Author: impromptuz

唉

唉。

:( 可唔可以辭職？

唔想再返工了。

Bring my flowers now, while I’m livin’
I won’t need your love when I’m gone
Don’t spend time, tears, or money on my old breathless body
If your heart is in them flowers, bring ’em on

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau summed it all up in his novel Emile, the eighteenth-century bible of feeling. Rousseau held that when looking for the rules of conduct in life, he found them ‘in the depths of my heart, traced by nature in characters which nothing can efface. I need only consult myself with regard to what I wish to do; what I feel to be good is good, what I feel to be bad is bad.’

 

Elements of Rhetoric

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唔小心食咗令人精神嘅藥，訓唔到覺。
唯有做下d又悶但yet productive嘅事，催眠下自己（但暫時未成功）。

話說之前係edX register咗 “Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking“，當然click咗就冇再follow up（因為入面嘅examples都係全部american politics有關的，例如I have a Dream and other Presidential Rhetorics 但想睇闊d）。睇返chapter one，其實好多都係以前Form 1-3 Eng Lit又讀過嘅嘢。introduction嘅重點：

Rhetoric 

  • Aristotle named three types of appeals (methods to persuade others) – Logos (by logic), Ethos (by expertise), Pathos (by emotions)  
  • Common Arrangement of a Rhetoric – (1) exordium, the introduction; (2) narratio, the statement of the context or situation; (3) confirmatio, the presentation of arguments and facts; (4) refutatio, the presentation and refuting of counterarguments; (e.g. some may say) and (5) peroratio, the conclusion.
  • Style can be controlled by diction (choice of words – too technical/flowery?), syntax/pattern of sounds (word orders – alliteration, assonance, sibilance), schemes (parallelism/repetition/omission), and tropes (Twist of meanings such as metaphors, allusion [reference to other works] or puns).

Oratory 演講

  • When you are writing a speech, you should bear in mind that your audience will only have one chance to understand any one thing you say. They can’t stop and replay what you just said. As a result, you will have to work to make sure that you bring them along with you. It is critical for your speech to have a clearly articulated argument that you refer back to often to keep it fresh in your hearers’ minds. Your speech should also have a clear structure, with “signal phrases” that let your audience know when you are moving from one idea to the next.
  • Division –  e.g. “”I want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the Great Society:..the second place..the third place…”
  • Style – repetition, parellellism, anaphora
  • The Sound Byte  – short, punchy sentences that sum up your points.

Public Speaking Tips 

  • 1) Find out more about your venue – big? small? who? mics? how to turn them on and off?
  • 2) Presence – stand tall and breath low. warm-up by favorite song.
  • Eye Contact – look at several people, don’t forget people at the back.
  • Practice – practice the several important words first in the sentence, underline them in the text  – emphasize on the words!
  • Shift your standing position when there is a change of subject
  • Beware of pace, tend to speed up. take small pauses between sentences. take a breath / sip of water.
  • Articulate, be clear of each word.
  • Any sentence that is difficult to say, re-write it.

一罩難求。

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荒謬！

前高官居然可以無恥到讓political agenda凌駕於public health risk「一般而言，在普通社交場合，是不需要戴口罩的。」都講得出，所有官員居然都一致唔以身作則戴口罩。 大難當前，連最基本的raise awareness都不去做，真係好反智。

依家連買口罩都要攻略。口罩係necessity嚟架！

  • 好多商家趁火打劫。N95被炒到港幣80蚊一個，港幣1600蚊一盒！痴線但都係有人買。
  • 我全屋得返20個醫療口罩，我一屋兩個人，姐係可以頂10日。
  • 我竟然私家醫院等睇醫生嘅時候，偷偷咁拿咗3個口罩。我都唔想咁樣做，但真係全城嚴重缺貨到零supply！
  • 依家日日係公司一日拿一個口罩，比第二日用。其實連公司d口罩都唔係最合規格（唔知點解係粉紅色/綠色/紅色/有花花），但可以點？都照用住先。
  • 好多市民根本唔知咩係合規格嘅口罩，可能傻更更就以超高價買咗假口罩。就算明知流流地都趕緊去買，因為驚連假嘅口罩都冇埋。
  • 藥房同人剛「中童」嘅口罩都可以頂住先，為了做生意不擇手段。again， 就算明知唔fit大人嘅面型都照買，因為驚連小朋友嘅口罩都冇埋。
  • 醫生教話一個口罩唔可以戴太多個鐘，我夠知啦！但邊可以奢侈到一日換多一個口罩呢？！
  • 連上網買都缺貨。well 唔識得上網買嘅市民多的是，咁佢地點？買二手口罩？

完全痴線。可唔可以學下澳門政府？