P P P P P.
no, i don't have to pee. product, place, price, packaging, promotion - those are the five P's of marketing. i am michael hermon, the marketing coordinator for world of charms cooperate offices in san francisco. everybody has a title in the cooperate world. i think mine sounds good.
after 4 weeks as a salesman at the downtown store, i was promoted (or kicked out) to the marketing department in the cooperate offices. of course I get my own office, a secretary, car, private jet, and $5 million cash - if i work for them for 20 years, become partners with the owners and eventually rob a bank. for now it's 10 bucks an hour. but i get a hands-on experience with marketing, which may help me on my ultimate mission to conquer the world! (moohahaha)
so i'm a year older than the last post. i went through two millenniums, two centeuies, three decades, and 22 separate years. it's actually not that much, coming to think of it. i spent most of my birthday trying to memorize my new age (i'm not very good with numbers), and the rest trying to rub off the i'm 21 years old tattoo i got last month. many thanks and lots of love to those who sent me warm wishes. even more thanks and love to those who sent me money. but the most thanks and love to those who sent me nothing at all; now i don't have to worry about remembering your birthdays.
beware of the cat
where do babies comes from? that we all know. where do dragons come from? ah ha! that's a good question. lucky me, i was walking across the golden gate park (where Hair was filmed) one beautiful saturday morning, when I accidentally ran into a kung fu group. their master and i had a light chitchat about intercontinental and multicultural hybrid mid-aged men and women and their psychological and spiritual development in light of forced religion by parents from various ethnic backgrounds - you know, the common small talk yada yada. anyway, fully dressed in black, around 45 years to birth, sun screen on his face - heavy on the nose, the good-eyed master mentions he ran into the origin of dragons while searching for other information: china was once divided into 9 provinces. each province has a symbol animal. the day all provinces united under one empire, the dragon was formed, to symbolize the union. the dragon is all 9 animals combined: a head of a camel, horns of a deer, eyes of a hare, ears of a bull, a neck of an iguana, a belly of a frog, scales of a carp, and claws of an eagle.
okay class, for homework, you'll need to find out which animal presents the dragon's paws. i left that one out above. the first to answer correctly, will receive a chinese-related prize by mail. answer in the blog's comments box.
forgive me, rabbi, for i have sinned. i exhausted a spiritual load at a christian church. the grace cathedral at the top of nob hill, to be exact. i walked the Labyrinth. as you can see in the image below, the Labyrinth looks like a maze, but it's actually an ancient design created originally in france during the 13th century. it is only one path; no tricks or dead ends. walking it in a reasonable meditative pace takes about half an hour. as you enter, you purge (release) the details of your life, shed thoughts and distractions. when you reach the center, you stay as long as you like. it is the place of meditation and prayer. as you leave, you refill your soul with higher power and energy for the world outside the Labyrinth. i added it to my great things to do on the daily basis list, next to eating ice cream before going to bed.
after 8 weeks in san francisco, i finally reached, once again, the peek of the maslow's hierarchy of needs. i have food and shelter, physical and financial safety, a social circle around me and belonging to a group, esteem (duh), and now i can work on my actualization; expand my mind, learn, create, think. it took me a while to snuggle into my comfort zone. but now i'm feeling good again.
thank you all comment writers. i love a word of feedback. and here's a mooning for those who don't write.
love you all, mike.
