5/31/2008
決勝21點
這部片突顯出美國MIT人的聰穎,讓我想起本所湯大教授為何這麼的不可一世,眼睛長在頭頂上,也印證了大家都想進哈佛醫學院唸書、攻讀智慧和地位的夢想,這部片也演出了一切的事實,唸哈佛很貴、賺錢很辛苦、頭腦靈活聰穎不可求。 搞笑的是,劇中有個飾演觀察員的東方人余亞倫,這個幫忙「關鍵玩家」男主角的助手,到達賭城拉斯維加斯飯店、還有夜店,必做的就是去搜括所有看的到、用的到的東西,包含了酒、糖果…,就連飯店清潔人員的備用品也「A」,真的很妙卻又笑不出來…,亞洲人愛貪小便宜的形象深植西方啊。
By Adam
以下轉錄
五光十色的拉斯維加斯每天要應對各式各樣急著試手氣,發意外之財的賭徒,當然看過花招百出的無數老千,《決勝21點》的最大噱頭在於這群學生用的不是詐術,而是數學。吉姆.史特格斯(Jim Sturgess)飾演的男主角Ben就靠著對數字的熟悉敏感,以及機率運算天賦,被凱文.史貝西(kevin Spacey)飾演的數學教授Micky選中,成為學生團的賭神,賺足了家境清寒的他想要進哈佛大學醫學院需要的三十萬美金學費。
Ben加入賭城學生團的主因就是為了這卅萬,他入團前就一再聲稱一旦賺足了卅萬,立刻就要退出,他不貪錢,只是缺錢,更不想賺不義之財,姿態鮮明,理念清楚,十足符合了清純大學生的夢想形象,他的堅持形成了他的人格特質與魅力,但是隨後的墮落與妥協,不但是戲劇與人性的必然,也成了全片意外碰觸到的青春悲詩。
強烈的戲劇衝擊,需要情境和人物的對比,Ben是MIT的高材生,但是父親早死,母親在餐廳打工,很難給他充足的經援,他如果只靠自己在成衣店裡打工的微薄收入,顯然很難賺足卅萬美金,因而面對每回出馬就有上萬美金的收入,他當然心動,因而有了行動,於是劇情立刻就成了錦衣美食,紙醉金迷的賭城歲月對撞上騎單車,穿牛仔褲的MIT時光,奢華對清寒就是最簡單又鮮明的對比法,就像單車對加長型禮車,強弱立判,就像Ben回到MIT宿舍時,還會因為時空情境錯亂,隨手拿起床頭電話,要宿舍總機送早餐到房間來一樣,一則生活糗事,不但創造了觀影的喜趣反應,同時也預告了身分分裂之後,新舊價值觀必定對撞出火花,面臨抉擇的人性考驗。
成功容易讓人膨脹,成功讓人自以為是,每天忙著迎接新的挑戰與考驗,習慣成功帶來的名利掌聲,因而就忘記了自己的初衷與始意,這是古往今來從來不曾改變的基本人性,不只是權力讓人腐化,名利財富也同樣悄悄侵蝕著曾經清高的身影,吞噬了曾經標榜的理念,牌桌上無往不利的Ben因此認為自己羽翼已豐,可以獨立,也質疑分紅方式的不公,因而鬧出內鬨,分道揚鑣,這時,Ben心儀的女友卻冷不防問了信心十足的Ben:「你已經存了多少錢?你當初不是說賺夠了卅萬美金就要退出的嗎?
古典詩詞世界總是提醒我們惑於當下,就忘卻往日,於是才有「眾裡尋她千百度,驀然回首,那人卻在燈火闌珊處」的啞然,才有「回首來時路,莫忘初衷動心情」的叮嚀,就在Ben忙著享受賭城燈紅酒綠的生活時,他的MIT死黨則是依舊埋首做著最基礎的自走車研究,不求一步登天,只是按部就班,默默耕耘,看清楚來時路,才會做出最明智的決定,因而反而成為《決勝21點》試圖歌頌的青春情懷。
5/26/2008
White Town - Your Woman
這首歌也是在我的櫃子裡無意翻到的,標準的英式風格,我現在覺得買EP是很笨的事,沒想到我國中就在幹這種事,只好安慰自己先買先享受。
這首歌後來被Tyler James翻唱,不過我覺得完全沒有原版的味道。God,James all around。
會吸引我去買的原因我也想不起來了,不過我想除了是冠軍單曲外,沒有其他原因了,哈。不過歌詞怨念值蠻深的,適合獨立自主的新女性。
這首歌後來被Tyler James翻唱,不過我覺得完全沒有原版的味道。God,James all around。
會吸引我去買的原因我也想不起來了,不過我想除了是冠軍單曲外,沒有其他原因了,哈。不過歌詞怨念值蠻深的,適合獨立自主的新女性。
5/24/2008
I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)
這首歌是在1996年BMG推出的合輯裡的一首歌。這張專輯也是我個人買的第一張專輯,陪伴了我無數個夜晚,也是我最喜歡的專輯之一,裡面的歌曲我覺得都還蠻好聽的,有 Queen (Heaven For Everyone),Wet Wet Wet (Somewhere Somehow),Ace Of Base (Beautiful Life),Bon Jovi (This Ain't A Love Song),The Cranberries (Ode To My Family),Roxette (June Afternoon),Bryan Adams (Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman), Mltr (That's Why),Boyzone (Coming Home Now),Janet Jackson (Runaway),Boyz Ii Men (Water Runs Dry),Blur (Charmless Man),Joan Osborne (One Of Us),Meatloaf (I'd Lie For You)。
這一首Meatloaf的I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth),我想很多人都對這個團體沒有甚麼印象,因為主唱其貌不揚,但我不是外貿協會的會員(除了挑選Sweet之外)。歌詞我現在聽來也非常有感覺,再一次獻給Sweet baby。
這一首Meatloaf的I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth),我想很多人都對這個團體沒有甚麼印象,因為主唱其貌不揚,但我不是外貿協會的會員(除了挑選Sweet之外)。歌詞我現在聽來也非常有感覺,再一次獻給Sweet baby。
東一排骨
這間店是據說已經開業三十幾年了,印象中小時後有來過這間傳說中「在舞廳裡賣排骨飯」或「賣排骨飯的舞廳」的店。都已經十幾年過去了,不久前才和我家Sweet baby再度踏進這間排骨老店。
服務的人員清一色是上了年紀的「阿姨」,也有幾位「歐吉桑」,穿著標準的制服,綁著頭巾,服務很是親切。這家餐廳規模還算不小,座位有100多個,但每到用餐時間還是會客滿。主力菜色是排骨、雞腿,可搭配飯、麵、乾麵。一份排骨飯一百二,排骨大塊皮酥肉嫩,baby也是相當喜歡這口味。
我個人倒是蠻偏愛雞腿飯的,雞腿一咬即爛完全不費力,很適合我老人家。
飯也是魯肉飯,魯肉淋的毫不吝嗇,配菜也不錯。
我想,即便在我老了真正失智以後(現在已有輕微跡象),記憶中,和sweet一起享用排骨飯幸福的滋味,我應該不會忘掉。
地址:北市延平南路61號2樓
服務的人員清一色是上了年紀的「阿姨」,也有幾位「歐吉桑」,穿著標準的制服,綁著頭巾,服務很是親切。這家餐廳規模還算不小,座位有100多個,但每到用餐時間還是會客滿。主力菜色是排骨、雞腿,可搭配飯、麵、乾麵。一份排骨飯一百二,排骨大塊皮酥肉嫩,baby也是相當喜歡這口味。
我個人倒是蠻偏愛雞腿飯的,雞腿一咬即爛完全不費力,很適合我老人家。
飯也是魯肉飯,魯肉淋的毫不吝嗇,配菜也不錯。
我想,即便在我老了真正失智以後(現在已有輕微跡象),記憶中,和sweet一起享用排骨飯幸福的滋味,我應該不會忘掉。
地址:北市延平南路61號2樓
5/23/2008
麥當勞與星巴克:誰動了誰的"咖啡"
星巴克本來是我最喜歡的一間咖啡廳之一,但不知從何時起,我越來越少踏入這間我鍾愛的咖啡廳,星巴克越來越不像是一間鄰家小店,最重要的人情味也不知不覺得走味了。越來越常看到的景象卻是:有一次,我前面一位是上班族,感覺不太常來星巴克,他說:我要一杯tall的拿鐵,結果小姐拿了venti的杯子,問"我們tall是這種大小,可以嗎?"上班族:我記得tall沒有那麼大杯,小姐:恩,可是換這種才多三十塊,比較划算喔。我聽她講了幾十遍真的不換嗎?後來上班族還是堅持點tall。
還有一次,一開始態度都很好,但在問size的時候我說中杯就好,店員竟然直接拿出G和V然後指著G說:是這個嗎?當下心裡真的很不舒服,就直接說我要的是Tall,結果店員變臉像翻書一樣,馬上冷冷的說:喔。一次又一次的經驗讓我對星巴克慢慢失望,失望的不只是咖啡品質下降,還有它喪失最初的理念。
Adam
