Work In Central

The necessary of human is "eat", "drink" and "rest". I believe all of human accept the first and second but disagree the last one. When I discussed it with my classmates and professors today, we would be crazy guys and gals in Hong Kong.

Classmate M: The shortest lunch and rest is 1 mins.
Professor R: You are crazy. How do you do in 1 mins?
Classmate M: Eating a bread quickly.
Others Classmate ... O months

When I stepped out of my office these days, I won't feel lonely. By the way, I asked myself why I did too harsh and harder. Either superman or machine, they still need a rest and stop. Our Lord created human before and GOD expected people enjoy in the world. Furthermore, we looked like a Matrix story. What's real? Is it the real world?

In Hong Kong, work in Central is a dream for most of people and youngest. When you worked in there, I thought most of dream will be broken. Dream is dream and real is real. We can't compare dream and real.

When I was small, I expected I would be a top accountant in Hong Kong. After I got the professional license, I woke up. Professional license wasn't a promise, just a ticket for global corporation.

Poor New Colleague In My Company

I would go to read Miss C's xanga sometime. Though we were lost, I still pray with her. This is an only what I can do. Well... we often meet in the morning at central while our companies are near. Basically, Miss C's company is my company client. I needed to serve with her company such as derivative information.

Thanks God, she doesn't respond stock exchange. Perhaps she doesn't, I would work more easily in this period. ^_^

On the other hand, give thanks with my LORD in last week. I shared with my church brothers at yesterday night. The thing was too dangerous and nobody would forgive this mistake. My new colleague made a simple and naive mistake. He didn't find one of the derivative entries in the wrong type. Originally, the derivative is CBBC but our SZ staff entry in to Warrant. This was not a cause why people always have a mistake.

By the way, my new colleague responded the checking and QC. Oh! My GOD. He didn't find this error last time until our SZ staff found this mistake. I forgave everyone had a mistake time, however, different type of derivative had different gear ratio and strike price. Luckily, no purchasers, banks, and securities had exchanged with this CBBC. Thanks GOD. If not, my company would become bankrupt. >_<

I don't care our new colleague are 3X years old and no working experience before. I and other teamates in my company mind why he had a security license still had a simple mistake. You could not imagine a people who had a security license but zero knowledge in stock exchange market and derivative. @_@

Non-efficiency and non-effectiveness are not offense. However, business in HK is rush and changing rapid. I understood why the new colleague hadn't got any offer from security company and i-bank.

I just bless this colleague would find a suitable job faster why we determined he would be fired after the NPC. GOD blessed him.

The Result of Personal Needs Assessment

I promised I would show the answer and the result of the Personal Needs Assessment. Right now, there was a simple scoring method with you.

Personal Needs Assessment

Add the values of your responses and record the total for each types.
Social Interaction : 1, 5, 9, 13, 17
Acceptance : 2, 6, 10, 14, 18
Perfection : 3, 7, 11, 15, 19
Risk Avoidance : 4, 8, 12, 16, 20

A score of 16 or more indicates a high need.
A score of 20 or more indicates a need sufficiently strong to be a pontential problem in your effective use of time.

Mine score is 16, 15, 15, 18

Why we should do the Personal Needs Assessment?
Satisfying personal needs like social acceptance, perfection, and risk avoidance can waste a lot of time. Most people are unaware of this process. In addition, individuals take on extra work, respond to every request and feel good when some one appreciates them. Meanwhile, more important work is left undone. Therefore, we should understand ourselves more. It helped us to life happiness and work efficiency and effectiveness.

Social Interaction:
Many jobs allow for social interaction, some do not. People with high social needs waste their own time as well as the time of others. They become "drop-in" visitors with no agenda or a superficial one. Normally, we called crazy worker. They often forgot what they do in the work, however, they just have work and work in their mind. In their mind, he / she is the once in the world or working is the true.

Remedies / Suggestion:
1. Respect the time of others: Ask if the person has time to talk or set a later appointment. Is the other person anxious to do something else. Watch for stand up and moving away, glancing at papers, typing at the keyboard, returning to writing, or making calculation.

2. Develop ways to have your social need fulfilled productively: Lunch breaks with colleagues, scheduled meetings, request assignments to ad hoc team, group activities after work.

Acceptance
Work groups allow for a high-level of acceptance when members support each other, minimize the impact of demands from outside the group and reduce unreasonable demands on each other. People with high acceptance needs take on too much work. Others take advantage of them. This type of people, we called inferior.

Remedies / Suggestions:
1. As you address a task, note the benefit to the organization first, then apply effort. Reflect on the pride of having completed it. Don't depend on others for confirmation of your value. Otherwise, take inventory of the things you do well. Always focusing on what needs to be improved, allows for good work to be taken for granted or ignored. Include work and non-work items.

2. Learning to deal with requests by saving "no" or "later" when appropriated. The main important is "Priority of requests". Don't let the organizational rank or intensity of the person requesting a task to overshadow your judgment.

