I look forward to the coming of spring break so much! After two months of exhausted class schedules, I really need a break! For both mentally and physically. But since the spring break only last for seven days (or less?), I am not planning for any long trip with in the coming of vacation. It would be great to just stay home and relax my life. I want to sleep until noon, make myself a delicious lunch, and perhaps go to the nearest shopping mall from my house. Oh, I might go to the car maintenance to check my car's status. see if I need to do the alignment or not.
Yap, that will be all for my spring break planning. But since " Plan can not catch change", maybe I will have another plan for my vacation. I just want to finish all my annoying homeworks and tests right now!
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Dr. Dolittle
(The movie Dr. Dolittle reminds me a bad memory 10 years ago. I was still a little girl at that time, spending my summer vacation in California with my aunt. I went to see Dr. Dolittle with my cousin, but I can barely understand what was the movie about. My English is not good enough to catch up all the words from the movie, so I just sit there like an idiot watching people laughing crazily. Ever since that day, I hate this movie lol )
I used to have a dog--Lucky, who happens to be the cutest Maltese in the world.(I believe every owner would feel the same way to their pet.) If he could speak, the first question I might ask him is " Who do you love most? Daddy? Mommy? Older brother? or ME?" The answer had better be me or else I will ask him to shut up. Among four of our family, I might be the one who treated him best. I took shower for him, I sometimes fed him steak, and I even let him share my pillow. So if I am not his "significant other", I would definitely feel heart breaking.
Next question I want to ask him is that " Are you gay? " or " Are you interested in other species more than dogs?" This is because one of my friend tried to match her female Maltese to my dog. When the female Maltese came to my house, Lucky just stare at her for a while and doesn't feel excited at all. We try to turn off the light and create a romantic atmosphere, but he just didn't do what all male animals usually do when they see female. " Maybe they feel shy to do such things in front of us" my friend try to explained for Lucky. So we put them in to a room for about two hours. After several days, I called to my friend asking her if we have any good news, but the answer is no. One strange thing is that another friend of mine took her mini pig to my house and Lucky is so crazy about her. He kept chasing and smelling at the mini pig as if she was the hottest girl he had ever seen. He really has to answer this question to clear out my doubt.
It has been five years since Lucky passed away. I miss him a lot! I have his picture in my schedule book which I bring it everyday with me, and I set him as my desktop picture so that I can see his big smile whenever I think about him. Maybe one last question here for Lucky, " will you be part of our family next time?"
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I used to have a dog--Lucky, who happens to be the cutest Maltese in the world.(I believe every owner would feel the same way to their pet.) If he could speak, the first question I might ask him is " Who do you love most? Daddy? Mommy? Older brother? or ME?" The answer had better be me or else I will ask him to shut up. Among four of our family, I might be the one who treated him best. I took shower for him, I sometimes fed him steak, and I even let him share my pillow. So if I am not his "significant other", I would definitely feel heart breaking.
Next question I want to ask him is that " Are you gay? " or " Are you interested in other species more than dogs?" This is because one of my friend tried to match her female Maltese to my dog. When the female Maltese came to my house, Lucky just stare at her for a while and doesn't feel excited at all. We try to turn off the light and create a romantic atmosphere, but he just didn't do what all male animals usually do when they see female. " Maybe they feel shy to do such things in front of us" my friend try to explained for Lucky. So we put them in to a room for about two hours. After several days, I called to my friend asking her if we have any good news, but the answer is no. One strange thing is that another friend of mine took her mini pig to my house and Lucky is so crazy about her. He kept chasing and smelling at the mini pig as if she was the hottest girl he had ever seen. He really has to answer this question to clear out my doubt.
It has been five years since Lucky passed away. I miss him a lot! I have his picture in my schedule book which I bring it everyday with me, and I set him as my desktop picture so that I can see his big smile whenever I think about him. Maybe one last question here for Lucky, " will you be part of our family next time?"
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Advice
In Taiwan, we have a clollege entrance test just like the SAT in US. All the high school students seeking to go to college are required to attend the test on July1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The tolal score of the tests are importantant of course, but there are still some basic limitation of different subject socres from various departments of universities. Different departments emphasize on different subjects. Once the score report was released from the internet, I sought for my mom's advice.
My mom is quite a dominate mom. To be honest, she alwasys thinks that her advice is the best of the world. As her daughter, I actually have no choice but to listen my mom's "suggestion." She analyzed my score report card and concluded that i got a higher Math, Manderine, and English score of all the subjects. The toatl score was not high enough to be enrolled in the top and second business school in Taiwan. I personally refused to go to the third business school because it is really far way from my house. My mom then suggested me to take a forieng language as my major in the second business school ( NCCU) which was also famouse for the foriengh language studies. Japanese and English were the most popular major during that period of time in Taiwan, however, my mom asked me to majored in Korean instead of those two majors. Her pespective was that both languages are too commonly used in the world, we should've differenciated ourselves with others so we can have more working opportunities. The final goal my mom asked my to accomplish is that to trasfer to business major in my second year and then make Korean as my minor.
