Merry Christmas!

hehe it was taken at my school with my colleagues. The American teacher asked students English questions, and I would give the students gifts. We all had a wonderful time.

An interesting statue... 

In the cinema.  

Went to a movie today. 

A notice for the coming Monday

I pretty much like the weather in autumn—cool and pleasant. Hehe it means I need more sleep…or I do sleep more these days…whatever. And some colleagues asked me ( more likely they were complaining to me ) how come they had to take over my duty the coming Monday. Erm...as a matter of fact I didn’t know I was to leave school for a meeting in another school in Taipei with our school master until I went back to my office and found the paper on my desk. The notice said the meeting is held for all the principals and the heads of English teachers in elementary schools and junior high schools, and of course the purpose is to discuss how to improve students’ English abilities. Hmm the school master will drive me there so I don’t need to worry about the parking. Anyway I’ve decided to dress myself as beautifully as I can—maybe can meet some nice single males at the meeting. Who knows? *coughs* Ok ok I will pay attention to what the professor says too—to improve our students’ English. *grins*

First buffet with ETs

Been busy since my boss from Teaching Department asked me to be the head of all English teachers at my school. *chuckles* Well I don’t really mind working hard, but hope my colleagues can cooperate. Sure nothing is perfect in this world—some people just don’t wanna be good. What makes it worse is they wouldn’t even ask me in order to figure out. That’s why I understand human nature better…hehe the higher your position becomes, the greater hatred your opponents obtain. However, I still work for all of them, and today, I had a welcome party at a vegetarian restaurant. Our school master and my boss were present. There are 3 new ETs in my school, including P, who I mentioned before on my blog. She looked cheerful and happily greeted me while in the restaurant…good girl. I wouldn’t like to see her get hurt again by contact her ex or anyone from her ex’s family. They were never meant to be…from the very beginning. How come worry about a relationship that doesn’t work out? Find another guy!

Talking about relationships, another friend of mine has a big problem recently. Erm…maybe not a ‘big’ one, I don’t know. Maybe you can leave me a message and tell me if it is a serious one. The girl M has been seeing a guy for several months—he was attracted to her and started the courtship. He is not rich, but is good to M in many ways, in the beginning. Of course you have to spend some money while dating a girl. Gradually he mentioned he doesn’t make a lot of money, and suggested M they should split the bill when they went out. Even worse, he said he would give M a hand since there’s something wrong with her pc. You might say, hey ain’t it great. But he told M to shout him at least 10 meals when they are together. =_= Hmm… after I heard this, I truly had no idea what went wrong nowadays. Men are all like this now? I thought they are willing to treat girls while dating. Don’t they wanna make a good impression? Or they stop being generous after they know their girls have fallen deeply enough?

Thus, I guess I am not in a hurry to settle down with a man at all. M’s been nice to her man—she did spend ( I don’t know how much already ) money on him. That guy never introduced her to his friends, so their relationship is still “safe”—no need to tell others or explain about anything if they break up. Being a friend, I think I can only act like just what I did for P. Ahh…I don’t mind shouting P or M when they need friendship! *smiles*

Wish P good luck

Today is the second day of this new semester…school started yesterday. We had some new English teachers here—as a matter of fact they are substitute teachers, who are like casuals in other companies. And one on practical training, whose nick is P. She will have to follow an experienced formal teacher ( not me, but another colleague of mine) and learn how to teach students and make them behave. Since we worked together for the English summer camp during this summer break, she’s taken me as an older sister ( or another mom maybe…urm I think too much hahaha. )

P left me a message on my desk this morning, telling me she gotta talk with me. Later on she came and said she had a big problem and was afraid she would cry while talking about it. I didn’t think it was a good idea to talk in my office then—many teachers were around. So we left for another quiet place at school, and I listened to her story. Pretty soon she cried like a baby…I didn’t exaggerate…*sighs* She did feel very bad because the guy she’s seen for around 1 year told her a few days ago he would break up with her after he got fired. He’s been working in a café as a waiter since he graduated from a univ. Well…must say it is not a new story. Many couples break up in this world every day. Therefore, it is still heartbreaking because it is her first love.

What could I do? Just be a good listener, and advised her not to meet that guy again. She previously wanna do so—to get her book back and tell the guy how sad and uncomfortable she feels. I said NO. Don’t need to tear the heart once again this way. A book doesn’t cost much. Don’t send sms. Don’t call him! The only thing P needs to do is forget about the guy who doesn’t want her any longer and move on as fast as she can. Yes…and find a guy who is into her first, wanna build a relationship up, and chase her. It is fated to break up once the guy feels the girl loves him too much, never a challenge for him. I enjoy being chased by guys…and really it is stupid to “choke” the man I want with too much loving care right? *grins*

P has to realize this—her b/f, soon her ex I must say… has been giving her hints that he doesn’t really love her during the “courtship”. Easy to tell, but she loves him too much to see it through. So sorry for her. We females gotta remember: Never chase guys. Fall in love with those who love us more and we are really crazy about. P is a nice girl…and she is lucky to have such a good “big sister” like me—I don't wanna be another mom of hers... Do hope she can be fine asap after crying for that guy. Think bright, move on, and finally get a wonderful Mr. Right!

Where the king worked

A better shot of the old palace. The local tour guide told us the hill behind has the best 'fengshui' ! Hope you guys who see this pic can have good luck as well.

In the old palace

Resting by the lake. It is in the old palace, and you can tell some building is under construction.

Tasty stuff

OK...my favorite topic. It is traditional Korean food--fried rice on the left and some BBQ ( vegetables and niangao though since I am a vegetarian...) They always have spicy paocai on the table, but I didn't get any.

Korean House Villiage

Many traditional Korean houses. They look like ancient Chinese ones don't they.

