Saturday, December 31, 2005

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!!

Friday, December 30, 2005

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!!

Thursday, December 22, 2005

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.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

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!

Saturday, December 17, 2005

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.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

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*

Friday, December 09, 2005

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!

Friday, December 02, 2005

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.