tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62321172011-06-08T13:04:41.947+08:00my trivial things...yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.comBlogger1041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-68420387008634692242007-04-24T23:16:00.000+08:002008-12-11T10:29:46.749+08:00

I had a wonderful birthday on 4/23 with 3 cakes, greetings from friends and coworkers, and lovely birthday songs from two little cute nieces.As convention in birthday parties, I was asked to make three wishes, speaking out the first two and keeping the third one for myself.My third wish... this picture tells it all...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-12802626708523161482007-04-19T05:44:00.000+08:002007-04-19T06:54:19.517+08:00

忙到透不過氣來的感覺很糟 偏偏今年來老是覺得如此換到新部門快一年 卻在最近幾個月被工作壓到喘不過氣來一方面是組織大調整 新老板們還在摸索部門方向一方面是業務量增加卻仍人手不足我這個半新不舊的PM除了既定的工作量 還得接下去年部門欲拒還迎的專案問題是我的 learning curve 還沒走完呢Learning from doing is quite a nice idea if having a reasonable workload. Yet, having the heavier workload while crawling in the learning curve makes me feel frustrated and step into my down time. Start worrying about my quality at work. The feeling

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-86825769615031706632007-04-15T23:15:00.000+08:002008-12-11T10:29:46.844+08:00

Mom doesn't eat beaf for her religeon. Yet, she knows her kids love it (yup, yup... though we are already decades away from being a kid, we are still kids to her). She bought this cooked beaf from a shop by her friend's recommendation and added this new dish in her menu.Tasty niuroumian indeed... ^_^

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-77699025862785694352007-01-08T01:38:00.000+08:002007-01-08T02:39:25.967+08:00

What the earthquake happened on Dec 26, 2006 brothers me the most is that, I lost the international SMSs function to communicate with my dear friends in France and annoyingly have to wait a few weeks for its recovery!However, a bit amazed to read the news that this earthquake has resulted in a loss of 10,000 Internet Domains in China. Also, a column is written under the title, The world is down,

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1165251284744898382006-12-04T22:24:00.000+08:002006-12-05T01:30:41.060+08:00

The 10 hours of flying from Paris to Bangkok...-- Local time at original 13:40The plane started slowly running; My mind was flying back to him;Was he on the way home? Was he having a good time with Mr. Battery in a cozy bar somewhere?-- Local time at original 15:34The first meal was served; I was thinking of him;Has he had something to eat? Would he remember heating the rice noodles?-- Local

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1163307157110389812006-11-12T10:31:00.000+08:002006-11-12T12:52:37.193+08:00

My first encounter with English songs was from a musical movie "秋霞, Chelsia My Love (1976)" by Chelsea Chan (陳秋霞),After seeing that movie, I became a big fan of Chelsia Chan and Kenny Bee, the vocal of The Wynners (溫拿五虎). Remember Dad just bought a set of hi-fi stereo the same year. To test this new stereo, he bought lots of albums, including a set of English oldies but goodeis (50s-70s),

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1152112982313453272006-07-05T22:00:00.000+08:002006-07-05T23:31:07.230+08:00

To kill time, I now use to review my French language course note in MRT (Metro in Taipei). Today, on the way home, I was as usual digging myself in the notes, murmuring "je parle, tu parles, je prends, tu prends, il prend..." Suddenly, I heard a male voice floating over my head and reading my note word by word aloud,"je parles français, bien sûr, et aussi espangnd et un peu allemand..."I raised

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1149442434378707302006-06-05T00:53:00.000+08:002006-06-05T01:36:11.183+08:00

Just finish reading this book, The Jane Austen Book Club Some reviews in English and in ChineseReally have to change this habbit... I did nothing today but only read thru this book from cover to cover in one day...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1149085211414164972006-05-31T21:51:00.000+08:002006-05-31T22:20:11.463+08:00

frog leapThe first time I played this game was using the coins though...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1147695463121285832006-05-15T18:58:00.000+08:002006-05-15T21:01:13.916+08:00

Just find an old piece of work which I wrote in 2001 for my Children Literature assignment. This class was for those passing the certificate exam of English Teacher of Elementary School in 2000 to gain the education credits. In this assignment, I pictured myself as two roles, one the journalist YY and one Harry Potter's aunt Petunia Dursley, and wrote from Petunia's view seeing her relationship

