I got the Anping Old Fort lego

The second lego toy I drew is Anping Old Fort. It was established in 1624 A.D by Dutch and became the first fortress in Taiwan (Formosa). Originally its name was Fort Zeelandia.
The special features in the fort are the bricks used mortar which consisted of a mixture of glutinous rice juice, oyster hull powder, sand and syrup.
Also, I have pre-booked the limited edition lego train, the date I could get is on 14th January. In addition, now I really hope that I would get the New Taipei city's
Fort San Domingo which was established by Spanish in 1626 A.D.

Leave for Yokohama City in Japan

Yesterday afternoon my mom rang the doorbell to inform me that there was a letter for me. And then I went downstair to get my letter. It's the letter from Japan. When I read her letter, and suddenly I found that we have many topics to chat with, no wonder every time we write over 2 pages. And it also made me think of every time my friends ask me how to choose a topic to chat with their boyfriend (especially foreign boyfriends), I feel a bit boring to me, I also don't know how to choose a topic. I prefer to chat with our Taiwaner boys not foreigners, and I am very special than other girls who love colored eyes. I think it's pie in the sky to make me fall into love with a foreigners who has green eyes or blue eyes or grey eyes. Because I dare not to look steadily at those people. You can say the colored eyes are beautiful, yet to me, I think it's too beautiful to stare. Because the pages are only 5, I felt that I could reply to her around an hour. In addition, she mentioned to the new year card, I think it's good for painting a topic related Japanese New Year on envelope. Finally I finished the replying, and then I chose some blessing Kanji words to write. I am greedy to write all, yet I need to choose few. I thought back, and I never written Kanji calligraphy to Yuki. It's good to change the fresh style on the envelope to her. Moreover, 2011 is a year of Rabbit in Asian countries, except Vietnam for Cat Year. I use my brush pen to paint a rabbit in simple strokes.
The reverse side on the envelope is Japanese calligraphy, I hope that is not ugly at all.
This letter would arrive to Yuki's hand in the last day in this year or next year. I think she would be surprised that I reply to fast.

Merry Christmas Card to Indonesia

Because before I have posted that I wanted to exchange with Christmas card on interpals, and a friendly Thai pal asked me, I was really happy, and then at the same time I chatted a lot with an Indonesian pal. Therefore I asked her to exchange the Christmas card, she agreed but until the Christmas day I got her address. Then yesterday I wrote a lot words to her on the letter and the Christmas card. About the letter, actually I didn't need to write that, but I wanted to do that. Since she chatted with me about my descent on interpals, I think it's hard to type a lot on interpals, moreover, I don't want to let more people check my story on open forum.
I hope the letter would arrive to Jawa, Indonesia quickly. Please arrive before the next year. Also she would like the card.

Winter Solstice

Today is December 22nd, which is also the winter solstice on the lunar calendar. Traditionally, our people would eat a bowl of sweet soup with rice flour balls. This traditional food we call it "Tang Yuan". Making and eating tang yuan both signify family reunion and prosperity. Some family would have pink tang yuan for good luck. When you eat Tang Yuan, it also means that you are getting one year older.
We eat not only Tang Yuan, but also dietary supplementation. There are some food for dietary supplementation, ginger duck soup with herb is most popular for Taiwaner, then wine cooked chicken soup is also common, or you also can eat mutton hot pot.
So my Mom cooked Tang Yuan for me, it means that I also grow up one year old.
And then she also cooked chicken with glutinous rice as lunch for me.

