My brother had died for one year.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
Sex and the City
I am really love this TV programme, Sex and the City. Excluding sex, there have numerous sensibilities it does reflect the profound thought as mine.
A dialogue from the sixth season of Sex and the City which what I wanna say......
"Maybe it's time to be clear about who I am. I am someone who is looking for love. Real Love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." --Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
A dialogue from the sixth season of Sex and the City which what I wanna say......
"Maybe it's time to be clear about who I am. I am someone who is looking for love. Real Love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." --Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Copied： Are you a Yindie？
By Ed Caesar, The Independent, Published: 12 January 2006
They're young, they're affluent and they're absolutely everywhere. But no one belonging to this newly identified socio-economic group would ever admit to it. Would you?
Not since the 1980s, when the Yuppie was king, have we encountered such a powerful social group. They've been around for a few years, but only now have they been comprehensively nailed. Meet the Yindie: half-yuppie, half-indie, moneyed urban hipsters aged 20-35 who listen to wry northern indie music on their iPod nanos, and who think Zadie Smith is the pinnacle of alternative fiction.
More stylish than your average man in the street (you would be if you read GQ), Yindies see themselves as off-centre, a bit too cool for school. They achieve all this while holding down a junior job in the City or studying for their accountancy exams.
Like any well-honed social group, they are defined as much by what they are not as by what they are. They don't like James Blunt (fair enough). They wouldn't be seen dead watching a Lindsay Lohan movie (again, fair enough). But as they reject the mainstream in their droves, they become, in their own way, even more mainstream - bland, monochrome... Yindie.
No one wants to be a Yindie (also known as a Yupster) - to admit you are is to relinquish your off-kilter edginess - but they are out there, all right. So, as the Yindie revolution of 2006 starts, it's time to ask: could I be a Yindie, too?
Take the Yindie test
1. You and a non-Yindie colleague are discussing Coldplay's latest, X&Y, over a green tea. He doesn't like it, saying it panders too much to white male middle-class sensibilities. What do you say?
a) You prefer classical.
b) Coldplay's earlier work is better.
c) It's the best thing you've ever heard.
2. You are on your lunch break. Which of these gastronomic options do you choose?
a) The ham and cheese sandwiches you made at home and brought to work in a Tupperware box.
b) A Pret a Manger "no bread sandwich" (ie a salad).
c) Fish 'n' chips in the canteen.
3. It is Thursday night. You and your partner are deciding what to see at the cinema. Do you persuade them that:
a) You should see King Kong because Brokeback Mountain looks really boring.
b) The only film you are interested in seeing is Brokeback Mountain, but that you should go home and wait until tomorrow's Newsnight review before making a firm decision?
c) You should see Just Friends. It may be a brainless romantic comedy but you've both had a busy day.
4. You and five friends are doing a "secret Santa" where the price limit is £10. You need to buy a present that will mark you out as a Santa of distinction and wit. What do you buy?
a) A comedy chef's apron with a naked woman on the front.
b) Dave Eggers' recent collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry.
c) A cheese-knife.
5. You have decided to get fit. You review multiple options for achieving this goal, but eventually plump for:
a) A personal trainer.
b) White-collar boxing.
c) Step aerobics.
6. You are shopping for a new pair of jeans on the high street. You see a Gap. Do you:
a) Step in. Their stuff is cool, but reasonably priced, and what's more, it lasts.
b) Look in the window and admit to yourself that, although you like their stuff, you wouldn't be seen dead in Gap because everyone else wears it. Head to Urban Outfitters instead.
c) Scoff at the ubiquitous economic imperialism of multi-national outlets such as Gap, and head for your nearest charity shop.
7. If you could only read one thing, it would be:
a) Heat.
b) A scurrilous blog by an anonymous cross-dressing lifestyle columnist.
c) Horse and Hound.
