tonight, we held the first after school EMBA party, I am the organizer for the first dinner, Eugenia -- my assistant who support me in great many areas and helping me organize this dinner perfectly; because every party we choose to eat Chinese food, so I decided to change the rule and book " KO " a restaurant provide EuroAsian food in western manner; the turn out is great, 43 classmate reply for attending, and total show up is 41, Chief Chu is so happy with the turn up, a few of classmate approach me and congratulated on this successful gathering and appreciate my well organize and follow up action in which ultimately push every one drop their important issue and raise the gathering priory up to their agenda.
Just like the reunion of long lost friend, everyone stand up, toast to each other, raise their voices, chat and laugh, eat and drink, the wine is never enough for the class like us, so, I control it up to 18 bottles for the entire dinner, MBA graduated shall keep good manner in all kind of occasions, so, as the organizer, I try to control the alcohol level of the party, it seems work.
Extension of personal relationship is like building personal network, if you are happy, then your network will grow; relationship based on classmate is something stronger then based on business, cause there's no interest , competition in between, I am glad to conduct the first gathering party, hope what I achieved can be treated as culture for who organize the next gathering.
I lost my voice due to yielding too much, I need to keep the order for waiter and waitress to serve the right meal to right person, it's a tough job, when you see everyone is so happy, you can't really policy them, the most noise MBA in Taiwan, I guess, this is another memory building process, we are making our personal history.
Had Korean BBQ with two of my Japanese colleague at downtown, as expatriate in town, finding good food is a big deal to kill time or to share with other expatriates; but too much meat for me toady, although tonight is for celebrating my " Free from Thursday class " but I really can't handle meat in my stomach; yes. I have done all my course at EMBA program, once I complete my essay, I will credit as a MBA .
During the dinner, we talked about meat and I told them my personal interpretation of " civilized terms " for mankind eating animal by English, for instance, Cow and OX is animal, but Beef is something for man to consume, same logic apply to Sheep and mutton, Pig and Pork; terms use in eatable meat reduce human guilty when open mouth; this is my personal interpretation, I am not a vegetarian, I enjoy red meat as well, but try to reduce the consumption of red meat in order to keep a better health condition.
It's a pity that I lost everything I just wrote about the surprise encounters to me this afternoon, I had only a little energy to redo it and don't want to do it all over aging, brief is, the artist who I first signed at my entertainment days come visit me without notice, and this lady and I had an unpleasant ice freeze relationship by the time we negotiated on her renew contract with the company; her show up without notice melting the ice between us; I am happy one of my " Why " resolved after all these years. this is so far I want to say.
Her artist name is Meng Ting-wei. the first local artist I singed and developed to Japan.
typo cause nothing appear on this page. this is to fill the space as kid did to their white wall.
I love gadget, especially when it come to small, stylish and compact, to track back my history with electric gadget, my first toy is Palm PDA, at that time, the brand is still US Robotic and it use traditional battery instead of lithium; guess what, I quit like it, at that time, there's no product in Taiwan, I managed to get one from aboard and play it with me, believe it or not, I don't even know how to optimize my PC then, but crazy about the user friendly PDA, Then the habit adopted and developed, I can say that due to Palm, open my door to the new and innovated modern world; then it comes the mobile phone, the first time I saw it in Taiwan is a OKI brand, it looks just like a brick -- pretty heavy brick, you have to carry a battery with you, again, the battery is twice the phone, but what an amazing stuff, you can talk hardly everywhere, my colleague Jessie bought on, everyone is jejunely about his new stuff, the rest without saying, the revolution took place suddenly, more new phone, new function, new feature, same as the development of PDA, now I have one CLIE NX70 ( The camera PDA ) and one Sony Ericsson T610 ( The camera phone ). actually, I have all the models coming from Sony Erisson after the Merger between Sony and Ericsson , trying new gadget give you new aspect to the world, yesterday, T610 arrived at my task, it's so stylish and attractive, but --- some of the application can't be accessed, this is the problem with new technology, bug, debug, trial, test, frustrated, giving up, then forget the function it provided and your habit of trying new application die. -- don't forget we are the consumption power, we spending and technology shall be nice to us -- hate trying, hate frustration, and hate to be clumsy.
How to value the creative? this morning, one loge / CI company came to present their solution for our CI, only provide one logo tag and re-arrange the shape of 3 company logo, they are asking for 6,000 US, our art director is not so happy about it, I explanation to him is " we believe in expert ", if the third party can play the vital role and provide us the solution among our suggestion, we shall value them as well, but what's the price for the creative? internal employee who contribute even more but get reward less; To me, this is a ticket of creative security, we need someone outside to reassure our doubt, this is the same token consulting companies did for all kind of solution.