Depart to Southern Poland

Because I have been for a long time to get the replying letter from Zuza, then I didn't advance the time of write the Christmas card for her. When I got her letter, I think I should write a card to her before I reply the whole letter. In this way, I didn't photograph the card I chose for her. Anyway, she wrote many times sorry for late letter to me, but all my head is to concern her study and how much she spent on the letter. I would like to recieve the little gift but not for expensive gift, in addition, I think it's hard to save money. I would feel sorry to spend friends' money.Acutally I have considered to have second home out of Taiwan, and I consider some countries, such as Germany, the Netherlands, Thailand and Poland. Even Zuza didn't encourage me to visit the old city, Crakow in Poland, I still want to visit there because of recommendation by Taiwaner busisnessmen and the people who have been to there.
And then I have some ideas to inform her. I inform her how Taiwaner think Christmas day and the Lunar Asian New Year is same as the Western New Year for most Asian countries. Also I mention to the Taiwaner feeling difference between Lunar New Year and Western New Year. What if she replys me next turn faster, she would get the red envelop to enjoy the atmosphere of our Lunar Asian New Year, or I will go abroad and then the letter would delay for 1 month.
P.S. Today is 21th, and count from the Christmas day only 4 days, I will show the surprise I want to give my another Dutch pal, Anneke.

Lego Toys

Basically our Mart is very creative and also has many attractive staff to exchange with credits you buy. But the figure toy has no attraction to me. Until Family Mart which is the second biggest mart brand in Taiwan sponsored the lego toys, I changed my mind. Lego can assemble by your hand. That's why I like it very much. I used to like to assemble many castles by lego. I want to collect it, therefore I didn't throw the credits away this time. It's my favorite toy. And the topic is 5 cities symbol. I don't know why my city is 85 skyscraper as symbol. It has no ancient history. I prefer to use The British Consulate at Takao as my city symbol, then it would be the most pretty views among the 5 cities. The second consideration is Kaohsiung Museum of History which was the Bureau Kaohsiung City Government since Japanese period. The last choise, Dragon-Tiger Pagoda is also better than 85 skyscraper. Therefore at the beginning I hope that I draw the Tainan's symbol, Anping Old Fort which was called the former Fort Zeelandia. It has the history with Dutch. I need to collect the 10 credits around 10 Euro to exchange with one. After collect all 5 cities, I also could consider to buy the small train with map.
The worst news and best news are also same, I drew the 85 skycraper. I don't know how to express my feeling, maybe my heart is bleeding. Yet at the same time I think I should love my city's symbol even it is modern building without any historical memory. Anyway, I just want to collect 2 cities or 3 cities, and then I would buy that train lego to assemble. I dislike the Taipei city's symbol.

The Monochrome Painting

Last week I taught my students how to use the brush pen with ink to paint the monochrome night view. Some students are lack of creative, therefore I would give some hints. For example, I will ask students what they would see at night. And one answer gets one star to accumulate the total starts for changing the gift.
The picture on the up-left is special. But the truth is that he didn't know how to draw the house originally, that's why at the begining he painted the sea with fish. Also I felt interesting when I saw the cat face to be the second moon of the bottom right. As for the building is a symbol of my city, this kid is good at imitating what I painted on the board.
The color depth of the picture is adding water. It's Asian old sketch paiting way. I am not very good at this kind of painting, just I have learned since I was a kid.

Busy Friday

I am happy to recieve the first Christmas card from Poland, yet I still not recieve the letter by Linda. Never mind, I have to finish the Christmas card first then send it to Linda.
Because I am very busy, I don't have much time to take the photos by all Christmas cards I sent to foreign pen pals. So this year I totally sent the Christmas card for 8 foreign pen pals. There are 2 Japanese, 2 Thai, 1 Viet and 1 Singapore in Asia. As for European only 2 person, 1 Dutch and 1 Polish. Besides that, next week the surprise I promised to Anneke would finish. After the Christmas, I need to prepare many works. Therefore, I could not update my life on my blog so often.
However, I think I will as possible as I can to update my life in winter vacation.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year for my all friends!

