2004/04/20

Not in a good mood for couple of days, doesn't have a good reason, feel lazy and don't want to be energized, last Friday, having dinner with M. who came back from Hawaii and we spend a few hours together, wife warn me not to disclose too much information to him as I was hurt before , so, I conduct the conversation around the family and diary life instead of any decent business dialogue.

Saturday seems quiet, went for a local noodle shop for brunch and heading for ping pong session afterward, one of our ping pong team member depart for Shanghai on Saturday, the first " emigrate " working in Shanghai, Osking told me he will heading for China on Monday for 20 shows and traveling in China until end of May, so, from next week, there will be only 3 of us fighting each other.

J. host a dinner on Sat. night and invite a few Chang - Ze University friend join the dinner, it's a Tai Ta / Chan-Ta dinner, I arrived at the restaurant on hours earlier , so take the opportunity sitting on the MRT station exit located in Ding-Hao area, the fashion and trending place for teenager in Taipei, it's been too long for me to close observer the young generation; I remember what Nicolas Negroponte mentioned on his remarkable book " Being Digital " , i cited " There's no information gap, but generation gap ", to me, this golden rule apply to all kind of trend; I open my eyes looking at young kids walking in the Ding Hao area, they are different from the old fashioned, in the old day, young and fashion deals nothing but wearing designers customer, shows your brand / loge, but today, I found the young generation spend so much time to "design " themselves, successor, color, cloth, hair style, shoes, they assemble and making the piece of their own identity, spend time ( money perhaps ), this scene attract me very much.

Movie on Saturday night is terrible -- Jim Carey , I was fooled by this character, I though every drama he perform, shall have something to take back, unfortunately, this is an exception, I am so disappointed;

Sunday -- father and mother take a 10 days trip to China, a freedom to my wife, she is so happy, so, we have our lunch in Keelung -- the vendor in front of the temple is so delicious, after lunch, we took our chance to visit Chiufen-- a old mineral town turn to be a trendy nostalgia place, it's too crowed to visit, but we managed to find a parking lot and enjoy 2 hours of the trip.

Monday night was good, TPO held a dinner / speech, they invited Professor Bai told me the beauty of "Quin Drama " and introduce the ' Envoy Garden ' a late Ming Dynasty drama to all of us, met a few of TPO and get chance to be educated by professor Bai, what a honor. I took some memory and wish to keep it with me as another " Days when I am with YPO "

posted by Roger @ 4/20/2004 09:36:00 下午