New Year's Eve

2005的最後一天，我等一下就會忙囉...一整天都不得閒我看，所以呢，想把對今年的感言現在打一打。整體來說嗎，就是一個字：happy。呵呵，上天對我太好了，讓我生活在台北，吃全素的我有很多選擇，假如我像我的好姊妹WW嫁到溫哥華，那只好在庭院種菜了。（唉第一個就想到吃...）

工作也很讚，常和孩子們說我很lucky，能依自己的興趣選擇到合適的職業，昨天第八節時我上的班級說：老師去年好像也是妳陪我們耶！有個男孩說：明年說不定也是喔！馬上被嗆：喂我們明年就畢業了啦！哈哈，真是的，年輕人也糊里糊塗滴！有個去年畢業的來看我，我知道以前他就喜歡上我的課，下課常到講台前和我聊個兩句，雖然英文不好，我們聊的也不是英文，是...棒球，啊我以前有打過壘球，他目前參加學校棒球隊，我當然要他加油囉！呵現在我自己可跑不動了。

OK...seems I don't have much free time left now. Anyway, being grateful, I must thank all the nice people around me. I hope those who are not taken yet can find the Ones, and those who are already in relationships can have a wonderful time in the coming 2006. As for me, hehehe I am still single ( I really don't mind you know. ) I believe I will live as happily in the near year as 2005. Gotta go...*waves bye* All of you have a happy New Year's Eve!!

The last working day in 2005

Hah today is the last working day of this year!
I'm looking forward to the New Year's Eve...woo
and my annual bonus!

so you guys know I am pretty pragmatic when it
comes to money--only made 'a few mistakes' before,
for example, giving money to wrong persons.
*fuming* Oh no, I shouldn't be upset at this time
of the year...gotta be cheerful! 2006 is coming
and I have so many good friends and stuff around
me. However let me talk about some events happened
not long ago.

We Taiwanese didn't celebrate Christmas like other
countries; I always evny my foreign friends when
they tell me how many holidays they got and then
they don't have to work or study at school. Lucky
Christmas was on the weekend this year, so we ( my
friends and me ) managed to have some fun. The
night before Xmas ( Fri. )I went out to walk
around on the streets in central Taipei. All the
stores decorated their windows beautifully...nice
to see many Xmas trees, big or small, standing and
shining my favorite city...This was the first time
I passed by so many pubs and bars at night without
entering either of them though. If I did I might
have been the target for some western guys hanging
around in there looking for some fun? *grins* No
no no...I wouldn't like to step in, but still had
a wonderful time hanging out with my friend.

And it's fabulous to go for hot pots in a
restaurant where I'd never been there eating. It's
common to have hot pots in Taiwan, but what's
special about this restaurant is custumers gotta
serve themselves. Thus I just headed for the area
for vegetarians, getting lots of vegetables,
mushrooms, soy-bean curds, and so on. Also they
got snacks and ice cream ( 4 flavors ) so...my
break time's up. However I'll blog about what's
going on ( as long as I am not that busy, you
know. ) *winks* Happy New Year to all my good
friends! All the best wishes to you in 2006!!

Dumplings...yummy!

很忙的一天，一大清早先在教室吃熱呼呼的紅豆湯圓，有些
同學不好意思吃，沒辦法，就是有一些沒品的小孩嚷嚷，講
什麼誰吃了會胖什麼滴，啊我才不管，給他吃了兩杯！雖然
紅豆湯有一點稀，有點太甜，不過我們仍吃得很開心，拜託
！有人煮免費的給我們吃，感恩啊...

然後就是上課，這星期是聖誕週，所以我帶著紅色的聖誕帽
，拿著糖果罐，上課時學生可高興了，只要是表現良好，回
答我的問題就有加分及糖果吃，我告訴他們會這麼好康是因
為本週是聖誕週，要感謝周遭的人，特別是學生，沒有他們
我就沒飯吃啦！呵呵，所以呢，下星期就沒有吃的，你們不
知道糖果巧克力很貴吧？不是菜市場論斤賣的喔！都是店裡
有包裝滴...所以，不能感謝太久，我會失血過多的。

By the way I will be very busy tomorrow. A meeting
for all the homeroom teachers at 7:50 a.m. *sighs* I
really don't wanna attend it although breakfast will
be provided. Well...guess I have no choice. It's
getting colder, so it's wonderful to sleep earlier
with the heater's on. *yawns...* My eyes are
tired...hmm so hardworking I've been.

My thankfulness

All this week we gotta wear heavy clothes since it's
pretty cold. Of course not cold enough for us to have
a white Christmas...but the atmosphere's been nice. I
put on a red Xmas cap and gave students candy in
class after they answer my English questions well or
read some English vocabulary or paragraphs. LOL You
might think 'this teacher's torturing kids.' As a
matter of fact kids enjoy it, you know...sometimes we
teachers gotta motivate their learning ( but I do
feel a bit painful while paying for the candy and
chocolate...)

Moreover, we had a singing competition. One of my
girl students went with 2 boy students from other
classes. Right before they were to sing, they came
ask me to listen to their song and maybe give them
some advice. Heh I guess it's because I was seen to
play the guitar ( not mine but a student's ) and sing
in our classroom. *coughs* I cannot perform well
though...'long time no practice' you know. However,
glad to give them a hand. That's why I was there,
listening them, and commenting afterwards: I do think
you guys do a good job. You will be doing even better
if you sing a little more emotionally...( heh it's
what I learned from the choir master before. ) Later
on they rushed into my office, and told me they got
the first prize! Woo I felt happy for them!! My girl
student and her friend left cheerfully after I gave
her a hug.

Talking about hugs...I gave our new principal a hug
in the office today. hehe no I cannot blog what
happened here, sort of, you know...private. My
colleague and me went shopping and I got some
strawberries--they were so nice and sweet! I feel
grateful...living in a fabulous place where people
can get so many delicious foods. I also feel grateful
that a friend bothered to help me with the pdf file.
I would try to transfer it to a word file, but didn't
know what to do. He told me about some way but I
gotta d/l something which is more than 80 MB...way
too troublesome for me. Thus I gave up. I didn't
expect that he transfered the file and emailed it to
me...*sobs* Thanks so much!

Beautiful full moon

昨晚漫步在月光下，空氣又乾又冷，手也冰冰的，心情卻好
得很，呵呵，大概是吃了一頓很豐盛的晚餐，蠻特別的素食
料理...還買了餅乾糖果，冬天想維持纖細的身材很難喔！連
我這個職業是常要趴趴走的人都胖了一兩公斤呢！

今天跑到碧潭去，因為東岸有愛心園遊會，義賣不少有的沒
的，我一共花了400元，吃啊喝啊，還買了包包和小毯子，都
是我喜歡的豹紋圖案，哈哈，可惜沒有豹紋圍巾賣，我有個
男學生圍了一條藍底豹紋的來學校，每次看到都忍不住要誇
他一下，圍巾真漂亮。

還看到一個男的扮成聖誕老公公，穿梭在園遊會中，手上拿
著軟糖做的聖誕造型棒棒糖，我以為是送的咧！結果一支20
元，哈我沒錢買了，他看我朋友在幫我照相，主動跑過來問
：要不要和聖誕老人合照啊？自己送上門來，還有不要的道
理嗎？(可惜不順便送支棒棒糖...)

I plan to watch some anime this evening...and TV
shows of course. It's freezing recently--real good to
have hot pots. But...being lazy, hehehe. It's also
wonderful to stay home and enjoy the snack and maybe
a hot chocolate. Oh yeah I gotta finish a novel whose
title is Cards On The Table by Agatha Christie. Been
reading it for a few days ( only when it's my break
time, otherwise I should have finished it in less
than 2 hours -_- ) Winter is just the right time for
reading and watching stuff I think, especially in the
evening when there's no special event. So...let's all
have fun whether indoor or outdoors.

Good for hot pots

Heh it's freezing these days since a coldfront's
been visiting us. Of course you guys might think
the temperature ain't that low, but don't forget
that we people in Taiwan don't have central
heating in most of our buildings. ( My friends in
Canada and America told me it's common to have
that in their houses. ) Anyway I don't mind the
cold--wear enough will do. My students in 9 years
were like :O "err teacher you wear so much
today..." after I walked slowly in the classroom.
LOL I think the light purple coat I put on today
looks like a fabulous blanket. :P

So you can imagine the best food for such weather
is hot pots--we call it shabu shabu here too. I
had quite a few since this winter started, guess I
have gained some weight...and it seems harder and
harder to keep fit in winter! *sighs* :P I
wouldn't give up this delicious meal though;
moreover, my good friend ( a math teacher ) will
go have hot pots with me for lunch tomorrow. We've
never been to the new restaurant near our school
together, so it'll be fun!

Still I don't have enough time for anime or movies
recently...not because of chatting too much
though. *winks* I got something more 'mysterious'
to deal with now hehehe. Thus...ah my break time's
up. *waves bye*

Ready to treat >:P

很難得，我買了兩張樂透，一張小一張大，號碼是電腦選的
，看也沒看就放進包包裡，其實我平時都不買樂透的，不過
發生的事情太離奇了，我這輩子從來沒有過，相信大多朋友
也沒被雞蛋砸過吧！哈哈，真的就在我們學校全校集會時遇
上了！大家都坐在操場上，沒有很專心聽司令台上的人說話
，當然囉，有好朋友在旁邊，要不是導師橫眉豎目地站在邊
上，早就鬧起來了，還給你坐好乖乖聽咧...冷不防，好幾顆
生雞蛋從後方建築物不知哪一層樓丟下來，其中一個打在我
旁邊學生背上，再彈到我的左褲管及鞋子，然後就看到地上
一堆蛋汁，碎蛋殼，幾秒鐘操場上被砸了好幾顆，可惜啊地
板不夠熱，否則就有現成荷包蛋啦！當然我只好帶著班上被
波及到的孩子們，到洗手間去清洗乾淨。我向辦公室的同事
宣布，本小姐一定會去買樂透，假如夠好運中獎就請客，嘿
嘿，200元的最小獎就請珍珠奶茶！

No good working on Sat!

Tomorrow's Saturday, and I still gotta
work...*sobs* since it's our poll day. Really
don't feel like working for it. Not that I have no
enthusiasm for voting; as a matter of fact
teachers at our school have served at such
occasions too many times. Just...at this moment we
teachers are doubted by some people in this
government that we seem to get so much money after
we retire. Thus, teachers are no more than leeches that
would lessen our country's wealth. *sighs* What the hell.
If officers in this gov said so, they shouldn't have asked
so many teachers here to help since they think we teachers
are selfish and get too much money. I really regret that
I promised to help on the poll day. I wouldn't like to give them
a hand next time when an election's coming.

