Bravo.

Be patient plz, it only takes you 3 more minutes to taste the perfect performance.

余憲忠(No Name),2008.3.22超級偶像表演,黃大煒's "讓每個人都心碎"。


I didn't expect this will happen before he sang. However, he'd been catching my eyes and taking my breathe away to the end of his solo.

He interpreted in a very different way from 黃大煒 did. Among many previous singers' performances, this is the first time I feel so right.

Sincerely. Deeply. Impressively. That's what I feel.

Great Hit- Can't Take My Eyes Off U

Before this article, I have to say that BROWSING IS REALLY AN AMAZING JOURNEY IN EVERYDAY LIFE!

The journey was started from TV channel zapping, spotting at a film "Men of Honor(怒海潛將)", being interested in Robert De Niro, "googling" and "wiking" the super star, finding he's handsome and as an actor in the famous film "The Deer Hunter(越戰獵鹿人)",finally, to reminding me of the awsome song "Can't Take My Eyes Off U".

The song is so popular among participants in many singing competitions or shows. Also, different versions of the song were released by many singers. Since "The Deer Hunter" is a bit aged(1978), it arose my bigotry to find out the very first singer. Yes, he is, Frankie Valli.

"Can't Take My Eyes Off U" is his 1967 single; I think most people are familiar with its melody. The original MV was supposed to be found out by YouTube, unfortunately, the thing is failed. I just chose the one with lyrics in this article. Certainly, it's Frankie's original version.

1967,Frankie Valli, Can't Take My Eyes Off U.


What a LEGEND! Here shows 2 photos of young Robert De Niro, the left is from "The Deer Hunter" while the other is from "The Godfather II".So many sounds of "Oh my god, who's the fantastic guy" appeared in my heart when I saw those young Robert's photos...well, you know, in my impression, he's always a...a... senior gentleman XD


Actually, although I love to see movies, I've never cared about "The Deer Hunter". And I don't even know two of my favorite super stars Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro presenting in this film til now @@ Now, it really caught my eyes!

Another discovery is about the Broadway Show "Jersey Boys". The story tells about the life of Frankie Valli and his famous band "The 4 seasons". You may ask your parents about the band or know more in historical-descriptive language by Wikipedia:P It's another aged band debut in 1960 (or even earlier, using the name of "The 4 Lovers").

Wow, We're talking many old things today!

一封來自南台灣的親情呼喊

這是媽媽收藏的，不知道怎麼會被翻出來@@ 是記得有這麼一段往事，"留下證據"感覺又別具歷史性，就好像紮紮實實告訴你，你曾經是怎樣的一個人。酷!

除了照片，畢竟也沒太多什麼留了二十年的東西。




堆疊了二十年的泛黃與斑駁，而今看來，應該沒有背叛童稚的自己太多。

【相關證明1】從小就是thinking randomly,一封明明要闡述思母之情的信，開頭第二行馬上跳tone想到吃大餐XD

【相關證明2】從小寫文章就喜賣弄。熱愛性情中人的筆調=.= 或是引用經典/耳熟能詳的名句，有時不免讓人看得莫名其妙@@

【相關證明3】喜於字裡行間天外飛來的插入輔助圖畫，同樣也讓人摸不著頭緒:P (前幾天我們家人還一直在猜某個圖畫，老實說，連我自己也不知道那是什麼阿鬼...@@)btw，不可以說我畫蛇添足，畢卡索也常讓人家不清楚他在畫什麼，畫壇巨星耶!小心點!!

【相關證明4】從小與母親關係親密，延續出來成為這一輩子不斷的在「自我」與「阿母的話」之間大演"甜蜜的逃亡"。

【相關證明5】敢做敢當。署名方式有那種「怕人家不知道我是誰」的詳細度。長大後還是敢做敢當，當然同意解釋就是...不敢當的話就不會做了:P (我弟說我現在很弱>"<)

【相關證明6】繪畫一直是有意象、太抽象的狀態，如下所示。這是當時隨信附上的圖畫，感受的到可望家庭團圓之氣息，卻怎樣也畫不出具體的人形XD 都三年級了，還...嘖=.=



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Acknowledgement
‧阿母的收藏
‧過世的阿嬤與外婆的童年相伴
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搞得像是本人得獎還是發達了，在這邊誌謝:P 不過，這一切真值得感謝。

The Philosophy of "Evaluation"

