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2月28日

幸福

非常老实的说我这个人非常幸运,运气好,人运也不错,虽然还达不到吉星高照的那种程度,但是至今为止走过的路还都算踏实,不是一帆风顺,但都有个结果。
 
我想我最大的幸福就是根基不错。虽然从来没有经历过严厉的家教,但是根子里的一些习惯和所谓的主义到都还正,至今为止我会时不时地感受到这种从小带来的习惯和主义的益处。比方说吧,早上起床。早上起床对我来说从来不是一个痛苦的事情。上小学的时候,即便是冬天我也乐于早一些出门,在天空被慢慢点亮之前去上学,上学路上的乐趣是看着高楼上的灯光想象灯光下是怎样的人家。这样说出来显得有些早熟可是那时的我真的是非常“乐于“对灯光和对那些我永远不会认识的人家展开想象。淡蓝的,淡淡的橘黄的,白亮亮的灯光。到了现在早上要六点爬起来去上班也就不是痛苦。同事里面也有很多因为家远(一个半小时的车程)要六点出门的人,不知道他们小的时候起床是怎样的经历。
 
还有就是人运不错。人运不错说的是我总可以相遇到好人。拿朋友说吧,我的朋友不多,我也不是那种轰轰烈烈交朋友的人。但是我总能在自己的周围保留几位品质纯正的朋友。远远近近的都有,联络疏密的都有。还有就是爱情。到现在为止在我想起我的爱情的时候,还都是幸福的粉红的颜色。那让我爱过的每一个都加浓这粉红的颜色。就连曾经有过的疑惑竟然在几年之后也有了一个让我感动的回答。每一个在我生命里面留下印迹的人都使我成为更,我不想说完美,那太肉麻恶心了也不现实,也不想说成熟,谁说成熟就是好事了呢?就说更完整的人。对,就是更完整吧。因为我从他们或者她们那里领悟的不仅仅是所谓的好人好事的东西,也有把我从不可救药的理想主义里拉出来的东西,也有让我可以坚强的维护我自己的东西,也有可以让我口吐脏字骂人把自己从软弱/消极/和无奈中解脱出来的东西。每一样都让我更完整。
 
所以,我真是觉得自己还真是幸运,也就觉得幸福了。也就高高兴兴的。
 
2月27日

东一榔头

Ironblog里提到了《哈里·波特》,并且文学气息十足的分析了分析,看了两遍,觉得有点晕。反正呢,我对《哈里·波特》这个片子从一开始就有一种生理上的反感。他的魔法吸引不了我,张牙舞爪的巨龙吸引不了我,他的貌似凄苦而又“高贵”的出身也吸引不了我。是什么原因呢?也许他的武功太高强了,就算一开始不够高强,可是他命中铁定打败所有妖魔鬼怪,这种片子看又有什么悬念呢?你也不用为他的安危担心,一定死不了的。就像我看过的日本连环画,圣斗士星矢,这家伙都被打得浑身是洞流血不止了还是死不了。这种过分的英雄让我提不起精神来。

 

缺陷就是吸引人的地方吧。你是漂亮的公主吧,偏偏你只有小白菜的命;你是武林高手身轻如燕吧,你偏偏被人诬陷人人喊打;你是皇上万人之上吧,偏偏你就喜欢上不该喜欢的人。十全十美了,就让人烦了。好人也需要有点私心才显得像个人,坏人也有那么一点点为泯的良心才显得复杂。不是那么一眼就能看透的故事才有意思吧。

 

Thomas Carlyle - "He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." 

2月25日

Annotated Bibliography: #6

Leadership excellence is a monthly maganize published by Executive excellence publishing. It is a little bit pricy but you can get free articles from Leadership excellence throught ProQuest Database. The greatest value of this managine is that it offers "the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners's cutting edge management ideas and strategies in digest format" 
 
It gives you the latest and best ideas in a very concentrated format which is really important for people who does not always time to go through books.
 
