It really shocked me!!

If you are not "Green" then please do not read this!

I know I'm kind of the person that is very subjective sometimes, especially when I talk two things which are environmental problems and Taiwanese political issues. Every thing can be negotiated with any answer and any kind of opinion, but not these two things.

Recently I had presentations in my English class, I had worked hard on this, because I just want My friends can understand our(Taiwan) situations. And I thought every Taiwanese will like the topic, but obviously not like I thought.

A young girl who is a Taiwanese is cute and smart. And I had liked her until I presented my first presentation. I know she's just too young, so some difficult things she may not understand and think deeply.

In fact, when I was young I dislike any Taiwanese politician and Taiwanese government, and these things also indirectly made me dislike Taiwan. After I went to Japan, many international students asked me questions about Taiwan, and those answers couldn't find in Taiwanese text books in my generation, so the answer were, "No, I don't know.", my friends were very surprised it, and said, " how can you don't know about your country? "; Even some of Chinese were tell me how suck the Taiwanese government is, but still I didn't know how to answer it. one year later I met many Taiwanese friends, who love Taiwan a lot, they taught me about Taiwan and turned me into "green".

I disliked Taiwan, but that because when I was a child, Taiwanese government did not care about Taiwanese history and anything about Taiwan, because they just wanted to fight back to China, even though they knew it is impossible.....
I remember when I was in elementary school, my teachers are always saying "We Chinese ", instead of saying "we Taiwanese". and I had even needed to remember the Chinese history and geography for tests.Everyone knows Chinese history, but not Taiwanese history.
I have to say it were all government's fault, however they changed, and tried to protect Taiwanese cultures and tell Taiwanese people be proud of Being ourselves, be proud for Taiwan.

I though I'll never hear any young Taiwanese people saying "I'm Chinese " , because I think they are growing up in the best environment, they have freedom and they can use internet to google any thing and the truths. Nevertheless, I heard the girl say, " I don't care people call me Chinese or Taiwanese " to EVERYONE in our class, in that moment my brain was frozen and all white, ansd next second I just thought, "WTF are you saying !?"

Unfortunately there is still someone who is not proud of being Taiwanese or
proud of Taiwan.

That's a real BUMMER!.......

I wish she'll change her mind and don't made foreigners think that Taiwanese all like her.
I do care how other people call me,
and I do hope people wouldn't confuse Taiwanese with Chinese.

The Are of Racing In The Rain

~REVIEW~
7.15.09

Taiwanese version

American version

by Garth Stein

Recently, I have read a book calls " The Art Of Racing In The Rain ".
It was a good book for me,..well I didn't finish it yet,but
I'm gonna read the whole book because I really like it,

and I think people who have pets will like it, too.

I like Taiwanese version's book cover than American version,
because Taiwanese version's photo was good and very real for me.
when I first time saw the book, I was attracted by its cover,
It made me stop walking and I reached my hand to it
even though I don't like to read novels.

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The book of the story was told by Enzo, an old dog,

and this was one of the reasons make me try to read it.

The beginning of the story was sad for me,

I couldn't help but feel sorrowful while reading it.

And I couldn't even control myself to not flashback my lovely pets,

but the words reminded me of my memory of my pets all the time,

especially when Enzo thought,

"let me go. I want you be bright again without taking care of me."

my tears just wept by itself from my eyes.

It was the only one reason that make me stop reading it.

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I used to have three rabbit, a dog and a cat before,

and their deaths are an emotional shock for me.

My heart belong them, and still does.

I feel a part of my hear is missing, and it is empty right now.

The sentiment just like,

if The Little Prince lost his flower that he loved the most.

and even more like when the pilot knew the little prince will die eventually.

They are not important as air or water,

but they are important as my family and friends.

I think some of the pet owners may find answers that they would want to

know about pets' feeling for themselves.

I hope people can read this book and

love this book, and even more

try to be nice to animal.

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Pictures form Botanical Gardens

It was my first time to go out with level 4 class, I had a good and
also tired time on the same day when we had walked through
(I felt that way...) mountain and visited around Botanical Gardens.
I thought I'll die in the mountain before I arrive there. lol
After that my leg was just like a crab when I walked,
however I still had a good time,and I also got a chance to practice my photography skill.

The photos down there are taken by me from Botanical Gardens.
Here have many flowers, and trees. There also have different style gardens like Japanese garden and Chinese garden.People who like flowers will like to visit there, I think.

I'll go there next time, because this time I didn't take good photos and didn't have enough time to visit all the gardens.


I used PS(Photoshop) to change the color more blue, dose everyone knows how to change color like this from camera?because I don't want to use PS to change my photos too much , I want keep and use original photos, but I really like color that are very dreamy.
I'll try more white-balance, but I still have to say that using PS is more easily then cameras.

I think the photo is very funny~~. lol

This time's photos I give myself 60 points, because I failed many times,
some of them were out of focused and the composition of photos are not very will.
Having the experience from this time, I believe next time will be better! : )

I remember when I was in High school I had always taken one day walking trip
for taking pictures, and I had always walked around public gardens, zoos
and mountains just for taking macro photo.I really had a blast when I was taking photos, I could wait at a place for hours just for the best shot, I spent a lot of time chasing insects and taking photos.
Nevertheless, since I had been in Japan, I stop taking photos because I had had to work in my free time and films are expensive.Year by year, I forgot how much I love to take photos, I used my free time for sleeping and staying at home because I was so tired to go outside, I only want to save my energy for working and doing my homework. After I left Japan and came to the USA I bought a digital camera and the kit lens, right now I have more time (too much time though...) to start off to take photos and learn photography again. But funny thing is I miss the busy days in Japan.

I like the color, sometimes I don't like pictures

have too many colorful colors, I prefer mellow colors.
I think I like the colors that will make people feel a little bit
sorrowful, because I think it reminds people of past memories.

I like the photo because the Blue sky, green leaves and

seeds made me feel I'm in Hawaii when I saw it.
What do you guys think about it?

Bees has always made themselves busy hum.
However they are still my favorite topic, because they are so cute
and they are hard workers.When they are busy pollinating,
they'll ignore you when you are around them.
But! always be careful when you see Wasp.
They are not nice bee!!

Plants, insects and animals have always been my favorite topics,
so I have always been taking photos with macro lens,
but sad thing is I don't have a really macro lens.
My boyfriend said he'll give me a macro lens for my birthday gift,
BUT I didn't receive it yet.... it was one month ago.
I wish when he sees this he will feel a little bit pressured.
(He said, "yes, I felt." ) lol

Anyways, I had a fun day.But if it is possible...
I really don't want to walk so much like last time again. lol
Thanks everyone for reading all the words in this post.It's a long post.