去年12月,寫論文的生活實在太苦悶,
於是翻譯了這個TED talk的繁體中文版本。
不過到目前都沒有華人幫我做review的動作,
所以我翻譯的繁體中文version還不能release在TED的官方網站上。
冏..
2010/09/29
終於有位熱心的Marie小姐幫我做了review,
今天收到TED的信說準備要把繁體中文version 發佈了。
(整整等了快一年呀~ XD)
2010/09/30
繁體中文version終於publish了..XD
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/deborah_gordon_digs_ants.html
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2010/03/28
TED: Deborah Gordon Digs Ants
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2010/02/10
我的應屆面試體驗
公司 | A | B | C |
地點 | 北縣工業區 | 北市商業區 | 北縣商業區 |
部門 | arc | olg | core |
職務 | game programmer | game programmer | game programmer |
薪水 | (n - 6)k * 14 + bonus (底薪是按公司規定, 三個月後根據績效調整) | 不詳 | (n + 3)k * 14 + bonus (底薪由主管核薪, 三個月後根據績效調整) |
福利 | 有小暑假7天 旅遊補助 | 不詳 | 旅遊補助 |
工時 | 不詳 | 不詳 | 不詳 |
加班制度 | 平日 以1.5倍時薪計算 假日 以 2 倍時薪計算 | 責任制 (感覺加班是常態) | 責任制 (聽說這部門不常加班) |
技術 | AS3 + JSP + 心理學research | C++ | C++ 及 技術research |
工作內容 | 目前開發博奕game, project正在籌畫階段。 project完成後,team會接新的project。 | 開發olg | 公司的核心研發部門。 開發framework, middleware,tools等核心技術來support 其它的遊戲部門。 |
面試時間 | 1/26 1st 面試 1/27 下午發offer | 1/27 1st 面試 2/3 2nd 面試通知,我婉拒 | 1/28 1st 面試 2/3 2nd 面試 2/5 電話口頭offer, 問意願 2/8 我婉拒 |
面試感覺 | 人資效率超高(履歷投完不到24hr,便接到面試通知; 面試完隔天便收到offer)、面試當天不小心提早一個小時到,但人資馬上便安排筆試及面試,完全無delay、面試官很和藹可親,對我的論文頗感興趣、面試結束時,面試官跟我要了一本論文草稿。 | 面試官問了 virtual function, call back function、暗示工作可能很常加班。 | 我面試提早半小時到,結果等了半小時才有人資來找我、部門主管很nice,有年輕教授的fu、部門主管對我的論文及過去的project很感興趣,並問了些深度且有趣的問題,相談甚歡、部門主管說我肯定會有2nd 面試機會、面試結束時,部門主管詢問我的advisor大名。 |
筆試 | 計概、邏輯測驗、數列測驗 | 無 | C++、人格測驗、英文測驗 |
優點 | 公司佳評如潮、公司過去獲利穩定、表現極優、發長潛力大、公司制度佳、公司員工向心力高、我一直很想大玩AS3、心理學research亦是我的興趣、team小而美,可以跟美術、企劃互動、可以從頭至尾參與project的開發、有加班費制度、紅利不考量年資、有小暑假、team的研發人員皆碩士以上、親朋好友+ 鄉民都推這間、面試官幫我爭取名校條款,且面試隔天便發offer,深感被重視、team leader感覺很好相處,部門主管聽說相當棒! | 技術力強、開發online game、公司在台北市區 | 公司規模大,名聲響、公司在台北縣熱鬧商業區、公司男女比例感覺很優、公司環境裝潢很有設計感、此部門是公司的核心團隊、此部門很少加班、此部門有30個研發人員,皆碩博士以上、此部門因為開發核心技術,採用agile programming,很要求coding 品質,也需要技術research能力,或許可以學到開發api的經驗、我一直很想嘗試用C++開發大型project、公司開給我這新鮮人的底薪,在台灣遊戲界算非常高,已經跟電子大廠不分上下,深感被重視、此部門主管感覺起來相當有修養且學術底子優。 |
缺點 | 公司在荒涼的工業區、底薪偏低、公司環境沒有裝潢。 | 公司自製遊戲經驗相對較不足、不知為何公司外界評價不佳、該部門僅成立一年,詢問不到內部實際運作狀況。 |
我1/21碩論口試,碩論初稿在1/18寄出後,便馬上打開104 開始投履歷。
因為1/31學校宿舍就不能住了,所以希望能快點決定工作及工作的居所。
做遊戲是一直的夢想,所以履歷只投遊戲公司,約投了七、八間。
一共得到三間公司(A, B and C) 的面試機會。
1/26
A 公司面試。
面試當天便肯定我的技術能力,並希望我能立即加入他們的團隊一起打拼。
面試當天便肯定我的技術能力,並希望我能立即加入他們的團隊一起打拼。
面試官很用心的幫我"分析"其它公司的優缺點,
面試官主動說要幫我問公司,是否可將我的學校加入名校條款。
面試官主動說要幫我問公司,是否可將我的學校加入名校條款。
面試官對我的論文很感興趣,面試結束時,希望我那本面試用的論文初稿能送給他。
1/27
B公司面試。
與B公司人資面試時,接到A公司面試官打來的電話,告知我的學校已加入他們公司的名校條款。
與B公司人資面試時,接到A公司面試官打來的電話,告知我的學校已加入他們公司的名校條款。
與B公司面試完,回到學校,便接到A公司人資打來的電話,
詢問過我的意願,便立即發offer給我(e-mail附件)。
詢問過我的意願,便立即發offer給我(e-mail附件)。
1/28
C公司面試。
部門主管對我的論文及過去的project很感興趣。
部門主管說我肯定有2nd面試積會。
部門主管問我的advisor尊姓大名。
部門主管對我的論文及過去的project很感興趣。
部門主管說我肯定有2nd面試積會。
部門主管問我的advisor尊姓大名。
接著我在1/31遷出宿舍, 在台北沒地方住,
打算2/1 ~ 2/2跟家人在淡水玩個兩天,然後2/3找完工作居所,便一起回高雄老家。
2/1
晚上逛淡水老街時,接到C公司 2nd面試的邀請,因為我的時間很緊,就約在2/3早上。
(此時心中已經90%決定要去A公司了,也已經物色好一些三重的房子了,
但想說去跟高階主管聊聊天,累積一些面試經驗也不錯。)
(此時心中已經90%決定要去A公司了,也已經物色好一些三重的房子了,
但想說去跟高階主管聊聊天,累積一些面試經驗也不錯。)
2/3
早上去C公司參加2nd面試,
還在等待人資安排的時候,B公司的人資打來約2nd面試。
因為我時間實在太緊,就說我決定要去A公司,婉拒了B公司的2nd面試機會。
跟C公司研發長面試時,我還是present我的論文,但是面試時間蠻短的。
接著就跟人資聊,跟人資聊天很開心。
不過人資說公司給的薪資會跟我的期望薪資有落差。
(雖然我知道台灣遊戲業給的不高,但想到同學及學長在電子產業的平均行情,
自尊心做崇,所以期望薪資就寫了42k ~ 50k)
2/4
因為決定要去A公司了, 所以殺到三重看了一整天房子,
然後找到一間好屋, 不過月租要8,000 大洋啊!
但房子的各項條件都好,我的時間又太緊,
就趕緊付了兩個月押金並簽約
然後當晚就回高雄了..
2/5
晚上六點,接到C公司人資的電話,
她說面試我的主管很希望我能加入他們的團隊。
她說面試我的主管很希望我能加入他們的團隊。
還說他們公司除了加班費部分外,其它的福利都不輸A公司。
(還偷偷跟我說A公司雖然有加班費, 但其實不像我想像那樣那麼不常加班..XD)
至於底薪,她說他們主管還要討論, 需3-5天才能核薪。)
掛掉電話不到十分鐘,C公司的人資又打電話來了。
她說主管剛已決定要給我4x k 了,這個底薪真的超乎我的意外。
人資問我是否可以告訴她我的決定,我說要下星期一才能回覆。
我真的很心動,因為這個價格對遊戲界的新人來說非常高,
整整比A公司的底薪高了9k ,差了一個房租囉~
於是當晚趕緊跑到網咖,po版甄詢ptt鄉民的意見。
結果po完沒多久,馬上收到兩位A公司工程師丟過來的水球,
他們都說A公司的待遇及工作氣氛很好,選擇A公司不會後悔。
2/6
下午家裡網路裝好,趕緊上ptt看鄉民們的意見。
結果大部分的鄉民都推A公司,不知為何他們對C公司這麼反感。
另外也收到幾封站內信,其中兩封是另外兩個A公司工程師寄來的站內信,
信中都是他們對A公司的正面評價。
2/8
經甄詢家人死黨以及ptt鄉民的意見,
經甄詢家人死黨以及ptt鄉民的意見,
推A公司的人數整個大勝C公司,真是有夠莫名其妙。
明明C公司底薪多給了我9K耶!!!
不過在百般掙扎後,還是寫了e-mail給C公司的人資,
說明了自己的最終決定。
呼~ 說起來也頗幸運,
從1/21口試完,兩個禮拜內,
一鼓作氣地搬遷宿舍、陪家人玩、找到工作,找到房子。
這都要感謝家人的幫忙與上天的祝福啊。
這都要感謝家人的幫忙與上天的祝福啊。
不過也因此,有些原訂的計劃得擇日再執行了。
(ex. 考汽車駕照及腳踏車環島)
此外,過年也不得閒,除了要幫忙家人除舊佈新外,還要寫投稿的paper,
以及k一些programming和algorithm的書,以備年後工作之需。
2010/01/22
Oral Defence
感謝孫春在教授和吳筱玫教授擔任我的口委,花了兩個小時幫我口試,並提供許多comments,
最後還給我漂亮的分數 -- 95分。
Li 笑著說,這是他口試以來,看過口委給最高的分數。
聽到Li 這麼一說..
不禁讓我想起,大三爭取做Li的專題生時,每天都在等Li 的 e-mail,
那時因為知道自己實力不如其它的優秀同學,所以一直很擔心無法進IMLAB。
2005.12.25 11:26,終於,我等到Li的e-mail,
抱著即期待又怕受傷害的心情從outlook 打開這封信。
迅速瞄了一眼後,我幾乎高興地從椅子上跳了起來。
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Hi,
Thank you for choosing my research group for your CS project course in the
coming semester.
I am glad to inform you that I have decided to choose you as my first
priority.
If you are still interested in choose my group, please confirm by replying
to this message as soon as possible.
Thanks!
為了確認沒有會錯意,又把這封信反覆看了好幾遍,才敢相信自己終於如願以償進了IMLAB。
這封信對我而言具有極重要的意義,是第一次被自己仰慕敬重的人視為first priority。
碩論口試結束時,Li 笑著對我說,這是他口試以來,看過口委給最高的分數。
一方面要感謝兩位口委大方的給予肯定,
另一方面也要感謝上天能讓我在生命中遇到如此重要的貴人-- Tsai- Yen Li 。
我以身為Li的學生、IMLAB的一員為榮 !!
p.s. 最後謝謝老妹、阿德、高梁特地跑來為我加油打氣,
並感謝所有一直支持鼓勵我的IMLAB同窗戰友們。
最後還給我漂亮的分數 -- 95分。
Li 笑著說,這是他口試以來,看過口委給最高的分數。
聽到Li 這麼一說..
不禁讓我想起,大三爭取做Li的專題生時,每天都在等Li 的 e-mail,
那時因為知道自己實力不如其它的優秀同學,所以一直很擔心無法進IMLAB。
2005.12.25 11:26,終於,我等到Li的e-mail,
抱著即期待又怕受傷害的心情從outlook 打開這封信。
迅速瞄了一眼後,我幾乎高興地從椅子上跳了起來。
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi,
Thank you for choosing my research group for your CS project course in the
coming semester.
I am glad to inform you that I have decided to choose you as my first
priority.
If you are still interested in choose my group, please confirm by replying
to this message as soon as possible.
Thanks!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
為了確認沒有會錯意,又把這封信反覆看了好幾遍,才敢相信自己終於如願以償進了IMLAB。
這封信對我而言具有極重要的意義,是第一次被自己仰慕敬重的人視為first priority。
碩論口試結束時,Li 笑著對我說,這是他口試以來,看過口委給最高的分數。
一方面要感謝兩位口委大方的給予肯定,
另一方面也要感謝上天能讓我在生命中遇到如此重要的貴人-- Tsai- Yen Li 。
我以身為Li的學生、IMLAB的一員為榮 !!
p.s. 最後謝謝老妹、阿德、高梁特地跑來為我加油打氣,
並感謝所有一直支持鼓勵我的IMLAB同窗戰友們。
2009/11/28
碩班的心路歷程
跨領域研究很需要興趣的support..
再來我要說的是..
不過這一路走來都是值得的!
"one of the first introduction of social behaviors in a crowd.")
2010.11.22
後來也很順利地得到
INRIA Ph.d offer
TAAI 2010 Master Thesis Award.
IICM Master Thesis Award
2011.6.6
入手ICCCI 2011 conference paper,這篇同時亦發表在Springer LNAI
常常有趣的想法,不見得最後做的出具說服力的成果。
而具有說服力的成果,最初的研究動機也常常不像聽起來那麼直覺容易想。
我讀過的人群模擬文獻,大致可以分成三大塊,
第一塊是搞動畫的人在做的,
就是crowd rendering, motion control, population model, real-time navigation等。
這些人的paper幾乎不提社會科學的,就算提到一些,也只是錦上添花。
因為他們的貢獻一眼就看得出來是在動畫領域。
這一類的paper每年在graphics的conference或journal都可以看到不少篇。
Social Science的比重大約 0% ~ 10%
第二塊是搞建築或搞物理的人在做的,
主要在做人群逃難模擬,他們重視的是在緊急狀況下,群眾的動線與互動。
這塊他們就一定要碰社會科學,但僅侷限在群眾逃難的文獻。
他們也做2D或3D動畫,但並不如第一派人那麼注重效果。
這一類的paper有愈來愈多的趨勢。(聽大陸的朋友說,目前算是大陸那邊的重點研究之一)
Social Science的比重大約 20% ~ 40%
第三塊是某些前衛的社會學家在做的
簡單的說,就是把任何有趣的人群現象,做成computational model,
然後跑模擬,分析data,比較跟社會現象的異同,打專業嘴泡做結論。
很重視理論的客觀與說服力,但呈現效果很弱,就像沒有圖案的spore island那樣。
程式部分大部分是hire programmer來寫的,這些programmer只會在文中被一行感謝帶過,
連author也掛不上,最近很少這類的paper,而且被cite的次數都很低。
一個原因可能是他們的成果並不被其它社會學家所認同,
另一個原因可能是focus在群眾運動(crowd motion)行為的學者在社會領域本來就是小眾,
而有興趣去接觸computational model的則更是屈指可數~
Social Science的比重大約 70% ~ 90%
再來我要說的是..
有趣 != 興趣
最好的判別方法,就是你在唸這些文獻時,
看到新的關鍵字或理論時,內心是否有挖到寶或相見恨晚的fu,
是不是很想寫篇文章或找個人分享你的想法?
或者是沒感覺或很抗拒,不想一直查專有名詞,也懶得在google下關鍵字找其它的paper?
如果是後者,那我則不建議你在這個領域找研究的問題,
因為找問題本身就比解問題困難也花時間,
而且找問題就是要找別人沒做過,或沒解過的問題,
或是你很熟某個領域,你覺得你可以做的比其它人好,
或是你可以證實你的idea更創新!
所以當然要更主動積極去survey, 做research,
消極等待別人丟paper給你,不是找問題的態度。
當然碩班被要求的能力,通常僅是體驗一下解決問題的過程,
題目和大方向通常是教授給的,
要做的事大約就是做些
paper survey, model design, experiment design, result analysis之類的事,
paper survey, model design, experiment design, result analysis之類的事,
但每個部分你都稍能掌握時,兩年就過去了。
(所以碩士班很少能做出什麼屌研究, 當然也是有例外,像Claude Shannon)
找問題的能力通常是在博班才被要求的,
因為這時的基本要求是,
你對研究的整個流程有了底,也對某些領域的問題有一定的掌握度,
(意思就是你讀了很多相關文獻)
在時間充裕之下,才可能找到novel的題目和解法。
(當然像愛因斯坦、Alan Turing、John von Neumann這類天才除外)
所以對研究沒興趣或是認為研究就是打嘴泡的人,唸phd根本是找死。
我的碩論題目是人群的社會傳播行為,
但現在回頭想想,跟我一開始的研究動機差蠻遠的,
雖然說好像有點關係,但又不太有關係。
因為一開始做專題的時候,Li問我對什麼有興趣,
我說我對人性、傳統的形成、官僚制度、軍中的學長學弟制有興趣。
Li聽我說了一些故事,他也覺得很有趣,
建議我可以先survey social network 或artificial culture看看,
結果我花了一學期看了一些有的沒的paper和書,還是找不到著力點。
再好幾次跟Li天馬行空的討論之下,
忘了為什麼我提到暴動,
可能是因為很常看到社會學家用暴動當例子吧..
Li覺得很有趣,印象中也沒有人做過,Li就說暴動的人群模擬可以考慮。
然後不知道又看了幾篇paper,
好幾次,Li一邊聽我講故事,一邊在辦公室來回踱步。
某天,Li想到"傳播行為"可能是重要因素,然後在白版上畫出他的一些idea。
之後幾次meeting他都一直重覆跟我提到這個idea,
雖然當時我覺得這idea跟暴動好像扯不太上關係,
但當時我也沒別的idea,就照著老師的想法把它做出來,
成果就是cgw2007那篇paper,
後來Li有叫我present這篇paper給傳院的老師看,
我只記得傳院的老師除了說很可愛,很像螞蟻之外,就沒有別的意見了..冏..
但是她聽到我們想用這個平台做暴動模擬時,
她笑著說對Li說:你真的要讓他做這麼大的題目?他不想兩年畢業?
我那時心裡想著:ㄟ..妳不給我建設性的意見就算了,還小看我...
(後來證明,我真的沒在兩年內畢業... XD)
後來偶然中找到一篇paper在講threshold model,
並且忘了在哪看到人的大腦被證實有情緒傳染的機制,
我才開始有具體的idea和參數來設計傳播模型。
跟老師討論後,老師覺得make sense,我就開始實作。
paper後來一樣有present給傳院的老師看,
這次有了她熟悉的理論做為我model設計的support,
她說:你用的這些理論,我都知道而且耳熟能詳,
但是我沒想到可以用在你的模擬上,蠻難得的。
尤其是threshold model,她蠻驚訝我會找到這篇paper來看,
因為她自己也只知道這個模型,而沒真正看過這篇paper。
也不知道threshold model最初就是用暴動做例子來解釋的。
(畢竟threshold model只算傳播領域的common sense,
通常是在教科書上聽過描述,但若不是真的要做這方面的研究,是不會去翻原始文獻的。
就像很多學經濟的不會去看國富論,
我們也不會去看turing machine, quick sort, AVL tree之類的paper一樣,
如果聽到一個學傳播的,拿著AVL tree的paper來找我們討論,我們也會很驚訝)
她開始覺得我的研究對她來說有些意義了,不過她的研究focus是後現代主義,
仍然不能提供我進一步的意見,但她說我的東西已經做的蠻多了,接下來就是如何說故事了。
這倒給了我一些日後論文寫作上的啟發。
接下來就是我的研究黑暗期,因為Li給我定的最終目標,是要做出暴動的動畫。
而且Li覺得暴動只是我的model的一個example,應該可以很快的調一調參數做出來,
但是我真的開始看暴動的paper時,才發現它比我之前看的paper都複雜,
很多社會學家各說各話,而且都是對現象做解釋,沒有標準程序,也沒有標準參數。
傳播模型似乎不是主導暴動行為的最重要因子,
要怎麼傳達你要表現的是暴動,而不是一些擾動的粒子?
這裡我卡超久,卡到都想放棄了,覺得我怎麼可能讓那些agent每個人都自然的跑到位,
並且表現起來看起來像暴動的動畫呢?
所以從這裡開始,我跟Li的意見有些分歧,
我向他解釋自動產生暴動3D動畫的難度太高,
我覺得在有限的時間內我做不出來。
而且我讀的社會學文獻有了一定的累積,
所以我想從前述第一類的模擬轉成做第三類的模擬。
但是Li最初認為這兩類的研究應該不衝突,並且可以一起進行。
而且Li還有另一個野心,就是把我的模擬器跟lab的3D虛擬環境IMNET做連結,
然後做一些有趣的實驗 (事實上是真的很有趣的idea,
後來我在工作面試及在公司報告我的論文提到這個idea時,
面試官和部長都覺得這個idea很有趣,並且會心的一笑。)
所以原本Li給我的目標有三個:
3D riot animation, 2D riot simulation, IMNET's experiment with IMCrowd
但是我覺得這三個目標的focus很不同,
都要花時間再繼續鑽研,才會有idea做下去。
我覺得這段期間,我讓Li很失望。
後來硬著頭皮,再持續啃好幾篇用詞堅澀難懂的暴動paper,
才發現一些我覺得還算合理的pattern,
後來實作出來,老師覺得看起來像,用社會理論解釋的通,
我才總算鬆了一口氣。
但是後來才發現大魔王其實是實驗!
因為我設計了一個model,裡面放了太多自己的idea,
過去類似的研究或實驗實在太少,於是實驗設計沒有模仿的對象,找不到著力點!
Li叫我想一些警察控制暴動的strategy及一些評估指標,
並且分析這些startegy對群體的影響。
為了實作police strategy
又啃了很多riot policing及riot control的paper,
也看了很多警察跟暴動人群對抗的影片。
我覺得我設計的模擬器根本做不到這樣的警民互動啊~
因為警察在暴動中就是3rd party group,能不能控制暴動,
主要的原因就在警力的多寡(人數和鎮暴武器)
我並沒有心力再繼續實作噴水車,或讓agent丟石頭之類的行為能力。
所以後來我跟Li一來一往的討論,
我一直想說服Li,我的模擬器很難做出有價值又有說服力的暴動實驗。
但是Li很堅持要實作警察來做實驗。
這時候已經很逼進延畢的deadline了,看著同學一一畢業,
自己卡在一個鑽太深,退不得又很難前進的狀態下,
心中一直有休學的念頭,因為沒人幫的了我。
Li告訴我:你現在會覺得做不出來,是因為你急著想畢業。
我知道你的時間有限,但是我們可以持續討論,
就差最後一步,現在放棄,蠻可惜的。
這段期間找了很多人談我的困境,雖然沒有得到建設性的idea,
(尤其是我的母親,雖然她並不真的懂我在做什麼,
但她好幾天打電話給我,耐心地聽我說,然後不斷地表達她的想法。)
在多番的交談之下,我才總算跳出 "這做不出來的! " 的負面自我受限的想法。
於是我把問題簡化,先不考量警察是3rd party group 的情況下,
設計了一些簡單的警察個體strategy。
其中幾個表現出來的群體行為,比較結果還蠻有趣的。
demo給li看過後,總算才能再進行下一步。
(不過後來在口試的時候,孫教授也很犀利的提出來說:
"在暴動時警察就是3rd party group,根本不會有我模擬的這種individual strategy"
我是大力的點頭~ 不能同意更多啊! XD )"在暴動時警察就是3rd party group,根本不會有我模擬的這種individual strategy"
接下來的目標,就是找到適當的評估指標,來分析實驗結果。
這裡也是非常挫折,因為沒有人做過跟我類似的實驗,
找不到可以直接套用的評估指標,於是找Li求救了多次。
Li說:
" 你的研究只有你自己最了解,
我也不清楚你的系統有多少參數,
但我的感覺是你在模擬中算的一些值,是可以當做評估指標的,
你需要一些直覺。"
這邊我試了很多自己想到的評估指標,整合在模擬器中,
並自動繪出線圖給Li看,但說服力都不夠。
於是不斷的想指標,實作,run實驗,繪出線圖變化,
不具辨別性,就刪掉再想一個,再實作。
做了上千次的實驗,累積了很多數據跟線圖,寫了五十多頁的實驗報告,
到老師認為實驗ok,時間都已經到了2009的冬天。
實驗報告OK後,再來就是把論文完成了。
但因為我進研究所前下了宏願要用英文完成論文,
所以後來又用了兩個多月的時間來完成共164頁的英文論文(含reference)。
這又是一段苦悶的日子。
