My wife driving a long way to Yungmei this afternoon for us, this is a EMBA classmate faimily gathering - 2 family acturally; we didn't expect that the traffic will be so bad this afternoon until we notice next Tuesday is the Dragon Boat Festival -- one of the 3 major Chinese festival in a year, a few family might take next Monday off and enjoy a long weekend; we drove under 30 miles per hours and it took us 2 and half hours to Yungmei -- the meeting point is Ba-Fun-Yaung a Hakka restaurant and cafe; the cafe located next to the restaurant, under the giant benyan tree, we drink coffee and eat.
the dinner began at 5:30, as we don't want to experice the bad traffic back home, so a early dinner is what we decided, the 3rd party -- along come Doctor Wang join us by 6:15 -- when he arrived, we finished almost all the dishes, the food is OK, not as delicious as some Hakka cuisine we took before, but the environment is what money can't buy, a good place to relax and chat, but for eating, this is an OK place.
morning ping pong session is good, Eric didn't show up neither call us, so the games can't take place without his appearace, we don't understand why he miss this appointment without notify anyone - even call one of us will ease some players' upset, we thought this is a common matter everyone should know, or maybe we are too old to follow the old school promises ? I win most of the games, as some of the player didn't pay full attention to the games due to the practice nature, but to exercise and to sweat out are my purpose, so, I enjoy it better than others, actually, I am exhasusted since I only ate one bread in the morning, after the exercise before home, I ate the cool noodle for lunch, Sound didn't obey his mothers' rule, he's been grounded and could not come for the family lunch which we planned yesterday, so, I ate along and went home join them afterward.
Strek 2 is a modern fairy tale, a comtemporary animation for all age of people; again, I bring the whole family to the Mandarin overdub version; the translation is kind of localized, a few slang they have changed to current affaire, it bring the audience a diffference perspective, but it may be away from the originality.
in the afternoon, when having the coffee break with J. A newly assinged special assistant to executive; for the past few session, the conversation with him is sort of " writing my oral biogrophy ", he listen and asked things didn't directly relate to our current business operaiton; he is the talent I always want to train, so, I don't mind to share eveything with him, today, I assemble and organized my personal theory about the human competition nature : when human specise living in early days, they fight with the natur with bare hand, so I call it the " physical competition era ", they need to climb high to avoid some feries dangerour animal, running fast to escape 4 feets, then the human delvelop weapon , not destructive, but letheal, so , they don't need to hind, then when the communication and trasportaion era comes, they compete from the war to geographic competition; 2 world war give lessons to mankind, so ,they turn the war to sports -- from Olympic game to World Cup -- a football game compete by nations , then ecomonic power become another coloney power, major power nations seeking lowest labor, cheapest material and biggest market, now we entering the competiton of knowledgy, the nature of competion change it surface but it didn't change the mentality of human competiton. so, this is why human race will be destroyed someday and we will no longer live on the earth......
I would like to jump to the bad earlier tonight and turn on the air condition, it's humid and I am ready for the second 5 tigers ping pong champainship tomorrow morning.
another terrible arson tragedy happened in Keelung ; it trigger my memories of reading back a few years ago, there's an article describe the arson in a criminal field, the expertise point out 3 factor than an arson is the worst murder of all knid of criminal behavior; first , fire as a weapon is easy to access, you can get it everywhere ; second, the retaliation by using fire will impact on the innocent, because you are not target as perticular person; third, it is very easy to be imitated; so I memories these point and be a missionary to tell my friend about it.
policy maker regulate the environment before scholar raise their idea of a wonderful world, managers follow the business rule to run the ideas developed mutually agree between policy maker and scholar; this is my intepretation of current PBS development; the 2 extream of policy debating will drive the Public TV platform fundation to different destination; if operation excellency is the key issue, then they need to recruit professional manager before exercise the policy direction; if to reduce goververment liability is the prerequiste, then non - PBS development for TTV and CTS is a better solution, the managerial role in intergrate the PBS platform won't so relevant; as an obverserver, I am follow the media and check where I might be in the game.
delete the C and C rightone, the phone turn life, a magic clash between the song and the phone, MP3 file can terminate the mobile system, is it too amazing ? I need to do back up today.
check the movie show time, Sherk 2 do have a Mandarin version, I would like to pursuade my wife to bring 2 kids to this one tonight.