A sore weekend

天氣好的不得了的週末，而且運氣很棒，星期六到時常去吃
火鍋的地方享受了晚餐後，他們給我一張VIP卡，說日後再去
吃就都打9折，哇...好啊！而且生日那個月免費送一鍋，300
元以下滴，那個小姐講講笑出來：反正妳也只會點素鍋，呵
呵，這倒是。

On Sunday I went have lunch at a restaurant and it's
crowded around 12:30 you know. There was a waiter who
looks tall and cute, but he wasn't serving me that
time ( no I didn't feel too bad ok. ) A while later
he approaced my table and lowered his body a bit,
said, 'do you teach at xx middle school?' I then
smiled...no wonder his face was familiar. He
graduated from the place I've been working! It's real
fabulous to see those kids become mature and do a
good job after they leave school. ( REAL TOO BAD he's
not the boss, otherwise maybe he could give me
discount or shout me...*sighs* )

因為昨天去溜冰，摔了兩跤，才赫然發現今非昔比，右手掌
居然烏青一小塊，年紀大了果然不禁摔呢！難怪大部分是小
孩子們在溜，我今天全身酸痛，一定是運動過量，乳酸積太
多在身體裡，嗚...預計兩天會好，可喜的是骨頭沒有怎樣，
右手還能寫黑板吧！呵呵...下次還要再去溜滴！

Not enough free time

Been rainy and cold lately. Yah I know it's more
like the weather in winter! The only problem is
the bottom of my blue jeans gets wet easily while
walking in the rain. And I don't wear a mini skirt
( looks terrific with black panty hose, you know )
these days since I'm afraid to fall sick; it's
easy to catch a cold if we don't wear enough in
such weather! ( oh no my boy students are crying
hearing so...)

Glad to know DS came back this morning. It crashed
around a week ago...without knowing what caused
that. ( Of course I have no clue. If I did, you
guys could call me an expert then. ) Anyway I
don't have much time for blogging these days since
I chat too much. *winks* Hmm come to think of
this, seems I don't get enough time for anime or
movies either, not to mention some interesting
series! *sighs* Too bad I have only 24 hours a
day! How I wish I could have the magic watch
Hermione used at school--with it I could have
much more free time to enjoy what I wanna watch...
OK stop day dreaming!

The weekend's coming and good news is the weather
will be fine. Heh I will go out and have fun!

Nice lunch

Heh I attended a very boring meeting this afternoon,
which was held because of the coming poll day. There
was no school and students were so happy to leave
school at noon, just like when they were in
elementary school--no school for Wednesday afternoon.
So I didn't have lunch box, but went have a hotpot
with my colleague, another English teacher. It's good
to have hotpots in winter...especially it's the
other's treat. LOL~

Yesterday morning a student came over and gave me a
box of chocolate. I was so surprised...not Christmas
time yet, you know. I told the student not to give me
presents since I truly don't want anybody to waste
money. But...very nice of the kid, insisted that I
should take the chocolate and left happily.
Okay...maybe I'll think of another way to return the
favor some other day. *smiles*

Happy day

其實我要非常感謝我的好運，前陣子我們家附近在挖水溝，清除污泥是不錯啦，問題是我們的免費停車位可就少了好多，我可憐的小車...這星期我都要在下班後先祈禱，希望能找到一個停車位，也真的在本週一到週四放學回家順利找到，不過星期五就慘了，繞好久都找不到位子，最後只能停在巷口的角落，內心祈禱不要被拖吊車看上。

I went out to have veggie steak for lunch today. On my way home, a neighbor of mine came over and told me there was a parking space right on our alley. I didn't talk with this guy before, but I guess he knows me and my little car. Well I thanked him and took a look--there was one indeed. But the problem was a motorcycle had been parked there. Hehe the guy said he would move the motorcycle to somewhere else for me. *grateful* He said he's worried that my car might be towed away. *sobs* How nice my neighbor is! May the Lord bless him! ( and also bless the ones who give me a hand...)

Watched Kingdom of Heaven today. Hmm it's a good one although I ain't good at history...Maybe I have to ask some history teacher about the wars between christians and muslims.

Had a good laugh

Hah it's Friday again, and I'm waiting in the
office for the 8th class happily. After work I
will go have a hot pot for dinner. Hmm nothing
special really happened this week--teens are
naughty as usual but they still listen to me.
During the break time earlier today, also our
cleaning time in the afternoon, I went to the
classroom and watched them doing their work. My
boy student Frank was reading some jokes from the
Internet. I went over and took a look...then
laughed my head off. A gal student came over and
asked me how come I was laughing hard. I told her
not to read them since she's a Christian. You
known some ppl would make fun of such stuff,
especially not many taiwanese believe in God or
Jesus Christ. I'm afraid she might get irritated
by such jokes. Anyway...happy weekend!

So busy - 3

開開心心的又過了一個禮拜，忙是很忙，這年頭為了生活誰
不忙呢，不過幫別的老師代課多賺了一千元左右，算是額外
的收穫。這星期熱的不得了，學校已經換季說，學生有的好厲害，30
度還能穿外套，我是不好意思穿迷你裙，上衣當然是短袖的
，真是11月嗎？

Watched Trinity Blood to ep. 24. Not quite sure about
the story's ending...I mean, I didn't understand why
Abel could revive? After the Dutch of Milan gave the
Gunslinger a sealed tube in which was some grey
liquid, and he took it to Abel's coffin and poured
the liquid around, Able brought to life again.
Turning into a more scary figure than usual, Abel
went fighting with Gain. Obviously the character's
names are from the Bible. By the way, I learned from
some site that the author of the original story
passed away before he could finish it. It's a
pity...the ending part of the story was made by
others then.

I'll find some free time to watch Yakitate Japan 43
later on. Hopefully this evening...I'm to go out
soon. The weather's sunny and warm today, a beautiful
Sunday. *big smile*

So busy - 2

Like what I used to say, 'I have nothing to complain...' although I feel a bit tired after work. OT for 3 sessions this week, heh I gotta make a good plan for the weekend then. A hot pot? A nice meal at the new open veggie restaurant? Hmm I have quite a few choices. Anyway I can't blog a lot since I am to doze off *yawns* Ahh will sleep tight pretty soon.

So busy

This is a real busy week...the very beginning of
November! We had a hot pot party on Mon afternoon in
our classroom. Students brought along so many
ingredients that they could hardly cooked them all.
Although I was there suffering ( terrible smell for a
vegetarian you can imagine -_- ), I tried my best to
keep a smiling face and took some pictures of them
with my digital camera. Gotta help with the cleaning
too, quite disgusting but no choice. School asks all
of us to do recycle, so it's necessary to sort them
into different categories. Teens here are usually
pampered; they are happy to eat, chat, and have fun
with peers for sure. They wouldn't like to take
responsibilities if it's studying or cleaning--that's
why we teachers exist. Thanks Goodness...if teen
agers were all intelligent and diligent I would
become jobless. *kidding* hehehe

Make good use of $

我覺得這一週還不錯，有一位老師請假，教務處找我代課，
我當然高高興興地去上課，而且沒有什麼壓力，因為個性有
大而化之的缺點，黑板上時有錯字，學生就會很親切地提醒
我，、老師喔，你的加拿大寫錯了啦！、 真的，把 Canada
寫成 Canado...實在...你唸唸看，難怪全班笑瘋了，不過
臨走前我說很開心來代課，可能以後沒機會再來玩，大家吵
說還要再來玩，啊學生真現實...( 我有請答對英文問題的
孩子吃糖果。)

OK I have typed so many chinese characters. *sobs*
This pin yin input method is real good...the only
problem is I don't have many chances to practice
typing chinese. That's why I still can't master it (
maybe I am finding an excuse for myself again. )
Anyway, I had 3 sessions OT this week and the best
way to celebrate for the extra pay is go have hot
pots with friends. See I know how to make good use
of my money...( too bad my parents never think so. )

My ex classmate CJ rang me up around a week ago, and
said our friend, who I mentioned on another blog,
'WS'...I lent her 15000 NT, undertook a surgery
lately and stayed in a hospital not far away. She
told me WS also asked her and another friend of ours
for money. *sighs* What's wrong with my lovely
friend... She is not only good looking but diligent,
always being nice to people around her. How come
she's always drawn to lousy guys, who can bring her
nothing but doom! Her karma or what, I have no clue.
But I do hope she can get well soon and find the One
that is real good to her. ( in whispering mode: I
hope I can find one for myself too...*smiles* )

Taiwan's Retrocessing Day

今天是台灣光復節，但是有誰會在意呢？沒有放假就只不過是一個普普通通的星期二。

School gave all the classrooms and offices this notice that asks us to pay attention to the very scary Avian Influenza (禽流感). However, we don't seem to have many cases here in Taiwan, but it's always better to keep safe. That's why I told students it's okay to bring along eggs and chicken for our hot pot party next Mon, but we gotta make them well-done. As a matter of fact I have neither eggs nor meat--only vegetarian meals I would get. But that doesn't mean I won't fall sick as others...still have to be careful.

Some friend paid me a short visit while I was having a break this morning, kind enough to give me a package of dried tofu ( vegetarian for sure. ) I had some in my office later...yummy! Then shared with my colleagues and some students later on when they had good performance in class.

Lucky me :D

How come time flies like this! *big smile* The weather in Taipei is turning cold ( finally ) but the leaves remain green as well ( different to those in Vancouver, my best friend ww told me. ) I pretty much enjoy autumn time...it's pleasant to take a walk on the street or in the park nearby. Sometimes I can see the beautiful moon in the sky--lucky since you guys know the air here is quite polluted.

It is a given that friends around are always kind enough to teach me something new and share with me interesting stuff. Some nice guy who knew I was slow in typing chinese characters sent me a new software: Natural Input Way. *grateful* He told me it could improve my speed to type chinese after some more practice--I believe so! The best is I found there's this 'pin yin' input method, which I learned about as I studied in NTNU. I didn't ask my prof for the software that time ( how regretful I am you know; it's all for free! ) Felt so surprised and happy to see the pin yin there! I don't need to stare at the keyboard hard trying to find the zhu yin I want anymore. Thanks so much my friend! ^_^

Happy people

今天買珍珠奶茶請一些段考有達到的標準的學生,另外要在近期為班上舉辦火鍋party,因為孩子們開學以來表現都不錯,獎勵一下囉!
As for myself, I have a good time watching Densha
Otoko, and Full Mental Panic the 2nd Raid. People
are always involved in some relationship and
that's why problems can't stop popping up. hehe
Maybe we human being are just too complicated?

The 1st periodical test's done

We had the first periodical test this week, and it
seems most students can't do well on their English
test. Hmm maybe I should be a bit harsh on kids?
*grins evilly* Shall I ask them to write more
homework...or just use a rod? Kidding ok.

I watched Densha Otoko to ep. 8 and these 2 couldn't
give up their relationship ( or more likely their
friendship? they didn't even kiss... ) easily even
they came from way too different backgrounds. I
wonder if I can be like the lady; it's not easy to
accept a guy who doesn't look like a match for me.
*chuckles* yah I know I am picky, as opposed to just
settle and go date with wrong types. Heh life is
short. Never waste time like this then.

Also watched Full Mental Panic the Second Raid to
ep.9--sadly they are separated and the girl's in
danger without her bodyguard being around protecting
her. She bursted into tears in the end while sitting
on the roof finding she's been all alone to fight
with enemies. Poor baby...gotta be more strong-
minded herself. No idea if I have time for movies
today...always busy on Sundays. Ah well.

