【我親愛的Zoom視訊客人們】
To My Dear Zoom Clients
我忍了真的⋯⋯真的⋯⋯很久,今天過後實在忍無可忍,一定要叮嚀所有過去和未來的客人們。
我年紀很大了,受不了太大的刺激。
拜託,你們可以Zoom好來嗎?😓😑
一、Zoom視訊的視角 = 拍護照照的視角
護照自2020年起就已成為古董,但大家這一生應該有拍過證件照吧!
對了,就是要頭髮整齊,讓我看到你的雙耳、雙眼、鼻子、嘴巴、頸項和肩膀,到胸部。
我批八字時,需要看整個面相。不要讓你一半的臉掉出鏡頭外,這樣很像鍾無艷,也不要嘴巴不見掉,這樣我很像在跟一條羅漢魚視訊。
我看面相包括看你的嘴巴、牙齒和說話時的嘴形。是的,看相就是需要那麼仔細。
如果你的螢幕太低,那就找書本或舊報紙,把螢幕墊高一點。別讓我整一個小時半只看到你的雙下巴,會把你的面相比例給看錯。
不要一直告訴我不好意思,方法是人想出來的。
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二、光線
太暗,我看你如見鬼。
太亮,我會看不清你的膚色。
拉開窗簾,不要背向陽光。
有必要的話,就直接開燈!
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三、勿放什麼椰樹沙灘/金門大橋的虛擬背景圖
什麼虛擬背景圖都不要放啦~
我的家美最重要,我不在乎你的家美不美,我只是來看命的。
如果你的Wi-Fi不是很強,電腦功能不是很厲害,這類的虛擬背景圖會讓你的視訊畫面卡卡的。
有時你轉個身,整個右邊不見了,或部份的頭髮少了,讓我覺得我好像在看恐怖片,嚇人啊~
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四、環境和聲音
有些海外客人其實非常用心。為了與我視訊,特別去買有麥克風的耳機🎧,讓我能更清楚的聽到他們的聲音。😍
沒有使用耳機和麥克風的客人,往往他們的聲音會有種空氣般的回音,如果他們本身講話又小聲,我的耳機聲量開滿,我還是聽得滿辛苦的
也有香港和馬來西亞客人租過會議室、鐘點房間或單人工作室,就是為了不受家人的干擾,能安心的與我視訊。😍
最有趣的是,去年新加坡阻斷措施時,有位男客人跑到屋外的走廊坐在地上與我視訊。只是外頭風聲有點大,我好幾次都聽不清楚他的聲音。
曾有客人在咖啡廳與我視訊。咖啡廳裡的高談闊論聲和器皿的敲擊聲,頻頻從我的耳機闖進我的耳朵,哇~我的耳朵那時真的是活受罪,還要裝一副氣定神閒的樣子。
天啊,兩次過後,我寧願退錢,也不再見這樣的客人了。耳朵只有一對,我要保護好啊!
在這裡聲明:一般我們買手機時的那種有麥克風的耳機,就已能視訊。沒有戴耳機和麥克風的客人,我一概會拒絕諮詢,把費用原銀奉還。
五、孩子
曾試過諮詢的前20分鐘,一直被女客人的小孩打擾,進來哭著要媽媽主持公道。
如果你家中有六歲以下的兒童,會時不時來敲你的門,我建議你還是先別約我。你這樣會分心,無法聽好我交代的事,而我也得一直等你去安撫你的孩子,就無法在限定時間內看完你的八字,這樣對誰都不公平。
六、我只見客人一人
這個規矩,從我一出道就定下來,也清楚的寫在網站上,根本不用一而再的來試探水溫。
但這兩個星期,還是有客人硬闖關,事先安排自己的配偶/孩子坐在電腦的另一面,要他們聽我講他的八字。
我從不改我的規矩,也沒有八字或風水是我非看不可的。
讀書這麼高,連自己的命都不能自己負責,這已經不是能改到命的人了。
你一定要你的配偶陪你聽,那你需要的不是我來教你改命,是你的配偶來安你的心。
將來若還有這樣的事,我會直接中斷視訊,把錢退回去。
七、「我第一次用Zoom!」
可是從報名那天到今天的諮詢,你有兩個月的時間去摸索。
兩個月,怎麼還是錯誤百出?因為客人根本沒有事先準備和練習。
結果我就這樣等了20分鐘,還得等對方下載軟件。
Zoom不難使用,但如果是你沒有花時間去摸索,就不要撒謊,直接說,我就直接退現錢。
品德是改命的資糧,不要為了自己能脫身就隨便編一個漏洞百出的謊,還說自己是好人。這...不會臉皮太厚了嗎?
