+Just a joke+

十年努力後，小祥知道妻子終於懷孕後，喜出望外，他想把好消息告訴所有人。
於是用妻子的手機群發了一條短信----“我懷孕了！
”不一會妻子的媽媽回信“你丈夫不是不育嗎？你和小李又聯繫上了？”
過了一會兒姐夫回信“你打算怎麼處理？”
接著老同學回信“咱倆都半年沒見了，你可別賴我身上。”
同事回信“不是吧，這才兩天吶！”
領導回信“我給你一萬，你休息一段時間吧！”
客戶回信“行啦，別嚇唬我了，你明天再來我家一趟，我跟你簽合同！”
一陌生人回信“你離婚，咱們就把這孩子養下來。”
另一個陌生人回信“那天還有趙總黃董呢，你不能說一定是我的吧？”
還有一陌生人回信“別開玩笑啊，我早結扎了！”

小祥瞬間昏死過去......

Buy apartment walkthrough

1. If there is any apartment we are interested, try to show our respect to agent and request for only minus 5%. Therefore we can have a chance to negotiate with the real owner.
2. Try to get the trust from agent at least don’t let them on the other side. I have to emphasize that just “TRY” because agent will never on any side, they just use any method they can to make the deal and get commission.
3. If there is a chance to meet the owner, this is the critical moment to question as much as we can and point out defect on the apartment:
1. The wall is nearly peeled off.
2. The power cable is already used for a long time.
3. Those locks for windows and doors are not secure any more.
4. Point out which furniture they want and which they don’t want.
5. Switch on all the electronic devices such as air-cond, refrigerator, microwave, washing machine and stove for a couple minutes to make sure they are all workable because it may be included in the apartment.
6. Try the washroom and bathroom to make sure the water pressure is smooth.
4. Try to show we have serious financial problem but this is essential for us to buy a house.
5. After reviewed everything and start to negotiate the price, try to break all the promise from the beginning and ask for at least minus 9% (depend on the economic).
6. No matter what the owner and the agent say, no matter we agree their point of view or not, try to say more and expend the negotiate period for around 30 to 45mins. The point is to make everyone tired and let them know we did try our best on what we need. If at last we can get what we ask for (minus 9%), it is the ideal case, if not we better shout out and say “I am going to leave.”. The point in here is tried to have an objective decision, not just depend on like or not. Apartment is almost the same everywhere, do not jump into the trap created by agent to make any decision in one day.
7. Try to loop step 4 to step 6 for 2~3 times to squeeze for the best price.
8. If there is a chance to sign a contract, make sure the go over all the hardware and furniture again.
1. If the owner would like to take away any of those hanging cabinets on the wall, how they can guarantee it won’t damage the wall without crack.
2. Take as much as pictures on the wall, floor, door-frame, doors, light-bulb, and windows and put it in the contract and let the owner promises that it will be the same quality on handover day.
3. Move away all the furniture which hidden the whole picture of the wall to make sure there is no damage or leakage.
4. Open all the drawers from cabinet to make sure doesn’t go moldy on each corner.
5. Switch on the stove and air-cond few more time to make sure it is workable.

2nd business trip

Just completed the 12 days business trip in San Diego. Actually it was not a business trip, it was about sending 2 illegal workers there for re-inspection a ton of meters. But of course from mouse point of view it was about a jackpot of company autumn journey to release their high work load created by from company. Or I should claim that it was just about a treatment from company to heal any of those stuff who has nega in his brain. Therefore I didn't feel guilty to grab as much as benefits from this trip.

Raymond and I arrived Los Angeles mid-night of 1st Nov. Lucky I had Raymond along, otherwise I was like a handicap without legs who had no way to go to hotel because I didn't have driving licence. This was the first time I was seriously considered to take a driving course in HK soon. We just stayed in Los Angeles a quick night without any sightseeing, then headed to San Diego the next day morning.

We drove 2 hours from Los Angeles to San Diego and reached Alere at 11am. After briefing with Mike Robinson and Dustin Tano, we noticed that we had more units than expected to go through the re-inspection process. And we realized that the warehouse was the place we would stick within these 10days.

After a quick lunch we started to work. What we had to do was opened the battery door from the meter to see if there was any metal part above the plastic compartment which may cause the short circuit, if not, then put it back to carton box. No doubt that everyone will think it was a super easy job but actually this kind of routine job nearly killed me. It was hard to imagine how boring it was to do the same action for 10 hours. We started chatting, listening music and playing cell phone, to do all what we always blame the operators NOT-TO-DO in the factory unfortunately it was what we had to do to awake our brain up. . I did sympathize with what operators did in our factory.

The difference between real mouse and cunning mouse was we always had a plan for our next move. We couldn't waste the chance just stuck in the warehouse for the whole trip. We decided to "work hard" on the weekday and "play hard" on the weekend. So on 2nd Nov to 4th Nov we almost worked until 1opm, even a longer working hour than in China. On Saturday, as discussed with customer they accompanied with us to go to the harbor with cruise ship terminal. The weather was perfect on that day so we walked along the harbor to enjoy the San Diego wind, San Diego air and to scan all of the San Diego girls who ever jumped into my sight. In the afternoon they brought us to a outlet and had a great dinner nearby called Elephant Bar.

Having a tour guide was not a bad option for us, but the generation gap between between customer and us was nearly killed us. So we decided to go to San Ysidro outlet on Sunday afternoon by ourselves. It was a really good outlet, huge and having several popular brands over there. The price was not as cheap as expected but stingy mouse still could pick some shirts and souvenirs for family and gf over there.

After the charming weekend 2 little mice had to go back to do the routine boring job on the second week. In the meanwhile, we celebrated Raymond's birthday on 8th Nov. This is the first time for him to celebrate his birthday overseas. I thought it was a unforgettable moment for him because end up there was 3 different groups of customer celebrated for him.

On 11th Nov, we had completed the mission to re-inspect 16k meters which was more than expected. So we said good-bye to customer in the afternoon and continued to "play hard" in Los Angeles. As I knew that Los Angeles was a big city but very disappointed that the downtown was looked like a sin city, a lot of area just put "LEASE" on the front. When we felt "that's it" in Los Angeles suddenly we found a totally different world in Universal Studio and Hollywood. Although there were not big and stunning but at least it made me feel different.

On 12th Nov night we were ready to get back to Hong Kong. Although it was a free, relax and exciting trip, I still feel that Hong Kong is the best place I would like to stay for my entire life.