Solomon wisdom

Many of us men got up early this morning.

It’s not an ordinary Friday. It’s World Cup Friday.

Our Christmas morning.

And I am supposed to decide which team I am going to root for: S Africa vs Mexico.

Reminds me of Solomon wisdom (who asked the two competing claims of motherhood to stand and watch the child be divvied up in two halves).

For a few hours, we can forget the oil spill, the dreaded double-dip Recession, California new rising stars (cross-pollinated from E-Bay to the Bay Bridge, from HP to SF).

Our own Phu Nguyen of Bolsa got elected during primary as well.

Congrats!

He will need a dose of Solomon wisdom.

When we have an overseas community that are known for battling each other constantly, or someone traveled back from Vietnam with rare bird feathers found in his pants (do you carry any seed Sir? No, just birds who eat the seed others carry on board),

and to top it all, identity theft committed by a 62-year-old Glendale social worker who tried to gauge the IRS (has he heard that even the mob got pinned down for tax evasion?), we need Solomon sentence (in the latter case, the man got 220 years behind bar. That will put him at 282 year-old when he is free).

However, we saw Father Vien introduce President Obama at Asian Pacific Islander Heritage week.

That’s quite an honor, and a deserving one. They stood side by side as fellow community organizers. Now, all they need is to battle the oil spill in the Gulf.

The Versailles Village (my other blog) proved themselves not once but three times in battling adversity (S VN, E New Orleans, Katrina). Their former neighbors to the North also made great stride in the last three decades.  The Chinese got to where they are, not by charging on their credit cards, but by hard work and savings.

And now when workers demand for a raise, they face the threat of seeing their factories move South, to Vietnam. End of the line for low wages?

So the Hon Hai workers jumped to their I-death.

Nike just do it. And now it’s Apple’s turn to fall (workers’ poor condition and future labor shortage).

Got to treat people right. We, consumers of cheaper and cheaper Roll-Back goods, should be asking ourselves: do we need more empty bottles, in various colors?

Wait until they recall the roll back items (like Shrek’s glasses). Globalization and its discontent, well, except when it is going well, like this week, in South Africa.

(South of the border, Mexico hasn’t been doing well, since their outsourcing contracts got underbid and off-shorred to China).

So we need both South Africa and Mexico. Let the game begin. Sports world can show Financial world a few moves.