Swimming in the Thought & Flying in the Time: 10/03/2004

The Taxi Driver's Talk

I went to my company this morning by taxi, because my car was out of order this week. It's interesting to talk with the driver, if the driving job is his second career in his life. The one I met worked for a manufacturing firm before, he decided to drive a cab to earn a living instead of being a manager on production line, because he weren't willing to be assign to work in Mainland China by his boss.

The migration of manufacturing industries in Taiwan to China seems to be a ordinary thing these years, I always heared from the business managers I met, and it have been published frequently on newspapers and manazines. People who used to make profits by reducing the production cost are always seeking the more lower expense from the whole production process, and the labor cost and land cost always contribute more than other costs. It's not too difficult for understanding the phenomenon in manufacturing industries. The driver was one of the sufferers in the structural unemployment.

It calls for deep thought from his experiences of business trip to the firm operating in China, he told me that the people in China is very smart and enjoy contending for personal gain, because they are afraid of shortage in their living for a long time. He was also impressed by the expressiveness of the people, they could confuse right and wrong, if they want to. The management came from Taiwan are easy to be replaced by local people, because they are accustomed to use the tactic of "divide and conquer" to acquire the authority, it's easy to be observed, but not easy to stand still without eroding the foundation of trust between the members of management team, which was always composed of people from Taiwan originally.

The Playwright with Pessimistic Spirit

As one of Ellie's friends, I am lucky to be her colleague at the same project team, I observed many different behaviors from me by her nature, and to know her way to recognize a specific event by exchanging views between us. The things happened to us make me expand my vision to understand the world, and feel more interesting to deal with the daily jobs.

Ellie described my personality by comparing with her and with another colleage-Jack, she said that I was a man with idealism, I alway tried to make things done by following the justice they shoud be. Jack played a role of gatekeeper in our project team, he was considerate of every details to avoid any carelessness, as Ellie's description. About Ellie herslef, she said that she was a pessimist, she always looked at the deficiencies in the tasks assigned, and thought that the tasks were mission impossible. As my opinion, I think she always tried to do the tasks to perfection, that was the highest standard to measure the outcomes for the tasks. The funny thing is that we begin to predict the scenario going when we start to do the new task according our three characters, and watch what will happen in the near future.

Ellie was a reportor a few years ago, so that she is good at telling a story, describing a event, and making a conclusion. I had told her that I build up a blog which entitled "Industry Analysis",the blog also hosted by Blogger, for the beginner. I wish the blog could help me to save time for answering the same questions by different friends. A few days later, she went to my blog to see what I wrote on the webpages, she was somewhat agree with my intention of the blog, but said that maybe the one who saw my blog will ask me to explain the concepts and methodologies for him in chinese, because I wrote it in english. It's one of the cases for Ellie's pessimism, it's a "cold joke" for me, but with possibility. ^^

YuSan - Majored in Art at U. of Wiscosin-Madison

YuSan is a friend of mine, since I was a college student. We both joined the same interest group in campus, we published the news paper and magazine to report the events and thoughts concerning the college life for the members of the college at that time. She looks like a shy girl, but truth is that she is content with things as they are, and try to be a easy person.

I met her a few monthes ago, we talked about her artistic creation for her graduation project at U. of Wiscosin-Madison. She said that she still have many copies in her dwelling house, and tried to make the copies being a good end. The Internet maybe is a good solution for finding the people who like her works, I guess. That's the reason why I posted the series of Troll in my blog. You could contact with me, if you are interested in the creation by YuSan and try to buy a copy of her series works. The series of Troll consists six small stories, every story has its own implied meaning with simple sentences and pictures.

See you.