Ican really feel his heart, Oda -- a man over 50, standing on the stage, telling the world where he come from, how he feel now and where he is going to, an artist for decade, so truth and so sincere; last night at TICC, we sponsor a J-pop concert, in the very beginning , this is the reconnection of relationship with Mr. Yu, then we treat it as a retention program, but it end up of everyone enjoy the concert, from Japanese executive to all the Taiwanese audience, I can tell half of them don't understanding Japanese -- that include me, but still appreciate Oda's music so much and feel how he feels on stage; to me, this is a replicate of Oda's musical journey for the last 3 decades; he names the company Far East Club, dreaming of becoming an international artist, begin with forming a local band " of course " a very popular J pop band in the 70 and 80th, I knew very little about him, but he seems to know the limitation of knowledge extended to most of the audience, that's why the program design and repertoire he offered is a " Knowing me " process, what touch me are:
-- as 50th, he still performing on stage, so energetic, sound so beautiful. touching audience with wide range -- from teens to 50 years old.
-- so sincere, to facility the concert, he prepare almost all the introduction in English. some of the famous numbers, he even add on Chinese subtitle and broadcasting on the huge LED projector on stage.
-- sing for 2 generation, the story in Singapore is so impressed.
-- one song in Mandarin, this is the tough part, for please or intention local audience, he have to learn new language, new songs.
as a sponsor, we really gain more than we give, Mr, Yu always keep me on the spot light.
M. came from Singapore, old friend get together is so happen, after the concert, I brought him to the local restaurant, we talked until midnight. went back home, my daughter’s home work sitting on the table waiting for me. I have to finish it before she get mad in the early morning, access to the internet, download the Chinese Nod picture, combine the information and take them to her room.
It's been a while since my last late for home, this is not entrainment industry, I don't need to fooling around until wee hour.
Yesterday, the meeting with the Music company didn't go well, I see two party communicate like stranger, I don't known why, but can feel if this is the attitude to launch project together, we will definitely failed, so , I stop the meeting for a while, my interruption is to prove to every attendee if we don't like to do it, stop it now before it's too late, top down assignment will never be a good case, rapport and commitment is the prerequisite before any project. just like Adam from NACS asked : how you make the great improvement for this new initiative, my answer is First; passion, second: Passion and third : passion. I need to fix the problem before it go out of control, we are inexperience in the entertainment field, I may make the first contact, but it won't be good to open the channel then break up all the relationship I built before.
Miss Hung called, it surprised me, it’s been 5 years since we lost contact, and she runs a very successful Taiwanese seafood restaurant and opens the branch in Shanghai. Very success as well, I may see her in Shanghai on my next trip.
this is so close, I am sitting next to President Chen at the Gala dinner last night, he leave after deliver the speech and present recognition awards, as I was sitting on next table, we shake hands on his way exit the dinner hall; the security is so bad, if some of the attendee really want to do something bad to the President, he or she may simply grab the steak knife on the table and change the history last night; yes, the security is on duty, but none of them surrounding by the President table, no metal detective equipment before the gate; table between table is so lose; next year, the election is so sensitive, any mistake happened. the history of Taiwan will change.
International bossiness alliance conference ended last night, I participate 2 major event, first is the opening ceremony, second the gala dinner, opening is a chaos, no seating , i complained, I was late for the Gala -- even after President's appearance, so, the receipts hurry escort me up to the venue and not even knowing my seating table, and lead me to the main table next to President; the meal come too late, I didn't finish the meal, the person sitting next to me is so annoying, talkative with nonsense. I really sick of response to him, first program arranged by the organizer is 6 man acapella, good repertoire but poor performance, I thinks the problem is the selection of songs and the microphone, it sound awful to me; singing, especially singing in foreign language is not a " strength " for us to deliver at the international ceremony, how to distinguish Taiwan flavor art form and to leave impression to foreign guest is a subject need to be discussed. maybe the programs offer at Sher-ming hall located inside Taiwan Creamery Building better suit the ambience. this is a music viewpoint. the MC is terrible, she make fun of the President and didn’t aware of this miss-behavior, the funnies things is the senior government officers ignore this miss-conductive, this is so strange to me, compare our international conference -- a multi-national company, everything is better off , there's a lot to be improved.