For me, learning from the best is the only short-cut to success. Leadership excellence does offer the best.
 
Ten Best Leadership Practices (From  Executive excellence)
  1. Experience / Field Assignments
  2. Smart Content / Curriculum
  3. Action Learning
  4. Simulation or small scale operation
  5. Mentoring and coaching
  6. Teaching others
  7. Feedforward
  8. Team balance and alignment
  9. Involvement and engagement
  10. Accountability for results

过去的这个星期

经常浏览的一个blog在销声匿迹一段时间之后突然爆出一段文字。
是那些说不清楚的好人和坏人的故事。

心里有些反应,还分析不出来到底是怎样的反应。
不过,现在可以教导自己的是
是事情就都会过去的;
争吵的时候不要人身攻击;
关心关心你的人是非常重要的。

过去的这个星期心情不错,粉红的diasy princess依旧精神焕发和婷婷玉立。

一些想要克服的小毛病都在慢慢的克服着。因为找到了一些正确的方法,所以这个克服的过程比我想象的要简单的多。

自己的项目在一点一点的完成,我的项目虽然可能是规模最小的一个。可是我觉得我可以把这个小麻雀琢磨个透。也是尽我可能的对客户负责的一种表现吧。

最近在想一个纯粹语言方面的问题,在日语里面,称呼毕业之后在社会上谋生的人[社会人]。中文里面我们怎样称呼这样的人呢?

 

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2月24日

购物

女人是不是都是购物狂呢?我不清楚。
我是不是购物狂呢?自我感觉不是。
我想我还是属于比较理性的消费者吧。
 
昨天买了两样东西。
一个是1GB的flash driver。(不过不是给我的)三十多。税后。
一个是512MB的xdPicture Card。五十多块钱。税后。
 
我也没有什么心情去货比三家或者事先调查一下市场,
就是刚好有促销而且牌子也不错就买了。
 
不经意的还是会想:这样的东西在中国会是多少钱呢?
中美两国价格比较可能是出国在外的人都会多多少少想到的事情,
贵了心里或多或少的有点不舒服,
便宜了就没得说一定是高兴仿佛占了更大的便宜,
 
我也曾经有过这样的心理直到一个香港来的同学讲给我她的故事。
她说她也曾经不厌其烦的把美国的价钱和香港的比来比去。
土豆太贵啦!这个价钱在香港可以买一车土豆!
文具太贵啦,这样的笔在香港不仅便宜而且种类更多!
终于有一天,在超市里,她的美国男友听够了她的价格比较论,
说了声:
welcome to America!
她就想开了,
就是嘛,已经身在美国了,就本本分分的用美国钱买美国东西吧!
 
 
顺便提一下,最近有一点动心想购置一个ipod。可是,真的用得上吗?
 

Practicum Journal: Assessment distribution

Today is a sunny day! :-)
The objective of today's meeting with K is to explain to her the assessment I developed and to distribute it. From my point of view, the mission has completed.
I met her in her office as usual. It seemed to be busier than usual. I explained to her my asscessment.
The explaination and confidentiality statement: To include this as part of my assessment is to ensure all employees that they identity will not be revealed to K. By making people feeling comfortable answer the assessment, I expect to get more open and honest response.
 
The scale-type questions: focused on K's communication style. When K looking at the questions, she laughted and said these are good questions but I am just afraid of the feedbacks. I guess knowing the fact might be the hardest part for a coachee. It is easier for people to do self-diagnosis but harder to hear commont from others.
 
Assessment on management style: K seems to be interested in this part. She asked if she can keep the print out I brought to her. Of course, that was particularly made for her. I also let her know that once we get better objectives for the 3rd step, I will provide her more information that can help her.
 