Do you know them

They said the characters are famous. And the local tour guide told us many Japanese obasans stood on the stone to be near the man...posing like they were to kiss the guy in that big poster...Ahh no I would not. ( I don't think korean guys are better...)

Let's kick

Where I was? The place where the world cup took place in 2002. Soccer of course. The area I stood is expensive--500 USD for each seat...

We need freedom

Took a trip to Korea, and I was on the Bridge of Freedom, where you can see bunches of flags behind me. It is near the northern Korea...hehehe.

香港滿記甜品

Before I flew back to Taipei, I stayed in HK for one night. Of course for the food and snack there! See the sweet soup in this picture...ain't it beautiful. Real great to have one in such a summer day!

At Lechang

I was in my dad's hometown, right in front of the train station. My dad's flat and store are in the neighborhood. A small town it is...but luckily the hotel I stayed got internet service!

Shopping in Shaoguan

Shaoguan is a big city in Guangdong, where you can see many stores and I do think it is just like Taipei.The only difference is prices there are surely lower--a cup of pearl milk tea only costs 1 RMB, you know.

In front of the old stage

Overseas Chinese Town:

Located in the western part of the special economic zone, Overseas Chinese Town embraces the theme parks of Splendid China, the China Folk Culture Villages, Window of the World and Happy Valley. The parks feature a wide variety of replicas of natural scenery and historical architecture, reflecting the essence of traditional Chinese and international culture. The area serves as a model for the city in urban planning, construction and horticulture.

Yummy

At a restaurant in Shenjun. Sure it is in China, near HK you know. Dishes there are nice and cheap. The dish in this pic is vegetarian.

Met my good old friend

Went meet a friend from the states yesterday. She is my
old friend...we knew each other back to our high school
days. She married an American man, who's tall and
strong, looks like he can protect her well. *smiles* I
am happy for her. So my friend came back to visit her
family here and would stay for 2 months. One more
important mission for her is she has to go to Taichung
to learn 'qi gong' and get some therapy because she
would like to bear children. Hmm her body's not strong
enough yet...anyway, wish her good luck!

I took her to a vegetarian restaurant, hehe of course my
treat. And she was real surprised to see the buffet
there--never seen one in the states before. *chuckles*
Americans enjoy having big steaks ain't them. That's why
I always say NO when friends suggest me to find a
western guy. Veggie food in Taiwan is not only popular
but delicious. Not expensive as well. To be concluded, I
would get a Taiwanese b/f here. *girns*

Soup and dishes. 

The veggie buffet. 

Cherry is back! 

Paid 5200NT for Justy

看完三集超心裡能力者，覺得這漫畫主題沒什麼新意，一些有超
能力者專辦警察解決不了的超自然案件。不過呢，畫風走美少年
路線...等一下，我喜歡的是成熟男人，所以我不要說"很好看"
，說"還不錯"好了，啊，頹廢的日子好愉快啊...

今天送愛車Justy去保養了，驗車的季節來臨，花錢是免不了滴
，有時想乾脆不要開算了，但是，颳風下大雨時，又覺得有輛小
車車代步真幸福。不過啊，我這樣還比不過我妹，她不學開車的
，每次有人問她時她就說：我好命啊，總是有人載我！想想也是
，搭Taxi就不必定期加油修理什麼的，更不需煩惱停車問題，嗯
...哈哈，我大概還是會自己開車啦！

Thanks coach!

真的成功了，雖然換氣換的相當辛苦，手腳仍然不太配合，姿勢
時好時壞...但是，終於可以從這一端游到那一端了！教練啊您
一定感到十分欣慰吧！呵呵，的確是個受教的好學生...

因為放暑假了，我目前都沒課，不過在暑期輔導前，好像也閒不
下來，每次都是在放假期間，朋友就會找上門來，吃啊喝啊聊八
卦，英文這叫 catch up，把一段日子裡各自發生的故事說一說
，哈哈，他們啊，最關心還不是本小姐的感情生活嘛！我每次也
都一樣：不急，不急啦！

2 happy events

今天有值得高興的兩件事！
1.去光華商場把外接盒修好了。其實呢，是幾天前買了一個新的
硬碟，然後花了470元買個ZYNET的外接盒，當然本小姐不會組裝
，只好麻煩店裡的小弟，我是說工程師啦，幫我組合好，開開心
心地帶回家備份資料啦！只是有個小問題，怎麼常常讀不到？原
來裡面有個地方，拍謝我忘了那叫什麼，居然斷掉了！唉才新買
的，幸好另一位工程師修好了，他說換了個新的頭給我，回來試
試終於可正常讀取囉。也多謝又陪我去還請我吃MOS的朋友！

2.下午沒課，和全世界最好的游泳教練去練習蛙式，基本上我是
從小對水就有恐懼感的人啊！開始學游泳是我高中時，我們的女
中規定，沒游過學校裡的泳池25公尺不及格，畢業前一定要游過
，口烏...而且要游自由式，就可以想像本小姐的痛苦了。我那
偉大的教練連哄帶騙，拉著就快要在池中哭出來的我一趟又一趟
的練習，終於，雖然達不到教練說的：中途不要停！一路游到那
一端！至少也三分之二了，呵呵...在英明睿智的教練領導下，
今年夏天我一定會成功滴！

Want someone gorgeous

Hotter and hotter these days...gotta turn AC on in the
early morning otherwise I can't even start working. Ahh
I don't complain anymore since I can enjoy cool air in
the office. Going to move to another office--this time I
will stay on the 3rd floor for 1 year. Well...maybe
easier to keep fit, you know. When my office is on the
fifth floor, I just take the lift. *sighs* No wonder
it's harder to keep fit.

