saturday morning

It's a cloudy morning, with a little raining here on the street of kemang raya, everyone behind me, behind my office desk and computer, have got a little grumpy because of well, you know, work thing. Late delivery, delayed payment, defect in delivered items, bla bla bla. Yah, yah memang kenyataanya orang kerja kaya begitu yah, every new day, every new problem, and this little junior asscociate director has got nothing better to do but to catch up with her morning reading and writing. yahh mo diapain lagi yah? namanya juga kesalahan orang produksi, mo kita ngomel2 seharian juga, wont help to fix the problem.

Anyway, i'm still hooked up on reading biographies. I'm so hooked up in reading pages and pages of articles and stories on the richest man in China: the great Li Ka Shing. He is the first asian that i googled, haha. As much as i love to study the american business tycoon and European artists, i have to go back to heritage, right! Shame on me, i never heard of the name Li Ka Shing until the arrogant Sherlock laughed at me last night, and said "you read warren buffet, trump and all that, but dont know what makes Li Ka Shing so bloody rich, and you call yourself a chinese?"

Iya deh, i admit that the only chinese stories that i am profound of is the history of 3 kingdoms that i read from Legenda Naga (yeah, that does not count) So, i spare my morning to learn about this tycoon and well may be later i'll read on Sun Tzu as well. So apart from the fact that this person's net asset is $22 billion US (forbes 2007), i've researched sum interesting stories on him.

First of all the guy owns Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (that means, i've worked for the billionaire once. i'm so gonna get back on Sherlock and tell him this!), the license to operate legal casino in Macau, Cheung Kong Holdings, was once a chairman of HSBC and he was invited by Deng Xiaoping to become a member of the board of directors of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) It is China's largest conglomerate and is 42 percent owned by the government of China. Its

function is to serve as the chief investment arm of China's central government and holds ministry status on the Chinese State Council.

Okay, enough of the impressive-slash-boring-facts. Some notable, good enough for entertainment facts on him are his personal stories of course. He has two multibillionaire heir, the youngest one, richard li, is ranked 32nd on the list of the richest men in China, is 40 years old and still single. So ladies, any of you interested in marrying the son of the richest person in china, grab your passport and fly to Hong Kong immediately. the oldest son, Victor Li, was once being kidnapped by the gangster Cheung Chi Keung in 1996. He asked for a ransom of $1 billion. That's a huge amount of money in '96. Though he got the ransom money, the guy should not messing around with the guy who practically owns China, because later on he was arrested and executed in Guang Zhao.

I was intrigued by a statement in the China Business Newspaper in regards to Li's wife. It states "Although she was the wife of Hong Kong's richest man, little is known of her other than that she died of natural causes in the 1980" Gossip tabloid at that time says that the cause of the death is not natural cause but suicide. Being a curious person that i am, i google the net wanting to read all of those gossips column. To my surprise, i found 0 (zero result). I put her name on the search engine and nothing significant appears. All that i could find is just a statement with similar tone to the quote that i put above. ANd i'm like, this is the world of freeflowing information even when i put a name of a nobody, like B or C list celebrity, pages and pages of stories would come up before me. Just look at the black Dahlia, even hollywood is doing a big screen her. But when it comes to the wife of the most powerfull businessman in Asia, NADAH! Eventhough, just very recently, her tomb had been vandalised by some people who hoped to find burried treasure there. Her husband did nothing buy saying that those vandalisers will have bad karma for the rest of their lives. (what?)

Some thinking then come across my mind, is it really that her husband tries to cover up everything, afterall he could hunt down a gangster and put him to the grave, what's the big deal in shutting up the media? Piece of cake. Or that is the way of life that any traditional wife of a business mogul in China has to endure? To really become a person di belakang layar, in this case, jauuuuuhhh di belakang, di ujung layar. Yiahh.. gw nulis posting ini jadi rada takut juga.. jangan2 entar tau2 ada mafia dari Hongkong nyariin gw untuk meng-edit tulisan ini. Hiiyy!! ya udah ahh.. enuf talking of Li kha sing.

Backk to my weekend.. where will we be having dinner tonight, dear? i reckon some places with a good red and chicken. Yes, i'm crossing the rule of matching red with white meat. They do go well together. There is no harm is matchmaking outside the box right? I'm so enjoying my chicken before all of them are dibantai for healthy reasons by the government. ciaoo..