一句話 [賠四年]

昨天跟以前學生還有家長一起去喝  [宵夜茶]



因為都已經晚上將近九點, 姑且稱之 [宵夜茶]



很少有機會相聚, 因為我要出國唸書



這頓茶點是由家長買單啊!!!!



席間聊到, 那句  [馬上就好]



才知道原來我們兩家政黨同一色



這位家長算是 [跑的快] 一族



股票賠的算不太多一族



不過, 她週遭一堆人當初真的是因為



廣告中那句  [馬上就好]



原本淺綠也投藍



結果股票慘賠啊!!!!!!



我突然也想到我弟同事中



不少人也是因為那支廣告



322之後, 有人甚至去玩  [融資]



慘遭斷頭, 近況很不佳



單位中有人慘賠一台賓士S320



戰況悽慘



這句  [馬上就好] 的經典  [詐欺] 台詞



出自於老哥大學同學廣告公司



那天聽到這消息, 我笑到翻過去



很想知道我哥的同學有沒有買股票啊



-------------------------我是分隔線-------------------------------



我的學生也從一個小美女轉變成一個大美女



身高也已經超過我了<昨天看到時, 真有股歲月催人老的感受> 



看看將來有沒有辦法攀上170



甫上國中時, 就引起一陣炫風



一堆學長瘋狂寫信, 簡訊啊



讓她娘緊張不已



親愛的Sally, 看到這篇文章時



表示妳娘親還是很緊張, 關心妳



又不想給你太大的壓力



你還是先好好用功



你是聰明的女孩子



未來大有可為啊!



不是要你賺大錢, 而是希望你找到一個很棒的方向





男人你目前還用不上的



<我的學生在某個相簿中, 文章出現過, 猜猜看是那位吧!>

東西羅曼史比較

看愛情小說, 算一算也超過16年以上, 如果一天一本來計算, 保守估計也超過5800本左右, 很習慣台灣香港模式. 



從早期的瓊瑤, 玄小佛, 到葉小嵐, 席絹到最近這幾年黑潔明等. 是都以女性為出發點沒錯, 女主角佔的戲份也超過5成以上, 男主角也約4成左右, 剩下一成大概是配角. 



但是最近因為要練習英文閱讀能力及速度, 所以幾乎是一個禮拜一本英文羅曼史, 可是男女主角的戲份可就有著天大的差別. 



男主角若能在裡頭分到兩成就已經不錯, 包括古典小說傲慢與偏見, 我都覺得賓利, 達西先生加起來的成分可能都輸給後來跟LYDIA私奔的老公. 最近看到那本Confession of shopaholic那書中的Luke先生, 我真的覺得他只是一個冠上男主角的移動名詞. 女主角好朋友蘇西的戲份都比他多啊! 



雖然知道東西方羅曼史作者是女性沒錯, 但是之間的落差真的是很大. 



不過, 有個共同點, 還真的走遍全天下, 都一樣啦. 



男主角都是事業有成, 連最近看的 'The undomestic goddess' 一書中的男主角Nathianel都是擁有三家pub的'園丁'. 



而女主角目前都跟著趨勢跑, 都有著自己的事業. 瓊瑤阿姨跟辰凱倫的小說已經是退流行, 難怪環珠格格一出場, 我只能傻眼, 完全跟不上時代的感覺. 台灣跟外國小說中女主角目前都有著很大的共同點, 會活出自我, 有種想法就是: 女人不靠男人也可以活的很好的. 



不過有個地方很有趣, 台灣目前很習慣寫女性獨自撫養小孩, 但是傾向寫出美好的那一面, 相較之下, 外國小說會撫養小孩, 很不多, 如果有, 也會著重相處之間的衝突, 美好與幻滅都兼顧. 



至於親熱方面, 我真的得說:台灣的小說作者技高一籌, 寫的很火辣辣, 外國作者一定得甘拜下風. 因為實在很不怎樣啊! 慾望城市的作者都無法跟台灣的小說作者媲美啊!

囉唆! 踢皮球的官僚!

官僚, 全世界的官僚都差不多吧!?



我很討厭去公所, 農會等相關單位



因為每次一進去, 就是看到一堆人



聊天, 看報紙



有事情的時候開始踢皮球



這次鳳凰颱風造成山區的道路坍塌



使的[鐵牛車] 無法上去採收水果



所以老爸九點多要我去工所替他報[災害]



所以拿著上次卡玫基的表格, 加上這次的災害單



去鄉公所, 卡玫基的表格確認之後



憑著財政課工作人員指示到二樓找相關人員



結果, 那位老兄要我去找技士



找到技士之後, 這位老兄又要我回到一樓找服務台



服務台似乎又一問三不知, 只是負責填寫資料



我咧!!!靠靠靠!!!! 幹幹幹!!!



早知道就拿手機出門, SNG跟我爸連線算了!



一下跟我要道路名稱, 一下問我是要小山貓, 還是怪手



一下問我是[搶修/通] 還是 [復建]



我覺得邏輯有很大的問題咧



因為她要我二選一



但是我已經告訴她



走山之後, 土石掩蓋路面, 車子無法通過, 當然是[搶修/通]



但是路面下的土石早已水分飽和, 導致路面破裂, 當然是[復建]也要





搞了老半天, 最後服務人員要我再回家去問清楚



到底是[搶修] or[復建]



晚點打電話給她

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我的心得就是:



土石掩埋的道路一但搶通, 但是面對破裂, 凹凸不平的產業道路, 就算是四輪傳動的貨車都難以上山啊! 那麼道路也是需要[復建]啊! 為什麼只能要災民二選一!