(不過這個期間我也考了TOEIC 910,翻譯TED talk,創了長泳2000k的紀錄,看了好幾本通識科普書)
最後終於趕在農曆過年前(1/21)完成學位論文口試!!!
不過這一路走來都是值得的!
首先是口試得到了非常高的分數。
再來是靠著論文工作面試非常順利。
"one of the first introduction of social behaviors in a crowd.")
2010.11.22
後來也很順利地得到
INRIA Ph.d offer
TAAI 2010 Master Thesis Award.
IICM Master Thesis Award
2011.6.6
入手ICCCI 2011 conference paper,這篇同時亦發表在Springer LNAI
2009/10/22
I love Swimming
I did know how to swim the breaststroke when I was a child. However, I never seriously practiced my swimming skill until this summer. I didn’t even get to any beach and swimming spool for two years. During this summer my gym membership expired, and it’s scorched hot this summer in Taiwan. So I changed my exercise program and made up my mind to improve my swimming technique.
First of all, I tried to get back the familiarity of the breaststroke, because I had almost forgotten how to breathe in swimming. In the beginning few days of my swimming practice, it was really difficult for me to swim 500m. I felt a bit frustrated since even those middle-aged women could swim better than me. However, I didn’t give up in the initial stage. Because it was really hot outside and there were many slander and hot chicks in the swimming pool during the summer. Swimming pool was doubtless the best place to stay during the summer I thought of. Therefore, I went to swim about two hours a day and three or four days per week. Having been keeping practicing over and over again for around a month or so, I could swim two kilometers at the beginning of August. Although I deemed that is a big breakthrough of my swimming skill, I hoped I can acquire more techniques in this summer.
Freestyle stroke is another style of swim and is also renowned as the fastest technique. I thought that is why I been overtaken by those who swam the freestyle stroke so often. Thus, I made a decision to learn the technique before the end of the summer, even though no people taught me how to do that. At first, I found out some good video tutorials like below ones.
After that, I learned from those video step by step how to swim the freestyle stroke such as kicking, pulling and breathing while swimming. Nevertheless, learning the technique was a bit tougher than I thought it would be and it almost took me a month to smoothly swim 50m without exhausting my strength. At any rate, I have been getting hang of some tricks of the freestyle stroke in recent days and feel free and relaxed to swim 1.5 kilometers by using the freestyle stroke up to now.
Although the summer almost gone in Taiwan, I think my swimming skill has already progressed leaps and bounce, and swimming is undoubtedly becoming to one of my favorite sports and leisure activities. It’s fantastic, isn’t it.
First of all, I tried to get back the familiarity of the breaststroke, because I had almost forgotten how to breathe in swimming. In the beginning few days of my swimming practice, it was really difficult for me to swim 500m. I felt a bit frustrated since even those middle-aged women could swim better than me. However, I didn’t give up in the initial stage. Because it was really hot outside and there were many slander and hot chicks in the swimming pool during the summer. Swimming pool was doubtless the best place to stay during the summer I thought of. Therefore, I went to swim about two hours a day and three or four days per week. Having been keeping practicing over and over again for around a month or so, I could swim two kilometers at the beginning of August. Although I deemed that is a big breakthrough of my swimming skill, I hoped I can acquire more techniques in this summer.
Freestyle stroke is another style of swim and is also renowned as the fastest technique. I thought that is why I been overtaken by those who swam the freestyle stroke so often. Thus, I made a decision to learn the technique before the end of the summer, even though no people taught me how to do that. At first, I found out some good video tutorials like below ones.
After that, I learned from those video step by step how to swim the freestyle stroke such as kicking, pulling and breathing while swimming. Nevertheless, learning the technique was a bit tougher than I thought it would be and it almost took me a month to smoothly swim 50m without exhausting my strength. At any rate, I have been getting hang of some tricks of the freestyle stroke in recent days and feel free and relaxed to swim 1.5 kilometers by using the freestyle stroke up to now.
Although the summer almost gone in Taiwan, I think my swimming skill has already progressed leaps and bounce, and swimming is undoubtedly becoming to one of my favorite sports and leisure activities. It’s fantastic, isn’t it.
2009/09/06
老爸
剛在圖書館接到老爸打給我的電話,
他講了好多鼓勵我的話,我真的好想把它錄下來。
畢竟最近很低潮的我,最怕的就是面對他了。
因為全世界我最在意的就是他的眼光了,
雖然我過去的叛逆與荒唐,導致我們之間起了不少衝突,
但是其實心中還是存著一個夢想,希望有一天我也能夠成為令他稱頭的孩子。
(比起我優秀的弟妹,我過去實在當了太久的癈物。)
最近我的研究遇上很大的挫折,畢業日子一而在再而三地向後延伸至看不見的盡頭。
我實在不再有信心回答別人我能在什麼時候畢業,
上政大後,我的努力好不容易讓他對我有所改觀,
我真不想在他面前再度展現自己的窩囊樣。所以打回家的電話也很怕被他接到。
沒想到老爸反而自己主動打電話來告訴我,
叫我不要想太多,他並不會責問我什麼時候畢業,他說甚至再讓我唸一年,他都不在乎。
還叫我不要心裡一直跟老弟比,不要東想西,一個時間就只能完成一件事,其它的事先不要去想。
老爸把我心中最近心煩的事幾乎都說出來了。
國中、專科時期,我常常覺得父親不關心我。
但其實是太叛逆,自己感受不到父親的關懷,
現在回想起來專科畢業的轉學考,入伍列車,當兵懇親,重考,畢業典禮,第一次出國(也是單人的自助旅行),趕論文的低潮..
這些人生重要的日子,他也都不曾缺席過。
小時候,覺得老爸在身邊就好有安全感,今天又讓我感受了一次,我覺得我好幸福。
我也好希望能夠賺錢供養他,也能讓他感到安全感與幸福。
他講了好多鼓勵我的話,我真的好想把它錄下來。
畢竟最近很低潮的我,最怕的就是面對他了。
因為全世界我最在意的就是他的眼光了,
雖然我過去的叛逆與荒唐,導致我們之間起了不少衝突,
但是其實心中還是存著一個夢想,希望有一天我也能夠成為令他稱頭的孩子。
(比起我優秀的弟妹,我過去實在當了太久的癈物。)
最近我的研究遇上很大的挫折,畢業日子一而在再而三地向後延伸至看不見的盡頭。
我實在不再有信心回答別人我能在什麼時候畢業,
上政大後,我的努力好不容易讓他對我有所改觀,
我真不想在他面前再度展現自己的窩囊樣。所以打回家的電話也很怕被他接到。
沒想到老爸反而自己主動打電話來告訴我,
叫我不要想太多,他並不會責問我什麼時候畢業,他說甚至再讓我唸一年,他都不在乎。
還叫我不要心裡一直跟老弟比,不要東想西,一個時間就只能完成一件事,其它的事先不要去想。
老爸把我心中最近心煩的事幾乎都說出來了。
國中、專科時期,我常常覺得父親不關心我。
但其實是太叛逆,自己感受不到父親的關懷,
現在回想起來專科畢業的轉學考,入伍列車,當兵懇親,重考,畢業典禮,第一次出國(也是單人的自助旅行),趕論文的低潮..
這些人生重要的日子,他也都不曾缺席過。
小時候,覺得老爸在身邊就好有安全感,今天又讓我感受了一次,我覺得我好幸福。
我也好希望能夠賺錢供養他,也能讓他感到安全感與幸福。
2009/09/03
朋友
我:以前一直覺得朋友不就是你有難, 我cover你, 我有難你cover我嗎?
guru:我覺得你對朋友的方式,不是適用每個人,有的人會很感激 有的人不會當一回事,
但是如果對每個朋友都要考慮 應該付出多少,又太累了,所以還是老話一句,做自己吧。
至少這樣當你為朋友做事時 是心情愉快的狀況下。
不對他好,但不表示對他差啊。
我:之前覺得..拒絕朋友的幫忙,會傷害友誼.. 尤其是他找不到其它人陪伴的時候..
guru:女朋友才會這樣,朋友不會。
我覺得對朋友不用每件事都幫 甚至他提出要求也不一定要幫。
因為有時候只是他自己覺得不能應付而已。
不然他講什麼就幫什麼 這樣累只是自己。
如果自己是老好人 樂在其中 是無所謂啦,但是自己偏偏不是啊,做自己最重要。
結論:
好朋友跟普通朋友應該要很不同。
幫忙會不開心就拒絕幫忙,答應幫忙就不要不開心。
p.s.
小時候父母告訴我,你希望別人怎麼對你,你就要先怎麼對人家。
但在寬以待己、嚴以律人的時代,這套似乎不是普適法則了...
這年頭個人style才是王道,不走好人路線了。
guru:我覺得你對朋友的方式,不是適用每個人,有的人會很感激 有的人不會當一回事,
但是如果對每個朋友都要考慮 應該付出多少,又太累了,所以還是老話一句,做自己吧。
至少這樣當你為朋友做事時 是心情愉快的狀況下。
不對他好,但不表示對他差啊。
我:之前覺得..拒絕朋友的幫忙,會傷害友誼.. 尤其是他找不到其它人陪伴的時候..
guru:女朋友才會這樣,朋友不會。
我覺得對朋友不用每件事都幫 甚至他提出要求也不一定要幫。
因為有時候只是他自己覺得不能應付而已。
不然他講什麼就幫什麼 這樣累只是自己。
如果自己是老好人 樂在其中 是無所謂啦,但是自己偏偏不是啊,做自己最重要。
結論:
好朋友跟普通朋友應該要很不同。
幫忙會不開心就拒絕幫忙,答應幫忙就不要不開心。
p.s.
小時候父母告訴我,你希望別人怎麼對你,你就要先怎麼對人家。
但在寬以待己、嚴以律人的時代,這套似乎不是普適法則了...
這年頭個人style才是王道,不走好人路線了。
2009/05/13
Embarrassing Experiences
In my childhood and youth, I was a naughty boy who liked to try anything exciting or adventurous. During those years, either playing in the house or neighborhood, I truly had plenty of fun and got many precious memories. Nevertheless, as most of the people, several things I have done then were really embarrassing and made me blush. Sometime I still feel shamefaced while recalling those embarrassing moments, even if they have passed for a long time. And once in a while, I just can’t believe how I could have been so intoxicated with those stupid things. To me, however, some of them are definitely my unforgettable memories.
One of my unforgettable embarrassing experiences happened in an afternoon when no adults were at home; my father work outside and my mom went to play mahjong with neighbors. I orchestrated a stupid adventure and led to some troubles in the end. To begin with, three children, I, Bruce and Sandy, my young brother and sister, stayed at home doing homework and watching TV. After finishing my homework, I gradually felt bored and restless. I set out to find something fun to play, and in a moment an exciting idea emerged in my head. I told Bruce and Sandy: “I will have an adventure, would you guys like to join me?” In fact, they always joined my silly games and enjoyed them with me. Soon afterwards, we started to rearrange and move all the furniture from the living room to every bedroom; in other words, the furniture was completely out of place. The purpose of what we did was to make every piece of furniture connected altogether or be closed to each other as much as possible. After ten minutes of effort, everything was finally ready. I said: “Now, imagine we are monkeys in a devil forest, and the only way to survive is going through the path made up by furniture without touching the floor.” Well, I know that really sounds like a stupid idea to you now, but we were really amused by this sort of activities at that time.
We started off from the living room and went to each bedroom by jumping on chairs and tables or hanging on a wooden shelf. At the beginning everything was going well until we came to a big closet, two or three times higher than my height, in my room. We attempted to climb through the closet by grasping the ledge over it. At first I quickly and easily got through this barrier, but Bruce was a little nervous and shifted his body on the closet slowly and carefully. The closet abruptly got unstable and swayed, as soon as he passed the half of it. So Bruce hastily tried to stabilize that, but unfortunately it did not work. As a result, the closet fell down, and Bruce stuck beneath it. The accident truly astounded us, yet it was a mercy that he didn’t get hurt. After the failure of seeking to save my brother by removing the closet from his body, I worked myself up and ran out to find my mother for help. When I accessed the neighbor’s house, my mother was playing mahjong with our neighbors. She asked me what the matter was; I was a little shy to say: “We had an adventure at home, and consequently … Bruce was stuck on the closet in my room.” My mother was angry and shouted at me, “What have you done?” while other adults laughed. At that moment I felt so guilty and embarrassed; if there was a hole near me, undoubtedly I would leap and hid myself. Ten minutes afterward Bruce was saved by mom, and I was punished. But it did not stop me from planning another stupid game later.
Another one of my unforgettable embarrassing experience is that when I and my brother attempted to steal fruits from a fruit tree in somebody’s backyard, and an accident occurred. In our community there were several small wild fruit trees. Every summer, I, Bruce and kids in our neighborhood always checked in turn whether the fruit was ripe or not. Although the various wild fruits such as guavas, mangos, lemons, papayas, and longans, even watermelons and strawberries we found occasionally, were surely delicious, we enjoyed the picking activities and hanging out together at the sunny afternoon but ate these fruits. One day we found a big guava tree in someone’s backyard outside of our community. There were two walls, about one meter between them, separately at the border of the backyard and our community. We measured that if we climbed up the wall, it is not too difficult for us to jump cross the wall and get the guava. Thus, we felt rather excited, and it really fired up the vigor of us to conquer the challenge.