8. You are having some friends over for dinner. The discussion turns to politics. What do you all agree on?
a) That the NHS needs dramatic restructuring to comply with new European working hours legislation.
b) That Tony Blair was so wrong to lead us into war with Iraq, and you would have marched on Parliament if there hadn't been a Diesel sale that day.
c) George Galloway's moustache is creepy.
9. How many times do you Google your own name a day?
a) Almost never.
b) Five times. Once in the morning with your full name, once with your full name in inverted commas, once with only your surname, once with only your first name, and once with your full name at the end of the day to see if there have been any developments, and to check if your name is still unique.
c) What's Google?
10. Your psychiatrist has been helping you deal with some troubling issues from your childhood. She decides that you need to find some method of public expression. What do you choose?
a) To join an amateur operatic society.
b) To describe how you are dealing with your issues by writing a blog. You choose a catchy pseudonym such as @ishoo or Beetup.
c) To take up oregami.
11. Surrounded by your friends in a bar, you decide to tell your favourite anecdote. Which is it?
a) A story about how, when you were children, your brother used to try on your mother's shoes. He once tried on some high heels and sprained his ankle, in an incident he later said was a "football injury".
b) A story about the size of Tom Cruise's tackle, which you read on the Holy Moly gossip mailout, and have since passed off as your own.
c) A story about how, when you were moving house, you found an old sausage in your toolbox.
12. You are offered you a company car. What do you choose?
a) A Ford Ka, in lime green.
b) A Prius dual-fuel car, in whatever colour, because the planet comes first. And it's a good conversation point. And no one else has one.
c) A BMW Seven Series, in metallic blue.
The Moment of Truth
If you answered "b" to most of the questions, then you are, unfortunately, a Yindie. Stop trying so hard immediately, and find out what you actually like.
If you answered "a" to most, then you're probably OK, but you do own an unamusing apron and a dodgy-coloured car. If you answered "c" most frequently you don't fit into any category, which is a good thing. We could use more origami-practising step-aerobics enthusiasts who find old sausages in their toolboxes.
They're young, they're affluent and they're absolutely everywhere. But no one belonging to this newly identified socio-economic group would ever admit to it. Would you?
Not since the 1980s, when the Yuppie was king, have we encountered such a powerful social group. They've been around for a few years, but only now have they been comprehensively nailed. Meet the Yindie: half-yuppie, half-indie, moneyed urban hipsters aged 20-35 who listen to wry northern indie music on their iPod nanos, and who think Zadie Smith is the pinnacle of alternative fiction.
More stylish than your average man in the street (you would be if you read GQ), Yindies see themselves as off-centre, a bit too cool for school. They achieve all this while holding down a junior job in the City or studying for their accountancy exams.
Like any well-honed social group, they are defined as much by what they are not as by what they are. They don't like James Blunt (fair enough). They wouldn't be seen dead watching a Lindsay Lohan movie (again, fair enough). But as they reject the mainstream in their droves, they become, in their own way, even more mainstream - bland, monochrome... Yindie.
No one wants to be a Yindie (also known as a Yupster) - to admit you are is to relinquish your off-kilter edginess - but they are out there, all right. So, as the Yindie revolution of 2006 starts, it's time to ask: could I be a Yindie, too?
Take the Yindie test
1. You and a non-Yindie colleague are discussing Coldplay's latest, X&Y, over a green tea. He doesn't like it, saying it panders too much to white male middle-class sensibilities. What do you say?
a) You prefer classical.
b) Coldplay's earlier work is better.
c) It's the best thing you've ever heard.
2. You are on your lunch break. Which of these gastronomic options do you choose?
a) The ham and cheese sandwiches you made at home and brought to work in a Tupperware box.
b) A Pret a Manger "no bread sandwich" (ie a salad).
c) Fish 'n' chips in the canteen.
3. It is Thursday night. You and your partner are deciding what to see at the cinema. Do you persuade them that:
a) You should see King Kong because Brokeback Mountain looks really boring.
b) The only film you are interested in seeing is Brokeback Mountain, but that you should go home and wait until tomorrow's Newsnight review before making a firm decision?
c) You should see Just Friends. It may be a brainless romantic comedy but you've both had a busy day.
