2004/10/01

Tried to post my photo to the profile box in Blog, it take me decent time to figure out how to exercise it from the Window system, I managed to get my animated figure published, but fail to have them posted on every blog I create, when checking the blog site, I learned that the open access may result to a " secret distribution " disaster,so I terminate this idea of riching the multi-media content of me, insteand, to enrich the multi-media content in the context itself may be more beneficial to everyone.

J. called to confirm our courtesy dinner scheuduled twice in YPO, this is a tradition in Taiwan ( I am not sure if every charpter around the world adopt the same practice ) to invite all the YPOer and TPOer to a new members' dinner; we host and we pay; J. is the youngest among all the YPOer, he came back from the F1 ( Don't get me wrong, he is a sponser, not a car racer ) Shanghai course; we confirmed a few house keeping items such as the liquors, suvornier, entertainment etc. I am OK to follow the rule, but I thought this is not a good way to know each other, but anyway, when in Rome, you have to do as the Romes do.

Tomorrow is the SomeOne Need You day, this time, the HQ pick Yuang-An first port as the traget beach to clean up -- clean up the beach is a good thing, doing public service from a private sector is good too, but I heard a few noise from the attendee such as : 20,000 people gathering to clean the beach, such a scale may bringing more garbage than what we clean up, the others mentioned that to take a long trip from Taipei to TaouYang to conduct this activity is kind of wasting energy, this is like a picnic, average traffic hours for this event will be 3 plus hours, and we only stay there for 60 minutes, not to mention the complexicy of government officials, sponsersor, celebrity will take advange of it and deliver the " non welcomed " speech. I have no objection about the public service, but to think it deep and wide may cease the voices from those who voluntee to perform this good deed.


Photo with my daughter Fruit and wife in sun glass -- a rare seen one. Posted by Hello

2004/09/30

Professor Chuang called by noon and inform me about the newly elected board members of PTS, he asked if I checked the China Times this morning, I said no, he politely addressed a few point to me and send his warm regards to me; earlier in the morning, J. -- my EMBA classmate called me up and tried to convince me to applied for the Kandeglen University study, a Party ( Green Party ) operated elite post educational system to networking with one another, it cause by a subtle conversation during the graduation ceremony; J. Take is quite serious and apply it for me earlier, although I left a message to him and politely return this favor, but he called again to convince me about it; I want to be neutral, and wish to stand on my own for good.

check the China Time at night, newly assigned directors for PTS were mainly scholars, a few of them were no stranger to me; it seems the door opened slightly; but I am not happy; again, this is a passive emotion, any excitement now means nothing to the final result.

Last Sunday, when having lunch in Taoyaung with A-li, we talked about the land developing plan in Daoliau, and to built the rehabilitation house for aged citizen; my wife prepare the land document for me, I called up my classmate who's specialized in land development, I asked him a favor to survey on if the land we owned qualified to build the house base on current land protection law; if this is a OK, if might be my second entrepreneur period; but to run a service sector major in aged people caring, it will deal with the last 2 stages of life " Sick and Death ", it won't be easy, although it's the growing market and it will be more and more important for the years to come; I will see how Wu-sheng's finding before moving on.

Get 4 tickets for Jay's concert, take 2 for design the incentive of CEO chat. a very positive result, flatter others who is higher up than you may not enjoy the same result, this is the truth I have to bare in mind; take care of those who really in need.

The debut CEO Chat letter send out just now, in order to stimulate the feed back, I put an incentive on the last portion of the questionairs -- 2 VIP tickets for Jay Chou's concert on Sat. evening, it works, the first one send back his repsone 2 minutes after receiving my weblog, no wonder the on line auction will be so popular, there are good hands in our company too; to publish a monthly news letter is an abligation and complusory for me now, as the URL will always be there, I can't be lazy and should be prepared for any comments; this is a brand new way to bulid the communication platform with our employees.

