October 30, 2009
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黃春明啟發了陳芳明，誠實地寫你真正的感覺，不要為賦新詞強說愁；Gilbert讓Anne發現，真實就動人。我不知道A為什麼說這個故事給我聽，不過也許幾年後，我會明白這一個隱喻的意義─無論是這句話，或是告訴我這句話的這個人。
圖為挪威奧斯陸一景韋格蘭雕塑公園(Vingelland Park) 。
This is one of many pieces in Vingelland park in Oslo.
還沒開始工作的生活，就像是一首歌的前奏，定調的主旋律尚未出現或說還在被期待著，簡單的音符直覺地率先跳動著。
1.《昨夜 雪深幾許》，關於那些生命中的隱喻、際遇與相遇。
A送我一本書，這本書是他的一個朋友推薦的─陳芳明的《昨夜 雪深幾許》。陳芳明認為這是一本「遺忘錄」，記述他從歷史躍入政治，而再回到文學的彎曲旅途上遇到的人。這些人召喚、牽引著他，像是一首詩的隱喻、一則故事的伏筆。
A並沒有看完這本書，他看了幾篇，其中一篇是年輕時期的陳芳明將自己的詩作拿給台灣鄉土作家黃春明看，黃春明看完後提問：「你知道自己在表現什麼嗎？」「如果是不熟悉的，你就不要寫它。」陳芳明覺得這是他寫詩以來受到最深刻的批評。
這讓我想到「清秀佳人」影集，長大的Anne醉心於用華美、繞口的文詞撰寫憑空想像的愛情故事，不斷地被出版社退稿，直到她接受Gilbert的建議，就寫她身邊的人及發生的事─Avonlea的故事，然後，她出版她的第一本書。
黃春明啟發了陳芳明，誠實地寫你真正的感覺，不要為賦新詞強說愁；Gilbert讓Anne發現，真實就動人。我不知道A為什麼說這個故事給我聽，不過也許幾年後，我會明白這一個隱喻的意義─無論是這句話，或是告訴我這句話的這個人。
2.《真希望我20歲就懂的事》，那什麼是過了30歲希望懂的事？
史丹佛科技創業計畫執行長Tina Seeling為了她即將滿20歲的兒子寫了一本書《真希望我20歲就懂的事》，如果回到20歲，她希望有人可以告訴她如何打破框架、不要放過可以大放異彩的機會及寫下失敗履歷表等。還沒看過她的書，我拉著L先去聽她在台大舉辦的演講，我好奇她說什麼及怎麼說，頂著史丹佛大學及創意教師的光環。
這場演講也許可以說是那本書的部分摘錄影音版，她運用很多段影片分享她在史丹佛創造力課程的上課主題，如：學生如何透過20個迴紋針創造最大價值、如何以5元美金、2小時內創業，她用說故事的軟方法，詮釋「重新審視問題reframe your question」、「寧願快點、早點失敗fail fast and early」、「不要錯過讓自己大放光芒的機會don’t miss the opportunity to be fabulous」這些硬觀念。效果很好，因為晚上7點的演講，雖然大部分的聽眾不是上了一天班的上班族就是上了一天課的學生，全場卻沒有昏昏欲睡的氛圍或是人在心不在的假象。
聽完演講後，L說她其實有個問題想問，如果這些事情是20歲的人應該知道的，那40歲的人該知道的事情是什麼？
這是一個好問題。
Tina在書中最後一章提到了30、40、50歲該知道的事情─擁抱不確定的未來。但除此之外？
演講後，我與L去師大路一家咖啡館「鹹花生(salt peanut)」，就像我去英國前的那幾年，我們一段時間就會約在師大路某家咖啡館，聊工作、聊生活、聊自己、聊開心的或悲傷的，可以說我們是互相取暖、漏氣求進步、誠實自剖對剖…。這家咖啡館後面有個小展覽空間，至10月底前的主題是”Soul exchange project 09”(靈魂交換專案)，裡面展出約10幅的抽象畫，L說，她有個一年計畫，學習素描已有些時日的她想辦個畫展，主題是「我的朋友」。對我而言，她的畫，像一首詩，一方面寫實地描繪你我眼中看到的部分，另一方面則詩意地跳躍表達她情感上的理解與連結。
聽到她的計畫，我眼睛為之一亮，好似汽車前的兩個大燈，就算師大路突然停電也不用怕！「我要加入！」，我是自告奮勇，也是不給她機會拒絕地強迫她接受我的報名，「我可以幫忙找場地、宣傳」。
我不確定什麼是30歲該知道的事，但我知道，30歲要做的事。
台北‧2009.10.30
Don’t write what you are not familiar with.
