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Tuesday, February 5th On this date last year... "My Daily Report... lol!" I think it was Raymond who joked that my journal isn't a personal journal of my life but rather a status report of the progress of my project. Truth is, it's one in the same, lol! If it wasn't ORIENTED, it would be whatever project I was working on at the time, i.e., when I'm 80 and if carpal tunnel hasn't killed me by then, I'm sure I'll be journaling about the rights of 80-year-olds or creating some kind of Ultimate Service for them. Love me or leave me baby! People who don't know me may read my website and think I'm just rambling right along, goofing around and posting up my daily entries without any thought to the things I'm saying. If so, that's cool, but that's about as far off from the truth as my site being a work of fiction. With each and every entry, these are just a few things I have to consider:
Any number of people who read my site -- friends, family, family friends, acquaintenances, strangers -- just might be interested in ORIENTED as an investment or a partnership opportunity. What I say about it needs to appeal to them, whether it's in the content or simply in my enthusiasm. When I write about my frustrations, I do so with the above in mind. Now that I have a few investors, I use this as a channel to update them on where I am (the basics anyway) while serving the above purpose. And yes, I believe it's safe to say that my journals have helped to convince some of them to GIMME GIMME GIMME, lol! Hopefully being a part of this project will be as fun for them as it has been for me.
In the event that my competitors are reading my site, I have to think --> what is it that I want them to know, or not know? Sometimes I may even throw in some discouraging facts -- all true of course -- to challenge their desire to enter this space. Yep. I'm nuts like that, lol. Perhaps I'm living in my own little head, but it is certainly fun to imagine, regardless. =)
When I write about my friends, I have to decide if they would mind (some are more sensitive to the exposure), and how I can best position them to highlight the work they are doing. So when I say, "Sherman, who used to work for WIIG...", there's a reason for that, to tell those NOT in Taiwan that hey, there are some really neat people out here doing some really neat things. Often times, I throw in inside jokes directed at very specific people. This I do for my own entertainment, but every once in awhile, I do get caught, lol!
This was something I discovered not too long ago, that evidently some of my parents' friends, and their children -- we're talking TEENAGERS and church-going folks! -- read my site. My freakin' DENTIST reads my site! Gods! So, not only do I hope to inspire them (the young people) in some small way, I also have to watch what I say! Let me put it this way, words of profanity are inserted with much consideration, lol!
Some of my ex-beaus -- or interested parties of the opposite sex -- lurk around here. Oh come on, I ain't stupid. Any woman who keeps an online journal shall command this audience, at the bare minimum. LOL! So... sometimes, when I write about my personal life -- even if I simply wanted to mention an incident with an ex -- I have to TIP TOE! Virtually! Along with my original objectives, I also want my entries to be FUN, all the while trying to keep a real-life journal of what I'm doing over here in Taipei. If that ain't a literary challenge... I don't know what is (lol)! I enjoy the challenge tremendously and look forward to it everyday, so on the occasion that someone comments that my writing is kind of funny, my attitude is --> cool beans. I have no idea how many people actually follow my site for long periods of time, but those that do -- if they have any insight to the person that I really am or can read people at all -- have to know that nothing I do is without deliberation. ... especially when I'm joking around.
I'm having dinner tonight with my old boss from Citibank, Beatrice C. Beatrice is probably the most well-known and respected female executive in the consumer banking industry here in Taiwan. And, she intimidates me to the Nth degree! I was hoping to write more about my relationship with her -- and how the Titanic almost ruined our professional relationship, our friendship, and ME forever (lol) -- but I've run out of time today. Oh well. Beatrice now heads her own incubator business, and yeah, I spent whatever free time I had today over-preparing. Am crossing my fingers over here... wimp wimp... ...actually I'm just hoping to make it through dinner!
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