tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84748858316504809282024-03-13T08:37:18.988-07:00SYM Intermediate English ClassSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-5060395441002585142010-01-06T23:43:00.000-08:002010-01-07T00:42:33.037-08:00A Big SurpriseMy coworker, Fish Wang, handed me two envelops this morning. He said that he found them in a pile of letters intended for the foreign labourers in our dorm. I was very surprised to see these letters.<br /><br />They are from my friends abroad. One is from a German friend; the other is from Russia. My German friend sent the letter to me to wish me a happy birthday last year. I know nothing about the surprise letter. My Russian friend sent me a postcard of Vladivostok in June 2009. He told me about it, saying that he wanted to show me the beauty of the harbour.<br /><br />However, I have never seen these two letters before today. I was waiting for the postcard from Vladivostok last summer and I did not get anything! I was sad and I told my friend that the postcard might have been lost somewhere along its trip to my dorm. Hence, I was not expecting to see these two letters this morning.<br /><br />People rarely send snail mails nowadays, but for the receivers it's always a pleasure to read the letter on paper. I am so happy to open these two letters. This is the best surprise of the day!克勞蒂亞.油膩膩http://www.blogger.com/profile/16722760412279811780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-87131414156773334122010-01-06T08:16:00.000-08:002010-01-06T09:41:35.435-08:00Some Efforts I Do to Kill Ants<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> Since December 2009, there is a big problem keep bothering me. That is ants invade in my room. At the beginning, I thought that was only a temporary situation, so I didn't pay too much attention on it. Then it got worse. They really felt like at home and still come and go whenever they want. At that moment, I finally realized they would never leave my room.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> So, I used an insecticid</span><span><span>e to kill them. However, it didn't work. They only felt dizzy but not been killed. Then I searched on the internet about how to kill ants and I found someone said that using vinegar to wipe the route they pass through can prevent ants invade again. So I dripped some vinegar into the water and wiped my desks and floors hardly, then put some mothballs in every corner in my room hoping this could keep them away. Still not working again. Also I had tried squeeze orange peel to wiped the route and still in vain.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><div> My friend said that maybe it was cold outside and my room was too warm because I turned on the heater. But I don't want to turn it off because I don't want to freeze to death. Therefore, I am still trying against them. Right now, I am serious consider of buying a poisonous bait to kill them. Let's just wait and see. I will be the winer in this battle at last.</div>Ann Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18171399830833093338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-49830550284871081062010-01-06T05:52:00.000-08:002010-01-06T05:52:48.320-08:002012I saw the movie “2012” last week, finally. That reminds me one night last Sep.<br />
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12/ 5 was the election date for county magistrate and councilors. Before that day, one candidates came to our community of our apartment and made a speech for her politics. They attracted the residents to listen her politics by offering simple dinner and gave a movie in our conference room. I was not interested with the dinner, but I did been attracted by the video – 2012. I knew 2012 was still in theater then , I didn't know how they get the video. Actually, that is not really important to me, I just wanted to see this movie. <br />
After half hour of the candidate's speaking, ha, finally here came the video "2012". I was so excited to see the movie, and we prepared everything ready like pop cone and drinks to sit on the sofa and enjoy the movie. After one and half hour, the movie ended. What? What's that? <br />
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I did not see John Cusack in the movie, I did not see any disaster either. The plot did describe Mayan Prophecy and what would happen in 2012, but…. is that really the movie “ 2012 “ ? What is going on ? I checked the video case, it was definitely 2012. But it read “ DOOMSDAY “ on the bottom. What's that? 1.5 hours for an odd movie? <br />
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I was so expected to see the hot movie and it told me 2012 was the story about religion! I laughed, because I felt I was taken as a fool. After that , I browse the internet , and found there was a movie named “ 2012 Doomsday “ in 2008. Ha! What can I say ? But at last , I saw the real 2012 now.SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-87788634124658786182010-01-06T01:17:00.000-08:002010-01-06T01:17:38.830-08:00Boring life and funny lifeDurign these 10 days' vocation, I stayed at home and played almost 10 days' video games. <br />
Although I did go to watch the movie "Sherlock Holmes", a quite common movie which did not surprise me a lot, and the "2009 Taipei Auto Show", show girls are very hot there, then met my classmates whom have not met for 5 years. But life is still boring.<br />
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However, what kind of life I expect to?<br />
I do not know.<br />
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For a person who does not have much money to spent, what kind of goal or enterainment should I have?<br />
Reading? painting and drawing? <br />
Maybe...... day dreaming is a good way to save more money.<br />
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People may call those men who like to stay at home as a "OTAKU", but at least they addict to their goals or entertainments, like games, cartoons, dolls or comics. However, I am not so addict to the video games I played as OTAKU.<br />
