情感這東西

為了寫一篇有關周歲前民俗慶典的作業，找到一個詳細記載台灣風土民情的網頁，細細看了一回，又更覺禮節繁瑣。也不是有時候，而是很深刻的知道自己能夠承受的情感深度在哪裡。很久沒有頭疼了，因為那段曾經已經離我似乎很遠，會想起來的週期也漸漸拉長。

人生也不過三個階段，出生、延續生命及死亡，也許會少掉中間那一項。對我而言，死亡後生者的哀痛似乎比迎接一個新生命的喜悅來的深刻，我幾乎不記得迎接新生命的喜悅，有的幾乎都是逝者已矣的感覺，不過也因為這樣，更珍惜今後的陽光。

有出生就有死亡，而死亡後是什麼？沒有人知道，知道的魂都不知道漂蕩在哪個時空裡。習俗帶著期待與希望迎接生命，卻用敬畏來送走未知的魂，讓我有些錯愕。

生命無法永恆，永恆的是精神。

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan

[My I2 Writing-2]  This is an exercise about a descriptive paragraph. Describe a national or traditional holiday in your country.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival, we eat many delicious foods. This festival is on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month to memorize the goddess of the moon, and it’s also one of the three most important religious holidays in the Chinese societies. We hold wonderful barbecue parties and eat moon cakes and pomelos. Families like to get together and have a barbecue party. We prepare meat slices, all kinds of vegetables such as green pepper, golden pumpkin, and eggplant, and beverages. We arrange the party in front of the house, on the rooftop, or in the park in the afternoon and wait for the others who live far away from home to come back. We start the party around 6:00 p.m., and it’s an important time to show who can light up the wood coal first. After lighting up the fire, everyone leaps at the toaster because we all like to barbecue. We have the juicy meat and the colorful vegetables for dinner. Then we eat the moon cake and the pomelo and watch the moon. The moon cake is a kind of pastry, and it looks like a mini cake. The brown exterior of the moon cake is made of oil, flour, and sugar, and the interior of it is the sweet and fruity legume stuffing. The pomelo is a kind of fruit that looks like a big orange, but its peel is olive green. We like to cut off the peel of pomelo and put it on children’s heads to wish them health. I like this holiday very much, but I couldn’t come home this year. My family still celebrated the festival, and my dear sister emailed me the photographs of their barbecue party. I really wanted to join them at that moment.

My First Time to Leave My Hometown to College

[My I2 Writing-1]  This is a narrative paragraph which describes a story by time order. It's also an unforgettable story in my life because it makes me recall my dear mother.

I will never forget my first time to leave my hometown to college. Before I became a college student, I had never left my hometown — Kaohsiung, the biggest city in southern Taiwan — for eighteen years, so I decided to choose a school which is far from there to meet the new world. On that day, I left my home with my mother and elder sister May. We took a train at midnight and arrived at dawn in Taoyuan where is three hundred kilometers away from Kaohsiung. I remember a typhoon was attacking Taiwan that day, so just a few people were on the streets. We took a taxi from the railway station to my school. About an hour later, we arrived at my dormitory, and I met one of my roommates Lee. My mother and May went to a shop in campus and bought some things for me. They helped me to set up my bed and desk; then, we went to a restaurant and ate some noodles for lunch. We didn’t talk too much, and they went back home in the afternoon. I could tell that my mother worried about me pretty much, but she never told me that and just wanted me to call home sometimes. I had three roommates, and we always talked about the new life in college, hobbies, classes, and our hometowns and families. I met many new friends and joined a lot of activities held by my department. I really loved the new life in college, but sometimes I still felt lonely because I missed my family, friends, and my dog in my hometown.