I invited marketing dept. for dinner tonight at an India restaurant; Kirk and Barbin attend as well; this India restaurant established 10 years ago, taste very good; I bring my family here a few times, but every time when check out, I found the bill is quiet expensive, so today I carefully go through the menu and price on each dish; drink is extreamly expensive, even a juicy will cost you 200 NT, this is even more expensive than drinking at 5 stars hotels; although the host should not insturcted his guest what to order or not, but I remind my guest tonight, as I think the drink price is rediculous high, total of us is 13, skip the drining bringing another 2600 NT for good meal; the taste is as delicious as before, Nunn ( India bread ) mix with India curry is excellent; this is the first time Barbie having India food, when sending her home, I asked her feeling for the last 3 days -- as I over heard that due to her incapable in writing and reading Mandarin, the internship for her might be borning; on the way home, I asked her opinion about it and we will try to come up with some middle of the road solution over the weekend when going out for dinner with his family
The P900 didn't repaired well, it shut down agian tonight, it is strange when calling from CHT line at home, the calling become the termination order to the phone, when initative the phone, then my P900 shut down immediately, this is so wiered.
the battle between mother and son continued, it's midnight and I have no way to escape from it,
端午節7一11霣了9千萬顆粽子！很難相信在不到一個月的販售期間，可以創造額外的30億營收。
I made it this morning, when decided pay more attendtion to my thesis writing, I asked K. drove me to Shing-Yang street where the K reading house is -- I check the website last night and decided to check the " Star reading house ", I arrived by 8:15, buy a new members card and booking for the morning session, my seat number is 307b -- it cost me only 50 NT for the morning - 10 NT for issuing the new membership and 10 NT for every hour, the card is the key to the reading room, the room is design for reading environment, my seats is a twin seat, 2 person share the same area, when I begin my thesis writing, next seat is open, then my neighbor arrvied, I think she is an old customer, she open the lock in front of the desk, pull out a curtain and hang it between us -- yes, the privacy then bulid, this is an interesting experience, I paid full attention to the writing and the productivity is great; I am thinking of taking one day here every week before end of June, then I might able to submit the draft and garner the permission for oral test;
after the lunch break, I tried the other place, the AV gallery- the AV specility shop run by my friend, he rented a 4 stories buidling and redecorate to a post mordent AV gallery - on the 4th floor , he open a private cafe for friend, a quiet place with excellent coffee, no one there except me, an idea place to change ambience and continue writing, I managed to do another hour of writing, the result is paid off -- 30 pages of book is ready, and my level of confidence regained. take a break in the cafe and read the book " the road less traveller " -- the Chinese version, it's a big bang to me, the opening chapter " displine " is the perfect guidance for my theis writing " take the hard job first, you may enjoy rest of the happiness " " deal with difficulty first, then you will be free from it " Scott Peck telling a financial executive's story to inspire others -- if she deal with the tough issue early in the morning -- say -- the first hour, the she may enjoy easy job for rest of the 7 hours in the office, the other way around, if you leave the hard one the last issue to deal with, you may suffer the first 7 hours ( as you know you have to face it in the end ), he also mentioned how kids don't want to complet their homework before playing even though they know after it, they will enjoy a non-stop amusement ? it's displine -- when parent teach their chirldren not to do it, basically they don't follow what they say, or simply instucted to their kid " Do as I say, but don't follow what I am doing " the double standard confused the kid -- as parent is the hero to their kid when they are little, the role mode confusion lays the uncertainly for the kids; this is a great lession, Scott quote someone said " only the painful experience contribute to the good lession "
My P900 shut down a couple times these day, an expensive toy , the complexcy and refinary mechnism make it vurulable, I make myself the courier to the sister company and try to have someone fix it, unfortunatey, no techinisan in the office, I can only take one seat and start my blog of the day.
