Just a few days ago I got a new laptop, and today I got a new monitor!
A BenQ X2200W, a 22 inch wide. It is supposed to be the current top of the range LCD monitor we have to offer.
Again, this is a sample unit.
Since I cannot bring it home, I am using it at work.
I am located on the 12th floor, but the screen is so big that people can see what I have on screen from the 13th floor.
Anyway, the rule still follows. I just hope people can forget and let me keep this monitor for good.
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.
Well, not mine, but a sample unit.
I am kind of surprised, as this is the first time I get a sample laptop to take home and play around with. I just hope they forget so I can keep it forever.
Anyway, it’s a BenQ Q41.
Design is rather ordinary, but the main feature is not the inside, but the outside…
Oh, what is this? A second screen on the outside? It is actually called Windows Sideshow. Personally, I find this more of a gimmick than something that is actually useful. Again, I have to test it out to find out more.
This is only the third laptop in the whole world to have this feature, so as you can guess how unpopular this Sideshow feature has to offer.
Anyway, I just hope they forget so I get to keep this forever…
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.
I have been real busy, at work, as usual. Nothing new.
Drank a lot last night and came back home at twelve.
I had mega bad sleep and still got up and went to work.
I just arrived back home again almost two hours ago.
Right now is 12:10am.
I need to wake up in five hours time and jet off to Philippines.
Yah well, nothing new, work is still work.
My work.
Wake up 6:30am, get home 11:00pm. I think my life is getting turned upside down.
Got my employee stock option today, and it turned out to be a real surprise.
I got an option for 50 Qisda stocks with share price at NTD 32.80, which can be exercised two years later.
Last year I got an option for 20 stocks with a price around NTD 28.50 (can be exercised next year) and I thought that was a lot! This year they think I worth 50 stock options? My God, I am very happy.
Then again, I will only be REALLY happy if by the time I can exercise them and the share price has gone way up up up high.
Time for calculations…
For every NT 1.00 increase in share price, that is NT 1,000 per stock.
Thus, when I exercise 70 stocks two years later, with a 10.00 increase from 32.80, I get at least NTD 700k (not including the difference from NTD 28.50).
A 20.00 increase means at least 1.4 mil, a 30.00 increase means at least 2.1 mil, an so on.
Say two years later the share price is at least NTD 60.00, then I can buy an Audi A4 Avant 2.0T, in cash.
Then again, I am being over optimistic. What if the share price dropped by then? My options would be more than useless.
I have faith in Qisda, which I think they will do well. So what does this mean for me?
It means I cannot leave this company in the next two years.
I still remember the first day I joined BenQ, and it felt like yesterday. Even before I knew, it has already been three years.
A lot of things happened, but as long I am still here, I am going to make the most out of it.
Not me, but the new company.
Qisda, the new parent company of BenQ, closed the trade today at a daily stock market upper limit of 7% at NTD 37.50. This is the third consecutive day Qisda has closed the trade at daily upper limit. An increase of 20% share price in just three days.
The re-enlisted company is certainly looking good. Back to its root of performing ODM, with excellent track record in the past and from branded business, no wonder they are collected a handful of new orders since separating the two companies.
Maybe I shouldn’t be too optimistic, because I am not working for Qisda. I still work for BenQ, the smaller company that is UNDER Qisda. Anyway, I am sure we will benefit from them, but I guess it will take time.
Finally, there is something positive about working at BenQ again.
I have been experiencing severe stiff neck since Sunday night. It is unbearably painful.
It hurts when I walk.
It hurts when I sleep.
It hurts while I am on the bus and the bus accelerates or decelerates.
It hurts at this very moment while I type.
I went to the hospital today to find out what was wrong, and the doctor told me I have been having too much pressure at work, and need slow down a little.
Man, tell me something I did not know doctor.