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1143466959888471902006-03-27T21:36:00.000+08:002006-03-27T21:42:39.936+08:00

Don't know if Ang Lee will faint if he sees his Brokeback Mountain in this clip...ahh... I haven't got time seeing this film yet...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1139567614328910092006-02-10T16:14:00.000+08:002006-02-11T23:21:12.866+08:00

Just took some photos from the old time photos. This is one of them...My happy and naive childhood, no worry and hurry about work, love, life, etc... Why do we have to grow up? Is there a way that one can choose to have time frozen for his/her most cheerful and carefree moment? Don't remember where and when this photo was taken. From left to right: brother and sisters - Shengyuan, me, and

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1138801348927359602006-02-01T20:51:00.000+08:002006-02-04T09:09:59.156+08:00

Just saw some films and DVDs these days:- Vipère au poing (2004), a French film which title in Chinese translated as "悲憐赤子心"- Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003), a French film, Paris in 1960's, the friendship between a Jewish boy and an Arab grocer. - Alex & Emma (2003): an interesting American love story between a writer who afraid of commitment and his stenographer and yet the

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1136723242869514392006-01-08T20:02:00.000+08:002006-01-09T01:40:58.516+08:00

continued from Henri walking in the parking lot, Amboise, France (2005.12.23) Henri's returning to Nantes this time would also be his farewell to his parents and relatives. He and Nicole would move to Guyana for at least 2 or 3 years, in which he started his medical practice 30 years ago. He would restart his medical practice in a small village and may retire from this country. He had planned

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1134732335099997402005-12-16T19:24:00.000+08:002005-12-16T19:25:35.110+08:00

kai's photo site... i miss paris

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1131895463842474642005-11-13T23:20:00.000+08:002005-11-13T23:24:23.853+08:00

currently, i am writing this site and 泰涼冰城 by re-studying Writing HTML, the website tutorial which I self-studied for writing my graduate profolio, Visa! Visa!...a long way to go, a long way to go...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1129916298732544452005-10-22T00:37:00.000+08:002005-10-22T08:37:46.833+08:00

Mom just had this surgery 高頻熱凝療法 - radiofrequency coagulation yesterday. This nerves-coagulated surgery took around 30 minutes and left now scars on her back. Her low back pain seems now being reduced significantly. She is pretty happy now that she can walk longer and anywhere without suffering from the pain on her back and knees. However, I somehow still worry about her spine problem, since

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1128238801564535852005-10-02T15:07:00.000+08:002005-10-07T11:23:15.943+08:00

After several weeks of intensive study for the certificate exam preparation, I sort of back to my daily track, working, being lazy during the weekends, reading books and magazines in different topics... especially for reading...However, just feel something strange and empty still... what happen? what am i looking for?

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1126530812756350512005-09-12T14:53:00.000+08:002005-09-12T21:14:50.503+08:00

After 4 days of intensive studying, including taking around 1000 of simulation questions in my Thinkpad, I have passed PMP certificate exam today!!!

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1121953229556317832005-07-21T21:20:00.000+08:002005-07-21T21:40:29.560+08:00

Kai, the Google map geek, sent me this link for the satellite map of Taipei.Also, He helped me find where I live in this world... this is amazing... huh...how can I embed a photo in this blog?sigh... should go back for my PMP exam study... ha, I am so good at distracting myself from concentrating on study...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1121951950059782172005-07-21T21:15:00.000+08:002005-07-21T21:44:35.216+08:00

I went to Japan in June for a 5-day trip with Myriam, having our 3rd gal gossip reunion with our Japanese friend, Yukako. Myriam wanted to visit Yukako in Yokohama and a freind in Sapporo before she moved back to Paris. I was not planning this trip in the beginning. However, I was not sure when we three would meet together in the near future. Plus, We have had the 1st reunion in Taipei in

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1114447487190443012005-04-23T23:52:00.000+08:002005-04-26T00:52:16.773+08:00

Last year, I celebrated my birthday at a boat restaurant on the Saine River in Paris, with my long-time-no-see friends. We had nice meals, drank French wine, and watched Notre Dame de Paris. This year, I celebrate my birthday at a Taiwanese puppet show restaurant in Taiwan, with my families and friends visiting from Paris. We have Taiwanese food, drink Taiwanese beer, and play Taiwanese puppets