It seems that it is hard to set the tone for your life when you are still looking for a job and in my personal opinion, this period of time looks like the intro music.
1.The people you meet are metaphors in your life.
“A” is my friend who gave me a book several days ago. This book’s author, Chen Fang-Ming, is a historical professor and a poet who had been involved a political area; he has been back to the world of Chinese literature and he wrote a book about those had influence on him. He thinks that those people he met in his life are just like metaphors that you would find out the meaning afterwards and realise that you have been guided by them.
A told me a chapter from this book ”How deep the snow was last night” that is Chen Fang-Ming was very young and enthusiastic about writing poems; one day, he sent his pieces to Hwang Chun-Ming, a master of Taiwanese literature . After reading Chen’s work, Hwang Chun-Ming just said, “Did you know what you wrote about” “Don’t write what you are not familiar with”. Chen Fang-Ming felt the comment was powerful and deep that he had never received.
This story reminds me of an very old serial ”Anne of Green Gables”. Anne, the leading actress in this story, is addicted to writing romantic stories with beautiful phrases but not every-day English; her work is rejected by many publishers. She publishes her first book until she adopts Gilbert’s suggestion of just telling stories happened around you and those people you know.
Hwang Chun-Ming inspired Chen Fang-Ming to write something with your true heart rather than pretended sadness; Gilbert makes Anne understand that what can touch people is sincerity. I am not very sure why A shared this story with me; maybe the story and the friend are metaphors in my life and I will figure out the meaning in the future.
2.What I wish I knew when I was 20…and what I shall know when I am 30.
The author of the book ”What I wish I knew when I was 20”, Tina Seelig visited Taiwan and I attended her speech with my friend ”L”. I was curious about 2 things: the first thing was what she would deliver and the other was how she delivered. I have to say that she is good at attracting audiences’ attention by using slides with vivid video; her speech did inspire people with true stories.
After the speech, I and L went to a café in my neighbourhood and the name of the coffee shop is salt peanut. This reminded me of the wonderful time in many coffee shops with L; we might just share what we suffered from work or life or we did look for different and sincere opinions from the other. L said that she forgot to ask a question in the Q&A section which was for those 40 what they should know…
It is a good question and actually, Tina mentioned this in the final chapter of the book that was to be ready for changes. I wonder, in addition to the answer, what issues might be involved. According to Confucius’s though, people at the ages of 30 are supposed to be independent and successful in many ways such as careers and families and people at 40 should not be confused with what happened on them. This might be the implication for my inquiry.
The café shop also provides a small room for displaying some artistic work and the topic of this month is an exhibition of abstract paintings, Soul exchange project2009. This reminded L of her plan about exhibiting her pieces in a year as the topic ”My friends”. Since she has learned sketch for several years because of in the company with her daughter in the beginning, she has had her style of drawing that I adore very much. From my personal opinion, her painting work looks like poems with multiple meaning depending on your understanding or imagination. For example, in her drawing, I am the person with long hair and the end of the hair attached lighting bulbswhich symbolise that I have many different ideas.
