Happy Halloween!

From left to right: Juicy, Cupid, Clown, Strawberry, and Ruby.
- The Halloween Party at Theo's

Found a cute trail this weekend in Beitou, where leads to public hotspring pools for men and women separately. Well, this is how it works... it's a trail by the stream and then it hits to 2 bridges, one only for men to across and one only for women. Then after the bridge you'll reach some public hotspring pool, where you can bath nakedly with people in your gender. After the hotspring you can meet your male/female partners out of the curtain and keep your hiking.

Then the hiking to the top of sha-mou-shan is just sooooo cool but a lot of steps tho. This made me aware that I'm really out of shape now.... :(

Found a nice spot on Mu-Cha Mao-Kung tea hills, where taipei 101 and city view can be seen clearly and is pretty quiet and peaceful. The lady from tea house suggested us coming up on new year's eve and enjoying 101 neon flash and firework from the hill. Yah... should be cool!:)

How do you usually deal with rumors?

Recently there's one spreading around in my office that we're going to be merged by HK office. I can't remember since when everyone starts to talk about it all the time and wonders if they should quit before it happens or stay and see. New people sigh for unluckiness of getting in a wrong company, Senior workers start to ask about other opportunities out of here and imagine after merge we all have to move to china or HK. Sales managers promote their items dispiritedly, and even top managers give no comments on poor meeting outcome. The air stops flowing and you smell little aggressiveness in it.

On the other corner of the office, there's a small team working like hell sending hundreds of quotation sheets and samples and responding customers from US to Canada to Chile to Mexico to UK. They hardly smell any depression as the business had never been so hot before like this time. Thousands of items from more than 20 categories out of 3 countries need to be dealt with by 4 people in a couple of days time. No matter how long they over work everyday, requests seem to never stop.

So when you hear your company is going to be merged and you happen to be in that small team, what would you think? When coworkers remind you better to take actions before rumors become truth, what would you respond?

I never like rumors, cuz they're not proved yet but already cause people panic. I mean, I listen to rumors, but I only put them in my data base as information reference. Some you can just ignore, but some you need to see them seriously. This one definitely deserves some brain rolling, but resignation before it is obviously a foolish decision. Funny thing is, everytime when things go into a one way lane and worry people in my surroundings, my hero nature would always pop out spontaniously and I'd start to think of solutions to rescue 'my people'. This time I'm thinking of going to talk to my big boss, maybe to prove the rumors and also listen to his ideas on this issue. Maybe he's got a solution already and maybe he'd let things go as is. No matter what at least I can bring some info back to 'my people' and break or prove the 'rumor'.

As for myself, I'm not so worried. My boat seems still safe now, at least me and my boss got certain credibility and reputation with our business partners, and we surely know more about our territories than any new people if they bring any in after merge. There's just one thing worrying me.... that what if top management ask my boss to open an office in India and me take care of it there?

Errr...... then I might really need to consider my resignation!:P

You can never imagine how my days went these days. I was like in a none-stop race for every minute, I'm so passed out but still can't stop.

I flew to India for the gift fair. Also accompany a couple of colleagues from US and a couple of buyers from south America to work in the fair for a couple of days. Then my US buyer came in so we had to set up a product presentation in hotel's conference room. We started working on sample display at 7am and doing the presentation at 8.30am, discussing on each selected item until none, then doing some recap and packing up selected samples for the review in HK. The evening we accompany US colleagues to go shoppping, then we flew back to taipei via BKK and HK and arrived at midnight the next day. We carried several cartons back to the office before heading home, and then next morning 8.30am joined in another 2 meetings in taipei office. On the other hand I had to instruct the team to work on item files and quotation for items selcted in india, and get all samples out at 4pm, which are counted around 50 items. So today I was like running up and down with high heels and had no breakfast but late lunch at 5pm in the meetings with buyers, US sales people and category managers. After food we started to work on the quotation and stuff and when the time I could finally go home, it was already 11pm.

Actually I had several hours in BKK airport but half of time I tried to catch more sleep and the other half to have lunch and some massage. It wasn't relaxing tho as we had to watch out the time and schedule for next flight. I don't know how people manage this but I totally am not a person who can live with any 'time frame' sort of thing. You know even now I'm lying on my bed my nerves are still intensed and my mind is still running. Hope all of these are worthwhile.

Heading to India again

So here's some refreshment for you...


-Lady's room in Delhi

Oh by the way, this is worthy keeping the record as it's my first time in life...

I MISSED THE FLIGHT TODAY!:(

My Buddy's Wedding

Congrates, OSCAR!:)

To A Beautiful Soul...

我知道你愛的很辛苦 這麼漂亮的女孩為了愛而這樣折磨自己 實在為你很心疼
可是愛就是這樣 努力不一定得的到期待的結果 除了等待對的人和對的時間之外 真的別無可求
他只是留著你做朋友而已 即使你有心有情你也不能改變他的意願 你卻還是心甘情願的等待他的回心轉意
他真的值得等待嗎? 即使可能花一輩子的時間 你也不後悔做這樣的決定嗎?
為什麼要如此糟蹋自己呢? 你是這樣美麗出眾又善良 你是該被捧在手心上呵護的
當他的心沒有隨著你的喜樂哀愁而起伏的時候 你該知道他就不值得你這樣用心愛著
當你在為他哭泣揪心的時候他並沒有在你身邊安慰你逗你開心 你該知道他就不值得你托付自己

每個女孩細心的照顧自己疼惜自己 就是為著被男人疼愛呵護
每個男人努力的培養自己訓練自己 就是為著被女人照顧托付
這是生命起源的作用 也是生命循環的根本
當他對你說你該自己獨立生存的時候 你就該知道你的未來不能放在他手上 倚賴他將是一生的錯誤
你該尋找有肩膀有擔當 可以並肩攜手建立家庭的男人 而這個男人絕不會是他

我知道聰明的你這些你都懂 只是一時間被愛衝昏了頭
含著淚睡去吧 明天天亮之後你還是會美麗如昔 明天的太陽依舊會燦爛如昔
而遠方那個即將疼惜你的男孩將會不捨你的淚水心疼你給自己的折磨
所以 留著你的善良美麗給未來的幸福吧 忘了錯的人 耐心等待那個對的人
為著你未來的幸福 你要好好的愛自己 好嗎?

-Panorama view from Ping-Lin

Okey okey... I will write more often!

So what have I been doing? Well....

One weekend, I found a great coffee place on the top of ping-lin mountain (further up from hsindian) and from there you can see the whole panorama view of mountain group- i will post the pic up soon.

The second weekend, I happened to find the route from Wulai to Yilan and it was quite easy and clear and only takes 3 hrs to finish, so was thinking that one day I will do it... hike from Wulai (taipei county) to Yilan with my bare foot! Anyone who's interested in joining me can start to email me.

Most of my weekends are either spent on the mountain or by the beach, and I love it this way. Hopefully every weekend is in fine weather and you're very welcome to join me if you'd like some weekend adventures.:)