All the worlds a broadway

Rudyard Kipling's "If"

2012-07-01T05:57:00.003-07:00

I keep a booklet of poems that I carry from time to time,
verses of inspiration, words of ignitement and intelligence of the famous poets that once existed.
It makes me feel that I carry a piece of their mind with me,
an act I assume, subconciously responding to the saying
" Great minds think alike"
(although, I was reminded this year that
" Dumb minds also think alike " OS: but of course that does not prone me to filter nor aloof from dumb or narcissismic people because this enhances your awareness, a reminder to distinguish the difference between both)

one of my favorite, among all poems, is Rudyard Kipling's " If "
I went through this poem again today, with a recently incident coming to mind...
There are noble pursuits in life, fighting for a living is only a necessity, the basic of basics of human needs.

It's the good cause that you transfer out of the outcomes of necessity, that turns into greatness,
and that takes a man's belief and conviction...
A man without belief, faith and conviction, goes without direction in "time and tide", a substance that is said to wait for no men. Hence, Money, Romantic love, Fame came be taken away anytime.
only Conviction stays unwaverly.

So of course, fighting for a conviction to turn into reality is not as easy a job as fighting for merely an earning to satisfy humanly desires. Fighting takes aquaintance of conflict, it takes blood to shed truth, but truth stays firm once light is revealed. I salute to those that are fighting right now, admist slander and accusation, I belive in Gods righteous and justice, and time will give it's answer.
Since there is only one truth in life.

If - by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose,
and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
- Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

The Joy Luck Club

2012-06-24T12:05:00.003-07:00

In the stride of Globalization, amidst the tide of cosmopolitanization. Acculturation and Enculturation has become non unfamiliar, but actually a necessity, a social phenomenon that is slowly penetrating the present state of social communication structure, in terms of business communication, social education, nonetheless- the family relationship. In this film, The Joy Luck Club, based on the novel by Amy Tan. The author uses her personal experience as the keel of the storyline, giving life to the characters and plot of the scene, vividly interpreting the lives of a pioneer generation of Chinese immigrants and their second generation. Here their second generations, children that have never had a glance of their home China, but nourished with American milk and school books after their birth, have no sense of Chinese culture. Thus after their detachment from the mother bodies umbilical cord, the only infiltration of cultural blood in their heritage, comes only from their mom. Although these Chinese Asian American girls conflict with their mothers up-bring, even after they have matured as mothers of their own children, this continuous strangle of conflict still remains.... Culture itself, is a continuous development and state of learning, understanding the culture schema will take a lifelong learning process. A process that never stops, till the day we depart from this world. And till that day, the world will keep coming to us, therefore there is no stopping in cultural learning and acculturation.

This novel written in 1989, following the movie in 1993, was a phenomenon, since it was an era of immigration, and immigration was only beginning to prosper due to the reviving economics of the United States. But until today, after, with evidence to Amy Chou’s “Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mom” (published in 2011), a confession of Chua, as an autobiographic way of illustrating her experiences and efforts of applying what she describes as a traditional, strict “Chinese” upbringing educating her own girls.

Personally, I enjoyed Amy Chou's novel very much, due to it's bald honesty and truthfulness,
and how she vividly displays her mind-set, while some still traditional Chinese parents, feel guilt of confessing of.

In the joy luck club, the plot focuses on 4 sets of family, each of the Chinese mothers come from a tragic past in China. Suyuan Wu a refugee from the Japanese invasion in China, is forced to leave behind her twin babies in China, after escaping to the USA, she lives in uncertainty of unknowing the babies dealth or well-being. Lindo Jong, a women that has married at an young age to an unmature man, by the words of a matchmaker, determined to escape this unfortunate situation, managed a clever plan releasing herself from this marriage, later fledding to America. Ying-Ying, one of the four women, marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao at an young age, just to find out her husband is revealed to be a womanizer and has an abusive characteristic. In an extreme mental state, she accidentally drown her baby, and is heart-broken. In anguish she leaves the country later marrying another man in America. These 4 women all finding hope in this new destination, leaving their past behind. Opening the psychological effects of the a person’s Johari window, we learned that when a person finds hope in a whole new country or environment. Entering a new country makes the self- healing process begin, allowing those hidden parts and Open parts rearrange. Thus later, these four women created “the Joy Luck Club ”, which is a act of triumph and rejoice, celebrating their bondage of rebirth in this new country.

