面試-等通知

9/28星期四去starbucks複試了
現在還在等通知
沒工作好煩...

面試的時候被問了一些問題，諸如


Q:對服務業的感覺或認知是什麼？
A:比較能夠接觸人群。
(內心OS:大部分的時候，比起接觸人群，我更喜歡安靜狐獨一個人。)

Q:在華納有沒有遇到比較難應付的客人？
A:還好，只是有些要求不符合公司規定，但並不算過份。
(內心OS:奧客都交給E2或經理去應付啦！)

Q:晚班要上到12點，頭一個月要訓練，會排比較多班，每週大概會有五天，課業壓力會不會太大？
A:還好，應該還能應付。
(內心OS:我已經準備好爆肝到兩點了。)

Q:星巴克給你的感覺是什麼？我們希望有熱忱的人加入。
A:環境不錯，員工都滿親切的。
(內心OS:熱忱？我連組織文化都還沒體驗到，現在只想有咖啡喝有錢領距離不要太遠。)


目前在等通知的除了starbucks，還有兩間在忠孝敦化的餐廳。
還有一間咖啡館的面試在下禮拜三。

starbucks快點給我通知吧。
我既不高亦不帥，站在櫃臺可能也不太好看，要是讓我錄取的話......

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The Peer-Pressure has been arising in my deep...

這裡的人好強，什麼都會。聽說電機他們更競爭，有些人已經在補習班抄過一輪筆記，來學校聽課當複習。電子還有個大姊是這台科二技應外畢業，現在考回來唸二技電子。

這個地方真是臥虎藏龍，高手雲集。

沒有機車，想找晚班的工作還真難。信義區中正區太晚下班會沒車回宿舍。公館的話再晚下班都沒關係，可以用走的回宿舍，但是工作機會不多(網路上有po的不多)，今天下午要去忠孝敦化面試，回來再順便去公館繞繞…

禮拜一面試了一間101的咖啡館，但是他只能排我假日班，大概十個小時，一小時80。算一算這樣根本不夠我在台北生存>"<，而且還要穿黑衣黑褲去上班，黑褲我有，但黑衣就要去買了。幾翻考量，我把它推掉了繼續找…

剛開學，光買書就花了4059…唸大學還真是昂貴...XD
不想血本無歸，就得好好唸書。

新生活課題：要怎麼在打工、英文、課業、閱讀找交集？


打算明年初考英檢，中高級沒信心，考個中級試試吧…

開學第一天

台科資工新生的第一天
宿舍還不錯，室友也不錯
有同學已經開始找專題指導老師了，真快

下午，上了一節英文課，一節網路概論
聽說第一個禮拜是不會正式上課的，因為沒課本

下課後找了六家咖啡館投履歷....

hire me.....

隨便拍

依序是　仔仔、寶寶、嘟嘟、美美、喵喵










好不容易逮到機會，結果忘記把相素放大...

關於三通與產業外移的疑惑

　　有人反對三通，認為「開放對岸商品進入台灣市場，或是開放對岸民眾投入台灣的勞動市場，或是政府以實質形式鼓勵企業家前往中國投資，基本上都是大利資產階級企業家的政策，實質上對中下層階級都沒有太大的好處」。

　我有個疑惑就是──台商要到哪裡去，干我什麼事？它們去或不去跟我有什麼關係？它們留或不留對我有什麼影響？對岸的人才能不能直接空降來跟台灣的人競爭跟我又有什麼關係？

　　不讓台灣那些鑽營毛利的企業出去，它們大概生存不下去。它們去了，繼續死守那些毛利，或許也有大發利市的。它們開始賺錢後，會在台灣投資創造工作機會嗎？會花錢推動產業升級嗎？它們即使留在台灣等著被淘汰，工作機會還是一樣會消失，不是嗎？它們飛黃騰達後會繳海外營利或所得稅來建設投資台灣的教育嗎？

　　開放台灣的勞動市場給對岸人才投入，台灣的勞工勢必要直接面對低價勞動力的競爭。但即使不開放勞動市場給對岸人才空降，我們還是要面對低價勞動的競爭不是嗎？就算不讓對岸的人才上這個島搶飯碗，企業不也還是會直接空降去投資沒有環保限制，工資低廉，人才濟濟，C/P值高的地方？更何況能夠吸引企業投資的不只對岸。

　　不知道三通對我們什麼影響？我是以為與我無關──對投資人來說通不通可事關重大──。競爭是避免不了的，呼籲金字塔頂端的資本家的道德情操或土地情感──假設有這種抽象概念存在他們心裡面的話──是不可能的，限制他們營利或競爭手段也是不可能的。不是嗎？

