Just the record of life. The observation to macro economic, investment, social life, food and wine.
星期一, 2月 27, 2006
People in Taipei are living in cargos
K: Tailand? I don't think it's a good idea.
I: Not Tailand, it's Taiwan.
K: What? Taiwan? heard of it. But where is it?
I: South to Japan, East to China and North to Phlippine.
K: Wait... let me take an atlas. Just ocean! Nothin there!
I: Wait, don't you see an island like a potato?
K: No I just see pacific ocean there.
I: Are you nearby the computer? Can you just browse a website?
K: Ya, which website?
I: google map http://map.google.com and then type taiwan. Then you will see that island.
K: ok I know google map. I'm typing...Oh, it exists. But why I can't find it on my altas? Let me check...mmm it was covered by a China's flag.
I: Ya, I know. it's politics. That's not our point. Can you type Taipei and just zoom in under satillete mode?
K: Ok... Ah...? Too strange. Either Green or Red? Are most of people live in cargos?
I: What? Cargos?
K: Ya, they look like cargos.
I really have nothing to say. Ya! K is right. People in Taipei are living in cargos..Don't believe it? Just browse google map.
星期日, 2月 26, 2006
YEC The Personality Type Portraits
Member: Austin (ISTP), Terry (ISFJ), Flora (ISFP), Margaret (ISFP), and Me (ISTP+ENTJ)
Austin, working for a security company, is a high-risk taker because he���s trying use the knowledge he learned on work to rob a bank. He thinks himself as a good project manager and I think many of us agree with that since he really hold up many successful activity last year.
Terry did that test few years ago, and found the recent result is the same. According to explanation, she is suitable for social worker.
Both Margaret and Flora are Artist type. Margaret said her friend, working at financial area in HK, once told her that she should be more aggressive. And both Austin and I thought she���s aggressive enough. Flora is sometimes confused about making a decision because she is afraid what she makes will be wrong. Margaret just told us the experience to decide to change her job via a fortune teller���s divining. I also thought that���s one of the most efficient ways to make a decision since the world is magical.
Margaret thought I choose wrong career because of my type. But��多ow about being an ���entrepreneur���?
Session 2
Member: Tina, David Xiao, Linda, Julian, Jessica and Me
We just talk about the 2nd and the 3rd question. What kind of men or women would you like? How will you do if your partner is disloyal? I remind members in our group that woman will change their personality after marriage, pregnant, and give birth to a baby. David Xiao can���t believe that most women are loyal to their partner comparing to him. He thought women who climb mountain very often are much more open-minded. I think a stronger body may breed a confident mind.
星期五, 2月 24, 2006
星期三, 2月 22, 2006
YoYo Negotiation game.
Member:
Camden Football club: Jack, Ariel
United Media: Cindy, Stanly, David Liao
I really admire both of Jack and Ariel for their negotiating. Ariel proposed some ideas those sponsor never think of. Jack is very good at bargaining with sponsor.
Contract value
CFC: 65m for 5.5 years
UM: 20m for 4 years and an additional 10m if the club wins the European Cup
Compromise: 45m for 4.5 years. UM pays 20m at the first year.
Jack always use the magic words ��� How about��存ince we want and you want��尖ou pay ��� annually?���
Advertise
CFC: Ariel said that the color of logo will affect players��� eye. It will make CFC lose.
UM: Keep advertisement simpler. UM just paint its name with white color on the ground without any color else.
To substitute the rest advertisements, Ariel proposed UM to send 10% of audience small gifts with advertisements. And UM accepted.
Promotion by players
CFC: Jack said UM should pay extra 10m to buy two star players and players need practice not do promotion.
UM: No more star player and, of course, all players should do promotion.
Compromise:
UM buy extra one star player for 5m and only 2 star players do promotion at least 25 days per year. And UM will change players��� cloth supplier and players will wear much smaller logo on their clothes.
Eventually, as a representative of UM, I think we still pay too much especially on buying additional star player. I think I will do better next time. And I would said that Ariel is realy a great lier... and also a successful businesswoman.
