The weather has turned cold

Tonight I rode my scooter in the way home, I find it is a bit cold and this week I should take my long sleeves out of the wardrobe. Now it is 21 degrees Celsius in my city, I have taken out my down quilt to tuck tonight. I think I will sleep warm under a lovely down quilt. Before that, I have thought a lot of good ways to survive in Europe's cold winter. Yet after I knew that Europe's house has the heater, then I don't need to worry about this problem. I just have a only problem that how can I go outdoor in Europe's winter like I need to ride a bike in the way to campus. Perhaps it is also a fool question.

Today my language & culture class had the funny interactive dialogue from professor to classmates. We discussed the topic about the inner beauty and outer beauty. And then the professor asked all that do we think the outer beauty is a kind of put down or power resource. Every one said the same answer, power resource, then he shocked the answer. Next he asked one of girl classmate, "money and love, which one is more important to you?"
"Both." she replied.
"No, you must choose one!" he continued.
"Love, I think so." she replied.
"Aha, you are wrong." at the same time, the girl who sit next that girl murmured, "ho~ I have told you to choose money. No money, no love." Because her voice is very loud, it made us all laugh for a while. What if anyone asked me the same question, I also replied the answer for money. I don't think that money can buy love at all, but I do believe when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window. That's why I choose money, but it doesn't mean that I want to buy a love, what if a love could have a price to buy, I would look down the transaction of love. And what if I need to buy a love, I must look down myself undoubtedly.

Enneagram Test

Tonight I went to the yoga classroom to applicate the course, I think the next few days I would start the yoga course in my life. After that, I went to the bookstore near my home as usual. It's my habbit to read a book or several books in chinois then take a walk in the Culture Center at night. I used to observe some interesting things in the way. I feel this semester's course cannot make me know what I want to learn, perhaps that's why now I am at a loss as to what to do. And then I saw a book's cover which its name is "The Enneagram Code", I like to read this type of books, then I started to read some articles. I feel the analysis is accurate to me, therefore I search the free web link to share. If you want to know what type of personality you are, then you also can test it.
http://similarminds.com/test.html

Happy Birthday to my Mom

Today is my Mom's birthday, but she doesn't like to eat the cake. She prefers to eat a Taiwanese local meal, vermicelli with pork knuckle. And because today I am very busy, I didn't take the photo for that meal, however, I found the nice photo for vermicelli with pork knuckle, which we call it "dika mi sua" in Taiwanese and "zhu jiao mian sien" in Mandarin Chinese. I will show it in the following photo, then you would know a kind of our local meal. This kind of thin and long noodle means for longevity. That's why our old people prefer to eat it to celebrate on their birthday.
We also have a kind of good gift for parents, that's the red envelope with money, it's more practical than other gifts. And it depends on your economic situation, if you don't have the part time job and still need to take the money from parents, then the amount is NTD 600 (around 15 euro). We like the even number for the happy thing, and the odd number for the sad thing like funeral arrangements. So I put the NTD 1200 (around 30 euro) into the red envelope to my Mom. Because there are three-quarters of my monthly wages in the custody of my Mom per month. We still have a concept of filial piety in Taiwan. So my behavior is also common here.

Steel & Iron Sculpture Festival

This afternoon I went out with my Mom for the new exhibition of Steel and Iron Sculpture Festival in my city. Because we are a harbor city, therefore, there are many terminals and containers here. Now my major is trying hard in culture and art field, she wants to make the city green and show the marine culture. As a passionate citizen, of course my Mom and I would like to participate in the activities of the city. I enjoy the leisure afternoon time strolling in the Pier-2 Art Center. The sunset is beautiful and warm to shine on my body. Because there are too many people, I decide to take the more photos in another day. And I think it's best to take the photos in early morning.
Also, I am excited with the cultural exhibition of Taiwan temples, perhaps I would spend more time translating and learning how to introduce the temples in Taiwan, yet I would be glad to learn how to introduce our culture. Temple is an integral part of our lives, the density of Taiwan's temples is even higher than the density of the church in Europe. You can say this is superstition, religious or different views.