We see these four independent women, and their daughters going through the process of acculturation and enculturation, facing conflict in Values and attitudes . As Jandt,F.E (2004) has said, No immigration, as long as livelihood needs are to be met in a new country, can escape acculturation.

“Acculturation has four dimensions: integration, Separation, assimilation and deculturation. When a minority moves into a majority culture, he or she will chose one of these modes either consciously or subconsciously”

Though the movie has not illustrated too much personal inner-depth-voices of the mother’s philosophy and life reflections. In the novel, Lindo confesses of regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China), as evidence to integration ; however, she expresses concern that Waverly's American upbringing has formed a barrier between them, destruction the mother-daughter relationship. Revealing how an Integration and assimilation acculturation can conflict in communication.

These mother bring forth their old fashion values from China, yet their daughters, enculturated in the western surroundings, possess American souls and mindsets inside. Thus the conflict in communication cannot be avoided, simulating the mode of intercultural communication. Since culture is a code we learn and share, and learning and sharing requires communication, Alfred G Smith (1966) says, this conflict is inevitable for relationship development in intimate family relationships.

There are several traces in the movie, where we can see the mother’s evidence of integration in forming acculturation, such as one scene where

An-Mei Hsu questions her daughter about buying grocery:

An-Mei: Who’s coming to dinner?

Daughter (Rose): well, Ted is coming over, we’re having sort of a meeting…

An-Mei Hsu: meeting? Flour, egg, bitter sweet Hersey bar, Skippy chunky,

Sounds like Chocolate peanut butter pie!

An-Mei is integrated in western logic of cuisines, and knows that a chocolate peanut butter pie is not linked to a meeting taboo dish, but something more..

Although acculturation increases the interconnectedness of cultures, differences are sources of potential problems (Chaney L.H, Martin ,2007) Harvey (1985) said that Family and personal issues can be disruptive to acculturation. In the Joy Luck Club however, we can see the opposite, how acculturation affects and disrupts the mother-daughter relationship. Since the childhood of their daughters, Suyuan Wu and Lindo Jong, though good friend, compete on their daughters behalf, turning June and Waverly into childhood rivals, the 2 women each consider their daughter June (daughter of Suyan Wu) & Waverly (Daughter of Lindo) as being more superior than the other in their talents, Therefore, dominantly forcing traditional, strict child-rearing on their daughters. But unlike traditional Chinese children who are obedient in everything the parents say. June who decides not to take up piano playing anymore after an embarrassing recital scene, is forced by her mother physically to sit in front of the piano to practice again, leading to her explode of rebel. Here June expresses her individualistic statement of feeling and choice. We see the western individualism spirit in her words of rebel, as oppose to her mother’s traditional collectivism notion, that “only an obedient daughter stays under this roof”.

The same situation of how acculturation disrupts the mother-daughter relationship, in terms of education, happens also in Lindo Jong’s household. Her daughter Waverly is a gifted child chess champion.

After a champion quest, Waverly’s photo is featured on the cover of Life magazine. Feeling proud of her daughter, Lindo holds the magazine high upon her chest and tells everyone she meets on the street that, her daughter is the covergirl, Waverly is embarrassed as she walks by her mother’s side. Annoyed at her mother’s action, Waverly angrily fights back, expressing how she doesn’t like her mother using her accomplishments to show off. Her mother assumes her daughter is ashamed of her. They have a fight on the street, where later when Waverly comes home , her mother does not say much and remains silent against her fight in a high-context communication.

There are distinctive cultural differences in the eastern and western component. Western cultures such as Americans mostly communicate in a more low-context dialogue, while Asians especially the Chinese communicate in a high-context communication. Such as a period of silence, not revealing their thoughts, allowing imagination and assumption of the counterpart, thus leaving space for conflict in the process of encoding and decoding messages.

A similar scene of conflict in encoding and decoding messages happens when Waverly has casually promises her mother a trip to the beauty parlor before Waverly’s wedding, while her mother possessing a traditional value of keeping a great extent of respect to a promise made with their mothers, thinks Waverly would remember the trip to the beauty parlor:

Mother(Lindo)(picks up the phone):

Waverly! You at the beauty parlor already?

Waverly: No Ma. I have a headache.