評鑑、評鑑，沸沸揚揚的彷彿非比出個高下來不可，現今許多的評鑑似乎都以Ranking收尾，然後呢？

我覺得很多事都要追本溯源，才會發現那件事本身的價值。上週五去參加了一個座談，由工商時報、師大圖資&圖書館、中華民國圖書館學會共同主辦的，主題是「學術傳播與國家競爭力」。主持人為前教育部長曾志朗先生，與談人有"評鑑界"代表(專門執行評鑑工作的專家)、"被評鑑界"代表(大學研發長，不過也只有台大及師大兩校)、以及"官方"代表，最後就是我們這些平民百姓。談"學術評鑑"的面向算完整了，不過陣容好像要再更豐富一點，參與人數不多，應該不超過50人。主持人建議，"被評鑑(被害)"各校校長都應該邀請出席一起座談。我則認為握有"上權力者"更應該來，總統來更好XD)

整個rundown走下來，覺得好似來到一個反省大會，反省的input是「目前我們以量化為評鑑主軸是足夠的嗎?」反省的process是「不夠，要參考質的指標。」反省的outcome是「質好難做，好，讓我們再想想。」

對於這個input>process>output的內容並不意外，這些問題是重要的，可是我覺得更重要的是，更多更多的人們都應該知道這些問題的存在。換言之，當評鑑單位公布數據時，這些問題該被說清楚的！可是經常只有看到數據不斷被推論至事實，關於這些問題(研究限制)連個P.S.也沒有。

不過，這場座談中也思考一些深層的問題，我認為最精彩的不再於那些發散的"解決問題途徑"，而是追溯「學術評鑑」的意義。當然，這些只是被拋出的議題，並沒有標準答案，大家如能思考一下，對於數據的解讀就會較為趣意盎然。以下是我當場草草記下的幾個point。

1. 學術評鑑的目的，應該是出於為最大數人謀最大福利，研究者想要有The freedom of accessing&releasing, meanwhile, 也要有reposibility的認知。

2.Evaluation? Ranking? 我們做評鑑的態度擺對了嗎?

3.你對被評鑑的對象了解多少? 你對評鑑的概念與目的了解多少? 之後再來想要怎麼用數據和人吵嘴吧!

4.請把學術評鑑這回事和collabration這件事想在一起，而不是bundle evaluation and competition，這樣的情況下你可以想像什麼樣的學術風景?

5.culture在數據上的重要性要怎麼被彰顯或提醒? 你有學域的culture，學校的culture，社會的culture，國家的以至於民族性的culture需探索。如果真的要比較，有考量那個同質性的比較基點嗎? 如果這麼難找到基點，我們過去比來比去的是什麼?

6.評鑑執行者的perception and duty。換言之，他們"憑什麼"可以做評鑑執行者(what the conditions they have)? 其訓練與良心更是重要的不得了!

7.有沒有思考過，我們的教育部為什麼沒有一個自己的評鑑部門，而要委外評鑑中心執行研究?

8.評鑑之後，改變了什麼? 改變是更好呢? 還是只是進行另一個業障的製造?

9.評鑑的公布，包括公布的內容與公布者的態度，有展現科學研究應盡的責任嗎?

10.教育部代表說，用量化當然有很多迷思，不過這也是評鑑初期必經的陣痛。然而，為什麼一定是量->質的必經程序? 不是試著從個案分析開始，逐漸尋找可以將質的指標納入評鑑的途徑?

10個就好了。太details的部分，只要上述問題能回答，就會影響每個人對details處理的方式。再次重申，這些問題，是要discuss的，雖然書寫形式中不免流露阿白本人的思維，不過我真的沒有要打敗什麼，請寬心~~~

那天總結時，教育部代表說「評鑑之惡」，曾志朗先生很快的就說，「才不，應該是評鑑之善」。評鑑本來是善的，我也比較傾向這個角度。教學原理中少不了評鑑這一環，在我過去所堆疊的認知，評鑑的意義應該是提供一個基線，看看被評鑑的objects是不是達到，需要improve，還是oh great! let's move toward the better or something。評鑑應該強調個體績效，沒有說要用來做為績效獎金的齁...。