I was very excited about her plan and I volunteered to join her plan or shall I say that I was so happy and threw some ideas at that moment that “might” “kind of” forced her to let me in ? I am not sure what I should know at 30 but I know what I should do.
Taipei. 2009.11.02.
圖為挪威奧斯陸一景韋格蘭雕塑公園(Vingelland Park) 。
This is one of many pieces in Vingelland park in Oslo.
還沒開始工作的生活，就像是一首歌的前奏，定調的主旋律尚未出現或說還在被期待著，簡單的音符直覺地率先跳動著。
1.《昨夜 雪深幾許》，關於那些生命中的隱喻、際遇與相遇。
A送我一本書，這本書是他的一個朋友推薦的─陳芳明的《昨夜 雪深幾許》。陳芳明認為這是一本「遺忘錄」，記述他從歷史躍入政治，而再回到文學的彎曲旅途上遇到的人。這些人召喚、牽引著他，像是一首詩的隱喻、一則故事的伏筆。
A並沒有看完這本書，他看了幾篇，其中一篇是年輕時期的陳芳明將自己的詩作拿給台灣鄉土作家黃春明看，黃春明看完後提問：「你知道自己在表現什麼嗎？」「如果是不熟悉的，你就不要寫它。」陳芳明覺得這是他寫詩以來受到最深刻的批評。
這讓我想到「清秀佳人」影集，長大的Anne醉心於用華美、繞口的文詞撰寫憑空想像的愛情故事，不斷地被出版社退稿，直到她接受Gilbert的建議，就寫她身邊的人及發生的事─Avonlea的故事，然後，她出版她的第一本書。
黃春明啟發了陳芳明，誠實地寫你真正的感覺，不要為賦新詞強說愁；Gilbert讓Anne發現，真實就動人。我不知道A為什麼說這個故事給我聽，不過也許幾年後，我會明白這一個隱喻的意義─無論是這句話，或是告訴我這句話的這個人。
2.《真希望我20歲就懂的事》，那什麼是過了30歲希望懂的事？
史丹佛科技創業計畫執行長Tina Seeling為了她即將滿20歲的兒子寫了一本書《真希望我20歲就懂的事》，如果回到20歲，她希望有人可以告訴她如何打破框架、不要放過可以大放異彩的機會及寫下失敗履歷表等。還沒看過她的書，我拉著L先去聽她在台大舉辦的演講，我好奇她說什麼及怎麼說，頂著史丹佛大學及創意教師的光環。
這場演講也許可以說是那本書的部分摘錄影音版，她運用很多段影片分享她在史丹佛創造力課程的上課主題，如：學生如何透過20個迴紋針創造最大價值、如何以5元美金、2小時內創業，她用說故事的軟方法，詮釋「重新審視問題reframe your question」、「寧願快點、早點失敗fail fast and early」、「不要錯過讓自己大放光芒的機會don’t miss the opportunity to be fabulous」這些硬觀念。效果很好，因為晚上7點的演講，雖然大部分的聽眾不是上了一天班的上班族就是上了一天課的學生，全場卻沒有昏昏欲睡的氛圍或是人在心不在的假象。
聽完演講後，L說她其實有個問題想問，如果這些事情是20歲的人應該知道的，那40歲的人該知道的事情是什麼？
這是一個好問題。
Tina在書中最後一章提到了30、40、50歲該知道的事情─擁抱不確定的未來。但除此之外？
演講後，我與L去師大路一家咖啡館「鹹花生(salt peanut)」，就像我去英國前的那幾年，我們一段時間就會約在師大路某家咖啡館，聊工作、聊生活、聊自己、聊開心的或悲傷的，可以說我們是互相取暖、漏氣求進步、誠實自剖對剖…。這家咖啡館後面有個小展覽空間，至10月底前的主題是”Soul exchange project 09”(靈魂交換專案)，裡面展出約10幅的抽象畫，L說，她有個一年計畫，學習素描已有些時日的她想辦個畫展，主題是「我的朋友」。對我而言，她的畫，像一首詩，一方面寫實地描繪你我眼中看到的部分，另一方面則詩意地跳躍表達她情感上的理解與連結。
聽到她的計畫，我眼睛為之一亮，好似汽車前的兩個大燈，就算師大路突然停電也不用怕！「我要加入！」，我是自告奮勇，也是不給她機會拒絕地強迫她接受我的報名，「我可以幫忙找場地、宣傳」。
我不確定什麼是30歲該知道的事，但我知道，30歲要做的事。
台北‧2009.10.30
Don’t write what you are not familiar with.
