个人有可能是他。
不管怎样，我跟他们聊天的时候，我深深意识到他们那么努力工作回答我们的问题（有时特别我的，哈哈）。我们由于只是对着自己的电脑显示屏，于是不能看清楚他们的努力。这是为什么我想对中文播客的员工说“谢谢你们，辛苦你们了！”
warren7
January 22, 2010, 06:00 AMJust want to add my belated thanks to Jenny and Amanda and everyone at Cpod. Was really nice to meet you all in person, and I appreciated the opportunity.
Back to Boston today...look forward to my next visit to Shanghai and Cpod!
Warren
suxiaoya
January 21, 2010, 01:28 AMXiaophil, just to echo ousijia: thanks so much for your lovely post; it really means a lot to us!!
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you. Hopefully there will be another opportunity to chat soon :-)
xiaophil
I'm sure there will be another opportunity as I have yet to get my lazy bones down to CPod headquarters.
John
January 21, 2010, 01:28 AMXiaophil,
I couldn't make it last night. It would have been nice to meet in person...
Anyway, glad you enjoyed it. I can confirm that the ChinesePod team is full of nice people!
JasonSch
January 21, 2010, 01:41 AMNice meeting you Phil! You'll have to swing by the office sometime as well.
helenshen_counselor
January 21, 2010, 01:54 AMReally nice meeting you and your wife Phil! Don't know you are in Shanghai.
ousijia
January 21, 2010, 02:06 AMOh sorry! Thought it was taken on your camera! Will get from Tarsi and send to you!
xiaophil
January 21, 2010, 03:06 AM我也很激动，我认为你们是摇滚明星！
xiaophil
January 21, 2010, 01:26 AM我不知道！Maybe you can help Tarsi email it to me? ;) We used her camera.
ousijia
Oh sorry! Thought it was taken on your camera! Will get from Tarsi and send to you!
anonymous388688
Oh yeah, will bring the camera to work tomorrow :)
lujiaojie
January 21, 2010, 03:30 AM我也不知道你在上海，而且还有个中国老婆。不过昨天见到你们真的很激动，你是个热情友好的人，你老婆也很nice!
欢迎你有空来我们公司看看！
rich
January 21, 2010, 11:47 AMHey all. I have to agree with Xiaophil! I also was able to attend and was great to meet more of the ChinesePod family...and also verified they are all really great, fun, nice people. I did manage to get my pictures up online today, so here they are:
http://picasaweb.google.com/richmahn/20100120_ChinesePod_Shanghai_MeetUp
zhenlijiang
hehe as Xiaophil says, you do look like rock stars!
zhenlijiang
January 21, 2010, 01:29 PMhehe as Xiaophil says, you do look like rock stars!
chris
January 21, 2010, 03:59 PMHad a good time too, but unfortunately didn't get there until rather late so didn't get chance to meet many of you. Is this a regular event? If not, can I take the initiative and suggest another meet up on a Wednesday in late Feb?
Chris
rich
January 21, 2010, 04:36 PMForgot for most in China, Picasa is blocked unless using a VPN as I do. Will find a way to post pictures from my personal website instead when I get somet ime in the next few days.
rich
January 21, 2010, 04:48 PMYou can download a zip file of the 5 pictures I took here:
xiaophil
Hey, thanks for uploading those pics for us to download!
xiaophil
January 22, 2010, 01:13 AMHey, thanks for uploading those pics for us to download!
xiaophil
January 21, 2010, 03:07 AMI'm sure there will be another opportunity as I have yet to get my lazy bones down to CPod headquarters.
ousijia
January 21, 2010, 01:17 AMThank you Xiaophil for that lovely comment! We all really enjoyed meeting you as well. Sorry could not speak to you for longer. How did the photo come out?! :)