我也要1元台幣設股份有限公司
目 前台灣創設股份有限公司仍要100萬,大家很清楚,這筆錢是會計師後面的金主借到公司戶頭給商業司看的,代價是,短短三到五天就要3%的行情,我不知道為 什麼台灣還要繼續用這個法令來綁想創業的人,難道是為了藍綠的金主有錢可賺嗎?該是放寬法令的時侯了,兩邊無能、自私的廢物政客。
星期一, 2月 20, 2006
What I posted on YoYo Forum in 2005
Movies
版面: 影迷樂迷俱樂部 發表於: 星期一 三月 14, 2005 12:03 am 主題: 好看的電影 外慾 昨天去和文學讀書會的朋友去看意大利的得獎名片「外慾」,拍得太棒了。導演還有演員、剪輯、配樂都好厲害,演員用眼神還有面部表情就可以表現出內心世界,還有那些場景的變化讓人明白那個角色的心境,實在比好萊塢的片子有價值多了
English Learning
版面: 薦言建言區 發表於: 星期日 六月 05, 2005 4:38 pm 主題: 對於YOYO品質提昇的一些想法 I agree with Martin
我記得第一次當host,準備的是向外國人介紹台灣的主題。其實我發現有點自討苦吃,政府在這方面資訊實在少的可憐,在海外的網站也是零零星星的,實在和我想的至少一系列起介紹『好吃好玩』的想法實在差太多。
那次說真的,我只是想了解大家對食物的說法,Authur和Wayne都給了很多不錯的建議,也算幫在坐的十個人了解華人的食物實在不易用英文形容,看來還是用音譯會比較快。那一次實在不怎麼成功,所以我想下一次一定要弄個很多人很有興趣的主題。
5/18是我第二次當host,我也知道我星期天晚上張貼是太晚,原因並不是在主題,我老早就找好了,題目也準備地ok,但是Newsweek的生字 蠻多的,而且這篇文章要是沒有個半小時,我想一般人大概辦法看完,所以用萬能的google找了老半天,總算找到一篇有夾帶中文註釋的,也要謝
我的想法和Martin差不多,其實並不見得能在這次的聚會中幫大家提昇英文多少,但我相信參加那次聚會的人,都為了這個主題用英文來爭論,也有人說他/她因這篇文章改變了原來的觀念,已經達到大家用英文來表示意見的目的,我認為還蠻ok的。
會後有些人跑來找我說找了一個好的主題,不過我想好的主題有很多,只看host自己要不要花點時間去找而已,我已經物色好下次的主題,這個主題相信會比"She Works, He doesn't"掀起更巨大的波瀾,就先賣個關子吧
最後說一下我對提昇英文能力的個人看法。我認為一但敢說英文以後,要怎麼精進還是得靠自己,來YoYo的好處是可以學到比自己英文好的人怎麼 說正確,另外也可以幫助一開始結巴的人敢開口,我記得我剛開始來真的是結結巴巴,說不出半個字,很謝謝大家的幫忙,現在出國也不再害怕問路問食物問一些有 的沒的,阿斗仔真的來找房子或在捷運上問路我也可以幫忙解決。我發現一個有趣的事,阿斗仔對英文程度的要求,同事和對生意上的來往者是不一樣的,如果要當 外商的員工,熟稔的英文當然重要,但如果是當那些外商的客人或者賣東西給他們,其實不見得要多熟稔,只要價格條件講的清楚,雙方信任度夠,他們倒是很寬 容,而且來大中華圈做生意的人,都會講一點簡單的中文。以我這麼本土化的行業來說,只要再多要求自己口語上不要再犯一些常犯的錯誤就差不多了,但對於其他 行業,尤其是在外商公司上班的人,應該要的比我更上層樓吧。大家就一起加油吧
Life
版面: 你濃我濃區 發表於: 星期四 六月 09, 2005 3:22 pm 主題: 當阿土伯碰到三位…(自己填吧) TIME: about 22:30 6/8
Location: 師大路上的政大書局
Who: Me , Riva , Selina and Jean
「你也會來看書喔?看不出來」這是我停好腳踏車時,Selina的第一句話。 看我穿得像阿土伯就覺得我不會看書未免太小看我吧,白目的死丫頭。
後來她們請我幫她們照相留念,當然囉,我們YoYo是的社員是最友愛的,照相這種小事算什麼,可是一開始不知怎麼回事,照出來都很暗,看起來都像巫婆,後來調一調以後,神奇的事情發生,大家的臉好像自動縮小一樣,可能是我天生技術好吧
照片拍完了,我丟了一句話給三位女人,引起一點小漣漪。就趕快溜到書店裡繼續K高德拉特的「仍然不足夠」(誰規定做房地產的不可以業餘時間搞資訊業 呢?)。回家的路上稍微思考一下,雖然我也是政大書局和龍泉夜市的常客,可是要碰到三位女人一起來逛書店還只能用「偶發事件」來解釋。
New Tech
版面: 你濃我濃區 發表於: 星期日 六月 12, 2005 10:40 am 主題: 鑽石快要不值錢了 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6920717/site/newsweek/
想不到現在的科技已經這麼進步,會不會以後路邊攤都可以買到鑽石啊?
