Last night I slept really well as I drank some beer before going to bed last night. After packing my luggage and put it to the lobby together with other classmates’ luggage, I had my last breakfast of this trip at about 8:30am.
Subsequently the Case Exercise 2 launched at 9:00am as I and Sunny acted as radical villagers stirred up by concern group of Choi Yuen Tsuen. Our major motive was to draw media attention in order to win their sympathy in respect of the opening of the private road at Yuen Kong San Tsuen for the assess of Choi Yuen Tsuen Village. Ben of the concern group really had a fantastic perform during the meeting as he acted as a representative of the Choi Yuen Tsuen concern group who used tear but not violence to bring everyone’s attention and emotion to the summit. It was such a special strategy as I didn’t think anyone at the show did expect this. I would say after series of case and presentation, we had a great improvement in acting our own character.
We had a short tea break after Case Exercise 2 and there was a guest lecture: Property Management in Taiwan: Development and Future Challenge presented by Mr. Yen Shih Li at 11:00am. Mr. Yen was an experience profession of Taiwan property management as well as a good Cantonese speaker. One of the most remarkable parts of his presentation was his mention of “Legally Violation of the Constitution”. Such contradictive term was surprisingly common in housing management of Taiwan as ‘Guanxi’ (relationship) rather than the legal terms and conditions was the prime concern in Taiwan culture. No doubt such characteristic was also common in the Mainland China.
After a quick lunch at about 1:00pm, there was a sharing session with the students of Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology. It was one of my favourite sessions of the trip as I really looked forward to having interaction opportunity with the students from other regions. Unlike students from MAHS who were relatively young, most of the students who studied master of housing management in Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology were experienced top managers. There were two students who were allocated to our group. I talked with one of the students Mr. Wong. He was an assistant director at a property management company who provided services at luxurious residential properties in Taipei. He revealed that ‘Guanxi’ was such an important consideration for their management as they even tried to favour the request from the minority of the owners group with the aid of some social gathering. He also said that other part of Taiwan such as Tainan still retained 70s or 80s management style as housing management in Taipei was the most advance and professional in Taiwan. Knowing that most of the private buildings were built several decades ago to fulfil the huge migration after the end of civil war in 1949, I asked if Taiwan would conduct compulsory building inspection just like Hong Kong. Mr. Wong replied that the Government didn’t have detailed plan at this stage as the degree of autonomy to the owners in Taiwan was much higher than that of Hong Kong such that the role of the Government in these criteria was relatively weak. Before the end of the sharing, he also addressed the difficulty caused by the one-year contract as the successor might find it difficult to handle the new site since the preceding company might not leave adequate information for them to manage the property. I enjoyed the talk with Mr Wong as I was happy to be able to communicate with him deeply with mandarin.
Before the end of the trip, there was a course evaluation and program round-up & feedback. Sometimes things might not go as expected so I would say this residential trip is a good lesson for me. No doubt, you have to accept the fact that you might not always be the centre of the spotlight but I really enjoyed this residential overall.
We took group photos before the dismissal of the residential. After having dinner at the airport and further bought some souvenir, we took 7:30 flight back to Hong Kong.
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