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?