I don’t know if Borui still remembers that, when I first met with him in ShenZhen and we sit inside Xiao’s car, I told him one of my favorite lines in the movie was “Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at you life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?” (Transformers 1, Sam tells Mikaela those words to let her get inside the Bumblebee).
And until today, I can totally say I never regret to get in Polarr’s car.
Back to 15th Jan, last year, I was lucky enough to response to Borui and Derek’s call to join Polarr. I was also a little bit nervous because I had never joined any foreign company before and even never go outside of China, so I didn’t know if I could fulfill the requirements Polarr setting for me. I wanted to contribute all my time and passion for Polarr and indeed, Polarr gave me lots of opportunities to implement my ideas and principles too. I’m so appreciate to Borui and derek’s trusts, it made me feel I’m an important role in Polarr and my work won’t go in vain.
Single man is always lonely, right:see_no_evil:? Before May, I was the only one backend engineer, who was response for both legacy and modern backend development. Fortunately, those days won’t last too long. Patrick joined us and became my best brother in arms. We’ve been serving Polarr by our best efforts and trying to arch our backend for the goal to become the world first class platform. Patrick has always been gentle, studious and optimistic, we didn’t have any gap between the mindsets and can talk about almost everything. Actually, my chair and my toothbrush are recommended from patrick and they works very well:ghost:. We shared many funny and interesting time, from Shenzhen’s hotel to San Jose’s hotel, we played games, moved to shooting sport(Thanks Clement and Mark!) and I watched you sleeping all the way due to the lack of passport:joy:. For sure, I like you. Hope you remember our experiences and our backend’s creeds, go with all the lucky and chase your dream!
I do remember I always followed behind Jenny, Siyao, Alex, Johannes, Borui, Derek, Yuhe, Tauseefk, Lia, Tia, Sean, Jake, Water, Lara, Ivana and… shit, I need to list you all… to say the famous gexin’s ordering words – The exactly same copy as her/his. It’s not only because I didn’t know how to spell those words, but also me trust your tastes. Sadly, some of you failed me!:sunglasses: (I’m watching you, jojo, I ate the whole two weeks vegetable taco and burrito with too much sauce.) From this day, you never need to worry about some one will steal your taste, copy your order any more. Enjoy the rest and peaceful, have a nice food time.
I also remember the karting kings – Mark and Colin, the 24s speed goes in my mind forever and I’m still waiting the chance to become your copilot, Colin:rocket:.
No need to say, I even talked about marriage with Patrick, water and Lara, talked about politics with norm and Alex O, watched a Korea action movie with Jake, what the hack?:scream:
My first go aboard, first snowboard, first baseball, first 10+ persons board game, first taco/burrito… I still remember Borui said “Every inch we move in USA is Gexin’s new step in this new world”, there are so many stories I can tell to you but I don’t want to do it in here, they will keep in my heart forever and in the future, I’ll tell to my family and friends, with beers and smiles.
But, It’s time to say goodbye, at the time that I’m still the best image in your heart.
I’ll join a Chinese Company – Alibaba, specifically, Taobao/Tianmao Group , to chase my dream. It’s a hard decision to make but I have to do it, because it’s good for both of Polarr and myself. We broke up but it cannot cover the truth that we loved each other so deep.
I only have 500 English vocabularies and I know most of you aren’t necessary to tolerate it(sorry Sean, Tim, Ivana :hear_no_evil:), so let me paste a song lyrics(From Gaga’s Always remember us this way) in here to express my emotion. I heard it all the time recently and it breaks my heart again and again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voo86mlxZvA
That Arizona sky burnin’ in your eyes
You look at me and, babe, I wanna catch on fire
It’s buried in my soul like California gold
You found the light in me that I couldn’t find
So when I’m all choked up
But I can’t find the words
Every time we say goodbye
Baby, it hurts
When the sun goes down
And the band won’t play
I’ll always remember us this way
Lovers in the night
Poets trying to write
We don’t know how to rhyme
But, damn, we try
But all I really know
You’re where I wanna go
The part of me that’s you will never die
So when I’m all choked up
But I can’t find the words
Every time we say goodbye
Baby, it hurts
When the sun goes down
And the band won’t play
I’ll always remember us this way
Oh, yeah
I don’t wanna be just a memory, baby, yeah
Hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo
Hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo
Hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo
So when I’m all choked up
And I can’t find the words
Every time we say goodbye
Baby, it hurts
When the sun goes down
And the band won’t play
I’ll always remember us this way, way, yeah
When you look at me
And the whole world fades
I’ll always remember us this way
Bye, Polarr, I’ll always remember us this way.
Hope we have predestined luck to work together again, with a better Gexin.
Welcome any kind of interruption, and if you travel to China, don’t forget to call me and I’ll buy you a cup of drink.
这是我们后端负责人离职前给我们发的一段文字。平时憋破头都不愿意说英语的他写了一大段，来跟我们道别。他会去杭州天猫做一个全栈的组长。我们都祝愿他一路顺风。
聚散离合终有时，格欣是一个很优秀的程序员，也是一个很聪明的创业者。street smart是他的标志。他也是我见过最虔诚的党员。我们第一次见面连喝了三杯咖啡，聊了一整天，在深圳北站从白天聊到晚上他高铁回广州。对于他的职业选择，作为同事也作为朋友，我都是完全支持的。
江湖再见，期待在杭州喝大酒。