關於 office for today ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

SHOULD YOU QUIT YOUR JOB NOW?

“You have to help me quit my job!”

Even though the video was off, I could tell from Bria’s voice that she was in tears. This strong woman couldn’t keep herself together anymore.

“You’re experiencing strong emotions now. That’s very natural,” I said, wanting to help her feel safe and accepted.

After all, Bria and I had only met once in an event. Knowing that I was a coach, she reached out the next day to see if I could help.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from my years of coaching, it’s that when the person is emotional, you need to give them the space to feel it.

So as Bria sobbed, I stayed silent, feeling my belly rise and fall with each breath. After a short while, I could sense that her wave of emotion had passed.

“Shall we take one long easy breath together?” I asked.

I heard her breathing with me. I paused, allowing Bria the time to settle, then I asked her to tell me what’s so difficult to her about her job.

After listening to her sharing, I said: “I can definitely help you, Bria.” I heard a sigh of relief on the other end. “But only if you promise me you won’t quit your job yet.”

3 months after that conversation, Bria waltzed in my office one evening holding a bottle of red wine: “Let’s celebrate!”

She had a giddy grin on her face, the very special grin with a dimple that I’d come to love after many hours supporting her. “Oh! Is it okay for us to drink a glass of wine in our coaching session?” She asked.

I laughed: “Of course. What are we celebrating?”

Bria said, her face brightened even more: “I just realized today that I have the perfect job!”

The most fascinating thing about this story is that the “perfect job” she referred to was the exact same job she had practically begged me to help her quit.

Bria’s circumstances hadn’t changed. But her experiences of the circumstances had changed 180 degrees. Why? Because she did.

Bria’s story teaches me once again, that life is truly created from the inside out.
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👉 Dig deeper on why you should not quit your job yet with this article: https://bit.ly/2XB64q0

【vGCTF：強化全球及各國防災韌性】

AIT處長孫曉雅今天偕同科技部部長吳政忠、外交部次長曾厚仁、日本台灣交流協會代表泉裕泰、英國在台辦事處代表鄧元翰，以及澳洲辦事處代表露珍怡共同參加全球合作暨訓練架構線上國際研討會(vGCTF)「強化全球及各國防災韌性」。

AIT處長孫曉雅於開幕致詞中強調：「在救災與災害應變的議題上，美國會致力與我們的夥伴攜手合作。在英國康瓦爾舉行的七國峰會（G7）中，拜登總統與合作夥伴一同宣布了他們對全球基礎建設發展的一致願景，並共同推出了『重建更好世界』（Build Back Better World）倡議。『重建更好世界』是一項價值導向、高標準、透明的基礎建設夥伴關係，目的在動員基礎建設投資，將其導入中低收入國家，以支持這些地方各項基礎建設的永續發展，包括氣候、衛生與衛生安全、科技、及兩性公平與性別平等等領域。這些都是缺一不可的關鍵要素，能夠大大增進各社會與經濟體的防災韌性。」

Today, AIT Director Sandra Oudkirk, Minister of Science and Technology Wu Tsung-Tsong, Deputy Foreign Minister Tseng Ho-jen, Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Chief Representative Hiroyasu Izumi, British Office Representative John Dennis, and Australia Office Representative Jennifer Bloomfield participated in a virtual Global Cooperation and Training Framework (GCTF) workshop titled “Building Disaster Resilience at Global and National Levels.” In her opening remarks, Director Oudkirk highlighted, “The United States is committed to working with partners on disaster relief and response. At the G7 meeting in Cornwall, President Biden and partners announced a unified vision for global infrastructure development and introduced the Build Back Better World initiative. Build Back Better World is a value-driven, high-standard, and transparent infrastructure partnership aimed at mobilizing infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries to support sustainable infrastructure development in the areas of climate, health and health security, technology, and gender equity and equality.”

Alhamdulillah. YB Fuziah (Kak Gee) who attended the PH - Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul meeting today, informed me that MOF is keen to produce a Gender Responsive Budget (GRB) with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) elements for the upcoming budget. If truly realised, it would be a positive step towards addressing gender equality, and future proofing Malaysia. She also informed me that Minister DS Tengku Zafrul showed interests in MPI as a tool.

KEADILAN MPs have been working hard on these matters as part of our pre-budget preparations led by Wong Chen.

Thank you very much for the stellar work done, Ale, Wong Chen’s officer - for collating all the written suggestions and recommendations over the many pre-councils between KEADILAN MPs.

Having completed our MPI survey, led by Professor Fatimah Kari & her team, local enumerators and our ground office - culminating in a finalised report on measuring the different dimensions of poverty (six conventional & 3 COVID-19 related) in Permatang Pauh, -it brings me pleasure to have my colleagues champion a more progressive and future proof measurement of poverty & its alleviation in the upcoming Budget and 12th Malaysia Plan.

Our office finalised a few recommendations to the MOF - specifically seeking an MPI centred approach to poverty eradication; and adoption of gender responsive measures in the dispensing of our national budget. The findings through our MPI survey confirmed that women headed households are in deeper financial crisis in comparison to conventional households - with a concerning intergenerational lack of social and educational mobility and increased food poverty amongst children.

As such - our national budget must be responsive to gender - a principle that carries through to the point of implementation. Since MOF limited reps to three from each party; I urged that YB Fuziah be included together with Wong Chen and our SecGen. Kak Gee (YB Fuziah) has been a long time advocate of gender responsive budgeting and together — the three of them also stressed the need for Malaysia to achieve the SDGs - specifically the 5th, in tandem with a more realistic measurement of poverty.