As for my work, I am going to hold an English camp for
my school. The most interesting is we are to ask some
American teacher to take over--let students enjoy the
'western look'. I told the clerk who is responsible for
this case, 'please find us a gorgeous guy!' *winks*
Looking forward to meeting our American teacher...

What a busy day!

Three events for today...quite a busy Monday I must say.

1. Some teacher ( Mr. Lee ) put a sticky board under my
desk in the office, and I was real stunned to find a
mouse on it this morning! Luckily my colleague, another
teacher ( Mr. Huang ) was in the office too. I didn't
scream but ran away ( ok in fact I didn't run but
walked. ) He was nice to help...move the dying little
creature away.

2. Went for a meeting this afternoon with my little boss
( Big boss was too busy to go. ) They would like us to
have an English camp. On the way to our school, I
suddenly saw a friend of mine taking the escalator at
one MRT station. Hah I left my little boss alone, took
off, and called the friend loudly while I was taking the
same escalator. So fun to see the facial expression of
my friend's! We talked happily for a while and waved
goodbye at Taipei Main Station.

3. IRCed with a friend from an American server. He just
broke up with his g/f and felt bad. Of course I
comforted him for a while and encourage him to move on.
He joked how come I didn't want to accept him and move
to the states. *chuckles* I really don't think it's a
good idea to find my true love in this cyber world.
Guess the best way is to find it IRL. *winks* My
American friend agreed with me, but he still asked me
not to rule him out. I wouldn't, since he has beautiful
blue eyes.

鹿港辜家舊宅

This big house is owned by a very rich and famous family
in Taiwan. I was in the garden. In back of me was a
small pond--I think it's about 'feng shui' ( wind and
water ) and then they can get more and more fortune.

In Lugang

Took a trip with colleagues to Zhanghua for 3 days. No
classes now, so I got some free time to have fun. The
city we visited is Lugang, which is well-known for
temples. The photo was taken at one, where people came
to pray for wealth. There are big ancient Chinese coins
on the little 'hill'. And the statue beside my feet is
kids pull a cart. The cargo? Of course money. hehe I
know we all wanna be rich!

Wider, my eyes!

Real tired...yeah my students in the 9th grade graduated already. No classes for me to teach now. How come I am this tired? Hehe of course I still have other work to do, like the lesson plans for next semester, and persuade my boss to let new students use another English magazine--to help them improve their listening comprehension.

In addition to my work at school, I went swimming this afternoon after a very boring meeting. Heh I cannot swim well, but it doesn't matter. I still had lots of fun playing in the water. The best part was, you know, when I finished shower and shampoo, sat comfortably in a chair outside the bathroom, and used a hair drier to dry my wet hair, some nice person reminded me that the hair drier was there to dry people feet... @_@ good. How come I didn't see the notice there!

Famous people!

I took a trip to Zhanghua and played in the sea happily. Happened to meet another English teacher, the well-known Tony Chen, and a TV star Tang Lin. See how cheerful we were!

Not I wanna stay up

難得啊...現在是3點，清晨三點喔！我居然沒在睡覺，還一邊聊天一邊BLOG，真閒不是嗎？呵呵沒關係！明天不用上班，本小姐不怕啦！假如是平時那就完了，睡不好只有帶著熊貓眼去上課，眼影還得畫成煙燻妝...LOL~

其實真正的原因是肚子餓了，當然這種時候沒人理我，最好也不要有人理我啦，免得被嚇到，被招待吃了豐盛的大餐，然後早上醒來嘴巴裡全都是泥土這種...只好放棄出門吃東西的念頭，乖乖去找冰箱的蘇打餅。雨下的又多又大，明天我還要送修手機，唉...看來又只好照我媽說的原則，雨天要穿裙子出門比較方便。

肚子塞了餅乾，血糖升高一點，總算有點睡意了...

Hunter x Hunter 23

跑來跑去的一天...已經開始做 leader 的工作啦！先搞定下週
的英語科聚餐。然後呢，忙學生學測成績單報名，一天就快快
樂樂的過去了。還有一件很讚的事，學生借我看獵人23集，呵
呵，裡面有個角色奇犽真是厲害，我很喜歡他的機智敏捷，不
過我覺得自己的個性比較像小傑...哈，希望明天也是這麼開心
的一天！

To be the leader of ETs

My boss from the Teaching Department at my school asked to see me yesterday morning. Of course my break time, and no, not that there would be any affair going to happen. My boss is a woman too, pretty smart, with great capabilities. I was wondering what she would like to meet me though...as I answered her call in my office. Anyway gotta proceeded to her office and then we had a 'big' talk. Her intention was to make me the leader of the ETs here. =_=" Ahh. We just had a meeting last Mon afternoon and voted. My boss told me the teacher, Ms. Chang, who we voted to be our leader, had met her a few times, crying and begging her to find another teacher to take over the position. Thus my boss accepted her request and she thought I was the right one...

Mr. Battery-II

不會吧！這太誇張了...將筆電電池拿去鼎鼎有名的 Mr. Battery，才知道不管能不能修，嘿嘿，都要先收300元檢測費！這是什麼道理啊...當然我這個柔弱的小女子別無選擇，乖乖交出三張百元大鈔，唉，我去買化妝品時都給它先試一試，檢測看看顏色合不合再決定是否購買，人家也不用花半毛錢... *泣...*請不要告訴我是因為我忘了和櫃臺的"ㄙㄞ ㄋㄞ"拋媚眼，而你們通通都省下這300元的檢測費了啊！~>_<~

Mr. Battery

看起來天氣不錯！等下和朋友出去逛街吃飯，呵呵，還要
拿筆電的電池去修理，不知道修電池要花多少錢...唉，電
腦這種東西真是無底洞，想想，我們女人買衣服鞋子，買
了就這筆錢，不會又要升級，又要加裝什麼配備，別說是
壞了得花錢修理...所以男人雖不血拼首飾化妝品，不見得
比我們女人少花費呢是吧！

Finished the Hospital

Finished reading the novel. I wondered if I have
read it before...since I could 'predict' what
would happened after Dr. Su met the social manager
Judy. *chuckles* Really interesting the story is.