A crisis is a chance

Our old like to play any kind of chess game, because they think it would be helpful to solve the problems in life. Everyone has stress, also face the setbacks sometimes, moreover you would make the mistakes, but how would you respond? In fact, chinois is not my taboo, I found that Anneke seems to avoid mention that. What a sweet girl. Perhaps I often write down my bad feeling by them in my blog, still I chat with many chinois people. I just think as long as they would have many subjective perception when they know I come from Taiwan. Yet they are friendly if you compared to the people over the world. As for the selfishness, I think it's a dog-eat-dog world. Even I cannot agree with it more, I have to accept the result. All I can do is to reflect on where we are going wrong and how to improve the shortcomings. Last night a chinois girl asked me about the translation on American laws documents, suddenly I found that I could understand all without translation into chinois first. I was really happy at that time, yet I just translated into chinois as soon as possible to her; however I didn't want to translate the "proper noun" into their words. Because I know that American law belongs to the common law(case law), there are many difference between other countries which use the civil law. If you don't major in law, it's no use to translate the legal terminology. I know a little bit because I have studied the basic law in Taiwan. But Taiwan's civil law system inherited from the German system, it's also different from the U.S. That chinois girl thought the law is same in general direction, I just don't want to explain in detail. And there is a joke to tell the difference of law between the 4 Asian countries.
Hong Kong: All permitted, unless prohibited by law.
Singapore: All prohibited, unless permitted by law.
Taiwan: All permitted, including prohibited by law.
Chine: All prohibited, including permitted by law.
Will you still think that the law is all in the same direction? I don't think so. Anyway, she thanked to me that I help her in translation and she would link up the main points. After that, she asked me the same Asian questions for majoring in English.
1. What will you want to be after graduation? English teacher? Translator? Tourist guide?
2. My English is poor, how to improve my English ability?
3. Do you usually watch the English movies or songs to improve your ability? Can you recommend to me some?

What if I tell the truth that I learn hard in English because I have been enraged by some chinois sayings? Since then, I put all my anger into the power. In retrospect, the strike from them make me grow. Every time I tell my friends that a crisis is also a turning point to you, it depends on your attitude.

Go Game_1024

I bought the equipment of the go game several days ago. Now I play the go game almost every day. I have complained with my Mom that I didn't learn the go game in my childhood, and she told me my time schedule was almost full at that time. So I hope I could practice the go game as long as I have the spare time. In brief, go game is an extension of backgammon, I have heard the another name as Renju. This is a game for two players, played with counters on a board that is ruled with19 vertical and19 horizontal lines. And the two players try to encircle each other's pieces on the board. When a player's pieces are compassed, they are counted as "dead" or you can call it "captured."
Go is a popular game in East Asia. The development of Internet play has increased its popularity throughout the rest of the world. The English name Go originated from the Japanese character 碁 (go). It is also known as 바둑 (baduk) in Korean. Japanese players have the best developed, Korean have the super ambition, Chinois have the largest number of players, as for Taiwan, we have the least number of players among them, but both male and female players scored the top in Japan. Ironically, what if they come back to Taiwan, they will be unemployed.

Originally I wanted to teach my Mom and made her play with me, yet she still enjoys watching the TV. Therefore I changed a rule of the go game to play. I play it with my left hand and right hand. Same, the go game in normal should use the right hand to hold the chess and put it in your right front. I think I have a good idea to stimulate the right and left brain. I assume that a party(black) eager to eat my piece, and the other party(white) just want to occupy the site first. At last, I photographed the ending.
In Taiwan, there are fewer people never read a comic book or manga. Because we have a kind of bookstore to rent the manga and romantic, detective and chivalric fiction(kungfu) novels. I have heard from a few boys from African countries said that they love watching Japan anime because of fighting for justice and sex part. Of course, it would not be the all's views, but I want to say that a manga inspired me learning the go game, that is ヒカルの碁.

Handmade Bag

Typhoon comes again, therefore I have a day off, and just now I read the newest article on Linda's blog, I am happy that her got my letter and like it. Actually the art I draw is easier and common in Taiwan, our girls are good at this kind of things. And now I want to show my Aunt's handmade bag, she made that for my Mom. My Mom is very poor at art ability in my matrilineal family. My grandma (mother side) is very distinguished, since KMT, a failure army escape from China to Taiwan, they lead Taiwan to bankruptcy. And then at that time, my grandma sold the handmade staff which made by her and also planted the vegetables, raised the chickens and ducks to support the family, and those things sold to the rich like nobility in Japan and China. For example, silk is very expensive and only for nobility or rich to use. So it was nothing if I compared with my grandma's art ability. Recently our girls were crazy to make the teddy bears as the toys. Don't ask me for that, I don't have patience to complete a teddy bears for a month.
And then you could see the handmade bag in the following photos.

