機會就是給有準備好的人啦

打了一手好牌

＂A, 你聽說了嗎？＂

＂什麼事？＂

＂Ｌ這回又要帶人去參加小兵中區初賽；而且這回聽說上頭拿了不少采頭出來。＂

＂Ｍ桑不是上個月在忙這回事？聽說徵人時，小朋友聽到週六日都要來訓練／沒有經費的前提下，個個都打退堂鼓了嗎？那來的參賽呀？＂

＂廢話，假如通知你比賽，而準備時間僅有一個半月；除非你有長遠的準備--超過三年的經驗/去年的班底，不然就算給你出隊，不是帶人去含淚鼓掌歡送其它有專班訓練的學校嗎。而且她　把發球權一直都捏在手上，今天［出賽權］當下丟給你是她說＂這次輪到你＂；連著那些年不丟給你，也是她說＂要增加有出賽勝利的把握！＂

"哇! 這這這好像三國演義某一章節喔!!!"

"你看，機會就是給有準備好的人啦。這回你知道人家怎樣向上頭要資源／又可以踩別人的方法了哦。"

價錢真嚇人

下班後到菜巿場買菜,沒想到那價錢真嚇人;和平時相較,達七倍的價格令人瞪目結舌,不敢置信。 A silk gourd is a delicious, inexpensive and popular dish on the dinner table. Now the typhoon is coming, its price has risen to 75$NT, 7 folds of its original price. This is .... daylight robbery.

Like

深怕嚇跑顧客,賣牛肉的拼命說我們的不是美國牛。那個按讚的機器,可能很快就會出現在許多許多地方。不曉得有無可能全公司職員桌上和學生桌上都裝一個。

Beef-burger sellers emphasize the fact that they don't sell American beef. "It's 100% Australian!" That 'like' button has materialized itself in the real world. Guess it will make its presence more noticeable around you and me. Do you 'like' it on your office desk?

今年夏天，最令人膽顫心驚的謎底

今年夏天，最令人膽顫心驚的謎底，要揭曉了!

                                        Let's see how much your electricity bill is!

專心一意的學習

今天上課，刻意的放慢步調，要求學生閉上眼，將呼吸調緩，清空心底雜念，用一份寧靜的心情，將空中英語教室的朗讀，在心裏頭，轉化為一份專心。因為專心一意的學習，是一份快樂；今日在課堂上，確實的將此訊息傳達了給學生。

    In today's class, deliberately slowed down pace, and asked kids to close their eyes, and regulate their breathing to clear up all those passing thoughts popping up here and there inside their mind. Then, with an air of calmness inside the class, they started that concentrated process of learning - listening to a lesson with their ears and hearts only. Today, instead of just following up that hectic and demanding curriculum, I followed students' heartbeats.  This, I hope, would help students understand the idea that learning is such a wonderful thing.

人之常情篇--器量

他那麼快的舉起手指責他人，這是意料之內；在被指出這是無地放矢，毫無事實根據而胡亂地指責之後，若他能說聲對不起，承認自己有錯，那方才是意料之外，這人才是有所容納的大器。－－－－－－＜人之常情篇>

人這種生物

那不服輸的鬥爭之心,高二第一次段考後,在B君的眼神中出現,特別當他看到那個每次名次都排在前的H君,對那個全班第一名,絲亳一點都不在意。

之前,高一時,連續在班上的高分群中領先,B早已習慣其它人的羨慕眼光; 這一回的落敗,反而讓B更願意付出更多的心力,上課時更努力的發問。因為＂第一名＂應該是她的。

那個Ｗ君, 加入某社團球隊後,卻刻意的放掉高分群的位置,袛為同伴的"接受"。隨著家長工作不斷變換學校的ＡＢＣ,"朋友"是比什麼都重要的存在；即使家中衣食無缺,身為海外學人的孩子,他卻無法在同一學校讀完課程。朋友二字，對這孩子而言，是如此珍貴。

人這種生物，別人的言語或外加的刑罰是無法改變的，可能窮其一生都在追求心中企求之物，至死方休呀。

Making it count

今一天,值得...不是因為上菜巿場買幼兒教具成功拿了個好價錢(ps. 自己要求丟照片上來宣傳,獲取值X$不知數,由二個教學玩具總價中扣除),是因為成功的按計劃讓一天的流程順利的跑完(晨起打掃/練英文/晾衣...帶小的去公園運動/菜巿場看萬象/竉物店觀察小動物....找到孩子的焦點/陪孩子玩/收衣服/倒垃圾),而且沒讓情緒控制太多的自己......這是勝利的一天! 也願明日能勝過今日!

Today was worth it! Not because i got a bargain while shopping for kids' edu-toys, but because today somehow managed to control "self" and followed a planned schedule to keep the house tidy and clean and to provide chances for our little one to see more in an open market, and a pet shop. Dear Lord, now I can proudly say I didn't waste much of the precious day You gave.

