My throat developed a little pain , so I went home earlier yesterday, before arriving home, I go to the clinic near by my house, doctor said is this a minor infection, take some medicine shall be find shortly; this bring me 3 more hours at night which I normally lack during the week day; the first job is to help my daughter's school assignment, we finished it be 8 pm, that's 3 and half hour earlier than average, the time save is good for a movie, so , I select one DVD from my collection, this time, we saw " Rabbit-proof fence", a story happen in the 30's at West Australia where the aboriginal and white are separated and for those half-caste ( half-blood ), the government invented an interested method to pure the color -- by assembling all the half-blood kids together and check the skin color, for those qualified ( whiter than average ) , they will re-send and arrange marriage ( I am not quite sure this is legal or illegal ) for the generation next, the skin and then developed lighter, so , this it another way to purify the race or to terminate races, 3 kids run away from the central camp, 2 of them managed to go home 1,500 miles away. then one of their daughter write down the novel, now it's a award winning movie. it's a documentary oriented film, the music part is great, supervised by Peter Gabriel, so, a real world approach.
E, called and ask if Julio vital enough in the market for concert ? I honestly told her Gala maybe an idea, but it there's no margin in between, Gala won't gain her any credit or publicity as a promoter, if there's no other purpose such as building relationship with future sponsor, helping artist earn the money, then, there's no point to follow this.
I prepared a strategic meeting opening document, this time, focus on the service portion and try to make believe " Service " is the future for everyone, on lost slide, I add on some multi-media, hopefully, this works fine during the presentation next Monday; browsing the CHINA DVD forum site and trying to find my collection when taking the trip to Shanghai next week, this is a very informative site, it covered almost all the available DVD in the world , but what I found it very seldom ( none -- to be more specific ) film related to politic available, I am wonder if this is another self-sensor in China, a open society with hidden agenda.
a lot of people -- no matter I know or not, told me they saw the commercial on TV -- the promotion CF I did for Executive Yuang in regard to the " International Business Alliance Forum " one of Taiwan's key event in Oct. my wife said I look great in the film, Mom said so, classmate who is located in Thailand mail me and said his wife saw it on BKK's TV, and I am getting old , Wow, this is the third times I hear that " I am getting old " in one day, I am a little bit shocked, yes, above 40 is the fact, but getting old is simply for the change of shape, this astonishing discovery make me think more ; always young at heart is my believe, how to make my believe a message to myself and convince myself the shape of old or the body is not a big deal, it will come ultimately, take it , don't against it.
I lost my last blog a few minutes ago, this is really furstaration, I wrote down a great article but could not keep it, comuper or digital -- you can't really trust them entirelly.
This is to sum up my life for last 2 days, I went for the movie " Seabusicuit " when returning form Tsaoling -- a mountain villa located in Central-southern Taiwan, a great movie , as most of the stimulating movie, this one is no exception, thanks to my illiteracy to Modern American History and the Horse Racing, so, when I learned this is rewritten from a true story, I am touched even before go into the cinema; I bring my wife to Dioliu for the classmate reunion on the 27th -- a 30 years anniversary when we enrolled in the Chen Shin junior high school, it's so difficult to start it, the turn out wasn't impressive -- in total 17, I am upset to receive called on the morning of 27th when someone said he could not make it -- I don't mind it's a " no show " or " absence notice in advance ", but this is really aperture, the angry get over me when handling the conversation with the guy, then I am relaxed, as least, I have a great reason not to continue seeing him, the harvest from the gathering is find the candidate for next years' reunion -- Fun-chin chen is so full of passion, we are glad that I am not the only person excited about it, as this is my top 10 resolution in year 2003, I finally made it; the gathering lunch took about 3 hours, what I need to follow is redo the contact list and make sure the communication is going on.
as Sep.28 is our 15th wedding anniversary, so I booked the villa up in the mountain, there's no high quality hotel in Diaoliu, so from the internet, I identify this so called " SPA villa ", we order one taxi to Tshioling, when arriving at the hotel, we have doubt about it's quality, we are right about it. the bed sheet left some human hair, pillow is humid and wet, room is small, the in room spa facility was locate in the balcony; the room price 4800, it's very high, but forget it, we only here for a peaceful night; change our cloth, we take a walk around the street and this is where we obtain our education about 1999 921 earthquake -- we walked by one pedestrian and find 2 momentum which describe the tragedy happen to the Lo family who were killed by the earthquake in 921, the total 5 lo families were survive 7 and lost 29 of their relatives, the earthquake also change the shape of the mountain, they called it " Walking Mountain " it felled to 490 something meter from original 1100 meter height; after 4 years. I don't see any recovery of the tourist business, we stop by one of the local restaurant and order some local flavor, the only good thing we get in Tsailing was getting a very good sleep -- we went to bed before 9:00 pm and sleep until 7 in the morning, the wedding anniversary is a set of eating, we ate local Diaoliu delicacy to Taipei vendor to She Ta night markets. This marks our 15 years anniversary..