In the end, I am still that well-behaviored little girl as she always expected me to be. I successfully got transfered to the risk management major and took Korean as my minor for the rest of three years. And as for the opportunities from the job markets? It actually worked! This is why there's an old saying from Chinese called" Always follow what old people ask you to do".
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My mom is quite a dominate mom. To be honest, she alwasys thinks that her advice is the best of the world. As her daughter, I actually have no choice but to listen my mom's "suggestion." She analyzed my score report card and concluded that i got a higher Math, Manderine, and English score of all the subjects. The toatl score was not high enough to be enrolled in the top and second business school in Taiwan. I personally refused to go to the third business school because it is really far way from my house. My mom then suggested me to take a forieng language as my major in the second business school ( NCCU) which was also famouse for the foriengh language studies. Japanese and English were the most popular major during that period of time in Taiwan, however, my mom asked me to majored in Korean instead of those two majors. Her pespective was that both languages are too commonly used in the world, we should've differenciated ourselves with others so we can have more working opportunities. The final goal my mom asked my to accomplish is that to trasfer to business major in my second year and then make Korean as my minor.
In the end, I am still that well-behaviored little girl as she always expected me to be. I successfully got transfered to the risk management major and took Korean as my minor for the rest of three years. And as for the opportunities from the job markets? It actually worked! This is why there's an old saying from Chinese called" Always follow what old people ask you to do".
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
American Food
Simple, cold, greasy, and unhealthy are all the adjectives that I can think of when describing American food. Hamburger, hamburger, hamburger, and hamburger are another four nouns that I can come up with when thinking of American food. As a Taiwanese, I am so proud of my country's food, and yes, I can surely tell you how different the food is between America and Taiwan.
Take breakfast in these two countries for example, American tend to eat cold food whereas Taiwanese like to eat hot dishes. People here like to eat sandwich, toast, and salad for breakfast. From a traditional Taiwanese perspective, those "food" are more like side dishes or light refreshments rather than a real "meal." Taiwanese like hot dishes for breakfast such as pork porridge with egg, noodle with soup or a bowl of rice with few side dishes. It is because the old generation thinks hot dishes can warm our stomach thus enabling better blood circulation.
Another amazing difference is that the food variety in my country is far multiple than that in America. Food choices here are less because American doesn't have as many cooking styles as Taiwanese does. Take beef for example, we have fried beef rice, beef noodle, beef stew, steamed beef and boil beef soup in Taiwan. However, for American food here, all I can think about are just steak and hamburger's beef.
Well, I can accept the cold, greasy, and unhealthy food sometimes, but definitely not everyday. Thank god I am living in a city where English is actually a second language here, I can always grab any kinds of Taiwanese food whenever I feel like it.
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Take breakfast in these two countries for example, American tend to eat cold food whereas Taiwanese like to eat hot dishes. People here like to eat sandwich, toast, and salad for breakfast. From a traditional Taiwanese perspective, those "food" are more like side dishes or light refreshments rather than a real "meal." Taiwanese like hot dishes for breakfast such as pork porridge with egg, noodle with soup or a bowl of rice with few side dishes. It is because the old generation thinks hot dishes can warm our stomach thus enabling better blood circulation.
Another amazing difference is that the food variety in my country is far multiple than that in America. Food choices here are less because American doesn't have as many cooking styles as Taiwanese does. Take beef for example, we have fried beef rice, beef noodle, beef stew, steamed beef and boil beef soup in Taiwan. However, for American food here, all I can think about are just steak and hamburger's beef.
Well, I can accept the cold, greasy, and unhealthy food sometimes, but definitely not everyday. Thank god I am living in a city where English is actually a second language here, I can always grab any kinds of Taiwanese food whenever I feel like it.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Optimistic Quote
Winston Churchill, president of United Kingdom , once said that "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Indeed, It is all about our choices to become a pessimist or optimist. As for me, I am 80% optimist and 20% pessimist.
If you ask my mom whether I am an optimist or pessimist, she would definitely answer you "optimist." There is one famous example my mom often makes fun on me--Whenever I ask my daughter her school test ranking, if she's no. 20(out of 30) in the class, she would proudly and calmly reply to me, "but there are still 10 people behind me!!" If you ask my brother about me, he would also tell you I am a optimistic person. " How did you do on your math test, Cyndy?" asked by my brother. "Not bad, I get 98"replied with ready-to-be compliment voice "oh? then how many people get full score?" "er.....hnm.....20 people...." "............okay....." Yes, I myself have to admit that I always look at the bright side of life.