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1112194186914125142005-03-30T22:18:00.000+08:002005-03-30T22:49:46.916+08:00

Until when can I learn doing things to the point and not beating the bush?Until when can I learn seeing things in a broader and thorough view?Until when can I learn expressing myself in a clear and smart manner?Until when can I learn placing my own business on the top priority?A long way to go...sigh...a long way to go...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1111332421795224882005-03-20T23:26:00.000+08:002005-03-20T23:27:01.796+08:00

This book, 人體使用手冊 ([ren2 ti3 shi3 yong4 shou3 ce4], meaning "Human Body - User's Guide" in English, author: 吳清忠-Alex Wu), describes the human body system from a traditional Chinese medical view. The system fuctioning in a human body is, like a computer system, formed by hardware, software, and networking:- hardware: 五臟六腑, [wu zang liu fu]- software: 6 functional systems- networking: 4 networking

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1110810743866083062005-03-14T22:20:00.000+08:002005-03-14T22:34:12.693+08:00

My list at the 43 things.com. Bravo! Kai has done three things in his list already!

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1109492873583867912005-02-27T15:37:00.000+08:002005-02-28T12:31:05.906+08:00

Kai sent me the link for this interesting game. Thought I would never solve it by myself since I am usually not good at these brain teasers. Yet, tricky, tricky... I've solved it!!! The name of the game really helps! Now I am quite proud of myself for this trivial victory! And... I've also happily signed for the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose as the 2485th register! This link contains

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1106848082950046692005-01-28T01:50:00.000+08:002005-01-28T01:50:51.530+08:00

Kai did a pretty cool and neat page for his recent film watching record and comment. Just added here in case I can't find it later...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1106844185600213302005-01-28T01:30:00.000+08:002005-01-28T00:43:05.600+08:00

This Politically Incorrect Dictionary contains some interesting terms... Some examples are: - Eastern (As when used when discussing Asian Culture) - Too Eurocentric. Instead, use Africa as your frame of reference. When discussing European culture you should now use the phase "Northern", and when discussing Asia use the phrase "North-Eastern". Now isn't that better? - Ghetto - Replaced by

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I felt upset this evening by a unpleasant discussion on a project closng issue with the counterpart in another department, due to the opposite nature of our role plays in this project. Thought it's over and yet I am pretty annoyed by a request-but-almost-command phone call from a superior for the same issue... gosh! Why we get angry? *sigh*... Better it's a better idea to think more of "

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1105382363873468452005-01-11T01:52:00.000+08:002005-01-11T15:14:35.403+08:00

I am in the mood for songs tonight... to be correct, this early morning... If... the oldie but goodie song with a cozy flash animation from a fotolog friend, Camera, warming my heart in this 15C cold and rainy night. One of us... by Joan Osborne. The song I like so much and surprisingly listened to it from the radio on the way home tonight, which reminds me of a nice talk with K. (why do I

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1105287392343134722005-01-10T01:01:00.000+08:002005-01-11T00:36:42.446+08:00

On the last day of 2004, me and Myriam went for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, quite a silly but hilarious film for celebrating our year end... huh... okay, confess! Since we ended as single women still and didn't wanna go to the boring count-down parties socializing with not-that-familiar-with friends, we thus decided to celebrate our year end with these two cute guys, Colin Firth and Hugh

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1104315944263384752004-12-29T18:25:00.000+08:002004-12-30T19:44:51.060+08:00

This photo reminds me of an interesting experience in my 3-day trip to Hualien (花蓮), the west coast of Taiwan early this month. Myriam, Rodolphe, and I decided to walk from TienHsiang back to Taruko (17 kms) the second day of our trip, since we arrived Taruko in the late evening and didn't see much scenery on the way up to TienHsiang. This photo was taken before we went thru this TienHsiang

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1104233208296569432004-12-28T18:37:00.000+08:002004-12-29T16:56:03.116+08:00

This Christmas eve, I prepared the Christmas gifts for each of my families though we are not Christians and I have not been the fan of Christmas celebration for years. I don't know why I did so... anyway, my second niece has joined this world since this May and her father is currently having the 2-month overseas assignment and her mother has to work late usually on Fridays and... whatever..., so

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1102098482456457912004-12-04T01:41:00.000+08:002004-12-04T02:29:41.656+08:00