小事都不願做好,絕對不會成大器。
八、暈車
有些客人用Ipad或手機來視訊。
重點是,他一支手拿著手機,一支手拿筆寫筆記。他一邊寫,另一支手就一邊搖晃。他做在床上,移動一下,手機就彷彿大海嘯幾下🌊
我一天如果見三個這樣客人,我的視線就搖晃了5個小時。工作完畢後,頭也會痛得厲害,無法完成晚上製片的工作。
沒有自拍器三腳架,也應該有些書本或東西來頂著手機。
各位,多點善心,為我著想一下吧⋯⋯
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To My Dear Zoom Clients
I have been enduring it for a really really long time. That's it! I am gonna put a stop to this after today and send out this reminder to all my past and future clients.
I am getting on in years, and cannot stand too much stimulation.
Please.... can you guys do a proper Zoom?
Number 1: Going on screen in Zoom = Taking a photograph for your passport.
Since 2020, the passport has become something of an antique but I believe everyone has taken some kind of ID photos! Yes, the ones with your neatly combed trusses where I can see both your ears, nose, mouth, neck, shoulder all the way to your chest.
I would like to see your full face during the Bazi Consultation. Please don't allow half your face to fall off the screen and you end up looking like Zhong Wu Yan! Please also don't hide your mouth making me feel like I am talking to a Arrowana.
When I analyze your facial features, it includes your mouth, teeth and the shape of your mouth while you are talking. Yes, it is down to such level of details.
If your PC / Laptop monitor is too low, please find a book or old newspapers and stack it on top. Please don't let me only see your double chin for that 1.5 hours, as I would probably get the proportion of your face wrong.
Don't keep telling me you are apologetic. Think of a way out.
Number 2: The background lighting.
Too dark, you risk looking like a ghost.
Too bright, I cannot figure out your skin color.
Draw open the curtains, but don't face your back to the sunlight.
If necessary, just turn on the lights!
Number 3: Background images of coconut trees on sandy beaches or the Golden Gate Bridge.
There is no need to put on a virtual background. I only care about how my hone looks, I am not bothered by yours. I am only here to see your Bazi.
If your WIFI signal or your PC / Laptop performance is poor, using the virtual background can often make your Zoom video choppy. Sometimes when you turn your body, one side of your body or some part of your hair will disappear. It's really like one of those spooky movies scaring the wits out of me.
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Number 4: Background environment and noise.
Some of my overseas clients really put in effort for our Zoom sessions. They bought a headset with a mic so that I can hear them properly and vice versa.
Those that did not use a earphone or a headset often sounded echo-ish, and if they spoke softly, I would have to turn on the volume on my side full throttle and still have a hard time trying to hear them.
There are some clients from Hong Kong and Malaysia who would rent meeting rooms, hotel rooms or private work spaces by the hour so as to reduce any disturbance from others and better focus on the Zoom session with me.
I recalled an interesting incident during the Circuit Breaker last year. A client from Singapore Zoom-ed with me along the corridor outside his house. Most of the time, I was hearing the howling of the winds rather than his voice.
Some clients sat themselves in coffee places for our session. These places are often filled with loud chatters and the clanging of cups and plates, and my ears suffered terribly. Yet, I have to continue to be seen as composed and attentive.
Goodness me, after 2 of such experiences, I decided that I rather refund these clients and never see them again. I have only 1 pair of ears and I want to protect them at all costs!