Ok, what was good and what was not good?
To be able to meet her and explain the assessment to her was good. (Thank for Dr. V's advice) I was able to observe K's reaction in real time.
Maybe I could have a distribution instruction for K. I wanted her to talk to her employee about this assessment. Besides the office was quite busy when I was there. But I could have made a instruction note for her so couple points, such as confidentiality, will be certainly mentioned when she talks to her employees.
 
The end for today!
 
Schedule for next step:
I expect to collect feedback by Tuesday or Friday the latest!
 
2月21日

过去的一天是满满当当的。
想要做的事情几乎都做了。真是奇迹!
昨晚早早的睡了,心情也不错。
一周里面这样的日子多几天就好了。
 
好好想想一天里面真正做事的时间
真的没有多少。
听说过那个80/20定律吗?
 
对你来说只有两成重要的事情
占据你八成的时间。
 
难道不可怕吗?
 
我们百分之八十的生命,
堆砌在百分之二十的事情上,
那么,
我们选择用什么样的事情去填满这百分之八十的生命呢?
 
 
 
2月17日

Annotated Bibliography #7

"Broadly speaking, critical thinking is concerned with reason, intellectual honesty, and open-mindedness, as opposed too emotionalism, intellectual laziness, and closed-mindedness. Thus, critical thinking involves: following evidence where it leads; considering all possibilities; relying on reason rather than emotion; being precise; considering a variety of possible viewpoints and explanations; weighing the effects of motives and biases; being concerned more with finding the truth than with being right; not rejecting unpopular views out of hand; being aware of one's own prejudices and biases, and not allowing them to sway one's judgment." Kurland, Daniel J. I Know What It Says . . . What does it Mean? 1995.

 

Above definition described why I think the book "criticial thinking: tools for taking charge of your learning and your life" is important to complete my project and for my personal/career growth. I tend to be driven by emotions easily. By paracticing critical thinking, I can fully use my cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome.

Practicum Journal: Interview

Today K and I did our first interview. Actually it was the longest meeting we ever had so far. From 11am to 12:20am! 
My learning from this interview? Experience is way too important!
 
Before the Interview: I was trying to get myself ready for this interview. However, I did not know exactly how. I did have a list of questions to ask. My interviewee also know the list. So what else I can do to prepare for this meeting? I really did not know. I guess if I were more experienced with interview process, I would not have such stuggle.  Right now, after the interview, I sort of have some ideas of what I chould have done better given my current experience and knowledge with interview.
 
I would have interviewee answered my questions in writing and read them before the interview. By the way we did it, the interviewee was well prepared with the answers, on the other hand, I was occupied with catching up the information and not able to pay enough attention on how to lead the interview.
 
Did I need to ask more questions during this interview? Maybe not. I felt like that I did not ask follow-up questions becuase I was not able to think of any not because I intentally chose not to. This is the reflection of difference between experienced and inexperienced.
 
The good experince from this interview.
 
I did give acknowledgment to my interview. I rephrased her saying with my own words to make sure my understanding of her saying was correct.
 
 
 

Japan's Offensive Foreign Minister

Editorial
Japan's Offensive Foreign Minister

Published: February 13, 2006
People everywhere wish they could be proud of every bit of their countries' histories. But honest people understand that's impossible, and wise people appreciate the positive value of acknowledging and learning from painful truths about past misdeeds. Then there is Japan's new foreign minister, Taro Aso, who has been neither honest nor wise in the inflammatory statements he has been making about Japan's disastrous era of militarism, colonialism and war crimes that culminated in the Second World War.

Besides offending neighboring countries that Japan needs as allies and trading partners, he is disserving the people he has been pandering to. World War II ended before most of today's Japanese were born. Yet public discourse in Japan and modern history lessons in its schools have never properly come to terms with the country's responsibility for such terrible events as the mass kidnapping and sexual enslavement of Korean young women, the biological warfare experiments carried out on Chinese cities and helpless prisoners of war, and the sadistic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in the city of Nanjing.