Don't you come back

肚子好餓...
我在學校等吃便當,
下午還要開會.
今天有個已經畢業一陣子的男生
回來學校找我,
還想一起吃中飯呢!
哎,我當然不願意...
不過我有鼓勵他要好好工作存錢,
嫌累嫌煩找藉口一律禁止,
他走之前還說,
老師我下次還要再來看妳,
哎,我不願意啊... -_-

Tired after a long weekend

Back to work after a long weekend. Most of us seem tired...students were dozing off in class, and one colleague looked pale because she caught a cold. As for me...under great stress ( a bit exaggerating I admit ) you know the first periodical test is coming! I hope my kids can do well for sure...that's why I felt today's tiring even though I have only 4 sessions.

Good news is I can watch Densha Otoko 6 soon. Heh it's enticing...no wonder even students read or watch it ( I happened to find they brought the novel to school. ) *grins evilly* Of course one more reader in this world then. By the way, I am grateful to say some friends of mine are so kind-hearted. They often inform me about nice anime and movies; moreover, a friend allows me to d/l stuff directly from his HD. *sobs* I think I should do something to return the favor after all...But I'm not that useful when it comes to computers--cannot give them a hand there. Ah...thank you very much, my good friends. *big smiles*

Harry Potter & Densha Otoko

Today is a happy day, altho it's windy and rainy. I enjoy taking a walk but didn't do so today because the weather's not good enough. Instead I stayed indoors and finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It's interesting...too bad my british friend R announced he wouldn't read Harry Potter anymore since he thought it's way too commercialized. *shrugs* I don't really mind...what ppl do these days is more or less commercialized ain't it. Even when we look for the One, we are informed in advance s/he had better match our background well in the first beginning. Otherwise parents may object strongly. Isn't that another kind of commercialism?

Talking about backgrounds, I also finished watching Densha Otoko ep. 5 this evening. Their backgrounds seem quite different--not perfect match at all! But who knows? Maybe they will be a couple in the end? I didn't surf for the plot of this story--don't wanna spoil the fun watching it bit by bit. *grins* Maybe ends up he dates with the nasty slut? Aww that will be fun too.

Call it a busy week

啊,一大清早就下起雨來,
看來氣象局說的沒錯,
我家電費上次將近四千元,
這下可以省一點了吧...
這個星期都好忙,
沒辦法下星期第一次段考.

朋友說他在看Densha Otoko,
問他要了URL我也找來看看,
現在已看過1,2集了,
哈...男生要約女孩子真有那麼緊張嗎!
我一直覺得男的都很聰明,
我們女生才比較會東想西想呢...

最近看了大潤發的周年慶傳單,
天啊精英G536的筆電,
全新18888元而已!
各位相信嗎,
稍早我在雅虎拍賣挑二手筆電時,
有位小姐要賣她的精英筆電,
說可燒錄保養佳21000元割愛,
還好我沒買...二手滴當然是一萬左右,
有些五千元就符合上網打打字的需求囉!
像我這台康柏1400的二手筆電,
音效真的很不錯!
等它退休後我就不再買二手的,
說不定那時一台新的只要一萬五...ㄏㄏ

He's hungry

This morning I bought an extra spring roll for snack on my way to school. Ended up I was too full to finish it during my break. My boy student Gary came up to me and asked 'teacher do you have cookies I am hungry!' Erm just fine then. No free lunch right. Told him, 'sure I can give you the spring roll but you gotta call me mom.' In a sec he said, 'mom' and happily proceeded to my office to get the spring roll.

Moral for this event: guys know how to sweet talk while you have what they want. :P

The 3rd strong typhoon

Heh it's Sun but I got waken very early by the big noise from
outside. How come? Oh Typhoon Longwang *chortling* is visiting
Taiwan! Aww I cannot go out today I guess. Lucky got the Net.
^^ I then came online and chatted merrily with some friend via
skype. MSN has been having some trouble lately, keeping disc me
from time to time. And this became more serious for today--
maybe it's because of the typhoon? Or the version 7.5 ain't
stable enough? Who knows. I have more than one way to chat with
friends.

In addition to chatting, I watched some anime. Both are
fun...Bleach 50 is a bit 'nutty', got neither serious fighting
scenes nor gorgeous and invicible death gods. Honey & Clover 21
is as good as the other epispodes, and the term 'soul-searching
trip' inspired me again, made me think of the time I went
travelling alone. It's fabulous, when I was totally alone, all
by myself, and the feeling that I myself is the best friend of
mine. Guess the others can't understand what I am talking about
... *chuckling* Never mind. It's my monologue.

So...here I am. I found the lyrics for another good song I
listened to today:
阿沁-我們之間的距離

我看著你　那紫色的背影
又讓我想起微笑的你
我多希望　或許你會答應
對你不是隨便說說而已
我想放棄　明知道不可以
我只剩下最後的勇氣
想大聲說　對你說我愛你
你的嘴角是否還會揚起
還沒有讓你明白　我怎麼能夠離開
我可以試著假裝　不在乎他的存在
我猜你也會猶豫　猶豫要怎麼反應
又開始沉默不語　害怕讓自己傷心
還沒有開始就散　我怎麼願意離開
我不想翻開日記　全都是你的空白
難道你不會猶豫　和不和我在一起
我們之間的距離　只差一句我愛你

My favorite line is 我想放棄 就算是不可以...Well I really would
like to give up some stuff in my life but they ain't supposed
to be given up by me at all. Even I think bright, even I never
give up...sometimes I just wanna let go. hehehe ok enough let
me stop right here. Gotta enjoy this typhoon day some more.

Fell sick

No idea why I fell sick like this...took a medical
leave yesterday! It's Fri and I was supposed to
enjoy it since I only have 4 sessions to teach. But
after the 1st class I started to feel weak, having a
headache and a stomachache. At first I thought I'd
be fine again, just to take a rest at my desk during
break time. But still felt bad and it seemed the
world's turning around in my head. Finally the
decision was made--my colleagues would take over my
duty and I drove home to rest asap. ( *sobs* my turn
to pay for others' teaching )

Also got a fever, but no sneezing or sore throat.
Weird...blame it to the troublesome activity on
Teacher's Day! I had 6 sessions and school asked all
the teachers and students to come for a school
meeting in the afternoon, bathing in the great
sunlight ( over 35 C. ) The purpose? Sure, for the
celebration of Teacher's Day! It's just stupid and
torturous. Who would concentrate on the
'performance' if the sun is so shining and burning?
We sweated like hell and the school court was like
the hell really. Terrible experience...I told others
I didn't enjoy such after it's over. Altho it's to
celebrate Teacher's Day, altho some students were so
sweet to give me cards and gifts ( I never asked
them to and I told them I got my salary
already...there's no need to give me stuff. )

Anyway, I feel a bit better today. It said a typhoon
Longwang is coming. While chatting on an American
channel, my friend told me he knew there will be a
typhoon in TW and found its name amusing. I said yah
I found some typhoons' names are funny. Then he
private messaged me--'wang' is a slang word for
penis. What the... LOL no wonder he found it
amusing! Oh no many people here have their surname
Wang. :P Ain't it fun when their English name's
read by Americans if they go to the states?

Not true

I kind of 'yelled at' my students this early
morning in class. They wouldn't like to take the
responsibility for preparing something important;
furthermore they didn't behave and upset their
Chinese teacher yesterday. That made me mad and
sure they must get punishment for that. Weird I
watched the news and it said my horoscope is very
lucky today, both in 'love' and 'business'. Hmm
thus, here's the motto: seeing is NOT ALWAYS
believing.

Stressful?

上一篇blog才說做了一個怪夢,心想並不覺得像朋友說的可能有壓
力,結果昨晚在夢中我用美工刀刺進自己左手的食指尖約0.5公分,
看著鮮血冒出來大約有一兩CC吧!畫面很慢,很清晰...
Well, I am really under lots of pressure? Somehow I just can't believe it, since people around think ( and so do I ) I am a optimistist always. I don't have a serious relationship at this moment--no guy brings me any trouble now. Hmm it's work then? Been busy working since this school term started--my grade 9 students will have CBT ( 基本學測 ) next year. Certainly I keep them companly and do my best to instruct them, but I haven't felt stressed before. *chuckles* no good to think too much, anyway.

What a dream

Had a weird dream...I didn't know who that guy was. He's there while I was doing shopping in somewhere like a big supermarket. He approached and I didn't feel comfortable; thus, I was trying to avoid seeing him. But he wouldn't give up coming near. Even after I left that supermarket, I was walking down some dark alley, feeling both upset and scared. Why he couldn't just leave me alone? What did he want? Moreover I saw my ex walking in front of me on the same street a while later, as I still tried to get rid of that stalking guy. I could hear him talking. Certainly he was not someone I would like to see ( even it's in my dream :P ) so I walked a bit faster to pass over. Unfortunately it ended up he was following me. I felt...darn how come they acted like that. Woke up confused. I didn't think of my exs at all once we broke up. He shouldn't have come into my dream. :P

Moon Festival

Ah...lousy we gotta work today. I remember we wouldn't go to school or work on Mon if the national holiday was on Sun. Since when it's changed? *sighs* No idea if my foreign friends have the same situation. They don't work on the weekend either, and apparently they have more holidays than us--Easter, Christmas, and so on. I don't think we have a longer one except the Lunar New Year ( around 1 week that's it. ) Heh I complained enough I guess.

Talking about this Moon Festival, we had a guest from UK. He likes TW so much that he's to get PR, wouldn't go back to his country in the future. No need to say his ideal wife will be a Taiwanese--of course not my business. I never think I should do anything for my male friends when it comes to dating or marriage--guys are smart. They know what they want precisely. *chuckles* Girls never have to worry about guys because they can take care of themselves very well, even better than us gals!

Thus I didn't plan to meet this British friend R after he informed me he's already here in Taipei. But he told me in another email he brought my family some little gifts from UK. O...K...we wouldn't owe others favor. That's why he's invited to our place and had a big dinner, moon cakes, and I did have a good time listening to a beautiful English accent. The best is he's pretty interested in teaching English--guess I can ask any questions about vocabulary and grammar of him from now on. ( As a matter of fact I don't have many questions to ask.hehehe :P )

Hot and heaty!

這星期好炎熱,隔壁班有個女生拿美工刀,
劃傷同班一位白目男生的手臂,
我在辦公室裡目睹她以抓狂的語氣,
和她的導師吵架,
說為什麼她不能割騷擾她的人,
假如像她説的,
我也要準備一支美工刀放包包囉!
開玩笑滴!
喝一點涼的降火氣啦...

Can practice English more

One colleague took leave and I gotta take over her duty for a week. I went lecture in that class for 3 classes so far...and their homeroom teacher told me, 'my class wish you could go on teaching them...they said you're easy going and teach well.' :D So happy to hear that.

It's still hot these days, and my friend from UK moved to Taipei lately. I pretty much enjoy listening to his british English, not as 'heavy' as those on TV or movies, but a pleasant light accent. I guess I will have chances to speak English IRL from now on. hehe :P

A hot and sleepy day

Been sleepy all day...even a boy student asked me in
class 'teacher are you in a bad mood?' Hah I guess I look
real serious when there's no smile on my face. ( But I
can't keep smiling all the time, you know...that's silly.
)
Some events for today. A boy in the class next to mine
got hurt. He's that kind of person who's being pampered
by his parents too much to know in fact he is annoying to
others. He didn't behave in class and finally a gal,
who's his classmate and sat near him, couldn't stand his
noise and bothering anymore, went cut his arm with a
knife. So the boy ran to the teacher's office and asked
for help. He's soon sent to the school clinic. The gal
felt very angry while she's being asked by her teacher:
'how come you cut your classmate like this?' She roared,
'why can't I? he keeps bothering me!!' Shouting and
crying in our office you can imagine the chaos that time.