I think our people prefer to learn longer and live longer. There are many courses to let you choose. For example, Choir, then dance can be divided into belly dancing from Middle East, Western International Dance, Japanese fan dance, Chinese folk dance, American hip hop dance and boxing aerobic dance. In addition, our people also learn yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi, Chinese martial arts and Japanese martial arts for old people. Moreover, many old people like to learn how to use the computer, languages and different art classes. So I think the retirement life in Taiwan would not be boring.

I think one day I grow old, I would still enjoy my busy but abundant life. That's why I often say that our people are very polarized. We are too practical to make money and burn a lot of money for the unrealistic dreams. Same do I.

Package from Pentax

I received the Pentax camera's package, it means that I could take my Witte outside for photograph. I am happy to live in Kaohsiung city, every month there would have many activities to practice photograph skills. Other citizen even envy us, especially the capital city, Taipei, there doesn't have as many beautiful night views as my city. So this winter vacation what if I have much more time to learn photography, I would register the photography class. My friends always say that I am willing to make my life busy. But I want to learn many things, because I am ignorant. Also I am afraid that until the day I die, I leave a lot of regrets. No one knows what will happen in next second. All I can do is to seize the moment. I have heard a famous saying that "a person who born to love", then I think I born to learn since I had the memory in the world around 4 years old.
I am still looking for the fragmented time to learn yoga. Then I could start my second phase of the recovery. Because many reasons, I deliberately make myself look ugly. The idea came from the stories of Beauty and the Beast and The Frog Prince. But now I would like to market our Austronesian culture and see someone, therefore I have to change slowly during the year.

Language and Culture Class

Actually I don't think that I major in English, because my English ability just like an elementary student in America. How could I say that I major in English or declare that English is my professional capacity? In chinois, our people just ask what you study at the university or major in, otherwise other Asian countries prefer to use their native languages to ask what's your professional ability that you learn at the university. And then they think you must be very good on professional ability. I don't know how to reply this questions for others. I just think my English needs to improve, therefore I chose it as my major and open my mind to know the different cultures and views. I never thought what if I major in English, and then I would be a translator or English teacher. Some people would like to learn more languages for traveling around the world, therefore they think perhaps I have the same abition. Then I think I am abnormal that I don't like to change my ease life and increase the risk. Same, I have discussed many European, American and Asian. Most European think it's boring in Europe unlike Asia, and most Asian envy that Western are rich. If you say you major in English, then other Asian would think you could earn a lot for translator kind of jobs. And what if you say that you want to immigrant to Europe or America, then my neighbor countries would think the female could marry a Western guy to get the citizenship, and male could work for some illegal works. I cannot accept that marriage as a transaction, because you don't respect yourself, you also cannot ask others to respect you. This semester I also take a course for Asian American literature, then I understand why chinois nourish hatred until now, because they did have a bad treatment. It sounds compassionate; however, if you know what they did and made American have the treatment in return. Then you would not feel so sorry for them.
I am happy my university has many culture courses to make me know different values. I like to emphasis on the humanitic fields, not just focus on the language writing examination. The following two images are my assignment on the class' notes. My teacher wants to know what we learned in the class. Then he could help us more.


p.s. The neighbor countries except Singapore and Hong Kong to have the concepts for marrying a Western guy to get the citizenship.

Origins Skin Care

I really need to control the expenses this month, because I spent a lot. I only bought the facial cleansing foam, facial scrub and moisturizing lotion. Others are the sample that the seller gave me for free gifts.

Actually I seldom go shopping or buying a lot of staff in the normal time. In addition, I seldom do online shopping. I will search the things I want to buy and check the consumer evaluation and the weak points. Next I boycott the brands from 2 countries, as long as the brands or products are made from 2 countries, I would not consider to buy, only except the cell phone. Last night I talked with a TW net pal from the interpals, and she proposed creating a local mobile phone brand with our first letter of the name, then it would be S&W. I laughed for a while. This is really a genius idea, yet just the joking.