而且鄉公所工作人員面對颱風過後, 一堆人申請災害, 應該也很清楚寫出告示牌, 該去那位工作人員申請, 而不是要災民像無頭蒼蠅, 在公所四處問人啊! 難怪, 常聽到有人說很不想要[申請], 一來手續繁瑣, 二來工作人員也搞 不清楚, 三來, 印章要一直蓋蓋蓋, 簡而言之, 一句話 [[ 煩! ]]

書籍: The Undomestic Goddess<完成>

是誰決定一個人的價值, 生活?



你的父母, 同事還是你自己?



這本書一開始覺得還算是有趣, 但是還不太能夠吸引我想寫心得. 



直到第22章開始, 我覺得故事進入比較高潮迭起. 



就是一個人的工作職稱真有那麼重要?



律師, 管家?



那個比較高尚?



Samantha 找到了她喜歡的生活, 也拒絕再當一位時薪500英鎊的律師, 很多人都認為實在是匪夷所思, 就因這樣, 當大家開始質疑她的決定, 她也跟著開始動搖了! 



最後跟男朋友有了一場不愉快的爭吵, 她還是決定回去當律師, 但是一連串的事情, 例如: 她又要開始過了6分鐘一單位的生活, 開始過著空中飛人的生活, 開始過著工作七天, 一天24小時的非人生活. 她不僅懷疑這真的是她所想要的嗎?



最有趣的就是Samantha開始注意起生活週遭有趣的事物, 而她的律師同事們卻依然注意著手上的黑莓機, 或者是法律文件. 她才明暸那已經不再是她想要過的生活, 就算她曾經付出七年的時間在這方面, 但那不是真正在乎的生活了! 



後面幾章比較有點fu, 我原本以為這一本應該也是沒啥感覺的一本書, 反正就是有趣,然後會像上一本一樣, 沒能寫出幾個字的想法. 卻在最後四章才發現我真的有感覺了!



不禁會開始想目前的生活真的是我所想要的嗎? 我的父母, 同事, 手足有沒有影響到我呢? 台灣人普遍都很容易受到他人的影響而去改變自己的想法, 在看這本書, 有點諷刺. 



最後引用作者Sophie Kinsella文中page 380所寫, Nathianel 母親最後送給Samantha的最後幾句話:



"Sweetie... I am sure you're doing what's best for you. But just remember, you only get your youth once. You only get these precious years once."

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以下是我用英文寫的想法:

After reading the book, ‘The Undomestic Goddess’ , I have a sudden thought in my mind. Who can decide what you want and what lifestyle you want to live?

 

The beginning of the book is sort of familiar because it described the life in modern city. Busy, busy and always busy like the people who live around you. Always pays attention on mobile phones and wonders what to do next. Six minutes is a unit for Samantha as a busy lawyer in London. She has to do plenty of things in six minutes, such as skim legal documents or type a legal contracts etc. She has decided to be a successful lawyer since she was 12 years old and therefore she has been working 7-24-7. She was almost successful until she found she made an elementary level mistake. She left her legal firm and found an unexpected job out of London as a full-time housekeeper. Huge jump, isn’t it? The initial stage of being a housekeeper was a total disaster.  She didn’t know how to use vacuum cleaner, washing machine, cooking so that she almost destroyed apparatus in the kitchen. The gardener, Nathaniel, offered his great help to Samantha to get used to being a housekeeper.

 

One day, Samantha found the mistake she made in the legal firm was set by her trusted friend. She disguised herself into the firm and tried to find any clues which could clear her name. She failed so that she turned to ask help from her frightened superior. Then came by a series of troubles, media came to her village and tried to find the truth why she rather be a housewife than being a lawyer. Therefore she could not keep her life as usual. Her friend, Guy, persuaded her back to London as a 500 pound lawyer. At the beginning she refused to be a lawyer again. But people around her treated her not as usual and they could not imagine why she left so well-paid opportunity and courage her back to London and as a great lawyer except Nathaniel. Samantha doubts her decision and then she ask help from her boyfriend. However, they had a row and then she decided to be a lawyer again. The funniest part to me is that Samantha wants to keep her country side pace as usual but her colleagues could not let her do that because they have already arranged piles of legal meeting around the world. She found herself could not be ex-Samantha again. The conflicts of the last 4 chapters are my favorite and they really described funny and sad sides of being a lawyer.

 

The book is a great try and I think it is much better than the last one I read ‘Can You Keep A Secret?’

以下是我用英文寫的想法:以下是我用英文寫的想法:以下是我用英文寫的想法:

累積雨量VS 時雨量

78mm, 是啥東西?





如果放在颱風前來, 我全家都認為是累積雨量. 



壓根沒想到時雨量, 我印象中時雨量出現在我小學的自然實驗中, 也僅那次.





結果偉大台北市民選出偉大的郝軍頭好丁丁說:



7/27視察社子島當天晚上說:



如果台北市的雨量不超過78mm, 保證不淹水.

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鳳凰颱風／雨量低於78mm　市長保證北投不淹

記者:楊致中     攝影:李偉華    台北     報導

迎戰鳳凰颱風，台北市長郝龍斌上午到北投視察說，只要雨量低於78毫米，中央南路絕對不會再淹水；另外台北縣政府也成立防災指揮中心，所有抽水站完成測試，部分鄉鎮市公所也提供大量沙包給民眾使用，而經常飽受淹水之苦的中和景安街住戶，則是很熟練地搬出鐵門和隔板，連夜自製擋水門，神經緊繃。 聽到滴滴答答的雨聲，住戶趕緊從家裡搬出沙包和木板。中和市長邱垂益：「不會淹嗎？」景安街住戶：「有用黏土。」邱垂益：「喔，用黏土粘了。」 每次下大雨，台北縣中和復興路、景安路口必淹水，住戶罵聲連連，迫不得已，都成了淹水專家，這位老先生還把鐵門改造變成擋水板。景安街住戶：「水還是會進去啊，因為這裡是最低漥的地方了。」 市長說排水函管太老舊，無法瞬間排掉過多水量，才會淹水，縣府也緊急成立災害應變中心，所有抽水站完成待命，一旦雨量過大，將關閉淡水河和新店溪流域水門。 在台北市的部分，貓攬已經停駛，面對鳳凰颱風，市長郝龍斌，視察北投大業抽水站時，誇下海口，只要雨量沒超過標準，絕對有辦法應付。台北市長郝龍斌：「它降雨量在78毫米以下，換句話說台北市其它地方不淹水的時候，我們這個地方我們一定會努力做到不淹水。」 市府表示，北投中央南路一段，地勢低漥過去常淹水，現在抽水站啟用了，將發揮效果，台北市會不會淹水，到時候看這裡就知道。

