2004/02/10

Launch with Corbett yesterday, this is the make up lunch for him, I miss the appointment -- well, mistake contribute by my secretary, which made him wait at the restaurant for an hour one month ago; so I invited him to the same restaurant . when arrived, the owner told me there's an upset person waiting for me a while ago, he drank a cup of coffee then run away with anger; I told the owner I am inviting him again, it make Roger -- the restaurant owner a little bit of out of his word; C will close his internet company by March and thinking of doing something else, he had a principal : every investment shall be limited to 5 millions NT and try to solicited investors to balance the risk; he runs the restaurant -- livingroomtaipei and one site building company mysite, and also runs a virtual talent training / management studio. coming from the back ground of entertainment, as an foreigner living in Taiwan, my suggesting for his next venture are :

1. don't throw away all the technology / telecom / software asset immediately, even thought there's no business now, try to approach enterprise who will need the technology along with the engineer.
2. running a celebrity education / event coordination company in the area of : English teaching, event planning, art and music teaching. internet and website building training.
3. make the restaurant chain a place for next talent scouting venue and building a virtual label upon it.

I will check his site and deliver my opinion.

Elisabeth called, I am a little bit careful when speech English to her, maybe I lack of practicing for too long, my tong and pronunciation wasn't come up with my brain, language is a tool and instrument, I need to sharp it all the time, don't be too lazy in the early morning, I shall pick up the old habit and speak loudly enough every morning. working here limited my practicing in English because there's not much foreign guest and friend as before and the only vicheal for practicing is when doing business review in Tokyo and speech to Japanese in English, well, that don't help much; I shall regularly invite Eithbath for lunch and take chance to improve or sustain my spoken language, written and reading is fair , but expressing is the first impression you make, so, pick it up.

before the lunch, I went to WORKSHOPS and bought ina-san a birthday gift, I pick the little child liuli ( crystal glass ) which made me smile, it works, when Ina open the gift and saw the child last night, he smiles, I did a good deed for him, a yoga smile for one minutes, as least it last for 20 seconds, together with 2 other Japanese colleague, I invited them to the Taiwanese local restaurant -- Meili ( which means beauty ) and eat the ture local delicacy, it seems they enjoy it, I suppose to bring them to oyster cake shop around the Circle night market, unfortunately, it didn't open last night.

It seems that we will get the 100,000 activate subscriber on the coming Friday, 2 very important thing will happen on the day : we black the other eye on the Japanese Puppy Doll and I will drink a few alcohol. this make me hesitate.

Marketing Dept. is another area we need to do house keeping, the manager is too arrogant, no one is smarter than other in a team if we believe " team " is stronger than individual, when we observe the resign employee in Marketing Dept. grow significantly and conduct interview with staff, the finding shocked us, almost all the employee is seeking new job outside company, they lost confidence working here and don't appreciate the leadership from the manager, we are planning to tell the truth, in a honest way and take the control of marketing team before it break up.

posted by Roger @ 2/10/2004 09:26:00 上午