Friday, a rainy day. My little car is wet again
because of the leaking problem. A few days ago
there was a small pond under my seat. Gotta use an
old bath towel to soak the water. Some friend
suggested I should go purchase a 'new' car, which
is second-hand as well but still in a good
condition. Hmm...I still don't think I would spend
money buying one though.

Gotta sleep more

eah! Another month. I feel a bit better today.
Didn't do anything fun yesterday since I fell
sick...*sighs* Too bad, the weather was fine on
Dragon's Festival! There were some contests but I
was too weak to go watch them. Spent most of the
time lying on the bed, and weird enough, you know,
I still had the strong feeling of hunger! I think
many patients wouldn't feel hungry while they were
in bed sleeping all day long. *shrugs* Maybe it
depends. Maybe my body would like more nutrition.

I started to read the novel "The Hospital" written
by Hou Wenyong. Hehe our president's son-in-law is
a doctor, and some people said the events happened
these days are just like those described in this
novel. Worth reading ain't it.

Traditional food

We Chinese would have rice dumplings on Drogon Boat Festival.

A lesson to learn

Happened to meet the principal...and I regret that
I turned down the offer--our principal would give
me a vegetarian rice dumpling. *sighs* I was so
immature! Really should have accepted it happily,
and then I could give one made by my mom to return
the favor. =_= I must remember this lesson.

By the way I gotta say these days we teachers and
students have the most relaxing school time since
the first CBT is over. In class we read novels and
comic books; one boy student even brought a COMPAQ
notebook! I went over to take a look...too bad not
able to come online in the classroom. A good friend
of mine lent me some books written by Hou Wenyong-
-in case I feel too bored at school. *chuckles*
Pretty grateful I am...and I wish the friend good
luck--good health, good fortune as well!

My breakfast!

I had a bao zi and a rice dumpling for breakfast...yummy! :D

Being worried

學生考完第一次基測囉！現在我們上課就大多在自習，也
鼓勵大家帶課外書來打發"晨光悅讀"的時間，打牌下棋則
不許可，真遺憾。不過校長主任有他們的考量，我們當導
師也就配合著囉，以免巡堂被抓有麻煩。

昨天在考場和家長聊天，談到台灣許多工廠都移出去，孩
子未來就業搞不好都要去中國大陸，深感無奈。這家長是
做冷氣的，假如去大陸應該生意也不賴，小孩高職就念個
相關的科系，自動控制什麼的啊，以後當老闆賣冷氣給我
記得算便宜些...哈開玩笑的。

這幾天新聞多是陳家和趙家如何運用權勢關係，而達成迅
速致富的境界，相信全台灣人民各有感嘆。我自己身在教
育界，對於這些貪吃到不知稍微遮掩，明目張膽的行徑，
我好憂心台灣下一代的未來。第一線教書的人，更該振作
精神...*自我鼓勵中*

Good to change her mind

Previously my mom wouldn't agree to make us rice
dumplings. "It is very troublesome! If you guys
wanna have rice dumplings, you just go get some at
the stalls!!" OK...we dared not say anything
against my mom, our queen at home, who can twist a
roach's head off by hand. She said it is dirty to
smash a roach with our slipper or some book. Easier
when hygiene is concerned. Sure, sure...We want our
heads of course.

However, I am eating a pretty nice rice dumpling
made by my mom, hmm so tasty! What changed her
mind? I asked her. She said she would like to make
some for her good friend, so she 'shuen bian' made
some for the family. *sobs* It's so kind of her.
And we are lucky for my mom has a very good friend.
That's why I don't need to order any vegetarian
rice dumplings from the stalls; there are quite a
few in our fridge! Yeah! I hope you guys can have
some nice ones too by the Dragon Festival.

My notebook's broken!

上完第三節後我回到辦公室，看到桌上有一根螺絲釘，咦
我不是教工藝的嗎，怎麼會有這種零件，再仔細一看，唉
呦不得了啦，我的筆電左邊承軸，就是螢幕連著的地方破
掉了...*泣*明明上一節課還好好的在書桌上，才45分鐘
不見，發生了什麼事啊！我猜有人不小心把它摔壞了，也
許是學生在上課中來辦公室幫老師拿東西，然後...也不
敢向我承認啦，幸好還能用，目前拿來打字上網還OK。自
我安慰一下：也好啦，破掉的筆電更沒有人偷吧！*
泣...* >_<

Don't use it wrong

Our president's son-in-law has been into big
trouble which is related to the stock market. He
and his parents are all involved. Furthermore, our
president used a saying wrong--the phrase qing zhu
nan shu (罄竹難書) should be used for something
wrong, some negative events. But our minister of
the Education Department defended Mr. Chen by
saying we can use the above phrase in a postive
way. Of courst...NOT. Our Chinese teachers never
agree with that. Don't you think it's wiser to
admit that we made a mistake and then correct it.
I believe such people would be more popular and
respectable. That's why I am worried about the
future of our kids sometimes, you now, since they
watch what those stupid officers have said and
done then learn from them.

