Wednesday, October 25th
True Confessions...
For some reason I get such a kick out of inside jokes (even if I'm the only one who gets it, which is often the case) and slight embellishments of the real thing. Alright sometimes I outright make things up. Here is a classic example.
Yesterday I got the photos back from the party, and as I was posting them to the site, I just couldn't help myself. I had to tell a story. Any story. And then the story grew into a whole tale, and that tale became awfully funny. A day later, it still makes me laugh. I think it was also because I pulled it together late in the evening and was just TIRED and in a goofy mood.
In a way, this was my official first attempt at writing humor. I showed it to all parties involved, and I do believe they enjoyed it too. I think... I'm beginning... to understand... what makes... a personal site... popular... and I have got some ideas up my little sleeve...
More importantly, I also showed it to my family and close friends back home. It accomplished exactly what I want this site to do, and that is, to share my life with them.
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Gus and I sent out the second invitations to the recruiters, and this time, we SCORED. WOO HOO! We worked hard on this one baby, and tomorrow should give us a few more. I am happy.
I still need to finish the operational expenses for .COM and it is still killing me. Worse is that I don't really know what I'm doing. Staff expense makes up a huge chunk of operational costs obviously but pay scales are so very different from one city in Greater China to the next. I have never written a business plan for a start-up in the U.S. but it has got to be easier than a regional one for Greater China. HELP.
Coffee, tea, or wine?
Tommy stopped by to say hello, took one look at all of my new anti-carpal tunnel devices, and said, "Man. You went ape sh*t."
He coerced me into taking a break, and we went to have coffee with Ginny who ended up serving us well, wine. What a life eh. I feel right at home with these guys. Too bad we couldn't do this every day!
Introducing... JADE Magazine!
It never ceases to amaze me the doors that O has opened, as tonight, I met Ellen, co-founder of Jade Magazine who is in town from New York with her husband and family. We had dinner at the Morrocan restaurant behind Hung-Kuo along with Acer Ginny (who first introduced us over email), and Ellen's friend Cherolyn, who was also visiting Taiwan.
This is the very first time we met in person since establishing cross-promotional relations over a year ago. And it was AWESOME. Cherolyn is a total riot, and it was especially great to talk with Ellen since we share so much in common. Jade Magazine and ORIENTED have led, and are leading, parallel lives.
True story: See this collage of eyebrows? Well one set is mine... the really BUSHY ones. Audrey and Ellen apparently published an article about eyebrows in last year's Aug/Oct issue and had used an old photo of mine - prior to my discovery of the "plucker" - without telling me. Nasty... lol!
ELLEN??!!
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