Thursday, October 12, 2006

Self-Marketing Could Blind Our Eyes

Recently I am involved a troublesome email war in office. S is pretty blunt and she's feeling unhappy for the salary she got paid and I know she wants to leave for a while. She used to leave sharp at 6pm and she might have some internal 'fight' with others.

D is another guy who joined us with the company my company acquired lately. He looks ok and at least normal and he's the kind of person, at least he appears to be, someone who would avoid quarrel. To me quarreling is nothing really bad, but to many people, quarrelling equals to impoliteness, not co-operating.

Obviously S would quarrel with some others and doesn't seem co-operating. But to my understanding she knows what she's doing and she is more capable at work. D is not, though. D is trying to 'stick' to some other departments and always claimed that (s)he needs S's info to complete something and all things are stuck at her.

D tries to help with different people and I believe that its with the intention to get some chances to switch to other departments. Some management people trust him, or at least, they didn't show disagreement with him... although, to my 'professional' judgement he's not very capable. I got confirmed my thought with my team members but still 'cos of D's good attitude he got the trust he needs although he hasn't got the chance to switch yet.

P said that being not nasty is to help the boss. That might be true. But to me if I'm a manager I'd think being fair is more important. I'd rather sacrifice stability. 'cos in the future people would tend to find a more stable solution then to find a right and good solution which might require a lot of changes.

Probably I still have passion to contribute to a company where I work at. Also, I might have some in-born character of striking for fairness and thus eventhough someone appears to be kind and nice but stayed silent under unfair situation, I'd rather (s)he being nasty always but would stand up and fight against unfairness.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

指插肛門止嗝 醫獎得主﹕無下次

(明報) 10月 07日 星期六 05:10AM

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/061006/12/1u8r0.html

【明報專訊】在獲悉自己的論文得到搞笑醫學獎時,美國田納西醫學院的費斯米爾直言也不知應感光榮還是尷尬。他的論文題為《以手指按摩直腸制止不受控打嗝》。

學者奧登、奧利文和巴森,憑研究用手指頭插進肛門加以按摩,可以阻止惱人的不斷打嗝停止,贏得「殊榮」。他說﹕「我是個嚴肅的人,估不到一篇我在1987年寫的論文,今天忽然又重來纏住我。」他強調自己是個醫生,「寧可人們日後因為其心臟研究而記得我」。

費氏是於20年前首次(也是最後一次)親試此法。當時一名病人找他,表示已連續3天打嗝。費氏試過各種標準法子如拉病人的舌頭、令他感到作嘔窒息 等,但都失敗,他最後使出此手段,因為他明白能透過此按摩方法刺激迷走神經減慢快速心跳,而刺激同一迷走神經也能令人停止打嗝。「最後我把手指塞進去(他 的肛門)」作慢動作式按摩,30秒後打嗝就停了。費氏說﹕「我會否再這樣做﹖不﹗」