星期一, 8月 28, 2006

飛來橫禍?

上個星期和可愛的安妮去了台灣玩耍,出發前大家都認為這將是一個令人難忘的旅程,不過...沒有像現在這般難忘.

就讓我娓娓道來吧:

旅程的第一天:
抵達高雄.飛機窗外的景色其實頗為乏善足陳,跟我想像中的台南城市形象倒是相當符合.


















腳踏實地的感覺和飛機上的確不同,高雄給我最深的感覺是...交通混亂...
滿街都是機車,和十年前大陸滿街都是自行車的景象相差不遠
最大的問題是似乎都沒有甚麼人在遵守交通規則,紅燈他也動,綠燈他也動.
看來我是能寫出<車潮>來了 =.=
















話說回來,在這個城市裡走走倒相當賞心悅目,因為生活節奏慢上不少(機車的速度除外)
走到市民會堂前,也能見到這樣的搞鬼poster呢! 
香港政府是不可能用這樣的設計的!





















我忍不住也想Orz 一下呢! XD

逛逛走走, 我們就到了著名(?)的六合夜市,
其實私底下以為, 台灣最出名的還是基本上每個城市都翻版出一個來的夜市.
就好像香港的女人街, 沒有來過的話就不算來過香港, 台灣的夜市亦然.
東西還算好, 算是頗美味的, 有相為證:
甚麼甚麼?...相中那個裝模作樣的怪叔叔? 這個...口胡!!! 受死吧!




















旅程第二天:

今天去佛光山. 很著名的佛教聖地, 而且離高雄也不算遠, 1個多小時的車程而已.
這裡給人的感覺其實相當入世, 也印證了佛教這一世俗宗教的本像.
我印象最深的是無所不在的佛光茶, 當你走了一段路, 感到口干舌燥的時候, 就會有一個免費的茶水供應點等著你. 這種程度的體貼可不是一般旅遊點想到的.
這是在山門留的倩影: 這是飛天的姿勢嘛? 好像有點差異耶...














上圖乃翻版
































此乃正版 =.=

有鑒於純粹發佈女孩子的照片有欠風度, 附上本人玉照一張, 以示公允





















雖說是佛門聖地, 但印象最深刻的反而不是那些金碧輝煌的佛像, 而是像這樣的寫意環境:
我和安妮都為此而懾服呢
正是 疏影橫斜水清淺 暗香浮動月黃昏
好詩, 好詩.
看看她拍下的佳作吧 :D




















佛光山一游令人印象深刻, 雖說難免有點刻意營造的出世情懷, 但畢竟人文的關懷還能令人感動.
可是下午的景點就有點令人皺眉, 因為縈繞 在景點周圍的是揮之不去的斧鑿痕跡.
下面的是龍虎塔, 游人被建議從龍口(右塔) 進入, 從虎口(左塔)出去.
塔內的壁畫是些地獄景象和聖賢圖. 這跟虎豹別墅毫無二至.
所以看起來興味索然.















比較起來, 楊柳美女圖更加吸引一些:D




















晚上嘛...游愛河. 氣氛還好, 只是河岸兩邊沒有甚麼可以看的上演的建築物.















當天印象最深的甚麼? 佛光山? 也對, 不過風光秀麗也在估計之中.
我最記得的, 反而是這個:




















是酒店樓下賣的小甜品呀 :P
好好味! 當天最大驚喜!!

旅程第三天

此次去台南, 最大的心願還是陽光與海灘, 墾丁呀!!!!
好野!!!

所謂仁者樂山, 智者樂海. 下海前還是享受一下山林的陶冶吧.
原始森林耶 @@




















所謂...樂極生悲, 就是這樣:
















車禍受傷, 左腿三處骨折....
就這樣, 我的台南之旅...就這樣了...我的陽光與海灘...

後續
跟著的幾天只能在旅店裡呆著, 連一粒沙子都沒有見過...
幸好有安妮無微不致的照顧, 才令這幾天沒那麼難過
m(_ _)m

下一次!!! 下一次一定不會這麼失策的!!
我要和妳一起去另外的陽光與海灘來彌補這次的遺憾!

星期一, 8月 07, 2006

Baby?

