A Special Experience in My Life

A Special Experience in My Life

When I was in elementary school, I went to “Hsieh-ling” three times for each week. It was a children’s English cram school in Kaoshiung, which provided me lots of beautiful memories that it seemed to be the happiest time for me in the process of learning at that time.

“Hsieh-ling” was a place that once we stepped in, we could not speak in Chinese, and all the things that we talked about must totally in English. At first, I couldn’t involve in the group and I couldn’t express things very well, but through many practices and inputs in that environment, finally, I found it was not so difficult. I started to build up my self-confidence. Because of so, it was really a good environment for learning a language, and because of this rule, I could learn English in a natural and simply way. In some important holidays, they held some activities according to foreign cultures. For example, they had held some Christmas evening parties in the restaurant for Christmas Days and we had exchanged presents there for fun. Beside, they held a very funny party for Halloween in which we decorated the whole cram school to become a ghost house, and we dressed ourselves in many special clothes, such as witch, ghost, and so on. I enjoyed the process of learning in “Hsieh-ling”; as a result, I became more and more interested in English.

There, in “Hsieh-ling”, all of the teachers were foreigners coming from America or Canada; they all taught English in a lively way. Among those teachers, Tracy, one of the teachers who was coming from Canada and taught me in my class, was a nice teacher teaching us patiently and was very concerned about every student. To be her students, we had lots of homework and we had to listen to tape recorder again and again every day, but I regarded it as my interest and enjoyed it very much. We studied vocabularies, wrote sentences, read many stories, and sometimes played dramas. A few days before those important holidays, we would talk about the origin and stories of those holidays; moreover, we would sing songs that were related to them. We could not only learn English by joyfulness, but also understood foreign culture naturally – through Tracy’s teaching style.

The experience of learning English in “Hsieh-ling” really influenced me a lot. English became an important part of my life, and it brought me many special memories in my childhood. Again, I have to say, it was the happiest time for me in the process of learning. The children’s English cram school, “Hsieh-ling”, was a very special place for me; I will never forget the special experience there.

How to lead a happy life

How to lead a happy life

It is important for everyone to live a happy life, because if we are not happy by what we are doing, then everything become meaningless. But how to lead a happy life? Here I will share some tips with you.

First, we should learn to satisfy by what we own. People always want more. It is good to persue a better life or a better goal, but if we don't appreciate by what we have, we can never be happy.
Second, we have to think in good ways. When we are failed, we can learn from it, but not to suffer the depression. Moreover, we should judge our success by what we had to give up instead of getting it.
Third, enjoy the process when doing everything. No matter what we do, we should remember that the most important thing is what we learn and feel from the process.
Fourth, we need to open our arms to change, but keep our own values. In other words, we should be welling to accept other's advices and change ourselves in some situations so that we can be happier getting together with others. I believe that good relationship with our family and friends is the foundation for our life.
Last, remember that we can only deal with the current situation, and do not bring up the past. To live a happy life, we should forget about bad mood or bad experiences in the past. All we have to do is to live at the moment and to look forward to the future hopefully.

Everyone wants to live a good life, so we should all follow these tips in order to lead a happy life.

Price Competition

My own oppinion about price competition


When we talk about price competition, many people will think it is a good way to reduce the price of their products – at least cheaper than their competitors – so that consumers will choose their products when comparing with others. The successful low-cost US airline, Southeast airlines, is a good example. I believe it is a good strategy to be the lowest price in some cases, but it doesn’t always work.

Instead of reducing the price, we can promote the quality of our manufactures or services, build up good branding images, show new innovation on products, make something special, for example, limit different supplies on different seasons, or, we can pay attention on the packaging. Once the value of products attracts consumers a lot, and make them think those product are best choices for themselves, sometimes, prices are not so important, because it is not the only variation for consumers choosing what they are going to buy.

Through these managing logos, there are many successful cases. I am going to take “Franz”, one of the brands of porcelain in China, as example. This brand was established in 2001; it had won many international prizes and became a famous global high-class brand so far. The founder of “Franz” pays much attention to their branding image. They try their best to innovate continuously of their techniques of making porcelain; so that they can catch consumers’ vision easily when putting together with other porcelains. To separate “Franz” from other famous brands of porcelain, their colors become brightly. Different from other marketing strategies, such as B2B or B2C, “Franz” tried to emphasize their strategies on “mine to mine”, which means to be in consumer’s place, and touch consumer’s heart through porcelains. In Franz’s case, the reason why they can sell their products by higher price is because of their innovation – because they are really “different” from others. So, well-designed products can help us making lots of profits; sometimes, things are even beyond our imaginations.

