This & That with Myself

"My name is Reggie. I’m about kickin’ ass, I’m about takin’ names, and we’re about makin’ games."

The Nintendo of America President, chatty Reggie Fils-Aime is famous with this opening line for E3 in 2004. (FYI, Electronic Entertainment Expo,is the biggest games trade show in the world)

After studying whole day about Nintendo history (lucky me, this is part of my job :P) I came to understand the ultimate Reggilation in North America market. I never see myself a great speaker or influncial figure at all, but I am always facsinating to see the marketing stratergy and political sides of many issues we all dealing with everyday.

Nintendo is on their way of making a great come back from a market which used to be their dominance. The new Wii console will soon hit the market like typhoon! By looking at this historical event in gaming world, the same approach taken by Nintendo can be used in our everyday life.

Now the world is all about innovative and IMO innovative is all about taking risks. A stable life is not anymore a way to do thing and live your life; I believe human have bigger capacity to improve and learn a great deal while enjoying the comfort that brought by all these technology shit.

Copy and pirated sure relief the burden of my pocket, but I have seen this unhealthy culture grows everywhere. How long does it take for human to understand we just need one Ipod and we don’t not need to paint the whole world with Ipod white? We don’t need another fake LV bag or another pair of fake Levis. Think about gather the mind all these people who only know how to copy, we might be able to go to Mars, twice.

My job, ironically is about copying, it is about making peripheral products. To deal with my stubborn mind I took Nintendo’s story as a reminder, at least be innovative in the not so innovative world, not to lose my principle.

So what’s the moral? A 94% loss of profit for Sony last fiscal year, and a 6 million Wii on the way to US just for launching. Xbox? Who cares…

Remember Play Station, that was Nintendo’s idea that you guys stole..

先得到一定后失去。

得失，得在前，失在后。

我们总说失而复得，要"舍得"。舍得，也是先"舍" 才"得"。

世上真没有白吃的午餐，只有因果报应。

我在深圳快修成正果啦 !

So, am I going to relocate to Los Angeles, California a small town call Chino?

Geez…you really don’t know wassup with the people here, I just got the funiture for "my office" in Chino, California…?!

WTF…I don’t get it.

Current mood: Frustrated under confusion.

A tired Thursday…

I was joining some friends last night for "Men’s Talk" until late night.

The conclusion is…

Men’s Talk is hella informative!

Another perspective of problem solving, from a male’s point of view. I had never really into "men world" before, for the first time, I heard some crying out loud from their heart.

Marriage is absolutely a course to learn but is not easy to pass, sadly, for majority couple nowsaday. I felt bad for my friends’ situation and realized I ccould actually stand at their point of view and sympathized them. I think we can’t catagorize problem by genders, just like we can’t vote by party but the leader who has the ability to lead the country. Whatever is make sense, rational, effective should be taken in account.

Are men really from Mars and women are from Venus? I think there’s something between us that is unbreakable for communication. But what make us have to be together?

Blame the evolution.

"I will be absolutely delighted if my wife can find another guy and marry him!" V said "You mean you wanna divorce her?" "I don’t even need a divorce, she can just go! Take the house and car, I will keep the kid!"

So, do you think stop eating seafood is a way of protecting the ecology system? Ah, can’t give that up….

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061024/ts_nm/environment_wwf_planet_dc

I got my first Qi Pao yesterday!!

And made a big hole on my wallet…I spent RMB1000 (US150) yesterday for all my Chinese retro collection. The Qi Pao, a pure Silk white dress, leather high heel with blink blink (for the first time in my life I had something so "Blink") and a very good quality lipstick which is Made in China but at the price range is like Kose. (The brand is Yue-Sai, I heard it is the most hip cosmetic brand in China right now).

Just think it will be nice to deceive people, so I won’t be cheated while buying stuff cause I will be looking just like the local It is weird for me being a Chinese Malaysian in China, I wonder how can these people tell that I am a foreigner? I thought we look about the same besides the way we dress? Or because I can’t differenciate all the money bills?

The first time I came to ShenZhen I had realized how expensive the products in shopping mall were. But now I finally understand what is the truly Made in China products that sold in China shopping mall. The rule is simple, they kept the best for themselves.

The style might not be very impressive sometimes with the price range (You hardly see anything under RMB200 (US25) (RM110) is pretty high overall. What is the cloth made from is a "Must Check" for understanding the price. After you realise what are these clothes or shoes made from, the price is relatively low.

But on average, you need to earn RMB6000 above to survive in ShenZhen, I believe these places are exclusively for white-collar workers and definately not for tourists. The extreme different between the poor and the rich is huge, in some ways, it is a lot like USA, but you hardly see any bump around the city.

Think about the effect of welfare? That might really make you an lazy arse…

Is it the cost of our existance or it is just nature being nature?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061020/sc_afp/britainanimalsclimatewarming_061020070253

So I am having "OT" today, as usual…

The only thing is I don’t have anything to do at all, not even somebody there to entertain me!! Geez.

I went for a superb medical check out today; I did bloodtest, x-ray, ultrasouns, HDC, EVEN (They check your 5 senses), blood pressure, height, weight, dental bla bla bla..in only 30 mins! Is like going to a war zone, everbody is in a hurry.

Anyway, I have to quote something very special today " As long as they are not making food, that’s ok, because food makes people sick but toys don’t", it is a brilliant way to support me. Guess who might have said this? A future sweatshop director

Somebody please bring me home!!!

I am wearing a pair of slipper with McDonald mark on it and "BNA" basketball game logo which probably cost RMB 2.

I am also using very high quality 3-ply-toilet paper, it is so thick the toilet won’t be able to flush it away!

My bed is as hard as a table, the matress is only 2 inch thick, but I don’t suffer  back pain in the morning.

A Lexus drives me home but I don’t even have a fan in my room.

So I think even I adjust to the culture, I have to adjust the rule of balance here, it is so extreme. A water heater can range from RMB 100 to RMB3000 and they work the same way- heat up the water.

Ah, things aren’t simple here, and definately not easy.

My room at the new dorm wasn’t  ready yet, so I had to stay at a co-worker’s house with her mom and her 3 months old son! I thought it would be interesting to stay at with a Chinese family and experienced their living.

The apartment was rather expensive inside but kind of dirty from the outside.  To save th cost of painting, there’s a layer of clay at the outter wall which make the apartment very unique compare with those we seen in Malaysia or US. There are many places here looks kind of crappy outside but gorgeous and clean inside, interesting.

My co-worker has a very pretty baby and very funny too; she had warned me about baby’s noise at night, I thought that wasn’t a big deal. Not until I fall asleep, in the middle of the night the baby started crying and then giggling every once in a while, only I know never in my life I had stay with a baby before!

So I am hoping my room will be ready very soon. It is not as interesting as I thought staying with them because they are very serious family, not very much conversation going on or friendly fake nice gesture. They are still living their life in front of a total stranger, very cool indeed, but I am not very comfortable.

I am sure not every family is like this in China, but I am damn sleepy at this moment, 7:40am, my best record for waking up early so far in 3 months (6:45am).