It's been a very busy month at work and also in personal life. Allie and I went to a potential distributor to do sales training in the morning, then came home and pick up my son to have a late lunch with her ex-colleagues. And there was a Christmas party in our community tonight, so I hurried home to prepare the dish we promised to offer for the party. What made this even challenging was that I didn't sleep last night until 5 AM, and tomorrow I have two important meetings to attend. Wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year despite the global economic challenges.
Just heard a terrible news. The fireman killed in action is the husband of my colleague's sister. They were married less than two years, and have a boy just nine months old. My colleague, the sister, is expecting her first baby next week.
I-Lan is a beautiful place. We had a small trip to I-Lan last weekend. We went there on Saturday and came back on Sunday. Monday evening I had an urgent work and had to go to I-Lan again and came back the same day. On Tuesday morning, I got a call and told me that I had to go again. So, I went again and came back in the afternoon. For four consecutive days, I was in both I-Lan and Taipei each day. By the way, I will be going to Taichung tomorrow morning and come back in the afternoon.
We took Yoshi to Daan Park today. He loves running on the big, green field of grass, and was curious to watch squirrels climbing up and down on the trees. We went to the flower market afterwards, but he was too tired and fell asleep.
I was extremely busy in October, and therefore this blog was squeezed out of my calendar. Yoshi turned one and half, and he is now making obvious progress in talking and walking. He is very curious and adventurous, so it's hard to keep him in one place whole day. In the past two weeks, he began to stick to his mother for some reason in stead of hanging with me, so I have more time to read my books. A child at this young age seems still have access to some unknown source of information, so I often get surprised that he knows something he is not supposed to know.
Life is all about choices. We choose our works, our friends, our neighborhoods, and many other factors of life. All these choices are related. Sometimes you have to live with the results of your earlier choices or choices made by people of your earlier choices -- and you can't complain because it's your choice of life.
on politics, I would vote for Obama if I were a US citizen, but I doubt that everyone will live happily thereafter. However, in the past two Presidential campaigns, the candidates all demonstrated the maturity of democracy in USA. Al Gore is a real statesman who I think may be the only one for the century. Obama of course represents a whole new era, but I think McCain also shows his dignity fighting a losing battle yet refusing to call for racism.
Politicians are reflection of the voters, as media is a reflection of the audience. Last week was a week of disorder and violence in Taiwan according to what the media shows us, and Taiwan looks like going to the edge of riot or martial law. But in fact, I tried very hard to catch up with the reports last weekend because I had meetings with Japanese companies and other customers without noticing a bit of chaos in my daily life. There are always people on both ends of extremes in any society, but the media made the 5% looks like 50%. Until the audience knows how to choose, and until the voters knows what to choose, this is what we can get.
