May 8,2009

A Letter to Taipei City Mayor-My view about public safety

Dear Mr. Mayor Hau Lung-bin, 

  I am only a small civilian in the big city. I’ve just read the news about the boom of a crane that plunged 37 floors from a construction project in Xinyi District and smashed the back end of a tour bus carrying 25 visitors from China, killing 2 passengers and injuring another on April 24. I am shocked and feel sorry about this tragedy. However, I think it’s not just operator negligence but also a problem about how the citizens in Taiwan lack a sense of public safety and social morality. I write this letter to give you my opinions and suggestions to improve public safety in our city.

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標籤：NEWS,陸客,public safety,letter to Mayor,起重機,吊臂,遊覽車,意外

April 4,2009

One Taiwanese Cultural Milestone

 
  There are some important life events in each society, and Taiwan is no exception. The rite of passage that has become so popular recently for Taiwanese youngsters is traveling around the island, and they see the process as an important step towards growing up.

  In 2007 a movie entitled Island Etude was in Taiwanese theaters. The story followed a young man, Ming-hsiang, as he traveled around Taiwan on his bike. He biked to the most beautiful scenery in Taiwan, and from the journey he experienced something he never had before. There is a famous saying from that movie, “If you don’t do something now, you’ll never have the chance to do it in your life.” That movie touched so many young people in Taiwan, and it brought a trend of traveling around the island. Most of the youngsters ride bikes on their journey, as the main character did at the movie.

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標籤：環島,練習曲,人生階段,成長儀式,環島台灣,Island Etude.

February 18,2009

Customs in Taiwan

  Customs are usually considered a way of life or the culture that a particular group has followed for a long time. As a nearly 30-year-old Taiwanese, I am rightly familiar with the customs in Taiwan. I’d like to introduce some interesting ones below.

  Firstly, you cannot help but refer to food in Taiwan because Taiwanese like to eat, and diet accounts for an important part of Taiwanese life. From childhood on during a meal, children are admonished by their mothers not to waste a grain of rice, or they will marry someone with a pockmarked face in the future. As a greeting, people use the sentence “Have you eaten?” which has the same meaning as “How do you do?” Moreover, no matter at school or work, Taiwanese always like to be seated at a table in order to talk and build up relationships with one another.

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標籤：習慣,風俗,台灣風俗,customs,customs of Taiwan,Customs in Taiwan

December 22,2008

NBA純愛故事─想念•那年的NBA•那時候的妳

很有才氣的朋友寫的文章，經他同意在這裡轉貼與大家分享！
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「突然好想你 你會在哪裡 過得快樂或委屈

突然好想你 突然鋒利的回憶 突然模糊的眼睛」

（五月天＿突然好想你）

 

我挨著微弱的燈光，隨意看著電視上正重播的 NBA 比賽，

Kobe 幾可喻為上帝右手的一顆進球，贏得洛杉磯滿場球迷喝采，

一路苦苦追趕的湖人還落後國王 9 分。

戰局雖然緊張，卻挑動不了我的敏感神經，

已經好幾年沒看球了，今天會想轉到這個體育頻道，

是因為妳嗎？

 

「想念如果會有聲音 不願那是悲傷的哭泣

事到如今 終於讓自己屬於 我自己

只剩眼淚 還騙不過自己」

 

 

八年前，被聯考折騰的妳我，

怕考不上理想的學校，每天都用盡了最大的力氣在K書，

唯一能放鬆的時候，

是每到禮拜天，我們總會翹頭到球蛋在學校附近租的房子，

一起啃零食、喝汽水，看我們三個都愛看的 NBA，

那時候的 Kobe 才 22 歲。

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標籤：NBA,純愛

October 3,2008

Why 'CAPE NO.7' catches so many eyes?

by 果子電影

Before last Saturday I went to see a movie “Cape NO.7” with my friend Melody, who we have known each other nearly ten years. I have to admit that at first I went to see the “Cape NO.7” just because I am curious about why the Taiwanese movie can get so popular and so hit, in either word of mouth or the box office. However, after I walked out of the movie theater, I realized why it could capture so many audiences’ eyes and touch their hearts. Here I would like to give some of my opinions of the movie as below.

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