At times, high-cost product seems to be refers to their high-quality. For me, I will expect to have high-quality products if I pay a lot. Or, I will pay much for good services. The reason why some people order expansive foods in restaurant is just because “they are the most expansive foods there”. They considered that how much they pay will equal to the quality of products or services that they buy.
There is not a best way on pricing strategy, but there must have a better way for each unique business on pricing strategy according to what characters that their products have, who are their customers, and which competitors they are competing with.

Almond Chocolate Cookies

Almond Chocolate Cookies


Do you like making some desserts?
Let's try this one!
Almond chocolate cake must be the best choise to enjoy your tea time with.

To make delicious almond chocolate cookies,
we have to prepare 180g butter, 180g white sugar, 1 egg yolk, 250g pastry flour and 15g cocoa powder as our ingredients.

After we have those ingredients already, we can start to make it step by step.
First step, we should mix butter with sugar until they become smooth,
then whisk them with the egg yolk.

Second step, add flour into the first step to make a dough,
then work on the dough for couple times.

Third step, from the dough into a square cube,
put them in refrigerator until it become cool, but not frozen,
then slice all of them into cookie shape.

When finished these three steps, we can move into the last step,
we should place the cookies on baking pan,
then put them into pre-heated oven at 180 celcius degrees for about 13 minutes,
and than, remove them from oven.

Cookies can be stored away after they are cool down.

Wow! Here comes almond chocolate cookies.
Enjoy it. Have a good time!

Woman in Society

Woman in Society

Many people think that women are discriminated in many ways, and so do I, but to be a woman, it is true to say that not all woman have the same need. The woman who stays at home will differ from the high flyer minded careerist.

To take a look at physically differences, women have more physical problems, for example, to get pregnant, and to have catamenia, and, those really make lots of trouble for women to strengthen their abilities or status on the job. Now, take a look at the innate characteristics, most female are seem to be more careful, intimate, patient, and tolerant and male. What’s more, female are seem to be cared more about “feelings” while male are seem to be more care about the facts. This difference between men and women also influence their advance in career. To compare with before, the feminism is keep rising, and now I will talk about the raising of feminism.

First of all, there are many women’s organizations nowadays. Whether those organizations are locally or globally, they reflect the importance of message for women’s equal rights. One of the examples in Taiwan is a community called “Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association”. Take another example in UK, there is a website called “The Women’s National Commission” which is the only website to give advice on women to the government. It gives exposure to women’s points of view.

The Beijing conference discovered that there are 640 million adults’ women now living in the world have no educated, mostly in the developing countries. It shows that many women do not have educated before, because of the home duties, but now, things are changing. Let’s take my mom as an example: My mom studied very hard and she was excellent in her class, and her grade was good enough to get into a university, but when she heard my grandmother said that a “girl” don’t have to studied too much, she just cried on her own secretly, and gave up the chance to study in university, than she get into a Junior College. Well, in today’s society, women can have more opportunities in education and can promote themselves much more easily. Nevertheless, there still have some conceptions, for example, the language of text books, like the History where men’s achievements are promoted and women’s achievements left in the background but a few exceptions.

Now turn to women in employment. Before, women were treated underpaid than men accepted, and their chances are less than men had. Nowadays, in most fields of employment women’s presence is felt and their voice is heard, it seemed that the payment and chances are more equally than before. Even there are some jobs that need female more than male, for example, most of the need for tutor, someone to teach one by one in the house, will ask to have a female teacher in stead of a male teacher.

There are some other ways to promote feminism in the future. The Entertainment Industry should stop spreading the wrong concepts on women, and not to make money by using prostitution and pornography on women. I think beyond the raising of feminism, it can be looked at more optimistically in women’s organizations, education, and employment. What’s more, I think that we should pay those women who work at home. Though it is true to say that not all woman have the same need, we still have to respect every individual women in society, so I think there is only one way to do, that is, not to restrict chances to ether female or male, just let everyone choose the living style they want.

In My Dream

In My Dream

By the luxuriant forest,
on the bright green grass,
opened our paper bag with eager,
and the smell of baked bread suddenly came out.
My family and I couldn't wait to eat.

At the moment,
I saw a huge green object
hanging down from a tree.
It moved slowly toward us.
It's hard to believe
that the huge object was a snake
which seemed to be bigger than the tree.

I was so scared,
but I didn't screamed.
Instead,
I asked my family to move away from it slowly and quietly,
because I guessed if the snake find out we were escaping,
it will throw itself on us.

