The disasters caused by Typhoon Morakto on August 8th in Taiwan shocked the whole world. Many people lost their families and properties. More than 500 people died. It’s the biggest catastrophe in Taiwan’s history. The amount of death could be reduced if the government were alert to the warning in advance.Read More »When will Taiwan move on?
I tried to write a song on last weekend. It’s simple. The music will be uploaded here later. I haven’t found a suitable title for it.Read More »My first song!
People who were not forgotten appeared in my dream
Talks and whispers were echoing
Faces and smiles made everything so real
They were once there, they were once hereRead More »Remembering
Finally, my soul is back to freedom.
Yesterday was my last day in the company. The period of 13 months is the longest duration I have in my “formal” career. My resignation, or even leaving from the industry, was stirred by various reasons. I will skip all the complaints here. As a consequence of those reasons, I decided to make a big change in my life to do what I can truly enjoy. Teaching is one of my dreams, so I’ll begin as a tutor. Most Taiwanese still need to be educated about what is right and what is wrong. My purpose is to teach kids not only those in textbooks but also everything we should know as Taiwanese.Read More »Pursuit of Dreams and Hopes
Since I came back from Hawaii trip last December, my boss had complained about me taking too many study leaves until I showed him the department website which I created a couple of weeks ago. His management indeed disappoints me a lot. I hardly feel his support on either work or exams. In fact, the first time I showed him the website was six months ago. He has no idea about why I created the website and he can’t see how powerful such tool can be. I was asked to present my work of model improvement at the department meeting last month, so I decided to present my work by web pages, using basic HTML with Notepad. It turned out to be a success. Everyone was surprised at the website. My boss was very delighted. He told me to show my work to the big bosses, so I’m going to present the website and the framework to them next Wednesday in order to obtain one or two more head counts for our team.Read More »Working Life
Do you remember the times we had together?
Do you keep the memories we ever shared?
Goodbye we never say to each other
because silence halted our desires thereafter.Read More »When I Can’t Let Go of You
It seems that most managers don’t know how to ask for more for his team, especially actuaries. They are always asked to produce the required… Read More »Learn how to ask for more
Christmas atmosphere gets stronger after Thanksgiving. That is what I feel in my heart. Most people in Taiwan do not celebrate Christmas. Neither do I. But I have very strong feeling toward that holiday. It’s like a burning candle that warms my heart in the chilly winter. On the Christmas Eve of 2004, I went to the Cologne Cathedral with my classmates while I studied in the Netherlands. It’s an unforgettable trip to me. The night was full of music and joys, but the air was so silent. My heart was not there after all.Read More »Christmas is coming
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.Read More »The Garden of Love / William Blake
[Source: http://taiwanstudentmovement2008.blogspot.com and http://action1106.blogspot.com/ ]
Starting on November 3, with the visit of representatives from China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) to sign various agreements with our government , police officers have engaged in numerous abusive acts against peaceful protestors from various dissenting groups, under the guise of “keeping the peace”. These acts have included arbitrary searches and prohibitions, seizure and destruction of property, physical assault, dispersion, and even arrest and detention. The vast majority of the victims of this police brutality were nowhere near ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin, and were simply passing, standing, or photographing various areas when they were victimized.Read More »Taiwan Wild Strawberries Movement
My three bosses: team manager, chief actuary, and CFO, joined the company after me in October, July, and August, respectively. I joined the company in last April. Yes, we are all new employees in this company. This early month the chief actuary did the appraisal of performance for my team since the team manager just joined. He had to choose one out of eight in our department to be the ‘worst”. That is the policy from HR. Since he is new to the company, he doesn’t know who he should pick up. So, lucky me, I was the one. He explained that it’s not really about my performance. He thinks that my salary is higher than other team members and I took study leave of 20 days which might help me to pass the exam, so it doesn’t matter for me to get the worst performance ranking (better performance ranking results in salary increment next year). I told him I don’t care, but I still think the reason is funny. Do staff with high salary not have the right to be encouraged or promoted? What is the appraisal about? The boss doesn’t dare to make a right judgement which can keep the good ones and weed the bad ones. He doesn’t think I’m the bad one, but now I feel I am the bad one.Read More »Appraisal of salary or performance
For most people, it may be the easiest to choose not to do or say anything against the power. Keeping silence is what exactly the… Read More »The violence of silence
