Comments on: You can take the boy off the farm… http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/ We provide clever, unique, and flexible solutions Tue, 08 May 2012 06:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joe http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-765 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:26:21 +0000 http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-765 Those are great anecdotes, Greg. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Greg Low http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-758 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:35:57 +0000 http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-758 Looking the part isn’t always all that’s needed. My wife is Chinese Vietnamese. She speaks a dialect of Chinese that is common in northern Vietnam and Cambodia, but definitely not Mandarin.

It’s funny when we’re travelling in asian countries, particularly China, as everyone walks up to her and speaks Mandarin. They look more surprised if I answer instead as I don’t look asian. I’ve been trying to learn Mandarin for a while and can manage some phrases.

Conversely, she can understand some Cantonese and it’s funny when people speak Cantonese, assuming that neither or us understand.

It’s always important to be careful with assumptions.

Regards,

Greg

]]> By: Goodbye Twitter/FaceBook Integration, Hello Readability « WebbTech Solutions http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-350 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:47:08 +0000 http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-350 [...] Goodbye Twitter/FaceBook Integration, Hello Readability I’m me. At least I try to be. I’m not one to put on airs or to be pretentious about things. I’m pretty much a simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of guy. I guess that’s why I once ended up at a fairly exclusive, by-invitation-only, leadership training event in Chicago a few years ago with chicken poo on my shoe, but that’s another story. [...]

]]> By: Joe http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-108 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:50:36 +0000 http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-108 Very nice! I’d love to be able to grow mangoes in my part of the world, but atlas I don’t think they’d do well in Tennessee.

Thanks for the comment!

Joe

]]> By: Nicolas de Fontenay http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-106 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:44:59 +0000 http://webbtechsolutions.com/2009/06/30/you-can-take-the-boy-off-the-farm/#comment-106 I have something in common with you.
I’m a DBA too but I’m born and grew up in the middle of a tropical orchard in Mauritius.

Now I’ve lived in Thailand for a long time, in France for a shorter time and travel around Asia on business but very often, people thinking that I’m french (my name) realizes without putting their finger on it, that I’m not french.

It’s nice to say that I’ve been living in an orchard with 64 different species of mangoes :)

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