2003/12/04

stroll down the small isle around the software park, to avoid the lunch crowd, I left my office earlier today, I have not done my lunch out of the park for quite a long time, have noodle and fish ball soup in a small restaurant, walking down Nangkang road, I found a very tiny barber shop, perfect, I was hoping to have my hair cut by weekend, now, I can do it earlier, there's only 2 seats in the small barber shop, the owner is a lady age about 60, she is the only master in the shop , I sit down and asked her to cut my hair, as short as possible; the master didn't aware of how short my expectation is, so, she cut it twice, after the work, I look at the mirror, great, this is the shortest hair I ever have, I feel refreshed , I feel energetic, and I feel free;

in the afternoon, wife called and told me our son -- Sound, making a big trouble in school, he fight with his classmate and accidentally run into one student next door, the student was sent to the hospital immediately , although he is not the person hit the boy, the guy who fight with him did it, but, his behavior at school bring us trouble one by one, Sound's teacher wrote us a letter mention about this, my wife was angry and shock and didn't know how to treat this situation; we have warn Sound so many times shouldn’t fight in school, but it seems our effort was in vain, physical punishment was not a very good method, we did it before, as Sound have been diagnosis developing ADHD, violent vs violent only worsen the situation; I told my wife I want to talk to him, and speak to him over the phone, what I did is to take away his love from his diary life such as : cancel his chess class tonight, not allow him for watching TV over this weekend, these 2 items is what he hungry for; he accept this penalty but we didn't solve the problem yet, what if he still fight in the school and cause someone serious injury or hurt himself, what if this leave a very bad impression to his teacher, what if his clasmate act the same and he can't get himself out of this environmental situation. at night, me and my wife discussed how to resolve this 3 critical issues, we decided to move him from current public school to a private primary school when finish this semester, in the ancient days, if children developed bad habit or influence by bad friends, moving is the advise from the wisdom, we are taking the old wisdom and hoping this will turn the thing around, the only principal or wish for my kids is " not doing anything harming others or society ", the tuition in private school cost huge compare with private school, we had mad our mind to provide him alternative -- change the environment entirely.

Overheard that our sister company -- subsidiary in HK may terminate the business because they don't see the light of breaking even for their operation, this is a 3 years pain already,
try to see a new business and dumping decent money on it, Taiwan is doing the same business as HK, fortunately we will in a better shape, but how to tell our people and media HQ didn't have strong confidence on this new business and we are acting alone now?

posted by Roger @ 12/04/2003 09:34:00 上午