As for my class, I ordered chocolate shattered ice (巧克
力冰沙) for students, planned to let them enjoy it after
their PE class this afternoon. Woo how nice you can have
something cold after outdoor activities under a burning
sun. It's almost the time to go get the ice...the boss
rang me and informed me their machine was broken. No
shattered ice but juice. -_- I had no choice but change
it to passion fruit juice--told the boss to add more ice
cubes for us. Lucky students didn't complained ( maybe
they dare not? ) to me.

Guess I should leave early tonight. My eyes are so tired.

Graduation trip

趕在卡努颱風來襲之前帶學生去畢旅,真是好運啊!
這三天中部的天氣很好,我們大家都玩的很盡興.
可惜沒在回台北的途中唱卡拉OK,因為大家都累癱,
全班睡成一團好可愛呢!

This week we didn't concentrate on studies for sure--who
would when it's time for the graduation trip. Think about
it! 3 days 2 nights with dear classmates in the middle of
Taiwan, visiting some famous scenic spots during the day,
playing games or cards in the hotel room with mates.
Ain't it terrific for a 15-yr-old boy/gal. Me? oh well I
am NOT a student but I pretty much enjoy travelling no
matter when I go with a tour or alone. ( plan to visit
Korea next break...not confirmed though hehe )

Our tour guide was Panda ( his nick of course, I know
about his real name but he said 'you can call me Panda'
well I didn't mind indeed ) and he's there to help me
take care of my students for 3 days. Tall and tan, this
tall young guy majors in cooking, and he always talks in
a gentle tone. Not like me, the 'fierce' homeroom teacher
would yell at them once in a while. *grins evilly* So we
got on the bus and headed off to Janfusun Fancyworld in
Yunlin county. They have many facilities you can see in
most playgrounds, so I don't bother to intro them one by
one ( you can always check online.) Some differences I
could tell...they didn't have the Coffee and Tea museums
last time as I paid a visit. So I entered both to see the
exhibition--friends you know I am into tea and coffee;
they even shouted us teachers coffee in the evening. I
had a orange-fragrant hot coffee. To my surprise, later
on when we were in the Janfusun Prince Hotel I could
still fall asleep well at night. Maybe walked a lot in
the afternoon, watched a show ( a circus from Russia )in
the evening and eventually felt tired enough.

The next morning we proceeded to the well-known place Sun
Moon Lake and most students went pray for good luck--they
will take CBT next May to enter their ideal senior high
schools. I prayed with them...truly hope their dreams can
come true. ( Weird...come to think of it I didn't even
get a thought to pray for myself at the moment! ) Then we
left for another famous playground--Formosan Aboriginal
Culture Village, located in Nantou county. Needless to
say they got good sights and attractions; moreover they
have a great stuff--cable cars. I remember the last time
I took a cable car was when I was in Syd. And this time
it's the same fun--enjoyed the view from high above with
my 3 colleagues. I had my second coffee again ( and once
again fell asleep nicely at midnight. hah )

We had a party after dinner; some students went perform
on the stage ( every class had to 'push' a few
representatives there as a matter of fact. ) When it's
going to end all students stood up and started to dance.
Panda took my hand and pulled me up to the stage--ended
up I gotta take more exercise even when I thought I did
get enough from earlier the day. ( Why teachers can keep
fit easily can you see now ) Oh there's an event which I
didn't expect after I took a bath though. Got a boy
student's call and reported to me one boy from the next
room climbed over the fence to their balcony and
something's wrong with their window. My students were
told by me they gotta pay for what's broken in the hotel
room. It's late but I gotta call the other homeroom
teacher and Panda to take a look. Well that naughty boy
who climbed over and caused the trouble didn't admit at
first. Sure most ppl would defend themselves no matter
what. Being tired I just said without looking at the
'suspect', 'ok then big hotels like this one always have
cams installed to maintain their safety let's just get
the tape and the evidence will talk.' In a few secs time
he said 'yah it's me.'

The boy who called was praised by me later on in class
since it's correct to ask for help right away. Otherwise
they might have got into big trouble. Anyway, the third
day our destination was for more knowledge--National
Museum of Natural Science in Taichung. My 'detour' to get
quite a few boxes of Sun cakes, 'wife' cakes and
'husband' cakes made this trip a perfect ending. :P

Why we like slow songs more

Saw something funny this early morning as I went out to get
traditional Chinese breakfast ( shao bing and such you know
.) A guy wearing shorts rode a bike ( not funny I know )
and I found something's wrong with him but why. After I
took a careful look I found he wore a pair of socks ( not
funny again I know ); one's white and the other's light
orange. Ah...guys don't mind their looks like we women I
guess. :D
Don't ask me how come he wore like this I didn't get the
nerve to run after him and ask! :P
My sis didn't feel well today...she asked me to d/l some
nice slow songs for her mp3 player. Of course I'm glad to
help. And I told her why we enjoy slow songs better now,
since the 'tempo' of our life in TW is very fast. We seldom
feel bored or got nothing to kill time at night--very noisy
on the street even it's midnight at many places in Taipei.
That's why I had to turn my friend in the states down while
he's offering his metal ones via DCC. *chuckles* different
life styles count.

Here comes the policeman!

當然我沒怎樣,
不過下午樓下突然好大聲,
連我家都可以感到微震,
是女人的哭喊尖叫,
加上一些碰撞吧!
我家鈴聲大作...
哎,嚇死人我正在午休呢!
(當老師養成的習慣)
原來是一位警察.
我告訴他不是我家,
好巧不巧樓下又傳來尖叫,
警察倒個歉就下去了,
晚一點住附近的一位太太看到我,
說樓下那一家的二女兒,
有情緒不穩定的現象,
發作不是第一次了,
這回好像是為了和姊姊爭電腦,
然後姊姊氣沖沖地出門,
(哀...)
我家真幸運,
有我幫大家買好電腦,
一人一台免煩惱!
寬頻無須去網咖,
夏日炎炎在家玩多開心啊!

Heh...Friday

Listening to an interesting song:

鐵竹堂-能不能

作詞：王威登　作曲：林邁可　女聲:溫嵐 Landy

第一次當我見到妳 妳說妳緊張的忘了呼吸 記憶裡 我只想玩玩而已
在一起 沒想過這問題 妳說妳從來沒有忘記 我們第一個夜裡 我一邊說我愛妳
一邊喘著氣SORRY 我愛妳 是指妳的身體 我不知道 妳的需要
妳對我的要求我從來沒做到 啊～ 妳怎麼受的了 啊～～但我總是見到妳微笑
痛苦總是往肚子裡吞掉 只希望有一天我能明瞭 妳的好
我假裝對妳不在意 假裝失去我的記憶 為了隱藏以前痛苦回憶 我選擇放棄
放心去愛人的權利因為我不相信自己 不相信妳 不相信一句話叫做真心真意
我選擇絕情絕意 妳把我當作情人 我卻把妳當作敵人
我的人生 就是充滿猜疑忌恨 不要浪費精神在我身上尋找永恆
執迷不悔只會再妳我身上造成一道道永遠的傷痕

Landy:能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我天長地久
不要對我若即若離讓我傷心淚流
能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我一直到最後
從今以後剩下的路要你陪我走

Joson:妳一定覺得我壞 誰都不愛 隨妳去猜 我是在 什麼心態
面對妳給我的愛 妳對我好我就對妳越壞
但我心裡一直有聲音跟我告白 它說不能沒有妳的存在
好怪 想愛 卻又說不出來 為何心軟 為何心軟 為何妳從不會對我心煩
已經有了答案 我卻不敢去看 面對妳不再反感 我發現我冰冷的心
感受到妳的溫暖 該怎麼辦 我現在愛妳會不會太晚 妳是我唯一
我想跟妳在一起...
不想和妳分離 OH～就算外面的女孩子她們叫我BABY-BY
在我心底只有一個老婆叫做VICKY-CKY
不知道該怎麼說 但我知道怎麼做 我不會一錯再錯 忘了以前痛苦的過程
我們要的只是結果 妳問我會一起多久 我不知道 大概一輩子夠不夠
牽著妳的手往前走 我只聽到妳說

Landy: 能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我天長地久
不要對我若即若離 讓我傷心淚流
能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我一直到最後
從今以後剩下的路要你陪我走

Landy:能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我天長地久

Jason:能不能 能不能 能不能夠 對著我說愛我

Landy:相信我 能不能就對著我說愛我 能不能就陪著我一直到最後

Jason:就一直到最後...

Not bad the guy finally found she's the one who's been
around. I am not anyhow in a serious relationship at this
moment in my life. Guess I'm too busy...work's becoming
hectic, and will need to lecture more in the near future.
*sighs with a smile* Well yeah I know it's tiring but it
also means more pay. That's why I went to the department of
studies complaining to our grade coordinator about my lousy
schedule for this new semester; later on the assistant
comforted me like 'oh but we let you have more classes...'
I then made the gesture of 'close the mouth' by crossing
both my index fingers in front. My boss, the director of
studies, laughed and said 'how come you're that easy to be
pacified!' I just don't wanna argue over something that
cannot be changed much...whether it's about work, or other
stuff. It's useless to lament for what I can never work
out--no point to waste my time then.
Talking about typhoons, Talim's gone, and a new strong one
Nabi is approaching. Hmm a window fell off and got broken
because of the last one. No idea what damage the new one
will cause here. *prays* Hope everything's fine...and my ex
classmate WS can move to her new place this Sun. I don't
wanna keep ringing her and asking her what's going on. She
would need some space I guess. After I blogged about the
event that she came to me with her bf and she asked me to
lend her money, a friend bothered to reply me with his
point of view and then advised me not to regret for the
money gone. *feels grateful* Indeed I work hard for money,
always wanna save up more and live a comfortable life (
doesn't mean it's necessary to buy lots of brand name
products ) and I convince myself I will be happy and rich
even if I might be single for the rest of my life. That
friend doesn't need to worry about me, since I always think
bright in bad situations. *chuckles* However...thanks for
your care, my friend from this cyber world. :)
I watched Tsabasa Chronicle ep.1 and got :O as I found
the main characters are just the same in an old anime I watched
a few years ago. The OP song's great! :D

Typhoon day, blogging day

Aug 28
It's Sunday...school starts next week...and I didn't do
anything important today. My schedule would keep unknown
until I go for meetings tomorrow, and somehow I don't mind
how many classes I will have the coming semester. If I have
more classes I will earn more money. If less classes it'll
be relaxing and I can read more stuff, chat more... :P No
matter what I hope time flies, and my adventure will go on.