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過後沒多久, 他的下屬趕緊出來替他的主子澄清說:



78mm指的是: 時雨量



T台, 三立幾乎每台電視台都一刀未減呈現畫面給全國大眾看. 當下, 我真的覺得郝市長, 好厲害, 他可以做到馬糞做不到的事情. 





結果證明: 還不是廢人一個. 好市長自己說錯話, 又不敢承認, 只好要下屬出面澄清, 之後又怪罪三立, 我咧! 



我上頭抓的新聞室T台, 那是否T台也誤會了! 還是好市長的眼中只有三立是罪魁禍首, 其他台要怎麼誤解好市長都無所謂了!





回到好市長硬ㄠ的[時雨量] 與一般大眾比較熟知的[累積雨量]



使用google一查



時雨量:約有62,500項符合時雨量的查詢結果，以下是第 1-10項。 共費0.04 秒。 



累積雨量: 約有127,000項符合累積雨量的查詢結果，以下是第 1-10項。 共費0.26 秒。 





好吧! 我比較屬於127,000那群, 而不是偉大台北市政府那群的62,500. 怎麼最近老K黨老是做一些跟社會大眾很不一樣的事情, 連個雨量都可以跟人不一樣. 

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PS: 氣象局的解說真的是文言文嗎? 奶罩說他聽不太懂, 我那只有小學畢業的娘, 都表示不會, 氣象局講的很清楚, 她知道那邊會很慘, 那邊會下大雨. 那邊會風大,天啊! 我娘用一副原來出國唸書的知識份子也不過如此的模樣說 :

[如果這樣都聽不懂, 奶罩是不是博士拿假的?]

Megabus玩英國

玩英國最方便的方式就是搭火車, 但是火車好貴啊! 就算是買聯票, 我還是覺得很貴, 乾脆去訂了megabus, 便宜, 當然便宜是要付出代價. 那就是:



Time/ 時間, 可能會坐到天昏地老,整個人會暈掉



我總共訂了四段車票:



Manchester-Inverness <這段最貴了! 要價 14.5英鎊 >, 從中午12:40出發, 到晚上9:35抵達目的. 我想我的屁股很辛苦 >_<"不過看在省鈔票的份上, 訂了! 火車最便宜也都收我110--126英鎊<這是二等艙> .  住宿也已經安排了, 晚點到也沒關係.  





Inverness--Aviemore <一英鎊>, 不到一小時的車程. 可以去看蘇格蘭的高地與湯瑪士小火車! 





Aviemore--Edinburgh <一英鎊>, 約四小時車程





Ediburgh--Newcastle <一英鎊>, 將近三小時



含了訂位費, 共18英鎊



的確是很划算, 但是前提是我得花上很多時間坐車, 不過, 每個地點我都安排兩天到四天不等, 所以還是很OKAY. 

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住宿也敲定了!



Iverness住在B&B, 一天30英鎊, 因為連住四天. 老闆打了95折. 114英鎊.



Aviemore, 住在hostel, 兩夜. 36英鎊



Edinburgh, 住在hostel, 四夜, 68英鎊



之後再來分享一下心得吧!

那麼快咧!

UK visa到手了! 我咧!



他是以超音速辦理嗎?



我禮拜三交件了+0+



今天才禮拜六中午



我就已經收到了



真的是太驚人

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看到自己的VISA心得就是



我咧!好醜咧!



比申根簽證還醜



跟2002比起來的英國學生簽還更醜咧



是怎樣咧!



不過



我很慶幸英國簽證中心給了我16個月的有效期限



感恩咧

高雄UK VISA的心得

英國簽證真的不難辦, 但是文件一定帶的要夠齊全,另外錢一定要夠, 畢竟我覺得UK也是很死愛錢>_<





高雄的英國簽證中心位於六合路上, 如果是九月要辦簽證的人, 搭高捷橘線就可以, 不用像我一樣還要舟車勞頓去到高雄, 差點沒累死. 可以早一點去也沒差, 我原本預約12點, 但是11點半就抵達, 警衛在使用金屬探測器之後, 也很快的就放我進去, 進去之後馬上要去抽號碼牌, 文件通通拿給辦簽證的工作人員, 最好事前分好:一份是正本, 一份是影本. 若是舊護照找不到, 請去內政部出入境管理局申請, 一份一百元, 每個縣市都有分部, 另外, 沒有報名presessional課程, 但是直接報名其他的語言中心課程的人也一定要請該語言學校核發一份證明入學的文件. 





所有的文件審核完畢, 接下來就準備去[按指紋, 拍大照], 所以那天記得穿美一點, 打扮美一點, 不要像我一樣, 聳聳的去, 拍了聳聳的大頭照 +_+//





很久嗎? 其實也還好. 從進去到出來, 不到20分鐘. 前提: 都沒人跟你搶.  





如果不想要親自取件, 那就另外付210元的郵寄費用, 再加上學生簽證6500, 那天就灑了6710元.





