I back from the Chafing Dish party; it’s really lively and bustling. There were so much staff members I had never seen, and so much people I had never known, though I have not known them yet either. I borrowed a motorcycle and rode there at 11:30 PM. The party has been held until 4 AM, I have a long time not to put my youth into enjoying but programming and doing homework and being cramming for the exams.
The staff members are really so kind. First and foremost I should thank tem for the party and their kindness, and I should beg their pardon if I behaved as my natural ironic, cold way, I had no means to criticize and to ridicule.
12/25/2006
12/22/2006
second day
2006-12-21, Today is my second day working at Dong-Po with myself, and the business volume of today is NT$40. Well, the senior staff member said such situation is “normal” and “frequent”. It sounds I will have easy duties for many days, ha.
Today I met a pair of sister and brother, the yang brother was in junior high school, and his mother hired a tutor for him, and ordered a research room (a private study room) for class. He has a math class and an English class once a week respectively, and he will have 4 classes per week. Well, he seems just graduate from elementary school, and now he should suffer a barrage of “Advancing to higher education” doctrine and exams and tests. Hope he could tolerate this destined students’ career.
The staff members will have a “chafing dish” party at 23:30 on X'mas Eve. And attendees will exchange the presents which value must be under NT$200. Maybe I shall borrow a motorcycle to attend the party. I believe it would be funny.
Today I met a pair of sister and brother, the yang brother was in junior high school, and his mother hired a tutor for him, and ordered a research room (a private study room) for class. He has a math class and an English class once a week respectively, and he will have 4 classes per week. Well, he seems just graduate from elementary school, and now he should suffer a barrage of “Advancing to higher education” doctrine and exams and tests. Hope he could tolerate this destined students’ career.
The staff members will have a “chafing dish” party at 23:30 on X'mas Eve. And attendees will exchange the presents which value must be under NT$200. Maybe I shall borrow a motorcycle to attend the party. I believe it would be funny.
12/17/2006
A new job
I got a new job. The job is offered by Chang-Chin Study Center, I have attended three days pre-job training with headache Tuesday through Wednesday.
It’s an easy job for most people but me. It seems easy to most people, because the staff members merely need to clean the circumstances on clock, to check the money before out-off-duty, and to introduce the system to new customers and solve the customers’ requests. I have to profess the difficulty to me is the necessary of interactive with people.
The staff members there are so good, so kindly, and so talkative. And they look really harmonious, and the staff members, who are on night shift, including me, always close the store together.
I’m not talkative, and I scarcely join their chat, I guess I seems cold to them. So far, I have wondered about why the company would offer the job to me except the reason they found no one take the offer. And so far, it’s good to me.
It’s an easy job for most people but me. It seems easy to most people, because the staff members merely need to clean the circumstances on clock, to check the money before out-off-duty, and to introduce the system to new customers and solve the customers’ requests. I have to profess the difficulty to me is the necessary of interactive with people.
The staff members there are so good, so kindly, and so talkative. And they look really harmonious, and the staff members, who are on night shift, including me, always close the store together.
I’m not talkative, and I scarcely join their chat, I guess I seems cold to them. So far, I have wondered about why the company would offer the job to me except the reason they found no one take the offer. And so far, it’s good to me.
臺北人
臺北人(典藏版)
作者：白先勇/著
出版社：爾雅
《臺北人》是由十四篇短短篇小說集結而成，分別為《永遠的尹雪艷》、《一把青》、《歲除》、《金大班的最後一夜》、《那片血一般紅的杜鵑花》、《思舊賦》、《梁父吟》、《孤戀花》、《秋思》、《滿天裏亮晶晶的星星》、《遊園驚夢》、《冬夜》、《國葬》。
《臺北人》主要是描寫一群出身中國大陸的男男女女，他們皆有過一段難忘的「過去」。這些人物來自台臺北都市社會各階層，有年邁挺拔的儒將樸公、退休的女僕、上流社會的夫人、下流社會的女子、知識份子、自視甚高的老闆娘、幫傭工人、軍人、社交名媛、舞女。這些大小人物貧富懸殊，行業各異，但沒有一個不背負著一段沈重的、斬不斷的過去。
《臺北人》的歷史背景，橫跨了辛亥革命、五四運動、北伐、抗日、國共內戰。
《臺北人》展現了強烈的今昔對比。就如的書前引錄的劉禹錫〈烏衣巷〉，「禾雀橋邊野花草，烏衣巷口夕陽斜。舊時王謝堂前燕，飛入尋常百姓家。」
人類的生命有限，青春不得永駐，時間激流不能暫緩。《臺北人》底下的人物，有的懷抱著過往不能釋懷，有的惦記著過去活在當下，有的完全拋棄過去接受現實。在《臺北人》中，愛情、理想、精神，與性慾、現實、肉體相互拉扯，理想與現實相對立，而人們就在這樣的矛盾下生存。或許，人，要活下去，要不敗亡，最多只能──偶然回顧。
人類對於現實無情的控訴，或許只能像《那片血一般紅的杜鵑花》中的杜鵑花，好像一腔按捺不住的鮮血，猛地噴了出來，灑得一園子斑斑點點都是血紅血紅的，開得那樣放肆，那樣憤怒。
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
What I found in Pride and Prejudice are pride and prejudice of course.
When Elizabeth Bennet first met eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thought him arrogant and conceited, while he struggled to remain indifferent to her good look and lively mind. When she later discovered Darcy had involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane; meanwhile she was blinded by Whickham’s lies, she was determined to dislike Darcy more than ever.
Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions. When Elizabeth had read the letter from Darcy many times, she regretted what she had judged. She said ‘Vanity, not love, has been my folly’. And I have been impressed by Elizabeth’s lively life philosophy: Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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