全球知名咖啡連鎖企業美國星巴克公司當地時間1月30日宣佈,正在關停業績表現欠佳的100家美國連鎖店。鑒於目前疲軟的消費以及避免同行間的「廝殺」,其將放緩國內擴張新店的步伐。全球快餐連鎖巨頭麥當勞公司1月29日則表示,計劃今年在中國和印度分別增開125家和140家分店,以進一步拓展亞洲快餐市場。另一方面,由於快餐巨頭麥當勞公司目前正拓展其咖啡類的飲料系列,星巴克因此面臨新的激烈競爭。
讓咖啡的香氣瀰漫全世界的每個角落,這也許是個永遠都無法成功的生意。星巴克公司全球CEO吉姆‧唐納德曾用了近3年時間試圖否定這一點。但他失敗了。在世界上越來越多的城市能看到星巴克美人魚圖標的同時,這家全球知名咖啡連鎖企業的銷售增長一直習慣性地減緩。股價一年間跌幅近半。在2008年開始之際,星巴克的董事會就公佈決定,免去唐納德首席執行官的職位。現在,公司創始人、董事長蕭茲再次兼任首席執行官。
現在,蕭茲將指揮一場新的戰爭。這恐怕是他也未曾經歷過的事——在人們普遍認為美國經濟滑坡、奶製品價格上漲、更多消費者選擇在家裡用咖啡機煮咖啡,是導致星巴克業績下滑的主要原因的同時,另一家憑借連鎖快餐生意崛起的巨頭麥當勞,卻因為賣出越來越多的咖啡飲品而利潤大增。在星巴克的股價跌半的同時,麥當勞的股價卻上升了30%。
與麥當勞競爭咖啡飲品市場的顧客,與其說是挑戰,倒不如說是羞辱——或許,它已成了蕭茲的感傷。可怕的是,在美國這個已經完全「咖啡化」的社會,當消費者想喝一杯拿鐵奶咖啡的時候,他可能會選擇走進麥當勞的咖啡吧,而並非星巴克。1月7日,麥當勞宣佈將在全美國約1.4萬家麥當勞門店中設置咖啡館,你可以喝到卡布奇諾、拿鐵、 摩卡等特色咖啡,還有專門的咖啡師調配你想要的任一款咖啡。
不久後,麥當勞還計劃增加甜茶、法拉沛和瓶裝飲料等更多類型的飲料產品。你可以想像它將為麥當勞帶來什麼。從價格上看,麥當勞飲料的單位價格比星巴克約低50美分,同時,它極為看重質量保證。值得一提的是,麥當勞的咖啡強調品質和品種的多元化,它將為不同口味的消費者各自帶來最愛的選擇。而在口味的把握上,麥當勞的市場調查人員在定向調查階段,甚至跟隨消費者鑽進他們的汽車、走進他們的家庭,看他們如何選取咖啡豆和材質。當然,也包括跟著他們走進星巴克。好在對於星巴克來說,這個羞辱還不算激烈。畢竟仍有不少麥當勞的忠實顧客分不清拿鐵和卡布奇諾的味道,麥當勞在咖啡市場的份額也只佔到1%。但也許最終令蕭茲感到不安並最終復出的是,一份針對消費者的報告開始指出,就連麥當勞的咖啡,其口感和質量也比星巴克的要好。
還有一次,一開始態度都很好,但在問size的時候我說中杯就好,店員竟然直接拿出G和V然後指著G說:是這個嗎?當下心裡真的很不舒服,就直接說我要的是Tall,結果店員變臉像翻書一樣,馬上冷冷的說:喔。一次又一次的經驗讓我對星巴克慢慢失望,失望的不只是咖啡品質下降,還有它喪失最初的理念。
Adam
全球知名咖啡連鎖企業美國星巴克公司當地時間1月30日宣佈,正在關停業績表現欠佳的100家美國連鎖店。鑒於目前疲軟的消費以及避免同行間的「廝殺」,其將放緩國內擴張新店的步伐。全球快餐連鎖巨頭麥當勞公司1月29日則表示,計劃今年在中國和印度分別增開125家和140家分店,以進一步拓展亞洲快餐市場。另一方面,由於快餐巨頭麥當勞公司目前正拓展其咖啡類的飲料系列,星巴克因此面臨新的激烈競爭。
讓咖啡的香氣瀰漫全世界的每個角落,這也許是個永遠都無法成功的生意。星巴克公司全球CEO吉姆‧唐納德曾用了近3年時間試圖否定這一點。但他失敗了。在世界上越來越多的城市能看到星巴克美人魚圖標的同時,這家全球知名咖啡連鎖企業的銷售增長一直習慣性地減緩。股價一年間跌幅近半。在2008年開始之際,星巴克的董事會就公佈決定,免去唐納德首席執行官的職位。現在,公司創始人、董事長蕭茲再次兼任首席執行官。
現在,蕭茲將指揮一場新的戰爭。這恐怕是他也未曾經歷過的事——在人們普遍認為美國經濟滑坡、奶製品價格上漲、更多消費者選擇在家裡用咖啡機煮咖啡,是導致星巴克業績下滑的主要原因的同時,另一家憑借連鎖快餐生意崛起的巨頭麥當勞,卻因為賣出越來越多的咖啡飲品而利潤大增。在星巴克的股價跌半的同時,麥當勞的股價卻上升了30%。
與麥當勞競爭咖啡飲品市場的顧客,與其說是挑戰,倒不如說是羞辱——或許,它已成了蕭茲的感傷。可怕的是,在美國這個已經完全「咖啡化」的社會,當消費者想喝一杯拿鐵奶咖啡的時候,他可能會選擇走進麥當勞的咖啡吧,而並非星巴克。1月7日,麥當勞宣佈將在全美國約1.4萬家麥當勞門店中設置咖啡館,你可以喝到卡布奇諾、拿鐵、 摩卡等特色咖啡,還有專門的咖啡師調配你想要的任一款咖啡。
不久後,麥當勞還計劃增加甜茶、法拉沛和瓶裝飲料等更多類型的飲料產品。你可以想像它將為麥當勞帶來什麼。從價格上看,麥當勞飲料的單位價格比星巴克約低50美分,同時,它極為看重質量保證。值得一提的是,麥當勞的咖啡強調品質和品種的多元化,它將為不同口味的消費者各自帶來最愛的選擇。而在口味的把握上,麥當勞的市場調查人員在定向調查階段,甚至跟隨消費者鑽進他們的汽車、走進他們的家庭,看他們如何選取咖啡豆和材質。當然,也包括跟著他們走進星巴克。好在對於星巴克來說,這個羞辱還不算激烈。畢竟仍有不少麥當勞的忠實顧客分不清拿鐵和卡布奇諾的味道,麥當勞在咖啡市場的份額也只佔到1%。但也許最終令蕭茲感到不安並最終復出的是,一份針對消費者的報告開始指出,就連麥當勞的咖啡,其口感和質量也比星巴克的要好。
5/19/2008
Chicago - You're the inspiration
I just found this album lying on my shelf, so I put it in the player. Though I had listened this song many many times, I got no feeling about it before.
Until now, at this moment, when I listen this song, everything that comes up in my mind is all about you. I feel this song is for us. I love you, sweet baby.
Adam
You know our love was meant to be
The kind of love to last forever
And I want you here with me
From tonight until the end of time
You should know
Everywhere I go
Always on my mind
In my heart, in my soul, baby
*You're the meaning in my life
You're the inspiration
You bring feeling to my life
You're the inspiration
Wanna have you near me
I wanna have you hear me saying
"No one needs you more than I need you"
And I know
Yes I know that it's plain to see
So in love when we're together
Now I know
That I need you here with me
From tonight until the end of time
You should know (Yes, you need to know )
Everywhere I go
You're always on my mind
You're in my heart, in my soul
When you love somebody
'Til the end of time
When you love somebody
Always on my mind
No one needs you more than I
Until now, at this moment, when I listen this song, everything that comes up in my mind is all about you. I feel this song is for us. I love you, sweet baby.