以上就是我的英國簽證申請心得 +_+. 另外, 高雄辦事處感覺很悶, 裡頭的人都很嚴肅, 我這個人想要搞的笑聲都不敢咧!!!! 不過, 工作人員還是很盡責, 她們只是不太笑而已, 但是不會覺得機車, 放心.

開車下車走路, 繼續開車

昨天還真的是舟車勞頓的一天



六點半跟著老哥開車去上班



之後, 我把車子開回家



休息一個小時, 喝個藥



繼續開車去關廟接朋友



直接上二高前往高雄辦理英國簽證



高雄市還真的是很不好停車



停到文化中心, 走到六合路, 民族路交叉口



簽證, 文件夠齊全, 基本上真的是去核對



順便壓個指紋, 拍張照



That's all. 



中午在附近吃了一間金太郎壽司



頗便宜的, 又吃的飽



開車去漢神巨蛋逛一下



繼續開車回關廟



沒多久又繼續開車去南科載人



開車去台南市參加聚餐



開車回南科拿東西之後開車回家



回到家晚上九點半



幾乎超過一大半的時間都在車子上



簡單的梳洗, 還想說瞇一下起來喝藥



結果黏到枕頭, 就呼呼呼的睡到今天早上六點多

久那沒用--腰酸背痛

太久沒打羽毛球



昨天第一次去打正式的雙人羽球



一來歸則實在是不懂



二來是不熟悉正式場地



我的夥伴完全被我拖累



我可以讓對方很快就touch down



而我卻還搞不清楚



走位



我咧!





什麼走位?



那是啥東東



早上向老哥討教



結果他有說, 我沒懂



最慘的是



雖然平日有固定半小時後的走路



但是碰上這種號稱[最快速的運動]



那半小時的走路, 閃邊去



我的右手很酸痛



我的腰, 我的屁股



都一再再的恥笑我



[主人, 你太久沒運動到這些肌肉群]



我決定去趴一下



晚點還要繼續努力去打球



還有一個月可以打......

卡玫基退水之後...

水退之後



接踵而來就是







善後啊



花了半天的時間清理家園



赫然發現家中還真多鍋碗瓢盆



沙發還得推出去曬太陽



洗衣機還在等待陰乾之後



使用吹風機烘乾溼氣



生活慢慢回歸正常



算一算我家算是幸運的



跟其他家比較下來



我門也只是曬曬沙發



有的人家還得曬衣服, 床墊, 書桌....



楠西鄉成了曬曬鄉



-----------------我是分隔線--------------------



昨天終於有機會上梅嶺一探究竟



那天tvbullshit台



在新聞上播報來看[芒果的故鄉--玉井]災情



結果畫面一出來, 那是楠西的梅嶺風景區



我咧!



梅嶺風景區成了[梅嶺災難區]



一句成語非常貼切 [柔腸寸斷]



道路平的太少, 有看過乳突狀乳膠枕嗎?



有的路段巷是地震過後的路面



有的柏油路走過後還會留下 [足跡]



水管露在外頭



二層坪最慘,上到觀音寺的道路全斷



沿路上的餐廳地機完全慘遭溪水掏空



甚至有家餐廳--慘遭河水沖刷



完全不見了, 只有留下人啊



如果未來兩星期再來一個颱風



帶來驚人的雨量



我弟跟我跟我的想法



就是梅嶺直接[封山]吧!



讓他喘口氣啊







溪水沖刷, 房子的地基都沒了! 房子還傾斜了!







橋面破了一個大洞 >_<









那一大片的楊桃園, 已經完全不行了.









大部分去梅嶺吃梅子雞的人, 都會考慮這家[文川], 那一池子的魚兒通通掛了. 阿兵哥上來幫忙整理家園. 









[文川咖啡館]成了文川土石災難區, 我們全家很納悶怎嚜桌椅沒沖走?

新玩意

最近為了出國唸書，陸續進貨好幾樣電子產品。



昨天去買了一台筆電。華碩的F8，老弟跟老哥跟店內工作人員諦諦咕估很久，我始終聽不懂那些專業術語。我只告訴他，我只要能夠寫作業，功能OKAY就好了！所以乾脆就買了這台，弄到好，26K。







含電池，重達2.5公斤。小重，但是跟目前手邊這台比起來算OKAY。





華碩的手機，P320 mini GPS PDA。使用操作很方便，唯一的缺點。我覺得拍照功能很不怎樣，還有要開相機功能，等的真的是很久咧！ 不過，這隻PDA真的是很可愛。









再加上上次去日本，買了一台新的相機，canon的RUX80。真的是很輕薄短小，好攜帶，但是缺點是：夜拍功能很差。

第二次泡水<補圖，影片>

我家又泡水了



第二次了





<水位差點要滅掉茶几！兩台音響也慘遭泡水了！>



都跟颱風, 排水不良有關



靠!上次老爸已經警告過鄉長了



結果還不是一樣



又淹水了



這次更誇張



上次淹水了5-8公分



這次簡直是淹到30公分高了



目前有逐漸上升的疑慮



一樓所有物品通通泡水



老哥的車子, 也泡水了





<隔天一覺醒來的退水樣。>



開車回家時



終於知道什麼是在水中開車



慶幸沒有熄火



但是一路上開開停停



總是要看別人敢開



我才會跟著開



可是在玉井還是不開了



去三舅家避難



等水退了才再慢慢開回家



結果卻是有家歸不得



只好將車子停在鄉公所附近



一路撐著傘回家



水從腳踝處一路淹淹淹淹到我的大腿上



附近人家的黃金獵犬



根本不敢留在主人家



牠家比我家還嚴重



連狗兒都逃難去










這是晚上11點的大雨，雨勢滂陀。


淹水真慘咧!

Forms. How come I need to do so many procedures?

I spent three hours filling in all the information to apply UK visa. 

There are more than 60 questions. 



