The Reflection of “Aging in the Land of the Young”

This article is talking about what effects aging will bring to our lives and what mental and physical problems the elderly will face. Some of the various situations are that we even cannot expect from our present views. That might be because we have not experienced it. Sometimes, we may not be thoughtful, careful, and mature enough, so we will ignore the emotion of the old. We also do not feel their loneliness; instead, we usually consider our own feelings selfishly.

Each conditions mentioned in the article made me have a stirring of emotion. Every situation made me think of my parents. They work hard constantly to support our family. Suddenly, I realized that my parents are getting older and older while we are growing up. I began to reflect upon myself because I think that I am frequently busy doing my own things and considering my won life. Besides, I felt sorry that I am seldom concerned about them. Therefore, I told myself that I should be a considerate, warm daughter and consider their feelings as much as I can. In addition, I should seize the chances to love my parents lest I would feel regretful one day.

Graduation Feast @ RED STEAK

It was happy time for me to have a big meal
with my dear senior sisters and brothers who I like so much again.
It was a wonderful and delicious feast again.

But, there is something different this time.
We chose to have a big dinner at a higher class restaurant,
And we freshmen have to pay, too (It does not matter!)
Beside, the most important thing is that the senior is going to graduate from NCHU and study at another school for her Master's degree.
She is going to leave us! (That makes us feel happy and sad at the same time.)

At first, we planned to order different dishes and then share with one another. But, interestingly, most of us had the same taste, so we chose the same kind of dish. Luckily, my order was totally different from both of my senior brothers, who sat beside me. Therefore, I had the chances to taste various delicious foods. How kind and considerate the junior brother is! He shared all his food with me and served for me voluntarily. (Oh my God! You are really gentle and sweet. )

All of us chatted about all sorts of subjects happily without concealing any secrets. Maybe, we should call such a conversation as gossip. Anyway, because we are close enough so that we can share our private feelings, thing at ease sometimes. That's because each of us is always willing to listen to one another and then give some pieces of sincere advice.

However, during the meal time, the senior sister seldom talked anything. We felt a little bit weird about that, but we guess that might be because she did not know what to say. Perhaps, she would like to seize the last precious chance that we could get together to carefully memorize the characteristic and face of every members in the family.

In addition, we prepared a beautiful watch and a card which was actually a jigsaw as a graduation present for the senior. And I brought up a good idea to give it to her in a special way. In order to give her a surprise, we asked a waitress to serve it for her. As a result, she was surprised and touched by us, and her tears were running in her eyes.

Overall, each of us still talked happily with one another. I cannot help expressing my feeling again. Every time after having a meal with my families in school, we really want to say, " I like you so much, guys!"

I really appreciate for everything happened to me and everyone around me in my life. I am a lucky girl because I can meet nice people who treat me really kind and well all the time!

Part-time Job 2 --- Tutor

Last Saturday, I did one thing that is new, challengeable for me, as a tutor. It is the other part-time job of mine. It is a job that my junior sister, Winnie, gave to me because she will be much busier in the following year than now. Therefore, she decided to let to take over her job after she considered thoroughly.

It is my pleasure to win her trust and then get this nice job!

It seemed a little difficult for me to handle two kids' conditions; especially one of them is always out of control. They are elementary school students; the sister is fifth grade, and the brother is third grade. What I have to do is help them to finish all the homework, review English, and lead them to read some English materials. Sometimes, I may need to play games with them and keep them company if we have extra time.

Their parents are kind dentists who value their children's education very much, so I have better remind myself of taking this job more seriously, earnestly all the time. The girl named Frances is always good; she will study, do her duties spontaneously. She needs no one to urge her again and again. Also, she will help me to have her brother in good manner. She is really a well-behaved, outstanding girl. However, the boy named Alan cannot be concentrate on his homework because of impatience. He will run around, play his toys constantly instead of sitting still and studying. I think the biggest problem that I have to overcome as their tutor might be that I still have look for the best way to get along with the naughty boy.

Cheer up! Both jobs, including as a waitress or a tutor, have become parts of my responsibility. I have to be strong, independent enough to shoulder these duties, and do my best as much as possible because I need to be responsible for all my behaviors.

These are great chances for me to learn more experience, lessons that I cannot learn from textbooks, so I have to seize them. Never give up easily no matter what troubles, problems I will meet in the future.

Part-time Job 1 ---Waitress

I got a part-time job as a waitress in a Japanese restaurant a few weeks ago. The assistant manager there was my aunt's good friend, so I got a chance to interview. Then, I was employed and got my first job. I was so happy that I could not wait to tell my mom, older sister about the good news immediately as soon as I finished the interviewing.

The occasions of my work are all in wedding feasts. What I need to do is serve the dishes and cleans dirty plates, tables for guests. In addition, I have to walk around fast, constantly during work time because we should provide service for every guest at once.

At first, my condition was all in a mess because it was the first time that I faced such a busy situation and I was not familiar with the work enough. As a waitress, I had to deal with many different kind of situation and try hard to meet supervisors' expectation. Besides, what the most important is that I have to fulfill customers' demands as much as we can all the time.