Adam
You know our love was meant to be
The kind of love to last forever
And I want you here with me
From tonight until the end of time
You should know
Everywhere I go
Always on my mind
In my heart, in my soul, baby
*You're the meaning in my life
You're the inspiration
You bring feeling to my life
You're the inspiration
Wanna have you near me
I wanna have you hear me saying
"No one needs you more than I need you"
And I know
Yes I know that it's plain to see
So in love when we're together
Now I know
That I need you here with me
From tonight until the end of time
You should know (Yes, you need to know )
Everywhere I go
You're always on my mind
You're in my heart, in my soul
When you love somebody
'Til the end of time
When you love somebody
Always on my mind
No one needs you more than I
5/18/2008
Good Hearts
活在921發生過的年代,因此這次四川據說是五倍921那麼強大的地震,其規模之大、所造成的災害之深遠,光以想像就足以使我不寒而慄。
今早經過台北車站的一路上,除了通勤者與旅遊者外,還有一群人身著藍衣白褲的中年男女格外引人注目──他們是慈濟志工。
其實這群人平時就是無所不在,就連以前我的瑜伽老師也是慈濟的一員,但儘管如此,事實上我對類似這樣的團體一直是敬謝不敏,原因很簡單也很無聊,我只是單純聽不習慣他們“師兄”來“師姐”去地以此做為彼此的稱呼,身處那樣的環境會讓我感到很不自在,甚至想escape!但撇開這個不說,每一次國際間有重大災難發生時,慈濟這團體總是可以很有組織和效率地成立救難隊給予協助,這樣的精神真的讓我很敬佩!
這一次四川地震,有專業能力的慈濟志工還是一貫地前往災區幫忙,而其他的,一 如今早我在台北車站所看到的,整齊且有秩序地進行募款的工作。早上經過無數個慈濟志工身邊時,我思考著:這些中年男女們平時應該也有職業吧?好一個天氣晴朗的週末,他們願意放棄與家人朋友出遊的機會而來到這邊做著吃力不討好的工作嗎?
經過仔細觀察,我發現,願意將錢從口袋裡掏出的樂捐者不多,但慈濟志工的親切度卻不因此而減少;願意樂善好施的人將錢投入箱中後,總是快步害羞地離開,而身後卻是感謝你捐獻的志工們,他們謝謝你,因此將腰彎得有九十度那麼低,口中還唸唸有詞地給予善意的祝福。那時候我心想,不知道他們會募款到什麼時候?
回家是傍晚的事了。我竟然又在喧擾的新光三越和台北車站裡裡外外看見那群藍衣白褲人。最近看新聞總是會讓我心情不好,甚至會關不緊水龍頭......因為天災而造成的生離死別讓身為局外人的我感到很遺憾、無力和難過......我遺憾自己沒有幫得上忙的專業能力,也因同理心發揮地太過而把我家報紙哭得稀八爛。
當我passed by第一對志工身邊時,我想做點什麼但畢竟沒有,就這樣我不知道自己是在幹麻,心情紛亂地錯過了好幾對志工。直到,我幾乎快走到公車站牌了,我覺得再這樣下去不行,心想“難道停下腳步、將錢從皮夾中拿出來是什麼難為情的事嘛?”於是下定決心折回車站內,匆匆地投入紙鈔。我,一如早上看見的那些捐款者,不知是帶著什麼心情把錢放下後便大步大步地離開......
頭一次我在捐款後會這麼希望所有的錢可以被像慈濟這樣的團體正確地運用,希望像他們這樣的團體不會辜負其他人的心意,希望有更多人出錢出力,希望......希望自己未來也有能力做一點點點點對人類有正面意義的事......Oh!May all dreams come true.
嘿~來首卡門振奮人心吧~
Written by SWEET
今早經過台北車站的一路上,除了通勤者與旅遊者外,還有一群人身著藍衣白褲的中年男女格外引人注目──他們是慈濟志工。
其實這群人平時就是無所不在,就連以前我的瑜伽老師也是慈濟的一員,但儘管如此,事實上我對類似這樣的團體一直是敬謝不敏,原因很簡單也很無聊,我只是單純聽不習慣他們“師兄”來“師姐”去地以此做為彼此的稱呼,身處那樣的環境會讓我感到很不自在,甚至想escape!但撇開這個不說,每一次國際間有重大災難發生時,慈濟這團體總是可以很有組織和效率地成立救難隊給予協助,這樣的精神真的讓我很敬佩!
這一次四川地震,有專業能力的慈濟志工還是一貫地前往災區幫忙,而其他的,一 如今早我在台北車站所看到的,整齊且有秩序地進行募款的工作。早上經過無數個慈濟志工身邊時,我思考著:這些中年男女們平時應該也有職業吧?好一個天氣晴朗的週末,他們願意放棄與家人朋友出遊的機會而來到這邊做著吃力不討好的工作嗎?
經過仔細觀察,我發現,願意將錢從口袋裡掏出的樂捐者不多,但慈濟志工的親切度卻不因此而減少;願意樂善好施的人將錢投入箱中後,總是快步害羞地離開,而身後卻是感謝你捐獻的志工們,他們謝謝你,因此將腰彎得有九十度那麼低,口中還唸唸有詞地給予善意的祝福。那時候我心想,不知道他們會募款到什麼時候?
回家是傍晚的事了。我竟然又在喧擾的新光三越和台北車站裡裡外外看見那群藍衣白褲人。最近看新聞總是會讓我心情不好,甚至會關不緊水龍頭......因為天災而造成的生離死別讓身為局外人的我感到很遺憾、無力和難過......我遺憾自己沒有幫得上忙的專業能力,也因同理心發揮地太過而把我家報紙哭得稀八爛。
當我passed by第一對志工身邊時,我想做點什麼但畢竟沒有,就這樣我不知道自己是在幹麻,心情紛亂地錯過了好幾對志工。直到,我幾乎快走到公車站牌了,我覺得再這樣下去不行,心想“難道停下腳步、將錢從皮夾中拿出來是什麼難為情的事嘛?”於是下定決心折回車站內,匆匆地投入紙鈔。我,一如早上看見的那些捐款者,不知是帶著什麼心情把錢放下後便大步大步地離開......
頭一次我在捐款後會這麼希望所有的錢可以被像慈濟這樣的團體正確地運用,希望像他們這樣的團體不會辜負其他人的心意,希望有更多人出錢出力,希望......希望自己未來也有能力做一點點點點對人類有正面意義的事......Oh!May all dreams come true.
嘿~來首卡門振奮人心吧~
Written by SWEET
5/17/2008
SWEET小小說第二輯
除了北鼻時期以外,她從小就有鏡頭恐懼症。不知是太過要求完美,還是是不夠自信,總之有好長一段時間她只幫人照相卻從來不入鏡。因此,即便她也曾有過“若能將生活的點滴以影像的方式記錄下來那該有多好”的念頭,卻總礙於“害怕看見不好看的自己”而放棄記錄下每個時期的回憶......就這樣,國中、高中直至大學畢業,她所擁有的自己的照片真是少到不行。
後來她有機會讀了一本小說《不存在的女兒》。她其實不常在誠品購書,但這本小說不一樣!當她flipped through the pages that男主角醉心於攝影,並透過補捉妻子的一顰一笑及身影表達自己對其說不出口的愛意和歉意這個段落時......因為被小說中攝影者的心意所撼動,她開始有那麼點覺得“也許照相是件好玩、有意義的事”,於是不加思索地買下這本書......她也不禁想像,假如有女人可以被一個男人這樣對待......oh一個帶著深情的目光、專心為他眼底唯一而攝影的男人......那該是多幸福的事阿!