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My life is still boring now and funny life is not coming yet<br />
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by SimonSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-83952001123538104122010-01-05T00:05:00.000-08:002010-01-05T00:07:15.604-08:00The balloon in AngkorI went to Angkor by Travel agent group in the end of 2009 and had a wonderful 5 days.<br />Angkor is in kingdom of Cambodia.<br />Angkor Wat(小吳哥)is the single biggest architecture in the world.<br />Somebody says Angkor Wat is Man-made travel wonders.<br />And it also decided to be World Heritage Site in 1992.<br /><br />We used 3 days visiting ticket and visited 24 spots.<br />Except walking view and climbing the spots, use balloon to see the scenery is an exciting experience.<br /><br />It costs 20 USD each adult and start the sky trip at least 6 persons.<br />And it must have a good weather.<br />It can carry 15 adults at the same time.<br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">The balloon will rise up about 100~120 meters.</span><br /></span>I guess it use electric engine to move the balloon.<br />When we rise up into the sky, the balloon will stop in the air and the plat will move slowly by circle.<br />So we can see East, West, South and North 4 directions views.<br />We can see Angkor Wat in the South site and Preah Khan Temple (巴肯山)in the North site, and East&West Mebon lake(東/西美篷) is the other site.<br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">We stayed in the sky less 10 minutes. It’s too short to see the beautiful scenery.</span><br />I took a picture of the balloon shadow, it was so big.<br />It’s very interesting trip though it is not traditional balloon.<br />But I <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>strongly recommend you if you go to Angkor you must experience it.</strong> </span>irishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448034114076800210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-34998792620733092732009-12-07T09:30:00.000-08:002009-12-07T09:30:09.037-08:00Seeing is believing!?---Ann<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> "Seeing is believing", I think this not true.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Few weeks ago, I have got an invitation from my college classmate. It was about her engagement party and there was a picture along with it. When I saw the picture, I was wondering "who she is? Do I know her?" I couldn't make sure until I saw the name on it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Cosmetics made her become the most beautiful bride in the world but also made her look like a totally different person. Cosmetics indeed is the most magic thing in the world. So guys, seeing is "not" believing.</span></span>SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-30358418621002436542009-12-03T01:59:00.000-08:002009-12-03T01:59:00.398-08:00Corrected Writing from the last three weeksI thought I'd use this chance to try out a new website called <a href="http://issuu.com/">issuu.com</a>. I don't know if everyone will like looking at these documents this way, but I thought we could try it out. Here we go...<br />
Nov 17<br />
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Nov 24<br />
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<embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&viewMode=presentation&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true&documentId=091203094721-2abfd5f1578647e89bd692dedde99b08&docName=sym3&username=atervort&loadingInfoText=SYM%20Writing%20Homework%20Dec%201&et=1259834181262&er=89" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 3106px; width: 420px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Adam Tervorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13122565372629572922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-35579518356560421202009-11-30T18:52:00.000-08:002009-11-30T18:52:29.520-08:00The movie " (500) days of Summer"Last Saturday, one of my friends introduced a movie to me and said some of her friends call the heroine "bitch" after they watched it. But, it also touches someone's heart.<br />
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(500) days of Summer, it is not a romantic story said at the beginning of the movie. <br />
Differing from other love stories, it breaks people's expectancy but attracts them to see what will happen successfully.<br />
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The heroine, Summer, does not believe true love exists, because her parents divorced while she was a child. <br />
But, she is a lucky girl who has God-given luckiness,. She always gets some fortune in her life. <br />
When she met a boy, Tom, who believes true love exists, they soon fall in love. <br />
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From doubt to trust, Tom believes they are really a couple of lovers and true love does exist between them after they have further relationships. However, Summer still thinks it is not true love, so they break up. After they break up, Tom loses his direction of life and lives dispiritedly, but Summer still lives as usual.<br />
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It is quite irritated for those people who have not watched it, if I tell you what the ending is of the movie.<br />
But, I have to say, in my opinion, Summer is not a bitch, she is just a girl in most people's life who has more luckiness then us. Also, this movie was maken by using some special film making skills. It is very difficult for me to explain what skills be used in it, as I am not a expert of film making. Hope everyone can has his/her own feeling after watching it.SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-17971970299125034822009-11-30T09:16:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:16:00.163-08:00How to stop the time Recently, I have been reading a book written by a Taiwanese packpacker, who choses to go travelling in developing countries. He mentioned about a lot of interesting things when he goes travelling in different countries, from Laos, to Vietnam, to Thailand, to Malaysia and to India. He suggests what you should do before the trip, like booking a place, learning to say some simple sentences in the language of the country that you intend to go, what should be brought. He also teaches you how to make a bargain. He uses his camera to stop the time, uses his smile to get acquainted with the whole world - eyes speak many words and a smile is a smile in any language.<br />