Tim

不知如何講述這幾天的心情，我是真的很喜歡 TIM，一種欣賞的心情。佩瑩說這是精神外遇，也許！對我來說，總可以理性地把愛跟欣賞分清楚，這算不算是一種壓抑？我永遠都記得在系圖小杜傳來的那張紙條。從認識他的第一刻，我就知道他是我喜歡的那種男生--陽光男孩，不管遭遇多少挫折與現實，他總是可以很樂觀地面對，臉上總是帶著笑容。在我所經歷的世界裡，很少看到這樣的男生，我選擇保留這個美好的回憶。:-)
到了ASU，第一次見到 TIM ，是在講述美國簽證相關規定的 Orientation，只覺得他是個嚴肅傢伙，還是掌握生殺大權的 Student Adviser，很難親近的樣子。很慶幸他是我的文法老師，這是他唯一在AECP上的課，我卻幸運地當上他的學生，也讓我有機會認識這個大男生。上星期五，在開往Grand Canyon的路上，他坐我旁邊，一路上這位文學碩士竟然跟我講了很多 Arizona的環境跟生態、電影、小說、冒險故事跟他親愛的老婆。我們帶了一樣的水壺(佩瑩的)跟穿一樣的背心，我在Bright Angel幫他拿了兩次咖啡，我們兩個在回程的路上各自啃著自己的小說。有時候，你總是會對這種很神奇的巧合感到興奮。一樣的，我喜歡上了 TIM的笑容。
我當然最愛我家的帥哥，尤其現在離他很遠，沒有爭吵的機會。:p 雖然他很機車，從不懂逗我開心，但我最喜歡我們兩個神奇的故事跟同樣的生日數字。經歷過時間考驗的總是真實。

An Important Event in My Life

[My I1 Writing-Essay]   This is the story about Tau my favorite dog in my life.

After I had finished my B.S. degree and worked in Department of Earth Science of National Central University from 1994 to 2000 in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, I changed my interest from earth science to ecology. Then I studied very hard by myself for two years to pass the entrance exam of the Graduate Institute of Natural Resource Management of National Dong Hwa University in Hualien in 2000. It was a marvelous experience for me, because I never thought that I could be a graduate student in ecology, especially because ecology is such a different field of study from earth science. Before I started to move to Hualien for my first semester, my father died. I began a new life in Hualien, but I always felt sorrowful because I missed my father so much. Then Tau, my dog, came to my life and changed me.

One day, my classmates and I wanted to go to the playground to do some exercise. Halfway there, a little, ugly, stinking, homeless doggy followed us for a long time. We played with her for awhile, but we didn’t want her to keep following us, so we ran and left her far away. Then we arrived at the playground and jogged. About a half hour later, we started to go back to our dormitory. Suddenly, the little doggy appeared in front of us and kept following us. We felt very sorry for her, so my friend Abowl and I decided to find someone to keep her. We named her “Tau”, which in Chinese means a horse that carries something on its back. We wished she could be like a horse: be strong and take care of herself.

We posted an ad to find someone who wants to keep a doggy. We took her to see a veterinarian and treated her skin disease. After a few days, a girl e-mailed me and told me she want to see Tau, because her dog had died a few weeks before. Then she came to my dormitory and played with Tau for awhile, and she wanted to keep Tau because Tau was like her dog so much. We made an appointment with the girl, and I kept looking after Tau for a few days, but my classmates and I all liked Tau, and we couldn’t bear to part from her. On the day the girl would come to take her away, we felt so sad and took all the time to play with her. But the girl never appeared! We were so angry that she didn’t keep her promise, but I was happy to keep Tau again.

After a long discussion with Abowl, we decided to keep Tau, but it was really a tough challenge to look after a doggy. Abowl always left Hualien to Ilan for field experiments for a long time, so I had to spend a lot of time to take care of Tau by myself and cooperated with my roommates to prevent the housemaster from detecting that I was breaking the rules about not having pets in the dormitory. During that period, my life was alarmingly dangerous, and I almost failed my accomplishments that semester. As time went by, Tao grew up from an ugly doggy to a beautiful dog. She brought me a lot of troubles, but she always made me happy because she looked happy all the time and she took most of my sorrow away.

健忘症

一直有很嚴重的健忘症, 需要一個地方隨時記起來, 不然過一分鐘肯定忘記, 就連剛在想啥都不記得. 最近都在想行李箱裡要帶啥, 在美國要做哪些"自訂功課", ....., 這些想法連寫在哪都可能會忘記, 真是無可救藥的記憶力.

企業唯才是用

有時在想，逢迎拍馬是否為職場必備的能力之一。當然在一般年輕人心裡，”理”應當是最行得通的準則之一。大多數人都會期待老闆懂得賞識人才，那如果事實並非如此呢？又該怎樣說服自己進了一家有願景的公司？甚或擁有讓人生充滿願景的未來？
這個問題我還沒有參透，要依從自己的意願或是保全大環境。