喔，說到這個，就想到當天台大研發長講到的一個重點。他說，現在我們都講知識經濟，當知識變成一種資本門，學術難免遭商業化的處遇，這也使得評鑑容易失焦又變成對ranking的關心，當然，學術生產力是和社會(國家)生產力有關聯，可是不能用因果關係過度解釋。他以日本一位生物學家為例，該科學家在很早以前就發明一種跨時代的技術，很厲害，可是最後卻被歐洲某儀器公司量產致富，並且申請專利。在這個案例中，學術生產力與社會生產力並不均等，很重要的一個中介因素在於日本與歐洲對於學術研究結果所營造的文化與風氣。

學術界代表都很強調文化的重要性，這當然要緊；不過我覺得世界主流權力的持有國也是一個很現實的關鍵。就像台灣的大學現在拼了命的疾呼投稿SCI(Science Citation Index)、SSCI(Social Science Citation Index)期刊，為了要擠進世界頂尖之林，座談當日不乏喝過洋墨水者(主要留美、或在美進行研究)，紛紛表示美國研究者根本不談也不知道什麼SCI、SSCI這東西，可為何他們投稿的對象偏偏就是那些期刊?「因為這已經變成他們生活的一部分，就好像吃飯喝水一樣理所當然」，那些人說，外國人有優質又保障的環境，並且達到"心中無SCI"的境界。現在整個世界體來看，推翻不了歐美世界之強的事實。

可是，如果今天中文期刊才是知識強權呢? 會不同吧? 我那時不斷想著這個問題。固然優質環境很重要，可是"有保障"又是另一回事，也不是入聯或返聯就能解決的棘手事，說穿了，我們還是在向強權靠攏，有沒有尊嚴的靠攏就是了。基本上，我仍然希望不卑不亢，在營造優質研究環境的前提下，我倒認為"如何好好的站在別人面前"更是研究者得具備的能力。

老實說，我也不覺得真會有一個非常健全的evaluation model，要mention所有可能的factors，真的是mention不完啦! 我不是說現在這些評鑑都沒有用，(當然，看到ranking很前面，多少也會不由自主點一下頭囉:P)只是有一些philosophy應該要講出來，例如評鑑執行者concern什麼、研究方法restrict了什麼...等等，不要都只有在反省大會的時候才說(更何況反省大會來的人數又有限)，我覺得我們國家的人民還蠻愛思考的阿，不然就不會經常一邊看新聞一邊罵了吧?

Be Humble!!

「隔行如隔山」的描述不稀奇了，最近我覺得，講到"不同學科"的問題，「人鬼殊途」似乎更能彰顯出領域的專業性!!

有多元智力(multiple intelligence,was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University)這麼一個東西，它有學理基礎的，不是沒有根據的發想。我是很贊成的，因為它不再用IQ值來斷定人們智力上的優劣，感覺上更可以落實一個自由平等的社會。

細部理論背景與內容，如果有興趣可以參考某位教育專家的網站(I choose it randomly at Google's searching results)，不過比較catch my eyes的是這個理論中推類的八種智力,including
-Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):
-Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
-Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
-Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
-Musical intelligence ("music smart")
-Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
-Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
-Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")

Obviously, I just can't deal with financial(or economical), program designing(IT) , and plant-growing related stuff!!

我永遠記得當年決定停修經濟學時與教授的"懇談"，那位教授是非常有名的經濟學學者，finally, he still couldn't "save" me. 對於經濟學的題目，我所回答的已經不是錯或對的問題，而是整個，真的是整個totally contrary to his thought!

還有，小尼曾經認真解釋"次級房貸"這件事給我聽，我仍然不太清楚那是怎麼一回事@@

還有，花卉植物要是讓我經手，整個感覺就是它們前輩子業障過重，這輩子才會遇到我的摧殘...

人生在世哪，be confident, and be humble as well. 才不會一直覺得自己很笨，也不會太驕傲。這樣就好了啦，不然你還想怎樣@@?

[Actually, 我今天才跟小尼分享一個感想...歷史上太天才的人，好像多數都其貌不太揚XD]

Hey, it's me.

(click the pic to get the larger font!)
content's sourcing from Fiona West & Odette Bell's IEL Website

Dear all, I think I'm this kind of person. Take it as a check list. If you know well about me, you'll agree most descriptions on the list.