Eventually,
we got back to our home successfully.
Somehow,
there were various snakes running around inside everywhere.
Even a pair of glasses
-which refered to a kind of toxic snake "cobra".

We were all frightened,
and my mom cried out loudly: "Wendy!!"
"Yes." I answered quickly.
Surprisingly,
I noticed that I lied on my soft bed,
and there were no scary snakes around.

What a terrified dream I had!
I got up from my bed slowly, and,
hey, I can still smell the baked bread!
It was my breakfast
which includes cream toast, roast bacon, and a cup of warm chocolate milk.

It was a beautiful morning.
I totally forgot those scary scenes in my dream,
and started to enjoy the breakfast with my family happily.

A letter for a friend

Though,
I don't know what happened,
and what makes you so depressed...

You often give me these words:
"Don't worry, I am OK. All you have to do is take good care of your self."
Sometimes,
you don't want others to worry about you,
so you accept all the feelings on your own.
But, you know what?
Sometimes, things may be better if you speak out.

When you feel down,
I won't be good either. Really!
What I want to say is,
If you need someone listening to you,
I will always be there.
Because, I always beleive that
--The real happiness is to share.

However,
If you just need to be alone,
to have your own space,
and think of it calmly
--I will understand.

You must be too tired these days.
When the things are all over,
and you've done all the stuff,
please, you really need to have a rest.

Hope you can solve your problems soon,
and cheer up again.
Remember,
When you are in need,
I will always be there for you.

chances

wherever chances are
i'll go and get it
this is me my new life
im not old enough to say
"it's too late."

wherever possibilities are
i'll go and try it
'cause this is me
and i know what i want
no need to say
"it's too hard."

i always remember that
"a bigger goal leads to a bigger success."
before that
i should face so many frustrations
i know
but i won't back down

i starts to believe in these words:
hope, love, & faith.

The effect of an Imagination

My Imagination


After watching ghost movies
which seemed to be real and so close to our daily life,
I could not help but kept thinking about those scary scenes.

It was one,
and my mom wanted me to go sleep immediately.
So I lied down on my bed slowly, breathed deeply.
I was sleeping.

Suddenly,
I heard a footfall sound walking toward my room little by little.
Those scary scenes came up again.
I scraped my bedquilt tidely,
and cowered myself inside.

Then, I saw something -
a shadow appeared from the crack between the door and frame.
I have no choise but to believe
that there was a ghost outside just by my door.

It moved closer and closer.
I was alone, and have no way to run away.
I could not be more scared.
I screamed so loud
that I hope someone could heard me and came to help,
but it's useless.

The door was opened.
I dare not see,
so I closed my eyes with great fear,
and hide every part of my body into the bedquilt.

At that moment, the ghost talked...
" What are you sream for? I'm just here to ask what time you want to get up! "
I opened eyes slowly.
The shadow's owner was mother.
In fact, there have no ghosts.
They were all my scary imaginations.
" Nine o'clock. Thankyou, mom. " I replied.

I was released.
I felt so tired and dropped asleep deeply at last.

I

I

I live in Taipei, but studying in Taichung now.

I love my friends.

Essay -- One skill to make your world

One skill to make your world -- What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today? Choose one skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

The most important skill to be successful

There are many definitions of “success”, for me, I think the definition of success is to be successful in “being a person”. Also, there are many skills to make somebody become success, but in my opinion, I think the most important one is the ability of dealing with their Emotional Intelligence.

One reason is that people’s Emotional Intelligence affects their life, and it decides what they think about their life. If we deal with our Emotional Intelligence very well, no matter we are in favourable circumstances or in adverse circumstances, we can both live with happiness and the emotions won’t effect our decisions so much. When we are in favourable circumstances, we won’t be too arrogant, and we will keep going on the right way that we want smoothly. When we are in adverse circumstances, we won’t be too dejected; instead, we will face our emotion and control it well, than go for it and never give up. Besides, according to medical research, one who has good EQ may be healthy not only mentally, but also physically. To be successful in being a person, we should control our own life and our feeling of life at first.

Another reason is that people’s Emotional Intelligence affects their relationship with others very much. If we can not deal with his emotion well, we will easily be influenced by our temper, and acts quite impulsive, under these circumstances, sometimes it will really harm our interpersonal relationships. If we can’t get together with others well, of course, we won’t be happy wherever we are; instead, we will feel that there are always other’s faults, or always being in deeply remorse, and become a vicious circle. If our temper is steady, we can either deal with our emotion well and listen to others voice calmly. In this way, people will like to get together with us, and they will feel we are reliable. Sometimes it can simplify many difficult things. To be successful in being a person, we should have good interpersonal relationships.