談完令人憂心的國家大事，就來說說近來發生的趣事。本
週末要學測囉！真是...我當年聯考時導師在哪裡啊，為
什麼現在學生考試全體國三導師要到？孩子的家長才需要
來陪考吧！怎麼推給老師呢真奇怪，坦白說我們去也幫不
上忙，什麼你說幫忙他們訂便當？誰敢啊！哈哈，萬一小
朋友肚子痛了影響考試成果導師賠不起好不好。有個男生
才寶咧，突然來問我老師妳有沒有油性筆，就是黑色奇異
筆啦，我問他你要幹嘛？他拿出一把小扇子說，老師妳幫
我簽名在這個扇子上面，學測時我要帶去搧。哇咧...加
持啊！

Mistakes

打開電視看新聞才知現在台東多一處熱門觀光景點啦！還
有趙家的小朋友童言童語，也堂堂出現在台開案的相關報
導中，大概台灣的口味真的太多樣了，什麼花邊都來。

這個週末豔陽高照，街上人來人往好多在逛，呵呵為什麼
我知道，大概是我也是在血拼中...*偷笑* 其實沒買什麼
啦，反而是在書店鬧了一個笑話：和朋友進了某家書城，
發現某出版社的書打折，比拿貴賓卡的折扣還多的多呢！
我想自己家附近不也有家KINGSTONG嗎！就問小姐：請問是
不是每家KINGSTONE都有這個打折的活動呢？小姐臉上三條
線：我們這裡又不是KINGSTONG...我也三條線...旁邊的朋
友希望不認識我吧...後來我說：喂這家書店真的很像
KINGSTONE對不對，朋友回我：哪裡像啊！唉 =_=

Get well

Hah there was another affair these days--a guy
whose name is Chang Kuei went dating a woman at a
motel in Banqiao. Photos were taken, and he told
the journalists he was there 'tan gong shi' (
talking about business. ) Finally we know motels
have an extra function hehehe. My students and I
all agree that the most pitiful character in such a
story is the wife. She always has to stand out and
announce she believes her husband NEVER had affairs
with other women. Poor wives.

This morning it was a bit rainy yet sunny as well.
Weird ain't it. As soon as I was in the office, 2
students of mine came tell me to see the rainbow.
Wow I was surprised! The rainbow looked so near and
huge! A pretty amazing scene...too bad I did not
have a good digi cam to take a pic of it.

Anyway today is Fri; I had a cold a few days ago,
and thanks God I get well soon. Hope my friend can
feel much better today too. By the way, I did sit-
ups before sleeping--10 this time.

Started to do sit-ups

體重是降了，朋友仍好心地提出雕塑身材的建議，唉我又
不當模特兒，幹嘛那麼美啊！教育界有需要雕塑身材嗎各
位！好吧就算為了健康，昨天晚上我仍是聽朋友的話，努
力做了，呵呵，6下，不簡單吧，6下仰臥起坐，然後腹肌
就好痛，沒辦法我真是四體不勤五穀不分的好女人呀！*嘆
*

珍珠颱風來囉，學生只關心能不能放假，*咳咳*事實上我
也好不到哪兒去，不過我更關心吃的夠不夠，這個吃全素
的最怕鬧飢荒，沒吃飽血糖一低就完了，輕者情緒低落，
重則...算了不提也罷，哈哈，反正和我熟的都見識過...

最近新聞就兩件比較吸引我的注意，方小姐的老公于先生
劈腿被抓，外遇說她還要做人，當然啊，于先生名氣也不
是小到大家不知道他有老婆，今天有勇氣招惹有婦之夫的
女人，就要承擔接下來的後果嗎！希望不是光外遇的那一
位要做人，通通都要好好做人啦！感情沒什麼對錯，我認
為，不喜歡了也就是不喜歡了沒錯，錯是在一方不坦然，
耽誤了原本的另一半。所以方小姐早點知道也好安排後半
的人生，不然等到七老八十了，要再尋覓春天可沒那麼多
機會啦！

還有台開案，哇那麼好，短短幾個月賺8百萬台幣...我的
朋友們和我都忍不住想，有內線才好玩股票，像我們這種
沒後台，沒人報明牌的，只好乖乖拿薪水吧，否則大多是
虧本滴。嗯，看來玩股票真是一門學問喔！

Being sick

今天仍然在"破病"中，反正我堅持不看醫生滴，多喝水多
休息就對了，也很感謝關心我的好朋友前來探病，其實很
快就會好。最近是壓力極大沒錯，學生下個週末就要學測
了，學校又要求國三導師趕快交一堆成績，品德啦評語等
等，所以可稱之為內憂外患的5月，然後天氣近來不穩定，
過敏發作的就更厲害了，啊...忍耐吧！

Exhausted

What an exhausting Monday...seems I had not been this
tired for a long time until today. Maybe it resulted
from my sickness? Got a sore throat yesterday;
shouldn't have eaten that iced durian bought by my
mom I guess. Anyway, I will be fine sooon as long as
I get enough water and rest. Hehe some friend used to
tell me to see a doc when I was ill. Thanks...but I
just don't wanna enter a hospital because of catching
a cold. Well I had better go hit my pillow earlier
tonight and hope everything will be fine asap.

A visit

And the weekend is fun too. Two of my ex-students
called me last night asking if they could come over
to my place to pay me a visit. Sure. Heh not all of
my students can see me like this, you know. Only
those who are good, cute, polite, and considerate.
Otherwise I would tell them I am too busy to meet
them--it's torturing if I still have to see
students who I don't really like after work right.
Anyway QQ ( a boy student ) and Pony ( a girl )
came; I shouted them milk tea and had a small talk
for about 2 hours, sharing with each other what we
do recently, what friends we have made since their
graduation in 2003, etc. Time flies...hehe. I told
them it's time to leave as I saw the time's past 10
p.m. Brilliant kids...welcome to my place next
time.

Call it an amusing week. On Thur afternoon I went to Keelung to have a nice buffet at Evergrren Laurel Hotel with colleagues. Of course it's a special occasion--a math teacher is going to retire this summer. Woo she can live on a nice pension in the future and enjoy herself...no need to yell at naughty teens anymore. How I envy her...but I am still too young, you know. This picture's taken at the lobby; the jar beside me costs around NT$100,000. 