Postcard travels

Besides the busy days, as long as I have free time, I would like to check more information related with New Zealand. And then I found that Hamilton City is 8837 km away from my city. It is not far than the distance between Holland (Hengelo is for 9504 km) to my city. But I don't know why the tour in New Zealand is not cheaper than Europe. I got a good news that my Viet pal finally got my letter, she was very happy to open the card and close the card many times in a day. I guess soon my Singapore pal would also receive my card with greeting.
Same, what if I stay in New Zealand, I think I would send a postcard to two foreign friends, so far I list: Linda (NL) and Chahrazed (Algeria), then I would send four postcards to Taiwaner pen pals. Whatever, I would send a postcard to myself every day, and perhaps I would send the postcard weekly to my Mom. I will find different topics to write and draw on postcards. The following photo is I searched from our people's blog's post card.

I also would like to give it a try for my postcard painting. I can't wait the day to stay in New Zealand now.

To jump or not to jump

Shakespear has said that to be or not to be, and now I want to say,"to jump or not to jump, that is a question."
I have read many blogs from our people, most girls did the great things in New Zealand tour, one of them is to experience the bungy jump. There are many different origins of bungy jumping, including the South Pacific. The legend says that in the village Bunlap a man called Tamalie had a quarrel with his wife and she ran away and climbed a Banyan tree where she wrapped her ankles with liana vines. When Tamalie came up to her, the woman jumped from the tree and so did her husband not knowing what had his wife done. So he died but the woman survived. The men of Bunlap were very impressed by this performance and they began to practise such jumps in case they got in similar situation. This practice transformed into a ritual for rich yam harvest and also for proving manhood.
I am hesitating whether should I try the bungy jump or not. I would like to try it to become an adult as New Zealand's aboriginal tradition. But their bungy just tie on feet not waist. It must be more exciting and scary.

Yet I have seen many Taiwanese girls who are so brave to try it, I am fighting with my heart now.

The Taupo Bungy Jump costs NZ 123 dollars, and then you can get the certificate of courage, also if you buy the combos of jump memory for 3 photos and CD/ROM, you need to add NZ 55 dollars.

Happy Friday

I was happy that last time I spent a good afternoon time to watch the airplane landing and finished my assignment, also the assignment turned out that I got a not bad score. There are 3 classmates to reach the 80 score, and I am one of them.
I think back and feel it is a miracle, last year I disliked English because of a bad memory, and then I made up my mind to improve English. Most girls have good motivation to learn English well, to meet a Western guy for love, to listen to some English pop songs or to watch the movies. Yet the power to push me is two countries. Thursday morning I finally got my passport, but there is one thing I dislike on my passport. How do Western know how to tell the difference between ROC and PRC? Every time I see that, I have mixed feeling with the lies by those politicians. The few days ago, an Egyptian girl discussed with me about the problems of Israel and Palestine, I can feel her anger, yet the hatred cannot solve the problem. Did it worth to sacrifice the innocent lives? No, I would rather to use another way to face the problems between ROC and PRC.
As the world's common language, English is a useful tool. Every time I see those people who bully or cheat our people, I just can work with the energy conversion. I put my grief, anger, frustration turned into impetus to improve the abilities I lack of.
I hope next year I will reach my short-term goal of the year. Then perhaps I would like to plan next short-term goal for study tour.

Proceed to Singapore

My Singapore pals are always busy and I was surprised to get the letter from Singapore. And I enjoy watching the stamps from different countries. Some people suggest me what if I want to collect the letter from more countries, then I could consider to exchange the postcard on postcrossing website. I don't like that way, I prefer to exchange different cultures as major not to collect the stamps from different countries to show off.
I thought for a while and I decided to use the cute letter to reply. But this time I painted by different tools. Aha, it's the steel ball pen. The stype is simple but still nice. Also, I chose a Christmas card to write for her, this month my hand would be acid, because I need to write many Christmas cards, haha~ So I promised her that I would send to her another poem in calligraphy next time.
Last, I am thinking about what kind of colors I still lack of. Besides steel ball pen, I still think of the writing brush pen. But maybe some postcards could be painted by color pencils, should I take them to NZ, too?