My Belgium friend had chatted with me and asked me why I rarely do the online shopping, it would be more cheaper. I think that I don't desire for consumption in particular. To me, I only buy what I need, not want. Perhaps some people don't think that DSLR camera is a necessity but a luxury, still I need a DSLR camera every day. Also don't you think that DSLR is not consumables? You don't need to buy that every 2 years because the case of broken. I think it's worth to buy for the collection as a lifetime. Besides this kind of consumption values, even I boycott the staff from those 2 countries, it's okay. Because their staff have the bad quality. And that friend told me if I boycott the staff from one of countries and just buy the brand and quality I think, it would miss many products. However, as a consumer, I think I have a right for buying things which make me happy. What if I buy the things but unhappy, why do I need to buy?

Sony Ericsson J105

I found this month I spent a lot of budget. Yet I fed up the days without radio FM function. Before that, I have thought about the Sharp cell phone which is a Japanese brand, yet Sharp don't have the FM function, it's no use to me. I dislike to browse the web and download the pirated music from the internet to the cell phone. So I choose the Sony Ericsson again. The right cell phone is J105. It's really cheap but good for me, and then I could listen to the political broadcasts now. Actually I have 3 cell phones and now the oldest one gave my Mom. I quite like this new phone, even though the functions are less than my previous phone; however, the box and packaging is environmentally friendly. I find now that I more care about the environmental issues and revise the value in the past. I think what if someday I major in the forest field of departments after the graduation, it would be nothing surprising. Because I would protect our mountains and guard our land in Taiwan, they are so precious for us.

Rabbit Resin Clay

Yesterday I was too busy, therefore I didn't use my Witte to take a photo. This week I taught the children for resin clay, and it's their favorite. I remembered when I was little that I also loved the resin clay, pottery clay and paper clay with water color painting. In addition, I love to make the three-dimensional things. I think those things are my toys. I have thought why my Mom cannot make this kind of staffs for me when I was a child, and I told myself what if I have children in the future, I would teach them how to make a lot of toys. But now I think it's hard to have my own children, therefore I would give many gifts for my beloved─ Taiwan. I hope my gifts for Taiwan would touch more Taiwaner and make them pass the torch of spirit.

An old trick of America

Sure enough, as I had expected that American would make the currency war to spread to Asia. On the surface chine is smart to transfer the US debt to Japan. That's why now Japanese yen strengthens yet the stock and the economic situation has no improvement. Since summer, I have thought which should I buy, USD or Euro. At last, I chose USD. This week I opend the new account for foreign currency deposits. Hot money continues to flee Taiwan. I also cannot predict when the lowest point occurs to buy, therefore I need to buy in batches and hope the hot money bypass Taiwan.
This is an old trick of America. They used the same way to make a lost decade for Japan before. However, I trust our central banker, Fai-Nan Perng. This year he also won the World's Top Central Bankers on Global Finance Magazine, also he has got A in 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. So far he won the maximum of A.
I would like to confirm my speculation on the end of the year. In addition, I am happy to know that our students could get the Israel's university scholarships as long as we learn Hebrew. Jews designed the financial game in the world, I wonder to know more and perhaps our people could bring new wisdom and ancient civilization in Taiwan.

Eyes hidden behind glasses

I am short-sighted with -3.75D in left eyes and -4.0D in right eyes. It's not very serious, yet I wear on my glasses all day along besides the sleeping. Until last week, one of my students asked me why I wear on glasses, I am surprised his question yet I immediately response because I am short-sighted. And last night I played the go with students in another class, and a boy student told me that my eyes are beautiful. I felt interesting, because most girls would take notice of my eyelashes.
I would be insecure if there are no glasses on my face. Perhaps I used to keep a distance from others. I have met a friend's father, after he watched my handwriting in chinois and had the accurate analysis. No one can read my mind through my writing except that cool man, also a Scorpio. However, but he would confuse for a long time, haha.

