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Should I or Shouldn’t I?

Buy a car?

Recently I have been contemplating on buying a car. I understand it is expensive and parking fee is expensive and maintaining it is also expensive, but sometimes it can make life a lot easier if I had one.

The ideal car I have in my mind at the moment is the new Honda CRV. Slightly expensive, but at least it gets me around places and it has a lot of room.

Honda CRV
Honda CRV

Next up is probably the Volkswagen GTi.

VW Gold GTi
VW Glf GTi

The pros and cons between these two are quite obvious. Both are fantastic cars, and people will probably tell me to go for the Golf GTi, and I would too, but the price of a GTi is a bit too deep. At NTD 1.2 mil. it’s not cheap. However, CRV is around NTD 0.97 mil. which is not that cheap either. On the other hand, the CRV is big, comfortable and the interior is much more luxury too. Except its big and slow but who needs a fast car in Taipei anyway?

See, this is the problem I have. If there is something I want really, I just cannot just make my mind on it. I can think, decide and compare, and by the time I actually do make the move, that would like after one year later.

Tough choice. At this time I wish I was rich so I could have just brought anything without thinking.

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Cold and Wet

It was a cold and wet Chinese New Year.

It rained the whole time. Temperature dropped to 9 degrees. It was such a bad holiday.

The only good thing I got out of this was good sleep.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Personal Work

One Solitary Number

I found out my bonus today.

I never expect myself to get much. Like always, if I expect too much, I can get more disappointed too.

My boss wrote this number on my notepad. This one solitary number, I was like, whoa!!

More than last year, and more than what I expected. Considering how bad the company did last year, I couldn’t ask for more.

I am going to have a very happy Chinese New Year.

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A New Phone!

Maybe I shouldn’t include the exclamation mark, because I am not exactly excited at getting this phone.

It was in fact, free. I got it from a draw at yesterday’s annual appreciation dinner.

A BenQ T51. What a piece of shit phone.

BenQ T51
BenQ T51

Well, better than nothing. I think the first thing I do when I get my hands on it is to sell it.

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Oh Please!!!

Fuck, stupid Taiwan stock market dropped more than 500 points.

That is like more than 6%. Daily limit is 7%, so you can see how deep of a drop it was.

I must have entered into the stock market at the worst possible time. Absolutely, the WORST possible time.

Since I entered it dropped more than 2,000 points already. How fucked up is this, I am down 33% of my mutual funds.

Please please, I just hope Ma Ying-jeou makes President at the March election…

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Personal Travel Work

A Very Cold Week

I am back from Turkey.

It was fun walking under the snow.

Ten below zero in Ankara, under the snow, outside the hotel entrance, I had a quick reflection of my life over the last three years.

Sometimes, coming out of a meeting with some potential customers, whether I was in Bangkok, Hanoi, Manila, Sydney or Istanbul, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors, in a shirt, and a briefcase in hand. In a blink of a second, I would imagine myself as leader of this industry, shouting out orders, closing the deals, before I remembered who it was that I really wanted myself to be.

People often say, Why Simply Win When You Can Dominate?

I don’t want to just be better than someone, I want to be the best as who I can be.

I am happy to be back in Taipei.

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Feeling Cold

I was told at this time of the year, Turkey is cold.

While I was packing my stuff, I asked myself, just how cold?

Therefore, I checked The Weather Channel, and this is what it tells me.

Istanbul
Istanbul Weather

Ankara
Ankara Weather

This is really really cold. Much colder than Taipei, and even Melbourne too. Istanbul might be OK, but Ankara is really going to kill me.

I really don’t feel like going anymore.

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Turkey?

Interesting, just like the start of this year, I will be sent off to another country right after new year.

I went to Vietnam on the 3rd of January this year.

This time I will be in Turkey on the 6th of January.

Wow, Turkey, sounds like a fun place? Well, yes and no. Just yesterday a letter bomb exploded in the central of Istanbul, killing one.

I will be in Istanbul too.

I will bring my DSLR with me this time, just in case I get to visit some interesting historic places like some of the famous mosques, museums, castles, churches or towers. Maybe the ruins of Troy or the Trojan Horse too!

Anyway, anything is good, just don’t give me another letter bomb.

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Back!

I am back from Philippines!

The schedule was so shit I had to buy dried mangos at the airport…fuck.

Got to Taoyuan airport yesterday at 6:30am.
Took 7:30am flight.
Delayed and arrived in Manila at 10:00am.
Met customer and had lunch at 12:00pm.
Finished presentation at 5:00pm.
Finally checked into hotel at 6:00pm
Meet potential customer at 7:00pm.
Aat, drank and massaged with customer till 12:00am.
Went to bed at 1:30am.
Had shit all sleep and woke up with headache at 7:30am.
Met customer at 9:00am.
Finished discussion at 12:00pm.
Had lunch at 12:30pm.
Arrived at the airport at 3:00pm.
Brought dried mangos at 3:40pm.
Plane took off at 4:30pm.
Arrived in Taoyuan airport at 7:20pm.
Arrived home at 8:30pm.

What a shit trip. I am tired, I need to sleep.