One day in Huilien
I don't feel like working on Monday, with a flesh, I asked wife if we can go somewhere, out of the city after sent Sound to school bus? she replied with a YES, in a few minutes, I changed my custome, prepare for the unknown journey and we leaving Taipei by 9:30 am.Over the weekend, I was trapped in the employment contract Helix drafted, C. Ray - the leagl manager urge me to sign off on a very roughy contract - with only 4 lines, this is not a joke to me, the more I think, to more I feel uncomfortable, the book - A, really help me in digest what's ahead of me, Sat. noon, have Melody to share her instinct to this offering, she is right about my intuition, her opinion is : Believe in what Wu Shung said, but to protect everything by yourself. this is the conclusion I draw to everyone. The irony or bias logic similar to what China threaten to Taiwan : In order to achieve the goal of reunion peacefully, We will never give up taking Taiwan by force.
Calling Echo for advise, she is my EMBA classmate and a professional attornery by law, she finished her vacation at I-Lan and met me at Starbucks on Sunday afternoon, the comment and advise from her is to counter offer with a very strickly protective employment contract , my last request to her is : draft whatever you think will rescure me from any risk.
Monday, I don't want to spend time in office or think hard about the Helix delima - the more I think, the more it looks like going to hell - the Fire Pit so to speak. this is not money can compensate, a potential of leagl and financial jeorperdy..
we headed for I-Lan, passing the Snow mountain tunnel the second time. reached Su ao by 10:20 am, we decided to go further, drove our BMW to Nanfunao for a seafood lunch at 11:00 am, well, this is not the end of the journey, asked the restaurant owner how long will it take to Huilien? he smiled back and say : only 90 minutes, this encourge me to take the adventure further, we decided to try the first time , passing Su Haw highway to Huilien, the mountain climbing and beautiful vally open to our eyes, a very fancy journey, we arrvied at Huilein by 3:00 pm, having the famous meat dumpling and return home - by 6:30 pm, we were safty arrived at Jing May theater. less than 3 and half hours, we reached home from Huilien, it's like a dream.
Tuseday morning, a very brief discussion with C. Ray, he seems OK with all the strick terms except the colleterial - the warranty from Wu Shang, he said he never see such an employment agreement before, I can only reply with a sorry...
I was sitting at the rehearsal - the financial consulting firm prepared the presentaiton file for coming Thursday's credit bank meeting - I am suprised to see how them assemble the professional negociation team for the task - without introduce themselve, I may mistaking for sitting at a Gambino ( Maphia ) Familly meeting, I do learn a lot, knowing how they defend the bank and buy themself more time to slove the financial crisis. the deeper I involved, the more I discover, I sense an impossible dream ahead.
until the end of the rehearsal, Wu didn't show up. he called and OK with every term and condition Echo draft for me. well, if this is the case, there's no way to escape my responsiblity to perform as a professional actor - not to treat it as the Fire Pit, but to alter it to the circus - the fire circle , I should be the jumping lion.
You can't always get what you want, but you can't escape what you dislike.
posted by Roger @ 11/01/2006 08:00:00 上午
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