4. You and five friends are doing a "secret Santa" where the price limit is £10. You need to buy a present that will mark you out as a Santa of distinction and wit. What do you buy?
a) A comedy chef's apron with a naked woman on the front.
b) Dave Eggers' recent collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry.
c) A cheese-knife.
5. You have decided to get fit. You review multiple options for achieving this goal, but eventually plump for:
a) A personal trainer.
b) White-collar boxing.
c) Step aerobics.
6. You are shopping for a new pair of jeans on the high street. You see a Gap. Do you:
a) Step in. Their stuff is cool, but reasonably priced, and what's more, it lasts.
b) Look in the window and admit to yourself that, although you like their stuff, you wouldn't be seen dead in Gap because everyone else wears it. Head to Urban Outfitters instead.
c) Scoff at the ubiquitous economic imperialism of multi-national outlets such as Gap, and head for your nearest charity shop.
7. If you could only read one thing, it would be:
a) Heat.
b) A scurrilous blog by an anonymous cross-dressing lifestyle columnist.
c) Horse and Hound.
8. You are having some friends over for dinner. The discussion turns to politics. What do you all agree on?
a) That the NHS needs dramatic restructuring to comply with new European working hours legislation.
b) That Tony Blair was so wrong to lead us into war with Iraq, and you would have marched on Parliament if there hadn't been a Diesel sale that day.
c) George Galloway's moustache is creepy.
9. How many times do you Google your own name a day?
a) Almost never.
b) Five times. Once in the morning with your full name, once with your full name in inverted commas, once with only your surname, once with only your first name, and once with your full name at the end of the day to see if there have been any developments, and to check if your name is still unique.
c) What's Google?
10. Your psychiatrist has been helping you deal with some troubling issues from your childhood. She decides that you need to find some method of public expression. What do you choose?
a) To join an amateur operatic society.
b) To describe how you are dealing with your issues by writing a blog. You choose a catchy pseudonym such as @ishoo or Beetup.
c) To take up oregami.
11. Surrounded by your friends in a bar, you decide to tell your favourite anecdote. Which is it?
a) A story about how, when you were children, your brother used to try on your mother's shoes. He once tried on some high heels and sprained his ankle, in an incident he later said was a "football injury".
b) A story about the size of Tom Cruise's tackle, which you read on the Holy Moly gossip mailout, and have since passed off as your own.
c) A story about how, when you were moving house, you found an old sausage in your toolbox.
12. You are offered you a company car. What do you choose?
a) A Ford Ka, in lime green.
b) A Prius dual-fuel car, in whatever colour, because the planet comes first. And it's a good conversation point. And no one else has one.
c) A BMW Seven Series, in metallic blue.
The Moment of Truth
If you answered "b" to most of the questions, then you are, unfortunately, a Yindie. Stop trying so hard immediately, and find out what you actually like.
If you answered "a" to most, then you're probably OK, but you do own an unamusing apron and a dodgy-coloured car. If you answered "c" most frequently you don't fit into any category, which is a good thing. We could use more origami-practising step-aerobics enthusiasts who find old sausages in their toolboxes.
Your career
One of my English friend she told me a quite useful website it might aid you in job-hunt. Sharing with you.
Click here http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/templates/CT061993551033.aspx
Click here http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/templates/CT061993551033.aspx
Monday, April 17, 2006
The Fifteen Criteria to be a Modern, Independent Woman.
My college friend, Cathy, has lived in New York for more than ten years and she rarely returns to visit her family and friends. When she does come back, her close friends from college get together to chat and have afternoon tea. Even though Taipei is not a real big city, it's still difficult to get everyone together. Maybe that is the reason why people in Taipei always seem close but still alienated.
