【Creativity Zen Espresso | 創意心法】

Friday, September 02, 2005

斂新

這幾天有些莫名其妙,每當寫些什麼出來,馬上就有一股劇烈的否定聲音,一直在腦海間迴繞著。我沒有仔細去檢驗那是什麼,期盼能藉由今天的書寫,找到那份來自潛意識下的否定。

我感覺到的是一份羈絆,牽制著我自在的揮舞翱翔。慣於打破成規的我,看到的是這個社會充滿著許多的醜惡,而我深深地記得印度思想家克里希那穆提的一段話,原文我已經不記得了,意思大略是:注視著生活中那些的「不滿意」的事,帶著一份歡樂、喜悅和愛,來看待這些事物,從此「不滿意」中,看出一份簡單的美好,那甚至於是創新動力的來源!

就在我思索這段話的出處時,印象中好像是出自《人生中不可不想的事》

走開了電腦,我重新拾起書架上的這本書,開始讀起。我一邊閱讀,一邊檢視自己。就在一個瞬間,一份自覺,不禁讓我感動萬分⋯⋯

曾幾何時,曾經奉克式教誨為圭臬的我,在一步一履的實踐過程中,我漸漸地忘記了書本內的知識的原文,轉而把這些知識化做行動。那一瞬間,我忽然望見自己最純真的靈魂!其實也沒什麼特別,我只是很單純地看到自己正趴在地板上看書(而不是正襟危坐地坐在椅子上);就表面上,這本來也只是個稀鬆平常的事,而在我的內心當中,見到的是一種「恣意無憂」的品質,在同一時間,也延伸地看到許許多多社會的人為規範與約束。我不能夠全然地否定這些規則的正面意義,但我更相信有很多事情在適當的時候能夠更加得體,而不會顯得死板拘謹!

當今的社會,充滿著許多人類自己訂下的遊戲規則,但是,我相信絕大多數的人們,只是人云亦云地遵循著這些規則,而沒有充分地去了解,當初制定這些遊規則的人們,在他們處事背後所支持的那份對未來的憧景究竟是什麼。當人們不再去探索究竟的同時,不再去探討典故的時候,一切的表象只是一片沈寂與衰敗⋯⋯

這人世間有沒有可能存在一種狂野的奔放,在那般放蕩不羈的外表下,更深藏著一份內斂而創新的自我約束?

記得好像於電視上看過報導,在德國搭乘公共運輸工具時,大家都能夠自發地投下車費,不需要有人在出入口查驗車票!以當今台灣的水準和眼光來看,這實在是很瘋狂的作風,不曉得台灣還需要經歷多少年,整個社會才可能成熟到這般的境地!

回過頭來,檢視那份不自覺的否定,我想那應該是子虛烏有的吧 ; )¶

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Recognize The Real NT Dollar with Bare Eyes

Today (Aug 3rd) I visited the "2005 Scientific Season–Exploring Physics Expo" in C.K.S. Memorial Hall, Taipei, and I learned a small living tip to recognize the real NT Dollar from one of the booths.

According to this exhibitor, there are fourteen anti-fake designs in the New Taiwanese Dollar. Until now, twelve of them have been hacked. The only two left are the infrared ink and the tiny numbers in numerical figures. The infrared ink need special instruments to do the recognition, while the small numbers can be recognized with your bare eyes if you are not suffering presbyopia like me, you should be able to tell the truthfulness with bare eyes. Even if you have suffered presbyopia already, using a magnify glass should be able to help you to find the truth! Since the New Taiwanese Dollar was printed with gravure, while gravure is restrained in Taiwan, the normal lithographic printing is hard to reproduce the sharp tiny numbers; thus if you look a fake bill with a magnify glass, you should be able to find the halftone dots! Whereas in the introduction brochures for recognize the real NT Dollar from the Central Bank of Taiwan, I remember there is no description about the tiny numbers. Therefore, I would like to share this little trick that I've learned today!¶

NT$1,000 zoom in
The tiny numbers on a real NTD$1,000 bill. (Please pardon for not having a fake bill to compare.)

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