Expert become expert because he or she got example to display, most people rely on what they did before ( experience / credit count ) but not what they will bring next, it's a dilemma How to value the creative? this morning, one loge / CI company came to present their solution for our CI, only provide one logo tag and re-arrange the shape of 3 company logo, they are asking for 6,000 US, our art director is not so happy about it, I explanation to him is " we believe in expert ", if the third party can play the vital role and provide us the solution among our suggestion, we shall value them as well, but what's the price for the creative? internal employee who contribute even more but get reward less; To me, this is a ticket of creative security, we need someone outside to reassure our doubt, this is the same token consulting companies did for all kind of solution.
Seafood at New Southeast restaurant is so delicious, accidentally discovered this restaurant with my wife about a year ago, as it located in the old town of Taipei, so, only a few modern Taipei citizen know this place, it provide variety of sea food with excellent cooking style, most important, it price so reasonable that you hardly believe what you just consumed.
Last night, our ping-pong team held dinner there, 5 of us spend less then 3,000 NT for a feast, we ordered live shrimp, live crab, smoke fresh fish, grill fresh fish, pumpkin mix fried rice noodle, onion salad, vegetable and one gorgeous soup -- the ' Buddha jump over the wall ", can't position us the gourmet in town, but we try to identified good food with good price, this is how our team looking after.
During the dinner, Eric raised the championship idea, we all vote for it, so, now we are on a tournament , basically , it's a season championship, who reach 100 wins get the first prize, then base on the sequence, we will decide the handicap for each player for second season's competition. Of course, winner have prize, we been thinking of something like Gold pledge, but there's also a winner curse -- he shall invite every one to a meal equivalent to the value of the Gold; so, everyone's happy about the suggestion.
The tournament will commence this coming Sunday, I think everyone is excited about it, the way we design the game is to extend the life of our sports interest and to maintain a team spirit. any system design or organization design is for the control and commend, we did for different purpose, for a better life and better health.
This morning, I called up Chin-hwa to recommend me a new rack, I am in the hype of preparing myself to the game, I am a little bit addicted to ping pong now.
today is my 14th wedding anniversary, me and my wife -- I call her marvel ball in her teenage and now I forget how I called her, what a surprise, on this particular day, I forget the nickname of my wife, isn't it strange? we've been know each other for 20 years, go back to the old days, according to her -- which I believe that I am her first boy friend turn husband.
Unforgotten moment were 2 trips, one is the family trip to BALI and stay at Armadari -- the resort which I will keep my best memory, and on our 10th anniversary, we plan our 2 weeks self-aid trip to Italy -- one week in Venice and one week in Florence, water city Venice leave us another great memories, I remember when plan the trip, one tour guide attractive all my attention, it stated " the best way to discover Venice is to get lost " -- this is exactly what we did in Venice. we take the plane to Venice and check in the Hotel ( a Palace ) via boat; taking train from Venice to Florence, and from Florence to Rome; when in Rome, Gipsy beggar and thieves scared us, we were trapped in the bus strike -- no public transportation will take us from Rome station to Rome international airport, we take our chance follow one woman to her car, she promised to send us to airport. we were lucky that safety arrived airport. this is so far 2 unforgettable memories we did together.
Yes, we live happily, we respect each other, we value each other and we grow together, she is the woman in my life, we didn't arrange special dinner tonight, as this is the day we officially announce husband and wife , the Chinese wedding banquets was held on Sep. 28, we will the celebrate again, last night , we stay over 12 midnight and kiss each other " Happy Marriage " , she is my sweet sweet heart.
Last week, I went for 2 good movie, one is “Bruce Almighty " the other is " Piano ", Jim Carey is one of the greatest comic actor to me; the story of Jews suffer from Nazi and the tragedy they facing during the World War 2.
I am not saying that Jews didn't suffer serious enough during the war time, but I would like to provide a new angle of why their story have been repeat told by mass media? open any history book , probably all the races encounter crisis in varies situation, even today, Bosnia / Pakistan / Africa existing the race-bloody movement.
