Cars are every big boy’s toys, and Chen Chih-Yuan was no exception.
At the peak of his career, he had a high income, and he always spent it on the latest stylish vehicles, from sedans and sports cars to vans and campers. He tired of each very quickly and would resell them, caring nothing about the several hundreds of thousands of dollars in the price difference between a new car and a second-hand car. He did this time and time again.
Mimi recalled that once, Chen Chih-Yuan developed a fascination with camping, so he bought the type of gigantic camper that was only seen in Hollywood movies.
After camping in it once or twice, he realized that it was so large and difficult to park that he could only park it in remote locations. Then someone spray-painted and vandalized it. He was so furious that he completely ignored the camper after that. In the end, it was sold off.
These events demonstrated Chen’s principle that “a sense of ritual and fun are the most important things, and the rest are mere details.”