Iunch with VP of engineering dept. and follow with a coffee, I come up with 5 major areas which he should be focus :
1. upgrade and purchasing network equipment to stablize our service quality.
2. build up the co-location / bandwidth new business together with sales team.
3. Identify the new requirement from non ISP business to survey the qualified equipment to be installed.
4. review and revise the maintainace budget to be close to reality.
5. delegate and authorize to managers for routine job and make himself available for new technology deployment in the company.

this will keep him busy for a while before thinking too much on the non-business climate.

coffee with senior manager of Call center is good too, I attended the CIC orientation this morning, this is a well-craft, well design and planning orientation, 2 of the supervisor put the efforts on it and make it an impressive one; think and think is the ulimate method to bring good result, I am proud of them. the converstaion with Sr. Manager is health, she is an ambitious person and owned her kindom of call center - a place with more than 100 staff and regulate on their prinspals, I am fine and happy to see an atonomy entity in our organization, and I am very happy to see how this dept. build their culture and maintain it on every action. again, this is a think before you leap philosophy.

Mid-Autumn Festival ( High-Moon festival ) wasn't special in our family, in Taiwan, it tranformed from moon cake holiday to BBQ holiday, in the early evening, you can see almost all the family prepare their BBQ gedget and raw meat / sea food / vege for the gathering, not all of them have their own garden, in Taipei, apartment is the standard living style, the scene of BBQ in Taipei is interesting, they cook by the entrace of the apartment , cook in the belcony; we were lucky, there's a high moon last night, according to the news, the brightest moon come by 9:09 pm, we were walking in the hill toward our house after the funny movie " Doogle ball ", the comedy is really funny, me and my wife can't help laughting in the theater.

Sound had 4 days holiday at home, his old habit come back to visit him, we found that it's really hard to change a man's personality, we take it naturally, as we have to commit to the prinspal of Forest Primary School, " No beaten, No yelling, No threaten ", he is too stunbon to be altered. anyway, as Forest accept him, we hope at least it leave a back door for Sound to shower with the free air.

Finishing reading the draft of " Meet till Death " , as I promist to write the prelude for the Chinese translation, it take me less than 4 hours to finish reading, yesterday moring, I done the first CEO chat at the top floor reading room as well, since I graduated from NTU, I seldom spending time there, this is a new value creation process, I am glad that I finally pick up my time for business, after complete the first episode, I create a Chinese weblog to publish it, as I welcome all the feed back and looking forward to any comment, to post in on one weblog is the most convinience way; this moring, I published some of my previous article to the newly created site too, I am happy to see 3 site for CEO.

Feel like having the Shuchung spicy noodle for lunch and don't want to eat alone, I invited 3 managers to join me for the lunch, then follow with a coffee break with sales manager, he is in a deep thought of changing his management style, trun a nice person to a demanding one, he need my advice about this planned dramatic change, my answer is simple " the realtionship for superior and soubodinate is base on the achievment of mission " , a military credo I quoted from my previous supervior, he appreciate my postivive attitude to his insight, I told him this is the second year for him stay in the sale function, he must tried very possible way to grow and to obtain the experience before moving on to his next goal; coffee break is nothing but a coach to my mangers.

EC meeting is anothe big topic today, the associate manager P. is crying for help, me and COO spend our time with them to do our clinic for the new platform and to review the performance, I will love to grand my help to this new initative, but not to perform as a loyal customer, but an adviser to improve the product line up, finding the need from our potential customer and to allocation marketing resource to help building it's presence.

busy in preparing the prelude, first draft come out in last evening, I need to touch upon the wording polishing before send it over, any word print in the frist page of a book is a iron evidence , I must response for what I wrote.

2004/09/27

Tomorrow will be our 17th wedding anniversary; to add up 5 years of engaging, me and my wife known each other for 22 years, more than half of her live ( she is 39 now ) is spending with me; we don't have a plan for tomorrow, last year, the anniversary crossed with our first classmate reunion, to that that opportunity, we secured a room at Tsao Ling, but that wasn't a pleasant memory, I don't meant we don't have a good time, but since the earthquake, the scenic spot trun to be a respectroe of nightmare, a momentum standing in the middle of mountain, and the wording on the curved stone states the casulity and how bad they were buried alive; the history is too short to be memorized, stay there won't be a happy wedding memory.

this year, I do nothing but offer 2 gift which my wife loved, the sun glass really win her heart, I think 90 percent of Taiwanese woman afraid of sunshine, wearing a sunglass is a must for my wife, this Manc Blanc sunglass is an usuful gift she picked, a Prada nylon skirt is another gift she select from the Prada shops; she is not a material girl, wearning no jewels, living simply life, all I can offer is what she think value to improve her mood.

