The road to fame

Today I sit anxiously as the bosses of Net Dragon of whom I met 3 weeks ago prepare to go to Shanghai to make the big NiHao World business proposal to their Vice President.

This is the make or break meeting of which their VP will either say "Ok", or "No", and for us at NiHao World that reply will either be our new beginning, or our return to the grinding stone.

Its been a tough road taking this Indie company from an idea to where it is today. One only needs to do a web search for NiHao3d to see how many battles we have already encountered.

Blog battles, spam attacks, criticisms, and more have been added to our entourage of web listings.

My mother always said "...if you're going to make it big at anything, then it wont come without a battle." Remembering her words allows me to stay focused when I could be freaking out at the bad publicity gained.

So I look at these listings and think...ahhh, its ok, I'll leave them there as they are. As later they will show just how torturous and spiteful the path to the top actually was. 

All too common is the belief that the world is a rosy place and that the companies at the top never had troubles during their ascent. The big companies quietly whisk away bad publicity, cover over arguments rendered, and pretend a happy face to the world; its all good for business they say. 

Having gotten this far I now know that most of my common misbeliefs were false, so I figure I'll leave those little black marks there in the search engines so the next me that comes along can see exactly what's in store for him as he climbs the world's corporate internet ladder.

The road to fame was never easy.

One battle's to get there, or one battle's upon arriving.

Last night I was image searching and stumbled across a web image directory.

Clicked upon a couple of links and found a multitude of images of our favourite female stars revealing pussy while trying to get out of their cars.

Hahaha - "The latest trend in professional photography: catch a star's vagina as she's climbing out of her car!"

Isn't that just a little stoopid?

And to those photographers - Wow; your parents must be proud of you and the money they spent on your college education.

And I thought panty sniffing was a criminal act. Go figure?

I think there's a point when mankind needs to sit back and look at the world that they have built.

But for those who are on the great endeavour to make it to the top as I am, I wish you luck and I hope when you succeed you will help me in cleaning up this mess that we call today's civilized society.

Many hands make light work, and many panties are just a pile of laundry.

Net Dragon Meeting

Back from Fuzhou City and feeling rather content about things.

2 of us from NiHao took the journey to Fuzhou late Wednesday night. Plan was to stay in a hotel, then breakfast the next morning, and be picked up by the Net Dragon people at 10am Thursday.

All went well and smoothly as planned....

Arrived at the hotel; simply named "Enjoy Hotel" which was located on a main shopping arterial in Fuzhou.

Room was nice. Had a frosted glass wall between the main room and bathroom area. Not revealing in any way but was an interesting and very nice design element.

Happy for the free internet in the hotel, meant I wasn't completely removed from the real world. So got some work done that night and slept in a very luxurious king size bed with the AC on warm :)

Next morn down to the hotel's dining area and had a lovely buffet breakfast. Sadly no coffee to speak of but China is still not big on coffee yet so am used to that now. 

Then waited for the Net Dragon people to pick us up.  And they did.

The Net Dragon compound was impressive to say the least. Many 3 floored buildings arranged in a High School complex manner, all decked out with very large computer areas.

And computers? Well there were many :)

The best part of the building tour that opened my eyes in amazement was seeing...ok there's the gym, there's the inside heated swimming pool, but then.....there's the outside swimming pool thats the size of a small lake!

Ok I know where I am going for my next BBQ :)

The meeting.....

The Net Dragon people run us through their run-of-the-mill standard company profile powerpoint introducing this and that and talking about their company culture.

We asked questions regarding the this's and that's but our minds were on the main point....lets talk turkey. Finally we got our chance and talk we did.

Rather than saying NiHao is this, and NiHao is that, I decided to make the approach somewhat more like...."Well this is what we are going to do, and we are inviting you to be a part of our system of things."

This approach was very risky....to say the least as they are easily a thousand times bigger than us, what do they care. But it occurred to me while they were talking that they have had this talk before and were not unaccostomed to the probable requests that we could make, "so lets change our approach" was the impromptu decision made when we started talking.

So we talked about the future of it all, and the future of NiHao, and how if the two companies worked together the success could be great for both.

And it worked.

So the meeting ended with them giving us a walkthrough regarding the next steps to take then we shook hands and departed.

