2010年12月28日 星期二

回來去台灣:第一天晚餐 - 彭園!

這次與港妹老婆安排回台灣一個禮拜!Ya!

一個禮拜前就訂好了來回機票,不少香港親友一直驚訝我們怎麼還訂的到票,可是我不覺得有問題啊,台灣早已經是港人度假熱門地點之一了。這次是放假,想要輕輕鬆鬆悠哉的出發所以不想太早趕路去機場,就訂了長榮下午三點多鐘回台灣的班機,波音777,整天幾十航班但是就只有這班是777,以前做過747的,但是覺得好老舊,所以試試 777,還是一樣老老的裝潢,但是椅子寬敞,前後距離也夠,我的膝蓋頂不到前面椅子喲!想起我雪梨來回香港的 Virgin Atlantic 班機簡直就是噩夢。

 

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打字到這裡突然覺得我這次勞軍(探親!!)好像燒臘吃的不多耶。覺得好餓。

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算是蠻典型的冬天下午天氣,朦朦的。

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晚餐是彭園!!!我期待很久!

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頭盤 - 走山雞 - 土雞,其實是吃飼料的。

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拼盤!豬肝(豬潤),還有一個好像是鵝肉,龍蝦沙拉還有涼拌海蜇皮及沙西米(魚生)

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IMG_0751同一晚隔壁有明星耶,老牌本土演員石英被偷拍。

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現在好餓,當時卻沒什麼胃口覺得很飽,所以吃得好少,現在想起覺得好可惜。

2010年10月29日 星期五

Are you Positive or Negative?


Read this

LET IT REALLY SINK IN......

THEN CHOOSE
 



John is the kind of guy you love to hate.   He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.  When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!'


He was a natural motivator.


If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.



Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!'



'You can't be a positive person all of the time.
How do you do it?' 



He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have
 two choices today.  You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood


I choose to be in a good mood.'


Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it.  I choose to learn from it.



Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or...I can point out the positive side of life.  I choose the positive side of life.


'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.


'Yes, it is,' he said.  'Life is all about choices.  When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.  You choose how you react to situations.  You choose how people affect your mood.


You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.  The bottom line:  It's your choice how you live your life.'


I reflected on what he said.  Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business.  We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.


Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.



After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.



I saw him about six months after the accident.


When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?'



I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.



'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied.  'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices:  I could choose to live or...I could choose to die.  I chose to live.'


'Weren't you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?'  I asked.


He continued, '...the paramedics were great.



They kept telling me I was going to be fine.  But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.  In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'.  I knew I needed to take action.'



'What did you do?' I asked.


'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John.  'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.'  The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.  I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity''



Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live.  Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'


He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude....I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. 



Attitude, after all, is everything
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.'  Matthew 6:34.



After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 

2010年10月26日 星期二

誰知盤中飧 粒粒皆幸苦

 

鋤禾日當午

汗滴禾下土

誰知盤中飧

粒粒皆辛苦

           --李紳,憫農詩

今日繼續節食計劃,午餐菜單是蘇打餅乾兩片及一罐 yoghourt (酸奶?)。正在細細品嚐我的酸奶之際就說了一句『這時候可以體會到誰知盤中飧的那種感覺了。』

剛講完,坐隔壁的高妹就恥笑地糾正我,『是誰知盤中餐啦。』,然後整首詩就背出來聽。

媽的,我是國中沒畢業,但是咱們在台灣正體中文教學文化及傳統裡面也還有那麼一點印象,要不然那知道是飧(sun)還是餐(can),何況發音不同,哪裡能隨便捏造出來。

我說:是嗎,明明是飧(那時還不知道詩裡面那個字是怎麼寫的)。結果高妹居然很有把握似的要跟我打賭。輸人不輸陣,who 驚 who,反正只是賭一杯酸奶,而且是我今早千挑萬選優惠價半價買的 Dairy Farmers 99% Fat Free 加 60% less sugar Creamy Cherry 口味的酸奶。(難怪半價,沒肥沒糖,什麼都比別人少。)

因為一口氣,馬上用不同的關鍵字 google 這首詩。還真有問題,中國大陸網站的通常是用誰知盤中『餐』,台灣香港是誰知盤中『飧』。到底誰對誰錯?當然直覺就是維持傳統文化正宗的台灣中文是對的啦,但是為了要讓中國大學畢業的高妹心服口服,我還是要她承認 『飧』 字才是正確的。

