2003/12/25

this year, Christmas Eve wasn't as fun as before, Taiwan didn't follow the tradition , exclude Christmas from the public holiday from this year, before 2003, people in Taiwan celebrating the Christmas due to the " Constitution Day " instead of celebrate the birth of Jesus, I am not against this new rule, because if the holiday was set by the religion, then Taiwan shall follow this rule and create new holidays for different religion, as this year, Christmas is a Wednesday, we go for ping pong as usual, but I do have a wonderful Christmas Lunch with Jesse at Wulai; Jesse is the GM of the best boutique / design Hotel in Taiwan -- Park Spring Wulai, a hot spring resort hotle located in Wulai, Jesse who was employed at Regent 3 years ago, that's where our friendship growth, I accidentally found this great hotel 1 and half year ago and love this place, nice view, decent service and great room, me and my wife were invited to a free stay then, and we love the public spa house. when having lunch at the restaurant with Jesse, he told me the story of the unique spa management company, Ken Yu -- which provide Spa facilities, training and skilled master for pumping your body and soul, when he told me some of the girl who owned high education background even graduate from National Taiwan University, this is beyond my imagination, a lot of training and examination turn this Spa management company a spiritual consultation firm, so this is so called " extension of core competence " we had a great lunch and I bough a free stay / 2 meals package for myself, I want to use it as the lucky draw prize for the coming Year End Party.

Last time, since Osking was in China for some Christmas activity, the remaining 4 ping pong player practice double play the first time, this is fun, team play is totally different from single play, corporation and harmony is critical to every ball you handle, we may do it next time, and may develop some strategy for double play, GTG GM sending another 100 free tickets for me, is save us a lot again, Sermii send me season’s greeting well, I shall think about her sometimes, favor shall be return when the chance come.