Welcome My Witte DSLR Home

This afternoon I went to the camera store to welcome my Pentax K-x home, and it's easy to call it, its name is Witte. Anyway, you can call it "white" in any languages.
Besides the Kit lens for Da L 18-55mm, I also bought a fixed lens for Da 21mmF3.2AL limited. It's really thin and looks perfect than my Kit lens. However, they would be with me for practicing photography.

One more photo for assembling with kit lens.

The metal texture looks good quality.

I still need to wait for something from the company sending to me, like the 16G memory card, rechargeable battery pack and a camera backpack. Also I want to appreciate my mom, this time I invested 51%, the remaining of amount sponsored by her. She is really kind to me. Since she is a scorpio, that's why I have the better impression on scorpio.
Today I am very happy, because I could take the photos for the night sky clearly. Sooner or later I will buy astronomical telescope to watch and photograph the stars.

Head to Holland

Finally I delivered the letter to Holland for Linda. And this time it's registered parcel, she would sign and get that. Because Linda drew a kind of national custom to me, I feel so happy and it's good for culture exchange. I chatted with my friends, actually I already have a subjective view, I know it's not good for that, yet I favor in Holland. I know that French know our people most, but I have given up finding a French pen pal. So far I think it's enough to make me care about different views over the world. Because we have many species, and one of them is bird. We have around 450 kinds of birds, it is not a large number just we have the 1/20 birds species in the world. I especially like the blue birds with orange feather. So this time I try a new topic to draw our birds.
About the culture exchange, I think of our lanyu island, which also calls the Orchid Island, it's a kind of tradition for Tao people to build a boat like I draw. And the flyingfish is a symbol of spirit and its special culture. Have you seen the fish has the wings? Even Japan also has this kind of flyingfish, they don't have this kind of culture for flyingfish. Anyway I hope the letter would arrive to Henlego quickly.

President?

I admit I am more interested in national politics more than a romantic love. But I don't think I would be in politics. Every time I chat with our Taiwaner, some of them tell me that if I participate in presidential election, they would vote on me. Then I laugh. I would like to invite Merkel Angela to Taiwan. And then I really hope we have the same as "Das Urteil in Nuernberg" in Taiwan. I fed up with those liars, they killed our ancestors and altered our history textbooks, which told us that our ancestors were babarians to kill people arbitrary, and then they are a symbol of justice. I only seek the turth. Last night I chatted with my another schoolmate, about Japanese view for American, and then mention to Thailand. After I knew the truth that we have much closer kinship with Viet and Thai, I tried my best to inform my friends. It's important, because we believe the textbooks that chinois were relatives, therefore our people help chine improve the poor. If no, then our people would help Thailand and Vietnam more and more. And I believe Viet and Thai would not be very cruel to treat us in return.
Besides many dreams, I think I have a goal. Dreams and goals are not the same two things, my goal is to go beyond the highest point of achievements of the my parents. In this way, I could complete my all dreams.
Today I listened to the song, it made me have a happy mood.

Taiwan's money education

About the difference between Taiwan and other Asia countries in marriage concept, it's because our girls have the peculiar conception of personal finance. Our university students don't study hard as Western, but for these 4 years, you can start to learn how to invest and manage your financial position. Around 90% university students have the part time job, and around 20% university students have bought the stock or funds. And the richer university students start to invest in real estates; however, it is around 1-2%. Also the parents would like to let children learn how to invest, therefore sometimes they give children a fund. Some youngsters think traveling is worth to invest in the memory of their lives. Some want to improve the international perspective then use the fund for study abroad in the future. And some use it for investing funds, stock, real estate, currency, bonds and futures. Also there are some youngsters prefer to do the own business. You can say that you dislike the economic, but you may not dislike the money in your life.
In this way, more than half of our girls could have 25,000 Euro deposit around 30-years-old. Around 20-25% girls have their own apartment with hosing loans. And as for the males, mostly still cannot own the apartment. They prefer to spend money on the cars, motorcycles kind of consumables. Moreover, they need to date with girls and spend a lot. So what if they can marry with a Taiwaner girl later, they would reduce many expenses and start to be richer than before. Yet now there are more and more foreign wives from Southeast Asian countries.
I have discussed with my friend who works in Chine why our men have the highest proportion of extra-marital affairs, but why not Chinois? She told me because most Chinois girls don't work for family, they rely on men support, and the men need to work hard to support himself, wife and a kid. It's hard to live and work all day, that's why they don't have enough money and time for extramarital affairs, otherwise what if our men cannot support the family expenses, our women would help them and at last they might have enough money and time for extramarital affairs or caused by they are irresponsible for family.
The summary is our female's problem, but I would not like to change myself because of marriage. I would prefer to give my children best just like my mother gives me. A decade ago, I remembered there was a friend told me that she would not get marry, but she considers to have her own child. The concept shocked me at that time, but now I look myself, I think my concept is more special. Since it's not very fast to
solidify my would as long as I get hurt, therefore I would not consider to be pregnancy. What if I lose a lot of blood, then I would be dead.