Dead tired

太可怕了，今天...開了6個鐘頭3個會，我快累掛了，真的，寧願
去上6節課，也不要開這些會啊！*泣...*~>.<~

比較好玩的是有人送花來，夏天花比較不耐，我趕快加水把花插
起來。好辛苦的一天，看來我得早點去休息，明天還要和同事去
基隆呢！^_^

A day without my celly

Well I forgot to bring along my cell phone to work.
*chuckles* ended up there were 11 missed calls as I
checked it at home this early evening. It's a sign of my
poor memory, or just my carelessness, or...both? hahaha I
bet you'd say 'both'!

Still 19 days to go, you know, for students to take the
BCT. They are getting more nervous, I mean some of them;
the others are still relaxing--read comic books during
break time. Hmm when I was to take the entrance exam (
yeah ages ago ), I truly didn't have such free time for
comics books or novels...hehe thanks God no tests for me
anymore! I can read as much as I want! Watching anime and
movies is lots of fun too. I hope I can see Mission
Impossible III, and Da Vinci Code. The latter isn't on
yet in Taiwan. *crossing my fingers* :)

House of Nine Gragons

Went have dinner at Giu Long Ge, of course a vegetarian
restaurant, which means House of Nine Dragons. I've been
there once, ages ago, when some aussie friends came visit
Taipei. Ah I didn't keep in touch with them...no idea how
they are now. Maybe the item's got married. The dishes
are good, especially the soup tastes sweet. So I asked
the owner and she told me they made the soup in some
special way, adding vetetables and sugar cane to the soup
and keeping boiling for a couple of hours. Really...so
troublesome I think. That's why I never think I can be a
good cook. ( Neither do I think I can be a good
wife...Mom said the best way to get a man is through his
stomach or what. *sighs* )

Another funny thing happened the day before yesterday,
Fri evening after we got dinner. On our way home, I found
a roach on the road walking ( or running? not sure :P )
very fast. We passed it and it's very kind of me to warn
my friend, who's definitely afraid of roaches, that
there's a roach nearby. LOL and it did look like the
roach's following us...so you guys can imagine how panic
my friend was...and how naughty I was, 'hey "little
strong" come come here!' hahahaha

555

今天是5月5日星期五耶！學生提醒我的，呵呵忙到昏頭怎麼沒注意到，那買樂透要選5,15,25,35,45,再來個8好了，學生說老師妳這樣簽中了我請妳。我回，什麼那怎麼夠意思，中了頭獎我請全班！後來也沒買，哈我已經很久不買樂透，一張50元也不貴，可是我太懶了。

喔還有一件大事，孩子們拿到准考證囉！最近拿去拜拜的家長一定很多，其實人有時真需要一點好運呢！剛好題本考出來的就是有把握的多好啊！所以我告訴學生們，信主的就多祈禱，其他的就照家裡習慣的方式，希望全班都平安順利！

Bad luck >.<

最近是不是因為氣候不佳，不少同事或同事的小孩生病，食物中
毒住院的都出現了，前天還是大前天吧，眼皮跳個不停，真是，
看鏡子裡我自己的臉都好笑，左眼跳完跳右眼，右眼跳了再換到
左眼，拜託...怎麼不兩隻眼皮一起來跳嗎！結果應驗了有跳必有
事，還牽連到一位朋友，我真的真的運氣沒那麼背過！接二連三
的巧合，讓我們同感：上天是覺得我們不夠忙是吧？

終於啊我的眼皮不再跳了，這個月底孩子們也要參加人生的第一
次大考囉！我們這個年紀的叫聯考，現在嗎叫做基本學力測驗，
BCT--basic competence test. 換湯不換藥啦，國英數自然社會
，跟當年差不多，哈哈，我以前國中時最討厭讀的就是英文呢！
沒想到...好像開了一個大玩笑。總之當下最要緊滴就是穩定學生
的心情，讓他們平安度過這場大考，加油！

Not for teachers

In fact many workers didn't need to work today. But we
teachers did. Oh yeah so did our students. No idea why
the gov doesn't wanna let teachers rest...we still have
school on Teacher's Day, you know.

That's so unfair. But I ain't the woman who would keep
complaining about something I cannot change a bit. As for
my job, going well as usual. The second periodical test
is coming soon. And the manga I am into these days, up to
vol. 21! The weather's sunny and hot, so we all turned on
the air con and right now I am enjoying the coolness at
home. *a big smile*

A little bad luck

星期五太開心，星期六呢就出狀況要破財，唉我的臉都垮了，出
去時開始都笑不出來，朋友就用手把我的臉頰往上推，真
是...@_@ 嘿嘿多謝啦！其實我這種頭腦簡單的女人很好應付，只
要讓我吃一頓好的，血糖一高什麼都OK啦！(學生想考試少一點可
以用這招，哈哈，還好這裡沒有我的學生吧！)

今天和昨天一樣是個溫暖的晴天，應該不會下雨，反正等下還是
要和朋友出去走走吃飯，呵呵，台北好吃的素菜餐廳不少，感
恩...然後再繼續努力看獵人！

happy 3

Got 3 happy events for today. The first is I can use the
printer in my office now. hah I even talked with a friend
via skype this morning, trying to figure out what went
wrong. I even sent screen shots, but still couldn't work.
Finally I took his wise advice--proceeded to the Teaching
Apartment and reported this problem. A while later a guy
who taught science came over and made the setting for me.
Done. My friend is right; in fact it's very easy to set
the printer...but I am so bad at computers. *grins*

The second is I had a break this afternoon. Oh time to
get a new cell phone at the Chunghwa Telecom! Customers
just need to agree that they will use the # for another 2
years, and they can purchase a new cell phone there at a
lower price! Now I got a new OKWAP...yeah! Although some
friends told me OKWAP is NOT the best buy, I want it as
well.