Mother: So you can’t keep promise to your own mother?

So you don’t want to go? …

Her mother encodes the message with her own assumptions, analyzing it in a Chinese logic of value, to value their elders words. While Waverly’s statement of “No Ma, I have a headache” may mean:”So I didn’t remember our date” or “So I’ll be late for the parlor. ” Her mother interprets it into the meaning that her daughter is not going with her, or that she is breaking the promise they made.

There are two plots in the movie, covering the issue of cross-culture marriage. One is the American-Chinese marriage of Waverly and Rich. The dinner scene of Rich coming over to Waverly’s Chinese household for the first time, illustrates the dinning matters between both cultures, differences that if not minded causes impoliteness, such as do not take too much food from the same dish, when everyone has not had their first helping. But Rich does not realize he is conflicting with the cultural invisible rules, and takes an abundant amount for himself. In the western way, it may be a bold way of expressing ”I like this food. ”but it is embarrassing and impolite for Waverly and Waverly’s mother (Lindo). So Lindo sarcastically says to Waverly “He has good appetite”, which is a multilevel message expressed in a high context dialogue, meaning “Rich is healthy, and can eat a lot”(in the Chinese concept), but also ostensibly describing his behavior of helping himself to too much.

Lindo’s Xenophobic characteristic towards Rich, inclination of an Asian parent to do so, can be seen in scenes such as when Waverly confesses how she married a Chinese guy just to please her mother, though later ending in divorce. And in the scene where she shows Lindo the fur coat gift Rich has given to her as a gift. Lindo harshly criticizes the gift, saying how the gift does not fit to be the best for her, reflection how Lindo wants the best for her daughter, but also slight evidence of xenophobicism towards this white son-in-law.

In Rose and Ted’s case, Rose falls in love with Ted, an American that withholds a prestige social status. Rose meets Ted’s parents for the first time, and has a not so friendly conversation with Ted’s mother, she nurses a racism towards Rose when she tells Rose that she will not be accepted by their families status acquaintances, and describes in stereotype towards Rose how “Vietnam was not so popular”.

In comparison of these two mother-in-laws we can see Ted’s mother, an American, being more aggressive and communicating directly in the low-context style. While Lindo, Waverly’s mother, is more implicit towards expressing towards Rich her true feeling (High context communication), and holding the Chinese concept of “Face” does not want to embarrass Rich in front of the table. Leaving Rich unaware of his mother-in-laws true feelings.

Cultural synergy is the future competence of enterprises in terms of expanding, therefore, nourishing a more alert sense to culture, and willingness to adjust one’s cultural schema is inevitable. Learning to analyzing different situations of cultural communication, can later be applied to analyzing organization behaviors. Cultural learning is a not just a scholarly humanistic subject, it's a soft skill competence that can be nourished and applied to Human resource managing.

Last day of April

2012-04-30T09:04:00.002-07:00

The reason why April makes the heart grow fonder :)

The Uniqueness of men
- the superiority of men in the world of animals-
lies not in his ability to percieve ideas, but to percieve that he percieves, and to transfer his perceptions to others minds through words

- Albert Einstein

Once in a dream...

2012-04-10T09:30:00.003-07:00

Once in the dream of a night I stood..
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
... In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
- Sarojini Naidu

讓詩的榮耀歸於祢

因祢以恩典為年歲冠冕，祢的路徑滴滿脂油，滴在曠野的草場上，小山也歡呼歌唱

The lady 電影翁山蘇姬影評- The most honest love, is nothing else, but the act of sacrifice for others

2012-04-09T09:00:00.004-07:00

自由! 它如同空氣一般有它存在的必要。

民主，更是自由的基石。

當我們有了民主的律法，人便得了自由...。

生在具有健全民主體制的國家中，是多麼幸福的一件事。

然而，身為後輩的我們，常常忘記這樣的幸福，甚至，視它為所當
然，忘了這曾是多少人犧牲而換取來的。(溯及更早，建立中華民國
是多少革命先烈拋頭顱灑熱血)以至於我們今天，可以隨己之欲，在投
票日那張空白的選票上，張上蓋上一只紅色戳章 !
別小看我們的這一小小舉動，那曾是祖先多麼辛苦，所跨出的一大步
，票張上那只小小鮮紅的印記，就如同阿姆
斯壯登陸月球，在月球上所留下的腳印一般。