Tatarstan An Unfamiliar Country

I admit that I prefer to know the small countries than big countries. So I seldom chat with American, I would pay more attention on minuscular kind of things. I have ever supposed one of my foreign pals is a Russian before she introduced Tatarstan to me. Anyway, she is not a Russian but a Tatarstan citizen. As long as I signed in Skype, she must chats with me for a while.
And last night she asked me an interesting question that I never thought. How do I think and look at people who don't speak fluently english? The moment I immediately answered to her that I would learn their native langauges to communicate with. But her question made me think forth and back after the conversation ending. I always think how to improve my English and try to speak out, and I really hope this winter break I would improve my English listening ability in New Zealand.
I cannot wait for tomorrow to get my passport. Even now I changed a lot, in my childhood I eagered to go abroad to America for Disneyland and Dinosaur Fossil Museum, also for Disneyland in Japan. So childish thought in my childhood. But what if one day I have a lover, I would like to go to Disneyland with my lover.
Besides New Zealand study tour, I hope that I could arrange the Germany summer study tour before I study the master. In addition, I prefer to have a winter study tour in Arab countries, Jordan, Egypt or Syria. Then I put Mongolia tour into my life plan, but I just like to stay there in summer time.

Colorful Pen

This morning I was very happy to buy many different colors to set up my pen holder, and I collected different pen brands to use. Mistubishi I bought 2 pen holders for 5 colors and 3 colors, after all, it is the brand that I used for 12 years. Besides that, I also got the Polot Hi-tec- coleto series for 4 colors.
And I didn't have any ideas to buy the color by Pentel Slicci, so I just bought the purple color to set up, so tomorrow what if I pass by the staionary store, I would buy another blue colors to set up. Should I try Zebra brand? I am condidering this brand now.

So only four pen holder could contain 15 colors inside, in this way I could save the space and reduce the weight of my luggage.

I shift my love to Pilot Steel Ball Pen

In past 12 years, I only like to use the pen by Mitsubishi brand, also I like to use the 0.38 type. But I am very impressed with the colorful steel ball pen painting by some people. In addition, I have painted some postcard and it is difficult to color on the postcard by color pencils. Furthermore, I decide to go to the New Zealand to send a postcard every day to myself. So I should change the style to use the ball pen to paint quickly. And the first choice to change the brand of Pilot Coleto series. I have seen there are 15 kind of colors to choose, and just now I searched a lot information from our bloggers, some also recommend the Pentel Slicci, and I also found my favorite Mitsubishi recently also developed the similiar series as Jetstream. I think this Chirstmas day I would buy a lot of pens as the gifts to myself.

P.S. the above two pictures not belong to me, I just buy four colors to experience now.
And I think of that two years ago I have quickly painted an image to present my childhood by my blue pen. What if I have colorful pen at that time, I would color it. And I want to say that painting was made by my left hand, as for other words you can ignore them, it didn't matter. Also, you can click the picture to see the bigger size.

Closet Joy

The day before yesterday I had applied the passport successfully, also I paid the deposit to join the Waikato Pathways College Group Programme. Next Thursday I will take my passport and then apply to a visa to New Zealand. Moreover, I will remit the remaining balance to the designated account. This is a joy to be hidden. So I will fly out of Taiwan's sky and stay in New Zealand for a month during my winter vacation. And I will not celebrate that unmeaning Asian New Year in Taiwan. Asian New Year has an important meaning of reunion. Perhaps I am very lucky that my father side's home, my mather side's home and my home are in the same district. It means that as long as I want to visit them, I just take in 15 minutes to arrive their home. About the atmosphere of Asian New Year, I cannot have the strong feeling to immerse in this festival. In addition, my lovely grandma (mother side) has passed away 5 years, this festival is no meaning already for me. What if she was still alived, I would not go abroad during that time.
I am wondering to know whether I miss home too much to cry, because many friends told me that they had this kind of similiar experiences. I promise my mother to give her a call every day, in this way, she can be assured that with me.
The Waikato University is located in North Island, there has no much diversified terrain as South Island, but only the one thing is worth to stay there; that is Maoli culture. Since that Maoli girl told me their aborigines recognize they were from Taiwan, I would like to understand their culture and custom. I believe that I could learn from different cultures to acquaint our own culture. Most Taiwan tourists prefer to visit South Island because of the British architecture and ecology scenes. However, North Island has more traces of human history. I am looking forward to dance with Maoli people for Haka. Last, I never seen Alpaca, they look very cute and I want to stroke them.

