Pressure makes diamonds

After more than a month, I finally post my last blog post here. First, I have to apologize for being late on posting a new article.

Having been busy making props for the cheer leading team of my department, studying the heavy textbooks of law, and other activities…, I could hardly find a period of time for myself to think what I have done in this semester and what I am going to do in the future. I understand that claiming how busy I am is actually finding excuses for my failure of time management; however I really found it hard to finish everything handsomely before the deadline. Punctuality or refinement, I could only choose one. This seems to be a vicious circle in my daily life, and I just trying could not get rid of it.

I have heard a nice sentence says that" Pressure makes diamonds." Within three weeks, the semester will come to an end. I am starting to bring the challenges down one by one. Though it is hard, I believe by doing so, people can grow, and discover their potentiality.

Music night

      After taking the last class today, I went to Yunxiu Hall (雲岫廳) with my classmate quickly. Why? It’s because “Accounting Great Voice” took place. It is what other departments call Department Karaoke. Our department didn’t have this kind of activity before. This year, some of the sophomores decided to try it. I must say that they are super good. The atmosphere made people feel comfortable, and all players were capable. I was previously afraid there would be boring and deserted. However, it was completely not at all. When I pulled the door, what I saw and what I heard was crowded people. The feeling was so similar that it recalled my pat memories in high school. How long didn’t I feel the warm sense that is like in a family? So moving.

     I can totally understand why sophomores were willing to take the responsibilities and hold many activities. Though they were very tired, what they get is priceless. They know and agree with one another in the process. In the meanwhile, they also build the bridge to make people in the department have more chances to get closer. It is really meaningful. If I have the capacity, I will give myself a chance. Not afraid of many unrealized things, just do what you want to do and enjoy it hard. May it be the common wisdom to encourage ourselves.

Starry Night

     Saturday, I went on a wonderful ecology tour in NCCU. The adventure was guided by an knowledgeable and warm-hearted teacher, Mr. Tsai, a nature-lover living near our school. Eight of us strolled around the river bank. All of a sudden, with a gleam of the flashlight, teacher found a brown tree frog, which is an protected species and was not easily found. How lucky we were! Then, we climbed on a less-trodden stairs with clumps of trees planted along the trail and streams flowing in the ditch. There we were all amazed by the glitter of fireflies and taught how to distinguish their species and sex through the way they glowed. We also heard different kind of frogs' croak. When all of them croaked together, it was just like an interesting symphony in summer. Through the branches, the full moon with adorable light hung on the silent sky. It was such a peaceful moment then.    

     I sincerely recommend this tour for those who want to uncover the mask of the starry night in NCCU. There will be four more this and next weekend so if you are interested in it, just sign up in the website below without hesitation. You will undoubtedly feel surprised!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BZKTIBsBt14S8L6JohkW4HmXI5GujPI_I053T9J4UWY/viewform

Seize my youth.

     Just in around a month, we will say goodbye to our freshman lives. It shocks me a lot that time flies. I can clearly remember how I felt when I first step in this college. And now, I am going to live here for a year. When I still can’t understand what I am doing, I must learn to grow up and face the next group freshmen. That makes me extremely afraid. I have so many things unfinished.

     I don’t know how many of you have the same feelings as mine. I ever planned for my life in the college entirely, but almost all of them weren’t realized. I didn’t pat love to my accounting, my club, my language learning, and my leisure time. Always regarding that I was busy, I desired so many things, but I couldn’t handle any well. I spent lots of time on the liberal studies I want to improve, and I idled away the rest time. The life makes me awake now. I know I must adjust myself and seize my youth. Maybe it’s difficult, but it’s obvious that people should grow up. Hope it’s not too late. For the first step, I will pay efforts on my accounting as much as possible. And then, arrange my time for clubs, other studies, and leisure time evenly. Last but not least importantly, I will be very happy in the future. It’s time for changes, I know. If you did all my goals, you are really a good person who knows own value. But if you didn’t, think it seriously. I just want to remind you guys that don’t forget to seize your youths.

