my google name tag when i first entered. they've got an machine that prints your name tag immediately after you type your name in so it means lots and lots of people visit google everyday huh.
oh and it's googleween today, all the googlers are encouraged to dress up in costumes for halloween, so we did see quite a few cool costumes (and some downright hilarious). like we saw a guy dressed up as a cow (with pink ears), and a guy who dressed up as a failed american-idol-hopeful, down to the guitar and cowboy hat, and a guy also dressed up as obiwan from star wars! he had a real cool cloak and lightsaber that lights up and goes zingggg when it's lit! haha so fun right!
yeah so they've got bikes that are in google colours (blue, yellow, green, red) parked all over campus so you can just grab a bike and bike anywhere you want and leave them where you stop. each morning, the bikes are transported to places with high volume of traffic so ppl can use them haha. and they've got google shuttles to bring you to work and back, and they've got massage rooms, jacuzzi pools, beach volleyball court (like seriously, they brought in sand just to make a beach volleyball court. like how cool is that!!), playing areas, nap pods for you to take naps in, and stuff like that.
they also have this 150-rule, which means there must be food within 150 feet of any workspace so people can get food anytime they want. and the food is free! so there are like mini-kitchens all over the place, with shelves stocked with snacks and drinks and food, and there is only one vending machine selling food (ie. you must pay for it) which is priced specially according to the number of calories the food has i think. so this educates ppl about the no. of calories that's in the food!
and google also has what they call a google-15. haha when i first came to berkeley, they say we'll have freshman-15 since once you're here, you'll eat so much more that you gain 15 pounds. looks like when you go to google, you will also gain 15 more pounds (and turn into a fat pig) but they do have exercising facilities to encourage googlers to work out so yeah.
and there are a lot of random exhibits hanging around, photographs decorating the walls, and even some dinosaur skeleton structure (which i think is fake but oh well it's cool). oh and they also have laundry rooms, like googlers can do their laundry at work and get them sent for dry cleaning and stuff! and they also have free hair-cut services every friday i think. it's so that googlers don't need to worry about food, or domestic matters and can focus on being innovative and producing good quality work haha. on a sidenote, i really like the colourful decorations of google colours. i nv realised before, but google colours are happy colours!
eh and i got a package from home! mummy sent it and it's my first package from home so yeah, it's a momentous event. i'm happy and i feel loved ^^
love from home <3
p.s. i got to try "in and out" today. it's pretty good, and the menu is really simple. just hamburger and fries and milkshakes. except they also have a secret menu that i didn't know about until today so i'm going to try it next time i go there! apparently in and out can only be found in the west coast so ppl, if you ever come to the west coast, go try in and out!
happy halloween weekend everyone! and i'm going to spend my weekend studying and being a boring jane because i have two midterms next week so good luck to me!
