Crossroad between the choppy waves and serene fields

When the heart doesn't feel well

"Mr. Kay, or is it Mr. Xia Chen?" Er Ge's secretary ask
"Kay please" I responded and smile.
"Be careful with the smile of yours - ooo melts young girls heart, thank good ness I'm married" she teased back
"Hahah my brother relies on you a lot i heard, you must be such an important person" I praised
"To sort out his schedule you mean, yes - come let me show you around"

Li Zing, my brother's secretary walked me around to introduce me to the people around, it just feel awkward the eyes that follows, My room feels spacious - my brother knows me well, the room faces the park below with the lake and there were paintings hung on the wall.

"Your brother insisted we have a piano placed at the corner of your room, we've renovated the place so you can have your private sound proofed area at that corner pointing to frosted glass door at the end of the room, I'll walk you there"

Er Ge must be consciously trying to get me back on to my work while helping him. I walked in to the room. Nicely decorated, white sofa with a vase and fresh flowers by the window like how i normally like it. Hmmm even my old painting is hung up on the wall.
"Shall I leave you? Ms Cheng, your secretary will be here shortly. You have a few function this afternoon with your brother and there's a dinner with the holding company shareholder with your dad and your two brothers"

"Thanks Li Zing can you get me the company's financial year performance report and investor reports please, I'd like to get my hands around the business"
Li Zing raised her eye brow "Sure it's actually on the shelf next to your table...hmm your brother did say you would dive into the financial details first thing"

"Thanks that's all, please go ahead" I smile and walk straight to the desk
"uhhmm Kay, some of the management team have actually asked me to schedule sometime with you, they wanted to catch you knowing you are coming on board"
"Tomorrow, I'll go through the details first" I replied

It was always my habit to get into the financial details - I guess that runs in the family, the serious work ethic of wanting to know upfront how's the company performing, that will help me get my hands around how well we are doing and strategise our expansion plans accordingly. Browsing quickly at the financial statement and investment portfolios i spent a good 2 hours to consume the stacks of reports. In that 2 hour I've pretty much digested our company's performance Cost to Income Ratio seems high. We need more revenue push and expenses control and that seems to come from our marketing splurge on a few entertainment aspect. Our portfolios are pretty stable and I realised we have also expanded our investments to selected countries and collaboration with some international Artist to co-promote their work which we get incentives from.

I stretched my hands and my neck as the reading gets into me. I walked over to the window and pull the blinds to look out. Blue skies with warm sun light.
"Hello Mr Kay, you dad and brother is waiting for you at his room" Ms Cheng said as I nodded and settled with introduction with Ms Cheng

"Hi Pa, Er Ge....you are early."

"Come Xia - we have a proposal to get through we have 30 mins and we have to move to the meetings"
And so the day went by until dinner. I guess I picked up some of these traits through the generations - workaholic as they call it seems to run in the family.
We had many intensive discussions on a proposition for funding for digital entertainment and gamification working with platform providers. And so I had to share my fair bit of knowledge why gamification can be used as a tool to drive traffic. While my dad was addressing the middle age and elderly segment needs and proposition - I was creating awareness with what my segment would do and so we move on to the student, under graduates, young working adults and each segment would have their on needs and wants. The ability to tailor the need for each segment serve as critical point on how we will market some of these ideas.