Tiger project
I was asked to buy some small tiger gifts to remember that Ron’s team members succeed in the Tiger project. Omnipotent Taobao.com!
I was asked to buy some small tiger gifts to remember that Ron’s team members succeed in the Tiger project. Omnipotent Taobao.com!
Was in Ningbo today at one of our suppliers who makes Automotive Workshop lamps. Quite some packaging around! (But that’s my business….)
Our sports day was some time ago already (Oct 14), but it took me three weekends to edit the video to this 85Mb, 12:35 min compilation.
The full version is in HD (700Mb) you can order it by DVD if you are interested 
To celebrate we won the 10M$ L-prize with the lamp we developed in Shanghai, we had the largest LED light in the world at our doorstep!
More on the L-prize:
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/main/standard/news/press/2011/20110803_lprize
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that Philips Lighting North America has won the 60-watt replacement bulb category of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. The Department of Energy’s L Prize challenged the lighting industry to develop high performance, energy-saving replacements for conventional light bulbs that will save American consumers and businesses money. If every 60-watt incandescent bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the 10-watt L Prize winner, the nation would save about 35 terawatt-hours of electricity or $3.9 billion in one year and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
Too sweet for me 
Was searching Youtube and found some of our ‘internal promotion’ videos:
One Lighting Story – The essence of Philips Lighting
120 years Philips – What did we achieve the last 120 years
May 15, 1891 till May 15, 2011: 120 years of Philips.
What better to celebrate that anniversary in Philips Lighting! 
So we got a big cake, and watched some of the key highlights of the last 120 years.
OR 
Saw a funny clock (panda spins) when I walked out of airport building on Tuesday.
Ron wanted to get pasta after long working day so that we could be home soon but I brought him to my favorite lunch place – a small neat and well managed local (Suzhou food) restaurant. It turned out he really loves those little juicy soup buns (Tang Bao) and good taste noodles.
Not only Ron came back from the USA this weekend. Got present from my boss returning from meetings in Seattle as well. The bear is from the first Starbucks store, Pike Place store.
It is very likely to be the new logo to release at 40th anniversary. People who work for it don’t seem to like it so much. Mermaid gained so much weight that her whole body doesn’t even fit? 
My trip back from Vadodara to Shanghai was pretty long… Vadodara – Delhi – Hong Kong – Pudong, with a 9hrs long wait in Delhi and a 6 hrs short nightflight from Delhi to Hong Kong. It’s on the way home, so happy to bear it all.
Last full day of my visit to India, we decided to add some more “India experience” in the program. We went to Vapi 250km south of Vadodara by train. Vien was very concerned about me going there because if all the bad news about Vapi, like this. But in real life, I have not seen any more pollution in Vapi than in the other places in India that I was.
Travelling with the “Karnevati Express” was pretty convenient and well managed, not what you see of Indian trains on TV. Or might that be because this is the ‘business train’ of Gujarat? In Vapi we had our private driver waiting for us to take us to two suppliers and for lunch, cuz it was all to be done within 4 hours…
Going up and down to the factory every day was quite an experience. After the first day, I standard moved to the front seat to have a better view, with my camera almost constantly ready-to-shoot. (I think I took over a feature of someone 
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We were most welcome in the WelcomHotel in Vadodara, 400km north of Mumbai or 975km southwest of New Delhi. Upon check-in we discovered that we were in Gujarat, the only State in India where alcohol is prohibited… (There was a note at the reception desk: “Alcohol will be served to foreign visitors in their room only”) Tactical move by Mohit (our Indian colleague) as he knew already that if we would know in advance, we would have him move the workshop to the other Lighting factory in India (Mohali Light Factory, close to Chandigar in Punjab, 250km north of Delhi).
We spend the day touring the factory and discussing all kinds of cost saving opportunities with the local team and suppliers, where I was learning more and more about the packaging supply chain in India. Dinner was served in the hotel, with (surprizingly) beer as well…. Clausthaler 