My preference of warmed sake having a better taste than the chilled one is defeated by myself again tonight in a Japanese restaurant. The Japanese friend introduced two different kinds of Japanese sake (chilled, of course) to us and confirmed that the poor quality of sake can be disguised by serving in warm. This reminds me of the discussion about the sake temperature in June with K... Is he

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1100865147425494762004-11-19T18:19:00.000+08:002004-11-19T19:52:53.663+08:00

Dilemma is translated as 進退兩難 in Chinese?! Pronounced as "Jin4 Tuei4 Liang3 Nan2" How come I don't know this expression?! While googling, I find this word is used as "騎虎難下" in this Chinese-English idiom site... hmm... interesting...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1100695033815961052004-11-17T19:03:00.000+08:002004-11-17T21:14:22.183+08:00

Recently, heard a lot from friends and colleagues complaining about their being busy... busy at work, study, families, relationships, life, etc. I is complaining about her work and not quite happy about her life living in a foreign country. K is disappearing and I so worry about if anything gone bad at his side, ill, accident, down time, so and so...and which silly thought I should have stopped

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1100363717620688382004-11-14T01:07:00.000+08:002004-11-14T00:44:37.870+08:00

My French friend, Myriam, arrives Taiwan today and starts her one year of studying Chinese and living in Taipei. She has talked about this plan since last year, moving her life to this city in which she's been in love so much. She said if she wouldn't do this now, she will probably never do it in her life. Now, she finally makes her plan for real... Now, Andreas and his family, Laurent, and Mimi

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1099757391832947742004-11-07T01:08:00.000+08:002004-11-14T00:35:51.620+08:00

On Nov 3, 2004, Kerry lost the US presidential election of 2004 with a minor difference of vote counts. Though regret, he's showed his respect to the choice of American people and accepted the vote result for unity of his country. On Mar 20, 2004, Lien lost the Taiwan presidential election of 2004 by a margin of 0.22% of valid votes. With upset to the two-bullet effect, he refused to concede and

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1099757266553503722004-11-07T01:03:00.000+08:002004-11-07T01:33:36.873+08:00

Just watched Wu Yi-Feng's latest documentation, Gift of Life (生命), a 142-minute film focusing on residents of Chiufen Erh Shan (九份二山) about families dealing with loss after the 921 earthquake and putting their lives back together again... feel touched by how these people got thru this disaster and struggled with their sadness of losing their familes, no matter the two couples' "life has to go on

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1099176589864130232004-10-31T07:36:00.000+08:002004-10-31T14:42:00.276+08:00

nose running, body aching, headaching... heart hurting, heart bleeding, heart breaking... cold soon getting better, but a broken heart? *sigh*... sick away, leave now...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1098378893827005472004-10-22T01:07:00.000+08:002004-10-31T14:38:12.416+08:00

happened to find my post of photo may become true, just in another setting and even... time frozen at that certain moment... heart squeezed... mind blanked... unconsciously browsing all the pics, walking here and there, left messages but no dare to know the answers... until, all of a sudden, what are you doing? asking myself and stopping these silly actions... disappointed, sad, lost, feeling

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1096527619933439242004-09-30T10:52:00.000+08:002005-01-11T01:39:43.820+08:00

Get your handkerchief ready for Mr. Children's K u r u m i... Remember your dreams and keep going...

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Vicky the Viking (北海小英雄, the Chinese title) was one of the popular animated TV series when I was a kid. Seemed most of us kids would urge heading home directly after school just for the main character Vicky's advantures with his fellow Vikings... From Little Gems: "... All the characters lived in a village called Flake which lies somewhere on the coastal regions of Norway or Sweden. It is based

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1094694034310870832004-09-09T09:39:00.000+08:002004-09-09T09:40:34.310+08:00

The beautiful clouds over the Namtso Lake, Tibet. Would be nice to see the clouds in person...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1092328778529976712004-08-13T00:35:00.000+08:002004-08-13T00:39:38.530+08:00

The link for this info, in case my tiny little brain can't recall where I place it...

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1091907662124366302004-08-08T01:55:00.000+08:002004-08-08T03:41:02.123+08:00

- 老子道德經: Liao Zi's Tao Te Ching - 三字經: San Zi Jing - 詩經: Shijing, The Book of Songs or Poetry (my favorite one... can't believe this ancient Chinese book has been translated in English!)