The other reason is that Emotional Intelligence can probably decide one’s achievement, because it not only influences our achievement in school work, but also influences our performance in the job. In the past, most people think that intelligence quotient can make one become success. People who have high intelligence can learn very fast and have good grade on the examinations, or they may have good ideas to show their abilities, but it does not ensures they can understand their own temper, face the frustrations, and have good relationships with other people. Many research told us, intelligence does not do so much on our achievement, in fact, if our “IQ” are in general standard, a person who has high “EQ” will have better achievement. To be successful in being a person, one’s achievement should be an important authority.

Without high EQ, though we are excellent in many other skills, we can not be successful by those skills so long. Because of those reasons, I really think that the ability of dealing with our Emotional Intelligence must be the most important skill for one to be a successful person in the world today.

Essay -- Fast or slow

Some people are always in a hurry to go places and get things done. Other people prefer to take their time and live life at a slower pace. Which do you prefer?

Fast or slow

In this high-technological century, most of the people live by fast pace, they are hurrying on doing everything, especially for earning the money, but for me, I would prefer to have a slowly pace living my own life.

First of all, it is the way to improve the quality of life if we live at a slower pace. When we are always hurrying on doing something, we don’t have time to slow down and relax ourselves. On contrary, if we life by slower step, we can do some extracurricular activities, what’s more, we can “enjoy” things that we like in our life, and that makes our quality of life become better. To live life this way is slow but amenity.

Secondly, it is a kind of an attitude to live our life. Take Russia as an example, they live their life at slow pace, because they think how to live their life is more important than how much they earn. They attach much importance to the attitude of life. To live life this way is not pursuing the creature comforts, but they can fulfill their mind.

The last and the most importantly, it is a kind of live that we are seeking for. It is important for us to think: what kind of life do we want? What is the goal of our life? Is it worth to spend most of the time hurrying on earning money, but lose our health or lose the time to get together with those who are really important to us? Again, let us take Russia as an example – unlike the culture in Japan, a country that the people are living at really fast step – they don’t work overtime because they need to have their own time, they need to accompany with their family, and they think it is more important than money. To think another way, if we have some time to slow down and think, perhaps we can have some good ideas. It is rather always work hard than to slow down and plan everything in our life at first. To live life this way is more valuable, and we can seek for what we really want during our precious life.

Maybe we can have more achievement by fast pace, but to compare with the life by slower pace, the latter one has more advantages. Therefore, I would prefer to live my life slowly and enjoy it.

Essay -- The most important characteristic

What do you want most in a friend/girlfriend/boyfriend—someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you?

The most important characteristic

Intelligent, sense of humor, and reliable, among these three characteristics, I would like to have a friend who is reliable the most. Following are some specific reasons to tell.

First, I can tell anything to someone who is reliable, because, I can trust them, and I don’t have to afraid that they will tell others. What’s more, this kind of friend can not only make me feel comfortable when I tell them something weighting my mind, but also support me physically whenever I need. We can understand each other more and more by sharing feeling in our life. They are good listeners, and for me, this is one of the very important factors to become my good friends.

Second, I will feel secure and relieved when I am with a reliable person, since I do not have to be so calculative and I can be myself – Right, to be myself! We can show our true self without any pretense; therefore, we can become closer to each other’s heart. They understand me, my true heart, and what I am thinking about – even without any languages – and this is another indispensable factor being my intimate friends.

Third, I don’t do lying to those who are reliable; in fact, they won’t lie to me, too. Therefore, I think the relationship with a person who is reliable will be longer than those with other characteristics. “Lying” is the worst thing being my friend, because I can’t stand such things, and a reliable person won’t do so. This is the other essential factor to be my intimacy friends.

If a person who is really intelligent, maybe I can learn many things from this person; if a person who has sense of humor, maybe I will laugh when I get together with this one, but, if both of them don’t reliable, they won’t as important as what a reliable person can bring to me.

Everyone has their own characteristics, for me, I will need a reliable friend the most, and my feelings must be best when I am with this friend. Consequently, “reliable” is the character that I want most in a friend.

Essay -- What do people work for?

What do millionaires work for? -- People work because they need money to live. What are some other reasons that people work?

Work for reasons without money

If you ask what reason do people working for, most answers must be “money”. Nevertheless, I have some different answers. Actually, it is true that there are some people working for other reasons. So, what do they work for? Let me tell you my answers one by one.

Some people work for their interests: they enjoy their jobs no matter how much they earn, because they really like the contents of their works, and that’s why they are willing to do their works. For example, a person who abandoned to be a lawyer because he would just like to draw pictures and become an artist no matter it makes money or not.

