想嘗嘗甜美的茂谷柑 又不想到菜市場花錢當冤大頭 買不新鮮的老橘子嗎?


直接和台中縣東勢鎮的專業八十一歲老農夫訂購最新鮮
從樹上為你摘下來的茂谷柑　honey tangerines just for you ~~~

PS: 我阿公和果樹約會的時間比和人說話的時間多  茂谷柑樹是他幾十年的老情人......(你看我阿公和他情人的合照, 你就知道他多專情...)













我阿公的茂谷柑果肉柔軟
口感細緻
風味絕佳 甜度高 
糖酸比例恰當 (酸甜剛剛好)

佳節送禮 或過年寵寵自己的味覺 兩相宜
今年你就可以精打細算過個甜蜜又吉利的新年

心動不如手動　
趕快電話給我的叔叔　
張先生0921-730-248


For those of you who want to enjoy REALLY REALLY SWEET and FRESH "Honey Tangerine"  茂谷柑 straight from the orange grove in Donghsi Taichung County, you should grab the opportunity to order FRESH DIRECT from Cindy's grandpa, a professional orange grower for more than 3 decades. That is Cindy's Grandpa - 81 years old who insists on growing sweetest honey tangerines and spends more time dating his orange trees than talking with people .

To get your fresh honey tangerine, you can call my uncle @ Chang, Den-ling: 0921-730-248 (Chinese-speaking)

If you don't speak Chinese, you can email me cindy.y.chang@gmail.com with your order details and contact information (cellphone/landline).



　

Cape No. 7 海角七號
魏德聖
優越感被市場壓抑住
我是在等待爆發的
我是被關在籠子裡的鬥狗
我要找一群鬥狗來
這樣子出去的話
他會變一隻老虎

Let me play you a "Cheesy" song to boost up our calcium :P for 2009

I deliberately took a day off after landing in Taiwan to summarize memorable lines of 2008 I learn from advisers, peer, and my own experiences, lines to reinforce & abide by in 2009.

(1) "Perfectionism is the mother of unhappiness. Concentration/Focus/Due Diligence is the mother of good luck" by Ozgur Demirtas, Finance Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/profiles/k-ozgur-demirtas

(2) "To GAIN is to be NOT GREEDY"-- so as to identify the essential focus while willingly giving up on secondary elements - concluded by a conversation with Richard Ho, industrial design & entrepreneurship adviser in Taiwan.

(3) "Hesitation is the kiss of death" - by Omar Nasar, Assistant Corporation Counsel @ New York City Law Department.


 

Another interesting figure that I came across during my bookstore window shopping- Queen Rania of Jordan:

A beautiful Paradox
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/11/queen.rania/index.html

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Beautiful and intelligent, and balancing a modern outlook with a deep concern for her people, Jordan's Queen Rania seems in many ways to represent the optimistic face of the Middle East's future. Not just a pretty face: Queen Rania has used her position to fight for better education for Jordanian youth. 1 of 2 Since she entered the spotlight after she married then Prince Abdullah in 1993, she has become known for her philanthropic work, pushing for better educational facilities for Jordan's school children and supporting efforts to empower women. Feted by the West (she has been interviewed countless times, including a half-hour appearance on Oprah), she was named the third most beautiful woman in the world by Harpers and Queen magazine in 2005. She has used her considerable status -- Forbes magazine ranks her 81 in the world's 100 most powerful women -- to correct what she sees as misconceptions in the West about the Arab world. A beacon of hope then in a troubled region? Not exactly. The reality behind the picture perfect image is more complex. To a large extent Queen Rania remains a paradox -- a symbol of the contradictions that still blight the region as it tries to come to terms with modernity. She is the business graduate who left her job at a multinational to marry into a monarchy that has ruled Jordan for the last 60 years, at times with an iron rod. She may talk passionately about freedom of speech and equal rights. Yet Jordan's own human rights record under the stewardship of her husband King Abdullah II has hardly been exemplary, and has included accusations of terrorist suspects being tortured, harsh laws to clamp down on public dissent and the arrest without trial of critics of the government. Jordan also has one of the highest incidences in the Middle East of honor killings -- the practice of women being killed by male family members if they engage in pre-martial sex. To her credit, Rania is not burying her head in the sand over the problems of Jordan. She acknowledges, for example, that unemployment rates among young people stand at 25 percent, double the global average, and that "creating jobs is one of the most important priorities for us." The daughter of Palestinian parents, she is also acutely aware of the severe social problems that conflict has created in the wider region. Don't Miss Jordan's king to visit Iraq Queen Rania's official Web site Queen Rania on YouTube She talks about a "hope-gap" in trouble spots such as Iraq and Palestinian areas, where young people can be sucked into a vortex of violence and where there are few, if any opportunities to rescue them. "It's all about providing that opportunity, a sense of hope for the future generation because I believe that if that future generation is growing without that sense of hope, then we are looking at a very dangerous situation." Faced with so many complexities in the current political and social climate in the Middle East, it's perhaps not that surprising that Rania is focusing so much of her energy on young people. As well as efforts to improve education, she has initiated an online debate on the video sharing site YouTube. The queen is asking viewers to send in comments about their ideas of Islam and the Arab world. She then appears and discusses her reaction to the comments. The conversation is due to run until International Youth Day on August 12. "When I'm in the West I'm asked why do the Arabs hate us? When I'm in the Arab world I hear very negative comments about the West," she told CNN. "The rising tensions between both sides is a fact of life, I don't think that anyone can deny it." She wanted to take the debate online and ask young people to participate in order to "bring them into the conversation because they are the ones that can change the discourse." She said the Internet is a force for free speech, and that greater communications are making it harder for authoritarian regimes to stifle dialogue. "If you don't like the comments that are out there the best way to tackle it is to respond to them and to put your side of the story." A mother-of-four, she believes that young people should be allowed to be involved in the political process, not only because she is concerned they're being denied a voice but also because she says she thinks they have a huge amount to offer. She said young people need to be seen as "active agents as opposed to just persons in the making and to do that we really need to educate them, engage them and empower them in the decision-making process." That her idealistic pronouncements can seem at odds with the reality on the ground is not surprising, given just how difficult that reality is. That she cares enough to try and make difference is only to her credit.

