November 23, 2006

S.H.E 怎么办 MV

S.H.E new song : 怎么办 ...
This song is the 主题曲 for <<花样少年少女>>, a drama series by 吴尊 and Ella
They are so cute in this MV... And I like the tune of this song, it's so sweet, smoothing and also very catchy, at least it's better than 觸電 ... If you know who is the composer and lyricist, please tell me...



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Lyrics:

为什么 你为什么 老是把空气全都吸光了
害得我 你害得我 在你面前呼吸急促需要叫救 护车
别看我 先别看我 我的脸红就快要爆料了
没什么 哪有什么 我是绝对不会承认我喜 欢你了

怎么办 感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你 快乐又孤单
怎么办 爱却不能讲
你真讨厌 不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样 笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗 但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂

为什么 你为什么 这样不讲理的就出现了
害得我 你害得我 连仅有的一点矜持优雅全都毁了
靠近我 别靠近我 到底离你多近比较好呢
完蛋了 我完蛋了 我整个人眼看就快要不 是我的了

怎么办 感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你 快乐又孤单
怎么办 爱却不能讲
你真讨厌 不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样 笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗 但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂 为我疯狂

怎么办 感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你 快乐又孤单
怎么办 爱却不能讲
你真讨厌 不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样 笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗 但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂

November 15, 2006

4 versions of the TORTOISE & HARE story

Recently, I received this story from a forwarded email from my friend, I guess it is worth reading...

TORTOISE & HARE - WHO WON THE RACE?

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise, plodding on, overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ. The hare woke up and realized that he'd lost the race.

The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with.

But recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this story. It continues:

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching. He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.

This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.

The moral of the story? Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.

But the story doesn't end here.

The tortoise did some thinking this time and realized that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. He thought for a while and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river. The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

The moral of the story? First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency.

The story still hasn't ended.

The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better. So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

They started off and this time, the hare carried the tortoise to the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story? It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well.

Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learned from this story. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.

In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.

The hare and the tortoise also learned another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.

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