Some people work for having something to do: it is not hard to understand that some people do not truly need money, but they keep working. I think there are two kinds of people that work for this reason – some people who are retired, or some people who are very rich – have nothing to do, they may become boring or feel that if they don’t work nor do some exercise, their physical strength will become worse by idling around everyday.

Some other people work for helping people: they just want to help people, so they work. To this kind of people, they don’t care what they returned from their job, they sacrifice themselves to other people. For example, there are some vigilantes. Another example is some people who want to be a doctor or to be a scientist, are not because it earns so much, but because that the doctor can safe people’s life, can cured patients’ sickness, and the scientist invent some things that makes people’s life to be better or more convenient.

Others work for learning: they can learn what they need or what they want by doing that work. Some people just need to learn more experiences or knowledge or skills for themselves, so they can use them whenever they need, or, perhaps they just want to make themselves better.

To sum up, people work not only for money but also for many other reasons. I think no matter what reason we do a job, the most important thing is to like our jobs, and to enjoy it! I think the feeling of a job is more important then how we can earn from it.

Essay -- Who should make decisions?

Who should make the decision? -- Parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their teenaged children (15-18 year old).

Parents should make important decisions

Most of parents or other adult relatives make important decisions for their teenaged children, and I think it is a right thing. I understand that everyone would like to make decisions of their own, especially teenagers, but there are some reasons that it must be better if adults make some important decisions for their teenaged children.

The first reason, people whose ages are among fifteen to eighteen, called teenagers, are not coming-of-age, so they may not ready to be responsible for making every important decision of themselves. After all, our law says that adult should pay a half responsible for their teenaged children, because their mental are not mature enough to be responsible of everything. Maturation of one’s mental influences the decision a lot.

The second reason, adults have more experiences than teenagers have, they may had learned from some conditions that were so closed to their children’s, and they can prevent their children from making many avoidable mistakes. Furthermore, adults may have learned some good ways from their experiences, so they know how to make such an important decision, it really offers lots of help. Experiences effect a decision very much.

The third reason, when a teenager has to decide a big thing, he or she might be nervous or doesn’t know how to do. In this condition, adults can think about it and analysis the whole thing calmly, because the things they’ve seen are much more than teenagers are. Sometimes teenagers have their own thinking, but what they decide is not always right, they may make decisions impulsively or instinctively. In this condition, adults might be more reliable and more clear-sighted. Those factors also influenced one’s decision.

To my conclusion, though teenagers can try to make a decision by their own, some very important decisions still have to be decided by their adults, actually, they should listen to what adults tell them, and discuss together about it. I think this is the better way to decide important things.

Essay -- What does success come from?

What does success come from? -- Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning.

What does success come from?

Some people think that success must be from taking risks or chances, but I don’t think so, because risks or chances are temporary and uncertain factors, we can’t always sit and waiting for it. The only thing we can do is to control life on our own. Consequently, I believe the success must come from careful planning.

In one way, it makes us more clearly about our goals when we are planning. If we know very clearly what our goal is, we will find out a best way to achieve the goal, and we will go straight toward it step by step. Undoubtedly, to be clear about our goal makes success becomes closer.

In another way, we will follow the prescribed order if we have planned it at first. If we keep to the working routine, we all know well what we are doing now, and what to do the next. At least, we escaped from some avoidable mistakes, and because of the careful planning, we do not act blindly. Unquestionably, to follow the prescribed order makes the process of being successful become smoothly.

In the other way, we will preconceive many different conditions when we plan something carefully, so we are ready to deal with the contingency or emergency in those conditions that had preconceived before we do it. We work slowly but steadily this way. Surely, it makes success becomes easier.

If a person have a very good risk or chance, and than become successful, but he or she doesn’t plan carefully, it might probably for this person to be failed soon. Therefore, I really believe that success results from careful planning than a risk or a chance.

Summary of "The Library"

“The Library” by Sarah Stewart

A girl called Elizabeth Brown was dropping down from the sky. She was skinny, nearsighted, and shy. She would rather read books than played what other children like; she liked to read more than going on a date. She was reading wherever she was; her eyes were on the books whatever she was doing. She made many mistakes because of reading the books, but she never cared about it. Her house was full of books. One day, Elizabeth Brown wrote a list to donate all of her books to the library. Hence, she moved in with a friend, and read with her friend day after day…

I think the meaning of “Library”, the name of this book, is not only a library, but it also represent to a place to share, and a turning point to open our mind. In the beginning, Elizabeth Brown was always reading her books, she didn’t want to play with other friends, and she didn’t want to do other things. There was nothing bad for her, but, it was not good for her to live alone doing nothing but just reading the books, either. She never shares her feeling to others. Fortunately, Elizabeth Brown finally donated all of her books to a library and moved into her friend’s home. It reveals she was trying to open her mind and started to share her books – actually, her life – with others. I really believe that happiness is to share. If we open our mind, we could see that things will be different.

