在人生旅途上,大家不住的往前低頭疾走,向着自己的人生目標進發。每天營營役役無事忙,有沒有想過為何?有幾許會提醒自己慢下步伐,關心一下跟自己萍水相逢,或在旁邊擦身而過,或於人生交滙點有緣碰上的您?

Friday, May 25, 2007

狐狸精和情婦的分別

請注意:以下內容純以理性角度作客觀分析,並不代表作者立場;部份內容更有可能令部份讀者感到不安,敬請諸位看官於閱覧前留意。並對有需要人仕作出適當輔導。

狐狸精不介意向全世界公開自己第三者的身份,
情婦懂得於適當的場合不公開自己第三者的身份;

狐狸精較主動去吸引男方,
情婦多數被男方要求成為對方秘密的另一半;

狐狸精有可能是財政獨立,能自給自足,兼會為爭取目標而不惜工本去裝備自己,
情婦未必能做到財政獨立,大多數情況下要依靠另一半作為經濟支柱;

狐狸精無時無刻找機會”攝入位”,
情婦心甘情願做她的那個他背後的男人;

狐狸精有企圖/意圖"坐正",
情婦不計較那個對她來說不甚重要的名份;

狐狸精有可能於同一時間內需要應付不同account,involve 不同的"projects",
情婦通常是"exclusively serving one account at one time";

兩者的共通點:

她們都十分懂得男人心理和明暸男人的需要(或可稱為死穴、弱點),亦一定具備一些比較原配優勝的地方。

兩者都是"at-will",沒有commitment可言。

Sunday, May 20, 2007

走鏢之旅

工作不忘娛樂,早前大埠走鏢之旅,事成後得老闆作嚮導,順道往Napa Valley 走了一趟。第一站是Darioush Winery

Darioush的主人是學建築出身,Winery的外觀亦頗具氣派,更富濃濃的中東色彩。


用以招待VIP作試酒用的Tasting Room,照慣例一口氣試了五枝:
2004 Signature Chardonnay,2004 Signature Merlot,2004 Signature Shiraz,2005 Signature Pinor Noir,最後試2003 Signature Cabernet Sauvignon


陰涼黑暗的地下室放滿了2005年入桶,正在發酵的葡萄汁。


放眼望漫山遍野盡是剛成形的葡萄樹


無人不曉的Opus One Modern Castle


第三站是Joseph Phelps Winery試它的2004 Insignia,第四站是Freemark Abbey,最後一站是Napa Valley內其中一個歷史較久的Beringer Winery,我們便是走過這長長的地下通道,到位於另一端的地下室barrel tasting。

全日走訪了五個酒莊,一共試了24種酒。


Let a round of 18 holes to conclude this trip......

Saturday, May 19, 2007

下班本來就是應該的

當大家一而再,再而三的抱怨中層管理人員如何的變成工作上的夾心人。早前收到下面這封電郵,不得不轉載給大家分享。看來應該是時候引入這種職場文化,讓大家保持高的競爭力。

前言

企管專家認為,不管辦公室有多少工作,時間到了最好就離開,不僅如此,最好五點就下班。
「怎麼可能?那麼事情更做不完」你心裡不以為然的想。先別急,聽聽專家的理由是什麼。

理由1. 讓你更有效率
‧ 多數的辦公室工作十分繁瑣,沒有明確的開始與結束。正由於事情千頭萬緒,你很容易這個做一點、那個進行一半,結果沒有一件有結果,迫使你以加班來趕工,一方面也安慰自己的心理。
‧ 但是,如果你的下班時間是五點,那麼你就得盤算一下,在一天有限的時數內,該先做那些事?
‧ 少和同事聊天,多用點時間思考都好!一昧埋頭長時間工作而不思考,容易做虛工,而且會失去看事情的整體觀。

理由2-對你的上司有教育作用
‧ 不要過度擴大上司對你的期望;如果你常常讓上司看到你留下來加班,他會開始認為你很願意加班,久了就變成你應該加班。
‧ 不要讓上司以工作時間的長短來評估你的表現。

理由3-對你的屬下有教育作用
‧ 讓你的屬下學著在有限的時間內,分配工作的優先次序。
‧ 明確的表示你下班就會離開,到時候他們應該完成的工作或報告,就應該交到你桌上。

理由4-迫使你釐清價值觀
‧ 想清楚你生命中最重要的是家庭或是工作?當然不加班、不拼命工作,可能讓你失去許多表現機會,錯過加薪與升遷。
‧ 但是你不會辛苦工作像條狗似的,到了四、五十歲,突然覺得愧對家人、愧對自己的生命。

