Memoirs of Anthony H. Su

9:00 2020/8/29  Taiwanese is the first language I learned naturally at home and at the church building where my family resided. I was not aware of the existence of Mandarin until 7 after I attended grade school. Obviously, I was totally lost the first moment I stepped into the classroom and could not be assigned a seat because I was accepted into the school after the number of enrollment was less than anticipated, in 1952. I was accustomed to the classroom atmosphere in the church Sunday School but not the disciplines and the language used in the public school. Basically, my classmates were in the same situation except I missed the first couple of weeks because I was considered one year younger and not qualified for entering the school that year because my birthdate was more than one month after the standard date for the school year. Fortunately, all the strange language I heard was about the commands for actions and I could comprehend them by simply watching others. Shortly after ...

2020/06/27 22:09 A second blog series to recall and recommend. This is about the significance of US history to the people around the world. This was inspired by attending the oral defense of Cho-chien Feng yesterday at 2pm through web meeting. Here is his resume as of now .  I knew his dissertation plan for a long time and I had listened to one of his special speeches about some of the content in a special speech gathering of the Taiwanese Association of America in St. Louis last year. I was not inspired of any actions of me until yesterday. It would help me and the author by having a blog series to talk about and learn from that dissertation. This does not mean that I will study that part of history thoroughly or become a historian. I simply think the history of US revolution is a critical step to knowing more about democracy.  Here is a rough list of what has come to my mind, before I dig into his dissertation: Were there immigrants without the heritage of a Britsch or bein...

2020/6/26 13:11 A morning nap took me into a new territory of imagination or in-dream-action. In the dream, I was given instruction from a mentor to look for ideas for interviewing some people for new projects by going through a pile of papers he collected with Samson and Tai. We sat on the floor to flip through all the papers looking for ideas or inspiration. Obviously, we could not find anything, not even a beginning point. I started to think about the method and the preparatory steps that were lacking. I woke up shortly after 12pm and feeling grateful for the dream. It reminds me that I have been living in that dream in the real world of lockdown by the Covid19. Shortly after we started the online worship beginning March 15, 2020, Dr. Yu Hao, a brand new PHD in education and the deacon in charge of worship services, gave me an idea to start a brand new Hymn Briefing half hour before the online worship service starts every Sunday, at 9:30, utilizing my recorded demonstration of the h...

2020/8/12 8:20 公司歷史越久，就會越多「老員工」。老員工的特質之一就是「優先推託」。需要新知識或新技巧的是情、看不出職位安全的新事情、新單位、都是高風險的差事。升級成為老員工的要領在於「避險」。 因此，承接「沒人敢作」的任務就自然成為新人，甚至是「求職人」的機會。其實，沒人敢接的事情，就是沒人敢嫌的事情。只要充分運用「民主精神」，而「廣納百川」，避免獨斷獨行。曾經提供見解與意見的人，自然沒有立場去打擊勇敢承接的人。因為失敗的因素大家都有分。 ----- 2020/3/12 /:55 櫥窗寫作的要點在於「寫給別人看」，訴求與 「寫給自己看」的 「倉庫寫作」不同。當然，寫給別人看也有許多不同的情境。 寫故事跟寫論述當然不同。寫故事可能以故事為目的，也可能以故事為手段而另有企圖。 私下給別人看跟公開給別人看不同。公開給別人看又分免費的跟計值的。計值的公開展示當然要看付費者的胃口。沒有人完全知道又瞭解每一位付費者的好惡，因此，可以說寫作是一項「賭局」。難怪有些作品被一家出版商回絕卻被另一家拿去大賺。 目前，我在這裡寫的都是習作，是為了找要領而寫的。 那麼，想像中「櫥窗寫作」有哪些要領呢？ 引人注目：標題與開門句子要有彈性、有味道。這裡的「初嚐大公司職場」是為了吸引還在職場奮鬥的讀者而寫的。 引人好奇：要碰觸到一些新穎，超越常態的用語或話題。 3/14 14:30 引人想像 引人繼續讀完全文: 逐段展示新話題並暗示結語。 引人感嘆：要領很多，要另文談述。 3/15 11:18 要讓讀者輕易地抓到可「順手牽羊」的心得或感想 326 字 （414字 3/14 14:29) -----  大公司，尤其是牟利為主的公司，無論大小，從未出現在我的職涯夢境裡面。其實，我從未有職涯夢境。大概是因為「自卑感一向很重」，從沒有想過要 成為什麼樣的大人物，或是 去衝鋒陷陣搶些地盤。不怕你笑，我從來沒有想過「出去找頭路」這種事情。不過，老實說，我也經常暗嘆為什麼我沒有這個或是那個機會， 其中最明顯的就是「為什麼我沒有機會學彈鋼琴」，而沒有慶幸「我有機會學樂理、許多種樂器、跟指揮」 。 進入大公司以後才知道，原來大公司的人力資源由專人處理。甚至有專設的部門。他們會公告求才訊息，公開徵才，甚至到處去擺攤子引人注目。進入...