It seems that it is hard to set the tone for your life when you are still looking for a job and in my personal opinion, this period of time looks like the intro music.
1.The people you meet are metaphors in your life.
“A” is my friend who gave me a book several days ago. This book’s author, Chen Fang-Ming, is a historical professor and a poet who had been involved a political area; he has been back to the world of Chinese literature and he wrote a book about those had influence on him. He thinks that those people he met in his life are just like metaphors that you would find out the meaning afterwards and realise that you have been guided by them.
A told me a chapter from this book ”How deep the snow was last night” that is Chen Fang-Ming was very young and enthusiastic about writing poems; one day, he sent his pieces to Hwang Chun-Ming, a master of Taiwanese literature . After reading Chen’s work, Hwang Chun-Ming just said, “Did you know what you wrote about” “Don’t write what you are not familiar with”. Chen Fang-Ming felt the comment was powerful and deep that he had never received.
This story reminds me of an very old serial ”Anne of Green Gables”. Anne, the leading actress in this story, is addicted to writing romantic stories with beautiful phrases but not every-day English; her work is rejected by many publishers. She publishes her first book until she adopts Gilbert’s suggestion of just telling stories happened around you and those people you know.
Hwang Chun-Ming inspired Chen Fang-Ming to write something with your true heart rather than pretended sadness; Gilbert makes Anne understand that what can touch people is sincerity. I am not very sure why A shared this story with me; maybe the story and the friend are metaphors in my life and I will figure out the meaning in the future.
2.What I wish I knew when I was 20…and what I shall know when I am 30.
The author of the book ”What I wish I knew when I was 20”, Tina Seelig visited Taiwan and I attended her speech with my friend ”L”. I was curious about 2 things: the first thing was what she would deliver and the other was how she delivered. I have to say that she is good at attracting audiences’ attention by using slides with vivid video; her speech did inspire people with true stories.
After the speech, I and L went to a café in my neighbourhood and the name of the coffee shop is salt peanut. This reminded me of the wonderful time in many coffee shops with L; we might just share what we suffered from work or life or we did look for different and sincere opinions from the other. L said that she forgot to ask a question in the Q&A section which was for those 40 what they should know…
It is a good question and actually, Tina mentioned this in the final chapter of the book that was to be ready for changes. I wonder, in addition to the answer, what issues might be involved. According to Confucius’s though, people at the ages of 30 are supposed to be independent and successful in many ways such as careers and families and people at 40 should not be confused with what happened on them. This might be the implication for my inquiry.
The café shop also provides a small room for displaying some artistic work and the topic of this month is an exhibition of abstract paintings, Soul exchange project2009. This reminded L of her plan about exhibiting her pieces in a year as the topic ”My friends”. Since she has learned sketch for several years because of in the company with her daughter in the beginning, she has had her style of drawing that I adore very much. From my personal opinion, her painting work looks like poems with multiple meaning depending on your understanding or imagination. For example, in her drawing, I am the person with long hair and the end of the hair attached lighting bulbswhich symbolise that I have many different ideas.
I was very excited about her plan and I volunteered to join her plan or shall I say that I was so happy and threw some ideas at that moment that “might” “kind of” forced her to let me in ? I am not sure what I should know at 30 but I know what I should do.
Taipei. 2009.11.02.