Taking off to Vietnam

Yesterday afternoon I got a letter from Vietnam, I was surprised the letter from Vietnam. Besides that, this time the letter was from the capital city in Vietnam, Hochiminh City. Last time my letter got lost on the way to Vietnam, it really sucks. However, my Viet friend gave me new address and it won't lose.
And I found that Viet is easy to get along with, I have 2 good Viet friends and they treat me wamrly and honest. Moreover, they regard me as their true friends, I am happy for that. Suddenly I think of one thing that why I cannot fell into love with romantic relationship easily. In Asia, the first country I want to make a bridge of friendship is Vietnam. I hope in my lifetime I could assist Taiwan in establishing diplomatic relations with Vietnam. I have persuaded many friends try to learn and understand the culture and thought of Viet. Perhaps one day my city could have a day to celebrate with the immigrants from different countries to Taiwan, who knows? We still need to improve many things, but I believe we can do it.
This is the first Christmas card I wrote this year to foreign friend, and I am looking forward to exchange different Christmas cards with my foreign pan pals this year.

Head to the hometown of Sinbad

Sinbad the sailor is a famous story here, but I never thought that Sinbad was from Oman before I met Omani friends. Anyway, it is amazing to combine the general knowledges in real life. But Oman also made me sad, the letters I sent to there have been lost 2 times. This time I re-write the letter and the birthday card to my Omani friend, Jawaher. She told me that her name in Arabic means jewel. It is interesting to me, in the past, our people used to name after jewel but in chinois for girls name. However, this kind of thought was only in Taiwan.
I tried to write Arabic to greet her. Before I wrote in Arabic is typography form. I think the postmen see that would not lose my letter. (wry smile)
At last, I hope my letter would not lose in Oman again.

Kia Ora Kiwi

Finally I phoned and asked my boss for leaves, and the result was good. And my aunt would stay in the hospital tonight. Tonight I guess my Mom and I could have a good night to sleep at last.
If all the things go well, I think I could inform my decision to a net pal in January. Perhaps she could be my guide, I hope so. Now I am looking for some travel information. I am excited but nervous that I lose on the street. Also I have a sense of presentiment that I may meet the friends who studied in the same primary out of Taiwan.
That is perfect to stay in blue sky, green land and sheep herding with warm weather.
I think this week I need to apply my passport and also need to take the photo, so today I tried to take a photo to know what emotion would be better in formal photo. This is not the photo for passport.

附註：等我回來，我會面對我的牙齒矯正

The way to South

I need the inspiration to wrte my assignment for note-taking of Language and Culture course. So this afternoon I decided to ride my scooter to head to the South of Kaohsiung city. I think that watch aircraft taking off and landing would be fresh to me. This weekend I went alone. Next I ordered a cup of mocha milk with a piece of tiramisu cake.

And I watched several airplanse landing and taking off. Perhaps this also corresponds my mood now.My Mom asked me whether I told to my classmates about my decision in winter break, I still not tell them. But I just want to sure the fact and then I would inform them in middle January. Anyway, this afternoon was very hot, I felt that the Santa Claus stayed in summer christmas.
After this afternoon, I found that I would like to collect the aircraft models. No wonder one of my good friends chose to fly to the U.S to make a thorough study of the aerospace engineering field.
I cannot figure out why I love to appreciate the different kinds of architecture and draw it on drawing. Only the inner desire? or this is the lifetimes persistent? Anyway, I photographed many photos this afternoon, but I chose the more photos related with architecture to show. The next 2 photos made me feel that I took the time machine to went around 1 centary, I felt familiar when I saw that.