Elizabeth Brown seemed to live in her little world, and she enjoys with it, maybe we can call this kind of people autisms. I think they are not really sick, but just a little different from others. We can not discriminate against them, because they are “dropping down from the sky”, they are presents from the sky, they are angels! This book is fit for those who are autistic, because it does “understand” them. After they read this book, they can probably find out a way to open their mind and share themselves with others. It is possible for them to have a very colorful and different life by sharing. This is the reason why I like this book so much.

Summary of "A difference of one"

A difference of one

　　Joe, a student who was the forward on his sport team, had lost only one point in the game played by Jordan High. He felt so tired and depressed after the game, but it was his science mid-term test the next day. He had to pass the test, or he wouldn’t be able to play athletics anymore. He washed the dishes, cleaned up the table and got ready to study in the kitchen after the dinner, but the sound from television and his sisters were bothered him, he just don’t understand what his book said. Joe decided to take a little nap, but he overslept, and his mom didn’t wake him up. He wanted to study science in English class, but the teacher did a test. It seemed everything against him. He was not sure for his grade and was very scared that he couldn’t wait for the next science class. He got 34 in his test, and there was only one more grade to pass. Just like the game, he lost only by one point.

The issue in “Piggybook”

The issue in “Piggybook”

We can talk about many different issues from “Piggybook”. For me, I think the old concept that woman should do all the housework is the most important issue to discuss in this story.

In the beginning of “Piggybook”, Mr. Piggot and the two children were always yelling for their dinner, and seldom did some help on housework. The mother, Mrs. Piggot, almost had done all the housework quietly on her own. We can see clearly that the father and the children were always “yelling” but doing nothing while the mother was doing all of those stuff “quietly”. That was so unfair for the mother!

This problem exists in human beings a long, long time. People were used to think that woman should stay in the house, managed the household duties, and done all the domestic chores while the man got out to work. But the society becomes different. There are many career women now, and their abilities do not really less than what men can be.

Nowadays, even though the concepts between man and woman have changed, some people still think the housework should belong to women, but it is not right. I think every member in the family should be equal, all of them can do what they want, every one can do their own work, and of course, every member must share the house work instead of asking mother to finish all of them and take it as granted.

In the middle of “Piggybook”, Mrs. Piggot just didn’t want to be “quiet” anymore, because she had to let them know how unfair they were, and how important she was that if they lose her, they even couldn’t live their life normally. In the end, Mrs. Piggot successfully let them knew those things and started to share their housework – stopped just yelling for what they want.

I think Mrs. Piggot is so smart, I admire her very much. This is kind of dangerous way that she left her family without any notification except a note which has the words “You are pigs” on it, but, just think, she didn’t have other method, this is the only way that make her family know how she feel by doing all those things on their selves. After they understand why she did so, they will never idling around and yelling to their busy mother.

After reading this book, we have to do self-examination. We should do our best to make everyone in our home equally, not only to do the housework, but to do everything in our life. No one have to endure the things that are unfair, if we have some bad feelings, we should speak out, or do what ever to make others understand how we feel, perhaps it will do lots of help. Just like what Mrs. Piggot did in the story.

Summary of “A Tree and A Boy”

A Tree and A Boy

There was a tree which loves a boy so much. Everyday, the boy picked some leaves from the tree, and made a crown for himself. The boy climbed the tree, swung by the tree, ate it’s apples, and slept under the tree. He loved the tree, too. However, when the boy grown up, he didn’t like to do those things with the tree anymore, and he seldom went to see the tree, everytime the boy came, the tree became so happy. He wanted money, therefore, he picked up all the apples from the tree, and sold it for money. He wanted a house, so he cut off the branches from the tree. He need a boat, and he cut off the trunk. The tree was happy…but not really. When the boy became an old man, there was nothing that the tree can gave him, and all he need was a place to release himself. He sat by the tree, and the tree felt so happy…

In this story, the tree is just like our father or mother, and we are just like that boy. When we are baby, we played around our father and mother. Than we grow up day by day, we will leave them, and seldom go to see them. Everytime we back, maybe just because we are unhappy, or we need something from them. Usually, they will give us their best. After we get what we want, we leave, but what our parents want, is just to stay with us longer. When we need help, they stick out their hands; when we feel tired, they will give us a hug. Our parents do whatever they can do for us, but never call for our repay. This story tells us to cherish the love from our parents, and understand their hard, give some considerations for them, these are what they need, and what we have to do.