含淚播種者

指考前,特地晨起到廟宇為考試學生祈福,在文昌君前希望他們能用這些年的努力來拿到最滿意的成績。袛是有時會感概－同一間教室，同一組教師，同樣三年的學習，可這結果卻是截然大不相同。有學生的修行早已明確的可進入和其努力相對的理想學校，也有學生必須被迫面對不理想的結果，低頭蹲下，再修行四年。

雙月方成友

天上人間，若無雙月相映，朋字可難成，又何來天外一字友。

With this Internet social utility, people connect to people, or, who knows, a computer program which 'behaves' like people online. Friends have taught me to reciprocate - to give and take mutually.  If i receive a befriend-request, I wish you would show me the real you on an equal footing.

What is your face-value?

願這風雨快快過去,家戶都平安....

幸福的條件

He was just right about three things.  One, I couldn't produce evidence that he once told me so and hence the lost the right to claim that reimbursement.  Two, no one would side with me at that moment, on that nickel-and-dime NT$ 1200 issue.  Three, I couldn't produce a gun or knife from my pocket to kill him there.

慈母多敗兒

今天天氣好, 傍晚夜騎 22 公里完成--出門前接了通公務電話,話來畫去的,為的是那個＜考試不考＋上課猛看小說＋又講不聽叫不動罵不得 precious媽寶＞想再靠特別優待要我的簽名,集滿點數拿到一張証書。學校又不是 7-11,花錢集點數咧! 真嘔！教訓輔的合作變成各自獨立作業,更別提那插花二年多的圖書館義工証。掛電話後,其實心情有點激動起伏。

學校的教育功能並非萬能(很多老師在人本基金會的作為下,在強勢又護兒心切的家長要求下,態度均由全然的投入變成明哲保身的不再雞婆)....家庭中家長的陪伴和指導/身教和言教永遠無法被學校取代,再多的錢和藉口都無法幫孩子成材,袛有花時間和孩子慢慢磨慢慢教,家長的言行和教誨會慢慢轉化成孩子的處事態度;第一是態度,第二是態度,第三還是態度,是我等下一代成功(或失敗)的關鍵。

開始騎腳踏車上下班

今天上指考作文猜題: How to Save Energy

恰好頂樓教室旁最近剛鋪上綠草皮來降低日曬溫度,學校屋頂也裝設太陽能面板,惠小門口也有風力發電機,也指出來給學生作寫作補充。也開始騎車上下班;因為馬路兩旁很多違規停車或佔用,在車陣中必須很小心騎,也要提早出門。平時騎機車沒發現,騎上車才想起...上班路線全是緩上坡.....

　　Shared a typical and politically correct title "How to Save Energy" in today's compo class. Several patches of grass and green plants had been installed on nearby rooftops and used them in this practice. Also promoted the idea of buying local food produce instead of getting imported items. Alternative energy sources - solar panels, wind turbines on nearby building tops were pointed out.

想開口

問,為什麼用口頭問,是保固過期了;其它同事問,卻還在保固期內....那我自己還花自己錢修保固內的產品.....人家看你沒靠山,被當皮球踢來踢去,......以後和行政人員打交道,看來也袛能靠書信紀錄來往了。

2011/9/6 3C用品

new casing for mini-lap-top
現金 1,200

釣到的大魚

今天跟咱家兩個女兒說,以後嫁人後,若她們老公正在別人前大大地吹噓上回去釣到的大魚有多大(雙手一整個平伸),千萬千萬別立刻打斷這男人的"吹噓",又舉出食指和大拇指,強調這才不是那回事,那"拉上岸"的也袛不過"小魚"一隻,而你,這個"剩一張嘴"男的太太,才是"事實"的擁護者那種態度和高度啦.......(常被拆台的老公)

Today I gave a solemn lecture to our two daughters about NOT to correct their husbands, especially when their husbands are bragging about how big the fish they dragged ashore, with their arms fully extended.  Even though that fish is just a small one, that scientific attitude won't help you get along with your husband.

Time is the substance

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
- - - Jorge Louis Borges

that darn, high, suffocating humidity

Summer is here and so is that darn, high, suffocating humidity. 熱熱熱....可是辦公室後座的外國老師卻說,和加州比起來,台灣一點都不熱....是太濕太悶了...那個濕度顯示居然到66%啦....教室兩旁上層氣窗(應有可開可關的設計),當初因為經費不足,結果全用玻璃封上...教室內温度和濕度反而比外頭高呀.....最好的比喻是家電用品中利用熱風+溫度的旋風烤爐!!!!之前沒有裝冷氣,上課,對前面嘮叨的和下頭的,可是十足十的夏日蒸汽浴.....這種變來變去的天氣,唯有下班後外出運動,才能解開那一整天累積下來的悶呀....

Memory

回憶....就像這張照片----明確的細節和線條已然失去;可那色彩卻是更加鮮明; Memory is like this picture. Details and distinct outlines fade with time while colors brighten and shine in time.