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1091376889071665312004-08-01T23:50:00.000+08:002004-08-02T00:14:49.070+08:00

Learning French will surely the item in the top of my Mid Year Resolution List, so that I will be able to read some sentences like "Je m'appelle Kai Carver et je réponds à l'appel! (salue)" in this post or some tour guides of Paris like this... Plus, I will feel more delighted when read "I am sorry, I am sorry, It's in French." :p ps. Is the sentence in English like: "My name is Kai Carver and

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1090168688753416572004-07-23T02:28:00.000+08:002004-07-24T03:45:42.576+08:00

Honey was brought to us by chance when my mom took my brother Lucien for a pet shopping after his serveral months of long pleading.  In front of a pet shop, a woman asked them if they wanted to keep one of her new born mixed puppies, instead of buying a dog.  Heard that woman wanted to give us a white puppy but that little one was having a bad stomache that day. She was afraid that we did not

yuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15123243098588942053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232117.post-1089220811947687632004-07-08T00:38:00.000+08:002004-07-08T01:42:51.503+08:00

An interesting novel by Jacqueline Harpman, sparked by Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also one of my favorite films. - French version: original language (would love to read this novel in French... pity... ok, todo: one of my new year resolution of 2005...) - Chinese version: 歐蘭達 - English version: Editorial Reviews by Amazon.com. From translation viewpoint, the English translator uses this novel

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UrbanRail.net, a site collecting the metro maps all over the world. Metros I've taken so far: Taipei, Taiwan (wow, this site contains the detailed and future plan. Cool!) Paris, France New York, USA San Franciso, USA Newcastle, England (I miss this map a lot.) Glasgow, Scotland uhh... it would be nice if a world metro map of mine can be drawn like this.

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Appearance of the newest Japan for foreign visiters before their being troubled? Some interesting topics: - No.1 vending machine of the world (gosh, automatic blood donation machine!) - The police in Japan (Ninja?) - The taboo in Japan (American) with "lucky strike" This link is provided by Yukako and Ken. Thank you...

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Henri, Mimi's father, sent me two photos from his watching a Taiwanese aboriginal dance performance by the Amis Kakeng Musical Group at Centre Culturel de Taiwan a Paris. Amis is the largest indigenous tribe in Taiwan (11 tribes in total). Wearing the traditional Amis clothing, the troupe performed rousing traditional Amis songs using the kakeng (a percussion instrument made of bamboo) and

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Photos reflect the moments of truth Distance is beautiful but sometimes cruel No one can not be replaceable sad but true...

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Fool asks advice for jealousy... Wiser: Love is like sweets with different fillings. When the nasty green-eyed monster jumps in, jealousy is then filled and the sweets becomes a poison... It tastes sweet but turns out to be toxic in the end, blacking your heart, clouding your eyes, consuming your soul, and making you a real nasty monster... Fool: *sigh*...poison wrapped in the candy... it

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An international course provided by IBO for young people. Three programmes are offered: Primary Year Programme (for age 3-12), Middle Years Programme (for age 11-16), and Diploma Programme (for age 16-19). Their mission looks quite cross cultural: These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with

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soul is free...

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Took this photo of Mom when she was going to the appointment for her knee problem checking. She was trying to get herself tidier for a better post (in fact she looked already good enough). All of a sudden, she sighed and said, "this photo is recording my worst moment in life..." When hearing so, my heart was like being squeezed and tears brimming in my eyes... a wrong investment decision of

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Promenade plantee, Paris (2004.04.23) Just post a fotolog for this park. Yet, I have much more nice memory of that park to say... This park is one of my favorite parks in Paris, an old elevated railway transformed into a pedestrian walkway and a garden. Walking along the walkway with various kinds of beautiful flowers and plants (and... bamboos!! can`t believe my eyes!!) aside all the way,

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A nice piece of work in flash. I like the end especially...

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This free webphone looks pretty easy to use, compared with those I tried to adopt to my graudate profolio long time ago... Can not help admire those who have such smart brains, whereas my brain will soon play dumb and better go to bed soon... try it tomorrow then.

