Not a Happy Birthday
To recall this bad memory from this Monday, when kindly ( to my understanding ) decline the Helix offering, with no response from both Wu sh. and S. Kwang, I am not regret anymore, unloaded the uncertainty and the fear of trap, I feel reliefed.Bring wife to Angkor Wok , my second time and a second trial for the coming couple's outing, the expectation is lower and the imagination is limited. the second return didn't bring me more excitement, but to increase some concern about the trip and the country. to be honest, I don't like Cambodia or Angkor Wok this time, a few facts consititue the feeling I obtain now:
1. People are greedy, very greedy, expecially Tutu driver, they are hungery for rip you off.
2. No promise can be trusted. the tour guide change the 3rd times. no earlier notice even in last minutes, you can be sure what can be turst here.
3. Hotel wasn't perfect as I expected last time. the air conditioning system put the wind hole againt your pillow. the bathtub situated in the middle of the room, to quote my wife's opinion, looks like a Koffin in the room, the temperatur control in the show facility is bad, the presure of water is not stable,hot and cold water temperatur can't be stable when talking the shower, and the bottle for the shampoo / body lotion will gain the copper rusty, this is really terrible.
4. The never ending road construction and corruption : conducting road work without any notification, leaving the immigration, the officer expecting us to pay the 3 dollor each birbary agian, why pay when you are leaving ? to get in , you obey, to leave, why to ruit the possible good impression?
5. high tourist tax : from a 20 / 40 dollars Ankgor Wok pass to the every expensive 25 dollar airport tax and very expensive everything at the Siem Reap international airport, can you imagine a postcard stamp will cost you one US dollar? and a potato chip price at 5 US dollars.
Return home on the 9th, thanks God I took the picture of both restaurant owner who we will visit and put their picture on the tour brochure.
Nov. 10, I go to the office, different from before, I didn't take my birthday off, instead, I go for an early meeting with New Froum members to help fix the retreat problem, then a brief discussion of everything happened in the week , also to discuss what to do in coming week. Celine didn't do much, I don't really happy with her expression of to help Slam to sale 5 wiki software - then how about us? only 3 person work and no one go for business, how come not to consider our critical situation?
Lunch with celine, eugenia at KO- owner roger will close this restaurat on the 20th, one of our favourite these years. Roger said : Good food don't meant to bring good business. I ate 2 cakes as roger mentioned that at my birthday, the cake is " All you can eat " then a long discusson about our company took place, Celine wan't happy about my " Unstable " at doing CSR, she hate my attitude of tring to find a new business , but how could she know that I have a surviving crisis and I am the only person to find the business for our company? I don't really feel good, actually, I feels so bad.
Yan called and return me the money he borrowed 2 months ago, I am touched by his keeping promise and fight the good fight for living, he is my role model now - being through so many trouble and problem, nothing knock him down, as my wife mentioned to me, I am too easy to be distubed by frusitation, too offen distracted by the exteral factor - such as Fon and Helix, I should rethink and reposition csrCommunitya and find a way out.
Stan and Tom's project seems not go my way, I better know how to alter and accomodate those changes, otherwise, I will be sentence to a long prison to my own square.
Joseph is good, he help me to think more in postive direction, the lunch at ir 101 builing bring back my level of confidence to 60% .
went to Ching Shen Hall for an unknow poem's concert - Paco Ibaza, a Spanish singer / song writer who perform the first time in Asia, he was invited by the Taipie City Goverment for an International Poetist Festival, I glace at the flyer and banner on the main street for quit sometimes, and make up my mind to check what's going on here, I don't understand the Spanish language, but the co-host and interptator Professor is excellent, Paco sing very light, with only one guitar, I close my eyes almost all the time, to enjoy a sleepy feeling of beauty, find me a corner next to a pillar, with my back support, I might be the only person who can listen and sleep. didn't finish the entire performance, his poster looks nicer than the real one, Paco must over eating, a huge lower belly....
walk out the hall, see a group of mama is practicing belly dancing -- with the backgroud music of Jolin Tsai - this is very funny picture, I stand and be the audience for about 10 minutes, then teenagerw were playing with the roller skate, it seems nothing happen in Taipei,
posted by Roger @ 11/12/2006 10:27:00 上午
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