Aug 29
Sighs what a schedule for me. most of my sessions are
arranged in the afternoon. Guess I'll have to do everything
to catch students attention...or maybe wear better. *winks*
Had long meetings today, learned our new principal is both
smart and kind-hearted while she's talking to us. I'm so
glad those mean, kinky, and stupid male bosses left this
school one by one. *big smile* From now on I can work
better and more happily without worrying about those mid-
aged ( or shall I say old ) guys' intention to take
advantage of me. My good friend, the math teacher Xu, is a
homeroom teacher in grade 7; another good friend who is a
math teacher too Chen, is a subject teacher and she's going
to be a mom in Dec. :D Both Xu and me told her we will go
food shopping during our break time and just order whatever
she would like to eat--we'll run for her! :P

Aug 31
Well...it's good or bad. This afternoon I didn't work at
school. Slacking off? Of course...NOT. We got the notice
during the 4th class this morning that there would be no
class since the strong typhoon Talim's approaching Taiwan.
As soon as it's announced all students shouted with glee! I
must admit I am not a glutton for work; thus, I let all
students pack their stuff ( including their lunch boxes--
they had to go home before they ate lunch then ) and
dismisses the class. I drove home, found a good parking
space ( lucky! ) and saw my mom sitting on the couch in the
living room eating lunch. She didn't expect to see me at
noon but I didn't mind--bought my lunch box already.
These 2 days I didn't see Sam at school much. To be exact
he's not been in class lately, but wandering on campus all
day, and finally got caught by my colleagues who are
responsible for those kids that cannot behave. His dad
talked to me on the phone and even paid me a visit at
school. But the problem isn't solved. Sam's mother left
when he's still a baby--she's too young to be a wife and
mom. It was his auntie ( younger sis of his dad's ) who
brought him up. Some kids in this situation would work
harder to make up what they already lost and have great
accomplishments. But others might go astray even when ppl
around him, family, relatives, friends, classmates...care
for him. I don't know. I only know they need love...a lot
of love, to fill in the hole of their hearts, where
emptiness has been existing ages ago.

Sep 1
Typhoon's gone; so is my money. @_@ How come you must be
asking? Maybe...this woman still went out shopping on a
typhoon day? or went KTV with friends since there's no work
today? no no no no no! Let me tell ya what happened...
This early morning ( by 'early' I mean before 8 a.m. ) my
telphone rang. Okay...I got up and answered it. My ex
classmate WS, the one I mentioned on my blog before, told
me she was to rent an unit but didn't have enough money.
She needed to pay for 7500 NT a month for the unit, and
furthermore 15000 NT for the cash pledge. As a matter of
fact I have debts to pay off, but WS sounded very sorrow--I
really have no idea what her bf, the taxi driver, is for!

If I have difficulties ( I did have some ) I would ask my
family members first, or my bf ( if I have one ) to give me
a hand. If a bf cannot help when I get into trouble, I am
sure he's useless when we are in some troublesome situation
later on in our marriage. Very well...I don't know about
WS's bf enough, and I already dislike him enough.
I talked about this event with my best friend in Vancouver ww,
and both of us felt it icky. I never enjoy being in danger ( who does? )
but I walked in strong wind and rain for I promised to transfer
15000 NT to her account via ATM. Wonder if I can get my money back...
call me too kind-hearted, call me 'baka'... -_-

Where to stay

Got my ex classmate's call. She seemed in a bad mood and asked
me if she could come over. Of course I welcomed her. Ended up
she came with her bf, who I met for the very first time. He's a
taxi driver, very tan and looked worried. We sat at the table,
having some green tea I prepared, and then I learned their
story. My classmate WS dated her bf J, who's going through a
divorce with his Chinese wife, after she broke up with her ex.
By 'Chinese' here I meant his wife is a mainlander. His wife
left him and their kid for China a few years ago--can't imagine
a mom can leave young kids like this you know. But the thing is
WS needs to find a place to stay because she left Taichung
where her ex stays for Taipei to work. Her current bf helped
move her stuff and would like her to stay at his place. That's
why WS came ask for my advice; she's under great pressure from
family and her relationships and couldn't see things through
right now. Lucky we always have a saying: Outsiders can figure
out more easily. Sure I told her what I thought: you're my good
old friend. The only thing I will do is give you my moral
support no matter what guy you wanna be with. However,it's
wrong to stay in your bf's house since he doesn't get divorced
yet. You can stay with me for a few days like my shijie did
last month. While her bf went to the restroom she asked me
again: you don't think it's good to stay in his place? I told
her no. Being such an old friend of hers, I just cannot agree
with such ideas. Call me prudence, I don't mind. I even told
another friend lately...I wouldn't be a good close friend with
a guy who's taken. Not to mention flirt to him. There are so
many single guys out there--why and what is the point to hang
out with a taken man?? Maybe that's why all my female friends
like me, even when their husbands say they wanna shout me
coffee and such. I never talk much with others' bfs or
husbands--wu liao if you ask me why. Anyway the item left my
place for dinner. I hope my friend can make a wise decision.

Fin for my summber break 2005

Today is the last day of this summer break. Of course gotta
do something special right. ( As a matter of fact what I
did for today ain't anyhow special...) Went to Guanghua
Bazaar and bought some stuff. Had a nice buffet with my sis
( her treat since she earned too much last month.)

These days I watched some anime as usual. SHUFFLE and He is
My Master are both...weird. Sure I know we can't take what
happened in anime seriously, more or less the plot appeared
icky to me in these two. He is My Master would me more
'reasonable' if you asked me. A horny young rich lonely boy
encountered 2 teen gals who ran away from home. What could
ever happen then? :P SHUFFLE in some way is like another
anime I watched before, Air. There's the only male
character, a middle school boy, who's liked by all the
other gals around him. ( I'm sure all my male friends envy
his good luck. ) And the gal could still keep smiling and
get along with him even when he said he looked forward to
tasting the food other gals would make for him. -_- What
the...there's only one fish on earth or what. If my man
said so to me, I'd be happy to let him go. He can leave
anytime happily for any other gal. :D Just remember one
thing--don't ever get a thought to come back to me when he
thinks others are not that good. ( That's why my exs would
find it hard to see or talk to me again once they made such
a decision. :P ) I think such gals are either too lonely or
too desperate, otherwise they really can open up and make
many friends in other fields.

However I ain't sure if I would finish watching such
anime...the plot that goes on like this isn't a big catch
to me. -_-

I can't leave him; neither can I make him stay...

Downloaded a nice song today...it's 溫嵐-離不開他.
Here is the lyrics:

音樂滴拉滴拉滴拉
舞步踢踏踢踏踢踏
每一步都是悲傷的掙扎
帶著牽掛　誰都不想先停下
我穿著純白的薄紗
跟著他旋轉在燈下
知道是最後一次擁著他
日出後就應該試著忘了　
要試著忘了他
＊我離不開他　
也留不住他　
心像空蕩大廳　
一切就要蒸發　
我離不開他　
風留不住沙　
遠距離的牽掛　
數思念的時差　
跟寂寞對話＊
音樂滴拉滴拉滴拉
舞步踢踏踢踏踢踏
每一步都是悲傷的掙扎
日出後就應該試著忘了　
要試著忘了他
REPEAT＊
我留不住他
心像空蕩大廳　
一切就要蒸發
風留不住沙
遠距離的牽掛　
我還在想他現在好想他　
好想他...

Some friend taught me to play with google earth, but I was really bad at finding the location. -_- I guess he went offline with frustration...*sobs* Being nervous I did try hard to search on it, even after he's gone I kept finding for an hour. And now I'm worn out; my index finger hurts. @_@ *sighs* I truly have to find a good and savvy guy in the future...if I want a husband. ( Isn't it sad that both parties are dumb for a couple. ) :P

Back to blog!

Okay 2 days to go--my summer break is going end. Pretty
much enjoying these relaxing ( sometimes a little busy )
days...I haven't blogged for the past 2 months. *smiles* So
many things happened and I really feel happy for not seeing
any mushy sms lately. How come? Martin has given up sending
those meaningless stuff to me already? To tell the truth I
am not sure. I only know I switched off my degree 3 cell
phone by Chinese Lovers Day. LOL~ That day is meaningless
to me also--so sorry that I am still living a single
life... :D

Before summer school started I went travelling in Japan,
and the latest album 'Trip 2 Tokyo' has been shown online
for both net and IRL friends. Most listened to my complaint
about the lousy tour guide, who only cared about selling
medicine and packs of dried abalones to us. The worst he
did to me was he gave me the key to the hotel room I had to
stay for 2 nights: #414. Didn't he know we Taiwanese used
to avoid such unlucky numbers. How nasty and inconsiderate
that guy was. Fortunately I always believe the Lord will
take good care of His kids, so it's real pleasant to stay
in that #414 room. I even asked the hotel staff to get me a
modem then I could come online with my panel NB. Of course
it's not for free--1050 yen for 2 days, not expensive
comparing to the expenses I afforded for other items there.

I had a haircut today, lots of hair cut off...we Taiwanese
have this superstition: if your hair touches your waist,
you'll have to be careful, not to have a haircut until you
find a special date for it ( can check our lunar calendar.
) The thing is my hair was almost to the limit and that
would be troublesome for me to check stuff like this.
So...will take pics soon. Not much difference I hope. :P Oh
yeah someone left me a long comment on my last blog in fact
it's impolite to do something like that. I hope friends you
don't do that. Please have good manners. Thanks.

Encountered him twice

A tiring day really! We did so much work and moved to a new
place--all students worked real hard! Ended up my buying
them cold drinks ( bing1 sha1 is the chinese term ) and
iced green tea. *sobs for money's flying away from my
wallet...* They said black tea would be better, so I guess
I'd order what they like next time. :D After students were
gone I suddenly remember there's no cable for my notebook
in the new office. Then went downstairs to my old office on
the 2nd floor to get my cable back. Didn't expect to see
him, a substitute teacher who's been teaching here this
semester, since his office is on the third floor. He's
using the puter where my cable was right in the IP share
nearby. So I came near and tried to get it without
disturbing his keying in marks for students. But he got up
and gave me a hand...so we were near each other. He gave me
the cable after he got it, and I said 'thank you, teacher (
his name)' Funny to see he got so surprised and said, 'how
come you know my name? I didn't even teach your class.' I
just smiled and left. :P His name was shown above on the
monitor... *grins* :P

Later on I went to the office on the third floor this
afternoon to find my partner who's doing the same lesson
plan. We had to finish some copy and paste and our leader
asked us to turn in the floppy tomorrow. He's back to his
office already. And I felt lucky that he's there since we
had some problem using Word. hehehe my partner called him
to help us with it. She even asked him how old he is...said
she might intro him gals. :P I just sat there and watched
him fixing our stuff. Well...had a small talk and knew he's
leaving for another school. Anyway he's a bit younger than
me, so...period. :)

It's around a year I guess...to keep blogging here. Just
like what I mentioned earlier, no beginning then no ending.
Vice versa, there must be an ending if there's a beginning.
I think it is the time. Last summer break, a semester,
winter break, another semester, and now this summer break.
Time flies ain't it! :D My best friend is living a new
life in another country, and I am to have a vacation in
another country too. Life is lessons to take, truly, and
each day for me...is a brand new world! Enjoy it... ciao
ciao~

Lesson plans

As usual when a semester is to end, it's time to do the
lesson plans. And this time I work with 2 other colleagues,
who are experieced as well and more diligent than me. :P
Our leader told us the part we got to finish before July
1st, and the rest is our typing it out. After dinner I
started to work on the not-difficult-but-time-consuming
plan. :P Lucky I finished it by 10 p.m. otherwise I would
be mumbling for my lack of sleeping hours. Why didn't I
start earlier while no school this afternoon?? Because...I
went hang out with some friends, had lunch in a Italian
restaurant ( vegetarian of course ) in the mountains ( on a
hill more likely...) Hah the same place I had lunch once
with a mushy guy last year--bleh he's still sending
'creepy' stuff and we all wondered when he will truly give
up. :P

Final exam

School asked me to watch them study and do the test for the
first 2 sessions. Then I had some time spare for keying in
the evaluation of students' performaces. Since we are to
move to new classrooms and offices, I asked in advance if
some volunteer to help me with moving stuff. Needless to
say...*big smile* ^_^
I have to remember 2 things tho--bring enough big plastic
bags to school for the moving, and clean my future desk and
shelfs before students put stuff on. Hmm, will be a tiring
day.

