Photo --- Cheng Kung Lake

Dec, 2011, 
NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Sample --- Notes, "Publish, Don't Perish" in Traditional Chinese

I. 迷思(這邊我只寫下該段的重點)
-01. 教學是學術研究的重要形式，也是綜合與支是延伸的方法。
-02. 對出版社來說，必需出版一般讀者想看的內容。
-03. 作家必須有創作欲望經驗；遇到瓶頸時，需堅持到底。
-04. 不喜歡寫作可能與學習過程中常遭遇老師的批評有關。
-05. 規律寫作有助於提升創造力:學術人士會要求自己一週五天每天寫作半小時，來挑戰自己。
-06. 草擬初稿階段不需著墨如何改善文章架構與文法。
-07. "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I have to say."
-08. 學術著作本來就是一種社交活動；要孰悉本身學術領域的重要議題，
        才有機會加入同儕的談話。
-09. 許多工作上的重要創新突破都是發生於工作和娛樂之間的閒暇時間；
        所以最好平時能攜帶記事本或錄音機。
-10. 修改文章並非糾正錯誤，而是一個發展和發現自我想法的過程。
-11. 思考是連續的過程，需隨世界變化而變通。
-12. 長久以來名作家們都一直弔念第一人稱已不復存在的事實。
        (不用第一人稱寫作不一定是好的寫法)
-13. 投稿前先徵求同事們的批評意見。"內定菁英制度"
-14. 每個人的寫作方式會略有不同。

II. 如何草擬並組織學樹計畫
III.製定寫作與研究筆記的準則
IV. 如何提交與推銷作品

Photo --- a piece of ..

-taken around the Natural Bridge, Yoho N. Park, BC, Canada

even a snipe of sweet memory 

always can make you keep moving 

in a tough predicament

Photo --- Cold Front

   
     15 degree centigrade with a bit of drizzle.
     NTHU, Taiwan
     Dec. 11, 2011.

Photo --- ***

Summer in Vancouver,

Winter of Taiwan ~

Photo --- those shit things

I don't think any efforts or ideas should deserve a sneer!!! 

The most ridiculous thing is one is in a situation of fit of pique (on the spur of the moment). 

Photo --- Nice Sunday

Redflower Loropetalum/ 紅花萬作

clips --- "Hair" and "Dui Bu Qi 對不起我的中文不好" / Transition 前進樂團

^^" hope no one would say "boo" to me .....

Horticulture --- 001 Propagation

I got one of my hobbies, horticulture, back recently. :)
The reason was ..... hm.... I don't remember that now ^_^"
Anyway, the topic is Why do I usually choice the non-efficiency way, sowing, to get a plant?

ha~
The process of sowing and germination is so interesting, isn't it?
And I can get some self-satisfaction through it.
To increase the probability of germination,
there are some pre-treating methods need to be applied,
like cold/warm stratification for simulating natural winter/spring conditions that seeds must endure
before germination, and  to soak seeds in particular solutions(hydrogen peroxide, ...), ...
Sometimes, you may need to use some pesticides to suppress fungus, insects, ...

Oh, by the way,
since some of plants I like are not available in my country,
sowing is the only way to get these kinda plants.

Another reason is we can collect seeds form threes directly or ask some nice guys to
send you some seeds and all you need to do is send him/her a stamped addressed envelope (s.a.e.) and
a ziplock.
Yap, the former is free and the other just spend you 10 bucks (for stamps).

Relating Links (of this bolg):
01: 栓皮櫟(Cork oak, Quercus variabilis Blume)
02: 檞櫟(Quercus aliena Blume)
03: 澳洲南方山毛櫸(Deciduous beech, Nothofagus gunnii)
04: 台灣櫸木(Taiwan Zelkova)
05: 落羽松(Southern cypress, Taxodium distichum)
06.

ps.
Vocabulary:
cutting: 扦插
layering: 嫁接
grafting: 接枝


 

Music --- Rhythm of the rain Cascades

Somehow,
I hummed this song when jogging in the drizzled-playground ~

"Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain,
Telling me just what a fool I've been, ..."