It's been 2 months since our ping pong games, since Osking doing his concert in China, 4 of us in Taipei do nothing but keep practicing; tonight, 5 members get together for the 6th champaignship -- according to our rule, who win the first 100 games is the champaign of the round, then we staring all over again.
the competition tonigh is quite serious, as every one want to win - so pay more attention to the game and be more concentrate -- the result is evey one is sweaty a lot, I won 24 games tonight, create a gap of 12 to number 2; the ambition of winning the game from Osking is spreading in the games; we love this game.
over heard the Rock record is jerpordise from the financial crisis again; this is not a news to us, but this time, TV / Newspaper make it a headline which is unuausal; the dispute over Rock Record and Cashbox KTV isn't a simply finanical game; my gut feeling is the FUBON Group -- the investor behind Cashbox is exercising on buying the assest of Rock Record with very little price; at the end, Rock will change management and Duan's brother will be the legend in the music industry. when talking with my wife on the way home, she told me her instict is so correct, if I join them 2 months ago, then I might bury with them and sharing the same tomb.
The PBS news develop bigger and bigger, their's lady who claim to be the General Manager of CTS -- a TV station which is under the reconstruction to public platform; as her backgroud is so green, it lead media to a new doubt of the future of PBS, Professor Kuo stand up and express his opinion -- he fight for his ideology and fight for the commitment he made to me.
I will take day off tomorrow -- not an off, but no to go to office , I will find myself a K study house and preparing my thesis in a effective way, don't miss the promise to myself.
The meeting with dominate carrier this morning went excellent. Chairman support us in a firm way, although we can feel the soburdinate in the company try to debat on our proposal, but the Chairman's will overcome the noize; the last session of the meeting is Chairman's short speech, he explanined to everyone in the meeting why he want to get involved in this issue, although it's minor to the company and should be delegate to VP , his viewpoint impressed me, he took this chance as an oppoutunity to alter the ISP environment and treat us as the ideal sample reflection to the industry as a whole; as we -- a international player shows the transperency and integrity to him, he value our effort and jump in the discussion deeply; I am proud of him, a man with word and a man we should respect.
lunch with Barbie is fun, a perfect time for me to practice my English, I understand her limit in contribute more to our company -- language is a barrier; I asked her a few family affairs, and it seems she enjoy my previous career in entertainment industy, she is major in lesiure and recreation, so should be full of dream in the entertainment world.
second introduction to classmate Lin, this time a YPOer - who make decision on the table and can offer immediate support if the case go smoothly; I give Mr. Lin an education before the meeting, when he told me he don't want to deal with people with attitude, then I told him if he want to represent IP owner or licencing new invention to entrepunure, then he need to change this mentality, as he himself act as the proxy, how come the bridge builder close the gate in one side before the conversation begin ? he lacks the working experience in big firm and didn't climb the corporate ladder, so, I am helping him bail out of the embarrawsing situation; Chu-Yun is so nice, a true YPOer, the door is open wide for us, and his feedback is value for both me and Mr. Lin.
I am tring with my new mini PC, the shuttle brand is really compac and I do enjoy the new gedget.
I saw our DSL product manger smoking in the public area, there's small belcony in the back of our office where our chain smokers enjoy puff; the tiny little space can crowded with 6 persons, and that's the only area for our smoking employee; COO used to be a chain smoker when coming over to Taiwan, he smoke 2 packs per day, about one yera after join the company, he devlop a cough, very serious one, it last for about 1 month, then he decided to quit smoking, he made it; this product manager, I didn't see him smoking before, but surprisly, he is smoking alone at the belcony; I push the glass door and say hello to him, I asked him why he smokes ? smoke as stimulator or to get rid of the stress, well, he replied :both, as our battle with Dominate carrier is a long war, he is the person in the frontier negociate with the operational manager, it make him exhausted, I told him to put himself back and fight for the good fight, as he is an ISP veteran working in previos ISP who run the same battle before; the privious one took 9 years to build the groud we have right now, we only spend 2 months and devlop to a better position, we should not give up and should be more energetic in fighting back.