A normal earpiece that comes with the purchase of a handphone is good enough for Zoom video calls. For clients who do not have a earpiece/headset and a mic, I would end the consultation and refund the monies.
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Number 5: Children
There was once where a session with a female client was repeatedly disrupted by her kids, running in crying for their mother to settle their quarrels. If you have children below 6 years of age, and likely to interrupt our session, I suggest you don't book a consultation with me.
You will be distracted, unable to focus on my advice and I have to wait for you to clear up the situation with your children, eating into the allowable time for me to complete the consultation. This is unfair to both you and me.
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Number 6: I only meet one person, that is the Client.
I have set this requirement the day I stepped into this line of work, and it is clearly written in my booking form. There is no need to try your luck under any circumstances.
But in the space of 2 weeks, there were some clients who rode their luck and got their spouse / child to sit on the other side of the screen to listen in on our consultation.
I never change my stance, and there is no single client that I cannot afford to lose.
If you insist to have your spouse sit in, it is apparent that you do not need me to help transform your destiny. Rather you really need your spouse to put your heart at ease.
If such things happen the next time, I will end the session immediately and refund the fees.
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Number 7: "My first time using Zoom"
But you have 2 full months to prepare before our actual consultation. You did not end up wasting time exploring the software and I wasted 20 mins waiting for you to download the software.
Zoom is an easy software to use but if you did not spend the time to familiarize yourself with it, please quit the lies and tell me directly. I will refund the consultation fees on the spot.
Our moral ethics serve as the foundation for our transformation. Stop weaving web of lies to get out of sticky situations, and still claim that you are a good person. Isn't this too thick-skinned?
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Number 8: Giddy spells
Some clients use Ipad or their handphones for the Zoom session. Crucially, they hold the device with one hand, and take notes with the other. As they write, the other hand holding the phone becomes shaky. If he is doing that on his bed, his handphone would shake like a tsunami wave every time he changes his position.
If I see 3 such clients within a day, it would be 5 hours of shaking visuals for me. That would mean a splitting headache at the end of my work day, and not being able to work on my videos at night.
Even if you don't have a tripod stand, at least prop up the device with a book or something.
Please everyone, please be kind and have mercy on me......
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#講反話
“Cherry 🍒 on top” = 「錦上添花」
“We can’t be too careful” - 點解
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講反話
明報 | 英文 | 毛孟靜
看過一部荷李活電影,男主角給人喝罵:You killed him! 你殺了他! 他一臉不屑答:Yeah right. 哦,對的。之後控方就真的提出,說證人已認罪。
這個證明當然不能成立,因為不論中、英文或其他許多語文都一樣,日常生活中的對答,一定包括說反話。
就像有人憑空指你考試出貓,你只覺沒好氣,答:對呀!我還買試卷呢!按常理,就知道這回答只是句反話。
英文中一些用詞,聽上去好像十分正面,但意思恰恰相反,這就是不折不扣的反話。譬如說,He has a thin chance of winning,他勝出的機會很微。Thin chance 解作機會小,那麼fat chance 就等於機會大了?
不,不管 fat 或 thin,說的都是機會小;fat chance 的語氣更重一些,可以指完全沒有機會,更包含一點嘲諷味道。
• Do you think he's going to win this? 你認為他會贏嗎?Fat chance. 完全不。
一些英文習語,就像我們的成語,本身一般用作表達正面信息,但視乎上文下理,一樣可以用作反話。像要批評政府抗疫措施,中文措詞可用上「雷厲風行」一語,來增添尖酸刻薄之意。英文也一樣。Cherry on top 是指雪糕上的一粒車厘子,跟中文的「錦上添花」有異曲同工之妙,但實際運用起來,意思卻正反皆可。
• He was acquitted of the fraud charge. And for the cherry on top, the company is giving him his old job back. 他脫了欺詐罪。錦上添花的是,公司讓他復職。
· I kept re-running my cringeworthy meeting with him, and thecherry on top was that I was weak and headachy, a little bitqueasy. 我不斷回想跟他那個尷尬突兀的會面,而「錦上添花」的是,事發時我虛弱、頭痛及有一點暈眩。
類似的用法另有 to a fault,通常解作一個人的某些特質過了頭:He is generous to a fault. 他太慷慨了。
但用作反話,可以說 He's zealous to a fault,他熱心得過了頭,亦即等於說這個人 overzealous,瞎熱心。而 overzealous staff 往往是服務行業道歉聲明中的一個常用語:都是我們過分熱心的(因而幫了倒忙)職員不對。
另外有一句話,不正也不反,卻有許多人會誤會了意思:
• We can't be too careful. 根據字面,說的彷彿是「我們不可以太小心」?錯了,意思其實是「我們不可能太小心」,也即是說,沒有太小心這回事,我們必須絕對小心就是了。還有以下用語,它們又是不是反話呢?