The pic's derived from Anthony F. Gregorc's theory "Mind Style", which I heard from my boss.簡單的說，Gregorc以"Perception"(concrete/abstract)與"Ordering Ability"(sequential/random)做為矩陣主軸，勾勒出四種心智風格，分別為Concrete Sequential, Abstract Random, Abstract Sequential, Concrete Random(clike each of them to see more)。每個人在其中某一類型上會特別明顯，當然，也會隨著社會化或環境的改變，每個人可能多少會有其他類型中的某些特徵出現。

那天和一位學姊談到這個，她說她老公其實是屬於"Concrete Random"的，「難怪他在這個社會痛苦了這麼多年!!」哈哈，然後我就想到自己(我也是傾向"Concrete Random")，難怪!難怪!想到從小到大的一些片段，突然很想對那些instructors說，「我不是壞小孩啦!!可能我們的mind style不對盤@@」。其實，真的，在求學路上，還確實受到過一些傷害，還好靠著我獅子座那莫名的自信撐了過來，沒有collapse。

很想知道爸媽是怎麼想的。應該是那種，"三不五時讓他們受到驚嚇，有時候卻又挺以我為榮"的狀況中看著我成長，「很難養的一個小孩」(I guess it's the OS deeply in their mind :P)，尤其爸媽的mind style又跟我有點距離。過去許多的炮火，看似在爸媽逐漸理解我這個人、以及我的"社會化"更進化後止息了不少，不過偶爾的餘燼還是要燒不燒的隱隱作怪，這也是當我遇到「以後要不要回台南工作」這個問題時，經常表露出難以用現實生活解釋的表情...。其實我應該算是家庭觀很重的人，只是，真的需要一點心理準備。對於這個問題，我想有一些不知道該說要或不要的人，大概就是需要這個東西吧！

今天談這個mind style，目的不是要將人做分類，對我來說，有一個對自己個性的總結其實也是不錯的，在Gregorc的理論中，他描繪的除了各類型的特徵，也包括強處與弱處，it's really precious! 認識自己並不是那麼容易，也不是每個人都有覺性。你知道我很愛提這個，當我高二那年看了高更畫作上赤裸裸的人們，配上《Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?》這麼令人震撼的title，尋找自己彷彿就成為此生最關心的活動之一。而一切真的是by chance，無意在老師的口中encounter the theory of Mind Style，在"Concrete Random"中，檢視也回首了過去幾年來的美麗與哀愁，然後我覺得自己真是一個幸運的人，老天讓我接受社會化的能耐不會太小，所以沒有像某些被自身與社會內外衝擊的人一般，忿忿然遠去(我得承認，在我人生的某些片段中，還真的很想走掉! 只是又覺得這樣很不負責...see! i'm indeed a concrete guy!!)。

乍看Mind Style，本來對「教育」這件事有很多話想說，但是後來又覺得，「教育」也不純然是要不要順性而為的問題，今天在這個社會上，很多交叉因素都會影響教育的面貌。說真的，有時候我覺得加一些功利主義的思想在教育中其實不是壞事，因為有一些強制的附加條件在，每個人(不管什麼mind style)才有生存的保障，完全的順性而為，可能就是烏托邦或天堂吧!

The Position of "Theories"

Are theories really useless? If it is true, why so many respectable masters devoted their life to developing a theory?

In my opinion, I don't think the challenge is significant. It's not the problem of "A is superior or inferior to B" but a choice of belief or favor. As for me, I choose close to theories now.

How do you think about the question (the first sentence of this article) ?

LIS (Library and Information Science) is going through a chaos status. Many people confuse what the discipline is. Really hard to answer. There's almost a dichotomy appearing in this domain (not surprise, it seems a regular phenomenon in every discipline on the planet). Some people are trying to define some important concepts of LIS (of course, it's also a long way to clarify what are "important concepts"), while the others are interested in empirical researches. Instinctively thinking, the 2 should become one and make LIS the whole, but now they seem to fight against each other...Unfortunately!

"The theoretical group" obviously is beaten. Why so? Maybe the world has looked down "theories" (think they are "full-blown"), especially for "theories" don't always quickly bring some concrete outcomes to human society (they can't solve problems immediately). "Theories" tend to be failed by the world.

"Theories" are about thinking, "theories" are thinking tools; they are different from "reality" in essence. That's why I don't think the question at the beginning needs to be answered. Whether empirical or theoretical researches, they all count, and should deeply depend on each other.