而多少人，卻身在福中不知福，糟蹋這樣一個難能可貴的的權益，漠視
投票日，無論是過於自我中心地過生活也好，或似政治與我如浮雲的情
節也好。今日的台灣，許多人默許雇主霸菱自己的投票權，在投票日加
班，這其實已經違反勞基法:

"若當日原屬於正常工作日，對於具有投票權之勞工應該給假，以便於勞工
行使憲法賦予的投票權，並應依照勞動基準法第39條之規定當日工資仍應
照給。另外，雇主如因業務需要，在不妨礙勞工投票情形下，可徵得勞工
同意於投票日工作，惟應就勞工回戶籍地投票路程遠近給予合理時間使勞
工往返投票，並依法加給一日工資。"

我們都該站出來捍衛自己被賦予的這項公民權益，不只是為了自己的國家
，巨觀來看，猶如蝴蝶效應，是為了世界的經濟與律動。

說的這一切，看似與本片影評沒有關係，卻是這部點影，所要傳達的核心
訊息:

"Use your freedom to promote others"
在你能享受到民主權益時，請珍惜，並用這樣的力量去影響世界，甚至，
更進一步地，為那些尚未有民主的國家發聲。

片中，翁山蘇姬說了一句父親告訴她的話語:

"You may not think of politics, but politics thinks of you"

你也許未曾想過政治，但政治與你形影不離。

政治所影響的生活層面重要性不言而喻，它可以影響我們每日上市場買
的材米油鹽價格，甚至可以動搖一個安穩的工作。

從各國的歷史都可以看見這樣一個披荊斬棘的時間軸革命。

而現在，正是緬甸爭取自由的時刻!

片中，翁山蘇姬在眾心拱月之下，決心替自己緬甸的同胞，爭取民主，
參選投票，雖然以壓倒性高票當選，卻被集權的政治勢力軟禁在家，
人身迫害。然而，在上帝的恩膏披澤之下，這世界還是有正義的。

翁山蘇姬在囚禁第二年時，榮獲世界諾貝爾和平獎，此舉不單只是表揚他
為民主奮鬥的精神，更是為了要引起世界各地的人們關注，評理。

許多台灣的政治人物，藉此片發聲，的確!
它是一個千真萬實的政治故事
我卻視這片為一部確切真實的浪漫愛情片。

總是，我們在愛情裡，予取予求，久了，不曉得給予，更晃論了解什麼是
犧牲。犧牲，是捨己，因為心中有愛。犧牲，是由愛所生的一個付出的行
動。

而"The Lady"裡的犧牲，更勝(聖)於達尼電影中，傑克為了換取
羅絲的性命，所做的犧牲。

這犧牲，是因為彼此太相愛，兩人為了共同遠景，願意付上在人肉分
離的代價，獨自嘗盡三秋的相思悲愁。因為兩個人都相信，終有一日，
這樣的愛可以成全共同對於緬甸這塊土地期望的實現。

這樣忠貞不渝的愛情在世界上罕見，卻是最浪漫的故事。

The most honest love, is nothing else, but the act of sacrifice for others

The Descendents--Another kind of descendent- the inheritance of loss

2012-03-06T09:50:00.015-08:00

(Hibiscus flower- drawn with Anna Sui eyeliner, Jill Stuart pink blush, Majolica brown eye shadow )

How many times in life, have we ever appalled in regret
-"you never know what you've got until it's gone"
the 2012 Oscar winnng best screenplay film the descendents shows a dawning light at the end of the tunnel, that loss itself does not leave you merely with grief, but a chance to fix something else important that had been long neglected in the rough.- Diane Jollique wang