Iwas invited by BMG to deliver a speech on Sunday for their mid / up management, as a veteran of music industry and now working in the telecom / internet sector, they asked me to talk about the future of music industry; any industry worried about their future tend to seeking advisors' insight to reflect on their uncertainty; I am not very please to talk about " future " or ' strategy " as it is too conceptive and won't do any good for them, so, I come out with an adjusted subject " The future of music business as we know today ", they held this training session in " Sunrise " Golf Club, it took one and a half hour for me to go there, so, I decided to bring my family with me and take this opportunity to enjoy some local scenes; along the highway, I played the boy duo’s cover, listen to 4 artist who we sign 4 years ago when I was the music company head , but never got a change to release their albums, my wife asked who they are and do appreciate the songs they sing.
this is my habit to tell " present tense " when opening any speech, I unveil with 2 points : sunshine, driving, breeze and holiday always accompany with good music -- this is what the boy due and REO Speed wagon provided ; 4 great talent with no release, this is the cure fact happen in the world of entrainment -- we failed a lot of people's dreams; in a business of create hype and hope, we failed 94% of them. I spend entire 3 hours with them, 2 hours for the speech, one hour chatting during the lunch; the speaker's compensation is no bad -- I was rewarded for 10,000 NT. so, I buy the family a good seafood dinner, after the speech, K drove us to Nai-Liao fish port, a now developed tourist fish port in Shin-Chu, it is so windy, we strolled in the fish market for half an hour and find ourselves a great sea food restaurant and enjoy the fleshes; after Nai-Liao, we took the west beach highway home, accidentally, we drove by another fish port - Yun-An, we stop by as well, it is dark already, a rainbow-colored bridge ahead of us, Yun-An is under a transforming process and aiming to become another tourist fish port, we stayed for another 30 minutes then drove back home.
Monday morning is the International Business Alliance opening ceremony, we were begged to present at TICC, the organizer is so bad, I could not get my badge and hardly permit to entry the venue, no reception for local foreign company, no seating arrangement and no encountering session, I am a little bit disappointed, if we were asked to fill the venue, we may send the company receptionist here instead of us, after President Chen deliver his excellency speech , I exist myself out of the venue, and found, a lot of guest do the same thing I did; lunch with Ben and know that his freshman daughter do enjoy Lee-Hom's concert and leave a great impression about him, well, I told him may turn her dream come true by end of this month if Lee Hom keep his promise and visit our office then, I will inform and invite her daughter and provide opportunity for them to take picture together, it's easy for me to do this but a lot of people can't fill it or feel it, as the VP of BMG asked my during the lunch yesterday why a lot of people in the music industry developed a very bad personality, my answer to her is , people surround super artist tend to building walls between artist and the real world, asymmetric and unbalance information create a room for margin or profit, this is the fat they want to keep it with them. Artist life cycle is so limited, they tent to take as much as they can while they can, this is the jungle rule, you can't avoid yourself.
ETB news conduct an interview with me in the afternoon, I think I made a good response to the TV news, hopefully, within these few days, it will traveling again, John called an invite me to a Royally speech on Nov. 18, I am honored to take this opportunity, John is a very successful business leader who just made his company a public listed company and was elected as the model of young entrepreneur in Taiwan, a nice and gentle person.
Dinner with Wu, my pre-college institution associate, we were best friend then and knowing each other quite well, I pick the restaurant " ko ", he buy the dinner, we enjoy 2 hours conversation with great food, I am planning to go down to Cha-Yi with him one day and stay at my classmate's MOTEL once.
Showl. reply my mail and called, yes, there's a chemistry and I think she will be a good bridge for me to build consultancy platform in China, I would like to buy her lunch whe she go up to Taipei this coming Wed.
" Rumble Jungle -- the countdown " is a very entertaining movie, my wife didn't expect it will be an exciting movie, we do enjoy the 100 minutes of action and fun, leave earlier on Friday making us room for another gathering, we can casually go out for dinner , then go to a movie and sleep deeply till the late morning, it seems like we have extra holidays, I may need to take it more often.
Saturday noon, our ping-pong team get together for a " Champaign lunch " hosted by Sam -- the second tournament Champaign, Osking choose a sea food restaurant which name it after one special dish " the squid rice noodle ", the restaurant provide flesh fish direct from Peng-HU- an off shore island in northern Taiwan, the fish is so flesh, we ate is as kid and forget all the table manner,
Saturday afternoon, Teach Tseng brought Raymond to my home , we did get acquainted soon and build the friendship, Raymond is a decent and nice young man, we did share a lot of industry future -- he is in the telecom sector as well, I will like to introduce him to friend / associate I know and help him build his presence in Taiwan.
This is for the last 4 days.