理由5-讓你走在時代尖端
‧ 企管顧問觀察到一個趨勢,這兩年愈來愈多的人認為,生命中比工作重要的東西還有許多;工作時間長的人不再被視為英雄,反而被看成不懂生命的人。
‧ 現在懂得拒絕長時間工作的人,將是未來的領導人物。

理由6-讓偶一為之的加班變得有趣
‧ 常常加班,同事之間會生膩,合作的興奮感也全無。
‧ 如果大家平常準時下班,碰到緊急狀況或工作時,大夥晚上一起留在辦公室;有人從外面提了便當走進來,一邊吃飯、一邊討論,這時候很容易顯出團隊合作的革命情感。

理由7-讓你免於枯竭的惡性循環
‧ 你愈加班,愈覺得事情做不完;愈覺得事情做不完,工作就拖的愈長。
‧ 這樣的惡性循環遲早會讓你崩潰。

理由8-讓你善用休閒時間
‧ 工作之餘的時間不應只是休息、睡覺,以便讓你第二天有精力繼續工作。
‧ 何不培養些興趣?
如果你五點下班,你可以有時間去學外語、去彈吉他、參加才藝活動,
這會讓你成為一個更活潑、更有能力、更有趣的人。

理由9-會讓你更健康
‧ 並不是抽空去打球、上健身房、跳韻律操才叫使身體健康,人的身體也需要其他的方式來維持活力。
‧ 比方說,好整以暇的喝杯茶、慢慢的品味一個甜美多汁的水蜜桃、靜靜擁抱你喜愛的人等等。
‧ 而這些都不是每週工作五、六十個小時的人所能做的。

理由10-讓你更懂得去愛
‧ 你是不是很久沒有和三、五好友一起說笑狂歡了?
‧ 你是不是每天都和另一半、和孩子或父母匆匆打個照面?你是不是難得和所愛的人交換生活的心情?
‧ 五點一到,放下你的工作,多接近那些對你很重要的人。
‧ 以後他們記得的不是你的升遷、你的成就、而是和他們共處的時光。

程某還有一樣發現,理想工作環境比高薪水更能留住好的員工。向錢看的員工只能跟公司共富貴,有抱負的員工才會跟公司共患難。

Joke of the Day? Sadly I received it also.....

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.

The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day"

Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 pound crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit.

Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him. By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard. Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of ice trucks and a warehouse, which his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage.

The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"

"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors and making $5.15 an hour."
Which brings us to the moral of the story: Since you got this story by
e-mail, you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also....

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

石頭無際禪師治心藥方

日前於師兄家中作客,有緣看見其書桌上玻璃下夾着一紙治心药方,現抄錄如下,公諸同好:

一、 好肚腸一條
二、 慈悲心一片
三、 温柔半兩
四、 道理三分
五、 信行要緊
六、 中直一塊
七、 孝順十分
八、 老實一個
九、 陰騭(1)全用
十、 方便不拘多少

此药用包容鍋來炒,用寬心爐來燉,不要焦,不要燥,去火性三分,
於整體的盆中研碎,三思為本,鼓勵作药丸,每日進三服,不限時,
用關愛湯服下。

附註:
(1)陰騭 - 語出書經˙洪範:惟天陰騭下民,相協厥居。為默定的意思。後引申為默默行善的德行。喻世明言˙卷二十九˙月明和尚度柳翠:只因柳宣教不行陰騭,折了女兒,此乃一報還一報,天理昭然。儒林外史˙第三十六回:陰騭就像耳朵裡響,只是自己曉得,別人不曉得。而今這事,老伯已是知道了,那裡還是陰德?亦稱為陰德、陰功。

摘自教育部國語辭典

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

走鏢

中國古代版圖廣濶,城市及鄉鎮間物資運送主要依靠水、陸兩路,偏遠未開發地方常有山賊盤據,以搜劫來往商旅財物或貨物為生。因而衍生了鏢師這一獨有行業。

鏢師其實是物流業的祖先,集貨運、運輸保險、安全護衛保安於一身。鏢局接鏢後,由鏢頭率領鏢師負責押送寄運貨品至目的地,以賺取鏢銀(運費)為生。形式有點似今天的速遞公司加護衛隊。

沿途遇山翻山,見水過水,無路修路,遇賊抗賊,務求於指定時間內安全護送貨物抵達目的地。萬一遇上土匪山賊攔途截劫,搶走貨物,還得賠償給貨主。

程某上星期受朋友所托,斗胆權充鏢頭,走了人生的第一趟鏢。腳程來回九百多英哩。單程四小時半。貨物價值暫且不談,唯一困難是要貨不離身(鏢車)之外,温度要保持於攝氏13到16度。否則人家四份一世紀心血便會毁於我手中。



交貨後貨主用以慰勞鏢師的果汁。