Thank to some of my seniors, especially the boy who was assigned to teach me, I could finish my work smoothly at last. He would be concerned with if I could handle all the condition, if I felt tired at any time. If he found that something was getting out of my control, he would come to help me. I felt very happy, fortunate, and grateful to him because of his careful, thoughtful, warm, and kind heart.

I could remember that I was exhausted and then felt sore all over my body during the following days after my first working day. It was an unforgettable experience that made me realize how toilsome my parents are in order to raise the home.

Dear senior, 小鋒

I promise that I will try to learn everything well and be adapt to the environment as soon as possible. I will also work as hard as I can! Thank a lot for your consideration.

The Happy, Relaxed Weekend with GAKIs---Part II

Continue…. Sorry! It seems to be a long time ago….hahaha

May 16, 2010

It was a sunny day.

I woke up early in the morning. I did not know why I could get up early even though I went to bed a little bit late last night. Maybe, that』s because I was so excited about the following schedule. In such a comfortable, tranquil morning, I took a walk around the house alone to enjoy the nature beauty.

Then, most of GAKIs also woke up when I came back to our place. We had porridge and some dishes as breakfast. We talked and had our meal together in a god mood. After that, we prepared to leave for our next destination, Shanlinchi forest recreation area (杉林溪森林遊樂區). We took about three or four hours to act in the forest recreation area. A great group of people played games, sang songs, talked to one another while going mountain climbing on such a cloudless day. It really made us feel tired because we had to walk up and then walk down constantly as the terrain rises and falls. However, it actually made me released from the pressure from my daily life and also made me feel relaxed. Then, we found somewhere to have our lunch, and went back to Taichung in each motorcade. At last, all of us were back to the school safe and sound, and took a picture together as a precious memory.

Perhaps, someone will think that the schedule is boring. But, as far as I am concerned, the destination is not the most important thing. What』s more important is the journey that I can spend with those I like happily together. In addition, we are able to know one anther better through the journey because we can see the different sides of each person that we cannot find in our daily lives. That』s quite interesting!

The Reflection of “Peaceful Warrior”

It is a movie that was edited from a novel named “Way of The Peaceful Warrior”. It is combined with part of fiction and part of autobiography. This story is based on the early life of the author, Dan Millman.

He is a university student and a locally famous gymnast. He can get good grades in school and win pretty girls’ hearts. Everything in his life seems very smooth. As far as we are concerned, if we could live a life like Dan’s, we should feel content. However, Dan feels annoyed with his life due to some uncertain factors. Then, he meets an old man and this old man guide him to find out the exit of his complex mind.

Overall, the story tells of a chance meeting with a gas station attendant who becomes a spiritual teacher to the young gymnast, Dan Millman. The attendant who Millman nicknames Socrates becomes a kind of father figure and teaches Millman how to become a Peaceful Warrior.

In addition, the central concept of “Socrates’ philosophy” is this: that one must live entirely in the present moment.
There are some quotes that make me impressive and give lessons:

"Take out the trash from what's inside your head."

"Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. Who are you? This moment."

It tells me that I should seize the present moment, never think too much something complicated, and gather all my concentration on what I want to do. I think it is really a difficult lesson even though most of us know it. Maybe, we will be able to do that if we try hard.

"It is the journey that gives us happiness, not the destination."

Sometimes, we will care about the outcome too much. In order to achieve our goals, we may ignore the process that we make efforts. But, actually we should enjoy our happiness and sense of success from the way of reaching the targets.

"Everyone wants to tell you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers, they want you to believe theirs."

Be the masters of ourselves! Listen to our hearts. Try to find out the real thoughts in the mind. Also, to become a real adult, we should learn how to think independently and how to be responsible to our behaviors.

It is a quite good movie. If you are available, you should see it indeed.

The Happy, Relaxed Weekend with GAKIs---Part I

May, 15, 2010

It was the day that I had expected for a long time. I was excited to go on a tour with GAKIs (They are the members in the chorus. We are so close like family members that sometimes we can share the secrets in our minds with one another.)

This time, we went to Nantou for our two-day-one-night tour, and the weather was comfortable, sunny and windy on average, yet a little rainy later.

Our way of transportation is by motorcycle. We were separated into three motorcades, and each departed in turn. Luckily, the person who rode the motorbike and took me all the way was my good friend, A-juan. We were originally quite familiar, close with each other so that we would not feel embarrassed, or did not know how to get along with each other. It is very attractive, interesting way of tour for me because I am able to directly enjoy the comfortable feeling that beautiful scenery and the nature bring to my body and my mind. Besides, I personally like not only the carefree feeling of fooling around by motorbike but also the cool feeling that the breeze fans my face, my hair.

We spent a little bit long time to arrive our destination. We took a walk and act around the Chi-chi train station (集集火車站), walking along the rail, taking pictures, and having a lot of fun. We ate some delicious fried mushrooms and bananas. Then, we went to a place where we only needed to pay 6 NT. dollars for an ice-lolly. The ice-lolly had many different kinds of flavor, tasted not bad and they were really very cheap.

Afternoon, it began to rain, so we had to ride to the place where we wanted to stay that night as soon as possible. We all got a little bit wet after reaching our destination.

After having dinner, we had some activities, playing a drama each group. Then, most of us played card games, Truth or Dare, The Killer till late in the night.

It was happy, unforgettable day because I could be with those who I like and share happiness with them!