Volunteer, in Taiwan or Foreign Countries ?

     Every time when I was not in a hurry, I would walk uphill and looked at the posters stuck on the corridor(風雨走廊) .They were reflections and records about students in NCCU who volunteered abroad. I admired their courage and spirits of devotion to people in remote areas and in fact I have made a wish to help those in need in foreign countries.

     Therefore, last week I went to a briefing held by Waker, a international-volunteer NPO and also had an interview. Before the activity, I was so eager to go to Cambodia, a mysterious place and would like to visit its famous cultural heritage, Angkor Wat (吳哥窟). But when I heard the personnel said, "If you just want to be a tourist and play, please go to the travel agency but not here!", I reflected on my original innovation of joining this program. Besides, one of my friends told me that there were also many children falling behind in studies and many economically disadvantaged families in "Taiwan" and they are really in need ! Why didn't I help them, people in "our" country,  first ?

     After thinking for few days, I made up my mind not to sign up for the application this summer, but not just because of my friend's word. Actually, I've already join a camp which will be held for aboriginal children in Hualien. It's my first time planning lessons and activities for others and I think it's will be a challenge and I'll have a lot to learn from it. So, I decide to gain more experience this time and perhaps next year when I am more ready for international volunteering, I will go without any hesitation. 

Janet, the most energetic speaker I have ever seen

     At first, I want to say sorry for much delay of posting blog because I was so busy and forgot to post a new blog.

    Well….today I want to share with you about a wonderful speech I listened tonight. This speech is about Janet Hsieh’s story. She is very tall, thin, and beautiful. In addition to her beauty, she has a lot of colorful experiences which makes me really surprising! For example, she studied in MIT and wanted to be a MSF(無國界醫生), but she stopped her learning because she decided to take the job of becoming a model. The reason of her decision is that she thinks she can continue her study at the age of her fifties or even sixties, but can’t be a model when she is old. How amazing that she easily gave up her original goal and try another completely different thing. She has done many crazy things and still continues to challenge herself. When an audience asked her whether she once did something regretful, she replied that her motto is that never feel regretful about what you have done because every experience must teach you some lessons.

    I learn from her that only focusing on one thing and always having enthusiasm with everything. By the way, I like to listen to speeches because I always learn and be touched form those speakers. They give me power to have a dream.

Miss Word

This week, I would like to share a project named “Miss Word” with you. “Miss Word” is conducted by some students from NCCU department of advertising. They are going to graduate from NCCU this year. And I think what the project does for people just suits them.

“Miss Word” project promotes writing by hands. The conductors consider that through hang-writing, people could convey their true feeling lots more than typing.

And it runs like this: first, you need to pay 100NTD to buy a special envelope with a postcard, an exclusive “Miss Word” edition UNI ball pen, and a stamp for “future mail”. Then, write down what you want to say to who you want to say to, after finishing hand-writing, just put it in to the mailbox they prepared, and in the next year(2014) you or the one you mail to will receive a postcard from 2013.

I found this activity on facebook. One of my friends’s “liked” on its fan page caught my eye, so I checked it, and I took an interest in it immediately. I think it is meaningful to send a letter for people in the future, to express our feelings “in the past”. Therefore I introduce “Miss Word” to you, hope you like it.

Miss Word  http://nccuadwrite.wix.com/missword#!home/c16g1
FB  https://www.facebook.com/missword2013?fref=ts

Korea's Hapkido!A way to train your body.

Rescently, I want to a gym with my classmate, it was a very funny experience. I signed up a lesson which is about one kind of martial art that called “Hapkido” in Korea style ；the word in Chinese is called “韓式合氣道”. For what reason that I am willing to  pay people money to beat me shitting around? Maybe I just enjoy the pain, on me and on others. Anyways, it is not the funny point, which make me feeling so funny is that we are in a Muay Thai (泰拳) gym learning Korea Hapkido and the teacher is Canadian . It let me feel like that I am a Chinese and going abroad to U.S.A to learn Chinese literature from a teacher whom from Dubai.

