Women

People have a fixed concept that women should stay home and handle all housework. Women accepted it for the sake of her family. At my mother’s generations, blind date was in fashion. They got marry in short time after dating with each other. My mother was only 23 that year. She told me that she had a lot of goals to achieve, but she had to take care of her family even now. I mean, she was not regretted for her marriage but felt pity that she couldn’t achieve her goals.
Today, I read an article on internet website. The title was International Survey Shows Philippines Tops in Women Managers. Statistics showed in this content that more and more women wanted to take part in jobs. They thought they were as good as men. Undoubtedly, more women now stood at the same position with men on their jobs. In Philippines, women held half of the senior management jobs in the country. Obviously, women proved their abilities by working hard. Husband should approve their wife to have a job if they want.

My new MP3

My younger sister bought a new MP3 recently. It was designed in white color, rectangle, and a clear screen. Moreover, it not only has fashionable look but simple and useful function such as download and play music, vedio,photo, and e-book files. I wanted to have the same one when my younger sister showed me few days ago. Therefore, I asked my friend Judy whether she could go to Carrefour with me or not. I didn’t look at other samples; I bought the MP3 I want directly. I can’t wait to use it directly, but I need to charge the battery for at least 12 hours. That means that I can use it tomorrow.

Be Cofident

“Be confident” a motto from a teacher in summer camp. The reason why I remember it so clearly is that I also had problem of being confident. The teacher in that activity emphasized that everyone should do anything with confident. He didn’t care whether we were right in grammar when we spoke English. In contrast, he was happy to hear more from his students. As my teachers in school, they also wanted students to be confident to speak English. They said it was ok to make mistake in spelling and grammar. However, I still can not overcome this challenge. It was a hard task for me. I was fear for making silly mistakes and maybe some teacher would think why I was so stupid. Therefore, I held back from raising my hand and answered questions. I didn’t know when I can be confident to do everything; perhaps something push me someday and I can be very confident of doing anything.

today is not my day

I got a cold the day before yesterday. I felt ok at the previous day. However, I felt awful because of my running nose this morning. It seemed there was an unlocked faucet on my nose because there was water kept pouring out from my nose. I used many packages of tissues. Worst of all, I kept coughing all day and it was really annoyed me. I was afraid to bother the teacher so I kept myself from coughing. It was very misery because of the serious itching throat. I hope I can get better tomorrow.

Be Honest

Yesterday, I bought two train tickets for next two weeks from Tainan to Nantou. I ordered them on internet, then wrote down the codes of these tickets and bought them at any train station. Interestingly, in my departed train station, there was just one ticket seller in the ticket window. Perhaps the seller was too busy to count money correctly because there were so many people in train station. He gave me the wrong changes. Theses two tickets cost me 358 NT dollars. I gave him 360 NT dollars so he should give me 2 NT dollars for change. However, he gave me 302 NT dollars. I was astonished and confused why he gave me so much money. I only spent 58 NT dollars for two tickets if I took the changes. I finally return the money because he might be in trouble if he lost 300 NT dollars. I was not regret to return the money, contrarily, I was happy because I was an honest person.

stray dogs

Before having my own dog a year ago, I rarely pay attention on stray dogs. Not knowing what to do, I could just stare at them and did nothing. Until having a dog, I started to take notice on them. I saw some of them were starving and some were sick. I didn’t have so much money to build a comfortable house for them or offered them so many foods. The only thing I could do was to feed them if I had food with me.
The temporary help couldn’t solve the real problems of stray dogs. The government should make some policies to help those dogs. For example, I saw a foreign TV program few weeks ago. The government of a nation asked some polices to protect dogs. Their responsibilities were as follows: First, they should make sure there was no dog abuse in every district. Second, they must to find out where stray dogs come from by finding out who was the host and why they threw their dogs away. In addition, they should detect everything about stray dogs even if they died. It was a good way to solve the problems. There will be less stray dogs than I saw now only if the government makes good policies.