I would describe the tea time as a chance to catch up and reminisce about the good old days and make personal comparisons among one another. We are all thirtysomething office ladies who are particularly interested in discussing the role of a modern, independent woman. These days, modern women can be identified with some characters on TV shows, such as the ones in “Sex and the City”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Anego”. The maincharacters of these shows are successful, versatile, yet struggling with lust. However, do they really exit in our society? After exchanging opinions, we finally reach an agreement which we jokingly call, “The criteria to be a modern, independent woman”, listed in the following:
1. Age range is generally between early thirties to late forties.
2. Mental maturity is more important than age.
3. Hold down stable jobs or businesses.
4. Be positive,
proactive and trust the senses when solving problems.
5. Be stylish, but not follow trend.
6. Traveling and personal development are good for self-esteem.
7. Enjoy gourmet foods and shopping.
8. Men are not the first priority in life.
9. Portray a tough outer image, but need someone to rely on.
10.Be able to get along with by oneself;
not concerned about marital status.
11.Maintain a good shape and skin care.
12.Be friendly and easy-going.
13.Be willing to share the personal resources with others.
14.No hang-ups about sex.
15.Enjoy going to fortune-tellers but not believe in fate.
How about you? Can you think about the 16th criterion?
This article is from "The China Times" in 9th of April, 2006 by Lynnie.
I would describe the tea time as a chance to catch up and reminisce about the good old days and make personal comparisons among one another. We are all thirtysomething office ladies who are particularly interested in discussing the role of a modern, independent woman. These days, modern women can be identified with some characters on TV shows, such as the ones in “Sex and the City”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Anego”. The maincharacters of these shows are successful, versatile, yet struggling with lust. However, do they really exit in our society? After exchanging opinions, we finally reach an agreement which we jokingly call, “The criteria to be a modern, independent woman”, listed in the following:
1. Age range is generally between early thirties to late forties.
2. Mental maturity is more important than age.
3. Hold down stable jobs or businesses.
4. Be positive,
proactive and trust the senses when solving problems.
5. Be stylish, but not follow trend.
6. Traveling and personal development are good for self-esteem.
7. Enjoy gourmet foods and shopping.
8. Men are not the first priority in life.
9. Portray a tough outer image, but need someone to rely on.
10.Be able to get along with by oneself;
not concerned about marital status.
11.Maintain a good shape and skin care.
12.Be friendly and easy-going.
13.Be willing to share the personal resources with others.
14.No hang-ups about sex.
15.Enjoy going to fortune-tellers but not believe in fate.
How about you? Can you think about the 16th criterion?
This article is from "The China Times" in 9th of April, 2006 by Lynnie.
If it had to satisfy above fifteen standards, I might say I'm not a modern, Independent woman. Sometimes I was extremely puzzled. I gained nothing in my ages. I didn't have presentable jobs or business, even though the love. sounds I fall into deplorable life.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
【A anime of STUDIO GHIBLI】Spirited Away
Owing to Taiwan is near Japan some cultures affect to me profoundly: for instance, animations and comic books...etc. I had read comic books every day when I was at junior high school. hahah...Besides there had many cartoons showed on the Telly. I 'm rather like Japanese cartoons. Japanese anime it's quite famous in Taiwan. So I love Japanese anime more then American's, Disney cartoons.I would like to talk about enimated feature of Hayao Miyazaki, Apirited Away. It's the first anime feature to Oscar award in 2003.
Most of Hayao Miyazaki's features they are not for children I guess. His animated features have profoundly affected for grown-up. If you have watched them you would know what I said.
I have seen the reviews of foreigners on the internet. It said Spirited Away is a love story. Well, its not just a love story, even make people deep thought and edification.
I like the leading girl, Chihiro (Sen), is pure and goodhearted. Also I love Haku's resolute eyes. When Hakus said to Chihiro that "We will surely meet again. Definite." I was touched. Those words seem nothing could alteration it.For I thought, the main meaing of this feature is "Don't lose your pure selfhood."
I have written a review in chinese on my Chinese blog. I try to express my feeling in English. Yet it's rather difficult to convey. Many proper nouns I don't know how to write. Perhape I should watch it again with English subtitle.