片頭一剛開始，朵朵扶桑花隨著片名的出現盛開在螢光幕上

極為搶眼我心想

彷彿像是視覺的時光空間梭，載我們到夏威夷的小島omaha上，隨著男主角麥特

金妻子沐浴在島嶼的豔陽下，迎風馳乘在極速快艇之上，享受迎面的微風。

殊不知，場景緊接著轉到醫院病房中，帶著眼鏡依然忙碌的律師男主角，坐在

醫院病榻床尾，憂心地看著出意外昏迷中的妻子，心中暗自呼喚

，求她睜開眼睛...。

麥特金是一名夏威夷註冊執業律師，祖先因為與當地的夏威夷原住民結為連

理，而繼承了一大塊夏威夷Kaua'i島的土地，然而眼看土地契約七年之內將到

期，家族其他成員覬覦土地變賣後的巨額利潤，正討論和唯一具有合法繼承

人身分的麥特金，商討將土地賣給開發商。

等待妻子從昏迷中甦醒的這段時間，讓麥特金毅然然同意將繼承的土地賣掉

，辭掉律師工作，準備開始將重心放在家庭上，還計畫帶妻子遠赴法國，

買一棟別墅，共享夫妻生活。

而在妻子住院的這段期間，平時沒時間陪孩子的他，開始身兼奶爸的工作

，卻在這時發現，孩子的人生早已出現嚴重的問題，老么姓個偏差，作風

古怪，是師長關切的問題學生。老大在寄宿學校，自我墮落，沉迷於渾沌放縱

的生活中。

而在醫生告訴他妻子回天乏術，必須中斷生命供給系統的晴天霹靂消息之

後，女兒透露母親紅杏出牆的外遇消息，更像是雙重打擊在身。

然而，男主角即便心如刀割，在女兒面前卻是表現萬般堅強與理性，

當他跑到朋友家打聽外遇對象消息時，單獨一個人走在回程的鄉間小道上

，停下來背對鏡頭掩面低泣，為的是不給孩子們看見。

與片尾，當他與妻子最後一次對晤時，向妻子說出他對她的愛時，毫無

遮掩放縱地潸然淚下，兩種不同情境，不同的心情。

任我不覺地由衷傾慕敬佩George Clooney的詮釋，相較於其他Clooney的作品

，這部徹底表現了他淋漓卓越的演技。

相較於他自自導自演的2008片子Leatherhead 中的演技，他的內心戲真的愈

來愈精湛，觸人心弦，引起我心極大共鳴，如同片中場景的背景烏克麗麗音樂

般，樸質，卻真誠地表現一種無矯揉的真誠情觸。

當男主角發現，妻子的外遇對象，是準備承接購買的客戶開發商，受到這一

連串的事件影響，他終於頓悟了。

這片土地是原是夏威夷的天然資產，他們這些繼承的子孫，沒做什麼，卻白

白得到這樣一塊土地，現在卻因為談圖錢財私慾，要將這美麗原始風貌的一

塊處女地，賣給開發商。

麥特金最終拒絕簽字，等著七年後，這塊土地歸還給夏威夷政府保育。

我喜歡片尾的結束方式，麥特金窩在沙發上，陪小女兒看電視教育節目"企鵝

的進行曲"你一口，我一口地，分享著一桶冰淇淋，甚至，

連青春期叛逆的大女兒，也悄悄走來客廳，掀起匹在兩人身上的毯子，窩在一

塊兒，三人你一口我一口的享受一桶冰淇淋，也享受遲來的天倫之樂。

沒有在比導演Alexander Payne，平實卻令人露出溫暖微笑的收尾方式更棒

的結局了。

這部影片讓我哭了，我不曉得大部分的人是否也像我如此。

然而這部小品精彩，就在於它劇情真實，生活化。即便反覆嚴肅感人的內

心戲不斷，觸人流淚後，卻又馬上地，出現不失詼諧幽默的片段，讓人

流淚後馬上破啼大笑。

強力推薦這部戲。

走出戲院，記得，多愛身旁的家人一些。

我想，這是Alexander Payne想要藉由這部電影，告訴大家這樣的信息 : )

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Organ Donation Tshirt

2011-11-05T07:51:00.000-07:00

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The four main values of the Chinese Heritage

2011-10-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

最近帶了一個外國學者顧問在台北各處遊玩
偶然地，櫥窗中的篆刻與書法字帖，吸引住這位紐約紳士的目光。
對門外漢來說，判讀篆書字體字樣總需多個幾秒...
但看著我吃力地讀著篆刻字體扭曲的字樣
外國人他笑了。