那本小說可以是個伏筆。
之後她和他的第一次見面,擇期不如撞日地就約在她們通起簡訊的第一天以及距離她上課的不遠之處。在幽幽暗暗的咖啡店中,才甫認出他,她的目光一眼就被他身旁擺著的一個黑色小提袋給吸引了,wondering what it for and what it should be......直到他說,那是他的單眼相機他帶它去保養時,她腦海中不斷地浮現小說的情節,也好奇這男人以往都照些什麼,什麼樣的風景什麼人可以吸引他的目光?什麼時間什麼地點他一一地將快門按下?〈還os“阿!他從前的愛人肯定好幸福,畫面中的那個女人一定好美麗.....”〉
沒想到,爾後當她和他聊起這本小說時,她沒想到這個愛嗑電影卻不讀文學的男人竟然也看過一樣的作品!她還記得那時候,曾淡淡地提了有關攝影這部份,她說了有關自己,一個罹患鏡頭恐懼的人,也略述了那本書撼動她的部份......再一次地,她悄悄地盼望:假如可以成為愛人眼中唯一的風景,也許她那鏡頭恐懼症有機會不藥而癒。她其實瞭解,或許是她over sensitive和顧慮太多的性格使她在每一次的鏡頭前怯步,但她也深信,some where out there一定有個他,可以卸下她的面具、看見她的本質,並且真實地透過鏡頭捕捉每一個瞬間......
她是如此深信著。
後來她有機會讀了一本小說《不存在的女兒》。她其實不常在誠品購書,但這本小說不一樣!當她flipped through the pages that男主角醉心於攝影,並透過補捉妻子的一顰一笑及身影表達自己對其說不出口的愛意和歉意這個段落時......因為被小說中攝影者的心意所撼動,她開始有那麼點覺得“也許照相是件好玩、有意義的事”,於是不加思索地買下這本書......她也不禁想像,假如有女人可以被一個男人這樣對待......oh一個帶著深情的目光、專心為他眼底唯一而攝影的男人......那該是多幸福的事阿!
那本小說可以是個伏筆。
之後她和他的第一次見面,擇期不如撞日地就約在她們通起簡訊的第一天以及距離她上課的不遠之處。在幽幽暗暗的咖啡店中,才甫認出他,她的目光一眼就被他身旁擺著的一個黑色小提袋給吸引了,wondering what it for and what it should be......直到他說,那是他的單眼相機他帶它去保養時,她腦海中不斷地浮現小說的情節,也好奇這男人以往都照些什麼,什麼樣的風景什麼人可以吸引他的目光?什麼時間什麼地點他一一地將快門按下?〈還os“阿!他從前的愛人肯定好幸福,畫面中的那個女人一定好美麗.....”〉
沒想到,爾後當她和他聊起這本小說時,她沒想到這個愛嗑電影卻不讀文學的男人竟然也看過一樣的作品!她還記得那時候,曾淡淡地提了有關攝影這部份,她說了有關自己,一個罹患鏡頭恐懼的人,也略述了那本書撼動她的部份......再一次地,她悄悄地盼望:假如可以成為愛人眼中唯一的風景,也許她那鏡頭恐懼症有機會不藥而癒。她其實瞭解,或許是她over sensitive和顧慮太多的性格使她在每一次的鏡頭前怯步,但她也深信,some where out there一定有個他,可以卸下她的面具、看見她的本質,並且真實地透過鏡頭捕捉每一個瞬間......
她是如此深信著。
5/16/2008
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs gave his Stanford commencement address in 2005. Although much has been written about it, take the time to read through the transcript. The first of three stories that he tells talks about how the things that you learn and take time to investigate may have long term impact on what you do. His particular example is about taking a calligraphy class in college and later working on the typefaces for the Mac saying " it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later."
It's a long clip,but I think everyone should watch it.It takes a lot of wisdom for the speaker to say something like that.
Adam
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
It's a long clip,but I think everyone should watch it.It takes a lot of wisdom for the speaker to say something like that.
Adam
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
5/15/2008
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
X檔案今夏即將上演電影版第二集,讓我想起X檔案陪伴我國中生涯的日子。以前X檔案在華視播出,那時還是國中生的我每個禮拜必看,隔天就會和同學討論昨晚的劇情,也常被神秘兮兮的內容弄得很緊張。
X檔案主題音樂常常縈繞在我腦海中久久不散,因此我就跑去買了Tape,沒錯!就是Tape!每天睡前一定要聽了再聽才會想睡。固定跟著華視看了一段時間,我也忘了有多久,應該是看到最精華的那幾季吧,之後就沒再看了。
而我以前最不懂的是X檔案常常有不是結局的結局,像是怪物依舊潛伏在下水道裡沒被發現,癌人永遠有不說出來的秘密,X先生總是躲在陰影處之類的,大大拓展了我的觀影視野,原來影集內容不一定要有個結束,只是一個過程的紀錄罷了。
看X檔案所學到最重要的一件事:如果外星人入侵地球,時間就會暫停。但是現在長大了,如果時間突然暫停,我會去更換手錶的電池。
X檔案主題音樂常常縈繞在我腦海中久久不散,因此我就跑去買了Tape,沒錯!就是Tape!每天睡前一定要聽了再聽才會想睡。固定跟著華視看了一段時間,我也忘了有多久,應該是看到最精華的那幾季吧,之後就沒再看了。
而我以前最不懂的是X檔案常常有不是結局的結局,像是怪物依舊潛伏在下水道裡沒被發現,癌人永遠有不說出來的秘密,X先生總是躲在陰影處之類的,大大拓展了我的觀影視野,原來影集內容不一定要有個結束,只是一個過程的紀錄罷了。
看X檔案所學到最重要的一件事:如果外星人入侵地球,時間就會暫停。但是現在長大了,如果時間突然暫停,我會去更換手錶的電池。
5/13/2008
SWEET來寫個小小說
"她"很喜歡"他"的每一個表情。
幾乎是,自從可以這麼近地待在他身邊開始,她就不曾停止光明正大或是偷偷地觀察他的表情。
她相信一件事,並且堅持這絕對與"情人眼裡出西施"一語無關。觀察了很久,無論是從本人或是照片,她都不願相信眼前or照片中的那個男人無論是笑還是裝酷不看鏡頭,又或者是不知情入鏡......怎麼可能?怎麼可能每一個樣子都這麼attractive讓她這麼著迷? ?真的很變態,她曾經因為太迷戀他了,所以把他的某張照片當作是電腦桌面,早也看,晚也看,後來索性不關電腦了,這樣他就一直都在,然後她就可以假裝有他陪伴;也曾經盯著他的照片看了快一個小時,旁邊的路人甲都覺得這女的精神狀況應該有點問題?!
誇張的事不少,應該也把這件事算進去!就在她和他第一次見面後下一次未知的見面前,她因為太想知道任何有關他的事,於是很天兵地把那三個字〈當然是他的名字〉給google了一下,笨蛋!結果因為對他所知甚少甚少,可供媒合的關鍵字太有限,所以她似乎是把所有與那三個字有關的網頁都給瞧了,結果當然是無所獲,外加一個心得:「哦!叫這名字的人都挺優秀的嘛!」然後她就累得沉沉睡去......
還好,她平常是有在保養腦袋的!後來她發現PTT裡應該有她想知道的人的事才對!往常當她從K書中心回家後通常就離陣亡不遠,但有一個晚上當她下定決心一定得從PTT還是什麼有的沒的管道多知道一些他的事後,那晚特別有精神!所有感官不但都醒著甚至很亢奮!如獵人嗅到獵物一般。
好里家在皇天不負苦心人,她真的從PTT他們的班板上看到他了!映入眼廉的是一篇self- introduction。太醒目了!讓人不注意到都很難!因為所有的自我介紹裡只有他用一種“自以為的幽默”在介紹自己→什麼幾年前一對新婚夫妻追求刺激之類的有的沒的......那篇自介讓她看完之後捧腹大笑了好久,太扯了XD
雖然她偷偷地當起了小偵探,但事實上第一次見面之後她真的覺得一切應該就這樣結束了......with that funny and interesting joke!? ohohohno...that's not a joke but a formal and serious self-introduction actually! Whereas小小考生哪敢奢望故事可以繼續發展呢?
( 累了SWEET,今天玩得太開心,伸個懶腰先,The story is to be continued maybe...)
P.S. I love you! I wanna speak it very loudly!
