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Family Personal

My Dysfunctional Family

Well, not the entire family, just my dad anyway.

I accompanied my mum to look for a new home, so at least next time when both of my folks, or when my brother comes back, they can have a permanent place to stay instead of crashing at a friend’s or relatives house.

We did find a great place. A less than two years old classy apartment. It was near my workplace and the location was great for shopping or dining. It was also in fantastic neighborhood.

Not to mention the price was good too.

Everything seemed to have worked out so well, and it was just a matter of signing the papers, that was when my dad stepped in.

“I only want a place with two bathrooms”.

Well, the place we found only had one. However, dad insisted on having two. I don’t even see the point of having two bathrooms. Even if you want one, it would be very difficult to find. Yet, the price is likely to be way over our budget.

I tried to convince dad again, however, the result was the same.

We did find one with two bathrooms. However, it was also 400k more.

Dad, I know you are loaded, but I don’t think you want to pay 400k for an additional set of toilet seat and a tub.

At the end of the day, yes, my dysfunctional dad ruined it all. No new home.

God, please help my dad…

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Personal Work

Show Support

Well, at least I have shown mine anyway.

BenQ is in a lot of shit recently, and the employees are showing support by leaving your signature on one of the five “Support BenQ” boards.


Support BenQ

I do, personally, like BenQ, so here is mine.


Support BenQ

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Work

At 9:10pm

I was still in office.

So quiet, so very quiet. I used this time to take two snaps of the empty 12th floor.


Empty 12th Floor
Empty 12th Floor

Last week I went home at 10:00pm, I hope it will not happen again this week.

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Work

Man, Got Arrested

Not me, but our company’s CFO.

Apparently seven people got retained initially, and six was later released on bail.

I wonder who paid for the bail money?

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Work

BenQ Making Headlines Again

For alleged insider trading…

Apparently Taiwan Prosecutors came and raided the company headquarters in Taoyuan and Taipei, and took several senior finance executives away for interrogation.

How funny, and this afternoon I was thinking, hey, where did our finance head go?

I like the word, raid. It sound cool, but I wouldn’t want anything to do with ‘raid’ happening to me though.

The bad news is, it seems our company’s turmoil run is not going to end anytime soon, and I believe BenQ shares will close at around NT13.00 tomorrow.

Regardless what other people say, I still trust Bloomberg.com as my only reliable news source.

I did take a picture of the different TV station crews parked outside the company Taipei headquarter though. I took it when I was just off work heading home. It was dark, and via a shitty phone camera, below is the result of the shot, but you might just be able to make out the TVBS logo from the back of the TV Van.


TV Crews Outside BenQ Taipei HQ For Alleged Insider Trading Case

Don’t know why, for some reason the whole situation reminds me of the Enron Scandal.

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Uncategorized

Let’s Vote

For 2007’s oddest book title. There are actually quite funny, and the nominees are…

  • Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
  • How Green Were the Nazis?
  • D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry? An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
  • The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
  • Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium
  • Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

Man, these are sure odd books indeed. You can make your vote here, even though I don’t even know if there is a purpose of making a vote at all. I just find these titles funny.

The last title sounds quite interesting though, mmmmmm…

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Personal

Lost

I have been feeling lost recently. Really, really lost.