Perfection:
Some guys or gals wanna to establish some tasks require a high-level of quality output. By the way, others don't require such high-quality. You mush distinguish between the two. People who are perfectionists may waste time in creating perfection where it isn't needed. Others create imperfection and have to do the job ever! Actually, most of female are perfectionists.

Remedies / Suggestions:
Obtain a clear understanding of the quality required at first, if not disappointments are many! You must ask yourself do you want a precise or approximate answer? How much time & cost is needed to achieve a quality outcome? What quality level is expected? Finally, you should ask what is the cut-off on your range of acceptable quality?

Risk Avoidance:
To be honest, most of artists and designers are in this group. I don't know why but it's true. This type of people who avoid risks take more time studying and analyzing options, checking for support from others and waiting (hesitantly) to take action.

Remedies / Suggestions:
1. Examine what is at stake. Will you be embarrassed? Did you get fire? Did you hurt someone? Will the company lose money and business?

2. Explore the question. Consider about what if it does pan out. Ask yourself will you get what you wanna be? How to meet the deadline? How to save the money? And how to improve the business.

3. Compare the payoff with the cost of opportunity. If good, then move with conviction. If bad, abandon the idea.

What is your choice?

For the last questionnaires, I will post the answer and solution in the next post if I had a time.

有人企圖點戰火，
求主幫我莫報復；
賜我力量和信心，
遵行真道顯主愛。

以善報善是人之本性，以善報惡是超越本性。

近幾個星期，除了是中國人重視的農曆新年外，還有千幾年來中國南方雪災、娛樂圈黃色新聞或淫慾情照的新聞，以及資深記者疑做賣國賊後被假釋；不同的地方面對著同樣的事情會有不同的反應和效果。

面對不同的災禍，大家有否對比到不同地方的領導人物的行為呢？美國新奧爾風災後，薯仔總統遙距慰問和指揮救援工作；在我國中國南方千年難得一見的雪災後，溫總即時到現場慰問和指揮，雖然貪官污吏他未能完完全全的處理好，但卻放下自己身份和一眾受災返不到故鄉渡年和受影響的人民一同進餐體驗苦況，這方面各方領袖真的要多多學習。

至於淫慾照片我就不想多加評論，若要評論則只會以一場鬧劇來說就算了。不論故事主角是誰，拍這些照片的人心理一定有些少變態，放相的人更加係「惡貫滿刑」。

另一方面受到香港媒體關注的人，就是新年前被中國政府假釋出來的「清腸」。以本人之笨笨見解，他有沒有做到賣國賊通翻賣國就只有他自己本人先至知道。如果中國政府是這麼封見思想，我想好多中國人甚至香港人都會被視為賣國賊，整個香港甚麼廣東省都要變為監獄先可以困守所有關人士。若困中國政府真的要「砌生豬肉」，「清腸」真的會沒事嗎？我這句話可能好多人會感到討厭，但我也會這樣說「做賊的人，何時會見過他會說自己是賊呢？」

人生的方在哪裡呢？有人願意與其他人同甘苦 (溫總)，有人則選擇袖手旁觀 (薯仔)；有人選擇將自己的快樂建立在別人的痛苦身上 (放慾照的人)，有人則選擇犧牲自己幫助別人 (義工)；有人選擇升官發財加官進爵不擇手段 (非禮空姐無罪釋放的華仁咸濕仔和他父親)，而有人則選擇平淡一生 ……等等。這個世界沒有對與錯，最大及最好的東西是我們是否願意選擇和放手。

吾生也有涯，而知也無涯。以有涯隨無涯，殆已。

一生人要追求的東西實在太多，真的要學習在人生路上選擇放手呢！一剎那光輝真的不代表永恒，風光背後埋葬了幾多人的鮮血和汗水根本沒有人追問，這正正是香港人的缺點「即食」和「強」…真失敗。作為中國香港人的自己，也因這些陋習而感到羞恥。

Personal Needs Assessment

This is a great test for everyone to know more themselves. Enjoy the game and I will post the solution and answer as soon as possible.

Indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement by entering one of these values.
5 = Completely Agree
4 = Trend to Agree
3 = Uncertain
2 = Tend to Disagree
1 = Completely Disagree

Are you ready? Let start the funny game.
1. I could not work in a job that required me to work alone most, or all, of the time.