You can click it to see more photos.

A happy ending after the election

Last night, I almost watched the television all night and watched different programs to know different views. Originally I was afraid of that the result would let the DPP(Democratic Progressive Party, green reflects this party, and it supports the disadvantaged groups, also the position is independent) win too much. In this way, another party, KMT (blue symbolizes the KMT, long ago they lost the political power of chine and fled to Taiwan, originally they claim they are real chinois and regime, but now they tend to take Taiwan as exchange for interest) would get angry. Fortunately, the night before the election, one of KMT members had been shot, such a shocker to reverse the situation. I don't want to comment for the episode, this is the police's job.
So, KMT took the 3 seats in the five cities' mayor, and the rest of 2 seats have taken by DPP, I think it saves the face of president, he need to assist the campaign of KMT candidates, so hard working. In addition, I have read the news in chine's websites, their people looked happy and congratulate for KMT's victory.
As for DPP, they won in real benefits. The seats of councillors increased from 117 seats to 130 seats, and KMT decreased 130 seats from 183 seats. So far, the game resulted in a draw, 130:130.
Next, these five cities account for more than 60% Taiwanese citizens, the DPP won 52% in the total votes, while the KMT to obtain 44% votes. In addition, there are many young KMT members who study in chine went back to vote with a 80% discount airfare to return for election. The result would make the DPP supporters letdown, and then 2012 DPP would prepare better than this time; moreover, the overseas Taiwanese who live in Japan and U.S. would buy the plane ticket back to Taiwan for election. Anyway, I like the result of election, it is a happy ending. As long as our people lost the game, our people would not get angry and crazy. All they would do is to cry in silence, and expect next time they work harder to win.
It is not really a good time to quarrel for Taiwanese. I have confirmed that the inflation in the Vietnamese from Viet. This is a sad news. As for the problem between North Korea and South Korea, I think they would not fight, unless chine wants to fight and support NK.

The gifts I send to children

Toys always work for children. And I usually send the stickers, cards and little toys as gift for my students. They can collect the stars to convert the gifts. In this way, they would like to have the good performance every class. When you talk to children the game rules and show the toys, you would see the bright eyes in sudden.
Girls like the girly cards often, some also love the dragon more than girly cards. And most boys like the car, dragon or some cute beasts.
Does European collect this kind of cards in childhood? I wonder to know, but I guess no? As for me, I used to collect more than 1000 cards to appreciate. The one thing that I am not very into is stamp collection.

Seal Painting

Today I let children to creat a work with the seals. And I think that seals always work for children. I used to collect different stamps to seal on the paper when I was little, I never pretended to be like a mature lady to use my Mama's jewelry. I liked to collect the business card and take my Papa's mobilephone to pretend to be a white-collar worker, university student or doctor. Anyway, I just wanted to pretend that I have some things to do at that time though it was stupid.
Most children put the paper in transverse direction, only one put his paper in the direction of straight.
Last, I think the last work did well and clear to see the animals, also the image has depth of field on work.
Tomorrow is a big day, and I would get up early to vote.