Something I had learned from this meeting.....

You have made your proposal, thats ok. They have read the thing...good. Then they ask to meet...great!

Dont be nervous and become the beggar to the master, and dont feel that you need to tell them everything in one sitting. You have been invited to talks because they're interested and because they are interested they will guide you through it all according to their company's "way of doing things." That is their company agenda. Trying to do it any other way would be a certain failure.

Let them talk and learn from their approach, after all they are the pro's and it was you that asked for their help. If you are to be part of their agenda, they'll walk you in as is happening with me and NiHao now.

Ok so what next?

Well I sent off the presentation and humbly asked them to give me advice regarding it; e.g. could more be added, have I said too much?

Then if all is good and according to their agenda, step by step the two companies will become one.

Now I patiently wait for their replies and take each step as prompted carefully and casually and quietly hope that we make it all the way through that big ole door.

There are BBQ's on the other side! BBQ's! Many, many, many, fantastic poolside BBQ's! And my mouth is watering hahaha :) 

Page Building never ends.

Back again and more NiHao news to share.

This week looks to be a possible happy week for the NiHao team. Last week I wrote to a MMORPG game company suggesting that we could join in a subsidary partnership.

The game company reffered to is called Net Dragon and is based in the neighbouring city of Fuzhou.

They replied to me happily indicating that they were busy for that week and would set up a meeting for the following week. Of course I was ecstatic about the news and have been on cloud 9 since then.

So this week...fingers crossed :)

So in the mean time I have continued on tidying up loose ends at the webfront and have added a few more dot coms to the mess I call the NiHao Matrix.

The first of these was the TEACHmats site. I built TEACHmats a long time back but never got to launching it. Reason being that when the NiHao Project had begun I thought I would add TEACHmats to NiHao when NiHao reaches its final stages of development.

So TEACHmats is alive again, but far from completed.

I bought the dot com TEACHmats.com and then proceeded on to copying the text files from the olde TEACHmats to this the new model.

For now the site is still lacking in actual resources for which it boasts to have. But...that will come.

Then onto my next merry adventure; the newly founded NiHao Entomology Department.

Entomology is the study of bugs. Playing a small joke in the NiHao Forums I thought it would be cute to rename the bug report section to the NiHao Entomology Department. After having a bit of fun creating this forum section I ran with the idea and developed a website around it. 

See the original forum entry: NiHao Entomology Department. Scroll down the new page to the section titled Basement.

See the Entomology Website: NiHao Museum Entomology Department.

So a bit of fun was had here :)

Moving on to an important inclusion to the NiHao group of sites was the addition of the Developer's website.

As with every developer company NiHao World has reached a stand still point from where new dev's need to be called upon. What better than to set up a site especially with this goal in mind. The Dev-Guild website is not pretty by any means but it is light, fast, and functional. Its purpose is to introduce the NiHao projects to potential new NiHao Developers and to provide a Join NiHao area.

Visit the Dev-Guild website.

Finally but super most important of the sites I have put up of late is the Superstorms website.

Superstorms is an organization that I created some years back and it has been growing steadilly ever since. Superstorms is a volunteer organization that specializes in typhoon rescues and support.

If you don't know what a typhoon is then think about it as a very huge cyclone storm.

At the end of last typhoon season I took the Superstorms site down with a plan to have near completed the NiHao project before the next typhoon season and hence give the site an overhaul.

Well it didn't quite get an overhaul, as the old site was more than 1000 pages big. Instead I have trimmed it down to a few pages acting as an information booklet regarding Superstorms and will have links going out to the more bulkier data pages.

Superstorms has always been my pet project and almost all I do is done around the Superstorms project. NiHao for example was concieved with the idea that someday it would offer financial support to Superstorms hence making my burden a little lighter.

So there I am in all nudity....I am not a gamer, nor am I a CEO of a gaming Empire, in all honesty I am the head of a non-profit org that is designed to help others in times of disasters :)

Visit the new but not yet completed Superstorms site. 

So the empire grows with more www pages cluttering the internet universe and I hope these pages prove useful to some and many. 

Thats me for today....hoping for a word of magic from Net Dragon and awaiting to write that word here next week :)