A friend visit from Dubai!

Our friend, Gregory, has been visiting us in SF to tell us what's happening in Middle East and Africa regions. We were planning to hit beach together today but gave up due to his cold. Well, let's at least take a pic with our board!

Swell is coming!

Though it is windy, SNAP Mobile Surf Team, decided to hit beach since a huge swell is coming! Hitting a road on highway 280!

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Almost there. It's rather windy...

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See the rough waves behind him! Well, he is determined and going in. Nice smile before hard paddling...

SnapMobile Holiday Party

Dya and Lisa (Husband and Wife) volunteered their house for the SnapMobile Holiday party; there was pleanty of food & drink not to mention the house was decked out with Holiday decorations.



Here the SnapMobile Party goers, look at all the smiles :)


Lisa hard at work decorating the tree before the party, Lisa makes a good " Imagineer ".

Lisa making sure every thing on the tree is just place right on the tree.

Our master Sushi Chef preparing a ton of sushi.

Peter was kind enough to crave the meats.

Our Sue Chef Heidi preparing to plate food.

Executive Chef Dya surveys the dinning room.

Flying after work!

OK. After working 12 hours from 6am to 6pm, we need to relax a little bit. Usually we go surfing but recent oil spilt in SF bay closed all the beaches. Well, head of SNAP Mobile came up with this crazy idea "Let's fly tonight!". My first reaction was "What do you mean, fly tonight?". Well, this is how you fly!

Global Field Testing Team

I have met bunch of pros organizing field tests around the globe in Salo, Finland. They were gathering for their semi-annual meeting from Europe, APAC, South America and Middle East. SNAP Mobile will work closely with this team from now on in order to provide the best service to our customers! Well, they have to visit us in SF so that we can go surfing and wine-tasiting together!

SNAP Mobile in Tokyo Game Show!

Hi all! SNAP Mobile blogs has been quiet... Well, it is not because we have been quiet in activities. Actually, SNAP Mobile has been very active in events keeping us too busy to update blogs! Great exposure for SNAP Mobile and N-Gage in the biggest game show in Asia, Tokyo Game Show!

SNAP Mobile Surf Team 3

SNAP Mobile Surf Girls (and one boy) made another surf trip to beach on last Friday evening. The shape of wave was great and all of us had a great time! In SF, October is the best season for the size of waves. We got to come in office much earlier and head out for beach more often!

Friends on the globe 1

SNAP Mobile has many friends around the globe. They help us here and there and we appreciate. Without their support, we cannot provide good quality of service to end-users around the globe. We would like to start introducing our friends.

Yes. First in first, I will introduce our buddy from Mumbai, India. Though his work is not directly related to SNAP Mobile, he has been helping us connecting key people around the globe. Super sharp and kind person with technical knowledge and passion in mobile gaming. Next time he visits San Francisco office, we got to hit beach or Napa!

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Pic from Tokyo Game show.

Our friend from Helsinki (to the left) knows games and strategy. He is passionate about design and was cheking out buildings around Tokyo area. By the way, after this picture, on the way back to Tokyo downtown, he and I were drunk and took a wrong train ended up finding us in wrong prefecture in the middle of night...

Another friend from Vancouver (center), she is marketing person traveling last two months around the globe missing her dogs back in Canada ;-). She did fantastic work to get us exposure in Tokyo Game Show. Thanks to her preparation, both series (Symbian and Java) went really well!

Another friend from Vancouver(to the right), he is from publishing. He was having lots of successful negotiations with many key publishers during Tokyo Game Show. He likes Ultraman, Super Man kind of figure/series in Japan and was checking out figures in Akihabara. Next time he visits SF, we're going to hit SNAP Mobile Team's secret drinking spot.

Anyway, thanks for their support!

SNAP Mobile Tea Time!

SNAP Mobile team holds Tea Time Gathering whenever we get good sweet and tea. This time we had good jasmin tea, genmai-cha, cha-dango, moon cake anc chocolates. Though all of us were busy supporting pushes, people got together @ 3pm for 30 minutes to share fun time!


Product Manager and SDK Manager are in a same "Love Chair". This is how we make sure product requirements are met by SDK development team. Close communication, yah?

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Everyone is relaxing while Quality Assurance is making Macha tea. Looks good...

SNAP Mobile Surf Team 2

SNAP Mobile surf girls (and one boy) are active. They plan surf trips here and there. They decided to hit Ocean Beach for lunch break session. Weather is nice and we are ready to jump into water!


