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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Sold My Phone
Not the Sony Ericsson, but the BenQ T51.
I started at NTD 3,500. No sell.
Lowered to NTD 3,400. No sell.
Throw in a phone chain. No sell.
Lowered to NTD 3,100. No sell.
Finally, at NTD 3,000. Sold.
This tells us, BenQ phones are really cheap.
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year!
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.
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.
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…
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.
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
Ankara
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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Exit 2007, Welcome 2008…
I took this image on Mingchuang bridge, Neihu.
Here are some more, larger versions.
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New LCD Monitor!
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.