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?
Acoustic piano is beautiful, it flow with emotion, it bring peace , I play one acoustic piano album this morning while writing my blog, the music pattern and pad make you write down something more sentimental and more touching, when it come to describe " things ", you may use more beautiful word out of your vocabulary and decorate the feeling upon. music is catalyst, you don't know exact how it influence people, but it existing, it does.
A quarterly get together with Mr, Yu. last night, I choose the sharks fin restaurant again, not because the price, but for the sincerity and my personal favor, the appointment was made at 6:30 pm, I was happy one hours ago as Chairman of CHT ok to meet my big boss in Tokyo on 2nd of Feb, I feel release, on the way to the restaurant, I figure out how to make this meal as happy as possible, I think and think, and find a way to make it a great one, I return the favor to Mr. Yu and let him fully understood how this pre-arrange meeting cause my heart tremble and why I insist to purify our relationship to a " Friendship worship ", when we were tasting the great soup, come along one mid-age lady -- a rich one I guest, followed by one young couple -- a man and a woman, I was wonder how happiness it is, a mother in law bring them for the great meal, I also noticed that the young woman is pregnant, then the old lady started the conversation, I am too close to their table and can help listen to what they say .... it was beautiful until the young pregnant woman erupt jump out her chair and yield to the man to make way for her to leave, it happen so sudden, I am afraid some accident may cause so I pay attention to the situation developed, then, the pregnant woman leave, the man follow to catch her, the old woman left alone at the table finish her sharks' fin soup without saying a word; happy was what it looked in its sharp, rich doesn't bring a guarantee happiness.
my wife went for a minor eye lid surgery to take out over-fat oil in the lid, it's a minor operation, but to me, any surgery is a risk, so I didn't sleep well the night before and say a few word to her, actually, I am all against to change someone's outlook due to the reason of getting beauty, this is a half-half situation, I didn't post a strong opposition to her decision, but I don't feel comfortable at all, the small surgery finished by 11 am, she called me and said every thing is ok. then I am better relaxed.
this morning, HQ bringing a compliance officer to conduct a code of conduct briefing, ethic and integrity become important to global player, gray area need to be swift away, they visit our office in the early afternoon for a 40 minutes tour.
Finally, I finished the promised home work -- Taiwan popular music industry development project , I promised GIO to write the project 10 days ago , but start my work on Monday, even I do it quiet rush, but I thinks it's a " ok" plan, as I may be the supervisor to review this project, so, never mind there's room for improvement.
when checking the golden horse film festival, I learned that on the 12th, Warner Village will schedule the " best voted films by the audience " and re-run it whole day, as I can't secure any films which is popular in advance, so calling my classmate to " secure the seats for the entire day for me ", it seems works, so, I am planning to take one day off and enjoy 6 films straight for the festival, I never done this crazy thing for like 20 years, I love to do it again.
last weekend wasn't a bluntly one for me, the only good thing is go to the movie " far of the world -- ? " a film directed by Peter Weir and acted by Russ Croke, a very macho film with no female actor, it deliver a lot of " man's value " in the movie, a good one through.