幾乎是,自從可以這麼近地待在他身邊開始,她就不曾停止光明正大或是偷偷地觀察他的表情。
她相信一件事,並且堅持這絕對與"情人眼裡出西施"一語無關。觀察了很久,無論是從本人或是照片,她都不願相信眼前or照片中的那個男人無論是笑還是裝酷不看鏡頭,又或者是不知情入鏡......怎麼可能?怎麼可能每一個樣子都這麼attractive讓她這麼著迷? ?真的很變態,她曾經因為太迷戀他了,所以把他的某張照片當作是電腦桌面,早也看,晚也看,後來索性不關電腦了,這樣他就一直都在,然後她就可以假裝有他陪伴;也曾經盯著他的照片看了快一個小時,旁邊的路人甲都覺得這女的精神狀況應該有點問題?!
誇張的事不少,應該也把這件事算進去!就在她和他第一次見面後下一次未知的見面前,她因為太想知道任何有關他的事,於是很天兵地把那三個字〈當然是他的名字〉給google了一下,笨蛋!結果因為對他所知甚少甚少,可供媒合的關鍵字太有限,所以她似乎是把所有與那三個字有關的網頁都給瞧了,結果當然是無所獲,外加一個心得:「哦!叫這名字的人都挺優秀的嘛!」然後她就累得沉沉睡去......
還好,她平常是有在保養腦袋的!後來她發現PTT裡應該有她想知道的人的事才對!往常當她從K書中心回家後通常就離陣亡不遠,但有一個晚上當她下定決心一定得從PTT還是什麼有的沒的管道多知道一些他的事後,那晚特別有精神!所有感官不但都醒著甚至很亢奮!如獵人嗅到獵物一般。
好里家在皇天不負苦心人,她真的從PTT他們的班板上看到他了!映入眼廉的是一篇self- introduction。太醒目了!讓人不注意到都很難!因為所有的自我介紹裡只有他用一種“自以為的幽默”在介紹自己→什麼幾年前一對新婚夫妻追求刺激之類的有的沒的......那篇自介讓她看完之後捧腹大笑了好久,太扯了XD
雖然她偷偷地當起了小偵探,但事實上第一次見面之後她真的覺得一切應該就這樣結束了......with that funny and interesting joke!? ohohohno...that's not a joke but a formal and serious self-introduction actually! Whereas小小考生哪敢奢望故事可以繼續發展呢?
( 累了SWEET,今天玩得太開心,伸個懶腰先,The story is to be continued maybe...)
P.S. I love you! I wanna speak it very loudly!
5/12/2008
Bryan Adams with S. McLachlan - Don`t Let Go
Bryan Adams 是我從國中開始就非常喜歡的歌手,沙啞的嗓音是他最大的特色
這首歌也是我非常喜歡的一首,獻給我最愛的Sweet。
I can't resist your sweetness.....
I can't believe this moment's come(這一刻終於到來)
It's so incredible that we're alone(沒想到我們卻孤軍奮戰)
There's so much to be said and done(我們要說到做到)
It's impossible not to be overcome(儘管戰勝的機會渺茫)
Will you forgive me if I feel this way(你會在我感到失落時體諒我嗎?)
Cuz we've just met - tell me that's OK(你說絕對會成功的)
So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神奮戰下去)
Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄)
(Don't let go of the things you believe in)(不要放棄你的信念)
You give me something that I can believe in(你給我堅持的力量)
(Dont'let go of this moment in time)(別現在就放棄)
Go of this moment in time(現在要勇往直前)
(Don't let go of things that you're feeling)(不要放棄你內心的感覺)
I can't explain the things that I'm feeling(我百感交集)
(Dont'let go)(不要放棄) No, I won't let go(不,絕不放棄)
Now would you mind if I bared my soul(你介意我坦承自我嗎?)
If I came right out and said your'e beautiful(如果我當面稱許你的美麗)
Cuz there's something here I can't explain(我當下無法解釋這種感覺)
I feel I'm diving into driving rain(彷彿衝向傾盆大雨裡)
You get my senses running wild(你讓我思緒狂亂)
I can't resist your sweet, sweet smile(你甜美的笑容令我無法招架)
So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神堅持下去)
Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄)
[Chorus:]I've been waiting all my life(我用盡一生去等待)
To make this moment feel so right(等待此刻的美好)
The feel of you just fills the night(就讓這種氣氛瀰漫整個夜晚)
So c'mon - just hold on tight(緊緊抓住此生此刻)
這首歌也是我非常喜歡的一首,獻給我最愛的Sweet。
I can't resist your sweetness.....
I can't believe this moment's come(這一刻終於到來)
It's so incredible that we're alone(沒想到我們卻孤軍奮戰)
There's so much to be said and done(我們要說到做到)
It's impossible not to be overcome(儘管戰勝的機會渺茫)
Will you forgive me if I feel this way(你會在我感到失落時體諒我嗎?)
Cuz we've just met - tell me that's OK(你說絕對會成功的)
So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神奮戰下去)
Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄)
(Don't let go of the things you believe in)(不要放棄你的信念)
You give me something that I can believe in(你給我堅持的力量)
(Dont'let go of this moment in time)(別現在就放棄)
Go of this moment in time(現在要勇往直前)
(Don't let go of things that you're feeling)(不要放棄你內心的感覺)
I can't explain the things that I'm feeling(我百感交集)
(Dont'let go)(不要放棄) No, I won't let go(不,絕不放棄)
Now would you mind if I bared my soul(你介意我坦承自我嗎?)
If I came right out and said your'e beautiful(如果我當面稱許你的美麗)
Cuz there's something here I can't explain(我當下無法解釋這種感覺)
I feel I'm diving into driving rain(彷彿衝向傾盆大雨裡)
You get my senses running wild(你讓我思緒狂亂)
I can't resist your sweet, sweet smile(你甜美的笑容令我無法招架)
So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神堅持下去)
Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄)
[Chorus:]I've been waiting all my life(我用盡一生去等待)
To make this moment feel so right(等待此刻的美好)
The feel of you just fills the night(就讓這種氣氛瀰漫整個夜晚)
So c'mon - just hold on tight(緊緊抓住此生此刻)
Sarah McLachlan - Answer
這是一首很好聽很好聽的歌,好像電影配樂用過很多次的樣子,
雖然很感傷,但卻是我內心想對Sweet表達的,I will be the answer....
I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will be there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can't look down
If it takes my whole life
I won't break,I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
Place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight
If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
'Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all burned out
You'll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
雖然很感傷,但卻是我內心想對Sweet表達的,I will be the answer....