Although the wall was two or three times higher than our height, we could have climbed up readily by helping each other. After standing on the wall, we recognized that it was not truly easy to jump across the gap as we thought before. Nevertheless, we were still apt to try it. The older kids tried to leap at first and younger ones followed them. At the beginning everything was going well, we all successfully got through the barrier and staggered on the roof covered with old and fragile tiles. Unluckily, as I almost got the first guava, I mindlessly broke a tile and lost one of my shoes. The sound from the broken tile seemed to arouse the host’s attention, so we tended to jump back to our community in a hurry. At this moment, Bruce got nervous again and tried to stride on the roof for getting out of there. But the roof was far more vulnerable than we expected. Suddenly, boom, the part of the roof slumped down, Bruce plunged into the house. This time he was not as lucky before, he broke one of his arms. However, the fortune was that the host was a benevolent elder; he had mercy on us and sent Bruce to the hospital. After we came back home from the hospital with the host, my mother was mad at me and shouted: “Why couldn’t you just stop bringing about troubles?” Although the host not only didn’t request us to compensate for his house but said:”If you want to pick the guava in my backyard next time, just push the bell at the entrance and I would let you in,” I felt embarrassed and burst into tears, because I thought that it was totally my fault bringing troubles to the host, my mom and Bruce. I really regretted for what I did then.
Afterward, however, I still did lots of stupid things during my youth; it seemed that I did not get many lessons from aforementioned embarrassing experiences. But I gradually regarded those experiences as precious memories when I grew up, because they were innocent, clear, vivid, unforgettable, and, the most important, they were the story of my own life. There is a Chinese proverb: “Footprints in the sand show where one has been,” I think it is true. Even though embarrassing experiences may still make us feel a little awkward when the flashbacks are recalled occasionally, they are the best evidences to demonstrate that we ever enjoyed our childhood or youth.
One of my unforgettable embarrassing experiences happened in an afternoon when no adults were at home; my father work outside and my mom went to play mahjong with neighbors. I orchestrated a stupid adventure and led to some troubles in the end. To begin with, three children, I, Bruce and Sandy, my young brother and sister, stayed at home doing homework and watching TV. After finishing my homework, I gradually felt bored and restless. I set out to find something fun to play, and in a moment an exciting idea emerged in my head. I told Bruce and Sandy: “I will have an adventure, would you guys like to join me?” In fact, they always joined my silly games and enjoyed them with me. Soon afterwards, we started to rearrange and move all the furniture from the living room to every bedroom; in other words, the furniture was completely out of place. The purpose of what we did was to make every piece of furniture connected altogether or be closed to each other as much as possible. After ten minutes of effort, everything was finally ready. I said: “Now, imagine we are monkeys in a devil forest, and the only way to survive is going through the path made up by furniture without touching the floor.” Well, I know that really sounds like a stupid idea to you now, but we were really amused by this sort of activities at that time.
We started off from the living room and went to each bedroom by jumping on chairs and tables or hanging on a wooden shelf. At the beginning everything was going well until we came to a big closet, two or three times higher than my height, in my room. We attempted to climb through the closet by grasping the ledge over it. At first I quickly and easily got through this barrier, but Bruce was a little nervous and shifted his body on the closet slowly and carefully. The closet abruptly got unstable and swayed, as soon as he passed the half of it. So Bruce hastily tried to stabilize that, but unfortunately it did not work. As a result, the closet fell down, and Bruce stuck beneath it. The accident truly astounded us, yet it was a mercy that he didn’t get hurt. After the failure of seeking to save my brother by removing the closet from his body, I worked myself up and ran out to find my mother for help. When I accessed the neighbor’s house, my mother was playing mahjong with our neighbors. She asked me what the matter was; I was a little shy to say: “We had an adventure at home, and consequently … Bruce was stuck on the closet in my room.” My mother was angry and shouted at me, “What have you done?” while other adults laughed. At that moment I felt so guilty and embarrassed; if there was a hole near me, undoubtedly I would leap and hid myself. Ten minutes afterward Bruce was saved by mom, and I was punished. But it did not stop me from planning another stupid game later.
Another one of my unforgettable embarrassing experience is that when I and my brother attempted to steal fruits from a fruit tree in somebody’s backyard, and an accident occurred. In our community there were several small wild fruit trees. Every summer, I, Bruce and kids in our neighborhood always checked in turn whether the fruit was ripe or not. Although the various wild fruits such as guavas, mangos, lemons, papayas, and longans, even watermelons and strawberries we found occasionally, were surely delicious, we enjoyed the picking activities and hanging out together at the sunny afternoon but ate these fruits. One day we found a big guava tree in someone’s backyard outside of our community. There were two walls, about one meter between them, separately at the border of the backyard and our community. We measured that if we climbed up the wall, it is not too difficult for us to jump cross the wall and get the guava. Thus, we felt rather excited, and it really fired up the vigor of us to conquer the challenge.
Although the wall was two or three times higher than our height, we could have climbed up readily by helping each other. After standing on the wall, we recognized that it was not truly easy to jump across the gap as we thought before. Nevertheless, we were still apt to try it. The older kids tried to leap at first and younger ones followed them. At the beginning everything was going well, we all successfully got through the barrier and staggered on the roof covered with old and fragile tiles. Unluckily, as I almost got the first guava, I mindlessly broke a tile and lost one of my shoes. The sound from the broken tile seemed to arouse the host’s attention, so we tended to jump back to our community in a hurry. At this moment, Bruce got nervous again and tried to stride on the roof for getting out of there. But the roof was far more vulnerable than we expected. Suddenly, boom, the part of the roof slumped down, Bruce plunged into the house. This time he was not as lucky before, he broke one of his arms. However, the fortune was that the host was a benevolent elder; he had mercy on us and sent Bruce to the hospital. After we came back home from the hospital with the host, my mother was mad at me and shouted: “Why couldn’t you just stop bringing about troubles?” Although the host not only didn’t request us to compensate for his house but said:”If you want to pick the guava in my backyard next time, just push the bell at the entrance and I would let you in,” I felt embarrassed and burst into tears, because I thought that it was totally my fault bringing troubles to the host, my mom and Bruce. I really regretted for what I did then.
Afterward, however, I still did lots of stupid things during my youth; it seemed that I did not get many lessons from aforementioned embarrassing experiences. But I gradually regarded those experiences as precious memories when I grew up, because they were innocent, clear, vivid, unforgettable, and, the most important, they were the story of my own life. There is a Chinese proverb: “Footprints in the sand show where one has been,” I think it is true. Even though embarrassing experiences may still make us feel a little awkward when the flashbacks are recalled occasionally, they are the best evidences to demonstrate that we ever enjoyed our childhood or youth.
2009/04/24
Time Management Matrix
Many students complain that they don’t have enough time to join school organizations, to do a part-time job, to be in love, to work out regularly, or mingle with different friends according to their heavy academic work load. However, some students still can take those things done well and get good credits from various courses at the same time. In the past, I was like the aforementioned students and was really curious about how some people could accomplish many things simultaneously. Was it just because they were smarter than me? No, I never believed it. In order to find out the answer, I tried to contact various people and extracurricular activities including school clubs, part time jobs and study groups and, what is more, falling in love during sophomore year. Then, I truly had much fun and made a lot of friends from those activities, but in the mean time I got poor academic performance as a result. I felt so frustrated and thought I was undoubtedly a stupid guy until I learned some time management skills, such as keeping the schedule, writing down the to-do list, organizing the file system etc. Among these many skills, I have found that Time Management Matrix is the best way of arranging one’s time to do proper thing effectively.
Doing right thing adequately is much more important than doing wrong thing beautifully,” said Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University Professor famous for his “Last Lecture.” This means setting a personal goal is always the first thing to do. The reason is that setting a concrete goal will make you suddenly realize that time is so finite for you to accomplish all the things you have to or want to do. According to time limitation, you should find out which things are really worthy to do or urgent to do. There is a well-known rule called Pareto’s Principle (20/80 rules), it says “80 percents of work give 20 percents results; 20 percents of work give 80 percents results.” In other words, if you do the right things, you will work less but get more accomplishment. I learned Time Management Matrix (see Figure 1) from the book First Thing First, definitely can help you arrange tasks and goals systematically and concentrate on essential things. Time Management matrix focuses on two dimensions: the urgency and the importance of the tasks. As it turns out, the matrix categorizes tasks into four quadrants so that the user can easily understand which things should have more priority than others or which things could be put aside until leisure time. Below are the details of each quadrant..