<Lyrics>


Rhythm of the rain   Cascades

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again

The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know that when she left that day
Along with her she took my heart

Rain please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care
I can't love another
when my heart's somewhere far away

Rain won't you tell her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to set her heart a glow
Rain in her heart and let the love with you start to grow


雨的節奏   瀑布合唱團

聽聽這雨的節奏
像是說我是個大傻瓜
但願雨能停下來，讓我無望的哭泣
也讓我再度孤單一人

我唯一關心的女孩已離我遠去
去尋找一個全新的開始
但她不知道她在離去的那一天
連我的心也帶走了

雨啊！請告訴我這樣公平嗎？
當她不在乎的時候，她偷走了我的心
我再也無法愛別人
當我的心仍在某個遙遠的地方

雨啊！能否告訴她我是如此愛她
請太陽讓她的心綻放光芒
讓你的愛在她的心中滋長

Movie --- LOL (Laughing Out Loud) /巴黎LOL 我的青春我的媽

IMDb:
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents.



【巴黎LOL：我的青春我的媽LOL (Laughing Out Loud)】


10月 開懷大笑，~榮獲歐洲喜劇電影大獎~歐洲超強賣座法國票房約9億台幣。
巴黎青少年校園裡外的，逐夢、分享、共同成長，的同窗友情與愛情。
正值青春叛逆期的女兒，和離婚低潮中的媽媽之間，衝突爭執日益惡化，
他們該如何找回曾經親密的母女情深?

電影簡介：
開學第一天，蘿菈(克莉絲塔‧特瑞特 飾)迫不及待和朋友重聚，但在這一天她卻與男友亞瑟分手了。蘿菈傷心欲絕，能了解她的只有馬耶(傑瑞米‧卡彭 飾)，而馬耶卻是亞瑟最要好的朋友，還是同一個樂團的夥伴。在這個手機、隨身聽和網路messenger無所不在的年代，蘿拉和她的朋友們用青少年的方式生活，使用夾雜火星文的網路語言交談，躲避他們面臨婚姻問題的父母們惱人的管教方式。
馬耶是個充滿天份的歌手，但嚴苛的父親卻不准他玩樂團，父子之間爭執不斷，暴躁的父親甚至摔壞他心愛的吉他，要求馬耶專心唸書。某日，父親又發現馬耶偷溜出去練團，氣沖沖地來到樂團表演的現場，準備大聲斥責……。蘿菈的母親安(蘇菲‧瑪索 飾)與前夫藕斷絲連，又與一個高階警官打得火熱，當她「不經意」地翻到女兒的日記時，才驚覺原來自己與女兒之間有如此大的代溝。然而，她們母女之間的隔閡，因為合力幫助馬耶完成音樂之夢而逐漸化解……

Photo --- Time Travel

I would like to go to the future,

to see what kinda life I will live in ...

想到未來看看

那時的我  繼續做著正在做的事的我

過著是怎樣的生活

Photo --- Correct? Outlier? Well-Behaved?

Depends on your point of view

一直以來，身邊總是不斷發生著
"某人強加自己的主觀意事(想法)到某人身上"
的戲碼；
我演過後者，也扮過後者...


因深體會後者之痛苦，
一直告誡自己: 己所不欲，勿施於人!
這似乎是我近期的做事原則(這又是另外好多故事的加總體會，有機會(?)再聊~)。


於是，我和房間裡的貓咪相望時，
猛發現，
如果接下來的日子裡，繼續保持"不強加自己意識到某A身上"
那要如何教導小朋友?
(我就是強加我的生活習慣到那隻可憐的貓咪之上)


教導與傳承本身就是在將自己的想法, 觀念, 甚至偏見灌輸至他人身上，
雖然，他不一定會接受，
但若"他人"恰處人格素造的重要時期(7~26歲)，
則可能一個細節都不遺漏的接受!
(接下來，要跳到父母對子女的教育自辯)


似乎，某種程度上，
我們可以將下一代引導向我們心中想要他們成為的那一類人，
透過精心設計的生活教育。
可惜的是，
多數父母總是過著自己已習慣的生活，
但，要求子女追求他們想要子女們過的生活，
(多數人認為的)更好的生活...


