校際必勝大法! – 六、 殖民統治的陰霾

反正我與這組織,現在就如平衡線一樣,在辦公室上班的朋友們,要辭職的、被解雇的、該退休的都辦妥當了,就在這裡透露一下。

大家眼見以為很賺錢的比賽,其實是旺丁不旺財,艱苦經營的。除了成本效益之外,管理上最困難的一項,是在人力資源方面。有人曾請我介紹及提議評判人選,首要條件﹕ 必需為外藉人士!

據了解,該組織也不是死腦筋的,曾經大膽聘用中國藉評判去評審西洋樂器獨奏比賽。可是只要有中國人在評判席上出現,投訴便會倍增,嚴重的會住賄賂方面去想,涉及的部門也多了,煩到的人也多了,而且都是無休無止的!為減低工作量,迫於無耐,必需要聘用外藉人仕,在無計可施的情況下,日本、韓國藉也會聘用,經驗證實,投訴率也會比中國人少(即總是比外籍評判多);本地的香港人就更別題了!

香港人哦!你們就還是逃不出殖民統治的陰霾嗎?

我再問了三個問題,得到的答案分別是﹕經濟艙、三星級酒店、數百元一天!我馬上投降了。以這樣的條件,要我去問以前的教授?就算問班上學業最差的那位同學,都已經是對他的侮辱。我有興趣的反而是﹕「請問你們一直以來是怎樣找到評判的呢?」我是真心佩服這組織的管理層,能在如此坎坷的條件下成功招聘。能創造這麼一個奇蹟,竟然歸功於 HTML!

HTML (英﹕HyperText Markup Language) 超文本標記語言,即網頁編用程式語言。對於該組織而言,只要在網絡上,找到一位與古典音樂有丁點關係的外國人,他/她有一頁個人網頁,放上了履歷,他們便會發信邀請函!

Vienna, Best Cities 2014

Vienna rank 2nd place in best-country-to-live-in-2. A friend from Toronto asked me what I think, as a person who had been living in Vienna for almost 10 years. Maybe he was annoyed that all 3 cities from Canada ranked from 3rd to 5th place but all behind Vienna.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/08/daily-chart-13

The ranking was made by the best analytical minds, exclusively using raw data but no human survey involved. Which is good from some perspective, for example, as a reference on global trend of comfortability, business could explore their market appropriately. e.g. selling foreign real estate to those with relatively lower rank, cheating those people with the possibility to immigrate; selling ANYTHING to those with higher rank since comfortable life makes people stupid. No offence to Toronto, but just a bad interpretation on “stay hungry, stay foolish".

It is easy to put a number on education, health care, infrastructure, e.g. number of universities, percentage of higher education graduates, health funding per head count. The “best cities" ranking, based only on liveability index, like political stability, food supply, hospitals with doctors surrounding me when I am sick… those are the basics. It’s like being held hostage, with sufficient bread, bed and panadol. That’s already liveable. Some other factors like number of museums, civilized people, environment, those are quality of life. Which are like bonus after you survived.

I suppose the ranking aimed for business and politic reference only. Since my Toronto friend made it personal, it inspired me of thinking, how to make a rank of “best inhabit cities for any individual on earth". Why “any individual", if only the locals found it comfortable, it means nothing. “Best inhabit cities for the local" is like “my kid is the best kid in the whole universe". The forest bust be the best place to live if you are an africans forest savages, which at the same time, you might find it impossible to live in any big-city.

So how about “Best inhabit cities for big-city people". This research became racist to those from smaller city, and some NYC look down to any human on earth. Imagine a guy from Aspen read the rank and immigrate to NYC.

Great! Now narrow it down, “Generally Best inhabit cities for those who do NOT want to spend the rest of their life in a small town". If I do not put the word “generally", the name of this rank will be longer than the “Harry Porters".

However, it is almost impossible to put a number for the level of ‘racist’, or the level of residence’s ‘foreign acceptance’. If the rank is for people searching for a better place to immigrate, the internationality level of the place should also be taken in consideration.

Now let’s get back to the topic. For me, the most comfortable city is not only about peace, food and health. If the city you are living lack some of the above mentioned factors, you better leave asap. After ones satisifed with those basics, then we talk about environment, culture, political satisfaction and civilization level of citizens. If you’re satisfied with all the above and you have a stable income, congratulations! Stay there for the rest of your life if you feel happy.

Feeling comfortable is easy, midnight at the back of a garage, lying on a picnic table cloth on the floor, sounds uncomfortable to me, but definitely supreme comfortable for the couple who were having sex on it for their first time in life. So, comfortable or not, is about happiness. In Vienna, the suicide rate is high, lots of citizens suffered from alcohol problems, and the old ladies hate foreigners, not only Asians.

There is another list of “Top 10 World’s Best Countries to live in 2014″ based on “world happiness report" released by United Nations General Assembly. Vienna, Austria rank No.8, Canada rank No.6. http://lifestyle9.com/worlds-best-country-to-live-in-2013