2004/05/04

It is a long and exhausted Monday, due to the unsure peering negotiation situation, COO call an early meeting before my visit to S. company, we discussed how the " commercial negotiation " may impact on our business and try to think how they develop the idea of " private peering " criteria; as we may not fit the " 4 conditions ", so, we spend a week to check how the rule of the game may benefit us as well, and figure out under what circumstance we may join the tier one club and be the beneficial as well; I paid a visit to S company and communicate on our " wishes ", as this is a commercial negotiation, no one knows if our ground fit their idea or not, anyway, we speak out already.

in the afternoon, been invited to NTU deliver an " Industry competition analysis and future watch ", as I was informed one week ago, I took decent time to prepare it , a 2 and half hours speech really exhausted as I am the only person speak on stage, I am happy to see the response from the students, this is totally different from what I did last week in Eslite / Winds forum, student is obliged to attend class, obliged to pay attention to teacher and taking notes, there's measurement tool behind them --- examination and scores; I knew that I deliver a great speech and didn't fail the mission.

after the speech, I rush to pick up Mr. Yu, my old and elder friend who promised to help me do the " announcer " in our TV commercial, this idea came up last week when check the final version of our TV commercial, I realize we need a quality voice / strong recognition voice / positive tone to leverage our Brand, the 3 announcer who the director presented wasn't fit my expectation, so, I asked the director if Mr, Yu's voice presentation qualified ? as everyone seems OK but didn't know how to contact him, I volunteer to send the invitation, Mr. Yu reply with a firmed OK -- this is a trade for 20 years of friendship. we arrived at the studio much earlier, it leave us enough time to have a coffee and conversation, as usual, we talked and share almost everything, when the recording time approached, I walked him to the studio where the director, our advertisement reps were gathering there for this moment of history, the recording went as smooth as Mr. Yu told me earlier, he is so professional in the voice presentation, the branding message sending by him do carried the quality, I am so happy this idea and friendship prefect our TV commercial. after this, we had dinner at the " Flesh Fish " restaurant, 2 of us, continue our endless talk and conversation.