I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will be there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can't look down
If it takes my whole life
I won't break,I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
Place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight
If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
'Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all burned out
You'll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
【管理的減法】IKEA 平整包裝,擠出更多利潤
買過IKEA家具的人都有這樣的共同經驗:包裝平整好攜帶,打開來後只要照著說明書及內附小工具,即可自行組裝完成。這套看似再簡單不過的「購物流程」,背後正是IKEA貫徹簡單精神的極致表現。
「各色馬克杯19元」「100顆蠟燭99元」,踏進IKEA店面的客人,看到映入眼簾的低價商品,整齊地層層堆放在方形的木造座檯上,也許不少人曾暗暗納悶:「怎麼這麼便宜?」殊不知,IKEA成功的奧秘之一,就藏在底下這樸實無華的木頭棧板裡。
源自瑞典的IKEA,1953年由創辦人英格瓦‧坎普拉(Ingvar Kamprad)成立的郵購公司起家,如今已是全球擁有277家門市、年營業額近200億歐元的全球居家產業龍頭。
IKEA的成功之道,不僅在全球採購、大量生產所帶來的成本效益,深究IKEA的經營哲學,會發現創辦人坎普拉主張的「簡單」精神無所不在,從設計、包裝、服務到陳列方式,皆化繁為簡。去掉複雜性,等於省掉了額外成本。正如同坎普拉的生活哲學:「我可以自己剪指甲,何必找人幫我修指甲呢?」
崇尚樸實簡單的坎普拉認為,IKEA和供應商、員工及顧客都是「夥伴關係」,如果大家能各出一些力,共同把價格壓下來,就可用更優惠的價格創造更美好的生活。基於這樣的精神,買過IKEA家具的顧客都有此共同經驗:自行把商品運回家,打開包裝後會看到零件、一把扳手,以及圖示完整的說明書,彷彿告訴你:「我盡力給你好設計、好價格,組裝很簡單,你就自己動手吧!」
簡單設計:價格先設定,再談好設計
談到IKEA家具的設計,多數人腦中第一個跳出的印象,就是「北歐式簡約」。其實IKEA設計上的簡單精神,不僅意在傳遞北歐風格的居家美感,還銜著「為多數人創造更美好生活」的使命。此外,簡單的設計,更造就後續一連串經營管理上的簡化與方便。
IKEA市場行銷部行銷經理程燿毅表示,IKEA家具的設計前提很單純,就是「價格要讓一般人都能負擔」,因此所有的商品在設計前,都會先定出價格,然後設計師再在有限的預算內,兼顧實用性與設計感,找到成本最低、品質最精的材料來製作。
坎普拉曾說:「花上萬元瑞典幣設計一張桌子,肯定不是難事;但如果只能花100元瑞典幣(相當於台幣400~500元),恐怕沒什麼設計師做得到。」這種方式就類似一個當紅的美國真人實境節目〈Project Run Way〉(決戰時裝伸展台)——要以極受限的預算或材料,完成最實用美觀的設計,實在是對設計師的一大考驗。
為了達成這個前提,IKEA在全球設有33個採購中心(Trading office),和超過1300個供應商合作,讓設計師可以搜羅低價的優質材料,比如地毯織品向印度採購、玻璃向台灣採購,確保價格最低、品質最優。
精簡的成本設定,也讓設計師不得不打破材料的疆界,激發出創新的材料混搭。比如思考以「門板」的材質來製作桌子,達到同樣耐用且成本更低的效果,這個跨界的成品,就是定價499元的LACK邊桌——門板變身成線條極簡、五彩繽紛的矮桌,是IKEA長年熱銷的商品之一,也應證了坎普拉的信念:「100元瑞典幣也可以設計出好桌子。」
簡單包裝:平整包裝,減低倉儲及貨運成本
IKEA的家具還有一項重要特色,即風格再怎麼變,在組裝上都必須符合可「平整包裝」(flat-packed)或「可堆疊」的條件。此做法的由來,是在IKEA草創時期,坎普拉聘請的首位設計師隆格林(Gillis Lundgren)拍攝完商品型錄照片後,要將最後一張桌子裝上馬車,但卻怎麼都塞不進去,於是他將桌身與桌腳分離,便成功將桌子裝進馬車。當下,他靈光一閃:「若所有家具都可拆卸,馬車就可裝進更多東西!」
此後,「平整包裝」就成為IKEA生產管理流程的一大關鍵,這個做法使IKEA不用付「空氣運費」,大幅減低倉儲空間及貨運成本,同時也降低運送途中商品毀損的風險,並且演變成鼓勵顧客自行搬運及組裝家具的訴求。
基於平整包裝的概念,IKEA的商品包裝都極為簡單。一張立體空間甚大的桌子,可以完全平躺在扁平塊狀的牛皮紙板或塑膠包膜裡。有時候商品拆解後無法剛好填滿一個矩形的塊狀,為了完全利用空間,IKEA會將商品包裝設計成可兩兩鑲嵌的形狀,絲毫不浪費堆疊空間。
究竟平整包裝可節省多少空間效能呢?以蠟燭為例就可看出一個大概。程燿毅表示,IKEA設計用來加熱食物或精油的GLIMMA蠟燭,原本是以零散的方式將100顆蠟燭裝成一包,堆置於棧板(一個運送單位)上,後來改採塑膠包膜平整包裝,一包蠟燭成為一個20顆乘5層的整齊方塊狀,減少了蠟燭間的零散空間,棧板的盛放容量也從原來的252包增加為360包,共省下30%的運送與倉儲空間,售價也因此調降5%~7%,讓消費者以更便宜的價格即可購得。
空間一經有效的整併壓縮,連小小蠟燭都可額外節省三成空間,不難想見大型桌椅家具在平整包裝或堆疊原則下,帶給IKEA無比龐大的成本節省效益。
簡單陳列:棧板當貨架,精省人力
舉在商品陳列上,IKEA也有獨到的簡單哲學。一般大賣場多會配置人力去堆疊、放置以及維護商品,但IKEA完全不用,因為商品都是以最樸實的方式,直接陳列在木頭棧板上。
程燿毅解釋,當貨櫃車到達倉庫,裝在一個個棧板上的貨物,便由輸送帶自動運入倉庫,再由人力油壓車把整個棧板搬進賣場就定位,過程中僅需花費很少的人力。此外,商品原本就排列很整齊,所以也無須人員特別維護。
由於產品都是採用很簡單的平整包裝,也間接帶來陳列上的極大便利。IKEA的賣場人力使用相對精簡,分為「一般銷售人員」和「室內設計人員」,前者主要職責是在開店營業前補貨,後者則是配置在賣場中提供諮詢、排難解惑,每區僅需1~2人即可。
人力少,不代表服務不到位,「IKEA的服務是需求導向,強調把服務提供給需要的顧客,而非所有顧客。」程燿毅表示,IKEA店內提供鉛筆、量尺和表單,讓顧客可以半自助服務,多數顧客從牆面的海報說明和商品上的資訊吊牌,即可獲得相關的資訊,而居家規劃建議、代客取貨、代客組裝與運送等服務,則部分導入「使用者付費」的概念,提供給需要的人。以精簡的服務有效控制成本,讓多數人能享有負擔得起的價格。
資訊簡單:只給你必要的資訊
儘管已在各個層面力行精簡,坎普拉還主張在「資訊」上講求簡單,全球IKEA執行「整年價格不調漲」便是一個代表作。這個獨到的做法,不僅讓IKEA易於管理全店約6500項家具家飾商品,也讓顧客在進行購物的決策時能夠更加單純,當顧客無需到處比價,而長期的經驗也讓他們知道眼前的價格是實惠的,購物的複雜度就大大降低了,顧客和IKEA之間的信賴關係便油然建立。
今年三月中,高齡82的坎普拉(Ingvar Kamprad)輕裝簡行地造訪台灣,務實低調不講排場的他,穿著後領微微褪色的POLO衫,緩步逛著IKEA新莊店。他佇立在一個展示間前,觀察牆上標示的居家佈置秘訣等多種資訊後,回頭問身邊的員工:「你們覺得顧客最關心什麼?」員工回答:「應該是坪數和平面圖吧。」坎普拉說:「對了!那保留這兩項資訊就好了!」