As for me; the task of briefing Minister Dato’ Seri Mustapa Mohamed on our completed MPI survey & our discussion on the key highlights to be raised during our 12th Malaysia Plan RTM session tomorrow night gave me some hope - of a new dawn in poverty eradication - if not necessarily, new politics 😅 Cautiously optimistic, bak kata Uncle Wong Chen.

Much to do - waver, we mustn’t.

Please note we are planning the launch of our MPI report. Join us as the date nears #Parlimen!

誰かに話しかける際に「ちょっといい？」と一声かけることはよくあると思いますが、英語でも日本語と同様、ある種のお決まりフレーズが存在します。そこで今回は、3つの状況における最も代表的な言い回しをご紹介いたします。

📝今日のレッスンのまとめ📝
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1. Do you have a minute/second?（ちょっといい？）　0:34
・Hey Peter. Do you have a minute? Can you come to my office?（ピーターさん、ちょっといいですか？私のオフィスに来てくれませんか？）

・Hey, do you have a sec? We should talk about Mike's birthday .（ちょっといい？マイクの結婚式について話しておかなきゃと思って）

・Do you have a minute? I want to talk to you about the upcoming project.（ちょっといい？今後のプロジェクトについて話したいのですが）

2. Can I borrow you for a minute? （ちょっといい？）　2:12
・Hey Bob. Can I borrow you for a minute? I'm looking for accommodation in Chicago and I know you're familiar with that city.（ボブ、ちょっといい？シカゴのホテルを探しているんだけど、たしかボブはシカゴに詳しかったよね？）

・Excuse me, Jackie. Can we borrow John for the meeting today?
We need someone who can speak Japanese.（ジャッキー、来週のミーティングにジョンの同席をお願いできますか？日本語が話せる人が必要なんです。）

・Hey Traci. I know your husband is really good with computers. Can we borrow him this weekend to help set up our new computers?（トレイシーさん、旦那さんパソコンに詳しいよね？今週末、うちの新しいパソコンのセットアップをお願いできないかな？）

3. Is this a good time to talk? （今、よろしいでしょうか？）　4:42
・Hello. My name is Steve. I'm calling from the city hall to discuss your daughter's daycare situation. Is this a good time to talk?（もしもし、市役所のジャキーと申します。娘さんの保育園状況について話したいのですが、今、お電話よろしいでしょうか？）

・Excuse me, Larry. I'd like to discuss my salary with you. Is this a good time?（ラリーさん、私の給料について相談したいのですが、今よろしいでしょうか？）

・Hey Matt. What's going on? I want to talk to you about the party next weekend. Is this a good time to talk?（マット、元気。来週末のパーティーについて話したいんだけど、今って大丈夫？）


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這集節目的大來賓是中文系美麗的會長綠綠！現任空服員，休假時過著偶爾上山採藥、偶爾下海捕魚的日子。

大學畢業後，綠綠起先也找了份坐辦公室的行銷工作，但內心總有個聲音呼喚他趁年輕多走出去看一看……當時他想：是不是該去澳洲打工度假？

不久後奇妙的事發生！生命選擇中竟然多了一條路：成為空服員。自此四年多，綠綠開始全世界飛的生活，每次看他的Instagram都好羨慕他的開朗、熱情且充滿行動力，但經由這次的訪談才知道：空姐外表光鮮亮麗，但其實是很孤獨的工作。

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Welcome to Sunlight~
The guest today is Green, the chairman of Chinese literature department! Now she’s a stewardess, whose leisure life is various.
After graduation, Green found a job about marketing first, working in the office, but there was a voice inside her, calling her to go out and see the elephant while she was young. Then she thought if she had to go to Australia for a working holiday.
Soon after an amazing thing happened! There is a new way in her life: becoming a stewardess. Since then she has flown in the world for 4 years. When every time I see her Instagram, I’m so envious because she’s cheerful, enthusiastic and actionable. But after this interview I realize that stewardesses look good but lonely.
Do you want to know truly life of a stewardess? Welcome to listen to this episode! Hope you to face unknown future more bravely and believe everything is for the best!

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Taiwan’s next referendum will soon vote on activating the nation’s fourth nuclear plant, as well as constructing a natural gas plant on an algal reef that's critical for Taiwan’s biodiversity. These decisions come as governments around the world are scrambling to meet the demands of the Paris Agreement, and as environmental activists fight for a more sustainable planet.

Green Parties propose an alternative voice in politics to tackle our environmental ruin. All over the world, there are 91 Green Parties that believe in committing our governments to environmental stewardship, through electing green movement leaders into office. In Asia, Taiwan is home to the region’s oldest Green Party, which won a National Assembly seat in 1996 - their very first election campaign.

Our guest today is Professor Dafydd Fell, a political scientist at SOAS University of London, and Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies. Dafydd Fell is author of the new book: “Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan”, published in March 2021 by Routledge.

Today’s episode is hosted by Nate Maynard - Senior Consultant at Reset Carbon, and host of Waste Not Why Not. You can check out his show for more insights on the world’s ocean, energy, and waste issues.

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“Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan”: https://www.amazon.com/Taiwans-Green-Parties-Alternative-Routledge/dp/0367650312

Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Taiwans-Green-Parties-Alternative-Politics-in-Taiwan/Fell/p/book/9780367650315

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