Sell It to Your Boss

Recently there's been argues on company directions and where to put most of our resources on. The main reason is that we didn't have marketing function in the organization before, and the CEO and Sales head have different directions on what's the best move in such troubled time to prepare for the rising wave when it comes.

Our not-clearly-defined-and-treated-as-sales marketing people complains that the company only values OEM sales; marketing is more like a liability than an asset. They are forced to change their job function to serve OEM customers as sales assistant, which will deprive their previous time from marketing planning. As everyone can imagine, every body is thinking about quitting.

Yes, every boss is an idiot. However, I would say, if you are willing to spend 6 months educating potential customers, create relationship with channels, and expect people you don't know to buy your products, why not spend three months to educate your boss, improve relationship with the one who pay your bills, and see what will happen? Quitting may look cool, but it ain't get you anywhere except one job after another and another, because there's always another idiot waiting in the next company. I will not go down without a fight--tenderly.

Yoshi Plays iPhone Video

Yoshi is now an expert (considering his age) with iPhone.

Taipei Lantern Festival 2009

New Year

Just returned to work from 9-day New Year vacation. Allie and I took one extra day off, so it was ten days for us. We went 300 km south to Kaohsiung for family reunion, a must-do but not always pleasant tradition. My grandfather and grandmother, now in their eighties, are not the kind of people you want to spent your holiday with. Actually, there were two small argues and one big fight when we were there. It may be the last time I follow this tradition to ruin my holidays.

After Kaohsiung, we then went back north to Tamshui and stayed with Allie's family. Yoshi had a good time there because there was more space for him to run, and there were many toys to play while his cousin was away.

When we finally returned to Taipei, Yoshi fell asleep right after dinner time--very very early for him compared to his usual schedule. He became very shy to strangers in the vacation--maybe there were too many new people and new places to him. That summarized the vacation, if not with the surprise that came on Sunday.

One o'clock in Sunday morning, Yoshi got a fever which reached 39 degrees. I was not too worried because he seemed still as energetic as usual. My mom "strongly suggested" that we took him to a nearby clinic on Sunday morning, so we did. On the way home, he began to said that his belly aches. In the evening he had diarrhea. At sunrise time of Monday, the fever raised to 40 degrees and he shivered badly. So, we took him to ER. The resident on duty was an interesting one. He finishes his diagnosis very quickly but spent a lot of time teaching me the reason of fevers and signs should be alerted. I guess he had saw too many cases far worse then Yoshi so in this case there was no need to go to ER. He also knows that such thing will happen again and again as Yoshi grows up, so he tried to prepare me for that.

Yoshi's fever now lasts two to three hours at 40 degrees, and the peak repeats every five to six hours. This is only the second day in the progress, still several days to go before he recovers from this virus infection and develops new immunity for it.