Long Weekend
The double tenth day national holiday wasn't a productive one, as I must attend the consultaning committe for PTS the entire Sat. so, the extended holidays means little to the family; the other assignment which binding me it the visit of good friend - Martin from Singaport.We knew each other for 17 years and the friendship developed since, at the very beginning, when I worked at one local recond company in charge of International repertoire planning, the domestic dept sign him from Singapore as a solo artist, the problem is, he sang half of the albume in Mandairn, but can't conduct any promtion in Mandarian, when doing promotion in Taiwan, I was assigned to be his promotion staff , handling diary promotion activity for him, the 3 weeks promotion set up the foundation for our long term friendship, then I go my own way and he become a very famous producer , song writer and arranger instead of being an artist; his best years was act as the producer for A-May and to handle her concerts around Asia, that's the hayday for him and for the record years. then change of faminly status, he become father and raised 2 kids when are exactly the same age as ours -- daughter at 12 now and son as 8 years old. his second child - the boy encounter with a learning difficulity and need to sent to special school for therapy, but as far as I know, the result wan't pleasnt, the change of his life lead him close to religion, he become a sincere Christian and devoted much of his time in church related issue. the not aggrestively invloved in music industry double the difficulity in living his standard before. especially when the music industry suffer so much these years. we are good friend always, whenever he got chance to come, I will accompany him as much time as possible, he will do the same for me when I visit Singaport, but I haven't visit him for more than 5 years.
This time, he come for finishing a job which should be completed 2 years ago, as a producer for one local artist, the work didn't meet the requirement of the level owner, so he return again, we met up again. I brough him to dinner / meal for the last 3 days , we eat and talk and I share my latest career development with him and I can feel that he thought I am luckyier than him, I don't know if I am, but the point he mentioned is a fact, which is : I can make my own decision, and his job is wait for opportunity to come. I talked with my wife and think we can grant our support in next level of the devlopment, no guarentee, but try to build the lingkage in between is quite importannt.
Lunch with Chairman HC on Friday, I express my commitment and win him a big smile and a tighten hand shaking, my brain start working immediately, this is my problem to reacat on any decision I made and to think with full gear up.
attending FAT charity event discussion, the dept. manger is a last-minute man, he listen, no reponse, but at the end, he pull out everything on his mind and do his best to reserse the situation, this is fine with me as I am no in the poistion to " get the consultation contract ", I think we had an agreement.
seeying M. at the Taiwan Advance Hospital, she conduct a lower belly tumor cut-off surgery the on last Thuraday, her mother told me how scared she was, shaking and the heatbet fast to a degree that the nurse need to call her mother in. M. told me she rather working at the office instead of experienceing such a painfull surgery, I told her this is the experience and lesson which told me " Don't work only " we need to follow a regular life , never work until the day our body echo to us, they don't want to stay with us anymore.
On Friday night, when returning home, go to the movie " Flight Plan " with my wife, in order to release some presure in the day time, I choose this thrill movie, the story is a little bit like " Panic Room " the cult movie acting by Judie Foster also.
The conclusion for consulting at PBS is " Public Broadcasing Group " should release a statement to public and to President Chen under what scenario, the CTS merge to PBG can be exercise in good manner, if the presumption or prerequisite is not there, there' no point for PTS to take the reponsibitity and to be challenged as well. Thanks God that I give up the idea of join the PTS system, otherwise, the political game will lead me to a very bad situation.
Eating at Circle Night Market last night, we parked our car at a no-parking zone, even thought we did it a couple of times before, there's no toll - away, but when we parted last ngiht, I told my wife and Sound, I got the instict that the car will be toll away this time. well, Bingo, we finished our dinner by 7:30 and the car is gone, what left is the the white choral pan marked where our car is, there a taxi stand by the scene, he is kind enough drove us to the toll-away zone, the panetily is 1900 NT, I seldom right about my intuition, but how come it happened last night, I wan's mad at all, my wife got her licence for 5 years, this is the first time our car been toll away.
It's Sunday morning now, I got 4 Photom of Opera tickted for Yang, as present from me and my wife, we wish her well and can enjoy the show next year.
posted by Roger @ 10/10/2005 11:48:00 上午
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