坎普拉對化繁為簡的重視,決定了IKEA的品牌內涵和經營方式,也讓IKEA被譽為發揮「簡單」精神的典範企業之一。IKEA的成功,暗示著所有經理人:「多,不一定是好;簡單、清楚、明瞭,往往勝過複雜。」
「各色馬克杯19元」「100顆蠟燭99元」,踏進IKEA店面的客人,看到映入眼簾的低價商品,整齊地層層堆放在方形的木造座檯上,也許不少人曾暗暗納悶:「怎麼這麼便宜?」殊不知,IKEA成功的奧秘之一,就藏在底下這樸實無華的木頭棧板裡。
源自瑞典的IKEA,1953年由創辦人英格瓦‧坎普拉(Ingvar Kamprad)成立的郵購公司起家,如今已是全球擁有277家門市、年營業額近200億歐元的全球居家產業龍頭。
IKEA的成功之道,不僅在全球採購、大量生產所帶來的成本效益,深究IKEA的經營哲學,會發現創辦人坎普拉主張的「簡單」精神無所不在,從設計、包裝、服務到陳列方式,皆化繁為簡。去掉複雜性,等於省掉了額外成本。正如同坎普拉的生活哲學:「我可以自己剪指甲,何必找人幫我修指甲呢?」
崇尚樸實簡單的坎普拉認為,IKEA和供應商、員工及顧客都是「夥伴關係」,如果大家能各出一些力,共同把價格壓下來,就可用更優惠的價格創造更美好的生活。基於這樣的精神,買過IKEA家具的顧客都有此共同經驗:自行把商品運回家,打開包裝後會看到零件、一把扳手,以及圖示完整的說明書,彷彿告訴你:「我盡力給你好設計、好價格,組裝很簡單,你就自己動手吧!」
簡單設計:價格先設定,再談好設計
談到IKEA家具的設計,多數人腦中第一個跳出的印象,就是「北歐式簡約」。其實IKEA設計上的簡單精神,不僅意在傳遞北歐風格的居家美感,還銜著「為多數人創造更美好生活」的使命。此外,簡單的設計,更造就後續一連串經營管理上的簡化與方便。
IKEA市場行銷部行銷經理程燿毅表示,IKEA家具的設計前提很單純,就是「價格要讓一般人都能負擔」,因此所有的商品在設計前,都會先定出價格,然後設計師再在有限的預算內,兼顧實用性與設計感,找到成本最低、品質最精的材料來製作。
坎普拉曾說:「花上萬元瑞典幣設計一張桌子,肯定不是難事;但如果只能花100元瑞典幣(相當於台幣400~500元),恐怕沒什麼設計師做得到。」這種方式就類似一個當紅的美國真人實境節目〈Project Run Way〉(決戰時裝伸展台)——要以極受限的預算或材料,完成最實用美觀的設計,實在是對設計師的一大考驗。
為了達成這個前提,IKEA在全球設有33個採購中心(Trading office),和超過1300個供應商合作,讓設計師可以搜羅低價的優質材料,比如地毯織品向印度採購、玻璃向台灣採購,確保價格最低、品質最優。
精簡的成本設定,也讓設計師不得不打破材料的疆界,激發出創新的材料混搭。比如思考以「門板」的材質來製作桌子,達到同樣耐用且成本更低的效果,這個跨界的成品,就是定價499元的LACK邊桌——門板變身成線條極簡、五彩繽紛的矮桌,是IKEA長年熱銷的商品之一,也應證了坎普拉的信念:「100元瑞典幣也可以設計出好桌子。」
簡單包裝:平整包裝,減低倉儲及貨運成本
IKEA的家具還有一項重要特色,即風格再怎麼變,在組裝上都必須符合可「平整包裝」(flat-packed)或「可堆疊」的條件。此做法的由來,是在IKEA草創時期,坎普拉聘請的首位設計師隆格林(Gillis Lundgren)拍攝完商品型錄照片後,要將最後一張桌子裝上馬車,但卻怎麼都塞不進去,於是他將桌身與桌腳分離,便成功將桌子裝進馬車。當下,他靈光一閃:「若所有家具都可拆卸,馬車就可裝進更多東西!」
此後,「平整包裝」就成為IKEA生產管理流程的一大關鍵,這個做法使IKEA不用付「空氣運費」,大幅減低倉儲空間及貨運成本,同時也降低運送途中商品毀損的風險,並且演變成鼓勵顧客自行搬運及組裝家具的訴求。
基於平整包裝的概念,IKEA的商品包裝都極為簡單。一張立體空間甚大的桌子,可以完全平躺在扁平塊狀的牛皮紙板或塑膠包膜裡。有時候商品拆解後無法剛好填滿一個矩形的塊狀,為了完全利用空間,IKEA會將商品包裝設計成可兩兩鑲嵌的形狀,絲毫不浪費堆疊空間。
究竟平整包裝可節省多少空間效能呢?以蠟燭為例就可看出一個大概。程燿毅表示,IKEA設計用來加熱食物或精油的GLIMMA蠟燭,原本是以零散的方式將100顆蠟燭裝成一包,堆置於棧板(一個運送單位)上,後來改採塑膠包膜平整包裝,一包蠟燭成為一個20顆乘5層的整齊方塊狀,減少了蠟燭間的零散空間,棧板的盛放容量也從原來的252包增加為360包,共省下30%的運送與倉儲空間,售價也因此調降5%~7%,讓消費者以更便宜的價格即可購得。
空間一經有效的整併壓縮,連小小蠟燭都可額外節省三成空間,不難想見大型桌椅家具在平整包裝或堆疊原則下,帶給IKEA無比龐大的成本節省效益。
簡單陳列:棧板當貨架,精省人力
舉在商品陳列上,IKEA也有獨到的簡單哲學。一般大賣場多會配置人力去堆疊、放置以及維護商品,但IKEA完全不用,因為商品都是以最樸實的方式,直接陳列在木頭棧板上。
程燿毅解釋,當貨櫃車到達倉庫,裝在一個個棧板上的貨物,便由輸送帶自動運入倉庫,再由人力油壓車把整個棧板搬進賣場就定位,過程中僅需花費很少的人力。此外,商品原本就排列很整齊,所以也無須人員特別維護。
由於產品都是採用很簡單的平整包裝,也間接帶來陳列上的極大便利。IKEA的賣場人力使用相對精簡,分為「一般銷售人員」和「室內設計人員」,前者主要職責是在開店營業前補貨,後者則是配置在賣場中提供諮詢、排難解惑,每區僅需1~2人即可。
人力少,不代表服務不到位,「IKEA的服務是需求導向,強調把服務提供給需要的顧客,而非所有顧客。」程燿毅表示,IKEA店內提供鉛筆、量尺和表單,讓顧客可以半自助服務,多數顧客從牆面的海報說明和商品上的資訊吊牌,即可獲得相關的資訊,而居家規劃建議、代客取貨、代客組裝與運送等服務,則部分導入「使用者付費」的概念,提供給需要的人。以精簡的服務有效控制成本,讓多數人能享有負擔得起的價格。
資訊簡單:只給你必要的資訊
儘管已在各個層面力行精簡,坎普拉還主張在「資訊」上講求簡單,全球IKEA執行「整年價格不調漲」便是一個代表作。這個獨到的做法,不僅讓IKEA易於管理全店約6500項家具家飾商品,也讓顧客在進行購物的決策時能夠更加單純,當顧客無需到處比價,而長期的經驗也讓他們知道眼前的價格是實惠的,購物的複雜度就大大降低了,顧客和IKEA之間的信賴關係便油然建立。
今年三月中,高齡82的坎普拉(Ingvar Kamprad)輕裝簡行地造訪台灣,務實低調不講排場的他,穿著後領微微褪色的POLO衫,緩步逛著IKEA新莊店。他佇立在一個展示間前,觀察牆上標示的居家佈置秘訣等多種資訊後,回頭問身邊的員工:「你們覺得顧客最關心什麼?」員工回答:「應該是坪數和平面圖吧。」坎普拉說:「對了!那保留這兩項資訊就好了!」
坎普拉對化繁為簡的重視,決定了IKEA的品牌內涵和經營方式,也讓IKEA被譽為發揮「簡單」精神的典範企業之一。IKEA的成功,暗示著所有經理人:「多,不一定是好;簡單、清楚、明瞭,往往勝過複雜。」
5/09/2008
500個免費英文字型下載
『Fonts 500』,這個網站一共有500個免費的英文字型可以下載到自己的電腦內使用,既漂亮又有設計感,比起電腦裡固定的那幾個字型好多了,有的字型創造的很有特色,有做成天使的模樣,有做成石頭的質感,也有用球、罐子來設計的,讓單純的文字有了更特殊的造型。可是,有一些字型讓人看了覺得很眼熟
別告訴我你不知道大名鼎鼎的YAHOO
別告訴我你不知道大名鼎鼎的YAHOO
這是米老鼠Mickey Mouse所使用的字型
除了這些之外,還有很多漂亮的字型可以下載。要怎麼下載及安裝啊?
(1)看到你喜歡的字型後,直接在字型的圖片上點選,就會出現檔案下載的小視窗,請把字型壓縮檔下載到電腦中
(2)將檔案解開壓縮後,將字型檔案存到 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts 的路徑下即可。
Fonts 500:http://fonts500.com/
簡報不要這樣做!
