siem reap, cambodia
感覺就像是幾十年前的台灣
兩隻黃牛拖著的牛車
倒吊著一車的雞等著去市場賣
高架的木屋為了躲避酷熱的天氣和雨季
無際的稻田
自然的日晒稻米
很難想像在幾千年前
也許從八或九世紀開始
吳哥王朝就開始挖運河水道
把沙岩石塊打洞然後串上木棍
用水道把石材運到定點
堆積然後雕刻
從建築的數量和精細的建築雕刻
可想而知當時的榮景
不過最詭異的是這個王朝就消失了
這些建築被叢林淹沒
而石塊堆中似乎因為這些植物又有了生機
真酷
這地方也是算是once in a life time 那種吧
11/17-21/2008柬埔寨
10/26-28/2008花蓮
再次去了花蓮
這次去跟以往很不一樣
自己坐上火車才發現原來花蓮離台北好近
兩小時半就是:
沒有烏煙瘴氣的擁擠交通
好山好水和便宜的生活費
真是不錯的地方
雖然這兩天不幸有下點雨
不過很涼爽
也真正很讓人放鬆
坐在全家的落地窗前看著外面的雨滴下來
還真有一種就是我家的感覺
真不錯
feeling lucky
... just a recent feeling.
it's like a fact, been there for too long to let one realize it is there.
i am physically fine so i can accomplish dreams without a doubt.
i know people who love me and they are being supportive.
i am taught to be hard working and to be smart.
i learn to be social and know this world in an young age.
i am lucky.
i am feeling lucky, and i know i am.
life tips
Taleb's top life tips1 Scepticism is effortful and costly.
It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
2 Go to parties.
You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity.
If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
3 It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie.
If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified.
Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
5 Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time.
We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet.
Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly.
Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.
7 Avoid losers.
If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
Never take 'no' for an answer (conversely, take most 'yeses' as 'most probably').
8 Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors).
The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW.
You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones.
Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
-by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable)
culture shock
很久很久以前在大家說英語那種雜誌上學到這個字
culture shock
一年前第一天去新學校都要緊張死了
花了將近一個月習慣教授的波蘭口音
用別人兩倍以上的時間待在實驗室把作業完成
然後然後
就這樣過了一年
很不想說"回來"這個字
花了一點時間適應了我住了十幾年的小房間
多一點的時間適應這個天氣
還要更多的時間適應這裡的擁擠
(是不是得了一種人很多就會不舒服的病?)
去了三年的學校現在只讓我覺得厭煩
看到這些嘴臉就只有一個念頭
you can't lie to a lier because of all the lies.
原來在自己以為熟悉不過的地方
可以讓我覺得這麼陌生
我一定是生病了
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