One of our brave surf girls went against a gigantic set of waves. She took off but was caught in the closed-out wave. Sadly one of our team board was shattered but we honor her braveness. Go Heidi!

Ice Cream Party!

OK, just beacuse we have pictures of eating all the time, it does not mean we slack... I say we are efficient to work hard on multiple tasks and still find time to relax!


All the site members were invited to Ice Cream Party!

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Good looking boys and girls, yah? Yes, SNAP Mobile members are cool...

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There are wild looking dudes, too ;-)

Riding After Work

Wave is coming and bunch of SNAP Mobile members decided to hit beach after work. We headed Halfmoon Bay first. However, wave was very small and moved on to Pacifica.

After 2 hours session, I got out and relaxing watching sunset.

It is still light and more people are arriving to parking lot for their after work session.

Last member got out of water with big smile. I am sure she got nice rides!

We are planning more trips to beach. Please join!

Rock?

As some of you may know, I spend a good amount of my free time on a garage-bandy-type project, where I play bass and help compose rocking epics of sweeping grandeur and horrific beauty (yes, it's that shitty).

As I have been asked to describe said project on several occasions, and as I feel that I lack the vocabulary to adequately relate our aforementioned flights of sonic fancy, I present to you a modest morsel of our metallic meanderings, Dystopia.

This is best listened to loudly in a stolen vehicle, driving through the jungle while avoiding the corrupt agents of a despotic regime. Or while petting puppies. It's that versatile. (but seriously, crank those headphones...)

-Andrew

Fresh-baked Croissant from Tartine Bakery

He comes in office and surprises us with presents occasionally. Today, he did it again! That famous, tasty, butterly, fresh-baked, croissant from Tartine in SF. Once you eat this croissant, you cannot forget. It is like eating best "Toro" (fatty tuna). It is a moment of happiness with this tendar texture...yummy.

See this color. You do not need anything else. This one piece and espresso will fill you up!

SNAP Mobile Surf Team

Yes. We have a home beach for SNAP Mobile Surf Team, the half moon bay! This time, we had surfers not only from SNAP Mobile but also N-Gage team.


9 am at Roosvelt beach at Halfmoon Bay. Beatiful and great beach for family gathering! This is south side. I see one surfer out there.

This is north end. You can see Jetty poit. The left end of piture is famous "Marvericks" point. Next time some of us will buy tickets ($200 to see competition on boat) and check out world-famous Marvericks competition.

Yes, there are SNAP Mobile Surf Team Mascot Girls. But borads say "N-Gage". Our next goal is to make "SNAP Mobile" surf baord...

Farewell @ Mars!

Whenever we have release completion, new big milestone completion, someone leaving or someone joining, we come to Mars Bar across our office. They have nice outside area to hang out as well as pool table to play. Nice Friday afternoon/evening beer/wine drinking!

Today we go together to see of James who is leaving for east coast.

Friday Lunch @ Mehfil

SNAP Mobile Team's monthly Friday lunch out spot is Indian restaurant, Mehfil, 10 blocks away from our office. Their naan is so tasty. Motorcycle is the best way to go there since finding parking spot is crazy in SF downtown.


Today, one of our team members and friend, James, is leaving for east coast. We had one last lunch together to celebrate his new departure!

Need some meditation?

Many of us do meditation and Yoga in our team. Maybe this is California thing...
Platform Manager found this free meditation class held in Sunnyvale (Sunday 10am-noon).
If you are interested, please go!



Looks calm, humn? They did not talk about Buddism at all but helping people to obtain calm mind. They also provide Yoga classes.

SNAP Mobile comes to Springfield!

SNAP Mobile team became a part of Springfield universe!
I can introduce some of our cool members.

Our SDK is owned by this cool looking guy. His smile kills ladies in a split second. Of course, he owns nice and big motor cycle.

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Our Quality Assuarance is the man of art. Cooking, Tatoos and various cool stuff. He does not like green pepper.

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Our Technical Writer is also the man of art and culture. We are tea time buddy. Somehow he can speak Arabic, awesome!

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Another cool looking dude from community team. He is tall and masculin. His shy smile is as gentle as spring breeze and ladies heart are melted right away.

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Our server engineer. On top of hard-core coding, she kicks axx when we have regular office potluck party.

Head of SNAP Mobile

Head of our program flies.

He flies really well...

He flies really high, too...

Friday Beer Bust!

After a long week of hard work, quick beer before going home!

Beer makes everyone smile!

Some people make you smile without beer...

OK, let's hit a road! I am going surfing!