很多事，
大家都出於善意；
只是，
執行的方式值得再商討~
(我都管這叫"出於善意的惡")


執行的方式，
我想跟很多事情一樣，沒有對錯，
只有恰當與否。
就與我一路讀到博士，
我不知道這樣是好還是不好?
初中時期的夢想是成為生態觀察者與生態攝影學家，
現在做的是 Medical Physics
(真的不覺得自己能成為一個重要的學者，很多的努力，頂多成為一個普通的研究員)，
有蠻大的距離(smiling) 
(好險我覺得學習與研究事件很有趣的事，撇除很多伴隨而來的雜事的話)；
有那個環境的話，讓我從新選擇，
可能我會挑初中的那個吧...
即便比較辛苦的生活是意料中事，
"辛苦"的定義在每個個體間與每個環境裡都不一樣~
如何預期?


再回到教育這件事，
老實說，有一陣子我還蠻想去當黑手的。
當黑手有甚麼不好?
比較辛苦? 
我想"辛苦"這件事是由整個社會的集體意識加注在某些執業上造成的~
很不好意思是，我對那"集體意識"也有部分的貢獻!


大家都希望下一代或自己
往某個方向奔去，
去登那座本來就是自己不善長登的塔...
結果只是摔得一蹋糊塗，
除了攻頂失敗，更糟蹋自己與生俱來的能力及措施本應好好體會的生活!


別說我唱高調，
別叫我去做做某種職業試試...
隔行如隔山!
每種工作，都需要很長一的段時間去學習與練習，
要一個只會做研究的人去疊磚塊...
要一個菜燒得很好的人去管理一個國家...


To Be Continued~

perhaps... 

Photo --- 車窗外

YashicaFlex/TLR/Sold

似乎    開始有點了解，

當初  爺為何總是婉拒父親的好意，

喜歡(抑或堅持)要自己搭火車回南投老家。

在北上的車廂中，

一如往常，隨意往窗外望去...

除了田裡作物會依四季有些許變化外

房子, 樹木, 土地公廟...

甚至田野裡小小身影上的些許色彩，

也無甚改變，

一樣的鐵馬與野狼，一樣的，一樣的...

Camera --- Proxar Close-Up Lens

這Close-Up Lens 買來好幾個月了，

雖然 Jasmine 拿給我當天就拿他當 model 拍了好多張照片，

但一直還沒有掃片掃到那一份 ^^"

前天為了去烏來幾個部落的一張合照(Orz 底片吃奶油)

就先掃了這捲黑白嘍~

看起來接 close-up lens 的結果蠻符合預期的：

對影像的影響(contrast, resolution, 透光性)並不顯著~

^++++^

Music --- 好久不見/棉花糖

比起錄音室版本，

我更喜歡這種有點背景聲的錄音，多了點時空的印記；

背景裡的鐘聲讓我想起去年在布達佩斯教堂前的鐘聲~

那咚噹鐘聲響了好久好久... 

 我們就坐在廣場邊椅子上，拿出麵包與開水配著它感受祂與享受它~

Vancouver Day 3-10: PCL, to Victoria

Gloominess

Vancouver Day 3-9: Aquarium,Stanley Park

those sweaty Memories are usually 

Blurred and Dazzled ---

people try to hold that with cameras,

but just bury them in another way, eventually.

Vancouver Day 3-8: Stanley Park<< Autumn

Autumn

really is the season of Sentiment

of Fall

Vancouver Day 3-7: Stanley Park

Perhaps we could launch out  some day,
Let's toast and cheer to our Voyage~

Vancouver Day 3-6: Hotel Burtchar

So, we could stand in front the window

and greet the dawn

Vancouver Day 3-5: Granville Island

"DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE ON THE BUS"

I LIKE THIS SLOGAN!!!