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Kai toured me a day trip in Paris on my birthday. We visited several parks (Square Leopold Achille, Square George Cain, and exhibitions, as well as explored some interesting local and foreign food shops. This is just exactly what I would like to experience, doing what the locals do when visiting a place, city, or a country. More exciting for me was that, all the way, I felt like being in a

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Inspired by Kai's blog, Empire of Kai... This is my empire: - My world map by May 8, 2004 - My US map by May 8, 2004 - My Europe map by May 8, 2004 Will see how these maps being enlarged in 3 years...

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I have a great memory in th patry shops in Paris, some are in Parisian style and one is is Tunisian... 1) Les Petits Mitrons My eyes were widely opened when seeing this lovely Parisian Pastry shop, not only for the colorful and fairy-tale-like drawing on the wall outside of the shop, but also for these beautiful and mouth-watering pastries. Heard this is a very famous Parisian Pastry shop,

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A painter in the flee market near Montmartre, Paris (2004.04.17) Before touring me to the Montmartre, Mimi and I had a walk in this temp flee market so as to meet her friends. Suddenly, a painting in which a girl in white dress holding a teddy bear and a boy in navy blue sailor suit playing with a kyte at the beach attracted my eyes and stopped me in front of this painting stand. I like its

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Quite impressed to see no TV sets in my friends' living rooms when visiting Paris this time. Instead, these flats are equipped with musical instruments or a full wall of books. An organ (harmonia?) sits in Mimi's living room and a music keyboard is placed in Rodelph's. A wall of books stands in Kai's flat, too, pretty cozy. Compared with us here that used to have TV sets placed in the center

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Can't believe I am in Paris now... gosh... it's almost been 8 years since my last visit! The strange but exciting feeling started from my transferring the plane in Bangkok Airport. After serveral days of working overtime until midnight in office, I didn't feel any excitments for my coming holidays. Yet, in the boarding room, most of the passengers were Europeans and spoke in French language.

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Went to a Japanese restaurant with Franz and Marcus (Andreas' visitor) this evening for the sashimi (sliced raw fish) and sushi. We reserved the seats in front of the bar, where no menu was offered and needed. Only thing we did was telling the chef our preference to either sashimi or sushi or both. Accordingly, the chef choosed what fish/seafood he had today and arranged the sashimi/sushi

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All of a sudden, my world turns turmoiled by various shocks and surprises at work and in my personal life. A favor on resource locating for a colleague at another dept turning into a business line potically incorrect judgement. My email closing signature, with all the correspondence removed, is now used as the arrow in the complain letters shooting to my dept heads and that colleague's dept

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Seems many of my friends are gradually gathering in Taipei... Andreas is now living in Taipei along with his family for an overseas assignment. Franziska is thus attending a Chinese language course to fit herself more into the local life. Little cute Jakob now greets "Xie Xie!" during the weekdays after spending most of his day times in the local daycare center. He switches to "Danke!" during

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How come the country name for Taiwan in the ISO 3166-1 Code List as "Taiwan, Province of China"? Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China! Okay, the followings might explain the country name source coming from: Fourth, the country names used in ISO 3166-1 are all from United Nations sources. Using these country names officially notified by the countries to the UN Secretary General helps

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Just read the Peanuts 2004 daily calender bought in Raleigh and find this hilarious comic strip. A cool site for Peanuts: - Snoopy first appeared in Oct 4, 1950! - The very first Peanuts comic strip and the first time Charlie Brown is called 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown! - and for the other characters... Charles M. Schulz, what a great author!

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Just got one of my favorite CD back, The Sunday's Static and Silence. Thought it was lost but actually lent it to a colleague long time ago... This page contains short sound clips for each song in this CD. Here is all the lyrics for The Sundays. Among them, this one is my favorite. The followings is what I like the most: ... when you're searching your soul when you're searching for pleasure

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Photos taken in New York and RTP, North Carolina for my trip in Jan & Feb, 2004. Somehow, a faint vague voice deep inside murmuring, just hope the photos taken in RTP can be found under "that" directory... yet, a vain hope... Wake up! silly gal...

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Two of my photo log sites: http://www.fotolog.net/littleislander/: This free fotolog site can only add one photo per day... http://littleislander.fotopages.com : This free fotolog site can add more photos at one time... Getting start now...

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Erik posted two beautiful photos of the snow last night in Durham!!!!! And here is my comments when seeing these photos: snow wood in Narnia!! How I wish I were there to experience the snow, especially in such a low low mood, being torn apart again and falling from the altitude of 36,000 feet...