As you can see in Figure 1, Quadrant 1 represents urgent and important goals which are also called “firefighting”, because the activities in it are very important and need to be dealt with immediately. If there are many tasks in this quadrant, you will definitely work hard and feel stress. The best example for students is that there are always several term papers, exams or final projects due near the end of semester in this quadrant, and all of them obviously make students feel stressed.
In comparison with Quadrant 1, the activities in Quadrant 4 are neither urgent nor important, and are regarded as “time wasting.” These activities usually consume a lot of time, but do not move you toward your goals. Unfortunately, most of daily activities of many students are fallen into this quadrant, because they are generally easier to do and students have less stress with them. For example, playing computer games, watching soap operas or TV series, and reading comic books are all popular activities for students. Those activities, however, have no contribution to their goals, but will make them feel anxious. Because it is usually two or three hours passing unknowingly, yet they have not done any task.
It is not difficult for students to distinguish between the priorities of activities in Quadrant 1 and Quadrant 4, but which one is the second priority after Quadrant 1 always makes students confuse. In fact, most students would like more to do the activities of Quadrant 3 than Quadrant 2. Quadrant 3 is “distraction.” The activities in it must be dealt with right now, but frankly they are not important. It is interesting that a lot of students consider Quadrant 3 should be done first. They think, “Ok, this is not important but urgent, so I have to work on it.” For instance, many students usually answer the phone call or MSN, or check out their e-mails frequently, when they are studying or doing homework. Though they may feel busy and self-fulfilled, the truth is not much progress to their goal. That is to say, the noise of urgency creates the illusion of importance.
Conversely, Quadrant 2 includes activities that are important but not urgent and called “Quality time.” As the matter of fact, what your attitude to this quadrant is the key factor that determines how you feel when facing a lot of tasks. The reason is that many Quadrant 1 activities could be reduced by allocating time in your diary to carry out the Quadrant 2 tasks at your best(In this respect Quadrant 2 may be even more important than Quadrant 1). To illustrate, if we keep surveying the related materials of the term paper or review the lecture notes every day, we will feel confident to face the term papers and exams at the end of semester while others die hard.
During the sophomore year, I always felt busy but I still could not do things well, because I spent a lot of time on Quadrant 3 & 4 activities, such as playing computer games, hitting the bar, chatting by MSN and fooling around with diehard followers. Although doing those activities really gave me fun, I always felt empty after the activities and slept not well. The Time Management Matrix helps me to readily arrange the limited time to do proper thing. When I consciously strive to maximize Quadrant 2 time, it really helps me to achieve some goals or dreams which I never thought I can fulfill so quickly, such as publishing my research on an international conference, conquering Mt. Jade and Mt. Xue, and even acquiring the ability of English writing! Though being a master student makes me busier than before, I can extract some time to do what I want to do and, more importantly, still have fun! If Time Management Matrix gives me so much time and fun, I am sure it can give you the same benefits.
Doing right thing adequately is much more important than doing wrong thing beautifully,” said Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University Professor famous for his “Last Lecture.” This means setting a personal goal is always the first thing to do. The reason is that setting a concrete goal will make you suddenly realize that time is so finite for you to accomplish all the things you have to or want to do. According to time limitation, you should find out which things are really worthy to do or urgent to do. There is a well-known rule called Pareto’s Principle (20/80 rules), it says “80 percents of work give 20 percents results; 20 percents of work give 80 percents results.” In other words, if you do the right things, you will work less but get more accomplishment. I learned Time Management Matrix (see Figure 1) from the book First Thing First, definitely can help you arrange tasks and goals systematically and concentrate on essential things. Time Management matrix focuses on two dimensions: the urgency and the importance of the tasks. As it turns out, the matrix categorizes tasks into four quadrants so that the user can easily understand which things should have more priority than others or which things could be put aside until leisure time. Below are the details of each quadrant..