Learning Japanese

I had no classes this afternoon because the teacher was on leave. I stayed in my room until having dinner with my friends. First, I took a nap because I almost awoke last night. It was because I drank a cup of 500cc milk tea. After short break, I felt powerful to do anything. I prepared for the listening test, read some English articles, and did some chores. When I piled up my textbooks, I fund a Japanese book which I studied at the first year. It reminded me the happy time of learning Japanese. It was pity to stop the class at the second year because the teacher left for another school. I remembered that I studied hard when I learned this language because I was very interested in it. Therefore, I made up my mind to study it again this year.

Two-day off

I spent two-day holidays in Tainan last week. What I mentioned was that it was the first time to stay here doing nothing important. I went home every week since the first year in university. I stayed in Tainan only when I had TOIEC test or some reasons that I had to stay. This year, my parents suggested me to go home two times a month. They thought I spent too much time and money taking train from Tainan to Nantou. I could not but promise them I will stay here last week. In fact, I really want to go home because I had serious homesick and I wanted to play with my lovely dog my father bought this year. No one will walk the dog and play with her when I was not home. Staying here was a little bit boring except I did my schoolwork within these two days. I tried to find something interesting to do such as watching movies, soap drama, and listening to the music and so forth. However, they could not raise my interests after few hours. Perhaps, I should go home to have my holidays.

Al Gore

I saw news today. It read that the America former vice president Al Gore won the Nobel Prize. He propelled the global warming to the top of the international agenda with his film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which received a lot of attention around the world. I also watched this film few months ago, the whole plot connected to the global warming intensely. In the contents, Al Gore stood in front of many people. He emphasized the serious effect of global warming. The atmosphere was harmony. Al Gore made the speech humorously though the issue is very important. In my opinion, he devoted almost his life to propel the earth protection. I was not surprised to the news that he got the noble prize because he deserved it.

The paralysed railway

The railway was destroyed due to the violent typhoon yesterday. The train cable was broken so the whole timetable was in chaos. I had eight classes today and I didn’t want to catch the train in hurry this morning. Therefore, I could not but wait for the train. Luckily, I had seat when I stepped into the train. I thought in my mind that I could take a nap before I reached Ta Chou. I did really take a nap but hardly could I breathe the fresh air. So many people get in the train and they talked too much. Moreover, the train I took called “Local”. It meant that the train I took had to wait for the express train to pass the platform in case. I was helpless because I couldn’t take other trains. Only the “Local” stopped at the station near my house. The only thing I could do was waiting for the express train to pass the platform.

movie class

Today, I had a course called English movie. I was very interested in this curriculum when I chose my minor course. The teacher wrote on his internet board that he want us to learn the background, cultural values, and ways of thinking from movies he offer. He will also analyze the subtitles in movies. My assignment is to watch movie and remember the meanings of the subtitles. It was new to do school work by watching movies. I felt fresh to joint this course; I believe that I can watch a movie with English subtitles after this semester.

unlucky day

I felt unlucky recently when I rode my motorcycle. I was a good citizen because I follow the traffic rules. I stopped when the traffic light turned yellow and I turned on the turned signal when I was ready to go right or left. I could not understand why so many people like to challenge to me. They could not do that even if my motorcycle is not good looking. My heart could not relax for whole week. Everyday, I wonder if I can go home safely. Maybe I will feel better after this weekend.

My new experience

Perhaps, it was common to most university students to stay up and went out with friends. However, I have difficulty in staying up or I feel tired the next day. Interestingly, I challenged to my body clock last Saturday. I stayed up all night with my friends.We went to the restaurant for dinner. After meal, we sat and chatted for almost five hours. Everyone made a suggestion for the next program.

We decided to go to AnPing to have fun. I saw many people there and I was proud of them because it was one o’clock that time. I doubted whether they felt sleepy or not. When my watch went to two thirty, we moved to the next place-85℃ to have dessert. We had poker game there. We played until about four thirty. We moved to the last spot- The Gold Shore. We stayed there until the sun appeared. I felt extremely tired because I had never stay up like that. It was a wonderful memory and experience to me. I thought there was no chance to have an experience like that because it was very crazy.