Looking for Paradise

Alejandro Sanz，西班牙歌神，1991年出道至今，拿了15屆的拉丁葛萊美獎和2屆的葛萊美獎!!
這是他寫的一首歌，並與Alicia Keys合唱!! 讓我們一起尋找我們的樂園吧!!

Own your own business!

These months, I didn't show up but still kept on learning. Sometimes I regret that I didn't notice what I don't know as in college. Getting older and eager to succeed make all the knowledge I lack in need. I read and read, for patching the holes of my capability - financial IQ, real estate, health control and social relationship.

SYSTEM is what keeps a company going. The leader made a system which stemmed form a though, a principle or a faith that all followers could obey and trust in. Do I have enough know-how to build my own system which enables me to lead a group, a department or even a company? Not yet! Not ready yet! What do I actually need I don't know. I just know I have to develop this habit as longing for knowledge and experience are essential to life. For my boss, he has got a few points of English learning and education. He, who then created a successful career of his own, established a new system of learning English that none in the same field couldn't surpass. That's only one faith or one rule you have to come up with, but additionally it has to be super unique.

Now we've got rule no.1 of the way to your own business - build your own system. Unique and new! Right to the point where the market is.

苗栗狐狸穴

2010/1/22，本著要北上參加簡阿肥婚禮之際，可在途中順道拜訪狐狸在苗栗的新居，也順便在苗栗玩賞一番。我在前一晚一下班我就搭著台鐵前往苗栗市，一切以不浪費時間為主，晚上坐車當然是第一選擇了!!

第一次到苗栗是2007當兵前的環島，當時接待我與謝沛兩人的，是在這教書的小逼。當時覺得苗栗...好純樸! 接著是2009新年的夢想之旅，我們到了苗栗的南庄、大湖等地。那時覺得苗栗好美，好懷舊，空氣溼溼涼涼，山巒嵐煙陣陣。然後，就是這次了，也許是夢想之旅狐狸沒參加，老天給了他一個大懲罰，讓他志願落在此地。好好體驗個2~3年(據說要能調職最少要2年後才能開始)。

星期六，我們起了個大早感受苗栗客家風味早點。聽客家話對談真過癮，好像在國外，像是自已被嘲笑被數落還不曉得，然後看著對方說謝謝!! 多異國阿!! 接著，似乎苗栗市沒什麼好逛，當地人要我們往南前往汶水，大湖，一路騎車玩耍，再一路回到苗栗市。不曉得怎麼回事，離家越遠，就越感覺心情愉悅，壓力越小，可以亂講話，亂搞笑，一切隨性...又特別在這苗栗，三個南部大男人，在這原以為不會輕易踏上的北部山村，恣意遊歷。

最後，雖然我很不捨，但這地點是命運的安排，有它一定的道理，也許就會讓狐狸遇到夢想中的馬尾大世界。一切都不一定呢!! 祝福囉!! 下回再來時，也許我就得睡廁所了!

眾志成城

透過串連，可以幫助這些狗兒!! 大家加油!

A Weekend A Different Life

My life is divided into two, weekday and weekend.

For me, weekend is like a fantasy toward where life actually is.

I love weekends though I know there are only two days

and that's quite enough for me to get back to work.

This time, the three-day holiday almost breaks my rule.

I was hardly able to get back to work

because I love my fantasy, my friends to death.

Here is where we said goodbye to last year. Getting soaked to let go bygones.

A real fabulous lounge bar, 黑樓The Black Building.

Thank 小黃SSjungle for the dishes. We enjoyed more there.Bye, 2009. The year in which I worked a year, I started to know stock market

, I went through the life and death of my friends' and even my family's.

I learned a lot. No matter which aspect it is, I accumulated knowledge. I grew!

And the most important thing is on the final day of the year, one out of maybe 60 times in a lifetime, I was with you guys, counting down together, experiencing true friendship.

Recently, I've been thinking a way to combine this two lives together.

Another breakthrough for myself and even my friends.