Figure 1. Time Management Matrix
In comparison with Quadrant 1, the activities in Quadrant 4 are neither urgent nor important, and are regarded as “time wasting.” These activities usually consume a lot of time, but do not move you toward your goals. Unfortunately, most of daily activities of many students are fallen into this quadrant, because they are generally easier to do and students have less stress with them. For example, playing computer games, watching soap operas or TV series, and reading comic books are all popular activities for students. Those activities, however, have no contribution to their goals, but will make them feel anxious. Because it is usually two or three hours passing unknowingly, yet they have not done any task.
It is not difficult for students to distinguish between the priorities of activities in Quadrant 1 and Quadrant 4, but which one is the second priority after Quadrant 1 always makes students confuse. In fact, most students would like more to do the activities of Quadrant 3 than Quadrant 2. Quadrant 3 is “distraction.” The activities in it must be dealt with right now, but frankly they are not important. It is interesting that a lot of students consider Quadrant 3 should be done first. They think, “Ok, this is not important but urgent, so I have to work on it.” For instance, many students usually answer the phone call or MSN, or check out their e-mails frequently, when they are studying or doing homework. Though they may feel busy and self-fulfilled, the truth is not much progress to their goal. That is to say, the noise of urgency creates the illusion of importance.
Conversely, Quadrant 2 includes activities that are important but not urgent and called “Quality time.” As the matter of fact, what your attitude to this quadrant is the key factor that determines how you feel when facing a lot of tasks. The reason is that many Quadrant 1 activities could be reduced by allocating time in your diary to carry out the Quadrant 2 tasks at your best(In this respect Quadrant 2 may be even more important than Quadrant 1). To illustrate, if we keep surveying the related materials of the term paper or review the lecture notes every day, we will feel confident to face the term papers and exams at the end of semester while others die hard.
During the sophomore year, I always felt busy but I still could not do things well, because I spent a lot of time on Quadrant 3 & 4 activities, such as playing computer games, hitting the bar, chatting by MSN and fooling around with diehard followers. Although doing those activities really gave me fun, I always felt empty after the activities and slept not well. The Time Management Matrix helps me to readily arrange the limited time to do proper thing. When I consciously strive to maximize Quadrant 2 time, it really helps me to achieve some goals or dreams which I never thought I can fulfill so quickly, such as publishing my research on an international conference, conquering Mt. Jade and Mt. Xue, and even acquiring the ability of English writing! Though being a master student makes me busier than before, I can extract some time to do what I want to do and, more importantly, still have fun! If Time Management Matrix gives me so much time and fun, I am sure it can give you the same benefits.
2009/03/03
Mt. Syue (2009/2/18~2009/2/20) Day 3
2/20(五) 目的地:攻頂雪山主峰
昨晚大約七點就睡了,不知道睡到幾點,開始斷斷續續醒了又睡,睡了又醒。
不是因為頭疼不舒服(睡前一顆普拿疼,真的很好睡),而是因為很想尿尿!
但不想半夜爬出睡袋去上廁所,就在床上死撐等泥鰍大哥二點來叫床。
醒來後,才知道很多人也二點前就醒了,都跟我一樣賴在床上,不肯爬出睡袋。
然而,泥鰍大哥跟我們宣布了壞消息,他說昨天晚上雪山開始下小雨,
而且雨勢很可能會一直持續著。他要大家決定是否攻頂。
他說爬山並不是到此一遊,重點是過程,有沒有攻頂真的不用看太重。
平安回家最重要!
另外一旦下雨,山頂也看不到風景,泥鰍大哥不鼓勵大家上山,但是要上山他還是願意帶大家走一遭。
之前跟阿德去爬台北的小山時,有走過溼滑山路的經驗,
同行不少人都滑倒過,走起來也分外吃力。在氣候不好的狀況下爬山真的風險很高。
但是看到阿德和鴻斌沒有停下收拾攻頂包的動作,就知道沒什麼好考慮的了,攻頂囉~
最後除了兩個人不舒服繼續睡之外,剩餘的人就起床吃早餐準備去攻頂囉~