The value of Asian v.s Taiwan

Yesterday was my Thai friend Roxy's birthday, I remembered that and just said happy birthday to her, and she was very touched then said I am a good friend. Actually I found that Thai people are also sweet like Taiwanese for this kind of things. So after I knew some Western men's thought for Thai girls, I feel painful for Thai girls, because our girls also want to find a true love with romantic. However, it becomes to the impression of easy girls or more bad description. In addition to these things, I am wondering why the male blood line of the Taiwan and Thailand are close, but not for female line? Yet I cannot find any Asian girls' value is close to Taiwan as Thailand.
Tonight a friend asked me whether I have the problem with marriage, because she majors in Chinois and as she knows, Chinois girls have to marry in early age. For example, 18-years-old girls in there are not young for marriage, yet if they study the university then 22-years-old is old for marriage in there. Even Japan is a western country in Asia, their girls also get marry around 25-27. Only our people have different situation. If you say that you don't want to get marry, you don't need to bear the social pressure. Parents seldom ask children for marriage, perhaps just ask for the boys, because some still have the concept of procreation. As for the girls, 99% parents would not force daughters marry in their life. Why? Aha, it's a long long story. The several days ago, I went to the bookstore to read a book, I found a new point from an American. He said that the high divorce rate in Asia is a symbol of economic growth. And I need to add that the highest divorce rate is in Taiwan. I used to think why our girls are so strange, yet since I read that book, I accepted that point. He is right. Asian women had to marry in the past because there is no earning capacity of the economy. But what if one day the women are high educated, high paid and also looking younger than men, and men still not improve faster. Why need to have a marriage? And what if you use your own money to raise the children, the children's family name is not in yours, why need to have a marriage? Our girls have a character, we are caring in many things also love children too much. About the love concept, we are picky even in the spirit field. 100% Taiwanese businessmen go to Chine for business and have the extramarital affair, but if you know more than 90% funds are from the wives, you would hate it. I have many TW friends whose father went to Chine and had the extramarital affair. It's normal, I don't want to have more comments.
Therefore now we have many new concepts for women, like to do the volunteer to the India, Nepal or Africa kind of areas. I have heard other religions' saying that is a sin for not married. Yet Buddha didn't say it's sin for single men or women. In contrast, this is a blessing for several lifetimes if you decided to be a Buddhist monk or nun. Besides that, some women choose a handsome guy for flirting. But it is fewer, because we have our moral values. I hope tomorrow I have more free time, then I would analysis the Taiwaner concept of money. Sometimes I really hope we can have more people study in the Israel to import their well education of concepts. In this way, we would not be threaten anymore. In fact, 10th is recognized for our national day, yet I don't think so. Because on that day Taiwan was a part of Japan not Chine. It's so complicated. Anyway, tonight I didn't watch the fireworks show.

Pentax KX

I am very happy and excited tonight, since I booked a DSLR camera, Pentax KX, and because I also added a lens, Pentax Da 21mm/F3.2 Limited, therefore I need to wait for 2 days to take it home. At present I think I like the white and black color, but it's hard to choose which one is better to be with me. You can tell me your opinion for me. I would appreciate your opinions.
I don't know why Germany's Leica camera just has the DSLR for the highest class, as for another one is DSLR like. I feel sad for Germany's camera company. Never mind, I believe that I would buy Leica M9 before I am 30 years old. Now I can play the Pentax at the beginning. And I hope that Pentax KR could appear on the market in this week, in this way I would rather add much more price to buy KR not KX. I am looking forward to the good news from the seller.