A life style to live and work together.

2009九月華立聚 - 情定小琉球

今年華立的夏天，是美麗的小琉球!

在二個月前，經過日期表決，喬定，行程規畫，交通問題解決，看出大夥對這部車的向心力!! 超級感動! (一隻羊在出發前夕被公司調回，可惜!><)感謝沛一開始的地點提議，讓我不必絞盡腦汁地想地點，然後是大夥的熱情加入，讓這回小琉球人數直逼上回澎湖的人數，超多人的!而雙園大橋斷了後，交通的接洽也超級感謝謝爸劉媽的鼎力相助，加上星期五夜晚的住宿，讓大夥隔日可以少了一段路程，多了一點活力。

這回籌畫小琉球之旅可說是一點麻煩都沒有，只能說小琉球的觀光做的十分成功，我只需訂下民宿套裝行程，一切煩人的船票、機車、導覽等根本不是問題。也因為琉球太小了，(其實我本回活動的目的就是想賭德州撲克加玩桌遊)我根本沒去調查有哪兒好吃的、好玩的，呵呵!! 好吃的，要謝謝圓圓的課前細心找尋，帶大夥去吃。不過可惜我們二度與餃神擦身而過，最痛心疾首的莫過於狐狸小妹了!!(你一定是沒吃過好吃的水餃<--這回你真錯過了!) 而好玩的，要感謝大家啥都可以的快樂的心! 在島上閒晃時，該到哪些必遊景點我還真是沒研究過 ^^" ，但是大家就是，不管在哪...只要有團康、食物、球類、小黃，就能活下去的什麼都好型，超好搞定。真的~三大付費景點我們就付了100元的「過路費」，就這樣一直給它路過!! 然後一看到水就可以玩個痛痛快快，根本不管什麼黑鬼美人的洞，還是山豬的溝溝到底有沒有到過... 說真的，真的很喜歡大家這種隨遇而安，到哪都能high的個性!!

這回的晚間重頭戲(其實我真的每次出來都最期待晚上活動)，有點慢才開始...吃晚餐加上洗澡耗掉了一些我意料外的時間，害我那時心有點急，感覺好浪費時間阿!! 不過也因為我們總是沒能夠有時間好好玩個過癮，所以總會讓遺憾化成下回活動的期待!!! 而這回幫珊珊的慶生，也是波折不斷，蛋糕的秘密運送和卡片的驚喜布置和沒演練過就很逼真的關燈破梗，都是超級珍貴的回憶，這也算是重頭戲之一。最後，這回小琉球也在回台前一刻埋下伏筆，就是「傍晚時在花瓶石海域與綠蠵龜共游」天阿!!!! 我超想去的!!為什麼老闆這時候才說，不然我們就不必明年再去一趟了!! 好啦，下回的主辦人不要怕活動重複，我們可以再去一次。

這回的情定小琉球，大家的熱情再次證明了友情的偉大，我想，與大夥的嘻笑打鬧已經變成我所愛的生活的一部分，也是十分珍惜的一部分!! 下回，晡晡車又要開往哪去呢? 真是期待!!

Solicitude 牽掛

Growing up means taking more and more reluctant responsibility.

It suddenly occurred to me that I was pushed to a place senselessly.

It may be a stage where you were forced to put on a show.

It could be a spooky night path where you didn't dare but must go to get home.

It might be the bitter cure to your illness which you'll never take but still have to.

It is, in this very situation that I have to face the truth

that Mom is no longer young and healthy for being my shelter.

Losing a shoulder to cry on is so cruel and furthermore I became the shoulder

for her rest of life to rely on. I admit I've been a place I never expected to be.

At the beginning of the turning point of my status, I try to return the love.
I think somehow I realize, at this momentous point, the pressure poured
by both aged parents and young children.--Parents doubled
the caring and strength to sustain their parents and children,
both mentally and physically or even financially.

C'est la vie...