That is why so many Asians have been angered by a string of appalling remarks Mr. Aso has made since being named foreign minister last fall. Two of the most recent were his suggestion that Japan's emperor ought to visit the militaristic Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Japanese war criminals are among those honored, and his claim that Taiwan owes its high educational standards to enlightened Japanese policies during the 50-year occupation that began when Tokyo grabbed the island as war booty from China in 1895. Mr. Aso's later lame efforts to clarify his words left their effect unchanged.

Mr. Aso has also been going out of his way to inflame Japan's already difficult relations with Beijing by characterizing China's long-term military buildup as a "considerable threat" to Japan. China has no recent record of threatening Japan. As the rest of the world knows, it was the other way around. Mr. Aso's sense of diplomacy is as odd as his sense of history.

我不知道的我

質問:あなたは自分を知ってますか?
 
さて、この問題をすんなりと答えれる人がいますか?いれば、大いに感心します。
 
私は自分をよくわかりません。食べ物の好き嫌いをわかっても、人間としてよくわかりません。
いつも人に気を配るこの私だが、わがままで、私だけをみてほしいと望んだりして。
ずっと大事にしてきた人をわざと傷ついたりして、
自分が軽蔑していたことを自らやったりして、
自分でも、自分をよくわからないです。
 
やっぱ、悪魔か、悪魔の仕業にちがいない!というが、そのままにしておけない。
だって、その仕掛けに喜んでかかったのは私です。
 
神を信じる人の間では、悪いことをこなすあるいわ思うことを罪と呼ぶ。
ですから、私きっと罪に罪を重ねて、重罪です。
 
でも、なんたか、ホットする。これで、自分を無理して飾らなくてすむ。私だって完璧ではないのよ!とこの世界に叫びたい!私に叫びたい。でも、キリストは私を見捨てない。谷のそこに落ちた私をやさしく受け止めて、痛みを治す。
 
そうです、これが私だ。悪さとよさが混じりこんでいて、とても複雑な私だ。
それでも、キリストは私をしっかりと、受け止めるんだ。
 
それだけをして、ホット安心した。
2月16日

一升的眼泪够用吗?

 日本のドラマが好き。いつもいつも主人公たちの芯の強さに感動される。1リットルの涙もその中一つです。
 
実話に基づいたドラマと知って見ているときに考えた、この子はどんな顔しているだろう?どんな体をしているだろう?いつもこんなに強いですか?
 
写真をみた。木藤亜也さんの写真がドラマの最後に出ました。病気になる前のものも、病気になってからのものも。やはり地味な顔をしているごく普通な女の子でした。あんな小さくて細い体から10年も病気と闘って生きてきた力が潜んでいたなんて、すごいな。勝ち目がないのに。。。
 
それでも、彼女は病気のことで、家族への思いでいっぱいなきました。普通な女の子みたいに。そう思うと亜也はそう遠くない存在になりました。だって人間は弱いものだ。泣いたって、落ち込んだってごくごく普通なことだ。だけど、生きていくことが、夢を向かってがんばることがあまりにも大事で、泣くことも、落ち込むことがあってもそれを忘れちゃいけません。
 
何があっても、ひたむきでひたすらでコツコツ生きていいて、そして夢をかなうことこそが強さの記です。そうでしょう?
 
 
 
 
2月15日

植物

也许是经历了和人相处的复杂吧,我逐渐喜欢上了植物,尤其是花。
植物的优点很多,沉默,执著,接受,适应,这些都是很多人缺乏的品质。
 
譬如执著的过了份竟变成了顽固不化,
沉默的似乎实际只是漠视,
乐于接受的似乎无形中受压迫被看作怯懦,
那么适应社会的是不是就真的是丢失自我了呢?
 
植物能够把握很好的分寸,
沉默不语中却也个性张扬,红的,黄的,高高低低,哪一朵花哪一片叶子没有自己的美丽呢?
接受和适应着但也完全专心于执著的生存下去,
看看那些生存在角落但依旧生机勃勃的杂花杂草就明白了。
 
如果我可以化作一朵花一切就变得简单多了吧。
就让我变成一朵花吧!
  