all the family members watch an animation DVD at night, drawing by a Japanese animater and won a few awards, I am not so impressed by this story, it's OK, but this is the first time we watching the movie at home together, so, a memory to be recorded here.


this drawing done by my assistant also, he make a officer look of me and my current look ( twin chics ), I insert it in my Soft phone Sony Ericsson P 900 as screen saver Posted by Hello

A taxi installed with the speed detector which drive over speed all the way from Nanking E. Road to NKSP, I am wondering why a speed control rador here for in this case ? didn't a taxi drive put on such a controlling gedget to avoid over speed and get himself a ticket ? I arrvied safty with doubt, a pre-caution system was make to alert people -- such as law , policing, enforcement or any kind of penalty, but there always acceptions.

Had a health conversation with Sound and to figure out how to handle the " Big old student's threaten by force ", he is very mature and we had a good meeting, before the conversation, he can't figure out what to do, but insist to enroll in the Froest Primary School, this leave us a big question , why ? his anwere didn't support out decision to have him transfer there, what Sound said is : I rather to play alone, we - parent convery the message of " if you want to play along, then , we can have you back here and do the same routine at home, we had a garden, a park , and we may never worried about your physical safety at school ". then we develop to a few solutions, this comfort both party and we all agree that commit the Forest School is a right decision for us.

Calling the dean of education and confirm out joint decision, she seems happy about our decision and we will follow all the administrative action and Sound will offically become a new student at Forest.

the communication booklet for parent was distributed last Friday, when checking the parental status, I found for all the 65 students, there's no single parent at Forest, I am curious about that and have a second thougt that they are picking the sample family to be sure the gradulate from Forest are reletively better than the normal student, again, we have to define the " Better ", but this experiment trial for kid and parent are big gamble under such an educational system. we hope for the best and wish Sound can grow in three perspective : learning new things, making new friend and living new life.

J. came to my dream last night, she was the former Financial Director who worked with me in the entertainment company; now let me described what's in my dream, she came into my office and discussed with me the revamp of the cassatte design and the digitize of the cover / procesure, she feel this may cause the corruption between sales team and the vendor ( which I don't know why ), I told her we haven't been closing working together for a long while and I respect his expertize in the contorlling and administrative talent, I promise her I will take a close look at this issue and I will summon the related person in this value chain and check if what her concern can be eased; then I told her I didn't go to record shop that offen and hardly see any shop carry cassette any more, then I told her I am not in the record industry any more, it's been 4 years since I left the music industry and I am not entitled to handle this issue , but I told her I will try, then she left my office. after that, I call up a meeting to check this issue................ J. who passed away almost 2 years, she suffer from the cancer for 10 years, the cancer developed when we were working together, she didn't calaps and she went for 4 surgeiry and been to chimotherapy 4 times, only a few people can endure the combined great pain of physical and mental, she was number 3 in the company when me and then MD M. recruiting our key staff in the very beginning of our company, a very tough lady.........until now, she want to advise me how to handle my difficulity.

Went to another series of Fullshot documentary " No. 1 house in the world ", a sideshow apart from ' life ", no so heavy, but still touching, Director Wu appear and conduct a Q and A after the screening, he talked for almost an hour, yes, he is a great story teller without camera too; the untold story of A-Ted - the retire honored solider is great, I bring my wife to a greeting with him, he gave me a hug, a warm hug.

Spending the entire Sunday with A-li, a 25 years friend since my army days, he invited us to his house in Taoyuang and having lunch in a Shanghainess restaurant, he is now working at Tsu-shu high school. where we plan to put Fruit next summer, a decent and kind person; Fruit made a very big mistake when walking the elavotor, she complained about the old elavator and it make me so unhappy, how you can judgy a good man by his propery or richness ? I feel shame about it and don't know how to react to A-li, when went home in late evening, I taught her how to repect people and taugh her how to make herself a person to be welcomed before judge any person she did not know, this is a very bad attitude. it last for 24 hours, until this morning, her mother can't stop to teach her again.