professional diary

Today is my last day at The Inquirer.
First, my story about Asian banks was published two weeks ago. It was published on the frontpage of the Business Section. Bill Marimow, editor at The Inquirer wrote a letter to me. In his letter he said "Your insights into the cultural differences between the two cultures made for excellent reading, and I loved the material on safe deposit boxes."
I am happy that he liked the story. I fighted for the assignment and it took me almost one month to finish it and another month to publish it. Finally I made it.
I got letters from my readers and congratulations from my colleagues. But the most interesting thing I have done during this week is my video brown bag seminar. I made a presentation with five video I made about Philadelphia Inqurier, based on my interview with Bill Marimow, Brian Tierney, Bob Moran, Jennifer Lin.
Making video is very time consuming. I worked so hard that my eyes could watch so that I had to avoid to use computer for three days.
It was hassle before the presentation. Because the computer in the meeting room cannot read my files. My laptop cannot recognize the projector. Finally Jeff at online desk helped me to convert my files into wmv 10 minutes before the begining of the presentation.
They smiled and laughed.
I uploaded all the video onto Youtube.
Today Bill Marimow came again and said he like the video.
This afternoon I said good bye to the newsroom. We had a large cake. People gave gift. Bill Marimow said I not only contributed stories but also bring high spirit and energy into the newsroom by running all the way. I told them it was my happiest period during my five year career.