I know in today it is coming to being a global village. But I still will feel strange that if a foreigner teaching me Chinese literature in my pass days. Maybe it is a warning that we should not forget our own cultures, in the future if my son or grandson’s Chinese literature teacher is a foreigner, I will be shame about it. We should be proud of our own cultures, even if it may have something should improve, just improve and fix it, cultures just like animal, they are dying and bearing with the time.

Back to the martial art part, in the class I was also surprised that so many ladies like to learn this, and also feel shame about that those pretty ladies also can beat me down with only one hand, without joking, the Hapkido’s main point is that use the minimum strength to knock down or control your foes, so it is very suited to ladies whom do not have much strength, maybe our teacher can learn it to deal with her husband. J

Making shots

April 1^st started with a clear blue sky and a warm sunshine. I was not trying to fool anyone that day. Instead, as an event coordinator, my department was having a one-of-a-kind performance- The Night of Turkish. Planning for almost four months; practicing for about one and a half month. I chose dancing to represent myself.

I was inspired by Robert Muraine when senior high, and being captivated irresistibly in the realm of dance from then on. At first, I was a noob in doing this(well, still is lmao), but I ain’t quit, regardless of taunting from friends, sneering from upperclassmen, indifference from passersby, and even disapproval from parents, I gotta do what I gotta do, for it is what I’m fond of doing that counts.

Few years more roll by, from boos to nodding to amazement, how the audience act directly “reflect” the decent quality that you’ve made as well as your improvement. But actually the most important of all is that I feel confident and gay whenever I dance.

After all, I dance to express; not to impress.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dee_vy4PdTQ&feature=youtu.be
 Though lots to be desired, I made some footnotes of my own life.

An Outstanding Aerial Photographer

     Yesterday, I attended a lecture held by one oh my classes, which invites intellectuals in many fields once a month. This time, the lecturer was 齊柏林, a famous Taiwanese aerial photographer. We were asked to search for his information and read his books in advance, so we were all looking forwards to his coming. He originally was a civil servant because his father did the same job. He worked for more than thirty years. However, just when everyone envied that he could retire in two more years, he quit. The reason was that he wants to record Taiwan in detail to fulfill his dream. He wasn’t willing to wait for two more years because he wouldn’t have enough energy and courage to do it at that time, when he is fifty years old. To wake up people’s attention and love to our country, he did such a surprising decision, and even mortgaged his house to pay the expensive expense. He must pay fifteen thousand dollars every time he takes the helicopter. When we see that his son asked him if he saved sufficient money for the college tuition in the movie, we couldn’t help but cry. In spite of all difficulties, he is still stick to his dream now. That touches me a lot.

     He takes photos for not only the beauty but also the painfulness in Taiwan. After the Typhoon Morakot, he felt Taiwanese people are unfamiliar with our land so that we don’t care about it, so he wants to try to affect everyone by shooting the most ordinary but real images. Among them, I like the photo of corrugated roofs most because I can feel our toughness deeply by this close photo. I think we can get many inspirations through his work, and he is really a respectable person. That’s why I want to introduce the intellectual to you. J

new language leads to a new life??

      While everybody is discussing about something to eat or drink, I would like to share a new thing about computer science to everyone. The new language of computer i the new era~~ google  Go!!
Down there is the website of the language
                                          http://golang.org/

// You can edit this code!

// Click here and start typing.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {

fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")

}

It is a new form of language like c++ ,c# and java , we all know that the softwares and programs are made of  lots and lots of english words . Those are instructions or orders to command the computer what to do . Most of you may ask, where are the instructions ?? I can not see them???  Well, that is because it is the user-friendly side, the real computer world can appear just click the right side of your mouse and there will be a button that says "code" , press it and you will see the real world .
 
