Driving from within

Monday, May 29, 2006

How would it look like after several years?

Like this?




Sunday, May 28, 2006

My team of rowing (I said so, because it's part of the rowing team ) started training today.

Hope that there's no more injury, no more sick.

I would be happy if they can concentrate everyday like today.

Seeing them concentrated, then I would feel satisfied (on this aspect). Maybe I would forget other things, or I would feel other things not important. That's why I may have ignored some people by no means. Suddenly, I thought of not treating my ex-gf well during the summer, because I may have ignored her during those days.

Whatever the reason I remembered this kind of things, I feel guilty.

It means something that it doesn't take it granted others would appreciate what you were doing, because those were not the aspect they concerned. On the other hand, it means you should not think too big that you did well in one aspect implies you would do well in another aspect.

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Not so optimistic on the result of the interview actually.

But anyway, I tried my best...

Really thanks my boss for giving me advice and supporting me.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

付出型(和藹慷慨,富同情心)
您是外向、快樂、活力充沛、友善、自信、討人歡心,尤其是樂於助人。您自願為他人提供時間、精力及物質,而且您所贈送的禮物總是經過精心挑選。您的世界是以人際關係為主,面對別人的需要和感覺有天生的同理心,能調整自己以迎合他人的需要。甚至更徹底地成為別人想要認識的那種人。您會因應不同的人而有不同的表玩,卻不帶任何欺騙成分。

優點:您會給他人無條件的愛,讓人覺得溫暖。對別人和善,並且經常給別人鼓勵。

缺點:當人們對您的不斷付出不以為意,或是視而不見時,您會表達出強度足以震驚他人的情緒或憤怒。

愛情:專注於一對一的關係,一旦選定和某個人交往,會以精心設計又而深具誘惑的手段攻擊目標,直至「追到手」為止。

您對自己能讓人人都想和您成為情人的能力感到洋洋得意。「我能讓每個男人感覺自己就像個國王,即使只是共處一夜。我能讓他因為我拿酒杯的特定方式,就永遠都忘不了我。若這是一段較為長期的關係,我會深入調查他所喜歡的一切,驅使這個人上癮。」

安定方位:自我型在安定的狀態下您會增強情緒的一面,有從親密關係中抽身而出的傾向。

壓力方位:挑戰型當面對感情的壓力或情緒對抗時,您會變得專制、易怒,最後勃然大怒。不願遭受控制的慾望會擴大至對自由的渴望,為了維護自己的立場,以平常不曾表現過的方式去抗拒他人的要求。

建意:注意個人的成就及價值告訴別人您的需要,並讓他們為您而做注意「多重人格」的衝突

最渴望:被愛,被別人需要
最恐懼:孤獨,不被喜愛
最難達到的美德:謙卑 (Humility)
最難克服的執念:奉承 (Flattery)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

It seems to be me that the interview this Friday is like playing the game "The Apprentice".

You gotta say why you 're better than the others, or why others should be fired.....

Cruel.

And it's less funny that there's no gesture from Mr Trump, seeing his mouth moving while he said "You 're fired".

Saturday, May 20, 2006

This week, the mood is just like the HSI. Even it went up a little bit above the baseline, but eventually it lost the support and dropped to the bottom. It is the greatest drop within this half year.

My friend got injured by the slipping near the pontoon and being cut by the oyster shells on Thursday. And he got a deep cut at his foot. Frankly, I can see the bone inside.

After being sent to the hospital and had the operation, he is fine now. But before the doctor said two tendons are seriously injured, with one broken, and another teared.

I feel very sorry to him, and also to his family. Being a coach of them, I should be careful in every situation. Even I cannot guarantee their safety by just reminding them, I think something can be prevented if I reminded them.

I remembered before the accident, there's suddenly a thought came up in my mind and went away quickly, that it maybe a bit dangerous to walk down there on THAT DAY. I just didn't catch this thought and think about it. I think I really gotta make the best use of my sense.

Also, I really got no mood to go to the wedding banquet of my cousin.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Can't bear the i-cable anymore, so I terminated the service of i-cable broadband.

Frankly, the customer service of i-cable is not really good at all. It's enough to mention where I returned the modem. When I got to the building in Sheung Wan during the lunch time, there was even no sign to show it's the place, unless I remember the room number.
The typhoon really disappeared quickly. While lastnight, there was still strong wind from time to time, or it's gust actually.