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nothing much to say, just... I'VE GOT A VALENTINE HEART!! a valentine heart formed by slices of apples!! AN APPLE VALENTINE HEART!!! flying 19 hours at the altitude of 36,000 feet, this heart had accompanied me enjoying the Orions at my right hand side on the way to Alaska and back home to Taipei, contented...

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the 12-year-old left his sunglasses at the heart-broken's. Heart-broken: hey, you left your sunglasses yesterday. 12-year-old: see, you're not the only one who loses things... Heart-broken: yet, your lost can be easily found. my lost can not... 12-year-old: yeah yeah. we all have things that are hard to find. believe me. Heart-broken: right right... just my lost can be found by someone, but

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the 12-year-old teased me, you've lost your pot; you've lost your car battery; you've lost your room key, and you've lost your voice. what will you lose next? huh? next? of course no next...yet... just realised i've lost my heart... but... found broken. with a broken heart, i am finding my way out... and... have to...

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Charades is called "bi3 sho3 hua4 jiao3" in Chinese . Last Friday, after the dumpling and Taiwanese rice noodle party, me, Kai, Erik, Tracy, and some testers played this game tegether. Amused to see how people from different countries acting out the words using various gestures and movements which are underminingly affected by their cultures or how they were brought up. For example, Kai, the

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Gosh! It took me almost 1.5 hours to reach Duke University.... Followed the direction in the Yahoo map but turned out useless... turned right on "BARBEE RD/OLD DURHAM - APEX RD/S BARBEE RD" and, excuse me, I drove onto the wet muddy so called "Barbee RD" and ended up in the front yards of some country houses!! *sigh*... Okay, then turned back to the East 54 and drove along the Chapel Hill

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Went to Tracy's birthday party last night in Durham, NC and enjoyed a lot the easy-going party flow. Felt a bit didn't-know-what-to-do at the beginning cause most of the people in the party were so new-face for me. Also, most of the testers had not arrived and in fact I haven't had time getting to know them well yet. Kai was busy smoking and talking with Tracy outside of the kitchen. Chatting

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Strand, a great bookstore in New York City for art, fiction, history, children and all other sorts of books, in a fairly bargained discount price, 1/2 of original price for most of the paperbacks almost can't resist my shopping desire when spotting Winnie the Pooh, Raggedy Ann, and even MARY POPPINGS!!! all are in my childhood reading memory. My parents bought a set of children's reading

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Guess what? Lucien and I just made dumplings here in New York, which is the first time in 10 years we've made the dumplings together. Lucien wanted to do it to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year but couldn't find time. So, now the sister comes visiting, serving as a Taiwanese food express delivery person and a cook... okay, in fact, it's quite fun doing the dumplings. Have to recall our

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gosh! New York is sooooooo cold... -9C... it's like walking in the freezer...how can Lucien and Shaye bear with this freezing weather? Hope Raleigh would be warmer... by the way, heard Taipei is also cold too. even snowing in YangMing Mt, 20 mins driving distance from my house, almost the city center... what happen, World? better go to bed soon to get the jetlag away...

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here is the vedio clip for the interview on "謝志偉嗆聲". Choose the date of "2004年1月8日". here is the discussion on that interview: "台視的「謝志偉嗆聲」1 月 8 日的節目訪問了譚慎格教授及岡崎教授，譚教授以不甚流利的中文，闡述布希之前被誤導而說出「反對台灣公投」的內幕，美國政府後來對台灣公投立場的轉變（由「反對」變成「不支持」），美國為什麼從來不承認台灣是中國的一部分，以及他為什麼堅決主張台灣一定要舉辦 320防衛公投的原因。..." i am now more and more wishing the preventive/defensive (whatever) referendum will be held on 3/20....