鑽石一旦變成地攤貨,那男人求婚要買什麼呢?寶石嗎?
想到就頭痛
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發表於: 星期五 十月 21, 2005 12:29 am 文章主題: [分享]中研院的Google earth測試成果
Google Map/Earth Test WebSite
實在太過驚人了,讓我覺得國家的預算沒有白花掉,也要謝謝這些研究人員日以繼夜描繪台北市的全貌,只能說炫的不像話,大家記得上去玩喔
Book
版面: 藏書閣 發表於: 星期日 六月 12, 2005 7:58 pm 主題: 推薦書《這輩子,你想做什麼?》
這輩子,你想做什麼?──54個尋找人生意義的真實故事
What should I do with my life? 台北市立圖書館竟然借得到 索書號是170.44 B869
當 然囉,這本書的中文版在Yahoo的拍賣中有人出到200元含郵,大家都買得起這本書,只是每個人能從那54個人的人生中得到什麼東西?我想根本就沒有 標準答案,每隔一段時間,當我對工作有倦怠感,或者看到一些客戶的生活,還是又聽到一故事,就會一直啟動自己追尋這個答案的念頭。
本書描寫54個人物的生命歷程,可以看到每個人對自己人生的註解都不同,YoYo大部份的成員都已工作過一段時間,書中人物的心境,也許可以反應出現實生活中的你我,當然,每個人會有感觸的一定都不同。
另外一個收穫,是我們一直以南北差距來形容台灣,但和本書的內容與受訪者的地理位置以及那些人物,實在是小巫見大巫,讓我對「美國」及「美國人」有更別於報紙和電影上的看法。有空不妨去翻翻看,還蠻有趣的。
PS:本書作者的主觀意識蠻強烈的,如果看了覺得很杜爛也無可厚非,這個作者蠻敢想也蠻敢寫。他的文筆還算不錯,我今天才借英文版回來看
版面: 藏書閣 發表於: 星期五 七月 01, 2005 2:47 pm 主題: 大家一起來頭腦體操吧 全美國有多少加油站?
全世界有多少鋼琴調音師?
為什麼啤酒罐的兩端比較窄?
電腦化的微波爐應該裝什麼樣的軟體?
你要怎麼製造 M&M巧克力?
人孔蓋為什麼是圓的?
如何移動富士山是本很有趣的書,可以買來做做頭腦體操,看看自己在不看答案下能搞對幾題
Education
發表於: 星期四 七月 21, 2005 2:31 pm 文章主題: [資訊]新的留學管道-香港和新加坡
最近在別人的blog上和人聊到台灣高等教育的出路,網友給我這份參考資料In Bid to Globalize, US Colleges Offer Degrees in Asia ,讓我重新思考出去唸書的意義。我在此節錄一段:
Northwestern's Kellogg, for one, says it only admits students into its Hong Kong program who could have gotten into the
歐美名校在亞洲還在試驗階段,其中還是涉及到自身品牌的問題。但是學生國際化的程度可能略勝在名校母國的學生。想去唸EMBA或者再進修的人,不妨參考參考。至少新加坡和香港的食物比較好吃。
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international view toward Taiwan
發表於: 星期五 八月 26, 2005 3:09 pm 文章主題: [有趣的論點]移民可以讓台灣的未來更穩固
Immigration Is Key to a More Secure Future for Taiwan
不太曉得作者的用意是什麼。台灣是東太平洋已開發的地區中生活消費最便宜,對白人又最友善的地方。但我們的的居住環境並不如他們的母國啊,為什麼會這麼想?有點搞不懂
難道說這個老外是個老饕,受不了西方那吃了想吐的食物才說我們的好話哩?