Barbie on board this morning, my EMBA classmate Jasper brough her to the office, she look just like a X size of my Fruit, J. send her to Canada when she was in second grade , since then, she become a Canadian, to me, I promised her father to put her on our intership program, well, there is no such a program, we are not mature enough to organized such a intership program, just to hand it over to markeing dept. and see how the manager utilize the additiona resource ( or trouble so to speak )
If writing thesis is as fun as posting blog, then the world will be more colorful, I am too laze to concentrate on this and need to escape from the environment I familiar, Thursday - no way to hide.
The negociation process contiune, the more I involved in the negocaiton, the deep I feel we are begging for a living, as the dominate carrier hold up almost all the resources in the market, every move they make will drop a bomb to the industry and this is what I called a " never ending nightmare ", to survive in such a industry won't easy, your are the ham in the sandwitch, squeeze from each side will end your life; I don't like the feeling of controlling by others, rememeber the good proverb : you have to control your life or someone else will;
PBS situation is a rolling snow ball, I didn't know who is the main contributor to the current sitaution -- TTV / CTS release it's share to the goverment, then the government will donate it's share to the PBS system and integrated to a PBS platform consist of 4 main TV stations with more than 20 channels in Taiwan, it become the juicy steak; the planned sturcture by media reform alliance may not obtain the power to exercise it; the other down side is the recent government official appointment stir up the trouble water, all the appointment made by either Executive Yang or Presidential Hall have been challenged a lot, the latest news is Central Eelction Committee re-election of the chairman cause a gigatic hurricane, the one who's been appointed have to accused to protect Green party in every means, as this entity is set for major national elections, should be a fair playgroud for all the political party, as oppisition party and media strongly complain about this wrongfull doing and to compare it to the future structure of PBS system, they have great doubt about the person who will succeed the Chairman, they thinks PBS is another target for Green party to manipulate, if this is the case, should I consider this offer, will it distore my idealogy and my passion in building the best ever public platform ? see what happen.
S. recuritment firm is unprofessional, they should as least give me a call to let me know the answer, if they really want to represent me in the future, this is a basic manner to obey.
I wish I can take a long break, the in the face presure is my thesis, I need a " K book space " to digest what I did now.
After my exercise in Regnet Avance health club, I walked out the lobby and waited for my wife to pick me up, it's 30 minutes past 10, then I saw Master Chang walked along the hall way with the blind stick, his left hand holding a radio ( or a cellure phone maybe ), he walked and listen, without the blind stick, you hardly can tell he is totally blind, I didn't call him or approach, I just stand and thinking how positive he is looking at the future; when in Regent Club, Mr. Change perfomr his skill to my body a few times, with professional massage training ( in Taiwan, the special school for blind will teach them the skill for living -- massage is one of the most important teconotique among them ), he is a talktive person and opmestic one; once he done the massge, he need to sign up in the frond desk, the road to the front desk is not very far, but it's a road of bumble, he have to pull 2 glass door, passing through Sauan and climbing up and down the slippy floor, I didn't see him go passing this route with the stick, he can measure by his foot and feel the distance between all the hurdles, guess what, on his way to the front desk, you can hear him blowing the whilser all the time.
if I am a handicap, the worst thing come to me will be " I can't see ", I don't know if I can gone through the darkness, so, I really admire Master Chang, the way he overcome the hurdle and be positive all the time, I didn't tell him how I respect his way of dealing life, but he do inspired me to be more positive.
bough a new set of PC -- The Mini PC series, I want to repalce the old one and give it to Fruit; I don't know why I want to do it, but I did. tomorrow, K. together with one engineer will come and assemble every thing for me.
