2005/05/25

I don't love them deeply

The feeling came when watching ther movie " Pacificer ", I am not sure how it fill my heart, but I reflected to the past 2 months and knows that I didn't pay full attending, decent time and sincere caring to the people who worked with me in the office; I am not in the position to play the decent role of " Father ", consult, care, think, share, couch and join them hand in hand to solve the problems and difficulites occurers after the reengineering of the company; I can't be this way, as the leader of the company, I spending too much of my time dealing with my own agenda, spending too much time accompany with my wife and in a sense hide away from the obstacles happened in the office -- to draw the conculsion for this, I didn't love them ( my colleage, my job, my work, my company ) deeply enough; as I wrap up the first consutation report to EZfly, the first finding is top management didn't spending decent time with employee physically, the mirrow reflection to my situation today, am I trap in the same loop?

Had a second thought about " Determination " - I gave it my intepretation which is " Drawing a clear line in your heart ", this is about my own company initative, if Jean didn't favor with my proposal, then I will and should go my own way, as long as I know how to draw the line.

Why I hated to be controlled? as new Chairman of Taiwan operation heaveling get involved in my operation even through I am not report to him, this gentelman came from Japan seems to be very micro management and love to be in control. the answer arrived last night, I've been automony in operation for too long, past 4 years, there's almost zero interruption in my decision making, or simply because I didn't make lot of decision but to delegate it to COO, maybe all the communication was done by the COO level and he spend decent time communicate with our counter part in Tokyo already, working in multi-national corporation, there no way to skip the monitering system and reporting cycle, I shall change my mind and adapt the new paradigm shift.

Now I know the movie of boxer : Million Dollars Baby. the movie we went last night were excellent. second run movie even better than first run, bigger screen, cheaper price, causal ambient.. a good time killing habit; the question is : Do I have casual time to kill? am I too easy to myself?

The CEO chat for May should publish today.

2005/05/24

Physical contact helps

The comment came from my wife, she said if I wish to have more of her love, physical contact is essential; we've been married for 18 years, we love each other, what's love? we asked each other and come up with the answer which we are satisfied, it is : If one of us badly sick, the surviving one will accompany with him / her with no complain. simply , realistic and no romance, but this is how we define our Love.

Got home earlier last night , as we decided to spend one week night as the compensation day for weekend -- for better caring of Sound who's now in Forest School and came home on weekends; go to second round movies is the easily entertainment format we took; so, we went for the 7 Awards winning film " ? " , the dramatic story make her shed tears during the entire showing, there's young loves sitting in front of my seat and kissing , this really distract me from the good and touching movie; I asked my wife after the show , Students love to fall in love , right ? we are no longer student, so we immuse to the love syndorme. she laughed, we didn't finish both film as I don't want to waste time in the black box only for killing time. so. I took her to night market.

Returing AJ's call by 9:30 pm, he is happiness complain about my design of the graduation program. from his voice, I knew that he is happy, C. is a nice lady who organize the YPO kickout party this year, she direct all the credit to me, I really appreciate.

A welcome talk with Join, a new employee we recruit for the community entity development, she is famours in the blog / BBC community and also a good music / movie critics who wrote some books in the field of music ( mordern rock mainly ) and movie. I am wondering if she is a stable office worker, it seems that no one can escape from surviving.

2005/05/23

My dreams last night

That was good dreams, I dreamt of publishing 2 books in one day, one fiction novel - most of them essays dealing with life / living / wondering around ( See, how clear the picture was ), the other one is a non-fiction book ( well, I can't pin-point what subject it covered ), the good part is not how I excited about the books, but the angle came along all day to celebrate her joyful feeling together with me, It rains cats and dogs, but we went for for a mini lunch -- for celebration of coures; it was great; what left from my memories is the cover of the books - one is hard cover with key in the inner cover page, between charpers, illustration and painting colours my book; I love it, if my memories clear still, I close my eye and feel the hard cover is in red color with golden striple lines as dressing lace.

YPO chapter chariman gratitude lunch held yesterday in one of the cozy restaurant - Joyce East; good food, wine and music; B. and his wife spend decent time to arrange it, the turn out is close to 70, almost doube the regular YPO activity; they don't count the budget, but care about the turn out - this is sort of " Face " issue, I don't know; sitting next to G. a lonely guy and a new member who suffer from the scandle a few months before; he is happy that I can share time with him and go over topics cover our mutual interest, I am happy to half way convince him Kororo can be the idea partner in handing the Hu-Lian resort hotel promotion activity; a bonus to the lunch. Chat with C. - our senior Forum brother and get to learn that A. disclose his departing plan with him already, he said : working in multi-national company is like that, well , I had to admit that I might be the next one following A.'s foot print.

Another professional manager H. who join the YPO after me - a reletivly new member so to speak, we cross for 10 minitues and he dump a lot of working pressure on me - The noise-depression sydrome, the unbalanced work / life, never ending task and to do's , he said that he missed the days while working in multi-national company, you can spilt your private and professional time easily and handle diary operation in a easy fashion; Owoo -- this one have much bigger problem than me, I am lucky not to entering his big worries; I am not sure how to make a comparison with him : in terms of workload, in terms of management scale or in terms of the stress level; but I am happy; happy that I can still breath the flesh air, enjoy my life, with a happy family.

Life ain't easy. but, you can choose you way to face it while you can.

accidentally met the god mother of entertainment G. at Joyce East.. hard to explain who she is - chemelone, maybe. she came and greeting to me; ped my shoulder and that's it.............. strange feeling, right.

2005/05/22

Believe In Me, Please

This is the title of an old Chinese Pop song which I used as my closing paragraphy for witness Cheng Yi and Pen Sheng's wedding last night; this love song illustrate 2 perosn falling in love and use the metaphore of making cemerical product together, they were independent before and stand along stature, then they breaking up to pieces, mix with water, re-shape together to a one-peice product -- I persoanlly love this song as it perfectly present the nature of marriage - 2 indivisual becoming one family.

As a witness person - the most important person beside bride and gron; I dreesed up properly, my wife pick one red tie for me to accommodate to this great day - my witness was writtend by myself with one primal message " Happiness ", as I explained to the guest at the wedding party, how the westerner translate the Chinese Charactor 囍 ? it's " Double Happiness ", when you get marriage, you should enjoy double happiness at least; I thinks this little story impress a few guest last night.

Ching Yi lost his father 4 years ago, he semtimentally telling all the guest that he can feel his father is here with him, although he can't see him and he shows his strong gratidue to his mother who brough him up to this stage of being indepentant, this is a touching moment.

before the wedding ceremory, they broadcast the photos for the 2 major actor today, from the little something until the encouter of 2 lovers, watching the slide flow, I am thining about my own child, will then follow the pattern like others? are they safe and secure enough to be with me?

3 tables occupied by our colleage, in our table, one stranger come and sit with us, a totally stranger, I had a strong guessing that he had no relationship with both of the wedding party and may come only for the free dinner - You know, it happened; I can't kill my curiosity so tried to check his background, well, thank God, I almoste mistaken one perosn who is an old acquaintant with Cheng Yi's famialy, howerer, he ate a lot, probably 3 portion out of 10 in one table. a strange guy, I am wondering if he is a graduate from NTU.