Nancy a Career Girl

Nancy a Career Girl

Nancy was not only a mother but also an employee. She was very busy everyday for hurry on working and taking care of her family. Nancy had to feed her little baby at mid-night, and made breakfast for her family, than drove to work everyday. Somehow, she had lots of troubles on doing everything that day. To made breakfast for her family, she was late when she arrived at her company, and it makes her feel down. When she finished her work, she felt tired on her way home, and she had a bad car crash. In this car accident, Nancy got a bill to pay for it, when she looked on the number of the fine, she screamed out – 50,000 dollars! It was too expensive to her!

We can see how many stress that a mother should face everyday, and how toilsome they are. It is hard to be a career girl if they also have to take care of everything in their home. We should share the work and participate in doing all the things in house, or if a mother become too tired, it would some time become dangerous, they may just make some mistakes unwittingly.

Princess Smartypants by Babette CoIe

Princess Smartypants by Babette CoIe

The king and Queen wanted princess Smartypants to find a husband. She is pretty and rich, all the princes wanted her to be their wife, but she just like to get together with her pets. She thought out a good method that she won’t have to get marry with other princes. She asked princess to do many unreasonable things. Most princes can’t stand it, only one of the princes does them all, and he does not think she was so smart. Princess Smartypants finally gave that prince a magic kiss, he changed into a toad, and other princes heard that, no one wanted to marry with her any more. So she lived happily ever after.

The story “Princess Smartypants” overthrows the old concept that princess should wait for their own prince in their own town. Princess Smartypants has independent thinking, she just does what she wants, and she does everything independently. Nowadays, woman can live happily in that way.

It's very well made in Taiwan

In the beginning of this film, we can see that products made in Taiwan can be found everywhere, and they touch people's life every day. Taiwan is a leader in many ways, for example, technology, machinery, auto parts, and bio-chemistry. It is also number one in lots of products, for instance, Wafer Foundry, Mask ROM, IC Packaging, Notebook PCs, LCD monitors, CD-R Disks, CD-RW Disks, DVD Disks, PC Cameras, and Ethernet NICS. In 2004, Taiwan becomes the fourth most growth competitive country in the world. There are 2/3 of world's notebooks are made in Taiwan, and 90% glob's wireless LANs are from Taiwan, too. Also, there are some famous global brands from Taiwan, examples are TREND MICRO, ASUS, acer, BenQ, Giant and D-Links. Bill Gates said that Taiwan makes the PC more attractive and more affordable. In the film, the "innovative Taiwan" has a nice research and development center, and we can see the reason why it is the leader in many ways, and why it is called a silicon island. Manufactures that make in Taiwan are nothing but very well!

The song “Sk8er boi” by Avril Ramona Lavigne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H41mgl_u958

This song “Sk8er boi” is singing by the singer Avril Ramona Lavigne. This song is talking about a boy who is a skater boy likes a girl who did ballet and has a pretty face. The girl also likes the boy, but she never told him, and her friends all despise him. So the girl thinks that boy is not good enough to her, and she says good-bye to him. Five years later, the girl becomes a mother and she sits at home feeding her baby alone, than she see the boy which she had refused is now a super star on TV. The girl and her friends all buy the tickets to see his show. Though she knows the worth of that boy now, it’s too late - she has already missed the boy and he is now in love with another girl.

Picture - In the coffee shop

In the coffee shop

There was a light rain outside the window of a coffee shop which looks beautiful and has a lot of delicious cakes and special drinks. A twenty-year-old girl with long hair was sitting inside the coffee shop. Her name is Wendy.

Wendy has a date with her friend in this shop at 2 P.M. this afternoon. She was waiting for her friend, and she would not order anything until her friend arrived.

But after half an hours, her friend didn't not appear. She became a little bit angry, so she took out her cell phone, and made a call to her friend for the reason why he is so late.

A Person To Teach Others To Do a Job

There are three ways for us to choose a person to do a job: the person’s education, the quality of the person’s previous work, and the person’s work experience. If I must select a person to teach others to do a job, the most important thing I will consider is that person’s work experiences.

First of all, if we take person’s education as a condition, maybe it can show the person’s educational background and his or her learning environments, but it doesn’t mean anything. I think a diploma might be important but it can not refer to one’s ability on doing the job. Of course, those who only have good education are not the best choice to teach others on job.