The scheduled lunch didn't go as planned, but I do have the Laman in the Laman restaurant and do invited someone there instead; as this is an opportunity to further discuss my morgege balance trun investment fund -- the financial leverage which I might did the first time, the rep. will carefully calculata the amont and shortage before my submit the investment fund.
the stock investment is in a black hole, no one knows when the stock market will return to healthy again, but my seconed tried to buy the security put me in a bad shape, I should not investing by listening to information, I am away from the market and didn't pay attention to the market, as a professional manager, this investment idea is turly a unprofessional move, a good lesson, I can only wait for the recovery. how long ? I don't really know.
Thinking of replace the old PC in my house and move the old set to Fruit, can't decided what to buy, this decision shall be made within today.
David is working on new talent agian, he play to release 4 albume this year, a big burdon for him as I over heard the financial situation he is right now, I told him to grant a few comment is he need and may help in my possible area; I don't want to bring trouble on to me, but I do belive he got talent to identify talent, but he is defenitely not the person to run the business; what keep him working and how to keep it working? I don't know, he got more guts than I am, or maybe then most of us.
Fleshing from the HBO movie just now, a simply story base on a ture cast, the story talked about a gambleing addicted bank executive, how he manipulate the loan and get himself a big credit as a high roller in Atlantic city; I learning from it is : don't be too sure about yourself, onec you addicted to something, it will follow you anyway you go, just like the shadow under the light; the human nature is : no one knows when to stop, if you win, you want more, if you loose, you want to get it back; the movie reflect to my brother in las who's a gambler too, and he tramped in the gamble soo deep that no one want to keep relationship with him; we gamble too, in all area but casino,
man developed problems / bad habits on the way of growing up; how strage it is? become an adult , then you are free to do what you can't before?
Lunch with EMBA classmate -- not class C, but International Business Gruop, Professor Wu is on his sabatical and coming back to Taipei, to take this opportunity, we gethering in one fusion restaruant and spend 3 hours; a casual lunch and free style talking, the NIKE issue is on the table as well as the GM of NIKE is our classmate, although he is absent from the lunch, 2 of his classmate take his stand and told us something behind the scent; I am not convincing by this story and I personally handle a few media / artist / consumer crisis before; To give an offical apoligy in the first place will easy the overall situation, under extream pressure , then diliver message to public will never obtain applause and won't smooth the anger coming from the consumer and been ampfiling by media; I also share my experence of why we building our relationship with media, the ultimate purpose is not for promot us or new product, but to minimize the damage once the company or product encounter big problem; NIKE is a great marketing company, but it dosen't means they are excellent in handling PR issues; the presidental eleciton / gun shot was one of the lunch topic as well, one of our classmate, John , he could not come, becaues he have to climb YU-Shan -- the highest mountin in Taiwan, this is request by his current political acdemice pursue -- he enrolled in the Kaidaglan University -- the political camp run by DPP for training future Green leaders; according to some of the classmat at presence, doing business in Taiwan, you need to take side, now green rule, your political correction will pay off somehow; what interested is across strait, they are beating up the so-call " Green Merchant ", they call someone's name and putting hurdles in the investment they made in China to show all the Taiwan Merchant the price they should pay if they strongly support Green in public.
wife pick me up after the gathering, we drove home take Fruit with us and heading for Sheng Kung -- a local small village turn a tourist spot; the development of Shen Kung is the same as JuFang - a used mine village now become the nostalgia place for younger generation; as the old street turn tourist spot become popular, we see little difference between them, the up side for us is we live much closer to Sheng Kung than Ju Fang -- only 30 minutes drive, we will find ourself an old Taiwan will vendor / local delicacy and attraction; I love the peanut cookie produce by an old shop, crispy and tastety; after a short visit, we drove to Sheding and check how Sound'd doing with his grand father; as this naughy boy fight with her mother this morning agian, he miss the pre-appointment with his grand father, his mother urge him to finish his homework before going out, he yell and shout again, the peace come after I went for the lunch; after fixing homework, my wife drove him to my grand father before pick me up; we arrived by5:30, my father bought this little stone house 20 years ago and renovate to his private hide away . simply and less decorate, he usually stay here to do his calligragy or writing old Chinese Poems for his friend; my father is good as putting couples name as the heading of the poem, then follow with good meaning in each phases; this unique talent make him popular and welcomed ( the other is TaiChin -- his been teaching Taichi for 3 decades ); the stone house now belong to my sister -- we ( me and my wife ) didn't asked any property from my parent, so since the change of owner, we sledom come to this summer house; the view is gourgou here, facing green mountian, you have a river in front of you and in the garden, my father construct a pond with fishes swimming; Kids love this palce, espaecilly in summer time.