出發時,氣溫大約八度C,地上已是溼溼的,但天空只飄著很細很細的小雨。
(玉山攻頂出發時是四度C)

雪山主峰攻頂團出發囉~

走沒多久,就開始起大霧了~照出來的相片都很霧~
不過沒照到不該照到的東西就好了。

霧散了之後,不開閃光燈照起來是這樣的,我很喜歡這個fu。

走入黑森林囉~ 不過在深夜行走,不管白森林還黑森林,都一樣黑!傻傻的分不清。
後來雨愈下愈大了,泥鰍大哥讓大家停下來穿上雨具。
經過石瀑後,泥鰍大哥說我們當中有人想折返了,而且看來這個雨勢會下到早上。
於是他又開始苦口婆心的勸大家不要勉強登頂。
他說他知道有些人一定是為了登頂而來,他願意帶這些人去攻頂。
然而若體能不足,或雨具不充分的千萬別嘗試在這種惡劣情況攻頂。
最後攻頂的十四人,分為兩團剛好各七人,一團由小馬帶領折返回369山莊。
另一團跟泥鰍大哥繼續向前走。
我看鴻斌都沒說話,就知道我們會繼續跟著泥鰍大哥。
然而令我驚訝的是,在最後七人中,居然沒看到阿德的身影!!
阿德的折返對我來說,是一個蠻大的信心打擊,
因為他的行動,一向是我下決定前最重要的參考指標。
(我們倆個還蠻少默契不一致的,後來才知道他沒有帶雨褲,擔心失溫,所以折返)
泥鰍大哥出發前,又警告了我們一次,他說後面大約3km都是陡上的路,不會像前面那麼輕鬆,
加上後面的路跡很不清楚,我們沒有壓後路的響導,
大家必需同進同出,只要有一個人想折返,大家就一定要折返。
他要大家想清楚再出發。
大家都沈默不語,於是泥鰍大哥就帶我們上山了。
我知道其實他是十分不建議我們這時攻頂的,因為雨勢並不小。
後來就如同泥鰍大哥所言,是連續陡上的路。
而且因為是小隊行走,泥鰍大哥走的速度不慢,
很少停下來休息,跟著他一直爬上去其實蠻辛苦的。
而泥鰍大哥後面的路上,也不再提問是否要折返了。
我猜他大概是認為,居然我們決定要在這時候攻頂,我們就要為自己的行為負責!
想折返自己提,但是一旦想折返,就是全隊折返。
沒多久,鴻斌開始變得很吃力,
無論是大腿的肌力或心臟的強度,對他來說,都不是容易負荷的。
畢竟他脫離學生生活很久了,這幾年都缺乏規律的運動量。
他頭上斗大的水珠不知是汗水還是雨水,
臉色蒼白不知是因為體力不足還是冷,
他雖然沒說,但從他的神情,我看得出來。
我一直很欣賞鴻斌的個性,他是個不輕易服輸的人,
雖然外表或許有點冷漠,但其實他總是會默默的完成一些事。
從小到大,我很少聽他抱怨過什麼事,也幾乎沒有聽他說出打退堂鼓的話。
如果他停下來,那就是他真的走不動了。
每當我們停下來,我就趕緊拿水給他,問他還可以吧?
他沒有點頭,也沒有說什麼,喝完水,休息一下就站起來繼續走。
我能做的也只有在他身旁提醒他要記得保持呼吸的頻率。
因為他開始有頭痛與嘔吐感的症狀。
黑森林的路跡很不清楚,
但是泥鰍大哥很值得信賴,儘管在下雨的黑夜中,
他還是可以把我們正確地帶到下個地標。
出了黑森林後,沒有遮雨的屏障,雨勢還加大,我的防水手套和jump登山鞋都溼了。
但是身上有雨衣及雨褲,毛帽及保暖層都沒有溼,還可以忍受。
後來除了地上出現積厚冰要小心行走之外,
天上居然開始下起冰雹,就像有人不斷把碎冰塊灑在身上一樣。
(後來有人說當時沒帶手套被冰塊打到手還真痛,
我全副武裝,到是沒什麼觸感,只聽到冰塊在我雨衣上不斷發出啪啪的聲響。)
冰塊晶體紛紛從頭燈前的白光閃過,雖然很漂亮,
但其實我心中開始有折返的念頭了,
因為我一直以為山頂是12km,而我們才走到9.x km而已。
想到還要在這種氣候下走三公里爬坡,真是難受極了。
但是想那麼多,只會讓自己更難受。
人最大的難關就是自己的心魔,每當它佔據思考時,
許多念頭就會不斷的湧現,讓人覺得沈重。
最好的方法就是專注每一次呼吸,什麼都不想,
心中就不會有時間感,最後你總是會站在想要的位置。
鴻斌愈來愈虛弱了,
每約一百公尺,他就會受不了而坐下來,
嘴裡已沒有太多力氣說話。
我知道他很想休息,但是身體坐下來休息太久,再啟動會更加吃力。
另外我們落隊在後很危險,因為黑夜中,無論往前走或往下走都很容易迷路。
好在泥鰍大哥及其它的五人,都不斷的停下來等我們跟上。
到了10km,泥鰍大哥說剩下0.9km了,我才知道原來雪山主峰是10.9km。
我的體力和肌力沒問題,只是手套跟鞋都溼了,感覺有點冰冷。
鴻斌這時候已經是用意志力在撐了,
好幾次,我都聽到他脆弱著說:「我不行了..」或 「水..」
心中雖然不忍再拉著他繼續爬,但主峰就在眼前了。
不過往往最後一段路也是最考驗意志力的了,
不一定是路真的難走,而是人特別容易在最後一刻放棄。
如Paulo Coelho在牧羊少年奇幻之旅中說的:「一個人往往渴死在棕櫚樹已經出現在地平線上時。」
我只能一直提醒他要注意呼吸頻率,並餵給他一顆普拿疼和水,跟他一起慢慢爬。
走到10.5km的木椿,雨已不知何時停了下來,天空開始展露微光,週遭的環境漸漸浮現輪廓。
「鴻斌山頭就在那了~剩下操場一圈~加油,相信你的潛力!」
鴻斌這時候意識很微弱,步伐沈重極了。
像是用著意志在拖身體移動,加上大腦有缺氧的狀況,頭仍暈疼。
我得一直重覆提醒他別忘記深呼吸、並保持呼吸頻率。
我們小步小步的慢慢走,每50m就休息一次。
泥鰍大哥與前面的五個人,不時會停下來,並跟我們打氣,叫我們加油。
後面這四百公尺,鴻斌真的是拼了老命把它走完的。

雖然總算來到10.9km,看到雪山主峰的石碑。但鴻斌似乎連提起嘴角笑的力氣都沒有了。

天氣一片灰濛濛,真如泥鰍大哥所言,什麼風景也看不到。
而且手脫離手套久了,有僵硬的痛麻感。
但是手套又溼又厚,拿相機拍照很不方便。
不過整個山頂都沒有其它的團,可以任我們走動、拍照,不會被別人的大頭擋到鏡頭。
也沒有喧鬧的叨嘈聲,搞得像全台北人都擠在上頭一樣。
這一刻的雪山主峰,是屬於我們的,可以盡情享受。

我們到的時候,泥鰍大哥與其它五個人已經煮好第一壼三合一即溶咖啡。
突然領悟為什麼以前x牌的咖啡或奶茶廣告,總是一群年輕人在山頂舉杯。

這位老兄在瓦斯爐旁尋暖。

喝了幾杯咖啡後,我就趕緊找主峰石碑領登頂證書。登..登..人生第四座百岳入手!

鴻斌(咬著杯子的) 則是待在泥鰍大哥旁,要了好幾杯咖啡提提神,暖暖身。

最後鴻斌還是被我拖來拍攻頂證書,不過霧氣太重,拍的很不清楚。

我拿出登山大熱門的果凍條,在山頂發給大家,又Q又冰涼,看這位老兄吃的很enjoy呢!

霧濛濛的主峰石碑,有人說像美麗聖潔的玉女。

地上有一些碎冰塊,不知道是不是凌晨下的冰雹。

還有一些積雪。

後來太陽盃盃很賞臉的出來幫我們驅散大霧。

但是雲霧飄的太快,才剛拿起相機,遠端的山陵線就被吞沒了。

那就來拍團照吧~

不過回程的時間有限,大家趕緊收拾垃圾與背包,準備下山去囉~

甫下山之時,大霧仍未完全散去。

藏身在濃霧中的圈谷,有一種神秘莊嚴的fu。
會讓我想起日本武田信玄與上杉謙信的川中島之戰。

還是圈谷。

雪不斷的流動,每次按下快門都是全新的大自然創作。

喔~喔~快門按個不停,究竟是拍圈谷還是拍雲海我早已忘記了,
嘴裡一直喊著「好正!好正!」,快門聲此起彼落。

這些雪白的厚雲,完全不負雪山的盛名!

當然親身走在人間仙境的感覺,不是看照片就能體會的。

一直陶醉在圈谷美好的幻境中,差點忘了旁邊有雪耶!!

其實一開始我一直以為那是冰,所以懶得理它,直到鴻斌把它捧在手上,我才意識到它是雪。

看到雪的鴻斌,整個人復活了!!

還躺在雪上調皮一下!

舔一口嚐嚐什麼滋味,(我的表情怎麼可以智障成這樣.... >///<)
下次一定要帶草苺果醬來吃雪。

走到快圈谷底時,風景又有了變化,猶如身在侏儸紀公園。

好像會有恐龍跑出來~

回頭展望整個圈谷。
泥鰍大哥說其實天氣不好時攻頂也有好處,
因為很多人看到圈谷那麼高,腳就抬不起來了,僅管只有一公里多的路程,
看不清楚反而沒有心理障礙。

牌上大致寫著說圈谷是冰河沖刷而成的。

又回到黑森林囉~

白天晚上是完全不同的風情。

黑森林有很多柵欄,泥鰍大哥說是因為路跡不清,怕山友迷路而建置的。
(但是深夜要摸黑上來我認為仍是很相當不易的事~)

這麼偉大的柵欄,一定要跟它合照一張。

黑森林不像童畫故事那樣恐怖,陽光還是能從樹的縫細照射進來,
只是沿途都是樹,沒有什麼風景可言。

不過陽光篩落在山中小徑上,簡直就是大自然最美的畫作。
(我的相機照不出來那個色調,哭哭,想敗單眼相機了。)

有人在黑森林紥營,不過凌晨攻頂時沒注意到他們。

在他們紥營不到五十公尺處,有警示牌寫著:此處有大型動物出沒,禁止在此露營及生火。
泥鰍大哥說他曾經在這附近看過兩次台灣黑熊。有一次還是大熊帶小熊呢。

黑森林有夠長,一直陡下。很難想像當初是怎麼走上來的。

這就是泥鰍大哥說的水源地,山青有時候會上來接水到三六九山莊供山友飲用。

水源地附近有許多厚積冰。

石瀑,昨天小馬帶的另一團人就是從此折返。

由下向上照的石瀑。
石瀑後面的路就平緩許多。而我的相機也在這裡沒電了。

所以一下就走出黑森林囉~

出了黑森林後,又看到那片焦土,真的慘不忍睹。大家要愛護好山好水啊!!

山莊附近仍是一片雲海。

我覺得 369山莊 比 排雲山莊更具排雲山莊之姿。
到了排雲山莊時,小馬帶的另一團人已經到達七卡山莊了。
我們把衣服曬一曬,吃個泡麵當午餐,就趕緊下山囉!

雖然說是下山,但從369山莊走到東峰這段可是一直上坡哩。

爬坡累了停下來休息,總是有白雲陪伴著。

山林間有許多太陽射入的光束,阿德超愛。

又來到了哭坡,這段下坡快把我膝蓋搞壞啦~
而且我的登山鞋還是溼的,下坡時腳底跟腳趾都好痛。

另一團人正從七卡山莊下山,學妹一副像是來划雪的。

下了七卡山莊後,都是這種紅紅的山道。沒多久,我們就超越小馬帶的折返團囉~
一路追了五公里吶~ (我們從三六九山莊出發時,他們已經開始下七卡山莊了。)
不知道是他們走太慢,還是我們下太快了。

終於來到登山口,膝蓋快斷了!
我一整個耍白爛,從七卡山莊下來幾乎是用跑的飇山。

出來就不能再進去了,會被罰錢唷。

阿德說下次要去爬我手指的那座山,但是我忘了它是什麼名了。
另外,我的手看起來很短,我不是哈比人...>,<

折返團在回程路上看到一隻黃鼠狼!!

超可愛的啦~真可惜沒親眼看到..>,<

衣服換換之後,又ㄎ了一碗泡麵,三點半就坐上小巴回家囉~
回程路上先來到雪山國家公園遊客中心還雪爪。這裡好多櫻花。

超級多唷~我覺得有比阿里山還多。
但是我們在車上無法照到好的鏡頭。

慶功晏是到宜蘭吃合菜,吃完要填野訓的意見調查表,
我給一百分,尤其是泥鰍大哥及小馬兩位嚮導!