The last lecture for this semester

Yah :D finally it's the last day I had to lecture in class!
Students complained to me that they didn't want school to
start at the very beginning of this semester in Feb...and I
comforted them by saying, 'well...but if no beginning, no
ending...then you guys won't have summer break!' They soon
understood it's a must. LOL~ So much fun getting along with
these grade 8 kids. :P

Nice manga

Read some manga today--a good way to spend a relaxing Saturday ain't it. :D Loveless, The Mythical Detective Loki Rangarok, and Dan Detective School! I always enjoy reading this kind of story, partly suspicious and exciting, and partly romantic ( a lit bit will do...most of the time they are not tho. )

He's spitting

My colleague asked me to take over her duty since she had to go for another important task at school. Of course I would give a hand ( extra pay heh ) and then I was in that classroom. A boy kept on sipping some water from a bottle and then I saw him spitting it on the floor. He just looked like one of the delinguents here. But I wasn't to keep silent. :P I told him to stop since it's dirty...and disgusting. Well he then stopped. Maybe those naughty students need more love and care, you know...somehow I think that's the reason they would do something nutty in order to catch our eye. I do hope those who are to give birth can take the responsibility well and give enough love to their offsprings. Love from a teacher is wonderful...but not fullfilling enough. :)

Time for a new life

WW called me in the evening, and I knew her flight to Vancouver was midnight. I asked her, 'happy right?' She answered 'yeah happy!' LOL~ That is my good friend, pretty much the same style as me. It's a high tech era, and I don't think it's a prob for us to keep contact with each other. :P She even used Sky.. to call me ( it's much cheaper to call international this way she said. :D ) And I wish her good luck ( she always has it ^^ ) and have a brand new fabulous life in a new country. ( And, please don't work hard for settling me down there ok I love Taipei. :P )

Met WW beforehand

Yeah like most Chinese would do--in a restaurant again. But this time something 'funny' happened. :P After we stood up and prepared to leave, the woman who sat at the table near us said, 'hey beauty...you didn't finish your food.' Well one friend didn't eat up her food truly. Sometimes we would be in this situation especially when it's buffet. You saw a new dish, kind of strange food but you wanna give it a go so you put a small amount of it on your plate. After you had a taste and found it's awful...you'd just leave it there, wouldn't torture your stomach right? Well...there were so many other customers at many other tables in the restaurant. I just didn't understand why the woman only paid attention on our food. But we were about to leave...but the woman wouldn't stop! She went, 'hey beauty...you didn't finish your tea.' ( This time she referred to me--I didn't drink up the glass of tea. -_- ) and, 'the food in this restaurant are very natural and healthy. Would you please eat them up and drink it up next time you come here?' Errr...my friend and I said 'oh ok' and then left. I still don't understand now--why that woman only paid so much attention on WW and me? while there were many ppl around... :P

Marketing--got no talent for

Couldn't sleep in on Sat; anyway it's NOT uncommon. This time you can
say 'Flo is such a diligent person' since I went for a course that was
about marketing with my best friend WW. Our field's education...how
come we would go study marketing you might wonder. The reason is WW
will move to Vancouver soon, and she can't work as a homeroom teacher
in a middle school there. So she might become a business woman in the
future. It's boring to study in class with bunches of strangers
right...Therefore she asked me to study with her for quite a few hours.
Lucky they prepared a veggie lunch box for me. Woo :P

Ended up having no idea what marketing is tho... -_- Not our fault.
Must be the lecturers didn't look handsome enough. :P ( See how good I
am to find some excuse! ) We decided to leave earlier and went to the
big department store nearby to look around. *chuckles* you guys know
it's never boring while shopping with the right person--we talked and
laughed, made lots of comments meanwhile. Later on we had some snack at their B1, where you can see many stalls selling different kinds of yummy stuff. I know the 2 guys sitting the next door were interested in us...they couldn't stop looking at us from time to time, and talked in
a way which tended to catch our attention. :P Sounded like working out is a trend eh. LOL~ Toooooooo bad! WW's taken ( how lucky that Canadian guy is! ) and I am too lazy to get involved in a serious relationship at this moment. *bats my eyes...* My dear Mr. Right...you'll have to come over and work hard to make me fall for you then. :P

Gathering at Spring

A busy Fri indeed...I had an important appointment in the morning, and
then met friends at noon. Usually we Chinese like our gathering in
either restaurants or cafes. :P That's why we sat at a table eating
fabulous vegetarian buffet in Spring Veggie Restaurant. :D~ altho it's
a bit expensive... After that I went get the passport, then proceeded
to Taipei Main Station and found some clerks there to make my Japanese
trip next month confirmed...then came back to school and had the very
happy 8th class ( for extra pay. ) *big smile* In the evening a friend
paid me a visit. He's introduced to me by ww and came to give me a hand
since something wrong with my puters. Too bad the old pc in the living
still couldn't work, and I told him it's ok if he couldn't fix it.
*yawns...* I'm very tired. And I'll have a busy Sat...@_@ Awww

Goodbye grade 9 students

Graduation day is tomorrow. I had the last class in grade 9...This boy
student Jason came over to me...he's a good student. Not only does well
on his English test, but can play the piano ( I always have a liking to
such students :P maybe it's because I can play a little as well. )
Anyway he came, I thought he's going to say something sentimental like,
teacher...thanks for your teaching for the past 1 year, and I will miss
you after I graduate... *coughs* I was wrong. He went, 'teacher your
figure's so good...' -_- didn't know what to reply then, neither
touching nor meaningful. LOL~ ok ok...don't pick on students who are to
leave. Congrutulations you guys!

Some collection

My collections are sitting beautifully on the desk in the study room. I feel peaceful every time I look at them...What you see is part of my crystal collections.

Magic power...not :P

I was holding 2 stones--a green crystal ball on my right hand and a yellow on my left. It said green ones are good for business while yellow ones are for pian cai like lottery. Urm... How come I am still so poor then? Tell me please my precious stones... :P

Movie Club the last time

I told students to relax and enjoy their last time movie club, since
there will be no pleasant sessions on Wed afternoon no more. This
semester's going to end and they'll be in grade 9, which means they
have to pay all their attention to their CBT. Got to study more then,
poor kids. So it's Sharks Tale, and we watched a fish that pretty much
looked like Will Smith, hey his voice's exactly the same as Will
Smith's...singing and dancing. LOL~

Crystal purchasing

My best friend ww wanna buy some more crystals since she's leaving for
Vancouver. Previously she asked me to go to my shi jei's place and
choose some for her. Later on she decided to come visit me and we could
go together. ( She likes me too much I guess LOL~ ) Thus we were
sitting there in the shi jei's living room, enjoying looking at those
beautiful crystals on the table. I bought some too...couldn't resist
the stones' charm. :P Maybe I'll take a pic and share with you on here
later.

Farewell party at school

No meeting for ETs at my school this afternoon; instead we had a
farewell party for those who are leaving us. Yeah they are not to
retire since they're still very young, but they are substitute
teachers. Our leader said sorry to me a few times since she saw most of
the dishes prepared were not vegetarian--I could only have fried
noodles, fried mifen, and a little fruit. :P Well I don't mind. Maybe
that's why I can always keep fit ( 170 cm, 58 or less kg now. :D )

Wet wet...

Quite a suspective topic, no? :P Too bad nothing interesting. :D It's the first day we had our 90 NT lunch, and the guy didn't put those containers well and there was some soup leaking in the big plastic bag. That's why I had to use some tissues to get rid of the wetness before I brought them to my colleagues. *sighs* ok I must say they are lucky since my service is for free--no commission's been asked ever since. *sobs* :P

It's pretty hot today again, but I don't mind. The classrooms I stay in have no air con. hehehe got used to it of course. Last night while chatting on IRC a nice American friend sent me her pic during her vacation. She's there visiting her bf ( they knew each other via IRC ) and now they are an item. woo~ really broke my 'LD relationship wouldn't work' rule. LOL~ I feel happy for the love birds and I hope friends who are looking for true love online can have the same good luck in this cyber world! :D

Now it's higher class

I had to go to the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during my break this morning, so a colleague of mine took the job ordering veggie lunch boxes for us. Like what I've said--we got to have high class lunch from now on. *sobs* ( not that we wanna but...) It's 80 NT each now, from another veggie cafeteria in the neighborhood. We teachers are too lazy to walk out of the school sometimes, you know. It's a given that many restaurants here in Taipei are willing to deliver the food you order to where you are ( if not too far away of course. ) Hmm more rice and more vegetables in the paper container, and they taste great! :D I told my colleagues we'll have the 90 NT class lunch tomorrow. :P Woo they are looking forward to spending more money...NOT. LOL~ Too bad they have no choice if they'd like to eat the same with me. :P

What a pity

The boss of the vegetarian cafeteria noticed me that he would put it to an end to deliver lunch boxes to his cutomers from June 8th onwards. It means I cannot have the 50 or 60 NT-worth lunch anymore, and neither do my colleagues and students. *sighs* Life is not perfect... So, I told them we'll have to 'upgrade' ourselves by eating a much more expensive vegetarian lunch box from Wed. :P

A nasty thing for today--got that Martin guy's sms again this evening. He said 'I know we cannot be lovers...but can't we be friends? blah blah blah...' -_- I thought I told him point-blank enough and he still thought we could be friends? :P

The end of May

Of course it's my being tardy...to blog about these days. :P
*chuckles* In fact there's always something happening every now and
then, but my figures just wanna enjoy the relaxing moment after work,
you know. But today I got to blog! Since I got a phone call for a
friend who I've known for many years...moved to the states and then
became an American citizen ages ago. I'm to have lunch with this friend
in the near future...and have a small...NO a BIG talk!! :D hehehe of
course I insist it's my treat; on the phone--I said, 'hey you got to
treat me well when I take a trip to America in the future!' :P See how
pragmatic I am heh.