Secondly, if we take the quality of the person’s previous work as a condition, maybe this person know something about his or her previous job, this might be important in some ways, but it is not enough to “teach others to do a job”.

Thirdly, if we take the person’s work experience as a condition, the probability of choosing an appropriate person that we need will become higher. There are some reasons why I think the person’s work experiences is the most important thing to consider. One reason is, if a person has enough work experiences, they may know more about how to deal with the problems when working, so they can give better ways for others to solve the problems. Another reason is a person who has enough experiences may know more ways to face the emergency situations, because they may have been in those situations before on their job. The other reason is one who has many experiences on work should know more one job, for example, the feature of the job, the kind of the job, the special operating ways on that job, or the differences that some jobs have from others. The last reason is, if a person gets more experiences from the job, he or she will know more skills about how to get together with others in the office, include the workpeople and the boss. Those experiences are important on teaching someone to do a job.

There are many ways to choose a person to teach others on doing a job. But to compare the functions between them, I think a person’s work experiences will do the best help on it. So, if I must select, the person’s experiences on work will be the most important thing for me to choose.

Computer

Nowadays, computer plays a very important role and becomes the indispensable part in our life. But why is it so important to people? Following are some reasons why we can not live without computers.

For companies, they use computers to manage their products, and make chart and list to administer their commodity and fund; they save all the data in computers, include some confidential information of commerce; they set a website for the company by computers; and they use it to design a program.

For school work, teachers produce examination papers and school report card by computers; and they teach students by computers in the class sometimes. Students can use computers to write homework and reports. We can write it faster and edit it conveniently. What’s more, we do search information on the internet frequently, and it does much help for us on academic reports.

For communicating, we can e-mail letters to other people, it is much more fast and convenient to use computers than to write and send by conventional ways. We can also hear the voice by microphones and see the face by internet version camera from the other side. There are many different kinds of messengers to use on communicating and delivering files online. On the net, we can communicate with the person, who is far away from us, without money.

For our leisure time, we can listen to music, play the games, and watch some movies or shows on the computer. We can also search the information on the internet, for example, news, whether, map, knowledge, and what ever you want to know.

For our daily life, we can buy almost everything by internet, the kinds are as much as you can imagine. Even when you need to find a job, there are many chances waiting for you. Computers do many help no matter on the ways to eat, play, sleep, or do whatever in our daily life. I could say that internet is so amazing and computers are so important to our life, to everyone, and to the world. Because of computers, we can make things easier and make our life more convenient. That’s why nowadays computer plays such an important role and it becomes the indispensable part in our life.

The Most Important Room in a House

Normally, there are many different kinds of rooms in the house. For instance, there are living room, dinning room, kitchen room, and bath room. For me, I think my own bed room is more important than other rooms in a house.

I can have my own space in my own room. It is just like a little secret space for me to do whatever I like. And when I feel down, there will be a nice space for me to cry if I just want to be alone. I feel comfortable in my own room.

We can do many things in other rooms, like we can sit together, talking, watching TV and having fun in the living room; we can eat together, communicating and laughing in the dinning room; we can take a bath and clean ourselves in the bath room; we can cook and solve food in the kitchen.

But, in fact, we can do most of these things in our own room. Some houses even have just one room, for example, student dormitory often have single room, but students can do almost everything inside their own room.

I take a rest there, I cry and laugh there, I have fun there, I satisfied there, I can find myself there, I can improve the friendship with friends there, and I can also enjoy the family happiness there, in my own room. It is the most important room for me in a house.

About Me

My name is Wendy. I am a nineteen-year-old girl, and I am now studying in Chung Shan Medical University. My department is Applied Foreign Languages.

I have black long hair on my head. I am thin, but not very tall. Most people see me on the first sight might think I am a quiet person, in fact, I am very active in front of my good friends or family.

There are many hobbies that I have, for example, listening to music, reading books, dancing, watching TV, watching movies, making friends, shopping, searching on the internet, swimming, and to learn lots of things that I am interested in.

What’s more, I love languages, I like trying to learn many kinds of different languages. And English is one of my favorite subjects. I’ve learned English since I am ten years old.

When I have leisure time, I would like to talk with my family, go out with my friends, or do whatever I want. I like to share my mind with my family and good friends, no matter I feel good or bad. Of course, I will very glad to hear from them, too. I like people, but I enjoy my own time and own space, either. Sometimes, I would just need to be alone, to calm down or to think about something on my own.

In this English writing class, I hope I can improve my English writing skills, not only in the class, but the skills that I can use whenever I write, or, even to use in my daily life.