Just like a person can't live without soul, just like it's impossible to tell me your body can move without receiving signals from brain. Do you know what I emphasize on? Thinking is really important to human beings, so are theories to empirical studies! However, a weird situation exists. Most people think if things can be predictable, they won't waste much energy in decision-making. In this case, why so many people refuse the importance of theories? As I said above, theories are not really "the truth", moreover, they sometimes can be some kinds of "ideotype". (yeah, that might be the weakness of "theories" once they have to defend for themselves) Therefore, they can show us "a possible future", like a guide to a better destination.

Look at other "strong/ mainstream" disciplines like Management, it has many many theories, although it's practical-oriented in our impression. For example, Motivation Theory, the famous 6 sigma theory, TQM, and etc., if they are bull shit, why so many companies still adopt them in management? They (those companies) absolutely can't assert the success just come out of practical deeds! Don't be silly.

LIS lacks this sort of perception. In a practical professional, people often long for "fast-food" outcomes. It’s sad to see this. But it's not really a disaster, comparing to other "aged" disciplines, LIS is just an infant, it has a long way to define the key concepts and to construct the relationships among those concepts. I'd rather take a optimistic view to embrace this discipline.

And now, we (LIS guys) don't have to bicker with others, it doesn't make sense. Looking for the insights in an open-minded attitude matters. Don't forget it takes time. Being quiet is powerful somehow. Haven't you ever heard of the words "softly killing you" :P

High Heels

"ko ko ko ko ko...."
It's really a kind of bothering sound to me....

The sound of high heels equals to "the teacher is coming" or "mom is coming". Gosh! I was successfully conditioned by this kind of sound >"< But more girls and women put their feet in high heels, I think I have to take the sound for granted when hearing it in everyday life...

I read a news recently. It's about high heels, pretty funny. Maybe it's a therapy for my pain with high heels, haha..

It's a "race" held in St.Petersburg(Russia) July 21, 2007. The report wrote, "Some 100 women took part in the race wearing high-heeled shoes with a required minimum height of 9 centimetres (3.5 inches) to compete for a shopping voucher worth 50,000 roubles (about 2,000 U.S. dollars)." Oh! those participants are SUPERWOMEN! I can't even stand well with high heels, they can run and compete with each other on the contrary@@

You shouldn't miss the spectacular scene, I recommend strongly!!

Look! what a firm belief to win on her face!(the front guy)

What a awful accident >"< I'm so worried about the fallen guy...hope she wasn't stepped on..BTW, the nearest legs of the camera are really beautiful, with lenthy muscle...ENVY THE GUY SO MUCH!!!

What can I say? The world is interesting, and full of "kuso" XD

I will melt under Ricky Martin's charisma!!

這真的是身為一個好扭女子的心聲哪!!!(先說好，我很少這樣.....)

從好久以前就迷戀他了啊！而且都覺得我心中理想型的男生要像他這樣，能隨音樂熱情的扭扭扭，不過...他好像也承認自己是gay了...，後，都這樣=.=

anyway，我今天要share "La bomba"這首歌，這首歌的歌齡也老大不小了，可是我真的好愛這旋律！幾年前聽著它做了個青春洋溢的桌布，現在則作為我的手機鈴聲，讓我這個很害怕聽到手機鈴聲響的人，竟多少達到減緩恐懼症的作用:P 原來夢中情人plus音樂就是我的the best medicine XD That's why I show you the video instead of the music bar as i used to:P

我一直覺得"La bomba"的音樂性很強，不知道是中南美or西班牙既有的傳統舞曲還是新曲?總之我最早知道這首歌是出現在Ricky 1998年《Vuelve》的專輯中，後來2006年《MTV Unplugged》版本中他又重新詮釋了這首歌。前者節奏很鮮明，很年輕有活力；後者以big band形式演出，tempo沒有那個快，倒有一種中年男子耍性感的感覺。兩個不一樣的Ricky Martin，兩個不一樣的音樂性，我喜歡早期的編曲，至於男人嘛，兩個都喜歡!!!

先上的菜是早期的 La Bomba，我較愛者。中間分別有鋼琴和小喇叭的solo，鋼琴的部分實在很酷！然後另一個重點就是...OMG!MV也太養眼了吧@@

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再來就是近年那個現場不插電的版本，在這裡的Ricky Martin"成熟了"(不是"老"!!)，現場魅力更出色。看著這影片，當我回神有意識時，竟從手機鏡面看到嘴角上揚喜滋滋的狀態XD 哎喲也真是的....

source: from Youtube