Disappointment

Disappointed is how I should describe my past week. Why am I disappointed? In Chinese we have a saying “if u turn over a pig’s belly, it will be ugly.” it means most people if at their bad time they are mostly very ugly despite how they behave when they normally are.

2 months ago I picked up a contracted job. The job is to create a business proposal. In my eye as a game developer, he have a sad life. He have so much passion in making games yet at his mid age at he still have no luck getting into the industry. Despite the fact he have been writing on his idea for more then 10 years. So I decide to give him a hand yet telling him the time constraint and also I am planning to start a new venture. Through out the corporation we communicate n I share my experience n view to make his idea more structural, organize, professional n most important of all feasible for development. To be honest I have bust my ass for this project and provided everything and more then what the agreement state. I put my heart and soul not only because is a job but also I value this relationship and want to assure this gentleman’s dream will be for fill after all.

Yet sadly things didn’t progress as fast as we see and my new venture started. So things start going into different directions. I then decide to see how I can make this work better for both of us. I even flew to Japan at the opening day of my venture just to help him on a meeting and brainstorm on how we can work together. Later he decide to come to Hong Kong to meet me and further discuss The cooperation model, so I introduced my investor to him so we can further explore it more. We gave him a few options and let him chose which route to go for at the first day. He made his choice and we all work toward the options he chose. However what is disturbing is I later found he is bad mouthing me in front of my investor in private discussion. Frankly I am hurt yet I am big enough to forget about it. Anyway the end it fail again due to his wrong assumption of how supportive his backer is to him into this career changing decision or new venture. So things falls apart and we need to move apart, yet as I always do I offer him a sincerey good bye and told him precisely if time and resource allow, I will be happy to provide any more help or additional efforts to ensure he can continue his journey.

Now after a few days… he came back and have a 180 degree change of tone. From a friendly request to a client’s demand. He demanded services that is not included in the agreement (but if is for a friend sure I can do it). I reply him politely thinking, this is a guy just fell a bit and is probably in his bitter moments. Shortly after he came back stronger and start making statement claim I have not been doing my job and almost tempt to push me over. Now this is beginning to piss me off. Then he decide to bad mouth my investor just like how he did it on me. This is unacceptable… I can accept a lesser talented, rude, inexperience or crazy friend, however a friend that is unfaithful and non-trustworthy. This is a good bye sign for me.

Over years of living, I hate to say but whenver things didn’t work the way people wanted, there you see their ugliest side. I hate to see those as everytime it happens I feel the world is really not a great place to live…