2008年12月8日 星期一

Different Life ~~

I went to my high school classmate's wedding party last sunday with my wife. The party was held at Taipei Ambassador Hotel. What a luxurious place. My wife asked me to dress suit, but I just didn't listen to her, still dressed casual, sweatshirt-hoody with jean. When we got there, I was embarrased. It looked like I went to the wrong place.

I still felt happy to be there even though my wrong dress. I saw many classmates who I haven't seen them since high school. We talked about many funny and stupid things we did in high school. Although not everyone came, we still got their current situation mostly. Someone is fighting with cancer, someone is going to learn airplane piloting. Someone just has a new open store 鮮竽仙, and someone was just fired by his boss. Someone is a doctor, someone is an accountant, someone said he would never get married, and someone are going to have third baby.

It was an interesting party. I saw different kinds of life. On my way home, all we chatted in the party still in my brain and let me have new ideas of my life.

2008年12月1日 星期一

Annual Bonus 23 months !!!!!!!

Taiwan is a kingdom of bike manufacturing. There are two world famous brand "Giant" & "Merrida".The Giant just announced that their annual bonus would be 23 months. "23 months", wow!!! Tthat means you work for one year then you will get pay for 3 years almost. That's the most I ever heard.

But when I went to the retailers, their price is sky high. Even basic level for newcomer also costs 12 thousands. I won't pay that much to buy a bike. It's too expensive. I think 2 or 3 thousands would be the acceptable price. 5 thousands is my limit.

We always heard people said Taiwan is the kingdom of bike manufacturing. In that case, why the price in Taiwan is so high? I don't understand. Our government always said that we should buy the products made in Taiwan mostly. I want to support our own brand, but it seems I also need to pay much more. Wasn't it ridiculous? 23 months bonus and the price for Taiwanese is still so high? I still don't understand... why?

2008年11月24日 星期一

Enterovirus !!!

My lovely daughter got enterovirus last Saturday. I got her to the hospital, and the doctor said we should be very careful next few days. To prevent her getting fever is very important. So we forced her to drink 100 cc of water per hour at least. Every time she cried, I felt sad, too. She is so little and got this kind of dangerous illness. Just few days before, that was a news about two little kids in Tao-Yuan died in this virus. That makes me really nervous about my dahghter.
The weekend days, she was very naughty, cried easily, didn't wanna eat anything, even waked up easily. I knew the illness made her very uncomfortable. To take care of her was a very tired job. My mom, my wife and me were really tired these days, but the good news was she did not get fever.
But something happened today. She got fever this morning, and my mom took her to see doctor. Doctor said she need a intravenous drop and stay in the hospital until night. So I went to take care of her this afternoon until my wife get off duty to take my turn. Her body temperature was gettind down, and it seems she could be back home tonight. This is a horrible experience, and I wish she can recover soon.

2008年11月16日 星期日

Asia series Taiwan gets runner-up !!!

Taiwan Pro-Baseball league "CPBL" 2008 champion Uni-Lions had a amazing trip.They even lost their first game with China league champion Tien-Jing Lions.Uni-Lions 3:4 behind Tien-Jing in 9th inning top. But they hit a tie run and few minutes later hit a walk-off 3 runs homer to overcome the China champion. It was so close that Taiwan would lost to China again since the Olympic Games. But the Uni-Lions showed their hitting ability in time, not let it happen again.


After that, Uni-Lions was getting better. Lost to Japan No.1 Seibu Lions just only one run (3:4). The most exciting was they 10:4 beat Korea Champion SK Wyverns who 13:1 slaughtered Uni-Lions on 2007 Asia series. What a beautiful revenge. Before this game, if Taiwan want to be in the champion match, it needs 3 runs winning at least. On 8th inning top, Taiwan lost 3 runs lead(6:3), Korean got the most important run to become 2 runs behind(6:4). That meant Koreans would be in the champion match even they lost this game. But the miracle happened again in 8th inning bottom.The surprising 3 runs homer totally knock out the Korea Champion. In the end Uni-Lions 10:4 to get another chance to against Japan No.1 for Asia Champion.


Champion match was very tough for both teams. After 8th innings past, it still tied on 0:0. On 9th inning bottom 2 out , one on 1st base, Japanese had a outfield hit. The runner should stop on the 3rd base generally, but the outfielder made an error on passing back to infield, the runner was back to home. So the game finished on a walked-off error. Japan got the only one run to win Asia champion, Taiwan gets runner-up, and then Korea and China.


It's a pity to lose Asia champion for Uni-Lions. But I think it still showed two points during this series. First, to beat Korea, even Japan is possible. We shouldn't lose our faith, maybe the result of Olympic games was terrible, but I think Taiwan is still the good team all over the world. The 2nd point is that China baseball improve very fast. Not only Taiwan, but also Korea and Japan should not look down on them. Finally, I have to say that Uni-Lions did their best and undoubtedly, there are a lot of things need to improve. 2008 Asia Series , Uni-Lions impressed me a lot by their attitude. Well done ! Uni-Lions...