2005/11/21

Gathering before the gathering

Saturday after the ping pong session, went for the welcoming lunch with J. - our EMBA classmate who were assign to Phillipine as country manager for about a year. J. is the first classmate who found my column in Business Week 5 years ago when we were the fleshman at NTU. as the alumni will conduct the quaterly gathering next weekend, he can't be there with us, so, we decided to invited him for lunch at last weekend on his return from Manila, the contrast is , he bought the lunch at Luna - the great Italian restaurant for us. there are 6 of us attending the lunch, small group make the itimacy better, J.'s son study in NTU right now and have a dream to devlop himself in the music industry, a guitarist and forming a campus band, as every parent's concern, J. didn't know how to " Stop " his son , well J. is lucky, I had bunch of experience to handle such a case, not necessary to put out his fire, but to illustrate the picture I know in front of him, to magnify what I already know to explore his unknown. we make a deal to meet in 3 weeks when he return to Taipei again.
It's good to resume the family tie with Fruit, on Sunday, I urge wife to take a no pressure swimming and exercise, I will be the house husband, I did it. Sound sleep until 11 in the morning, I took both of them to the Japanese Curry restuarant, where Fruit love the curry spare rib with cheese; Fruit can eat a lot during weekend, after the big portion of curry rice, I bought her Subway Sandwitch, returning home, I sit with Sound as he working on his homework, I grab the time to read the " Winston Churchill " Biography, I managed to finished by his 21 years, right before entering the Army School, the thick book is my homework.

The suggestion of spending Chinese New Year in Palau is in question, as the total spending will up to 300,000 NT, I don't think I should dispose such an amount in this critical moment. think twice and try to figure out a replace plan.

H. called twice , I didn't answer the phone, again, I shall not in the postion to solve his fininal burden, no matter it's big or small, we are not in such a close loop, if the thing goes this way, I think I will jeoperdise myself in a great shadow. no one shall be response for other's future.