There are only 2 places where I feel most comfortable in life.

(1) My home (2) My parents’ home

Like those typical flats of anybody else in Hong Kong, my flat or my parents’ flat are not spacious. Yet, I can be myself in any one of those places.

Remember the times when I was small, my mom told me a story…….

Once upon a time, there were three pigs living beside the jungle. One day their mother had to go to the town to buy food. Before she left home, she told her pigs not to go into the jungle. Also, she requested each of her pigs to build up a house on his own. The first pig was lazy. Therefore he decided to build up his own house with straw which is light and easy to build. The second one chose branches as his raw material. The last pig, which suppose to be the most hard working one, chose brick as his raw material. He spent lots of time on his home. When the wolf came to looking for food … No need the talk about it anymore. The theme is that hard working is important. It saves your life.

Is hard working really that matter in reality? It seems that social skill is more important than hard working or the real talent. If you have good skill to cover up what you cannot do, you do not need to be talent to survive. Simply mimic what the others did or repeat what the others said during meetings. Also, if you don’t like to do it that way, you can show up your A class shoulder, people will be scared and run away from you. Will your boss bug you for being that passive. 95% not. They enjoy the comfortable environment more than you do. Who wants his office to be a place of battle. That is a good way to SURVIVE. That kind of situation can always be found in the working environments especially those big companies.

There is a question mark over what the children are thinking to me - why do children always get closer to their mom than their father? Is it a must? Do they smell better? I don’t think I am qualified to answer these questions; Indeed, I do not know the answers.

I need to admit that sometimes I am lazy on the child care task. It is not easy to push the children to do their homework after work. A more difficult task is to push our bodies to go over the assignments for the children.

Both of us are tired. Yet, if both of us are lazy on doing that, who would take over the task? No one!! That is the reality. Time to face the reality.

It is a blessing to be able to sleep with the woman you love, ever though she is very fat now after given birth to your children.

Due to the hurricane in USA, the oil price is soaring. The market worries about the limited supply of the oil. I am not part of the oil business. I have no oil related stocks or warrant on hand. There is no direct relationship with that to me. Just don’t know how much impact it would be to those who are running their manufacturing business in China. Hope they can get through their difficulties.

Heard from news that some leaders in China are willing to have an open discussion or initial contact with the democratic leaders in Hong Kong. I thing this is beneficial to both China and Hong Kong as a whole. Hope “long hair” would not put us to shame with his over-reacted actions.

Today is not a very smooth day to me. The file was corrupted on the last moment before I left office. Luckily, the file was saved before lunch; otherwise, things which had been completed today would be totally gone. I do not have much expectation on the remaining portion of the file. Worse come to worse, I have to repeat what I had done this afternoon - who would care it much when it was time to leave office. I packed up all my stuff and got into the elevator faster than anyone else could do, especially my boss. Just couldn’t let him call me back at the last moment. If the god of luck is running with me, I may get back the whole file tomorrow morning 

It was a special day to me today - my wife and the children had to joy the party which was organized by a friend in school. I was absolutely free this afternoon. Do not have that level of freedom for long after the arrival of the children. I think that is also what all the parents are looking for or keen on when they have to take care of their children all day long. Yes, we always love our children. Yet, they are sometimes too demanding to their parents especially those parents having children at the early stage of their marriage life.

Lets get back to what had happened this afternoon. Amazingly, I did not feel free this afternoon even though the children and my wife had left me alone. I may be used to live with them; Without the little pigs fooling around me, I really didn’t know what to do next. I was not in the mood to study or doing any things else.

Finally, I went to eat a bowl of noodle at the corner restaurant. During the time when I finished my noodle, my mobile rang. It was a call from my wife. The troubles were coming back. The meaningful parts also came along. They are like both ends of a mop - I mean the troubles and the meaningful moments causing by the wife and the children - they always come together. It all depends on how you view it or enjoy it. To me, they are treasure.