 Well, you may ask, if there are languages such as c++ and java , how come google wants to invent a new one??   Thats because, since google is a big corporation which contains the both client and sever part of the computer(client-server are the model that has been inherited since the computer have invented) That is ,languages like c++ or java can only support the server part, the client part they have nothing to do with it. As for the client part, the former languages are replaced by javascript and xml .Since so many anguages they have different traits, so they are not compeletly  comparable. So lots of programmers have a hard time connecting the sever and the client. Now, with this new language, since google is a giant in the internet world, the influence of google would be huge. If google use its own language and solve the difficult problem, i think the internet world will change. While there are still more advantages about this language, but I think they are too deep to let everyone understant.

That is my article this week, enjoy it!!!

Wu Pao-chun Studies EMBA

Recently, the news about the master baker  Wu Pao-chun (吳寶春), who applied for Taiwan's EMBA (including NCCU!!)but was rejected because he didn't have a college degree, has caused lots of people's discussion. At first, I thought that the educational system was too inflexible, and the government was so incompetent that Taiwan would be "brain-draining".

However, then I read the news that our president was going to amend the regulations to let Wu study in Taiwan. I also read some editorial articles doubting whether Wu could catch up with others in EMBA, because those students have to learn accounting, statistics, economics and so on. ( http://blog.roodo.com/subing/archives/24811172.html )

Therefore, I contemplate the whole event from another perspective and feel that learning should not be only in the books. For example, for those who have their talent in professional fields, the high educational system should offer them some practical and related lessons to help them gain what they really want.

What do you think?

New restaurants

These days, I went to some restaurants near NCCU that I haven’t tried before. And I was satisfied. Though almost everybody says that NCCU is a good food desert; however, I think there are still some nice and not-very-expensive places to eat at here.

For example, 滇味廚房, where I first went to last Wednesday surprise me very much. 滇味廚房 is a Yunnan-style restaurant which mainly provides rice-made noodle: 米線 and 粑吧絲 in different flavor. I enjoyed their pork 粑粑絲 (NT 65) a lot. Instead of being as soft as rice, 粑粑絲 has a springy texture. The soup is also special. The red appearance make it seems to be spicy, but actually it is made with tomatoes, so it sours in a perfect way and has nothing to do with spicy.

And, 私房麵 is another restaurant that people usually line up in front of it. I tried their soup noodle. With just hot soup, noodle, and some vegetable in the bowl, it was simple and delicious. What’s more, it is only NT 35!!

I am really into enjoying food. When it comes to eating issues, I’ll always be all ears. These two restaurants are in the top-rank restaurants in my heart.

So, what’s your favorite restaurant near NCCU?

Learning Partner From China

     At first, I don’t know how to call 學伴, which is like a kind of body program, so I call it learning partner. In this post, I will talk about my learning partner and my viewpoint on Chinese student.

     The reason I have a learning partner from China this semester is that I applied for being a learning partner last semester when I knew this project. After applying, it had to go for an interview. However, the school authorities finally decided that all the interviewees could join this project. My learning partner is from Sun Yat-sen University(中山大學) in 廣州. She is a social girl who can chat with anyone about ant topic. She always makes the atmosphere full of happiness. Because she is easy-going, she makes many friends in different department, and asks them whether they could take her to famous tourist attractions in Taiwan. She is very busy planning for everyday schedule, which I think is also the life of every Chinese exchange student. In addition to

studying, I believe most of Chinese students’ main goals in Taiwan are playing and eating.

      

     Although they spent most of time on recreation in Taiwan, I think they must be outstanding students in their original school. Someone told me that there was a survey which showed the majority of Chinese exchange student are not recommended their friends or family to study in Taiwan, because they feel Taiwanese students are not competitive. I think it is lucky to live in Taiwan, which is free and open country; however, many people take it for granted, and don’t treasure. We students should have positive attitude towards studying and playing. In the future, we all need to compare with teenagers not only in our country but also China even the whole world.