Daniel Pinks talk on Motivation

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html


Autonomy

Mastery

Purpose

FIRST ONE OF OUR OWN

Hey just wanna say congratulations on getting married.

You are the first one of our own to step into the life after "singlehood", and I am freaking jealous that you have found the one you would want to spend the rest of ur life with :). I wish I had one right now by my side. The one who I want now refuse to talk me and is avoiding my contact too, and I think I am fine with it, coz I never knew how to treat a lady I suppose. There has been many reported incidents lately that I insulted great women friends lately. And with your card saying I need to tone down "manhood", I think I started to understand more about myself. And all of a sudden I don't feel so good about my conducts.

A coworker once told me that my mouth is as sharp as a knife, but my heart is as soft as a jelly. And with this "characteristics" of me, I hurt people who are closest to me the most. Guys might be fine with my constant mocking and teasing (as long as they have the ability to fight back), girls can't. And with that attitude of me, I probably hurt the one girl who were closet to me, and I don't even realize it. And to think I hurt someone I love that frequent, I bled in my heart.

So I vow to myself to be a warmer person, and to be a better and more responsible man, to both my duties as a person and my emotions. And I thank you for helping me realize this. I hope I can still fight my way back to get that girl. And to realize that I could become a better person and had a shot (so far no progress whatsoever) at someone (and probably the only one) with whom I would ever fall in love actually put more meaning in my life not only on the personal scale but my sense of purpose in my life.

You have been a great friend. You are always thoughtful for people around you and put others comforts before yours. That is some quality you rarely see these day. I feel super blessed to have met you so early in my life: to learn from you, to grow with you, and to be happy for you on your BIG BIG day tomorrow.

加油!!

CONGRATULATIONS

Taipei Car Expo

Went to the Taipei Car Expo today.

Had more fun than I expected.



Saw many hot models and some cool, "moving house (pricewise)" type of vehicles. Also saw many concept cars that are either out of this world or simply very "imaginable" (ie. not so futuristic).

For some reason, all "affordable" brands are pushing their energy saving and zero carbon emission vehicles. But non can differentiate themselved and give me a strong impression of whether their carbon emission cutting technology would be all worthwhile for me. So as a company trying to come out in a hurd of brands in front of the customers, how you present your product thus becomes important.

Current expo show formula is to have the car and the plates introducing the cars right beside them. There are sales personelle around and a information booth equipped with hot girls. At certain times of the day, stage show would be arranged. Models will walk on the stage, pose, then introduce the cars with prepared script.

However, those who would gather to see those show are not for the cars, but for the models, photos and the little souvenirs which I deem useless stuff...

So, does spending so much money on those shows worthwhile?

I guess it is just another phenonmenon where when your competitor in the market does it, you feel pressured to follow suit coz if you don't, there may be a chance that you might lose your market share. But does those shows really help in terms of car sales? Big companies probably make too much money to care.