1. I can't sing to save my life.
2. I can't do small talk to save my life.
這兩句話同樣不正也不反。自稱 can't do something to save one’s own life,是自謙甚至自貶的說法,是說自己完全做不到正在說的事,故答案是:
1. 我(五音不全)唱不了歌。
2. 我完全不擅長寒暄。
on top of something意思 在 Eric's English Lounge Facebook 的精選貼文
[抽獎活動] Art Makes Us Resilient
Yes, we have another prize for you.
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Throughout the pandemic, art has brought us together. Performers entertained us online, musicians sang on balconies, and artists used their talents to relay messages of solidarity and hope.
1. bring us together 將我們團結在一起;讓我們聚在一起
2. relay message of solidarity 傳遞團結一致的訊息
在疫情大流行中,藝術將我們團結在一起。表演者在網上帶來急需的娛樂, 音樂家在陽台上唱歌以及演奏樂器,而藝術家則運用他們的才華來傳達團結一致和希望的訊息。
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While art is suffering the brunt force of the coronavirus pandemic, it can still strengthen our cultural ties, jolt our creativity, and give us hope for a better tomorrow. Art makes us resilient!
3. suffer the the brunt force of 承受某事的主要壓力;首當其衝*
4. strengthen cultural ties 強化文化紐帶
5. jolt (v.) our creativity 震盪我們的創意
6. resilient 有彈性的;能復原的;有復原力的;適應性強的
儘管藝術正承受冠狀病毒大流行的衝擊,它仍然能用以加強我們文化紐帶,震盪我們的創意,並給予我們明天會是更好的一天的希望。藝術讓我們堅韌。
*bear/take/suffer the brunt of something:
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Thus, what would be a more fitting gift for our fans at this difficult time than a work of art? Since many students responded enthusiastically to our article on art, I went last week to purchase a painting for you. The artist gave me a huge discount, but sorry everyone, I could only afford one. In case you did not know, I’m still a student like the rest of you—I have been studying and teaching all my life, and I love it.
因此,還有什麼禮物比一幅藝術作品更適合送給我們的粉絲們?由於很多同學熱情回應我們藝術相關的文章:https://bit.ly/3evXehk,我上個星期去買了幅畫要送給你們。這位藝術家給我了不少折扣,但抱歉了各位,我只能負擔這一幅。如果你還不知道,我其實和各位一樣都還是學生,我這輩子都在學習和教學,並且熱愛這一切。
7. a fitting gift 一件合適的禮物
8. at this difficult time 在這個困難的時候
9. respond enthusiastically 熱情響應
10. a huge discount 很大的折扣
If you are interested in this art piece, please follow the directions below.
如果你對這幅藝術品有興趣,請跟隨下列的說明。
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★活動時間: 2019/5/03 ~2019/5/04 晚上八點止
★活動辦法: 按讚或分享此貼文,並留言「Art makes us resilient!」。
★贈獎內容: 畫家曾日昇畫室一副畫 41*31 cm (共一名)
★贈獎方式: 於2019/5/05透過系統抽出一名幸福粉絲 (限台灣, 不好意思最近寄國際郵件很不方便),並公佈中獎名單。若一天內沒回覆,將視同放棄中獎權益。頭號粉絲(top fans)有雙倍中奬機會。
如何成為頭號粉絲: https://bit.ly/2Yvfty7
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