　　三通是不是只是揭露了，我們在台商的的心目中是是可替代的，在資本社會中是容易被取代的？

Firefox + Sage

RSS跟ATOM已經行之有餘年了
甚至都有人提出Web 2.0
怎麼在好像用的人不多？

關於RSS

簡而言之，就是你可以把常去的親朋好友的Blog或新聞網頁加進清單
然後只要一個click，就可以檢查它們有沒有更新
不需要一個一個Blog慢慢逛

個人強力推薦
Firefox
搭配
Sage



安裝完Firefox後，用Firefox去開sage的網頁，然後install
之後，按ALT+S可以扎Sage叫出來
然後到你親朋好友的Blog上
找到上面印著RSS或ATOM字眼的 icon
把它拖曳到sage的框框裡面

Tuesdays With Morrie (最後十四堂星期二的課)

Tuesdays With Morrie









Author: Albom, Mitch
Publisher: Bantam Books

The Japanese drama, One Liter of Tears, touched me in the willing of hanging on living and the optimistic life. This book, Tuesday with Morrie, moved me in the realization of life and the optimistic thought on dying.

Are you disgusted by the overtime-culture as I am? Does the thought of putting the matter on living rather than overworking shames you as me? Fortunately, Tuesdays With Morrie told me that I was not the sick one, but the culture was.

The story of Tuesdays With Morrie is about an old professor, Morrie Schwartz, was dying, and he shared his experience and wisdom. Instead of inculcating the do’s and don’ts what our culture does over and over in us, he quested why we did, indicated what we lost, and encouraged us trying to chase what we really want.

The author, Mitch Albom, was given a wonderful gift from his old professor, his coach, Morrie, gave his player last class which needs none textbook, fourteen life’s lessons on “The World”, “Feeling Sorry For Yourself”, “Regrets”, “Death”, “Family”, “Emotions”, “The Fear Of Aging”, “Money”, “How Love Goes On”, “Marriage”, “Our Culture”, “Forgiveness”, “The Perfect Day” and last lesson – “Good-Bye”


There are two scenes appear in the movie The Weatherman, the “living funeral” Morrie held, and the “touchy-feely” course which the students were to stand, facing away from their classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch.

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. you take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.” (page 40)

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.” (page 35)

Taiwanese culture, the overworking-culture, forces us to contribute our life to our employer. The status-culture encourages us to be the boss, the manager, to accumulate the fortune, to compete against another corporation in low-prices form exploiting others. The competing-culture restricts our studying to take exams on and on, to matriculate at famous universities and institutes for receiving enough training and a certification of competence, to work, to produce, to be a worth, authorized equipment of the capital society. The luxury-culture lures us into chasing new famous brand product; the cash-credit-card is advertised here, there and everywhere of Taiwan where is set the ability of shopping and identifying the brand as the criterion for measuring the taste of people.


“This is okay with you, isn’t it? Men crying?” (page 51)

“We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational cat’”. (page 52)

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?” (page 53)

“I give my self a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life.” “I don’t let myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all.” (page 57)

I counted how often I feel sorry for myself and how long I extricate from low tide. Compares with Morrie who was likened to “tender sequoia”, they take me too much time in self-pity!


“We don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this I want? Is something missing?” “You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won’t just happen automatically.” (page 65)

The importance is considering what we would regret what if today is our last day on earth, then grasping the last chance to chase at present!


“You strip away all that stuff and you focus on essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.” “Learn ho to die, and you learn how to live.” (page 83)

Fancy there is a little bird on our shoulder, and ask it as Morrie asked: "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? am I being the person I want to be?”


“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family.” “poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish.’ ” (page 91)

How to detach from negative emotions, such as horror, painful? As Morrie said “By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself do dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.’ “ (page 104)


What is aging? Is it a procedure going to die, going to be wither and forgetful?

“It’s like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know to be a child. It’s inside all of us. For me, it’s just remembering how to enjoy it.” (page 116) “Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.” (page 118)


“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.” “As I’m sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have.” (page 125) “If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere.” (page 127)

As Chinese wisdom, these are “external things” at all. In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, the old man tried very hard to fight with the big fish, and he eventually got the prize, the enormous fish, but the brilliant prize lured lots of sharks’ attacks and eating.


“Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.” (page 136)


Chinese ancient, Mencius, who believed in the inherent good in people as Morrie did.

“People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. Every people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of our culture. Which is why I don’t buy into it.” (page 154) “Here’s what I mean by building your own little sub-culture. I don’t mean you disregard every rule of our community.” “The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.” (page 155)

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.” (page 166)

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” (page 174)

“The first wave says, ‘You don’t understand! We’re all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn’t it terrible?’
“The second wave says, ‘No, you don’t understand. You’re not a wave; you’re part of the ocean.’ “ (page 179)

“Okay, then.” (page 186)
This is the way how the coach, Morrie, and his player, Mitch, say good-bye to each other.

Morrie never gave up his life, he fight against the disease and dying without fear. In Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea, the old has said that “A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.” Morrie is a man definitely!

In the end, the sound “You talk, I’ll listen” Mitch heard. The end of the book, ”The teaching goes on” is in my sight as my eyes became moist for the sentence on Morrie’s tombstone, “A Teacher to the Last”.

This sentiment writen down on 12th Sep, 2006, Tuesday.