Some of them are repeated again and again. 

While filling the blanks, I can’t calm myself down because it’s really boring. 

After those boring procedures, you need to pick the timetable when you want to go to UK visa center in southern Taiwan. 



Lucky me,  the time i picked is really great “12:00”. 



Everybody wants to have lunch, but I need to bring lots of documents to visit the lovely officials there. 



I changed a hair style and it’s good for me to take a new photo for applying VISA.

花了三小時，填了一堆表格。頗無聊。有點問題，還一再重複啊！問題很多。讓人有想打哈欠的情況。偏偏填的時候，心情很不平靜，不知道為何如此。申請英簽，必須得排時間，我的時間很美麗，剛好是大家要去吃飯的時候。真好啊！大家去吃飯，而我卻得去排英簽。昨天換了各新髮型，很短。順便去拍各大頭照吧！

做人要有信用

我喜歡謝先生，但是我覺得他講過的話。更應該要負起責任。



因為：選輸要退出政壇，是他講過的話。



那就最好做到這一點。



不然，我覺得他和馬糞會沒兩樣。

書籍：購物狂的異想世界

中英文一起寫。但是請不要中英對照。因為我這次是邊看邊寫出心得。中文有中文的邏輯，英文有英文的想法。兩文完全不搭尬。

At the beginning, I would rather to buy another book, “Can you keep a secret?” than this one “Confessions of a shopaholic”. As a result, I finally decided to book this one about a woman who works as a journalist in a magazine and loves to buy the season’s must- haves. Ironically, she writes articles about finance, but she doesn’t have any sense about store her money and invest it to grow into a huge amount. Without any financial sense, she still works in that firm for more than three years.

 

When I got this book, I read it at once. The beginning is really interesting and ironic. It describes every woman’s nightmare with a credit card very vividly. How many items they bought every month to decorate themselves so that they usually overdraw their account and then max out their credits. It illustrates women read Financial Times and they bring it under their arms and respect to gain others’ seriously treats because they really knew what happen in the financial trends. Such as which company merger others or which stupid government provide huge loan to rescue their bleak financial systems…..etc. Rebecca did those things but she did not read thoroughly. She only skims the magazine and then expect others will pay attention on her clothing or accessories. I wonder how she could survive in the competitive financial world without being sacked.

I have to be honest I don’t really like the woman in this book. It is because I hate stupid women especially those who don’t know how to control themselves. Unfortunately, the woman in the book is really good at being a stupid. Being with them always makes me feel tired and bored. The more I read, the more frustrating I gained from this book. I just can’t understand why the stupid woman always put herself in such embarrassing moment and had to flee away those scenes. The book is really a textbook to warn women, especially those who love to find excuse to rationalize their shopping behaviors. I really understand because I DID it before until I found myself could not save any more penny from my salary. As the result, I ask my finance advisor to help me to find a way to save some money.

 

To be honest, I don’t really recommend this book because it’s my favorite one. But if you want to see such amazing and stupid woman in this book, have a look via books.com.tw or amazon.com also provide some previews and comments on its website.

以下是漢語的想法：

很有趣，很諷刺的一本小說。作者果然是有混過的金融圈，同時也非常懂女性，尤其是那些對於fashion有著狂熱的購物狂。每閱讀一章，我總是有股說不出的諷刺感，因為這真的是很像我對於慾望城市的想法。一個人到底要賺多少錢才能供的起自己購買Vivian Westwood, 或者是Hermes的柏金包？

 

作者是透過Rebecca寫出一個在財經雜誌工作的記者身份寫出一個不會控制自己購買力，甚至還妄想透過一紙lottery來贏得one point three的百萬英鎊，邊看邊笑，因為這真的很符合一般社會大眾啊！如果我贏得…，我就會….等。

 

Rebecca發現自己陷入debt的情況是，寄望透過一本由DAVID E Barton所寫 “controlling your cash” 寄望自己可以擺脫窘境。一切一切都以David所說為準則，但事實上，牛牽到北京還是一頭牛啊！死性不改。這一切一切都在於『環境太多誘惑』，但是如果一個人沒有克制力，又要如何寄望一個David E Barton來拯救一個沒有sense的購物狂？

 

有時候閱讀這本書，還真的有很大的耐心, 看這本書還真的邊看邊搖頭，為什麼？

 

因為，因為，這個女主角很笨，笨到常讓自己陷入無地自容的狀態。有句成語很適合她『打腫臉充胖子』，呵呵！

 

沒能力，卻老是希望在自己的包包是個超級名牌包，或者是夾各類金融的雜誌，期望他人的尊重與對待。結果，當真正的行家開始詢問相關問題，只想逃避，因為她真的是不懂。文中還出現她出糗落跑的情況。

 

喜歡購買名牌，結果發現錢不夠，陷入窘境，好心人特意幫了一把，因為她撒謊說要送病人，事情後來『曝光』，只好繼續說謊下去。

 

要過著zen-like的生活，提醒自己要節約，結果，老是事與願違！

 

想當各table hop，結果，讓自己陷入丟臉情境，因為人家不太甩她。

 

種種讓人無法理解的stupid woman所產生的一個生活在倫敦的女性，跟上一本的Melissa有如天壤之別。

 

其實日常生活中還挺常看到這種stupid women存在。閱讀時，老讓我想到好幾年前在台北西門町搭捷運時，碰到兩個fashion極了的女孩，很漂亮，很時尚，但是對話內容讓人噴飯：

 

A女：穿的美美的，皮夾子也鼓鼓的。

B女：是啊！可是一看到皮夾子裡頭，卻是空空的。

 

還挺慶幸自己，對於名牌慾望很低，第一：我沒那麼多錢，得承認。第二：穿起來也沒有super model的氣質。第三：我不想養卡債。不過，買不起名牌，另一種辦法就是看看就好了，反正我還是叫得出名號。我不想當月光族，更不想當各卡債族。