P.S When I was writing this article, I have got a bad headache, and my foreigners were talking to me. Therefor this article is not quite good. I will rewrite it if I have time.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
【Soundtrack】Take My Heart Back from a film, "If Only".
Take My Heart Back
singer: Jennifer Love Hewitt
It'll be alright you said tomorrow
don't you cry
don't you shed a tear
when you wake up I will still be here
when you wake up well battle all your fears
and now I'll take my heart back
leave your pictures on the floor
steal back my memories
I cant take it anymore
I've cried my eyes out
oh and now I face the years
the way you loved me vanished all the tears
just a little more time was all we needed
just a little time for me to see
ooh the light that live can give you
ooh how it can set you free
so now I'll take my heart back
leave your pictures on the floor
steal back my memories
I can't take it anymore
I've cried my eyes out
oh and now I face the years
the way you loved me vanished all the tears
La la la la la~
This song is soundtrack from a film, If only. How many regretful things you could retrieve?! How many people could be as lucky as the lead actor as he could come back to the past.
Consequently, TO treasure what you had. =)
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Taiwanese Tea - Oolong tea
There have a lot of statements to define the Oolong tea of Formosa. Perhaps it's rather different from China. Consequently, I'm going to talk about Taiwanese tea as far as I knew. Furthermore I am not professional in the tea. Hope everyone can discuss with me.
An according to the ferment extent, Oolong tea (WenShan Paochung tea and TiehKuanYin tea also) is a semi-fermented tea. It's distinct from green tea and black tea. Green tea is a non-fermented tea. On the contrary, black tea is a completely fermented tea. The above-mentioned teas I all love. Oolong tea has got the other name which is Paochung tea of semi-sphere. To the shape, WenShan Paochung tea is long narrow stripe shape. It's grown in the vicinity of "Wu-Lai" scenic spot, the mountain areas in Taipei county, the northern Taiwan. TiehKuanYin tea is sphere shape. It's also grown in Taipei county.
In addition to the ferment extent, the teas divided into the degree of the bake. We can see the Oolong tea in the market it's labelled '15% to 30% in the fermented extent and 25% to 30% in the baked degree' generally.
Moreover, we can often see "high-mountain Oolong tea" in Taiwan. Why it call "high-mountain"?! Because that tea is grown in High mountain, above 1000 metres in elevation. The high-mountain tea is quite higher quality, also its cost is higher than other type of the teas. Its producing region is mainly in the middle of Taiwan, in particular ChiaI county, NanTou county...etc. The Taiwanese High-mountain Oolong tea is well-known worldwide.
If you want to brew Oolong tea up, it's better to use a argillaceous pot. To Oolong tea, the temperature of the water is the best between 80 degrees and 95 degrees.
My favourite teas are Oolong tea and TiehKuanYin tea. Once my friend gave me TiehKuanYin tea while I was in London. Seeing that there was very difficult to buy the Oolong tea or TiehKuanYin tea, it made me delight to almost go mad. This time I will bring some teas to Scotland. I 'm really love the tea. I can't tolerate the life of no teas. =)
*Notes：WenShan Paochung tea 文山包種茶, TiehKuanYin tea 鐵觀音茶。
An according to the ferment extent, Oolong tea (WenShan Paochung tea and TiehKuanYin tea also) is a semi-fermented tea. It's distinct from green tea and black tea. Green tea is a non-fermented tea. On the contrary, black tea is a completely fermented tea. The above-mentioned teas I all love. Oolong tea has got the other name which is Paochung tea of semi-sphere. To the shape, WenShan Paochung tea is long narrow stripe shape. It's grown in the vicinity of "Wu-Lai" scenic spot, the mountain areas in Taipei county, the northern Taiwan. TiehKuanYin tea is sphere shape. It's also grown in Taipei county.
In addition to the ferment extent, the teas divided into the degree of the bake. We can see the Oolong tea in the market it's labelled '15% to 30% in the fermented extent and 25% to 30% in the baked degree' generally.