不管是進行簡報或演說,常常會聽到有人給予這樣的建議:第一步,告訴聽眾你準備要說什麼;第二步,告訴聽眾你要說的;第三步,告訴聽眾你已經說了什麼。
溝通訓練顧問溫沙(John Windsor)表示,這個最常聽到的建議,可能也是最不好的建議。溫沙於「銷售與行銷管理雜誌」(Sales & Marketing Management Magazine)上指出,這個三步驟做法的好處是,講者從一開始就幫聽眾搭好舞台,聽眾很清楚簡報的主題和大綱,而且之後講者不斷重複簡報重點,也可以加深聽眾的印象。
但是,這個做法的壞處卻更多。因為如果講者只是不斷地告訴聽眾事情,簡報會變成單向溝通。講者一直說,不代表聽眾就會聽,也不代表他們就會思考及吸收。比較有效的簡報應該是對話式的,讓聽眾也能參與,而不只是講者想要告訴他們什麼。
另外,這個三步驟做法把講者的位置抬得太高,是講者在教導聽眾應該想什麼、做什麼。其實,簡報進行的時候,聽眾可能早已有了各式各樣的想法,甚至根本不同意講者的看法,不管講者再如何重複,也沒有效果,還不如提早邀請聽眾提問,大家一起進行討論。
既然這個三步驟做法的缺點多於優點,有沒有什麼更好的做法呢?溫沙建議了一個同樣是三步驟的替代做法。
第一步,一開始就告訴聽眾,為什麼簡報內容對他們有用,以及為什麼他們會感興趣。從簡報的第一個字與第一張投影片開始,講者就以聽眾的需求、興趣和目標為重點。相較於「今天我要花一個小時的時間,跟你們介紹我們公司,以及我們最近所推出的新產品」的開場白,「今天我要花一個小時的時間,跟你們討論你們的問題可能可以如何解決」的開場白,聽眾會比較願意注意聽。
第二步,幫聽眾畫出一幅遠景。也就是,聽完簡報之後,他們的問題會如何獲得改善,或者,他們目前的情況會如何變得更好。這幅遠景越生動豐富越好。講者可以善用比喻,讓聽眾更能了解簡報重點。這樣做往往比不斷重複說明的效果更好。聽眾聽完之後,甚至可以重複說給別人聽,延伸簡報的影響力。
第三步,給予聽眾強有力的理由回應簡報內容。每個簡報都有一個希望達成的特定目標,可能是說服客戶買下公司產品,也可能是爭取老闆對提案支持。這是講者之所以要做簡報的最終目的。把最終目的講得簡單又有道理,聽眾就比較可能會照著去做。
進行簡報或演說時,盡量以雙向取代單向溝通,以故事取代一般說明。
溝通訓練顧問溫沙(John Windsor)表示,這個最常聽到的建議,可能也是最不好的建議。溫沙於「銷售與行銷管理雜誌」(Sales & Marketing Management Magazine)上指出,這個三步驟做法的好處是,講者從一開始就幫聽眾搭好舞台,聽眾很清楚簡報的主題和大綱,而且之後講者不斷重複簡報重點,也可以加深聽眾的印象。
但是,這個做法的壞處卻更多。因為如果講者只是不斷地告訴聽眾事情,簡報會變成單向溝通。講者一直說,不代表聽眾就會聽,也不代表他們就會思考及吸收。比較有效的簡報應該是對話式的,讓聽眾也能參與,而不只是講者想要告訴他們什麼。
另外,這個三步驟做法把講者的位置抬得太高,是講者在教導聽眾應該想什麼、做什麼。其實,簡報進行的時候,聽眾可能早已有了各式各樣的想法,甚至根本不同意講者的看法,不管講者再如何重複,也沒有效果,還不如提早邀請聽眾提問,大家一起進行討論。
既然這個三步驟做法的缺點多於優點,有沒有什麼更好的做法呢?溫沙建議了一個同樣是三步驟的替代做法。
第一步,一開始就告訴聽眾,為什麼簡報內容對他們有用,以及為什麼他們會感興趣。從簡報的第一個字與第一張投影片開始,講者就以聽眾的需求、興趣和目標為重點。相較於「今天我要花一個小時的時間,跟你們介紹我們公司,以及我們最近所推出的新產品」的開場白,「今天我要花一個小時的時間,跟你們討論你們的問題可能可以如何解決」的開場白,聽眾會比較願意注意聽。
第二步,幫聽眾畫出一幅遠景。也就是,聽完簡報之後,他們的問題會如何獲得改善,或者,他們目前的情況會如何變得更好。這幅遠景越生動豐富越好。講者可以善用比喻,讓聽眾更能了解簡報重點。這樣做往往比不斷重複說明的效果更好。聽眾聽完之後,甚至可以重複說給別人聽,延伸簡報的影響力。
第三步,給予聽眾強有力的理由回應簡報內容。每個簡報都有一個希望達成的特定目標,可能是說服客戶買下公司產品,也可能是爭取老闆對提案支持。這是講者之所以要做簡報的最終目的。把最終目的講得簡單又有道理,聽眾就比較可能會照著去做。
進行簡報或演說時,盡量以雙向取代單向溝通,以故事取代一般說明。
5/06/2008
A Pure Star Is Born
我是個很不喜歡看綜藝節目的人,但看到以下這些影片卻讓我意外看見這些非專業人士,比起樂壇的"專業"人士更讓人值得讚賞。
至於評審的表情動作我也想要給他們評語:come on , give me a break!
Adam
Bianca Ryan 11歲(2006年)的時候參加了「America's Got Talent」,當她表示她要演唱百老匯經典歌舞劇「夢幻女郎」插曲And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going時,評審哉提醒她這可是一首不好唱的經典曲子。但是當她一開口,那超齡的成熟表現,層次分明的歌聲與肢體律動,讓在座的評審與觀眾們無不讚嘆連連。此後Bianca在這個選秀節目一路過關斬將,據說在2006年8月17日拿到總冠軍,也出了唱片
6歲的Connie Talbot參加了「Britain's Got Talent」,缺了門牙的她笑起來很是天真。當她緩緩地清唱出電影「綠野仙蹤」的主題「Over the Rainbow」時,沒有修飾的音色宛如純真的天籟,連評審都忍不住熱淚盈眶....
而Paul Potts更是不得了。其貌不揚的他缺乏自信,當他跟評審說「他只是來唱歌劇而已」時,評審也不覺有特殊之處。但是當歌劇「杜蘭朵公主」的「公主徹夜未眠」的主題從他嘴中流洩而出時,我全身的雞皮疙瘩都起來了,這...這簡直是世界男高音!評審都忍不住讚嘆:「挖到鑽石了!」如果我在現場的話,相信,那個淚流滿面、起立鼓掌的人,我會是其中一個~
Life after Death by PowerPoint
很多人都會使用PowerPoint製作投影片、設計簡報,但是有時不是過於花俏、就是過於冗長,讓看的人抓不到重點。不妨看看底下這則小短片,用有趣的實例告訴你在製作PPT檔時會不小心犯下的錯誤。 嗯~挺有趣的!
Adam
Adam
5/02/2008
A Moment Like This
Though I am quiet familiar with NTU campus, the experience of sitting on the high bench in front of 鹿鳴堂 is just my first time. I didn't know that the campus at night with warm and pale yellow street lights can be so beautiful, but even look more angelic especially with the beloved one. I think I was kind of dizzy after having a little drink. Whereas I know well that it was not the beer which functioned but the man embracing me so tenderly and affectionately that caused me dazzling...
Written by SWEET
Written by SWEET
Geoge died
Georege died in a fire. He's badly burn and can't be recognized.Thus, cop called his two friends, Mike and John, to identify George.When Mike came and saw the body. He told the cop "Flip him over."
Cop did what he said. Mike looked at George's butt and said "no, not George."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" Mike answered, "Cuz George has two assholes."Then it's John's turn. John said the same thing, "Flip him over."Cop fliped the body. John looked at George's butt and said "no, that's not him."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" John said "Cuz George has two assholes."
The cops were confused and called both Mike and John.The captain said "Are you sure that's not George."Both answered "Yeah". The captain said "cuz he has two assholes? how?"Mike and John said "Whenever three of us go to village, we always hear people said 'lo, there comes George with those two assholes!"
Cop did what he said. Mike looked at George's butt and said "no, not George."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" Mike answered, "Cuz George has two assholes."Then it's John's turn. John said the same thing, "Flip him over."Cop fliped the body. John looked at George's butt and said "no, that's not him."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" John said "Cuz George has two assholes."
The cops were confused and called both Mike and John.The captain said "Are you sure that's not George."Both answered "Yeah". The captain said "cuz he has two assholes? how?"Mike and John said "Whenever three of us go to village, we always hear people said 'lo, there comes George with those two assholes!"
5/01/2008
Murmurings
Before, I thought it is with the piling up of historical dribs and drabs can a one become what he is now; which means I viewed things and memories of the past as a necessary normal, without doubt. However, I don't know why I hold this thought no more, keep thinking over one's past which tortures each other all along. I think I am incapable of preventing myself from looking trouble. ( OK...I know, I've always done such a thing worrying myself for nothing. I know it well.) Apparently, salvation never happens to me. May anything be a remedy somehow? Is it said that " LOVE COUNQERS ALL"?
I wonder why LOVE turns out to be a terminal cancer?
Maybe you are the only one of its kind, to me, my dear.
Written by Natalie,SWEET.
I wonder why LOVE turns out to be a terminal cancer?
Maybe you are the only one of its kind, to me, my dear.
Written by Natalie,SWEET.
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