I have a wild guess, Hollywood is mainly controlled by Jews, from studio owner to director , even actor, actress, they have a silent mission to tell the world how Jews are suffered from WW2, the contrast of German and Jews lead us to a " Bad German, good Jews " impression. any propaganda with straight message won't win wild acceptance, but to exercise on Movie -- a story telling machine, people won't defense themselves when watch a compelling and touching movie, so the influence is significant, it magnified the trivial and it sometimes manipulate the way we see and feel the Jews problem.
the other viewpoint is , in the developed community, western films is a common habit among educated people, in the other world, they might be the opinion leader in their own society, the may play vital role in his specialty, so the impact roll out and expend. especially when a film win some international commercial film award, people go to movie for fun and believe what they see. not to mention some of the script were markets " base on true story " --- wait a minute, how many of us really check how truth is the " truth story " any story teller or script writer will intentional dramatize the story, so, we better check before receiving all the message dump on our heart.
I enjoy movie still, and love to be kept in the black box, that a world out of the world you may temporary escape, I will go to movies until very old, even home entertainment getting more and more popular.
I went for a table tennis session last night at the Regent Club, this is the first time I joint a strangers' sport competition , due to a weekly game play with friends, I managed to get back the " Game feel " and feel comfortable when playing the game, my body, rack and ball fit quite well, so, last nigh, I conquer them all, 5 persons join the bll game, and I win all the plays; well, since it's game, so I didn't play nice, try to win every game, to those strangers, they might be not so happy about me -- an intruder come to the game at the first time and screw the ambience.
Sweaty, concentrate on game, win the game make me exciting, for last few months, the table tennis game play habit gradually developed, 5 of the members were enjoy the game and wish to carry out it as regular as possible; we play on every Saturday afternoon, 3 - 4 hours, normally I will change 3 T-shirt and drink at least 2000 cc of water, the circulation make me feel healthy, refresh and relax.
I am glad to find a place where I can play in week days, new aspect, new friends, new player .
Today, we held a strategic meeting outside the office, it's kind of escape but productive, the strategic meeting normally will run for 12 hours - it's a quarterly pain and gain. Anyway, I will leave by 6:30 pm and join my dinner with table tennis players tonight.
Converge entertainment with internet / telecom is a hell of job, I hate to go back to the old days, but with the knowledge and experience ( and some credit ) in the entertainment industry force me to play the role again, deal with people in the entertainment , you have to overcome two obstacles -- first the attitude problem , the ego I mean, second the language problem, yes, how to communicate with the same level of understanding. well, a lot of human nature -- the hint side, the ugly side, the greedy side will explore when encounter with the artist community.
I don't know this is a strength for me or not since there's no proven story of how an personal in entertainment successfully deploy converge business model and win strong trend, especially when it fall to the category of technology and telecom, but just to give it a try won't hurt anyone, well, except me who is hesitating in go back the old days. what I wish to achieve is find a new way to communicate with them, change a new mood to accept them and put on me dress to welcome the new challenge.
It's been awhile since I last visit, even I put a " warning " on my PDA to remind me this is ‘weekly to do", but unfortunately, I forgot it, well, you make every technology to help you keep an eye on something, remind you to this and that, alarm you anytime you need to be alerted, but, you are always one step away to continue your resolutions. How did it describe “Good habit die hard” but how to develop a so called “Good Habit “tell me, but not another reminder, not another warning, not another PDA. PC. Cellule phone.
I received an essay invitation last night from National Science and Technology Association, they are planning to held the panel in Mid-Oct with the theme " Digital Content Development ", it coped with my MBA essay writ-up timing, actually, it fit perfectly, I am planning to take it as my side assignment for next 3 weeks and to completed it by last July, If I make it, then I am thrilled to accomplished 2 assignment in one effort. Since I am not familiar with the Essay format, but I would like to use a " Free style " writing and to optimize the " Kororo " examples for this initiative.
By the way, I have written almost 90 diaries up to now , each contained one specific article / topic can easily development into a full scale of writing, hopefully, My goal for publishing one book can be reached as well.
Yesterday, I conducted the first Junior High School reunion in Regent Hotel , there are 8 attendee include me, we are away from school for 27 years, it's time to bring back the good memorized and to hook up the good old feeling again, time fly and it make lots of imprint in our face. Conzu – the great educator in ancient China said, when a man reach his forty, he won't be confused. so, everyone is clear about the statue quo, we are not challenge each other one particular achievement, we are not compete on who earn more than others, we are not value each other in his financial position, it take time to bring back classmate, not only in physical but in spirit. I am glad that I did it yesterday, it's a roll out, we are planning to organize a full-class reunion in late Sep. early Oct.
Not trying to make time for the writing or to compensate the space with nonsense, try to type what I think and do, try to be honest about everything reflect to me, try to use common and simple English, but try to throw a big stone into the water of heart, simply but strong, easy but steady, soft but firm, this is me, a man reach his forty, but still hold lot of confusion.