Time to write a lot of stuff for students, yes...it's going to be the
end of this semester. Not only mark students' paper but do the
evaluation for each of them, need both hand-writing and key-in effort
@_@ so much fun, no? :P But the best is I will have my summer break
after being working hard for 5 months around. :D And plans for this
summer are made. *winks* Let me keep it in secret for a while. Tomorrow
is our Movie Club time again. Last week we watched Sky Captain and the
World of Tomorrow--ah it's ok...characters ain't attractive to me
there. This morning the class in grade 9 watched Star War III because
they had their CBT last weekend. Poor kids they did need to ease their
minds now by watching something fun. Thus...teachers can also have a
wonderful time in class with them. *a big smile*

Gua Sha

It's Sat and I still had a terrible headache...looked pale. My best
friend Sheila planned to pay me a visit. She asked me on the phone if
she should still come after she knew I was not feeling well. I insisted she
should since we had an appointment with a shi jei ( a lady ) who sells
crystals. Then Sheila was at my place in the afternoon. She assumed I
was 'zhong shu'--got sick because of the heat. Yeah it often hit over
30 C here in Taipei these days...and maybe my period's coming. More
troublesome to be a female :\ you know. She then did 'gua sha' for me
--using a litte plate made of bull horn to rub my skin, kind of
massage. Soon my back looked very 'interesting' :P like I'm being
tortured or such. (if my foreign friends saw this they'd scream I
guess. :P ) And I felt much better after the 'gua sha'.

We went to the shi jei's place later on. Sheila would get some crystals
for her husband in Vancouver. I like such stuff too and both of us
spent some money on the beautiful stones. Sheila got a purple crystal
original stone, which is from Uruguay. Purple crystal symbolizes
wisdom, and it's good for business and 'gui ren' ( assistance from
others. ) I got a 'jin dong', a small crystal grotto, around 3 kg. :P
The light purple radiation from the stone crystallized inside the
grotto glitters...looks so appealing to me. :D Hmm I shall take a pic
of it.

One more 'fun for today' :P I got Lay's newest potato chips--Green tea
flavour, which tastes o...k... I think I still prefer the lemon
flavored ones. The green tea ones are a bit too sweet. Green tea is
supposed to be sweet? I wonder...but I don't mind as long as I have
other choices. :D

Hot

This week I have to take over another teacher's duty, and the first 2
days were quite relaxing! Since grade 9 students have tests on Tue and
Wed, I got nothing to do but sat in front and watched them write.
Sometimes walked around to take a careful look of course. :P Quite
boring, I couldn't talk as well because it might bother students during
the test. :P So yeah...earned extra pay with my month shut then--not
very often I make money this way ( so quietly LOL~ )

The weather's getting hotter and hotter. Finally I decided to turn on
the air con in the evening and let it work all night. Thus I can sleep
sound...altho $_$ *sobs* you know. Well well...like what I said nothing
is perfect in life. :P Sleep is more important anyway. Oh my today is
already Thur--again I wanna ask 'how come life goes on sooooo fast!'
And it'll be a busy weekend @_@ I have to clean my place on Fri evening
or Sat morning. *sobs once more* means I cannot sleep in this Sat. :(

Rainy day buffet day

The weather's been unsteady these days--our rainy season. No school
this afternoon again because of tests. I went have buffet with friends
( another group, different from yesterday's party ) and all vegetarian
dishes there! In fact I have been to this restaurant couple of times.
But some colleague has its VIP card, which can get a discount on the
meal ( around 20% off. ) No wonder I'd rather go than snooze at home
even in a rainy day. :P It worths my time and money since I heard so
much interesting news and '8 gua' cheerfully. :P

In the late afternoon my shi jei, the Avon lady, came pay me a visit as
soon as I got home. She brought me a big gift--an oven. -_- oh no...I
wish I could avoid baking some stuff for good. :P Now I guess I have to
think bout what to bake for my family from now on. LOL~ or maybe I
shouldn't open the paper box at all? Just give it to another friend of
mine and no need to worry anymore. :D Well I'll ponder over this. By
the way I ain't to get others' presents without returning the favour.
hehehe~ that's why I ordered some veggie dumplings earlier and got them
on my way home. So my shi jei and I had dumplings for dinner today. :D~
yummy ones!

Ahh time flies...I always feel so. How come life goes on so fast? :P

Rainy day, free lunch day

We had no school this afternoon. An ex-colleague treated some old
friends lunch today in a cafe. It was raining ( is still raining now )
so I drove them to the cafe first then went park my Justy in a building
nearby. 40 NT for an hour... Anyway it's fun to eat and chat with good
friends. They said some ex-colleagues fell very sick and had operations
these days after they retired. :O Health is real important! I told them
my plan after I retire is teach some poor kids in the elementary
schools nearby for free. Since teachers in Taiwan will get the pension,
I guess I won't worry about my finance a lot that time. Therefore, it's
great to do something helpful for our society! But, my friends are
reasonable, or pragmatic enough to 'splash some cold water on me'. :P
'Oh come on you don't know if you are still able to when you retire...'
LOL~ o...k... :P

When it's time to get my car I asked the guard how much the fee was--
remember it's 40 NT for 1 hour. Justy had been stayed in there for 3
hours, so I asked him twice with a smiling face, 'how much?' He
pondered for a while and answered, '100 NT' woo~ Friends listen to me!
Always wear a smiling face and you earn more! :P

Back home I needed to find some info for my Movie Club. -_- Some boss
said we didn't keep the record well enough! @#$%! ( done my swearing )
And I was smart enough to find such info for all the movies we've
watched so far. *coughs* all right I admit I ain't so smart but our ol
friend GOOGLE! :D ( wait...is it old enough? since when it appeared
online...? google it! )

The anime School Rumble is fun ( watched ep.2 ) but the sms from Martin
isn't fun at all. :P I was so...I felt so...funny? ridiculous
maybe...to see my degree 3 celly got an sms this afternoon. And not
long after that it rang--private number. *blinks* I didn't answer it
for sure and soon I switched it off. The first thought came to me was I
got to discard this number...I can't win this estate agent!! HE IS THE
ONE WHO NEVER GIVES UP!!! >_<

Extra

Not much for today. Still I had good news! :P I took over another teacher's duty and had 2 extra sessions. It's a class in grade 9--I remember I have taught them once or twice before. I saw their homeroom teacher was still in their classroom when I was approaching. :P As soon as I stepped into their classroom, students applauded and 'yeah!' Then...*blushes...I am shy* :P Anyway done the 2 sessions well and it means I'll get extra money. woo~ :D

A red dot on my Justy

Some interesting events for today. At work my colleague sitting next to me told me some 'bad' news. Some teachers would like me to be the leader of homeroom teachers in grade 9 from next semester. Well well...they came to me and said they wanna see a 'mei nuu' to represent them. LOL~ :P But too bad I ain't to represent any other person but myself. :D And, yes...as you know, I am very practical--it's impossible for me to do something useless or worthless like that. Thus, I had to turn them down very nicely... *sighs* :P

On my way home, I found a very bright red dot moving on my car window, right in front of my sight. I was driving along, but still felt curious...I moved closer and see very tiny legs walking on the glass quietly. ( of course :P ) It's a very small spider! The first time I saw a spider with such colour...fun! :D

Mother's Day cake

It's a trend to have cakes on Mother's Day in Taiwan. Therefore my family also ordered a cake--chocolate pudding with lots of fresh butter! :D~ And you guys can see there's a flower, which is carnation, on the top of the cake. We also took some other pictures, but my sis threatened us that we must not post them on our websites. Why? Since her hair wasn't set up well. LOL~

Allergy or flu?

Long time no blog? :P Well I found it's hard to live without tissues these days. Previously I thought it's my allergy...got a runny nose for a couple of days. Students heard my 'urm sorry if I stop to wipe my nose later in class' from time to time. It lasted for a week or longer...weird. Then I found my throat hurt -_- hm... A friend on MSN said all his family, including himself, got flu. Thus I wondered maybe I got not only allergy but flu! Usually it's fast for me to recover from allergy, atmost 1 or 2 days. Of course I still insist that I don't see a doc, neither do I take any medicine. *chuckles* yeah yeah won't complain when others tell me off for that. :P I'm afraid of the smell of medicine! The only 'medicine' I can accept and I would take is chinese herbs, but very limited kinds...I mean not heaty ones. Otherwise, something like 'dang gui' ( very heaty ) will make my voice disappear for a while. And you know I pretty much rely on my voice in this field... :P

As for my entertainment, watching more TV is a good way to kill time recently, especially after I got a flatscreen TV. :D oh the colour is so bright and beautiful...comparing to that old TV set. The only flaw is I can't watch anime I d/l on there since they are all avi. you know. My boy student Jacky knows how to transfer avi. to VCD, but I dare not ask him to teach me...( don't wanna go to jail LOL~ ) However my NB can do a good job, and my pc has only 10 GB left!!! Awww is it the time to get a bigger HD now? *sighs* :P This pc was bought in Jan 2004. Oh another old pc came in 2000...and it's still in the living room--how come there? :D hehe we got a TV box for it and then the second TV appeared!! That's why life is still very busy altho I have no bf. *coughs* ( ain't complaining ok :P ) Anime for these days, Air is real boring so far...Honey & Clover is more interesting ( and more cute young guys in there :P woo. )

Today is Sat...tomorrow is Mother's Day. I'll go out later to look around and go shopping maybe in a night market. I prepared flowers for my mom already...no other gift for I gave her a red envelope with 6000 NT in it last week to wish her happy birthday and happy mother's day. hehehe :P And I wish all the homeroom teachers, who take care of students at school just like mothers to their kids, a happy mother's day too!! :D

We lost the game

Awww we did our best (?) and were pulled over by another class. Thus the game's over. Seeing my dear students felt down...I...urm...I didn't feel too bad tho. :P Since a parent gave me 500 NT and said she would like me to get some soft drink for kids, I then got apple juice for my class. They soon got better and started kidding again--good to look forward and think bright, just like their homeroom teacher. LOL~

This afternoon I had to take over a PE teacher's duty. So it's time to stay on the court and run after my students...NOT. :P I don't get the habit to 'chase' you know. *smiles* But fun to bring my digi cam and take pics while some of them were playing basketball, others were resting under the trees. Yeah it's quite relaxing and comfortable for all of us. :D

One contest Done

So it's time to perform on the stage, my dear teen-aged students,
facing the three judges and playing the flute. I could hear your hearts
beating hard because of nervousness... :P and some of you still tried
to keep smiling on there! *sobs...me so proud of you all!* :P Being a
homeroom teacher, I certainly remembered to bring my digi cam and took
pics and even recorded the second song they did. Well, I must say it's
their best performance since they practiced these 2 songs a month ago!
:D

Then we went back to our classroom and enjoy our 'Movie Club' time.
Belphegor-Le Fantome Du Louvre was not too bad, altho not scary enough.
Sorry to say so, you know...we Taiwanese has more than enough scary
topics in our TV shows or movies. That's why all the students sat there
watching and having pearl milk tea, which costs 10 NT each, my treat...
:P without a single screaming in the classroom. Now then you know we
have been 'pampered' in some way. *winks*

If it's fine tomorrow, we'll have the Ba He contest with another class
on the court. Hmm...what drink shall we get this time. :D

Minus 3

So I did feel excited bout my new toys--the TV and DVD burner, and certainly it's a must to try its function! The thing is I have to do a 'minus 3' while doing the recording. For example, if I wanna record the program on channel 33, I will set it on 30 otherwise the program recorded won't be what I want. :P The kind-hearted sales person didn't set my machine well enough I guess...but, I shouldn't call to bother him again I guess. :P Way too troublesome for him to come over! :D I think I have do rely on myself now and try to manipulate them!

