Dec. 29th was a deadline for the payment. One of our customers was in the difficult time. There was the rumor that the company was running out of money and going bankrupt. The nonpayment for their drafts will give us a huge damage that might trigger our bankruptcy. We have been selling about 10% of our product every month for them. The total money that we might lose in case will be 50% of our one month whole sales since we've got their commercial notes for 5 months.
Our president made a telephone call to the company to make them to explain their financial situation. The vice president of that company came and put emphasis on that they could get over the trouble they had. Our president is not a soft touch so he said that we were not going to ship out any our lines unless they pay in cash. The meeting was over without any results. No body can touch the problem. The only thing that we can do is to wait and see the progress. The fates of them and supposedly us are in their hand.
Every civilization doesn't last forever. We are not surprised even if the worldwide turmoil this time is the beginning of the collapse of the Anglo-Saxon era. The question is "Who's next?” China ? Maybe, maybe not. Can China provide the new idea that will be welcomed by all the nations of the world instead of democracy and free market economy?
My daughter is going to graduate from her university next march. Getting interviewed with many IT industries but in vain, so she changed her target. Not to get the job in the field but to get the job that she can get easily. Finally she got her job. I was relieved.
It was 4 years ago when I enrolled in the English Channel.
I found the leaflet that introduced the internet English school in my daughter's campus. The price of class interested me. Only 4000yen would be charged for one month, 30 times of 50 minutes class. Incredibly cheap it was! Soon after getting back home, I contacted and enrolled in the school.
From that time on I had been enjoying to join the English class which I was interested in most until 2years ago. It was a fantastic time I've ever had in my life in terms of learning English.
It went like this;
The teachers post the article in the web where every student can see and check up, if some student like it then can book the class. You can see the temporally class mate (up to 5 including you) so that you can avoid the student whom you dislike. In the class we are supposed to read the part of the article one after the other. Teacher asks us many questions on the matter. Sometimes we are talking about the stuff that we are interested in. The teachers are all Filipino. Some student may be annoyed with their pronunciation. But I wasn't. My favorite teachers were Vivian, Vangie, and Mabel....
Some teachers were actress. And it was their part time job.
To be continued