 

這本書還真有『警惕』的效果。

 

衣服啊！該帶多少？

望著衣櫥



我到底該帶多少呢？



短袖，長袖，短褲，長褲，圍巾



一件一件搬，一件一件折



有著使用海運，有的乾脆自己丟到行李去



如何在行李箱裡頭發會最大的功用



折疊法可是一大門學問啊



有時候看著購物台，我都會想著我是否該去購買『靜電置物袋』



每每看著主持人講到天花亂墜，隨便一個袋子就可以將近40件衣服



我好心動啊！！！！



明天還要去郵局買各標準的箱子



準備來海運了



我媽笑說：我是要去賣茶嗎？



準備了一堆茶葉出國



無茶不歡啊！英國的茶，也不是那麼合我的胃



我最愛『阿里山高山茶』跟日本茶啊！

Book: My little lady agency

I was impressed by its cover from eye-shopping on books.com.tw. It looks really simple, cute and stylelish. Reading the brief introduction, I am fond of about a girl with her own agency and the little lady tried to solve men’s problem or accept some girlfriends’ requests to smarten their boyfriends’ slobby problems. While get along with those request, Melissa also had to face her internal wish and problems with her shameless dumping experience, intense relationship with family and the relation between two men, Nelson and Jonathan.

 

I never read a book with amazing speed, but I did it for this book. I read two hundred pages in one day. I desire to know whom Melissa would end with. However, the wrier play a trick with reader, The Little Lady Agency is a series of books with three. I just finished book one and there are two books left. It’s sort of sadness, because books.com.tw does provide book2 and 3 but I need to wait for a long period of time like what I did for book 1.

 

The process of reading this book full of happiness and annoying is that I am happy that Melissa overcame every problems from the a variety of job missions and kept accumulating her confidence through her altar-ego, Honey. The process Melissa’s father and she always have a serious problem and thus Melissa always felt frustrated after fighting against her dreadful father.

                            

Book 1 is about Melissa’s trying her best to run her little agency smoothly and work hard to find out the one whom she really loves. She had a wonderful flatmate, Nelson with gay character mold, but I really happy he isn’t acting like George Downes and had relation with an attractive estate agent, Jonathan. Reading book 1 I know I really prefer Nelson rather than Jonathan. Maybe he is more considerate than Jonathan and he really knows cooking. Jonathan is a good guy to be with as well. He always reminds me thinking about Mr. Big because he is always with courteous manner and lady-killer outfit and tough so that he could fight against Melissa’s father. Ya, acting like a hero to protect his princess. However, I am not a big fan of fairy tale anymore and hence I prefer woman kills the dragon with her own sword instead of waiting for some heroes to rescue her out of the castle. Book 1 end with Melissa got along with Jonathan, but there are still two books left. Maybe book three would end with a surprising ending. I am longing for the other two books.





Book 1: The Little Lady Agency



Book 2: Little Lady, Big Apple



Book 3:The Little Lady Agency and Her Prince

Impressions about Lan-Yu

Orchid Island Handmade Canoe



So far, I haven’t got any chances to visit the far-away island which belongs to Taiwan . I heard one of my friends said it is a lovely and a little small island. Living there isn’t a bad idea but you must be well prepared for living there without too many convenient shops. Orchid Island , which means many orchids had grown there before. I mean long time ago. My friend told me that her journey  was an interesting and unforgettable experience. Flying with 18 passengers small jet plane scared her; shops usually are closed before 8 o’clock, and do not take photos to those locals, otherwise, they will get mad because you don’t respect them. She told me if people want to travel there, they must respect them and their culture. As the result, they sure will have a great journey. 





It’s a pleasure to enjoy a series of pictures which were posted by BBC In Pictures. BBC took a close look of Orchid Island . They do not take very beautiful photos to introduce people all over the world about Tao tribe. Instead, they focus on decribing “Fly Fish Festival” and wooden craft “Orchid Island Canoe”. Readers could read the instructions of photo and get a deep understanding about the “Fly Fish Festival” ceremony. 

They also illustrate 3 nuclear plants waste bring several severe medical problems to locals; language problems and traditional skills are dying because of young people’s outflow.

If you are really interested in these pictures, please click the link:





BBC IN PICTURES: Taiwan Tao trible





I am very pleased by BBC use the term of "Taiwan" .

Just kidding

50 days. After Ma’s inauguration, too many things happened in 50 days.

The tense diplomatic relation between Japan and Taiwan caused the number of Japanese tourists decreasing by 10 percent each month. The counselor of Japan , Mr. Xu<許> resigned because of KMT legislators’ malevolence of calling him “traitor”. 



 

Ten children died of Enterovirus and more than 300 children have fouhgt for the disease in the Pediatrics ICU. The minister of DOH came out with a good saying for the severe situation “let’s pray”.

 

Cross-strait relation has been “really” improved by charter flights and Chinese tourists take a trip to Taiwan . Too many people expected those tourist would bring marvelous income by them. Ironically, the result is Ma administration brought shame on itself. So far, I have only seen one good effect is about ticket price of flying to Europe . It’s cheaper than Taiwan .

 

The worst of all is stock market. In fifty days, the volume of stock market has missed 5 trillion. An average of each Taiwanese lost 2,173,913 in the stock market. What an amazing number. I don’t have ability to make two million dollars in 50 days. However, the government is really good at losing Taiwanese money. Ma had said while he ran his campaign “share index of 10,000 or 20,000” will not be a dream anymore. Well, it seems like a far-away dream. As the result, minister of economic said yesterday, the words Mr. Ma had said about “stock market index of 20,000” is a "waggery" or  "joke".