Just feeling what I want to say now

About my life, I think I am being tired in Taiwan. All I can say to my aunt is Buddha bless her. Her physical and mental condition is from bad to worse. I have told my Mom stop complaining the things of the past, just let the bygones to be bygones, otherwise, what you will attract when you say with the law of attraction. So my Mom every day talks to herself a sentence "contribute with bliss, and endure without complaints", which was spoken by a great nun in Taiwan.
There are many factors lead my aunt to have the exceptional circumstances. But most important part is that my aunt is used to get into a blind alley. She cannot have a happy day. It made me think of a story related with Earth Store Bodhisattva. He said he would save the poor in the underworld (hell) as long as the poor could speak out the pronunciation "ha"; however, he forgot one thing that the poor are always angry and sad, they could not laugh, in this way, they always could not speak out "ha".
This time no one could disrupt my life plan. What if my aunt really needs to go to surgery, then just do it. I told to my Mom that the only thing I could do is to arm her upstairs and downstairs. We are not professional caregivers, besides that, that we need to cut our coat according to our clothes. We have tried best to treat her with patience. I think my aunt should be glad that my Mom is not her Mom, what if my brother and I did the same things like her, then we would be beaten by my Mom.
Whatever, I want to leave Taiwan in winter. No, she cannot delay my life plan. She can't.

The story of Morin Khuur

About the horse-headed fiddle, Morin Khuur, is the instrument most associated with Mongolian traditions and culture. Why called it "morin"? Because mor(in) means the sound of horse. In ancient time, horse is not only the important transport but also the good friends for Mongols, especially for men. So many songs and poems were written extolling the horse. There are several visions for legend about how the Morin Khuur was first created, and all based on a little boy's love for a dead horse.
Long ago, there was a poor boy who had the magical horse which could run faster than a wind and even fly on wings. The horse gets killed by jealous rich man who was loosing all the races. He was very sad and made a musical instrument from the horse to mourn and to express his sorrow in remembrance of his best loyal friend. It was unlike today's horse-headed fiddle. It used to be made of horse ribs and its base of horse skin; however, nowaday all of the part made of wood. Besides the head of fiddle is carved of wood and placed at the top. As for the two strings are made of long tail hair of horses, also this is a unique handmade way that makes the strings to produce heavenly sounds as the horse to mourn.

Learning how to give up

This week I learned a lesson through playing chess. Every day I am used to playing chess at least one time. And I would like to figure out the different possible in the process. I found that I need to give up some chess to obtain larger base. It made me think a lot before I do it. Same in the life, you must face to choose one and give up another. And then you would think of the comparative advantages and the opportunity cost before you choose.
There is a saying of go game, that is "上手に捨てた方がよい。" in Japanese. And I thought over and over again, I found most people want to get more and more in life. But you cannot eat your cake and have it at the same time. It made me feel has no more regrets. In the past, I have many regrets. I think it is good that I face to fail and accept the result of fail first. To quote a sentence "prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater", which I have heard from my teachers. I believe one day that the fate would lead me to learn the bridge. Long, long ago, there was a teacher suggested us play the bridge to realize the philosophy of life, she told us life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well. I still remembered at that time I could not understand it at all, because I didn't know how to turn it all around when you hold the bad cards. Perhaps time can talk. Just be patient to experience it from my heart, then I would figure it out one day.

Morin Huur

I have several Mongols friends, they are kind but aren't usually online. Just only one signs in MSN every day and chats with me often. To me, I am really interested in the endless steppe. Because in Taiwan, the mountain terrain more than two third, we don't have the species of horse. I have tried to imagine that one day I experience the life of Mongols. It would be interesting. I don't know how Western look the Mongols. The impression of Genghis Khan or messed up that the chine image of "The Travels of Marco Polo"? At that time, it's the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
Anyway, Mongols has been divided into two countries, the inner Mongols became a part of chine, and outer Mongol was independent by the assist of Russia. I'm glad the people of Mongolia are super friendly with our people, but this is bad that there is no direct flight route from Taiwan to Mongolia. Besides their archery and horsemanship, I am also curiosity with their music, especially the horse-headed fiddle, which they call as Morin Huur.
I hope my city could promote their musical instrument and have the festival related with them. In this way, their people could come to Taiwan more. In my mind, I welcome Tibetian and Mongols to immigrate to Taiwan.