we had a dinner in a near by country restaurant, the thems of the restaurant is " the early Taiwanes Style ' food is OK but the ambient is great, we enjoy the breeze and sceneray out of the window.
Home by 8:00pm , next week will be a busy week, the negociation with majoy carrier is a never ending story, thanks God we have COO who really love this game and won't get tired of the negocitition process and stragy.
AJ called in last afternoon and asked a faove of seeking one out of stock VIAO model, accoring to him , the request is down from the HOUSE, little princess wish to have this model and Madamn follow with a few friend, I am not quite sure AJ is in first tier of helping list or not, but quite an unusual experience. this remind me how SONY STYLE saved YPO party last night and Thanks God I am in a right place in the right moment.
YPO members meething plus kick out / off party was the key event yesterday; after the ping pong exercise, I took a rest and go to 101 earlier than the scheduled meeting, as I promise to check the talent and make sure sound check is OK, so , I approached at the MINT by 4:00 pm, Greg's sound check went smoothly, I did some converstaion when waiting the PA staff arrvived; he's been in Taiwan for 12 years and teaching business English, a SOHO so to speak, when expained to him my previous career in music industry,I saw the shining eyes from him; he don't understand why I decided to depart from this amazing career, I promise to help him achieve a few of the musical dreams.
members' meeting begin by 5 pm, 21 members out of 41 shows up, 4 new members include me are not familiar with the meeting procedure, so, I keep silence in the entire meeting; when they discussed the panelty for less active members and the shortage of found, I found every meeting go the same way, no matter how elite the group is, when it come to money, everyone have his own view, as this is an open discussion, 3 agenda last for 2 hours.
Party began at 6:30 pm, the figer sanderwitch is so deliciour, I am almost full when eating varies of little appertizer, when the host asking eveyone to take some real food, I am the first one to take Spanish seafood rice -- it taste so good; greg keep playing guitar for an hour, since I give him a frindly signal before, he understood that the music in this party will be the backgroud only, no much of the participant will appreciate it, but I did. after a short break-in introduction, the members' show begin by 7:30, the presentation of next year's event is excellent, some day chairman promote their progam is an unique way and do impress a lot of us, event such as : visiting high speed railroad systme with Anita Yin -- the chairlady of Taiwan High Speed , she is a YPO's as well; On board the Lafayet fleet with David Du, Simulation Filght with Charles Chen, Gourment with Stevent Thui.... the bluntry of program distingulish the PYO with other assocaition, and this is what money can't buy, I am expecting to attend it all.
kick out party will feature a " program " designed for the gradaluate -- those who at 50th, the are no longer a Young PO, this year, they designed a belly dancing show, all 4 graduate dress up like Alrabian lady and dacning with 3 profesional belly dancer, it's fun and entertaining.
I will chair a program for " folk music revival ", to cope the theme of the year " Continuity and Balance ", would like to demostrate what I specilized before, I am thinking to organized a small campuss folk artist reuninon and singing 60's folk song and to crate a 60" ambience -- including deco and accommodation; venue is a issue, I don't like Hotles -- Chang Sang Hall shall be a idea place.
arrived home by 9:30, wife asked me to go out and bring our daugher for a late night sight seeing, I am surprised she support her daughter this time, so we drove to the famous " CIRCLE" in old town where night vendors occupied the night; I ate at a Japanese vendor restaurant, the food is so great -- the little spring , no wonder everyone when we stroll the area, the seats all always full.