 

The waggery made a lot of investors put all their money or pension in the stock market and hence they still could not get it back. What should I say? Taiwanese deserves the Ma Glory.

 

All rely on Chinese Tourist

A piece of news was reported by Liberty Times this morning. The title is "85 Chinese Tourist only spent 190 dollars on souvenir". What an amazing and surprising number. An average of each tourist only spent 2. 2dollars in Tainan city. 





Chinese purchasing power really impressed me. 





China has been opening to world for long time, but the quality of Chinese tourists has not been imprved as time goes by. No woder the poll shown "Chinese tourists always come the last".



全球調查：中國觀光客最差勁。



85名陸客在府城花190塊。



包機直航，直接衝擊國內的旅行業。



慈湖商家：台灣客比較重要。



The first Chinese tourist group purchasing power  does not bring amazing income so that the bright future of Taiwan tourist industry remains unclear.  





I never trust the policies which are provided by KMT goverment. As time goes by, the effect shows terrible result of each policy or plan. The administration has never known the real state in every situation especially on domestic issues or international issues. The future of Taiwan, who knows?

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I want to share a funny photo of Jolin Tsai. My brother and I were really shock when both of us saw the photo on Sunday morning. It's a good photo to wake us up.



People thought she looked like a  "Squid BBQ"

I want to share a funny photo of Jolin Tsai. My brother and I were really shock when both of us saw the photo on Sunday morning. It's a good photo to wake us up.People thought she looked like a  "Squid BBQ"

 

整理 clean

我跟我哥共享一個房間，但是這房間是因為他的書桌擺在裡頭，所以目前房內有兩張書桌，一堆雜誌，一堆書籍等。





My elder brother shares a room with me by putting his own desk inside. There are two desks , a pile of magazines and mountains of books etc. 





老哥有喝茶飲的習慣，所以地上隨處可見一堆知名的茶水廠商瓶。真的是令人受不了啊！





He loves to drink all kinds of tea beverages so that you could see plenty of different tea bottles...... I am really sick of that.





趁著今天早上打理房間時，拿個袋子將所有的瓶子通通丟進去啊！走道樓下下，碰上老媽，一看到我手上的袋子，很不爽的看著我。我也沒辦法，這不是我喝的，不爽的話，請找你兒子去啊！別用那種很不爽的眼光看著我手上的瓶瓶罐罐啊！





I took a bag to collect those bottles after cleaning my room. My mother was annoying about those bottles while I walked down stairs. I have no idea about the drinking habit of my borther's. Therefore, I want to yell to my mother "talk to your son" intead of looking at me with deprecating face.





丟了一些不必要的垃圾，整個房間看起來清爽多啊！



The room looks much better after throwing out some dispensible trash.

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Yesterday evening, I made a bet with my brother about Wimbledon. I won. I bet Nadal would defeat Federer because I felt that Federer played the game under huge pressure. The pressure would cause him couldn't play the game smoothly.  By contrast, without too much pressure for Nadal, he could play the game on his own pace. The weather also played an important role of the game because the wind speed was really fast and it caused Federer to lose several points. But I would say female and male of Wimbledon this year are really great. 



昨天跟我哥打賭，我們賭溫網。我賭西班牙蠻牛會贏。因為我覺得瑞士草地天王打的太有壓力。所以失誤不少咧！相較之下，蠻牛就很放的開的亂打<說是亂打，其實人家打著也很棒。>今天的男女冠軍打著非常精彩，我愛死咧！小威今年似乎跟草地天王一樣，冠軍產生不少的失誤啊！

友人

生長於鄉下，要碰上老同學的機會很小，畢竟年輕人外流的嚴重啊！



Growing in the countryside, it's really rare to meet your classmate because of the lack of job opportunities.  Most youngs move to city to find a proper life style.



要碰上一面，還得等到過年，大家會趁著大年初一去大廟拜拜，才有可能碰上一面，但有個前提，還得能夠辨認的出來啊！



If you really want to run into those guys, Chinese New Year is a better chance  because most people come back to have a family reunion and go to temple to pray. However, it's really important that you need to figure out who they are.



買菜時，巧遇一個大約15年未曾碰過的同學。我們兩相識於幼稚園，小學念同班，可惜上了國中，我到升學班A班，她則去了B班，加上我後來轉學，之後便一直在外頭流浪，雖然很常回家，但始終未曾碰上一面。



While purchasing food product, I ran into an old friend of mine that we haven't seen each other for more than fifteen years. We have known each other since we were in kindergarten and then spent six years in same class in the elementary school. However, we studied in different class in junior. Since then, we haven't seen each other; I come home very often though.





剛看到時，我們倆還有點訝異。畢竟，我們『曾經』很要好....，但是一旦女人有了男朋友，一切都變的很詭異。



It's really surprising to see her. We were "good friend". A man, Mr. Kao, stepped in the good friend "relationship". Things change.





同學一切以他為主，但我還挺欣賞他, 因為他，我同學才沒有去太妹鬼混。她結婚了，結婚我是不驚訝，畢竟我們都是三開頭的女人，但是讓我感到訝異，她的先生就是我們在國小認識的那位，高先生。可見兩人的愛情長跑跟歷久彌堅啊！算一算兩人認識將近20年以上。



Mr. Kao always came first, my classmate would do everything for him. But I thanked him alot, my friend did not become a yob. She told me that she have got married and have two children. I am not surprised about that because we are in thirties, but it really amazed me that her husband still the same one, Mr. Kao. They have know each other when they were elementary school. The relationship between them lasts almost 20 years. 





現在的男女關係要碰到這種，還真難啊！衷心的希望，兩人可以一起攜手到老。



It's really difficult to see such a long lasting relationship. I sincere wish them could last forever.