晚上八點多回到台北古亭捷運站囉,結束這次雪山主東峰的行程。
第三天腳程:
369山莊 ->雪山主峰(3.9km) ->369山莊(3.9km) ->七卡山莊(5km) ->登山口(2km)
共14.8km,約12 hrs (am 3:00~ pm 3:00)

所以三天加起來,這趟雪山主、東峰之旅一共走了21.8 km。
玉山那次則是走了23.4km。
總的來說,
玉山從登山口走到排雲山莊雖是8.4km,但爬起來比雪山從登山口到369山莊 7km來的輕鬆。
玉山登主峰的山路為2.4km ,雪山登主峰的山路為3.9km。
玉山是風大、接近山頂的路段危險難走。雪山則是3公里的連續上坡讓人腳酸,此外路跡極不清晰。
玉山的前峰,好幾段路要連手帶爬,才上得去;雪山東峰則是一段五分鐘的小爬坡。
走起來的感覺,
玉山是山巖壯秀且陡陗;雪山則是在山林與緩丘上穿梭,景色多變。
兩種完全不同的風貌。
P.S.
有山友說,爬山的裝備是一次次爬山前買齊的。
因為氣象報告顯示,雪山在2/18 ~ 2/20這幾天的降雨機率都超過60%。
所以一直讓我很掙扎是要買雨鞋,還是防水的登山鞋。
最後索性乾脆都不買,反而多買了好幾雙襪子,
想體驗看看我這$790的jump登山鞋在雨中是什麼感覺,再決定下次要不要買防水登山鞋。
實驗結果是:雨一下大,就全溼了。雖然不會滑,但是腳很冰冷,而且會在鞋中滑動,造成腳趾疼痛。
另外,jump這雙鞋鞋底不夠硬,下哭坡時都是石頭路,我的腳底痛到不行。
鴻斌買了一雙兩仟塊的防潑水登山鞋,在攻頂下雨時,襪子完全沒有溼耶。
下次考慮也到登山友敗一雙了,順便再敗一對綁腿。
另外$790買的snow travel的手套,攻頂時還是都溼了,手很冰冷,而且手套太厚,帶著行動不太方便。
這次升級的配備如下:
登山襪 * 1
厚襪 *1
排汗襪* 2
抗高溫水壼 *1
snow travel 手套 *1
Buff 魔術頭巾 *1
其中,我覺得Buff魔術頭巾的實用價值最高了,雖然一條要價$500,所費不貲。
但它不但外觀好看,而且排汗透氣,具多種用途,我覺得物超所值。
下面是demo影片:
題外話:
這次與鴻斌一起雪山攻頂,讓我勾起不少珍貴的童年回憶。
我想起小時候和家族兄弟四五個人,
常常到處亂跑亂玩,一跑就跑的很遠,
最後走回祖母家的路上,都精疲力盡了。
回程時大家總是沒力氣多說話,只是一直走,
有時候就回頭看一下等一下後面的,或是加緊腳步追上前面的。
有時候小表弟沒力氣走了,我們會輪流背他走。
有幾次下雨了,我們淋的全身溼,但其實很enjoy在雨中漫步。
偶爾大人很擔心我們,就會騎車出來找,然後一一把我們帶回去,
洗完澡,然後罵一頓,說「以後不讓你們出去玩了。」
但我們還是常常趁大人打麻將打的忘我時,偷偷集合在某處,然後展開新的探險。
說是探險,其實..
有的時候,只是圍在一個角落玩火;
有時候只是在拆毀房子的石礫堆尋寶;
有時候只是偷摘別人家的水果。
有時候只是潛入老人家的院子,享受當忍者的感覺。
那些在巷弄奔跑追逐,公園、山坡地嬉戲的日子,
都是一些無特別目的的探險,
只是到處亂走,帶著一些象徵性的道具,遇到什麼就玩什麼,
最後總是玩的滿頭大汗、疲憊的走回祖母家。
有好幾年,我幾乎忘了這些寶貴的童年回憶,
但這次爬雪山,和鴻斌相互扶持一步步走上去的過程,
讓我找回了以前一起探險的感覺。
回程的路上泥鰍大哥問我們是什麼關係時,我說是從小玩到大的表兄弟。
他問了好幾次:「只有這樣嗎?」
他或許覺得表兄弟間的感情應該是很單薄的吧?
(他不會懷疑我們是gay吧!! 我明明不是gay的菜啊~)

下次有機會,一定要找齊以前的兄弟們,繼續探險去!
昨晚大約七點就睡了,不知道睡到幾點,開始斷斷續續醒了又睡,睡了又醒。
不是因為頭疼不舒服(睡前一顆普拿疼,真的很好睡),而是因為很想尿尿!
但不想半夜爬出睡袋去上廁所,就在床上死撐等泥鰍大哥二點來叫床。
醒來後,才知道很多人也二點前就醒了,都跟我一樣賴在床上,不肯爬出睡袋。
然而,泥鰍大哥跟我們宣布了壞消息,他說昨天晚上雪山開始下小雨,
而且雨勢很可能會一直持續著。他要大家決定是否攻頂。
他說爬山並不是到此一遊,重點是過程,有沒有攻頂真的不用看太重。
平安回家最重要!
另外一旦下雨,山頂也看不到風景,泥鰍大哥不鼓勵大家上山,但是要上山他還是願意帶大家走一遭。
之前跟阿德去爬台北的小山時,有走過溼滑山路的經驗,
同行不少人都滑倒過,走起來也分外吃力。在氣候不好的狀況下爬山真的風險很高。
但是看到阿德和鴻斌沒有停下收拾攻頂包的動作,就知道沒什麼好考慮的了,攻頂囉~
最後除了兩個人不舒服繼續睡之外,剩餘的人就起床吃早餐準備去攻頂囉~

出發時,氣溫大約八度C,地上已是溼溼的,但天空只飄著很細很細的小雨。
(玉山攻頂出發時是四度C)

雪山主峰攻頂團出發囉~

走沒多久,就開始起大霧了~照出來的相片都很霧~
不過沒照到不該照到的東西就好了。

霧散了之後,不開閃光燈照起來是這樣的,我很喜歡這個fu。

走入黑森林囉~ 不過在深夜行走,不管白森林還黑森林,都一樣黑!傻傻的分不清。
後來雨愈下愈大了,泥鰍大哥讓大家停下來穿上雨具。
經過石瀑後,泥鰍大哥說我們當中有人想折返了,而且看來這個雨勢會下到早上。
於是他又開始苦口婆心的勸大家不要勉強登頂。
他說他知道有些人一定是為了登頂而來,他願意帶這些人去攻頂。
然而若體能不足,或雨具不充分的千萬別嘗試在這種惡劣情況攻頂。
最後攻頂的十四人,分為兩團剛好各七人,一團由小馬帶領折返回369山莊。
另一團跟泥鰍大哥繼續向前走。
我看鴻斌都沒說話,就知道我們會繼續跟著泥鰍大哥。
然而令我驚訝的是,在最後七人中,居然沒看到阿德的身影!!
阿德的折返對我來說,是一個蠻大的信心打擊,
因為他的行動,一向是我下決定前最重要的參考指標。
(我們倆個還蠻少默契不一致的,後來才知道他沒有帶雨褲,擔心失溫,所以折返)
泥鰍大哥出發前,又警告了我們一次,他說後面大約3km都是陡上的路,不會像前面那麼輕鬆,
加上後面的路跡很不清楚,我們沒有壓後路的響導,
大家必需同進同出,只要有一個人想折返,大家就一定要折返。
他要大家想清楚再出發。
大家都沈默不語,於是泥鰍大哥就帶我們上山了。
我知道其實他是十分不建議我們這時攻頂的,因為雨勢並不小。
後來就如同泥鰍大哥所言,是連續陡上的路。
而且因為是小隊行走,泥鰍大哥走的速度不慢,
很少停下來休息,跟著他一直爬上去其實蠻辛苦的。
而泥鰍大哥後面的路上,也不再提問是否要折返了。
我猜他大概是認為,居然我們決定要在這時候攻頂,我們就要為自己的行為負責!
想折返自己提,但是一旦想折返,就是全隊折返。
沒多久,鴻斌開始變得很吃力,
無論是大腿的肌力或心臟的強度,對他來說,都不是容易負荷的。
畢竟他脫離學生生活很久了,這幾年都缺乏規律的運動量。
他頭上斗大的水珠不知是汗水還是雨水,
臉色蒼白不知是因為體力不足還是冷,
他雖然沒說,但從他的神情,我看得出來。
我一直很欣賞鴻斌的個性,他是個不輕易服輸的人,
雖然外表或許有點冷漠,但其實他總是會默默的完成一些事。
從小到大,我很少聽他抱怨過什麼事,也幾乎沒有聽他說出打退堂鼓的話。
如果他停下來,那就是他真的走不動了。
每當我們停下來,我就趕緊拿水給他,問他還可以吧?
他沒有點頭,也沒有說什麼,喝完水,休息一下就站起來繼續走。
我能做的也只有在他身旁提醒他要記得保持呼吸的頻率。
因為他開始有頭痛與嘔吐感的症狀。
黑森林的路跡很不清楚,
但是泥鰍大哥很值得信賴,儘管在下雨的黑夜中,
他還是可以把我們正確地帶到下個地標。
出了黑森林後,沒有遮雨的屏障,雨勢還加大,我的防水手套和jump登山鞋都溼了。
但是身上有雨衣及雨褲,毛帽及保暖層都沒有溼,還可以忍受。
後來除了地上出現積厚冰要小心行走之外,
天上居然開始下起冰雹,就像有人不斷把碎冰塊灑在身上一樣。
(後來有人說當時沒帶手套被冰塊打到手還真痛,
我全副武裝,到是沒什麼觸感,只聽到冰塊在我雨衣上不斷發出啪啪的聲響。)
冰塊晶體紛紛從頭燈前的白光閃過,雖然很漂亮,
但其實我心中開始有折返的念頭了,
因為我一直以為山頂是12km,而我們才走到9.x km而已。
想到還要在這種氣候下走三公里爬坡,真是難受極了。
但是想那麼多,只會讓自己更難受。
人最大的難關就是自己的心魔,每當它佔據思考時,
許多念頭就會不斷的湧現,讓人覺得沈重。
最好的方法就是專注每一次呼吸,什麼都不想,
心中就不會有時間感,最後你總是會站在想要的位置。
鴻斌愈來愈虛弱了,
每約一百公尺,他就會受不了而坐下來,
嘴裡已沒有太多力氣說話。
我知道他很想休息,但是身體坐下來休息太久,再啟動會更加吃力。
另外我們落隊在後很危險,因為黑夜中,無論往前走或往下走都很容易迷路。
好在泥鰍大哥及其它的五人,都不斷的停下來等我們跟上。
到了10km,泥鰍大哥說剩下0.9km了,我才知道原來雪山主峰是10.9km。
我的體力和肌力沒問題,只是手套跟鞋都溼了,感覺有點冰冷。
鴻斌這時候已經是用意志力在撐了,
好幾次,我都聽到他脆弱著說:「我不行了..」或 「水..」
心中雖然不忍再拉著他繼續爬,但主峰就在眼前了。
不過往往最後一段路也是最考驗意志力的了,
不一定是路真的難走,而是人特別容易在最後一刻放棄。
如Paulo Coelho在牧羊少年奇幻之旅中說的:「一個人往往渴死在棕櫚樹已經出現在地平線上時。」
我只能一直提醒他要注意呼吸頻率,並餵給他一顆普拿疼和水,跟他一起慢慢爬。
走到10.5km的木椿,雨已不知何時停了下來,天空開始展露微光,週遭的環境漸漸浮現輪廓。
「鴻斌山頭就在那了~剩下操場一圈~加油,相信你的潛力!」
鴻斌這時候意識很微弱,步伐沈重極了。
像是用著意志在拖身體移動,加上大腦有缺氧的狀況,頭仍暈疼。
我得一直重覆提醒他別忘記深呼吸、並保持呼吸頻率。
我們小步小步的慢慢走,每50m就休息一次。
泥鰍大哥與前面的五個人,不時會停下來,並跟我們打氣,叫我們加油。
後面這四百公尺,鴻斌真的是拼了老命把它走完的。

雖然總算來到10.9km,看到雪山主峰的石碑。但鴻斌似乎連提起嘴角笑的力氣都沒有了。

天氣一片灰濛濛,真如泥鰍大哥所言,什麼風景也看不到。
而且手脫離手套久了,有僵硬的痛麻感。
但是手套又溼又厚,拿相機拍照很不方便。
不過整個山頂都沒有其它的團,可以任我們走動、拍照,不會被別人的大頭擋到鏡頭。
也沒有喧鬧的叨嘈聲,搞得像全台北人都擠在上頭一樣。
這一刻的雪山主峰,是屬於我們的,可以盡情享受。

我們到的時候,泥鰍大哥與其它五個人已經煮好第一壼三合一即溶咖啡。
突然領悟為什麼以前x牌的咖啡或奶茶廣告,總是一群年輕人在山頂舉杯。

這位老兄在瓦斯爐旁尋暖。

喝了幾杯咖啡後,我就趕緊找主峰石碑領登頂證書。登..登..人生第四座百岳入手!