But today, it's totally different. So good to see the sun again, and there 's the voice of birds and 蟬.

Remember in the motion picture version of "Touch", the back is the hot summer, so there's backdrop of 蟬 voice. So when hearing the sound, I feel like in the hot summer. It implies a good time to move and sweat, though it's not needed to sweat as much as I did.....

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

So good that I had lunch with my boss.

Thanks him for giving me some advice and ran with me some evaluation for the coming interview!

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

So good that the washing machine was fixed last Sat. Thanks to the technician, the washing machine is even better than when it's bought. At least, I never see the water going into the machine so quick as before. It only took around thirty-something minutes to finish washing!

This made me feel more independent, cos at least, I dun have to depend on my family to wash my clothes. I hate bringing clothes back home to wash. It made me like a worm.
What 's downward compatible?

Monday, May 15, 2006

Did I let others disappointed?

I think so, including to my parents, my friends, and my ex-gf.

To my parents, especially to my dad, he used to get angry for I spent so much time on the sports of rowing and the team. Now that I am thinking I should spend less time on it, he seems like doesn't care anymore. I dunno if it's because he saw me finally got his message, or he already didn't care. However, he seems to forget that I am at certain age. With my cousin getting married this Sat, he said "the kids will handle the gift". "Kids" means I am included, wth.

To my ex-gf, though she just complained I didn't treat her well once or twice, but already I think I really didn't treat her good enough..... so sorry... no matter we match or not, but it's the issue of myself who didn't treat her well, maybe it's due to rowing also...

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Thursday, May 11, 2006

The world is flat? The life is short?

If we divide our lives into ten years, we can see that there won't be many ten years before our retirement (if you want to retire). So actually our lives are short. A company may be successful because it can maintain a long-term relationship with certain number of customers. Similarly, our lives may be stable and worry-free because we made certain number of correct decisions.

Of course, the companies cannot see who are the long-term customers, and similarly we cannot see which decision we made is the most significant one to our lives. If we are so sure about everything in the future, it means we already know our future, and actually that's the end of our lives, so why bother to live longer?

That's why the companies have to see every customer as the potential long-term customers, and we have to be careful in making every decision as it may be the most significant.

Though there are so many predictions related to many aspects of our lives, before we know the truth, we still have to let go and see. That's the excitement of life.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Like to read 信報 these days. Just when I thought I can buy it at night, I found there's none nearby my home. So I felt a little bit desparate.

Like to read the columns of 曹仁超, 孔少林, 方卓如. Like the way they talk about the economic situations. Also, the column of 今(or 每?)日美語.
Sometimes, I really wanna get drunk. It's good (at least not bad) to get drunk sometimes, if not deep drunk.
心情還是一般一般,

近來多了一樣嗜好, 就係玩 eBay (嗜好!?) . 賣下野, 答下買家既問題, 搵下potential buyer, 都幾過癮. 今日要去郵局寄兩件貨.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Really not smooth these days.

Washing machines failed (just when I think it's really good after using it for 8 years without failure!),

Not able to do what I want,

Keep being challenged,

Keep being discouraged,

Shit, the colleague got sick but she had to do talking all the time, seems like she's spreading the virus around the office, such that I feel sorethroat right now.

What the hell.

Monday, May 08, 2006

The Hang Seng Index today is 172xx...

It's a bit scaring as it rised so much these days, even though the newspaper kept saying there's no sign that the market was too hot.

Every time thinking that that 's the end of the rise, every time there's even a higher peak.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Friday, May 05, 2006

Finished reading the book "Rich dad's Before you quit your jobs".

It talked about how come there's the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad", actually it's just a product for promoting the game the author designed!

But what it talked about is quite right, gradually I think it's quite important to learn the skill of selling.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Though getting the related qualifications is for the employers to certify you, it's also for benchmarking yourself. Like I would take the rowing competitions once in a while to see how I am comparing to others, this is just a benchmarking process. So why shouldn't I take the related qualifications certification? This is a benchmarking for myself!

The colleagues around got one or two IT qualifications. And just knew that the project manager of our team just took the exam of PMP. This gives me some motivation to get some qualifications.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Reading the book "Rich dad's before you quit your job" and "The world is flat", it made me wonder: seems everyone should go through the stage of being a sales (推銷員), no matter what the ultimate career you want is.