Moreover, we can often see "high-mountain Oolong tea" in Taiwan. Why it call "high-mountain"?! Because that tea is grown in High mountain, above 1000 metres in elevation. The high-mountain tea is quite higher quality, also its cost is higher than other type of the teas. Its producing region is mainly in the middle of Taiwan, in particular ChiaI county, NanTou county...etc. The Taiwanese High-mountain Oolong tea is well-known worldwide.
If you want to brew Oolong tea up, it's better to use a argillaceous pot. To Oolong tea, the temperature of the water is the best between 80 degrees and 95 degrees.
My favourite teas are Oolong tea and TiehKuanYin tea. Once my friend gave me TiehKuanYin tea while I was in London. Seeing that there was very difficult to buy the Oolong tea or TiehKuanYin tea, it made me delight to almost go mad. This time I will bring some teas to Scotland. I 'm really love the tea. I can't tolerate the life of no teas. =)
*Notes：WenShan Paochung tea 文山包種茶, TiehKuanYin tea 鐵觀音茶。
Monday, April 03, 2006
Do you enjoy your job？
Most of Taiwanese they don't like their work. What happens with that?
Once I have chatted with my forienger friend. He said to me "The bosses/companies don't respect the foreigners in Taiwan." Well, I answered him that "It's not only foreigners, yet is all people working in Taiwan."
In Taiwan, the employees don't have many counters to get a good right. Any fight you would get a loser in the end, or would lose your job. Perhaps This is the working characteristic of Taiwan. That's why people work more and more hard. They want to keep their job.
Under-people-say if you worked for top ten enterprises in Taiwan, you would get money and lose your time, freedom, familes and health. Do you know? There have 80% wage-earners who grumble their boss/company all the time, and Other 20% wage-earners don't grumble. Do you know why? Because they worked over 10 hours per day. They don't have time to grumble. Hahaha...
I think that most of people are fond of their job at the beginning. But After a few years, they have experienced many work stresses. You was lost in your job. You forgot it is your favourite job originally.
When I was child, my parents told me you had to study hard. Thereupon got a good job , good salary. Afterwards, I could gain satisfied life. All the parents told their children those words in Chinese culture. But is it? It's depend on every one. People evaluate a person through how much money he/she has got. Money is important, but still have many important stuff than money. Life is pressure; Nevertheless, we can't abandon other things for the money.
Therefore, considering that what you want in your life. No complaint you would have a brilliant life. Slow down your step, look round you and listen to your heart.
Enjoy your life, Enjoy your work.
Once I have chatted with my forienger friend. He said to me "The bosses/companies don't respect the foreigners in Taiwan." Well, I answered him that "It's not only foreigners, yet is all people working in Taiwan."
In Taiwan, the employees don't have many counters to get a good right. Any fight you would get a loser in the end, or would lose your job. Perhaps This is the working characteristic of Taiwan. That's why people work more and more hard. They want to keep their job.
Under-people-say if you worked for top ten enterprises in Taiwan, you would get money and lose your time, freedom, familes and health. Do you know? There have 80% wage-earners who grumble their boss/company all the time, and Other 20% wage-earners don't grumble. Do you know why? Because they worked over 10 hours per day. They don't have time to grumble. Hahaha...
I think that most of people are fond of their job at the beginning. But After a few years, they have experienced many work stresses. You was lost in your job. You forgot it is your favourite job originally.
When I was child, my parents told me you had to study hard. Thereupon got a good job , good salary. Afterwards, I could gain satisfied life. All the parents told their children those words in Chinese culture. But is it? It's depend on every one. People evaluate a person through how much money he/she has got. Money is important, but still have many important stuff than money. Life is pressure; Nevertheless, we can't abandon other things for the money.
Therefore, considering that what you want in your life. No complaint you would have a brilliant life. Slow down your step, look round you and listen to your heart.
Enjoy your life, Enjoy your work.
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