很遺憾地，在政治的分歧對立之下，我們這一輩已經淡忘好幾輩之前
幾近乎遠古的老祖宗珍傳。

人說，所有高瞻遠矚，是因為能站在巨人的肩膀上，建立新的革新與創造
站在巨人的肩膀上，我們能看得更遠。
然而，這個巨人，一直是在天之靈眷顧著我們蒼生的老祖宗，我們不能忘了我們的本，不然一切的思想發展，一切的發明創造，都沒有了意義，因為它少了一個東西叫做文化。
這裡，我整理了一些關於中國文化的翻譯字彙，也許下一回帶外國朋友走走，也能派上用場。

而最重要的，莫過於中國文化的核心:
- 琴棋書畫 (Qin, Qi, poetry&painting)

-硯台-inkstone
- 字體們
楷書(Standard Script)
隸書(Clerical Script)
行書(Semi-Cursive Script)
草書(Cursive) <-如同英語的草寫
篆書(Seal Script)

瘦金體(Slender Gold)<-由宋朝宋徽宗(Song Hui Zong)所發明的

Just as a reminder:
Never forget your roots and who you are, or else you are only a being, not a human.

關於骨科手術的整理

2011-09-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

我愛骨科
因為X光片與最鍾愛的復古黑白照有種異曲同工之妙
它和所有其他醫學影像比較起來也是最美的

正在翻譯一份骨科文件
所以心血來潮，整理了一分清楚的簡單版骨科手術零件百科

骨折的處理方法約略分為兩種: Internal fixation 與 External fixation
-內固定(Internal fixation)
所用到的零件包括
Screws(骨螺釘)
Plates(骨板)
Intramedullary nails(髓內釘)
-外固定(External fixation) 通常用於創傷涉及軟組織嚴重損傷
用的零件則是
K-pins<-用於保留活動度的關節
K-wire<Kirschner wire>(克氏線)<-臨床上就以 K-pin, K-wire稱呼

via doctorsbrunei.blogspot.com
external fixator (外固定器)

Carpe Diem !

Emerald in the rough

2011-08-07T08:53:00.000-07:00

via vanity fair
An art-telligent shot done by the stroke of Vanity fair ,though the images consists only of mainly different shades of green, the lively atmosphere that graceful Julia Roberts creates, brings a vivid touch to the eye, indeed a biofriendly classical masterpiece : D

所謂的"跑步經濟性"

2011-08-05T00:19:00.000-07:00

產業、資訊全球化的年代，像是個趕羊的牧羊人，在後鞭策我們「趕上腳步」，現在凡事都講求效率，不論它是公司報表上的數字，學生實驗的數據，時間管理etc, 也許你以為下班之後換上跑步鞋，就不受這個定「率」牽制，可惜，它就像光線，即便你睜一隻眼，閉一隻眼，它都存在，你不能視而不見。

以跑步來說，有些人以為跑跳個幾步，今天就完成了運動，殊不知連跑步，也有所謂的「跑步經濟性」。

而所謂的跑步經濟性，是指能以最少的能量消耗，來達到最大的運動心跳率，簡單來說，就是達到最有效率的跑步。

我習慣有空暇或一陣子沒運動，就穿上運動鞋跑步去。以前都慢跑，後來變小姐愛美後，怕小腿長肌肉，所以競走搭配規律呼吸居多。

常常鼓勵病人，只要進行運動都搭配規律呼吸，有配合呼吸的運動，就會達到全身性有氧運動的效果。

那要如何知道自己的運動是否有效率呢?

下回跑步或競走之前，先量測自己的脈搏，量測的方法很簡單，你只要找到左手腕拇指下方處，一條搏動的血管，如果脈動不明顯，左手手指頭握、放數次，用另一隻手的兩指腹去計算它的跳動，10秒之內跳動的次數，乘以六就是你的每分鐘心跳次數，只要你沒有嚴重的周邊血管疾病，都可以用此方法監測心跳。

跑完或競走完幾公里再量測一次，達到標的心率範圍(Target heart rate zone)

就是有效的運動囉:)

下面有個懶人表，是已經算好的各年齡層運動標的心跳範圍:

Age	Target Heart Rate (HR) Zone (60-85%)
20	120-170
25	117-166
30	114-162
35	111-157
40	108-153
45	105-149
50	102-145
55	99-140
60	96-136
65	93-132

而最近在雜誌上看到一則有趣的文章 :P
聽ipod慢跑或運動在歐美及為盛行，這個文章的作者設計了一個"pop music音樂運動處方"
鼓勵跑者的步伐頻率，要搭配音樂的節奏，設定歌曲的aim tempo在 120~140bpm (其實也就是target heart rate 120~140，這也正好是青少年族群的標準範圍)

暖身作者建議用driving beat 90~120bmp，等越來越進入狀況後，再換成Micheal Jackson 的Thriller(120bpm)或coldplay的viva la vida(140bpm)，另外，作者大不建議跑步聽爵士，因為那會讓你太過於放鬆，步調太過緩慢。

對照運動生理來看，這篇饒富趣味的文章似乎大有參考價值，不仿來試試燃燒150卡和200卡的音樂處方吧!!

