Xiami xiami rong 蝦瞇蝦瞇容

A story from a few months ago...


有一天和搭檔吳志鴻與駕駛李傑走進台南市的阿魯香腸熟肉準備點菜吃中飯時，
老闆娘說，
「ㄟ，你不是那個蝦瞇西瞇容嗎？那個新聞的蝦瞇蝦瞇容。厚，沒有黃色帽子，差一點沒有發現」。
 原來我就是「黃色牛仔帽蝦瞇蝦瞇容」！
謝謝可愛的老闆娘～




(photo by 陳勁曄)


Canon Kiss X3
EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM
Aperture

Dangerous words

哇，有夠久沒更新部落格，真糟糕！

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhWeCX-plQ


今天播了這則新聞，聽到75歲綜藝節目製作人說"電視節目好像是為我而設計 所以我不會累"，加上這幾天看到同業把一名被操得唉唉叫的菜鳥記者主播在網路上罵翻，還好多人按讚，讓我覺得"累"或"辛苦"這些字真的不能掛嘴邊說自己。
其實新聞工作者都～很累，也都～很辛苦，互相看著互相心痛。
不過有時候聽別人多講幾次"累"，"為何我要比他們辛苦?" 就很傷氣勢，很想直接罵 "不然不要做啊，一直說一直說，影響我的工作情緒，別害我抓狂跟你吵架"。

我也發現，自己越講"累"，感覺越累。

所以
我不累！只是有點愛睏...
我不忙！只是覺得時間有點不夠用...

It's that wind again

For a couple of weeks now, I've been feeling like something in my life is about to change again. I don't know what it is, but I just have this feeling something good is about to happen.

I wonder what it could be. Maybe a breakthrough in my career? Probably not in anchoring, because I have been going nowhere with that. There are serious problems with both the way I present and the way I'm presented.

On the other hand, fellow reporters, cameramen and producers are giving me good feedback about my Chinese travel features which air Saturdays. The 2200 news has also been re-running them on weeknights as well. For a small team of three (assigner, cameraman and me), I think we are doing pretty well. My writing, producing and hosting skills are improving.

My pictures are getting more interesting - less like snapshots and more like nicely composed photographs.

Also, I'm learning more and more about selling art.

Lots of developments!

So what is it? What is going to happen? I'm looking forward to finding out!

Happy to be learning

I spent the first half the year in limbo - going nowhere, learning nothing and dying of boredom. I'm not sure if I'm going anywhere right now, but I am definitely busy beyond belief and learning a lot! I am

- making longer travel stories: 4'30'' instead of the usual 1'30''
- lighting: when to and when not to do stand-ups (talking in front of the camera)
- hosting: TV shows and events
- video editing: making Grandpa's party video
- photography: framing shots, paying more attention to light
- dealing with people: how not to completely blow up when people do unbelievable things
- spending more time with family

IQ and EQ points are both on the rise.

Some people say it's unbelievable how I am made to cover spot news, work the night shift, anchor on my time off, run around all over the country to make travel stories in different languages and to host programs, so I should get a 300% raise. But I think I'm lucky to be going through such intensive training and getting paid to do it.

For the first time, I see a bright future ahead of myself.

:)

Winds are changing...?

Anchor job offer.
Reporter job offer.
Relationship opportunity.
Another relationship opportunity.
Chance to write a TV show proposal.

Wow, things are looking better and better.

A TV station offered me an anchoring position last month. A week later when I was in Europe, another TV station asked if I would consider reporting financial news for them. I thanked both companies for giving me the chance, but turned them down. Two different guys want to ask me out, and though I'm not interested, I feel comforted that they are normal people which I work with, rather than weirdos that are obsessed with that old and ugly looking woman on Channel 53 every Saturday morning. In the past few years, it's been mostly psycho fans that have shown some kind of interest in me.

The thing I'm really excited about is getting told to write a TV show proposal.

Maybe it'll be my ticket out of daily news. I'm on my 6th year in daily news. What does that make me, a Super Duper Senior? I may not be the best student, but I think I can and should graduate soon. For a long time, I thought that I was a burden to the newgathering center because of my poor Chinese and lack of journalistic education and experience. But I think being scouted by other stations to anchor news in English and to cover financial news in Chinese is proof enough that I've done well. I appreciate FTV News for giving me the chance to learn from and to work for them. No, I'm not leaving, but I'm sure that I must. Soon. My motivation barometer reads close to zero, and it's been this way since the beginning of the year. I feel so distanced and distracted from my work that the office politics which I'm usually oblivious to is starting to bother me. It's hard to concentrate when what I'm doing is something I no longer love. Instead of seeing the fun of getting better and better at putting together soundbites and footage to tell a story, I see my editor overly sensationalizing my report, I see the pointlessness of the stories I'm assigned, even though these silly stories will bring in higher ratings. Until this day, I haven't learned to successfully pitch stories which I want to do and that my bosses will like. So that is where I failed and why I think daily news is no longer what I should be doing. If I were to stay, I need a breakthrough.

I had hoped that the Europe assignment on green buildings and urban redevelopment would help me find an answer. With the English, Spanish, Dutch, Swiss and German interviewees over there, I asked questions, I followed up, I interacted with them in a way most of my colleagues couldn't. I got to flex my language and cultural muscles a little bit and I really liked it. I felt like I stood out among the group of reporters and shined. It feels great to be able to do what most others can't.

Next, I'd love to work in another part of media, to continue storytelling in another form. Maybe some kind of lifestyle programming with an international element. Hosting and co-producing. Maybe. Hopefully.

New benchmark, yay!

The past week has been incredibly amazing. Although I'm still in the same place, doing the same thing, I ventured out a little bit, learned a lot about myself, about other people and about how to and how not to deal with certain types of people. I met some new people, I saw what people in the industry think of me and I saw how much I've grown in the last five years. I've reached a new benchmark in my career! But I'm afraid I can't publish anything about it until much later.

I'm just so happy for all of my parents' support. I love you, Mom, Dad and Mama! Yay! Must celebrate! Must celebrate!! Must celebrate!!!

Life at the office will be miserable for a while, but ooooooh well. I don't care. I am just so happy right now. :D Woohoo!

轉了個彎但沒迷路

昨天帶著Pearl散步
從有以前住過的目白台走到早稻田

半途迷路了一下下
Pearl很不耐煩
直接坐了下來抗議
不走就是不走！
讓我好丟臉

但是最後還是找到了
她也原諒了我

看到大隈講堂的時候
稍微懷舊了一下下
拍了張照片

回想一下
剛進研究所時
立志要當investment banker
或者venture capitalist
專門投資高科技公司
對藝文一點興趣都沒有

從畢業到現在
計畫真是轉了一個大彎

現在對財經的工作一點興趣都沒有
還愛上藝文
愛上storytelling

這個月我來到民視滿五年
經歷了
編輯
編譯
剪接
採訪
播報
主持
還讓大老闆怕我跑走

但不只公司裡面
這次回來日本碰到台灣觀光客時
被要求一起拍照
這代表觀眾喜歡…吧?
不喜歡的話應該就是手指拿出來指指指…吧？

雖然當初沒走上財經之路
但我很開心沒有走錯路
我轉了個彎但沒迷路

我發現我喜歡站在舞台上
我喜歡帶給大家快樂
我喜歡這換來的掌聲

現在我用新聞講故事
用blog寫故事
未來要用什麼其他的方式呈現故事呢？
就看看囉！