因此這個上午一個小時左右,銀行付我薪水讓我研究學習了這首詩,及為何有此爭議。

我們一起複習一下,

飧,羅馬拼音 sun 注音是 XXX (你們都應該知道),與『孫』同音。Yahoo字典的英文翻譯就是 Evening Meal,就是晚餐的意思。

整首詩的意境,應該是晚飯的意思比較傳神。我看一大堆專家的解釋,精華就是這麼一句。另一個主要的結論就是,大陸人說的:先認同是飧沒錯,但是因為使用簡體字的關係,正體中文裡的飧給變成了餐了,或是簡繁互換的時候,就變成了餐了。還有一個說法就是飧算稀有字,所以用餐字來取代,什麼跟什麼啊!結果中國大陸的中文課本都變成『誰知盤中餐』。

詩意怎麼可以亂改,明明作者的意思就是晚餐。這也是教中文字的一種機會教育啊,雖然我不認為我會用的這個字啦。

媽!我的飧呢?!媽可能會說,等你先跟豬玲玲生個兒子再說!

2010年8月21日 星期六

2010年8月21日澳洲聯邦大選

今日醒來的第一件事就是先去把澳洲公民的義務與權力拿出來實踐一下 - 澳洲聯邦大選投票。這是義務哦,不只是公民的權力而已,個人非常支持把投票當作是一種公民義務,不爽的是要佔用我寶貴假日週六的一點時間,雖然如此它還是一件有意義的事,就算故意要投廢票的話,它也是有意義的,就是代表不爽。要是能有補假的話就更完美了。

天氣超好,春天應該快來了,還是有點涼意但是已經溫暖許多了。決定要用走的去投票,難得會走『這麼遠這麼久』,大概走不到10分鐘到路口的中學禮堂投票。上次州議會選舉開車去,投票後在停車場塞車十幾分鐘,所以這次為了保護地球,我們用走的去。

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果然好多車,不過沒想像的多。

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入口擺了各黨候選人的海報。這次自由黨居然推出 John Alexander 來我們這個選區?!John Alexander 是澳洲老牌有名的職業網球選手,應該是三十年前的事吧,他一直是電視轉播網球比賽的評論員。他要對決現任代表工黨的前國家電視台ABC新聞主播或記者 Maxine McKew,算是氣質熟女吧,這位阿姨成功代表工黨拉下擔任總理十幾年的 John Howard ,這個選區過去一直都是自由黨的票倉,直到上一次大選被工黨攻下。這次鹿死誰手就真的很難說了。對上次自由黨傳統票倉易手的評論不少,一個就是選民思變,自由黨已經執政十幾年了,雖然這十幾年澳洲各方面都還不錯,另一個說法就是這個選區的人口結構已經不同,移民人口增加所以對保守的自由黨的支持比例自然下降。whatever… 都有可能。

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我印象中沒有因為投票要排這麼長這麼久的隊。進到禮堂後就去領票。

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領票的時候呢就是告訴工作人員名字地址,他們通常不會查身份的。我就直接告訴她我叫什麼名字然後地址是哪裡,她直接就給我兩張票,也沒要看什麼證件。兩張票中綠色小張是眾議院的票,列著當地選區候選人名單,有10個候選人的話,要在每個候選人的方格裡填上個人支持優先順序,填上從1到10,要不然就是廢票。

白色長長長票是參議院選票,上面列上一大堆政見不同的黨或派或人。居然有一個 Australian Sex Party,這是什麼東東!?上它網站看,原來是支持同性結婚,反對檢查制度及自由表達意見的團體。還有一個有悠久歷史的 Shooter Party,支持擁有槍械黨,在美國也有類似的黨,而且聽說勢力蠻大的。還有一些小黨,綠黨,民主黨,等等… 在學校裡通往禮堂的路上都有義工拉票,只是發傳單而已。其中人比較多比較熱情的是反對污染黨,支持綠色能源,反對核能發電及污染。我記得以前還有一個反對機場噪音黨,這次沒留意到。

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午餐又來了

好悶哦。

今日澳洲聯邦大選,一早(其實已經10點)與老豆去附近中學投票。這是我住澳洲23年來等最久的一次,超多人,排隊排十幾分鐘。

回家後老母說我們出去午餐吧,『想去哪裡?』。我說飲茶好了,她說也好,然後我說要不然去 Totoya 吧,結果老母反應都是出於意料的大,我以為她會說又去哪裡,結果他居然說好啊,『我喜歡那裡的飯。』,真是出乎意料之外。

用 Sony DSC-WX1 相機拍的。

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今天的豬排飯加了比較多的湯汁,上次就不多所以變得有點乾,難下口。