Got this somewhere on the web. It makes me to think alot, what about you? ;)

20 Reasons Not to Have Children

  1. Birth. Imagine pushing a grapefruit through your anus. Imagine it taking ten hours. Imagine that after ten hours of trying to push a grapefruit through your anus and failing that doctors cut a big hole in your belly to remove the grapefruit. Don't believe anyone who says that they forget all about it in a few months.
  2. Responsibility. All of life's prior responsibilities pale in comparison. If you decide to have a child, that new person must absolutely be your top priority. As your child will remind you when he or she is older and something goes wrong, "I didn't ask to be born." A child is a life long commitment to a person who is innocent of this choice.
  3. Diapers. Disposable diapers these days absorb lots of liquid, and they don't leak. But you still have to change hundreds of them. Often they contain more than liquid. As the child gets older, diapers become smellier and bigger tasks. Then there is toilet training, with its inevitable setbacks and accidents.
  4. 3am wakeups. Caring for a child takes a lot of physical and emotional energy, made all the harder by babies that only sleep for ninety minutes at a time. Many parents of much older children seem to forget how hard the first few months were as they look at the past with rose colored glasses. Don't believe them. Parents need sleep to work well, and they often can't get it.
  5. Hard on marriages. A baby takes so much time and attention that spouses must already have a great friendship and work well together before the baby arrives. It is a certainty that one spouse will disagree with the other about decisions on how to care for the child. It is likely that one spouse will resent the lost time with the other. A marriage with some difficulties will get much worse when a baby is crying and the parents are sleep deprived.
  6. Advice. Total strangers leap forward to offer advice about how to raise your child. Most of the advice is contradictory and flat out wrong. Strangers will be much easier to ignore than your friends and family, many of whom have raised children quite successfully. Some advice you may want, but lots of it will be unsolicited and unappreciated.
  7. Changed relationships. When your family expands by the addition of a child, your relationships with everyone, and I mean everyone, changes. Your child is at the forefront of most of your thoughts, and those people without children cannot relate. Those people with children are finally happy to see that you can relate. Everyone will watch how you raise your child and will at some point cluck and disapprove, including those who raised ten children and those who raised none. Some strong bonds will weaken, some friends will not been seen again. Some may improve, but with your energies and devotions directed towards your child, that is much less likely.
  8. Free time. You will have none. Most time not spent with your child will be spent catching up on work you need to get done. You and your spouse must carefully plan any time away from your child, and very little can be done spontaneously. To pretend otherwise is probably neglectful of either your child or your spouse.
  9. Worry. Parents always worry about their children, monitoring how fast they reach each milestone and how well they grow, eat, sleep, crawl, walk, read, make friends, and so on. And yet there is little a parent can do beyond allow a child to proceed at his or her own pace. It can be frustrating and scary when your child isn't eating well, or cannot read at his or her grade level, or is socially inept.
  10. Money. Children are expensive in several ways. One parent loses wages while caring for a child. Children need to eat and be clothed. They need toys with which to explore the world. They need health care, they need education, they need activities and hobbies. They will need car insurance. The proper raising of a child is not cheap.
  11. Laundry. Children do not contribute to household chores until they are older, and even then they generate more work than labor. Having a child means that your living space will need more cleaning than before, not only as your child makes a mess of it but also because you cannot let your child crawl around in dust and dirt. Your child will find all sorts of vile things to put in his or her mouth in the cleanest of homes. Your laundry and dishes will double, and you will do all the picking up after your child for many years.
  12. Tantrums. Many times you will tell your child that they cannot have what they want, and they will scream to get you to change your mind. You will need to avoid saying "no" as much as possible, but then stick to your decision when you do. Otherwise you will encourage tantrums. However, younger children cry because that is the only way they have to express themselves, and you need to be attentive. It becomes difficult judging when a child is having a serious problem and when he or she is having a tantrum. Tantrums are not just for two-year-old children, they will continue for years in many different forms as your child will attempt to change your mind. At some point children figure out how to get what they want despite you, and that opens another can of worms.
  13. Rebellion. Children need to assert their independence and individuality. All will feel stifled in some way by their parents or other authority figures, and they will attempt to subvert the dominant hegemony. Didn't you? It usually isn't pretty.
  14. Dissonance. Lots of adults do not get along with their parents. Perhaps they forget all the work that their parents put into raising them, or perhaps they resent that the work that their parents did was not enough. At some point your child will probably be very angry with you, and may even hate you for years. This is not uncommon, and you know it because you can name a dozen people who don't get along with their own parents.
  15. Pain. Your child will cry and you won't know why or how to fix it. You will mess up and let your child get hurt. You won't be there and your child will get hurt. Your child will get really sick. Your child will fail at something and feel humiliated and worthless. Guaranteed. The world is a hard place on everyone, especially small, naive, fragile people.
  16. 6 billion. The world is already overpopulated. Do you really have to add to it? Do not answer this question lightly. Every new human draws on our limited resources, tramples over previously undamaged land, creates more waste, and accelerates worldwide instability.
  17. Failed expectations. You may expect your child to be interested in things that fascinate you, and then be disappointed. You may be brilliant and your child may be dull. You may be athletic, unhappy to discover that your child has trouble walking a straight line. Your child may abandon your religion or main beliefs. Your child may grow up to be someone you have very little in common with. In fact, your child will definitely not be a little version of you. Any thoughts about what kind of person you want your child to be are wasted thoughts, and probably detrimental.
  18. Lost freedom. People without children can easily pack up and move. They can be without work or change careers. They can break up with their partners and find new ones. Children, while often flexible, must be accounted for in all major life changes. In fact, they demand that the world not change around them so fast while their own understanding of the world grows and changes at the same time. Stability and routine allows a child to explore life from a vantage of safety and consistency. You must be willing to give your child such stability at the cost of your own freedom.
  19. Hard work. Raising a child takes more than love and time. You must concentrate on all methods of communication that your child attempts so that you may properly understand his or her needs and wants. You must introduce your child to new stimulation and situations regularly. You have to figure out best ways to teach your child at each age, what to teach them, and when to teach. You must be available and responsive to your child even when you are tired or sad or very busy.
  20. The unthinkable. The death of a child, while unlikely, is devastating. It often destroys marriages, as both spouses need comfort that the other cannot provide. Frequently one parent will blame the other. So much emotion, time, and energy gets poured into a child that to lose it all at once is crippling. Many well meaning people say hurtful and stupid things in a misguided attempt to help. This is one case where it is better to not have loved at all than to have loved and lost.