Ali Mountain

I am busy as normal, but this weekend is different, because I need to finish the booklet to introduce Ali Mountain to Linda. Yet I found the staff cannot put into the envelope, therefore tomorrow I would go to buy a bigger envelope in stationary store. Now let me show the things I want to give to Linda. Because I heard she mentioned to the tea time with her mother, I thought of our Alishan tea. It's not very expensive because the tea bags are small that each bag only use for 2 or 3 times. Don't worry that I spend too much.
Next is a booklet of Alishan images. At last I designed this kind of three-dimensional card for Linda, I lost my temper for experiment. I hope she can enjoy the introduction. If you want to see clear and know the description of the image, you can click the slide image.
If you have a lover, I think this is a good place to go and for romantic. However, if you just want to take the photo, I think it's still worth to go. And I dislike chinois just remeber that the girls in Ali Mountain are beautiful. So if what I meet a fans for chinois kind of behavior, I would not waste my time introducing more to that person.

Firefly

Today I am not busy as several days ago, and I started to make the booklet for A-li Mountain introduction. At last I choose the 48 images to print out; however, one of image cannot open to print, therefore I just print 47 images sucessfully. The first picture is the image I miss. It is related with tea, we are famous with tea culture, so I want to show Linda one of processes making tea. All teas are picked from field by humans. And the poeple wear on one of aboriginal clothes, Tsao tribe.

And I guess not many European watch the fireflies at night, or I guess wrong? It would be okay, A-li Mt. has not very serious light pollution. You can watch many stars and fireflies at night. The firelies at night look like the following picture.

Also I search a picture of firefly on the internet to show.

I almost done my booklet, but I still cannot post the pictures. I will post it soon. At present, I need to finish my letter for another Algerian pen pal, because I need to print some images on cover together.

I went to see the doctor

Finally I decided to go to see the doctor. I don't have a fever, running nose and stuffy, just I got sore throat and then cough. I thought and thought, then I think I should go to see the doctor to know why. And the doctor talk to me that my throat is swollen caused by a cold. I just need to take the medicines and would recover soon.

I don't know how did the journalists know my uncle's death, and since last night they kept calling my family to arrange an interview time. Damn, forgive me speaking rudely. I really think that Taiwan's news and media are too free, it resulted Taiwan in chaotic state.

Besides the journalists' call, I think today I am happy, my another Dutch friend told me that I could pet and play with her cat if I go to the Netherlands. I am curious with one thing, so far I have 2 Dutch friends, and I feel Dutch are passionate for me unlike my TW's friends image or others' image. And I heard from Linda and Anneke's Dutch pronunciation, I don't feel it would be noisy to talk with. Whether I got the wrong information or the special situation I encountered?

2010 is very exciting

The couple days ago, I got a letter from Singapore finally, I have waited the letter almost half year. Because Singapore is smaller than Taiwan and around my city big, the relationship between our two countries are close. We two countries can communicate with each other in English and Chinois. But we have the reverse policy, English is their native language, and Chinois is our official language. She chatted with me many many things, especially we more care about Asia situation and economic development. You know.. you cannot change the current political situation; however, you can be well-prepared for your future in economic field. That's why our people seldom want to change the political situation. So she has asked me to keep in Chinois to let her know my thought. I told her that I closed my Chinois blog forever and now I need to practice English more and more. Because my English cannot express very well in law and economic, then I would not talk about the politics. Yet, tonight I really want to say the next six months would be exciting, besides the Euro currency, RMB, gold and USD, now also join the Japanese Yen. I really want to open an account for Exchange General Account. I found that 2010 is a year of exciting.

