HISTORY - THE BEGINNING

While planning a trip overseas in May of 2006, I came across an online article written by Mr. Wu and an email correspondence with him ensued.  With his professional online façade, his availability, his being a vegetarian like myself and wanting to travel, he seemed the perfect candidate to be my personal assistant and, if he was capable, help me to run my business.  Little did I know at the time, but Mr. Wu is always 'available' since the concept of work is anathema to him.  He arrived in Hawaii to start work for me in October of 2006.

It was clear from the outset that Winston was not cut out for serious work, but having him around made life interesting for a while due to the ridiculous situations (usually involving women) that he found himself in.  From trying to caress and hold hands with checkout girls in malls, to asking a pregnant bank employee out for a drink while opening an account, to being kicked out of a health food store by the manager for saying something to a cashier, to close-up filming of scantily-clad girlfriends of superbig Hawaiian men on the beach, it was pure entertainment.

In November of 2006 we left for the Philippines.  I rented a house for us and tasked him with investigating the possibility of either outsourcing my business to the Philippines, or moving it there entirely.  It soon became clear that he was incapable of anything more complicated than collecting leaflets and business cards for me -- anything 'complicated', like fixing a leaking sink hose or finding out the tax rate that my business would be liable for, was completely beyond him and had to be done personally by myself.

Despite Winston's laziness and fondness for the ladies (mainly prostitutes and one-time dates with girls who soon saw him as a cheapskate womanizer or "kuripot babaero"), I still wanted to give the guy a chance since here was a man with few friends or skills and little money, but with an apparent eagerness to please and funny stories to tell of his frequent misadventures.  Assuming that he was a sane individual, I believed Winston would be capable of listening to advice, receiving guidance and training, and improving his skills, work ethic and hence his life overall.

But no, it was not to be; I discovered that he is in fact not sane.  Winston does not think with his cerebrum; his plans and actions are guided almost entirely by the little 'brain' he keeps in his pants.  No amount of persuasion or incentivizing would persuade him to take his work seriously and control his sex addiction; instead he lapsed into an endless pattern of sleeping most of the day and womanizing all night.  I used to quip that if only he were an alcoholic, he would be 'perfect'.

In March of 2007 I stepped back to look at my situation: I had an offensive (to myself, to others, in appearance, in smell, in attitude) man living in my house who paid little attention to personal hygiene; I was doing all nontrivial work myself; because of him I had a new bar girl (prostitute) in my house every few days.  Worse still, all attempts at persuading him to moderate his behavior fell on deaf ears.  And for this, I was paying good money.  Although it was hard for me, I told him that he would have to leave if he could not change.  He said he could not change, and left voluntarily but nevertheless bitter.

AFTERMATH

Winston remained in Angeles City ('Sin City'), Philippines, renting cheap apartments close to the red light district and spending whatever time he had in between being unfaithful to his wife libeling myself and operating a web site (HappierAbroad.com) that purports to offer every man the answer to complete fulfillment.  This 'fulfillment' is attained, in Mr. Wu's opinion, through moving to a Third World country and hiring inexpensive prostitutes with money obtained from his father, from advertising and begging campaigns on his web site, and from men buying his "e-book" and photos of an overweight Asian man fornicating with, fondling and planting kisses on generally paid, unsuspecting or unwilling sex workers and other underprivileged women [ Video link ].

Indeed, Mr. Wu -- a self-admitted former resident of a mental institution -- is fulfilled in his own mind.  The problem is that no one else is left fulfilled by him: Not those who waste money on his 'e-book' or home-made porn; not those who take his advice and move to a Third World country without money or a job; not his wife and young son; not his wife's family; not the women whom he constantly 'hits' on and attempts to 'bang' as cheaply as possible; not those who employ him; and almost certainly not his parents who finance his lifestyle.  (In fact, one does have to wonder exactly what his parents say when discussing the 'success' of their only offspring at a dinner party!)

As part of an ongoing libel campaign that is hard (but not impossible) to combat with existing international libel laws (and which may simply result in a monetary award against an elusive, penniless, jobless individual), Mr. Wu has maniacally created numerous web pages on his own web site, free blog sites, discussion forums and consumer complaint sites in which he attempts to impugn my character and damage my business.

As part of his mania, Winston Wu has also been in contact with a small group of unusual individuals whom my family has had the misfortune of employing or encountering, going all the way back to 1999.  As we all know, it is rarely easy to part amicably with those who have been thwarted in their aim of taking advantage of you.  Disappointed seekers of fortune will, of course, carry grudges and will -- as Mr. Wu does -- concoct stories that cast negative light on their foes if they can not come up with facts.

Amongst Wu's concoctions we have, for example, the case of a man who in 1999 lost a password, yet claims I used 'keylogger' software to obtain and change it.  As soon as Winston heard that, he followed suit and claimed that I did the same to him in 2008 (almost a year after he was fired) -- after all, if TWO people claim the same thing, it must be true!

With all this evidence against me, why not have me prosecuted for hacking, put in prison for 5 years and fined up to $250,000?  Why stick to mere libel?  Could it be that their claims are simply unevidenced paranoid perturbations of deranged minds?  And could this lack of prosecution be, in Winston's case, because I never, ever let him use my computer (it ran my business), and I never used his computer, and he knows it?

The claims made by this cast of characters are just as ridiculous as Mr. Wu's but, being written in private, constitute nothing more than free speech.  Wu's act of publishing them verbatim without either knowing the people behind them or performing even the most perfunctory fact-checking does, however, constitute libel and he has been warned about this.  Were he to actually perform background checks on these individuals, he would find that they include a surviving member of the Heaven's Gate Cult (who never even met me), a close friend of this former cult member, a crazed fruitarian former vagrant living on Social Security benefits while attempting for the past 20+ years to start a 'community'/'church' on state land in Hawaii, and a disgruntled former contractor of mine who resigned rather than be accountable for the work that he was tasked with (salary over $9,000 per month for 4 hours' work per day.)  After working for 10 months, this contractor (who incidentally received an immediate $45,000 unsecured and interest-free loan from me upon commencing employment) expected for some reason to be paid for 11 months and thus claims he was "short-changed".

And there we have it: A clan of bitter individuals who were variously denied my investment, my employment -- and even my former wife (yes, one even tried for that!)

Following repeated failed attempts to lay this matter to rest amicably, this site continues to exist along with the many others (simply Google 'Winston Wu'), to expose this sorry excuse for a human being for what he is and -- hopefully -- cast a different light on his allegations concerning myself and others.

Those reading this who believe they can be of service are most welcome to contact me at the email address below.