10 Reasons to Have Children

  1. They're cute. In fact, your own child is adorable. Every sigh, every laugh, every motion is bliss. You fall in love with them.
  2. Re-experiencing childhood. Regardless of how good your own childhood was, your child allows you to vicariously relive childhood. Usually it's much better the second time around, when you have all the wisdom of age but can enjoy the energy of youth. Playing with a two-year-old feels like being two years old again.
  3. Learning. Watching your child learn is fascinating and fun. Each new skill or idea or word learned is a little victory. If you watch carefully, you will see that something new is discovered or conquered every single day. Your child will need to learn a lot from you, as he or she starts without much knowledge at all except for perfect sense of his or her feelings. While you are busy teaching your child about practical aspects of the world, your child will be teaching you emotional sensitivity. The active teaching and learning process is rewarding and fulfilling.
  4. Reflection. Everything that you already can do probably take for granted, but your child will remind you that all those skills had to be learned. It reminds you of how far you have come in life, and shows you the sorts of difficulties you probably had when you were your child's age. Your child will also notice things that you have long since filtered out. I didn't realize how many birds there were outside my house until my daughter showed me.
  5. Reincarnation. Your genetic makeup is a small part of your identity. More important are your ideas, beliefs, manners, and stories. All of these things will be taken up by your child and then changed around. Your child will never be a clone of yourself, fortunately, but instead will be a new variation of you and the other people that raise him or her. If you like yourself then this is very satisfying.
  6. Socializing. Every society has a subculture for people who raise children. At every age you can find people also raising a child in a similar situation. You can make many new friends with whom you have a lot in common. The comradely and shared experiences ease some difficulties.
  7. Control. You must not tell other people how to raise their own children. However, if you raise your own child, you get to do it your way, which you presumably believe is the right way. People might disagree with your methods, but if you have thought at great length about it--and you should if you plan on having a child--then you probably have good reasons for all the decisions you will have to make. When you find that your methods are not perfect, which you will, you can change them appropriately.
  8. Adoption. There are lots of children in the world without parents. Adopting a child is an excellent way to greatly improve the life of someone who would have a very hard time otherwise.
  9. Entertainment. Children have lots of energy and can be lots of fun. They develop imaginations, a sense of humor, and lots of excitement. Little kid laughs are infectious. Playing with children is very enjoyable.
  10. Love. You are the center of your child's world, and as much as you may love and need your child, he or she will love you more. Children that are shown love and affection show it back many times over.

星期五, 8月 04, 2006

憂耶,喜耶?

最近在做某大型銀行的 tax provision, 親身的感受永遠比雜誌上的知識切身得多。
人說國内各銀行不良資產繁多,内部管理混亂且賬目不清,真的如此嗎?
以一個年營業額為100億人民幣的銀行來説,不良資產居然有500億之多,不可不謂觸目驚心!

可是什麽叫危機? 這個銀行在今年6月份的時候進行了不良資產的剝離。所謂剝離,就是將這批不良資產統統賣給第三方的大型資產管理中心。 如此的話,就能擺脫這一大筆不良資產。
這不可不謂大刀闊斧,但是成效如何?

我不知道,因爲我們現在正在見證中國轉型期的歷史性時刻。是成是敗,歷史自有公論。我
們能做的,就是為這些一個又一個大膽的行動呐喊助威吧 :D