As for anime...getting Prince of Tennis, and have fun burning them on the cheapest CDs I ever got--50 pcs for 159 NT. *thankful tears falling* :P I hope the quality can be good enough tho--can still watch them 10 years later, I pray... LOL~ :P Another anime I watched recently is Air. Well I don't think it's interesting like what the forum said, so far. Pretty dull...and only one guy surrounded by other females, from old to young. *sighs* no idea what the main idea is. Maybe I'll get a clear pic later on tho. Let's wait and see.

A very expensive Sat

Ho I guess I was crazy again! Today's fine and I couldn't help going
out to have lunch and look around at a shopping centre. Then...did a
big purchase! A flatscreen TV and a DVD recorder... *sighs* :) Well
what can I say? LCD TVs now still cost a bomb--a 36" looks good but the
price doesn't worth it. Maybe a couple of years later when the price
gets reasonable...I will get one. We used to record TV programs with
our VHS machine--it's more than 20000 NT 10 years ago! Yeah you can say
it was the highest model that time ( and brand name it is--Panasonic!)
But nowadays it's the trend to use DVD RW; thus I bore the pain in my
heart caused by thinking of the flying away money and ordered what I
would like. :D The best was that salesperson was real good. He came
over to teach me how to use them step by step, and even asked me to
operate the procedures in case I didn't understand. *shedding some
thankful tears* Finally I learned and then I asked him how much I
should pay him. He didn't want a penny from me. Oh dear Lord...bless
this kind-hearted young man please! :D He will surely be a great sales
person and hope he can make a tremendous fortune!! ^_^

Ba He (a tug of war)

Like what I mentioned earlier...this is the competition season. :P We
had this kind of sport (?) *wondering if it can be described as a sport
tho...* called 'ba he'. Two groups of students go pull a long thick
cord made of flax and see which end are weak and then get pulled over.
Usually their weight counts, of course. I took a look at my dear
students, who are in grade 8 and some of them still look like
elementary school students...*sighs* I decided to buy them soy milk
after they finished the game. Therefore, I was standing there, using my
digi cam to record their strugging and shouting meanwhile, 'jai you!
Lower your body! Stay backwards! Pull! Pull!' ( like a crazy woman but
lucky nobody was shooting me LOL~ )

Urm...ended up we won the game. -_- *sighs* How come? The Lord must
think 'hmm this homeroom teacher's so nice that we can't let her class
lose!' But...dear Lord I don't really wanna shout like mad on the court
again! *sobs...me and my elegant image's ruined* :P

Snoopy Case

My 2 lovely ex-students. So glad to know they are doing great in the senior high school now. And they are very 'ke4 qi4' to bring me a gift... I will cherish it! :D

Lovely visitors

Got Daniel's phone call this early morning, said he's to pay me a visit with Pony, who is one of my favorite gal students and now his schoolmate. They were classmates and graduated from this school. I was happy to meet them! ( I don't really wanna see most of my students again once they are gone you know. :P But I don't mind meeting those who are so cute! )

So we were all in my office, having milk tea and some snack I prepared earlier. Daniel is now the president of students committee at their school, and Pony quitted the Guitar Club and joins the Dactylology Club. @_@ I asked her how come...thought she's interested in playing the guitar. She didn't feel comfortable there she said...and couldn't really get along. Okay...maybe it's fun to learn some sign language too. Daniel told me bout his 'love story', which happened a few years ago. ( woo~ so young! ) He said they had the same interest--drawing pictures, and they often stayed together doing some painting or such for school. He thought the gal's nice, but the only problem was that gal was a few years older. awww :P That's why he didn't think they were good match. ( LOL~ No wonder he's my good student...the same thought! ) Pony was surprised to listen to his story and went, 'Hey you didn't tell me about this before!' :P Ohh~

And they gave me lovely present--some candy and cookies in an Iron box with Snoopy on the case. :P I took a pic and maybe will upload here later on. Nice to see you, my sweet students! :D

School of Rock

Ahh...this week is supposed to be another peaceful and pleasant week
for me, and things just turned so unexpectedly...fun...NOT. I got
allergy yesterday morning, and all of a sudden I couldn't stop
sneezing, and felt very tired. Some gal students came to my office to
have a talk around 11 a.m. and went, 'whoa! Teacher you cried? Ain't
you ok earlier at the first class??' I swear I really didn't wanna make
students worried bout me. :P hahaha and like what I used to say, I soon
got well after drinking more water and sleeping enough. :D

By the way it's the contest season for us. We need to perform on the
stage playing the flute, all the classes in grade 8. So that's why I
have to use some spare time in class to make them practice more! Well I
ain't someone who's crave for the championship, but hope my students
won't fall off from the stage and are able to play the 2 songs well. In
a word, don't they lose face will do. *grins* Too bad I can't play with
them on there, so my responsibility will be take some photos for those
lovely boys and gals. :P

This time we had School of Rock for our Movie Club on Wed afternoon. I
remember I watched it on the plane last winter break when I was coming
back to Taiwan. But the dub was German with Chinese sub, quite weird I
know. And today we had English dub and Chinese sub--much better for me,
and students too. LOL~ It's a funny one and Wendy told me she likes
this kind of topic. No wonder, you know...she plays the piano too.

I started to watch the anime Air, and done ep. 1 this evening. Guess
they are ripped off DVDs? The quality's very good, but the only flaw is
dub and sub couldn't match well. Some I watched before had this problem
also. Hmm maybe it's my machine or what? I don't know...and the OP ED
songs for Yakitate Japan changed on ep. 13--both are nice! I listened
to Soul'd Out-Flyte Time and found I pretty much enjoy such music, fun
and relaxing. :D

Not a tiring week but still tired

It's Tomb Sweeping Day this Tue, a national holiday, no work no school.
Then We had a quite relaxing Wed--I keyed in students' marks they got
from the first periodical test in the morning, and watched Taxi 2 for
our Movie Club. My boy student Jerry brought a digi cam and took some
photos of classmates and teachers. His is a brand name stuff, Sony,
which is better than my Texon. ( I know I know...I never heard that
brand before either. ) So the photos taken look sharp--Jerry looked
happy and proud after I told him so. :P I should go get a better digi
cam too, but *sighs* now I gotta save up money for my trip to Japan
this summer break. It'll cost a bomb since ppl who have been there
informed me stuff in Tokyo are real expensive. My $...is to fly away!
*sobs* :P

On Thur a gal student was to leave for another school to study. Daisy
is very nice and she gave me a hand in class for the past 6 months. I
pretty much relied on her and of course it's sad to see her leave.
Therefore I prepared a little gift, a bracelet made of pink crystal,
which means good luck in 'tao hua'. But since she's still a junior high
student, I'd say it can bring her good luck in making good friends in
her new class. ( And it's written in the card I wrote to her. :D ) Her
eyes were full of tears when she came up to me...so were my eyes. Wish
you all the best for your brand new school life, Daisy. :)

Fri we had our grade 9 students take photos for their year book. They
are going to graduate from this junior high school. That's why I was
there on campus sitting with this class and their homeroom teacher and
other subject teachers. The photographer 'complained' our faces were so
'stiffed' and our smiles looked very unnatural. LOL~ Hearing that we
all laughed and then it started going well. It will bring back the
happy memories when students grow old and one day they open up the year
book...'wow we looked so young and pure (?) that time! erm no idea if
this evil teacher ( they used to address me so, but they're so wrong
you know I am such an innocent person :D ) is still alive...' Ain't it
fun! :P

A day off

Today's a national holiday so we have no school. I have got 3 packages
of potato chips since the concert ended...like what I planned earlier.
LOL~ no need to avoid eating heaty snacks anymore! I never worry about
keeping fit you know maybe for my being a vegatarian ( not a good
reason but, I don't mind. :D )

What else did I enjoy except munching chips...let me think. I finished
reading the novel 'The Da Vinci Code' by an American writer Dan Brown,
quite a big volumn. A Chinese teacher, who is also a colleague sitting
next to me, lent this book to me, 'hey you might be interested in this
story.' And yes it's fabulous and I did get attracted to the mysterious
plots and felt impressed by the numberous witty lines inside. ( I am
not to recite any from this book tho. *winks* )

Moreover, I watched some anime...and got :O oh my the female president
I mentioned on my last blog is a, *stunned* les. Well it's ok, just
didn't expect that previously. :P ( and what can I expect from an
anime? some entertainment that is. :D ) I wander what will happen in
the end--maybe Mai will marry the Reito Lord and become the Queen of
Darkness. LOL~ ( way too impossible I know. :P ) *yawning* I feel
sleepy during day time...

Rainy...Relaxing...it's Sat

*Yawns* didn't do much today. Why? Because it's Sat! But I should have
had more fun if it was not raining. *sobs* Lucky I am always the one
who keep thinking bright... 'no going out' = 'no wasting money' :D
That's why I stayed home most of the day. Beside mopping the floor, I
also watched some anime--Teacher's Time ep 9, My-Hime ep 21. The former is funny for it's quite opposite the situation is for me and my students. :P ( well come to think of my height that is. ) The latter one is interesting also...the president of students' committee is a Hime too! :O She's my favorite character in this anime, you know, smart, gentle, strong-minded...and able to make good tea. hehehe :P Finally I went out for a misosilu hot pot at dinner time, yummy~ woo :D

The concert & April Fools Day

Finally it's time to stand on the stage...light's very bright and I could even feel the heat ( what kind of lights they are I wonder...definitely unlike the lights we use at home. ) In fact I was not satisfied with my performace on the second song...but the others were fine. hehe The best is I could enjoy other musicans' performance...really enjoyed listening to the nocturnes of Chopin. But too bad he didn't play my favorite part of it. The music 'Peopel always pursue the rainbow' impressed me a lot. Yeah...I would never stop pursuing the most beautiful rainbow all of my life. After the concert we were about to leave, and happened to meet the prof in Music Department who played the cello. She told us her cello was more than 200 yrs old. Woo~ I felt very lucky that I got the chance to see such an antique musical instrument last night.

Then it's the April Fools Day. Guess there is this line printed on my face 'I'm so easy to get tricked' and they had a good laugh in class. So far I was fooled for 3 times. ( School hasn't ended for today while I am typing this blog. ) In the morning I went to class 803 and saw a boy student writing something about Math on the blackboard. The class leader asked me 'Why are you here? Our first class is Math.' I was really getting ... :O for a short while. That I forgot about my schedule and went to a wrong class happened before. So...err of course I finally entered the classroom and did my job. Then the second class was 804, where I am the homeroom teacher and they didn't seem interested in tricking me. But in the middle of the class, my cell phone rang. Sure I answered it and to my surprise it was from the Grade Coordinator. He went, 'Hurry to the class 803. You should be there teaching now.' I went really... @_@ what the. The second class today IS 804! So I told him, 'No, I am teaching 804. There must be something wrong.' Back to class I told my students that I thought today is really full of tricks! Fortunately I had a break...and nothing 'exciting' happened until 2 boy students came to my office and reported, 'Teacher, Sean and Joe are fighting in the classroom now!' Oh no...the 2 fought over something trifle only last week and got told off by me. Again! I went out of the office, proceeding to the classroom...and found the 2 boys were laughing hard behind me. -_- Erm... still got a couple of hours left for April 1st. *sobs in a dark corner* poor me... :P