What about the rest 20% of my pessimistic personality? I don't think I am an ENTIRE 100% optimistic person, to be honest, I think most of my optimistic characteristic comes from my pessimistic side. Whenever I am facing a difficult problem or making a critical decision, I always think about what if the worst situation happen? Can I handle it? or can I accept it? If I can persuade myself to accept the worst part, then the clouds on top of my head will soon disappear.
Life is never easy, not to mention a student's life. When you see a list of presentation, essay, and group project assignments, you do need to have an optimistic personality to deal with them!
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If you ask my mom whether I am an optimist or pessimist, she would definitely answer you "optimist." There is one famous example my mom often makes fun on me--Whenever I ask my daughter her school test ranking, if she's no. 20(out of 30) in the class, she would proudly and calmly reply to me, "but there are still 10 people behind me!!" If you ask my brother about me, he would also tell you I am a optimistic person. " How did you do on your math test, Cyndy?" asked by my brother. "Not bad, I get 98"replied with ready-to-be compliment voice "oh? then how many people get full score?" "er.....hnm.....20 people...." "............okay....." Yes, I myself have to admit that I always look at the bright side of life.
What about the rest 20% of my pessimistic personality? I don't think I am an ENTIRE 100% optimistic person, to be honest, I think most of my optimistic characteristic comes from my pessimistic side. Whenever I am facing a difficult problem or making a critical decision, I always think about what if the worst situation happen? Can I handle it? or can I accept it? If I can persuade myself to accept the worst part, then the clouds on top of my head will soon disappear.
Life is never easy, not to mention a student's life. When you see a list of presentation, essay, and group project assignments, you do need to have an optimistic personality to deal with them!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Birds of a Feather
" By parents at home, depend on the friends outside" an Chinese old saying said so. Friends are so indispensable in our daily life. Friends can be a good garbage can while you are upset or depressed and be a good guide whenever you feel lost in life. I met different types of friends in different stages in my life, some of them are similar to me but some are different.
Joanne,one of my high school friends, has a same birthday and blood type with me. Our classmates always say we are twins, because we have so much things in common. We both love to play tennis, go swimming and enjoy traveling around the world. The most incredible part is that we can feel and understand each other without any words. We often speak out the exactly same words in the same time.
Helen, in the other hand, has different characteristic and hobbies with me. She is my university classmates who is such a crazy girl. Helen is good at imitating other's facial expression. She always feel free to make a show in front of people whenever she feels like it. She is super out-going, talkative and creative, which is a bit different from me. But still, we share our secret and life together.
"Every person is a new door to a different world.", no matter they are different from me or similar to me, I treasure every friendship I have in my life.
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Helen, in the other hand, has different characteristic and hobbies with me. She is my university classmates who is such a crazy girl. Helen is good at imitating other's facial expression. She always feel free to make a show in front of people whenever she feels like it. She is super out-going, talkative and creative, which is a bit different from me. But still, we share our secret and life together.
"Every person is a new door to a different world.", no matter they are different from me or similar to me, I treasure every friendship I have in my life.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Getting Around
LA is a very attractive city, with her nice weather, beautiful beaches and various entertainments. But as for public transportation? It is terrible. How terrible is it? Let's take the route from my house(@Hacienda Heights) to school for example. First choice--take subway. Ooops, I don't see any of it. Second choice--take train. Oh my god, how I go to the train station is even a bigger problem. Third choice--take bus. The nearest bus station from my house takes 25 minutes by walk, plus the time waiting for the bus, transferring to several buses, and the actual transportation time, by the time I arrive school, the school is close! The only choice for me to go to school is driving. Unfortunately, I hate driving. The first thing I came to USA is learn how to drive. Yes, I never drive before and I am certainly not a person who enjoys such things. How I get my driver license is another story.
The public transportation system in my country is way too convenient comparing to that in LA. We have a subway system linking two main cities, amazing bus system taking people from mountain to sea, and high speed rail system connecting cities from north to south. People do drive in my country, but most of people prefer to use public transportation to commute. It takes me 1 minute to go to subway station and 3 minutes to bus station from my house, why bother to drive a car ?
I guess I am just too spoiled by my country's awesome public transportation system, so I can't get used to the living style in LA. Well, I will try harder to adapt myself to it, and please be patient if you happen to drive behind a gold Toyota Camry. I will be very appreciate : )
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The public transportation system in my country is way too convenient comparing to that in LA. We have a subway system linking two main cities, amazing bus system taking people from mountain to sea, and high speed rail system connecting cities from north to south. People do drive in my country, but most of people prefer to use public transportation to commute. It takes me 1 minute to go to subway station and 3 minutes to bus station from my house, why bother to drive a car ?
I guess I am just too spoiled by my country's awesome public transportation system, so I can't get used to the living style in LA. Well, I will try harder to adapt myself to it, and please be patient if you happen to drive behind a gold Toyota Camry. I will be very appreciate : )
I've read and commented on Cindy and Sophia's journal
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