禮拜六流水帳

一如往常，不到六點出門去散步。





早餐切個麵包，拿出昨天特別煮好的紅茶，加入打好的奶泡。





難得今天有司機載我去上班。感謝你，老哥。





12點下班，老哥已經等在門口準備一起去台南市逛街。





在台南市找午餐，結果找不到維琪媽媽。改吃位於『慶東街』上的MAYIN。東西不難吃，但是服務有待加強。要我坐在沙發上吃飯，是種折磨。出菜很慢，老哥簡直是『邊瞇著睡覺，邊吃午餐』。一頓飯花了一個多小時，最扯的是：我的熱紅茶提供給我，但是我哥的紅茶卻遲遲不來，受不了，只好結帳。真虧我哥脾氣受的了。





經濟真的是不景氣，新光三越的人潮真的是不多啊！我終於買到我要的帆布包，打完折兩千有找，準備拿這個出國唸書去。





逛街是件累人的事情。可是我最後竟然很無聊拉著老哥去逛Salvatore Ferragamo, 我們兩人穿著T-Shirt, 短褲，拖鞋就進去了，小姐還是nice的接待我們，可惜，老哥喜歡的皮帶在不確定的情況下，先暫時沒買，留待下次了！原本想要看有沒有不錯的領帶，結果這季的款式，很不怎樣。





新光三越的名店的服務很不怎樣，好的沒幾家。所以去了幾次，老哥有時候都乾脆去高雄，或者是中山店買東西，業績讓別人賺，我也是啊！西門店東西雖多，但是普遍態度有待加強，但是還是勝過遠百。不過，再跟日本比，只能唉唉唉！





拿到新的小說：



The Little Lady Agency!





新聞心得：



就是大陸客，看的多買的少。經濟消費能力？我看，澎風水蛙一堆啊！

芭樂票政府

最近因為天氣太熱，讓人沒啥勁。





看新聞，了無新意。





活脫脫就是看到一個『芭樂票』政府。





每張支票，都跳票啊！





股票最近融資慘遭跳樓的人急速增加。





之前那些嚷著要蓋殯儀館的縣市。





還真的是有遠見。<苦笑啊！>自殺率恐怕會增加啊！





原來一天三千的陸客，急速萎縮不到800。





我想接下來要自殺的應該是：飯店業者。





貸款去蓋了一堆硬體，現在根本沒那麼多共匪住。





加上來了共匪，小日本平均每一個月掉一成的旅客。





真的是『偷雞不著，蝕把米』最佳寫照。





兩岸包機，讓我看到的是：台灣人的自我作賤。

Sex and the city music

The song which is played in the moveie sounds really great.











紐約很棒的城市。但是我好像比較偏愛『巴黎』。每天一大早去買根『棍子』麵包，煮個奶茶的生活。

書籍：Sex and the city

手上沒啥新的英文小說可以看，所以只好去翻出N年前買的『慾望城市』一書。那書是我在台北當護士時購買，無奈那時英文程度太不怎樣，看一頁至少要查20個單字以上。後來懶了，它就慢慢被我推推推某個角落。沾滿了不少灰塵。









幾年過去了，那天想說，新小說還沒來，那就溫故知新一下咧！可能因為去年開始準備IELTS，加上最近猛練看小說，終於進化到一頁大約2~3個單字，還滿有趣的是，可以學到相當『有趣帶點雙關語』的英文單字。





還可以順便教教學生實用單字。當然，這書還不會推薦他們看，畢竟色情成分不少。





Bulge這個字，跟台灣著羅曼史小說使用的字眼還挺像的。總不能只能很直接用『Penis』這個字吧！如果從頭到尾都用這個字，這小說還真知道該說啥，套句我看西洋羅曼史的專科同學說：從頭做到尾。那這男性可能會把一生那一個保特瓶的量提早爆漿…使用完畢。





以前念護理時，每天翻閱解剖學，不管男人，女人那裡還真的是看到很麻痺。

可是真的站上第一線時，坦白說：還挺shock，心中不禁閃過一個念頭，原來這就是『那話兒』！還真的是因人而異啊！每天看一隻接一隻，看到最後：還真的沒有fu了！





『sex and the city』這本書還挺不賴就是還可以順便學一下服裝的單字，那天出國shopping比較不會說錯要買的衣服標準單字，如此而已。





內容方面，我還真的覺得男女關係，周瑜打黃蓋，一個願打一個願挨！男的不爛，對於紐約有著莫名渴望的女性，還真的挺活該，被騙。每看一個chapter，幾乎會發現『one night stand』情節馬上就來，去參加party，看對眼了，直接開房間去了！這情節在台北某些愛熱鬧的夜生活挺像的，看對眼了，直接開房間。





不過，女性跟男性也是有所競爭，呵呵！





男性聚在一起，除了聊事業，聊酒，還是女性。女人也是不惶多讓，挺感謝之前在台北生活三年多，該看的全都看完畢了！不管是：異性戀，同性戀，雙性戀的感情，甚至吃醋打架，ONS的後遺症，談判。活脫脫就是sex and the city搬到現實來演，只不過，那時候的生活太缺乏：bling bling，shinging shinging的名牌鞋子，衣服串場，畢竟，人生可不是電影，可以像CARRIE一直換衣服。

什麼都沒動啊

只剩下50天就要準備出國。結果，我的VISA，還沒辦，我的行李，還沒打包。什麼幾乎都沒動。





最近也不知道做啥密。一切都等七月二十之後再來吧！





聽說：





Newcastle很冷，所以冬天的衣服要多準備。





聽說：





英國的物價超高。台灣的食物，乾貨，自己要多備點。





聽說：





英國口音很重，聽不懂。那就BBC的Radio節目多聽點。





聽說：





英國的天氣，千變萬化。那就雨衣跟雨傘通通準備好。





很多的聽說啊！事實上，我也多年沒去英國，英國到底變化如何？我也莫載養啊！