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The webcamera in Skudeneshavn This corner reminds me of the dolphin Flipper. When meeting him, he was sleeping and sometimes snoring under the ferry in the harbour... Yet, Grete said that Flipper has been missing for a long time and heard dead already... pls, don't be true... News for Flipper: October 2002: Flipper is missing, and some people fears that the popular dolphin is dead. The

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suffering from my unorganised and "everything in the last minute" behaviour... - missing the River Dance performance in Taipei last night so to grade the final exam, which i should have done so one week ago... plus, the ticket is quite expensive... : ( - hurrying to the college this evening so as to deliver the scorecard, because i again missed the due time for inputing students' grades via the

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how come people claim foot massage a good therapy? it's just so painful!!.... huh... okay, sometimes comfortable, yet, not too much... had a foot massage this afternoon and advised that i'd better take more care of my brain, arms, shoulders, and some other parts of body... heard that people working with computers usually feel painful in these reflexology areas when having the foot massage... ha

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Also this book, Alone, the 8th book in the "Net and Books" series... The publisher, Rex Hao, says: "你隨時都可以不是一個人。你可以二十四小時隨時走進一個便利超商，一家KTV，一家書店。你可以二十四小時隨時在網路上找到一個剛剛早上八點起床的人和你聊天，甚至不止聊天 (Translation: You can choose not being alone anytime. You can, anytime, go to a 24-hour-open place in Taipai, such as a convenient store, a KTV, a bookstore. Also, you can, anytime, surf in the Internet and chat

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Just finish reading this book, 青春無法歸類 (Uncategorized Youth). The author, 柯玉棻 (Ke, Yufen), a 1968-born single woman, living in Taipei, notes down the worries she and her also-30-somthings girl friends facing: weights, work, money or spending money, love, hate, etc... Can't stop laughing or weeping when reading some of the articles. Just like reading my own diary...

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Just realize that my wish list for 2004 in fact should be my New Year's Resolution for 2004. Now, 5 days has passed in 2004 and I am trying to keep some good habbits on - have a one-hour walking (not bad, went for a hiking in XiangTien/MianTien Mountains and now suffer from the sore legs) - work less (hmm...trying... especially with the new time card system... ) - spend time with myself more

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Interesting to find two different spellings of 淡水, while driving Taipei City to Taipei County. In Taipei City, 淡水 is spelled as "Danshuei", followed by the Pinyin system; whereas as "Tamshuei" in Taipei County. Gosh! while searching, more spellings of 淡水 are found more different spelling, Tamshui, Okay, in the MOI site, here is the translation rule of places and here is the intructions when

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New year's eve, staying at home, quiet, pieceful and calm, instead of hanging out all night and sleeping my Jan 1st away, which I had done for several years... The last three hours of 2003, "The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" shown at HBO has been a good company for me, even though a 3rd time of watching this film. Great scenes, nice inspriation... Wanna have a good start of

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why do people always talk about new year wish lists every year? wondering if i really wanna do this... okay... here is my wish list of 2004: - Learn a foreign language (ha, this has been in my wish list for several years...) - Pass PMI certificate exam (sigh... hope get that certificicate asap...) - Exercise regularly in fact, my trivial wishes are - having a one-hour walking to the

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when is enough enough? when is nosy around enough enough? 該是你的會是你的, 不該是你的, 強求也沒用... 夠了!

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Carol Tai's new photo log for her little bear "boy friend"... just see how long these two guys will last after traveling around Taiwan! a leo and a bear?? hehe... i like this bed and these bamboos the best...

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while searching for the ridiculous news of auction for a used toothpick, happen to find a brief history of chopsticks. chopsticks were promoted because "Confucius, a vegetarian, advised people not to use knives at the table because knives would remind them of the slaughter"? interesting... anyway, so far as i know, chinese chopsticks are round-headed whereas japanese ones are more sharp-headed.

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Anita Mui (梅艷芳), the famous Canto-pop singer, died this morning at the age of 40 after suffering from cervical cancer. It's quite sad for such a talented person died so young... however, the media broadcasts this news live from the hostipal all morning along with commenting her career history and love affairs, etc... does this mean an honor for this diva? Plus, can't believe that CNN also

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Interesting!! Amazon is building a Traditional Chinese site now... Still prefer the 博客來 (books.com), especially for its various magazine subscribing programs. Yet, if Amazon TW site is quick built and big enough... this reminds me of Netscape vs IE and ICQ vs MSN... ha, books.com has its name translated in Chinese by using the mixture of sound (books => 博客) and meaning (com(e) => 來 ).

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These days, national flags are seen everywhere, flying along the main roads and highways. This should be for celebrating the Consitution Day of Dec 25, shouldn't this? na... seems not... people are more interested in Christmas, even though people in Taiwan are more in Buddism and Daoism. Yet, wait...not the holy spirit of Christmas... almost all the shops are adopting every ways they can

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