Through the life and death of my parents do I realize caring for ones I love
is really the life I lived and should live. I have walked out of my own room
and stepped to the kitchen, where we eat, the living room, where we gather
, to everywhere in my house and been ready to be the support.
It's time to return.
It's time to take more responsibility.
It's time to look after myself because I will be the backbone
of both my beloved Mom and Dad and children.
To live for ones who love you and you love is what life is all about -- solicitude.

My American School Students

I could hardly know how it feels to have beginner students in AS till
I began the class starting from zero on 8/3 right after summer break.
Being inexperienced in teaching beginners, I kept asking and taking notes.

They are three naive and cute kids.
Two girls and one boy.
Their English is on my hand, I told myself at my first sight of them.
I've got to teach them right English. Namely they can speak like native speakers
while read articles out of any question.

Fortunately, I don't fight alone.
Sarah also teaches them as a model for me.
I have no reason to be afraid but I have to emphasize
the priority in learning process that leads them
to learn steadily and efficiently.
That is what I ought to master now.

It's been 3 weeks.
They are so cute that I came up an idea to have my own child for the first time.
And if I can choose, I want a girl.
Girls are cuter according to my feeling.
They are really amazing that I am kind of fond of teaching them.
And what bothers me is the way to MAKE them absorb the knowledge.
I am still figuring it out!!

English, Hard or Easy...

Almost 1 year has it been since I taught English.
I think I grew up in some ways.
The environment is indeed the most significant factor
that leads a child to master English in a stable pace.
The earlier you parents push your children into it
, the earlier they get to soak in the atmosphere.
Once you get accustomed to the pressure, you feel no pressure at all.

Little by little, I was convinced of the push-your-child-in-the-earlier-the-better thing.
That's true!
There is a large gap between a child who starts at 7 and the other as a teen.
Children who started early can read and use English by 2 years while the others can't even read KK phonetic symbols and are about to go to junior high.
And grammar knowledge is limited if you can start earlier to learn it.
If you know it well and you'll find out
that there are just a few different modifiers or parts of speech you need to recognize
, such as infinitives, prepositional phrases and clauses
which I look upon as words in odd clothes.
Once the kids master grammar and English, they are able to read profound editorials written by famous columnists from New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and so forth while sitting next to high school students.
How breathtaking it is!

The focusing on steps of teaching plan stage has gone on to the making students understand stage, which I considered a new milestone to my teaching career.
However, I have got to admit that the following phase is harsher.
Trying every suitable treatment to improve the whole class is never effortless
because it's not a sooner-or-later stuff like accustoming procedures of teaching
but a journey that you search for cure to change students' studying habits.

The new semester is around the corner.
I am going to teach new classes of totally fledgling kids.
I am afraid if I am ready for the challenge though I knew it to be necessary.
To bring a child from none to mastering English, I am about to be tested.
Hope everything goes just fine.

去年此時，我是廚工；今年今天，依舊軍中

當你遇上困難，是否會覺得忍一下，過去就好了...
當兵時，的確如此，痛苦的時候就拿起日曆，數數還剩幾天...

回到社會後呢?
用78歲減現在年齡，看人生還剩幾年痛苦結束嗎?
我知道不是，只是有時不爽的時候還真的會給它算下去...靠!

As I getting old, life gets more and more complicated.
Having children or getting married seems not my own choice to my own life.
How could marriage mean the same to us since we are diverse individuals and raised in different times?
Can carrying on the family line be the major factor of marriage?
I don't think so.
Can marriage guarantee the lifelong happiness of your child?
I don't think so.
I would never get married just for family line or skin-deep love to someone.

Anny has been suffering this disaster and I know it has ruined the atmosphere at home.
Negotiation is always out of the question because of Father's bad temper.
Some simple problems were stopped on the way to solutions.
A few days later, the chaos seemed to be eased while the problems went potential.
Little by little, the trifles were accumulated to an amount that tore your sense down.

And that's what happened to me now.
I'm really tired of your temper and stubbornness.
It's painful to stay in the army as well as at home.
One year has past and I am back to the start.