Live happy, Live strong!

林布蘭式幽默

2011-07-28T07:40:00.000-07:00

via art gallery

(Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern-by Rembrant)

每次看到這幅畫就不禁想說:
林布蘭，你好三八喔!

這幅畫乍看之下，會覺得林布蘭神醉摟著女人的腰，但其實畫作中的女人是林布蘭筆下的Saskia畫象XD

這就是藝術家的幽默

Hillarious yet Ellegant

The Stages of life－by Caspar David Friedrich

2011-07-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

　　　　　　　　　　　<Die Lebensstufen>

縱使自己是寫實主義的偏好者，我非常喜歡德國浪漫主義畫家Caspar David Friedrich的這幅想像畫<Die Lebensstufen(生命的階段)>。
這幅作品畫中的五艘船，象徵的是人生的五個不同旅程階段，呼應前方五個不同年齡階段的人物，童年，青壯年和老年。仔細瞧，岸上有一燒翻覆的破船，代表著人的臨終。
具觀來說，這幅畫的意境，將人生階段以灰暗影子的形式，鋪陳於眼前，背幕天際線上卻是美好的橘紅夕陽，表現出的一種對於人生的無限樂觀。

風平浪靜的日子，偶一會兒總會波濤洶湧，畢竟，如同人的心電圖有波峰波谷才有生命的跡象，浪有高低起伏變幻，生命才會因此而顯得豐富多化，突破沉寂的一直線。

Mary and Max 逗趣動畫<巧克力情緣>

2011-07-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

偶然在誠品看見架上的這部動畫。
他黑白色調的動畫圖，配上迪士尼<耶誕夜驚魂>風格的片名字樣，引起了我的興趣。

這部2009年日舞影展(Sundance Film Festival)的開場片，也是法國安錫影展和亞洲太平洋影展獎項得主片，內容描述Mary，一個孤獨的澳洲小女孩，無意地與半個地球之隔的紐約Max成為筆友的故事。儘管Max中年並患有亞斯伯格症(自閉症的亞型)，Mary的純真無知與Max的閉俗單純
卻成了最投機的通信對話，兩人友誼隨著信件往返而漸增。

黑色幽默式的獨白，反諷人類的矛盾情節，主角心境獨白以筆友的身分交互呈現，配上可愛的黏土人物動作，讓人不禁莞爾。

片中最可愛的是，Max出現的場景都會以灰黑色調呈現，唯一有色彩的是帽上鮮紅的毛球，隨著他心情的快樂興奮，毛球的特寫就越鮮明，甚至，Max會摘起毛球把玩。

順便查了一下動畫作者 adam elliot 的介紹

他出生於澳洲，幼年成長於自家的蝦工廠，小時即展現藝術繪畫天分，畢業於Victorian College of the Arts，這並也是他第一部作品<Uncle>的誕生搖籃。聽說它的動畫特色在於人物會有顫抖的表情，而這個靈感來自於她患有神經疾病的母親。

外婆的澎湖灣之-海鮮 Penghu- seafood, sun & sand

2011-07-05T07:15:00.000-07:00

26海浬直至陸地，享受著海風吹拂及船側濺起的浪花，啊!澎湖!
置身於此，真的是遠離都市塵囂的一大享受。

沿途經過一些小島嶼，像是貓璵，海鳥盤旋，島上星綴的白點，其實是遍布的鷗鳥，澎湖珍貴的野生動物資源。

我們租車沿七美鄉間道上騎，一路向北，向七美雙心石滬朝聖去。

石滬是為了引流海水，讓小魚游進後出不來，方便漁夫釣魚。要親自踏上美麗的石滬上，必須從「七美石滬」上丘位置走小路下去，聽說會走得蠻辛苦，所以大部分的遊客都會選擇就地空拍。
「小台灣」也是七美島上必看的景點之一，它是一個天然造型的海蝕平台，造型就像台灣的輪廓，要親眼目睹，你才會對大自然的鬼斧神工，嘆為觀止，相似度100%!!