The third is I went had a hot pot for dinner--ahh it's so
nice to have hot pots in a cold and rainy evening with
nice friends. After dinner I spent my beautiful Friday
evening reading manga Hunter x Hunter again. ep. 17 so
far...will read more this weekend. *smiles*

What's wrong with the printer

今天的大事呢就是辦公室的印表機不能用了，我按了好幾次列印
，只聽見機器呼呼的響，一張也沒印出來，真是。我用SKYPE問一
個電腦功力比我好一點的朋友，他建議我把連接電腦和印表機的
電線拔了再插上，重開機試試，我有點顧慮到資訊組來修理時，
同事到時說我有拔過電線，等下有責任麻煩，索性直接報修了。
還是很感謝那位朋友的幫忙，呵呵，我在講SKYPE時有位同事還問
別人，她到底在和誰說話啊！因為不是每個老師都會玩SKYPE啊
MSN之類的，看我對著電腦說話很恐怖吧！其實我也很少用SKYPE,
不過今天想看能不能自行解決這個問題，可惜電腦一直顯示連接
失敗。*泣*

另外一件大事呢，呵呵，是我看完了HUNTER x HUNTER第15集囉！
有個朋友說這故事蠻有趣滴，就借來看看吧！後來我才知道作者
也畫了幽遊白書，哈哈動畫真不錯。他的夫人則是鼎鼎有名，畫
SAILOR MOON的啦！天啊我也看過全套。真不容易啊，在我每天都
忙得要命的情況中，還能看這些有的沒的！說真的實在要歸功於
我工作很有效率，能 to the point，玩的時間就擠得出來啦！還
有不少集待看呢...也同樣感謝告訴我及借我這些有趣作品的好朋
友喔！

Tension

Had a weird dream. I saw myself getting mad at a friend,
and I was throwing things angrily in a room while talking
to him--unlike the gentle me IRL. *giggles* I wouldn't
act that fiercely...neither at work nor at home. Anyway
it's a dream. After I met my colleague in the office this
morning and shared this dream with her, she told me it's
healthy and kind of helped release my tension. Ahh didn't
know I was that nervous and under great pressure! I felt
bad when I was treated unfairly by friends--even I might
pretend to be all right, you know...the true feeling has
been expressed exactly in my dream. *sighs* It is
impossible to lie to myself in the dreams right.

Saw a movie

Went see a movie with friends this Sat. Heh it was sunny
and hot. We took MRT to Ximan and something 'tragic'
happened--were told the movie we wanna see was not on
now! What the...we even checked the night before, the
place and time! That's why my friend was immediately in a
bad mood and I was a bit upset too. Anyway. Being a
optimistist, I never give up. There was a 7-11 nearby,
and I told friends I'd go get a newspaper and check where
we could go watch it today. "When there is a will, there
is a way." I like this saying a lot. Another one that I
like is, "There is no free lunch." I NEVER agree with
those who think they can succeed without working hard. (
Now then you know I am a 100% Capricorn ain't you. ) Some
guys complain they got no girlfriends. *chuckles* The
thing is they don't go meet girls. Even after they have
some chance to know girls, they don't pursue--they don't
spend time and money on dates. They say they are too busy
maybe working or playing games. *sighs* No wonder no
girlfriends. Finally we took MRT again and a bus to the
cinema and watched the movie. Yeah!

Don't just greet me

今天和朋友在MOS吃漢堡時，被不認識的兩位女士叫住，禮貌地和她們打招呼，一面在記憶中拼命搜索，是什麼地方見過的朋友
或家長嗎，坐下小聊一下，原來其中一位是我朋友的乾姊，她就
住在附近，看我走來走去好些次，不過因為沒有介紹她也不好和
我打招呼。另一位呢是她朋友，真是巧，小孩讀我們學校。有句
話說人生何處不相逢，果真如是，反正我既然踏進教育界，就不
可能隱姓埋名啦！吃個飯也有人來交朋友，呵呵，蠻好玩滴。

ps.假如能順便請吃飯更好... >:P

Can wear a short skirt now

Heh it's a bit cloudy today, but good enough...no rain. I
am happy and content with the nice dinner with friends,
of course, at a shabu shabu restaurant. Haha a guy called
me in the meanwhile and he said I was a real 'hot pot
girl.' Hmm don't you think it'd be much better if 'pot'
is left out. Moreover he warned me that I'd be fat if I
keep having lots of hot pots. *falls laughing* Oh it's
very difficult for me to get fat ok. Don't you know I
take exercise very often. Furthermore, I am a vegetarian.
How to get fat if most of the food I have is all kinds of
vegetables. >:D

Thus, friends don't worry about me, who never need to go
on a diet. I have another good news to report. I told you
that I fell on the ground and got some bruises on my legs
this Mon afternoon. It's lighter now, so I can wear a
blue short skirt and look great today. *chuckles* Too bad
I have no date...*sighs* Ah...never mind. Luckily I got
good friends. And one gave me a bag of instant coffee--it
smells so good in the early morning when I make breakfast
in the kitchen. Her birthday's coming...hehehe I would
like to buy her something cute and practical. *grins
evilly* >:P

Fell

哈時間真的好快！四月又過了一半多囉，昨天我不小心滑了一跤
，左腳今天就烏青一塊，和學生講時他們笑得很樂，問我老師旁
邊有沒有很多人，有啊，可惜沒有人幫忙我自己就只好站起來啦
！而且還好現在還算年輕喔，再十年骨質疏鬆，學生喊：那骨折
了吧！呵呵真聰明。同事更好，我把這段不幸的遭遇告訴他們：
我右邊都很OK不過左邊好痛，走路一拐一拐滴，他們回：那不就
像中風嗎！真是有情有義的好朋友啊！>_<