2. What others think of me is extremely important to me.

3. I worry about mistakes I've made in my work.

4. I would terribly embarrassed if someone found an error in my work.

5. I prefer to be a member of a team rather than work alone.

6. I am pleased to be a member of a team rather than wokr alone.

7. I am not satisfied until I have done my very best on any given task or assignment.

8. I frequently spend a lot of time studying or analyzing possibilities before taking action.

9. A friendly spend a lot of time studying or analyzing possibilities before taking action.

10. I frequently subordinate my views and desires to those expressed by others.

11. The only way to be sure something is done correctly is to do it yourself.

12. Rules and regulations are to be understood and strictly followed.

13. It is necessary, and appropriate, to take a portion of a workday for friendly conversation.

14. I find it difficult to end converstaions even when they interfere with my work.

15. I often spend a lot of time correcting or redoing work done my others.

16. I prefer a lot of organization and structure in my job.

17. I take a great deal of pride in the number of friends I have.

18. I often guess at what someone wants rather than be embarrassed by asking for more information.

19. People who turn out less-than-perfect quality of work are either careless or lazy.

20. I have a need to include the thoughts and wishes of others in decisions I make that might affect them.

Did you finish and write down what you chose for the whole question? Now, classify your answer in this grouping. After, add the values of your responses and record the total. The analysis will be showed / posted on next time.

Soial Interaction : 1, 5, 9, 13, 17
Acceptance: 2, 6, 10, 14, 18
Perfection: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19
Risk Avoidance: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20

回家 Home Coming

在中環工作差不多一個月，體驗了好幾樣東西︰

貴
雖說香港是一個城市，但這個小小的地方卻有好多不同的物價。不論是超級市場、名牌服裝或用品商店都會比起九龍半島和新界區所開的分店要貴 n %。更甚的是，連鎖式經型的快餐店如麥當當、家香雞及大 XX 等，他們的食物價格都比其他地方為高。

中國一個俗語「人靠衣裝，佛靠金裝」，在這個中環小地方就看到這些所謂的東西。我不說工作環境是否有關係，但是既然是連鎖式就應該統一，我深信為何香港人不是太過團結和自私自利不無關係。另一個可能性，也許就是香港人有著傳統中國人的階級觀念……這個真的是不好說呢！

賤
自己做夢也想不到，闊別三年多的會計金融從業員工作，正是我現在的工作。原本老闆是請 web designer ，結果係……我上司看到我的 cv 後就說了一句「既然你有 account & business 的底子，不如你做埋這方面既工作啦！但不是叫你不用做 web designer 喎！」原本公司請兩個人，結果係請左我一個頂兩個位置，老細們真係 r 得就 r 。唉！

想不到的，是這個亂來的請人讓我從新接觸回會計及金融工作，我最憎的工種之一。公司坐在我隔離座位的經理問道「Mr. S 你其實鍾唔鍾意做這些工作呢？」我既回答都好坦白，因為我著實唔係一個鍾意「悶」既人，但又怕「好熱鬧」的矛盾性格。就連我上司都問過我是否習慣現時的工作，這個不會說習慣與否，反正也只是工作，「敬業與樂業」樂乎也！

用「賤」這個字是來形容我自己的，對於會計金融的計算和內部核對工作，我自覺得是一件不用腦子工作的工作。我負責要計算的東西，全部都有固定的算式，只要不入錯數就可以咧！唔……著實這些工作無乜難度，但近來我都計錯幾次衍生工具的某些數字。當然，這些錯誤的數字是不會出街，一但出了街公司注定要倒閉咧。以前做 designer 經常想到頭痛和哭起來，因為太多野要想和太多東西要顧慮；會計既工作則是不用腦，只是 contribute 就可以，十分低能。

傷
雖然是不用腦子的工作，但卻要高度集中精神，腦子放鬆但精神要集中。另一方面，就是工作的地方實在太近 Ms. C 。朋友 C 同我說，Mr. S 你可以在這個細小的中環避得她多久呢？這個真的不好說。

Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice （中譯︰傲慢與偏見）不論是原作品還是電影作品，都給我一種好濃烈的味道，而這味道就是「傲慢」同「偏見」其實都是一樣。作者 Jane Austen 寫出一據觸動人心和那種看透世界一切謊話的小說作品。以筆者現時的功能，我可以說我還沒有這份的能耐。

與其說 Pride & Prejudice 係同一樣，倒不如說是一個 cycle （循環）。以香港人為例，不說「硬膠」文化，香港人大多是那種自視過高的生物。因讀書的關係， Mr. S 認識了好幾位內地同學，也許他們對香港的文化並不多大了解，但在處事和工作效率和效益方面則遠勝香港人 n 倍。他們做事的認真拼搏精神，是現世代香港人沒有的；更重要一點是，他們不會像香港人一樣事事以錢為頭。

其實，傲慢或偏見不打緊，最重要的是當看到別人有著你自己的影子時，那你就要好小心。筆者自己可算得上是一個衰人，衰到經常傷害女性。自已永遠看不到自己的缺點，唯獨別人看到告訴自己時，就會築起自己的防護罩保護自己。

Rachel & Stanley wedding 後，有一位弟兄同我說，你同 Ms. C 在大家所認識中，你們根本是同樣的人，做著同樣的東西……包括互相傷害。

Pride & Prejudice 其中一個訊息就是告訴我們何時能放下自己的成見呢？也許，這是一輩子都需要學習的東西呢！