In my leisure window shopping @ bookstores in Taiwan, I came across this figure "Mr. Yu, Minghon," the founder of New Oriental Education Institute in China. I find this article interesting as it seems to echo some comments lately from a respected source.
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New Oriental Education & Technology Group 
Sector: EDUCATION
Revenue FY2007: $136.4 MILLION
Profit FY2007: $29.6 MILLION
Average Rev. Growth FY2005-FY2007: 35.6%

Source: 
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1657601_1657599_1657596,00.html
As a poor student at Peking University in the early 1980s, Michael Yu wanted to follow his ambitious classmates to the U.S. for graduate school. He scored high on the required Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and was accepted at several universities, but he couldn't land the scholarships he needed to pay his way. So he stayed in Beijing, teaching English grammar and composition by day at Peking University and working nights coaching students on how to do well on overseas-placement tests.

But small defeats sometimes have a way of turning into big successes. While Yu's family lacked the money to send him abroad, the young teacher recognized China was changing. "Most parents, if they have the financial ability, want their kids to study English," Yu says today. "And with the development of the Chinese economy, every family is becoming richer and richer." Yu put the two trends together — and realized his moonlighting gig was actually a much larger opportunity. In 1993 he founded Beijing New Oriental School, offering TOEFL cram courses and English lessons to college students. After years of explosive growth, Yu's venture today is the largest provider of private education in China.

New Oriental, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year, continues to dominate the test-preparation market in education-obsessed China, with 75% of the mainland market share in TOEFL testing and 90% in the U.S. graduate-admission GRE and GMAT tests, according to Brean Murray, Carret & Co. analyst Alex Xu. Its language courses have expanded beyond English to Japanese, Korean and German; lessons are offered to children as young as 5 as well as to adult professionals. With 33 main teaching centers, mostly in major cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou, and two full-time schools for grades 1-12, New Oriental's annual enrollment has been growing by some 100,000 students a year, surpassing 1 million in 2006. "It's hard to find these type of growth rates anywhere in the world," says Paul Keung, an analyst with CIBC World Markets, "much less one that comes with a consistent track record and a very strong brand."

That brand is in many ways Yu himself, who writes top-selling motivational books and is a frequent public speaker. "He's iconic," says James Mitchell, an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. "It's almost like Winnie the Pooh or Mickey Mouse is to Disney." Well, maybe — at least Yu tries to make his classrooms happier places than state schools. Classes should be "very inspiring, humorous and casual," he says. "This is a style that most Chinese teachers lack." While he no longer teaches, Yu and other top company instructors go on "Dream Tours," giving speeches to crowds of hundreds of young people about success, goals — and, of course, learning English. The company's message is even starting to spread internationally. Its prep courses for the SAT, the American college-entry exam, have attracted some overseas Chinese to return from the U.S. for summer courses in Beijing. Since the program started last year, enrollment has tripled from 3,000 to 10,000. That means another booming product line for New Oriental, and more students following the dream that Michael Yu deferred.

Source: 商業周刊 第1099期 2008-12-15 撰文者：何飛鵬