鴻斌(咬著杯子的) 則是待在泥鰍大哥旁,要了好幾杯咖啡提提神,暖暖身。

最後鴻斌還是被我拖來拍攻頂證書,不過霧氣太重,拍的很不清楚。

我拿出登山大熱門的果凍條,在山頂發給大家,又Q又冰涼,看這位老兄吃的很enjoy呢!

霧濛濛的主峰石碑,有人說像美麗聖潔的玉女。

地上有一些碎冰塊,不知道是不是凌晨下的冰雹。

還有一些積雪。

後來太陽盃盃很賞臉的出來幫我們驅散大霧。

但是雲霧飄的太快,才剛拿起相機,遠端的山陵線就被吞沒了。

那就來拍團照吧~

不過回程的時間有限,大家趕緊收拾垃圾與背包,準備下山去囉~

甫下山之時,大霧仍未完全散去。

藏身在濃霧中的圈谷,有一種神秘莊嚴的fu。
會讓我想起日本武田信玄與上杉謙信的川中島之戰。

還是圈谷。

雪不斷的流動,每次按下快門都是全新的大自然創作。

喔~喔~快門按個不停,究竟是拍圈谷還是拍雲海我早已忘記了,
嘴裡一直喊著「好正!好正!」,快門聲此起彼落。

這些雪白的厚雲,完全不負雪山的盛名!

當然親身走在人間仙境的感覺,不是看照片就能體會的。

一直陶醉在圈谷美好的幻境中,差點忘了旁邊有雪耶!!

其實一開始我一直以為那是冰,所以懶得理它,直到鴻斌把它捧在手上,我才意識到它是雪。

看到雪的鴻斌,整個人復活了!!

還躺在雪上調皮一下!

舔一口嚐嚐什麼滋味,(我的表情怎麼可以智障成這樣.... >///<)
下次一定要帶草苺果醬來吃雪。

走到快圈谷底時,風景又有了變化,猶如身在侏儸紀公園。

好像會有恐龍跑出來~

回頭展望整個圈谷。
泥鰍大哥說其實天氣不好時攻頂也有好處,
因為很多人看到圈谷那麼高,腳就抬不起來了,僅管只有一公里多的路程,
看不清楚反而沒有心理障礙。

牌上大致寫著說圈谷是冰河沖刷而成的。

又回到黑森林囉~

白天晚上是完全不同的風情。

黑森林有很多柵欄,泥鰍大哥說是因為路跡不清,怕山友迷路而建置的。
(但是深夜要摸黑上來我認為仍是很相當不易的事~)

這麼偉大的柵欄,一定要跟它合照一張。

黑森林不像童畫故事那樣恐怖,陽光還是能從樹的縫細照射進來,
只是沿途都是樹,沒有什麼風景可言。

不過陽光篩落在山中小徑上,簡直就是大自然最美的畫作。
(我的相機照不出來那個色調,哭哭,想敗單眼相機了。)

有人在黑森林紥營,不過凌晨攻頂時沒注意到他們。

在他們紥營不到五十公尺處,有警示牌寫著:此處有大型動物出沒,禁止在此露營及生火。
泥鰍大哥說他曾經在這附近看過兩次台灣黑熊。有一次還是大熊帶小熊呢。

黑森林有夠長,一直陡下。很難想像當初是怎麼走上來的。

這就是泥鰍大哥說的水源地,山青有時候會上來接水到三六九山莊供山友飲用。

水源地附近有許多厚積冰。

石瀑,昨天小馬帶的另一團人就是從此折返。

由下向上照的石瀑。
石瀑後面的路就平緩許多。而我的相機也在這裡沒電了。

所以一下就走出黑森林囉~

出了黑森林後,又看到那片焦土,真的慘不忍睹。大家要愛護好山好水啊!!

山莊附近仍是一片雲海。

我覺得 369山莊 比 排雲山莊更具排雲山莊之姿。
到了排雲山莊時,小馬帶的另一團人已經到達七卡山莊了。
我們把衣服曬一曬,吃個泡麵當午餐,就趕緊下山囉!

雖然說是下山,但從369山莊走到東峰這段可是一直上坡哩。

爬坡累了停下來休息,總是有白雲陪伴著。

山林間有許多太陽射入的光束,阿德超愛。

又來到了哭坡,這段下坡快把我膝蓋搞壞啦~
而且我的登山鞋還是溼的,下坡時腳底跟腳趾都好痛。

另一團人正從七卡山莊下山,學妹一副像是來划雪的。

下了七卡山莊後,都是這種紅紅的山道。沒多久,我們就超越小馬帶的折返團囉~
一路追了五公里吶~ (我們從三六九山莊出發時,他們已經開始下七卡山莊了。)
不知道是他們走太慢,還是我們下太快了。

終於來到登山口,膝蓋快斷了!
我一整個耍白爛,從七卡山莊下來幾乎是用跑的飇山。

出來就不能再進去了,會被罰錢唷。

阿德說下次要去爬我手指的那座山,但是我忘了它是什麼名了。
另外,我的手看起來很短,我不是哈比人...>,<

折返團在回程路上看到一隻黃鼠狼!!

超可愛的啦~真可惜沒親眼看到..>,<

衣服換換之後,又ㄎ了一碗泡麵,三點半就坐上小巴回家囉~
回程路上先來到雪山國家公園遊客中心還雪爪。這裡好多櫻花。

超級多唷~我覺得有比阿里山還多。
但是我們在車上無法照到好的鏡頭。

慶功晏是到宜蘭吃合菜,吃完要填野訓的意見調查表,
我給一百分,尤其是泥鰍大哥及小馬兩位嚮導!

晚上八點多回到台北古亭捷運站囉,結束這次雪山主東峰的行程。
第三天腳程:
369山莊 ->雪山主峰(3.9km) ->369山莊(3.9km) ->七卡山莊(5km) ->登山口(2km)
共14.8km,約12 hrs (am 3:00~ pm 3:00)

所以三天加起來,這趟雪山主、東峰之旅一共走了21.8 km。
玉山那次則是走了23.4km。
總的來說,
玉山從登山口走到排雲山莊雖是8.4km,但爬起來比雪山從登山口到369山莊 7km來的輕鬆。
玉山登主峰的山路為2.4km ,雪山登主峰的山路為3.9km。
玉山是風大、接近山頂的路段危險難走。雪山則是3公里的連續上坡讓人腳酸,此外路跡極不清晰。
玉山的前峰,好幾段路要連手帶爬,才上得去;雪山東峰則是一段五分鐘的小爬坡。
走起來的感覺,
玉山是山巖壯秀且陡陗;雪山則是在山林與緩丘上穿梭,景色多變。
兩種完全不同的風貌。
P.S.
有山友說,爬山的裝備是一次次爬山前買齊的。
因為氣象報告顯示,雪山在2/18 ~ 2/20這幾天的降雨機率都超過60%。
所以一直讓我很掙扎是要買雨鞋,還是防水的登山鞋。
最後索性乾脆都不買,反而多買了好幾雙襪子,
想體驗看看我這$790的jump登山鞋在雨中是什麼感覺,再決定下次要不要買防水登山鞋。
實驗結果是:雨一下大,就全溼了。雖然不會滑,但是腳很冰冷,而且會在鞋中滑動,造成腳趾疼痛。
另外,jump這雙鞋鞋底不夠硬,下哭坡時都是石頭路,我的腳底痛到不行。
鴻斌買了一雙兩仟塊的防潑水登山鞋,在攻頂下雨時,襪子完全沒有溼耶。
下次考慮也到登山友敗一雙了,順便再敗一對綁腿。
另外$790買的snow travel的手套,攻頂時還是都溼了,手很冰冷,而且手套太厚,帶著行動不太方便。
這次升級的配備如下:
登山襪 * 1
厚襪 *1
排汗襪* 2
抗高溫水壼 *1
snow travel 手套 *1
Buff 魔術頭巾 *1
其中,我覺得Buff魔術頭巾的實用價值最高了,雖然一條要價$500,所費不貲。
但它不但外觀好看,而且排汗透氣,具多種用途,我覺得物超所值。
下面是demo影片:
題外話:
這次與鴻斌一起雪山攻頂,讓我勾起不少珍貴的童年回憶。
我想起小時候和家族兄弟四五個人,
常常到處亂跑亂玩,一跑就跑的很遠,
最後走回祖母家的路上,都精疲力盡了。
回程時大家總是沒力氣多說話,只是一直走,
有時候就回頭看一下等一下後面的,或是加緊腳步追上前面的。
有時候小表弟沒力氣走了,我們會輪流背他走。
有幾次下雨了,我們淋的全身溼,但其實很enjoy在雨中漫步。
偶爾大人很擔心我們,就會騎車出來找,然後一一把我們帶回去,
洗完澡,然後罵一頓,說「以後不讓你們出去玩了。」
但我們還是常常趁大人打麻將打的忘我時,偷偷集合在某處,然後展開新的探險。
說是探險,其實..
有的時候,只是圍在一個角落玩火;
有時候只是在拆毀房子的石礫堆尋寶;
有時候只是偷摘別人家的水果。
有時候只是潛入老人家的院子,享受當忍者的感覺。
那些在巷弄奔跑追逐,公園、山坡地嬉戲的日子,
都是一些無特別目的的探險,
只是到處亂走,帶著一些象徵性的道具,遇到什麼就玩什麼,
最後總是玩的滿頭大汗、疲憊的走回祖母家。
有好幾年,我幾乎忘了這些寶貴的童年回憶,
但這次爬雪山,和鴻斌相互扶持一步步走上去的過程,
讓我找回了以前一起探險的感覺。
回程的路上泥鰍大哥問我們是什麼關係時,我說是從小玩到大的表兄弟。
他問了好幾次:「只有這樣嗎?」
他或許覺得表兄弟間的感情應該是很單薄的吧?
(他不會懷疑我們是gay吧!! 我明明不是gay的菜啊~)

下次有機會,一定要找齊以前的兄弟們,繼續探險去!
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