Vancouver Day 3-4: Gastown

HUMANS USUALLY FORGET 

THERE IS ALWAYS ONE ANOTHER WAY 

FOR THEM

AND JUST COLLIDE HASTILY

Japanese TV Series: 在世界中心呼喚愛

I saw this TV series when I was a college student.

There were lots of touched, romantic plots in the story.

I have been looked for files of the series.

Today, I got them!!! (dancing)

  

Vancouver Day 3-3: The Public Market, Granville Market

The singer's voice is wonderful, 

especially  when she was singing for the lovable little-girl. 

I love this scene, 

because the mom was dancing with her daughter 

with a wonderful and happy song~ 

What a great moment~

Vancouver Day 3-2: Around the Public Market, Granville Island

a small ferry dock

These glasses were beer-bottles.

What a brilliant idea!

I've lots of bottles of wine, whiskey, beer, ... (smile)

Hope I could do similar work one day. 

I really love this kinda of colorful, crowed( & organized) bulletin board.

Vancouver Day 3-1: Typewriter, Granville Island

Since years ago, I always want to buy a manual typewriter~

Till this trip, I had an experience to play a typewriter in a interesting store! 

I love it, absolutely~~~

I even asked a clerk where could buy a typewriter at the moment. 

Unfortunately, she had no idea about it!

Just told me that perhaps I could find them in antique stores~

And on the next day of the day I played the typewriter in this store,

I saw a poet, 

who used his typewriter to write poems for customers~

Ha, that's the last straw!

On that street, the Government St. in Victoria, at the moment,
I decided to buy myself a typewriter!!!

Now, I have to typewriters (greed, sigh~).

One is Olivetti Lettera 32,

the other is Adler Tippa S in cursive font.

I guess the cursive plate was transplanted from some other typewriters, 

since all information I have fond on Goolge indicates that there 

were no typewriters in cursive font were produced by the manufacturer.

Anyway, I love the cursive font!

My letters look more romantic with it.

I will take some photos of them and share with you~ (dancing)

Vancouver Day 3-1: Granville Island

around a bus stop

Vancouver Day 2-10: Night in Gastown

The day we came back form northern Vancouver,
the sunlight just sank,
we decided to visit Gastown again,
to enjoy its another face at night~

without crowed tourists,
the street looked so peaceful,
and the air smelled even fresher~

sitting in a cafe,
sipping coffee occasionally,
talking with friends,
or just writing down anything blowing over your mind....
that's life!

Vancouver Day 2-9: Lonsdale Quay Place & Seabus

Lonsdale Quay Place

around Lonsdale Quay port

 around Lonsdale Quay port

Seabus

Vancouver Day 2-8: Capilano Park

Vancouver Day 2-7-2: Capilano Suspension Bridge

Vancouver Day 2-7-1: Capilano Suspension Bridge

Vancouver Day 2-6: Capilano Park: Totem Pole

you can see lots of Totem Poles in different places/parks in this city

I prefer Stanley Park's Totem Poles,

and the photos will be posted on later.... :)

Vancouver Day 2-5: Mt. Grouse: Lumbering Show

another show started when we left for visiting grizzly bears.

we are passengers for those actors,

as they are for the mountain,

as I am for my advisers,

as whole of us for the earth,

as the earth for galaxies and universities.

we live in a world consists of passengers...

Reminiscence: Croissanta

last night,

in a dinner party,

we talked about the experience about our travels...

sweet memory!

and swore we'd do that again, again, and again~ 

illusion!!!!

taken in the HOSTEL WOMBAT, VIENNA. Oct, 2010

灰濛濛的天，剛結束陣雨的的橋上；

望著民族路邊的八五大樓後第陸秒，

終於，發現它是壹零壹；

蒙著灰暗顏色建築物群中猛然出現突兀鮮的綠公寓，

意識又飄到了二零零一年十月的布拉格街上...

飄著，在那段甜美回憶裡，飄著~

Vancouver Day 2-4: Mt. Grouse

Lumbering Show