Live For Your Own

Last night I wanted to keep my feeling more on blog, because there was a TW girl chatting with me on MSN. She confuses what will she do, also she feels that the life is full of frustration because studies. I told her my example. I also agree with that our education system kills the fun of learning. Yet you live for your own not for others' lives. Perhaps you did not get the high scores in writing exams; however, it doesn't matter. Because there is a significant gap between Taiwan's diploma and the employment. Since I started to work in the sociality, I found that mostly the highly educated have high unemployment rate. Instead, the lower educated people have the higher employment rate. It is strange. And I observed repeatedly for four years and think why. Until this semester beginning, I heard from a teacher to discuss this topic, and then I repeated to tell my Mom, my Mom immediately respond to me, "if so, it's no use to study the university." After that, I told my Mom that the teacher continued tell us that study just in order to train complete logic capacity. In my childhood, I envied the foreign education, because I am willing to learn everything. No one forced me to study and learn. Yet, if you live in Taiwan, you need to learn faster than others. When I was studying at the junior high school, my classmates have finished the studies to senior high school. It's like a race game, the referee has not firing, but some contestants have already started running a few laps. I think this is an unfair game. But after I grown up, I compared to other Asian countries, I found other Asian countries have more serious situation, then I stopped complaining.
I personally think everyone need to live for your own not for scores or others' values. Even now, I still can hear many classmates discuss whether they should study the master or not. But they dislike learning just want to find a well-paid job. I would not consider to study the master in Taiwan, because the educational system is impractical, every student wants to be university lecturers, then who work for labor and farmer?

Bookmark of Koala

I found that I may get a cold today. Anyway, I still need to teach my pupil, this time he did a good job in many tests. In the past, he used to give up anything. However, he improves a lot. Sometimes he likes to act like a spoiled child who in kindergarten to get along with me. I always laugh and make fun of him. For example, he says he is a hare or tiger, then I reply to him that I am dragon, it's no use. Dragon would victory over the tiger. And then he acts like lamb, kitty, puppy, owl or cubs with a wail. It sounds inreasonable, since he has been almost 12. I have paid more attention that Western are more independent since young.
And next week the monthly big exam is coming to him, I told him as long as he could have good results, I would send him the bookmark of koala as gift to him. I got it from my cousin who lives in Australia. I know he likes the fluffy staff.

A Decision Of Love Yourself

I read an article just now, it talked me into going to love myself more.
Because it was written in Chinese, and I just try my best to translate in English.
(By Duo Duo)
You can grow an apple tree for your beloved, yet you are lazy to press a cup of apple juice for yourself.
You would like to take your beloved traveling around the world, yet you never arranged a journey for yourself alone.
However, dear. There is only a person to be with you forever. That is you. Who is more important than your own? Why don't you treat you as same well as your beloved?
So, to promise yourself, every day you have to do something for yourself.
Perhaps to buy a bouquet of beautiful flowers makes you happy.
Perhaps to hang a string of wind chimes in front window makes you listen to the tinkle of bells.
Then, don't wait, start from today on.
For my darling, love yourself is a commitment. A decision is worth to do now.

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Original text ◎朵朵
你可以為心愛的人種一棵蘋果樹，卻往往懶得為自己榨一杯蘋果汁。
你願意帶心愛的人到天涯海角，卻沒什麼動力為自己安排一場一個人的旅行。
但是親愛的，唯一能永遠和你在一起的只有你自己，有誰是比你自己更重要的？你怎能不好好對待自己，就像對待心愛的人一樣？
所以，答應自己，每天都要為自己做一件事情。
或許是為自己買一束美麗的花朵，讓自己有芬芳的心情。
或許是為自己在窗前懸掛一串風鈴，讓自己有悅耳的鈴聲可聽。
那麼，別等待了，就從今天開始吧。
因為親愛的，愛自己是一個承諾，一個值得當下立刻行動的決定。

After I read the article, I think of a sentence by a freind to give me. She cannot figure out why I always have so much love to give others. She advised me to love myself more.

New Pair Of Shoes

My pupil's father told me that my pupil had a fever last night, therefore we delayed to tomorrow for class. In this way this afternoon I could have the time for buying a new pair of shoes. I have thought of the brand of Adidas, yet I focus on the comfort first then the appearance. That's why I cannot support the German brand in sport shoes. I am sorry for that. And then I just looked for Nike. Originally I want to buy a pair for Nike Air Max series; however, I dislike the bright pink color on my shoes. I hope one day Taiwan can have a good brand of sport shoes, I would not hesitate to buy. At last, I chose the New Balance.
So far, my weight loss program is going well. The second phase of the project is for sport. I plan to walk at morning for 1 hour 3 times a week, that's why I need to buy a new pair of running shoes. It would let me keep walking. In addition, I think it would make me healthy.