 

给了我一个问题,就一定给了我解决这个问题的解答。

给了我一个困难,就一定给了我胜过这个困难的能力。

给了我一个高度,就一定也给了我超越这个高度的跳板。

给了我一个危机,就一定也给了我在危机里隐藏着的满满的祝福 。

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care

what is right

What is right?? I have been thinking over this question for quite long time. What is right?
Since all definations, judgement, and even feelings are all subjective matters to a point, so I guess there is no such thing as right. By my standards, getting up at 7am, leaving for work in 20min, finding how to do work better, learning whatever I can learn, and coming back home without regreting should have done better is right. But just change a person, all I am doing simply seems to be...not right.  However, if we say there is no such thing as right, then there is also no such thing as wrong. No right No wrong. Just different. No right and no wrong, so no fix as well so just improve.
 
People change enviroment or enviroment change people? Both. Reactive people get changed are more likely to get influnenced by enviroment proactive people learn the environment then adjust to take advantage of it. No matter you are reactive or proactive, at the end, you are not at the same level as you started. Ask yourself, am I changed or did I change?
 

 
什么是对。对这个问题我已经思索很久了,什么是对,正确。既然所有的定义,判断,甚至感觉在一定程度上都是主观的,所以我想这个世界上可能没有对这样一种东西。按照我的观点,七点起床,二十分钟内去上班,努力干活,发掘怎样可以干得更好,回家的时候没有后悔自己做得不够是对的。可是如果换一个人来看看,我的所有行为看起来都可以是不对。既然我说没有对那么也就应该没有错了。只有不同,没有对也没有错, 所以也就没有改正,所以只有提高。
 
是人改变环境还是环境改变人?都有。被动的人更容易被外界改变,主动的人观察外界调节自己去适应去最大限度的利用外界条件。不管你是哪一种,到了最后,你一定不是最开始的你。问问你自己,我是被改变的还是我改变了自己?
 
 
2月14日

Annotated Bibliography #8

The best way to learn the best is to learn from the best. This is what I can say about the book "the McKinsey Mind". Reading the book is a great way to steal consulting techniques from McKinsey, the world"s top strategic consulting firm. I like the book explains step-by-step, so it not only gives a 3000 feet picture for a great company, it also gives you the procedures of how McKinsey works. This book can be used as a reference for more experienced consultants to adope new ideas and also can be used as a  guiding book for less experienced consultants to avoid avoidable mistakes.
2月13日

やっぱ

やっぱ
2月10日

Final LOA

Today's meeting was really brief. We talked about the letter of agreement. I felt that my client did like the plan. However, I made sure to ask her instead of trusting my feeling. She agreed to sign on the letter and I will pick it up from her on next Tuesday.
Once I got back from meeting, I reported the meeting to Dr.Vielhaber. I wanted to let her know how the meeting went and inform her my plan of next step.
HORENSOU: President OKADA introduced this concept on his first employee meeting at UBE.
HO: Houkoku=Report
REN: Renraku=Communication
SOU: Soudan= Consulting
I like to do HORENSOU with Dr. Vielhaber. Not because that I cannot make my own decision or does not have my idea. Since she is my mentor/supervisor in this project, by informing her the situation and reporting my thoughts to her can make sure the quality of my project.

 

 
2月9日

Annoated Bibliography #9

Streibel. B J (2002). The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings. McGraw-Hill

I include this book in my list for mainly two reasons. First, it is a hands-on guide to planning and conducting meetings that people will want to attend. The techniques provided in the book could be very helpful to keep a meeting focused, on the target and virtual. Second, for my practicum project, I am supposed to attend many department meetings. With the knowledge from the book in mind, it is a good opportunity to actually observe how techniques are applied in reality.