傍晚六點左右，太陽還未下山，騎在海鮮街上(三民路上)我們尋覓一處可以填飽肚子，塞滿最道地海產的餐廳，在菊島之星正對面，我們看見一家叫做「印第安」的海產熱炒店。

ps 這是吃完出來拍的一張照片，頂樓還有戶外座，可眺望碼頭。

強力推薦的幾道菜色，包括這一道，澎湖特產絲瓜，炒上蚵仔，清醇的絲瓜香配上新鮮的海鮮，讓人直呼讚!

另外還推薦小管生魚片給愛吃生魚片，茹毛飲血如我的生魚片愛好者 xD

外婆的澎湖灣之-抵達 Penghu-arrival

2011-07-04T06:05:00.000-07:00

晚間七點多，我們從台北抵達了澎湖，空曠的機坪上，粉色夕陽的餘幕映照，讓我對澎湖留下了美好的第一印象。

沒去過，但印象中的澎湖，就如同潘安邦的歌曲「外婆的澎湖灣」中所描繪的
海浪、沙灘、仙人掌　和一枚老船長
老船長我沒有期待遇見，畢竟歌曲年代已久遠，現早是人事已非
但我期待的澄澄沙灘上，灑成一片的燦爛和煦陽光，以及幾株仙人掌，來滿足我長久的想像
至少「踩著薄暮離開餘暉暖暖的機場」
我已開始感受到些許歌曲中的氣氛了...。

Barney's Version

2011-04-21T10:10:00.000-07:00

這部電影改編自加拿大作家 Mordecai Richler的暢銷同名小說。為一部饒有趣味的反社會角色流浪題材電影，敘述男主角Barney Panofsky，一個浪漫直覺主義者，看似平凡實則精采絕倫的一生。早已年過不惑之年的他，頗有一番節目製作事業，經歷過三段情，歷經荒唐的第一段波西米亞浪漫慘劇後，娶了叔叔撮合的富貴千金，卻在婚禮上與愛人(Mirian)一見鍾情，逐拋棄一切展開熱烈追求，最終熾熱的心擄獲美人點頭，共組天倫樂，看似婚姻與事業成功的人生羨煞不少外人，然而隨著人生時間軸演進，時境的變境，人心自我追尋與靈魂的尋求泰安，又讓平靜的生活起了變化，也在Barney一次不謹慎的錯誤後，人生再次歷經一項驟折。然而從此憤世嫉俗，極力想討回與前妻昔日光景的他，殊不知，不僅是回天乏術，連現實生活中的事物也逐一由他腦畔逐一流失....。劇情起起落落平凡卻精彩，如同Barney的人生實境在眼前上演，參雜詼諧的鬧劇，溫馨的親情，交戰衝突，感人的愛情。

人生的變化莫測，然而有時變化自在人心，境隨心之便而化，美滿的家庭生活在孩子漸長大成人後，起了巨大變化，男主角的妻子(Mirian)，為了克服最後一個孩子長大離家至外地念書的空虛，接受朋友布萊兒(Barney始終是為情敵威脅的鄰居)給她一個工作的機會，想卸下母職回到工作岡位，但男主角堅持努力賺錢為讓妻子可以相夫教子陪在自己身邊，然而此刻妻子的空虛感已經無法由不善解妻意的男主角所來修補。

片中最觸人心弦的，是男主角始終愛著妻子，即便嚴重失憶，連吃蛋糕要用湯匙還是叉子都忘記，卻還記得從前和前妻美滿的婚姻生活，就像倒帶反覆品味著一捲美好的影帶。

前妻曉得她失憶的真相後，難掩悲傷。

失憶的Barney疑惑說道「親愛的，你怎麼哭了，孩子們送去
上學了嗎?那我們進去房間窩在沙發上看電影好不好?」

裏頭還穿插一些瑣碎而幽默的片段，讓人會心一笑。

本片男主角Paul Giametti也因完美詮釋Barney Panofsky的角色而榮獲2011年金球獎最佳男主角的榮譽。