反正天氣溫暖，陽光美得讓我還是要溜出去走走，順便辦點小事
，當然我沒有真的像中風一樣啦！希望烏青趕快好，夏天可是穿
裙子的季節呢！>:D

A relaxing weekend

又冷又下雨的，不知老爸的阿里山之行怎樣，退休後他迷上攝影
，去上課還常跑出拍照，不過我看這幾天是沒得好拍囉！他還勸
我換台數位相機，說SONY七百萬畫數的只要一萬多，一萬二是吧
？我也忘了他說的數字，哈哈，我不是沒錢買啦！只是本小姐真
的蠻迷糊滴，工作的地點是學校，身旁一堆比猴子還皮的青少年
，相機有時要借給他們拍，上次連SD記憶卡都壞了，怪啊...真不
知道他們怎麼拍的。還好現在記憶卡便宜了，以前我買一塊256MB
的SD要2千多呢！嗯我應該來問問看，誰有128或256的SD卡不用便
宜賣給我算了，1G那麼大根本用不到買了也是浪費啊！

Yesterday evening I watched a movie on HBO--Anchor Man-
the Legend Of Ron Burgundy, talking about the old topic
that men and women ain't treated fairly at work in a
funny way. The most interesting scene was the bossy
anchor starred by Will Ferrel stepping onto the tables
and playing the Jazz flute. He was dating his pretty co-
worker and then asked to perform by the owner of the
restaurant. Of course his performance impressed that
pretty girl and the guy easily won her heart. *chuckles*
I guess that's why guys should always learn some 'tricks'
because you'll never know when you'll be dating and need
to show something special to make your dream girl fall
for you right.

Can you do magics? *winks*

A big spider

前幾天早自習時，突然靠牆的那一排有幾個男生都站起來，把桌
子都搬離牆面十幾公分，我在想造反啦，敢擅自行動，他們跟我
說：老師不是啦，有蜘蛛！我走近一看，喔是一隻不算很大的"拉
牙"。這玩意聽說是吃蟑螂滴，樣子嗎看起來的確不討喜，好吧因
為我吃素，平時也盡量不殺生，就叫學生把它移出室外，結果你
猜怎麼著，常和女孩們打情罵俏，喜歡講些俏皮話逗人的男學生
們都躲的遠遠，只有本班內掃股長，平時不出風頭個性內斂的阿
白，靜靜地拿個塑膠桶，把那隻"拉牙"一裝，帶到教室外面放生
去。*cool* ^^b

機會教育，我告訴各位女同學，男生不要看身高臉蛋，真的，男
生還是要好用最重要，長得俊俏在危急時派不上用場，要這種人
當男朋友或老公做什麼呢？就像常有朋友和單身的我說，找男朋
友要找有錢的，哈哈，有錢男人有什麼用啊！要有錢讓我用得到
才有用滴！很多有錢人摳的要死，嫁進去不見得我們女生就用得
到夫家的錢好不好。哈哈，所以呢還是把自己栽培好，有份工作
可以賺錢，然後呢每天打扮的漂漂亮亮滴，開心過日才實在。^_^

ps. 可惜阿白才16歲,唉對我來說太年輕了。

Frightened for a few secs

A sunny day again, and I called the department which is
reponsible for the school's electricity at least 3 times
since we wanna turn on the air con. They really don't
understand it's torturing us, who stay on the highest
floor in this school. Inconsiderate staff...*sighs* yeah
I know such people exist everywhere at work.

Being careless, I scared myself this evening...you know
it's not easy to find a free parking space near my place.
And I parked my Justy near the little park after work.
Then I went out to get some cold drink a while later. On
my way home I passed by the place where I parked Justy
and found no car there. :O MY GOD JUSTY IS TOWED AWAY!
~>_<~

All of a sudden I remember that's NOT the place I parked
my Justy today, but YESTERDAY. LOL~ life is always so
exciting, you see. :P

Sneezed a lot

Not a blue Monday, but I couldn't sleep well last night
since I started to sneeze a lot around 11 p.m. and gotta
use lots of facial tissues...*sobs* fell asleep around 1
a.m. I guess. That's why I didn't sound cheerful in class
at the very beginning, but you know, my students are not
only cute but considerate. They encouraged me and told me
to rest enough and take care. Ahh I feel much better
indeed.

Another thing to report is I went to the school clinic
because I wanna know how much I weigh. Therefore I
stepped onto one scale and I was @_@ ... ok I decided to
stepped onto the other scale there and it said the
same...@_@ weird I didn't go on a diet but I lost some
weight! Hmm...nothing wrong with my appetite;
furthermore, I don't get a lot of exercise ( been lazy
you know.) That means I am a lucky woman--let me have
more yummy stuff then. :P

No event on April Fool

Ahh didn't do anything naughty on April Fool. Previously
I did think about calling friends to inform them: heh
tell ya good news that I'm to get married! But didn't do
so since I'm a bit afraid that friends would come give me
a good kick after they found I just wanna fool them.
*giggles* Students in my class told me today they did
call some of their classmates and make fun of them.
hahaha hey hey don't say: Like teacher like student! I
ain't naughty at all ok. *winks*

We ETs had a meeting with the staff from Let's Talk
English, 2 American teachers and 2 Chinese ones. They
would like to get some feedback after we use their
magazines as a teaching material in addition to our
textbooks. Thus, most of us talked about what we thought
of and discussed with those teachers happily...in
English. *chuckles* In the end we took some pics...I'll
ask the guy to send me, and then you can see my 'yah'
pic. Oh of course I asked them to 'yah' with me. LOL~ ^^V
( like this, and they were so cooperative! )

This week is supposed to be relaxing...no school or work
on Wed. Some of my relatives will be coming, so my family
will be busy for a few days I guess.