I like travelling and taking photos, too. Firstly, I think that when time passed, it never comes back, so whenever I have chance to keep those precious moment, I will take the chance. Secondly, it may be the first and also the last time I come to those places, so I try to keep as many memories about it as possible. Thanks to the invention of camera, it helps a lot. Thirdly, travelling is not only enjoying the scenery, but also enjoying the happy time with your friends and family. Same place, with different people, in different seasons may make you feel totally different.<br />
Like someone has said, there's no enternity, but there's everlasting moments, taking photos is one of the way that helps us stop the time.<br />
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JessicaSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-71687160975953761482009-11-30T01:47:00.000-08:002009-11-30T01:47:12.773-08:00Black FridayLast week , I talked with our consultant in America through phone , and he told me the forth Thursday is their Thanksgiving day ( Nov. 26), and the next day is ‘ Black Friday “ . <br />
I didn't understand that last Friday was not Nov.13th , why there is another bad Black Friday? He said Black Friday is their big discount shopping day which follows Thanksgiving. Retailers promote Black Friday as the day to start shopping for Christmas. Black Friday is often advertised with "Christmas Sales" as well as "Thanksgiving Sales". Many retailers open extremely early, most of the retailers typically open at 5AM or even earlier. It is not an official holiday, but many employees have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday (with the exceptions of those employed in retailing, health care, and banking). Many people are crazy to shop on that day and usually make a long list of items they want to buy. It is smart to shop with a group of friends . Split up and go to different stores and use cell phones to get items on each other's list to save time. Some items are provided on the web site as well. Black Friday brings the traffic in a heavy and serious situation, that’s why they call it “ Black Friday “. Isn’t that similar to the department store's anniversary sale in Taiwan ? Big discount attracts people and traffic.<br />
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JennySYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-6636649501079028602009-11-28T21:22:00.000-08:002009-11-28T21:22:26.115-08:00Our class videos (Shot on Thursday, November 26, 2009)Everyone did a really great job, I'm quite proud of you all! Here are the videos, in alphabetical order.<br />
Ann<br />
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Claudia<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywloC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Iris<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywmUC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Jessica<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywmgC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Joe<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywnEC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Merry<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywnkC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Nick<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywn4C" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Ralph<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywwkC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Rebecca<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywxQC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Vivian<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywxsC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <br />
Yvonne<br />
<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGywyUC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>Adam Tervorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13122565372629572922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-29646901883697500352009-11-25T16:51:00.000-08:002009-11-25T17:11:16.321-08:00My altitude diseaseToday, I would like to talk about my altitude disease.
<br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">I never think altitude disease will be a problem till I arrived in Tibet.
<br /></span>I have ever climbed about 14 high mountains of Top Hundreds in Taiwan. Those heights are all above 3,000 meters. And I never feel uncomfortable during climbing.
<br />So my husband and me just drank some Hong Jing Tian herb tea.(紅景天)before the trip. <span style="color:#3366ff;">We didn’t prepare too much to prevent the altitude disease.
<br /></span>PS: Hong Jing Tain seems to be "Golden Plant". It can increase oxygen in your blood.
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<br />When I got off the airplane and got in the bus in Lhasa Gonggar airport.(拉薩貢嘎) The altitude is 3569 meters. <span style="color:#cc66cc;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">What a wonderful blue sky and fresh air</span> </span>! I didn’t feel any uncomfortable except exciting. I was here in Tibet. But the tour guide repeated again and again that we had to slow down, took a rest , didn’t go anywhere, didn’t wash head, didn’t have wine to adapt the high altitude. We didn’t really care about his words. We thought everything will be ok.
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<br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Unfortunately, we knew what the altitude disease was after 2 hours</span> when we arrived at hotel in Lhasa. I felt the floor was rolling and felt a little dizzy and headache. But it was not serious. At night, I spewed and I could not sleep well. My husband had the same symptoms as me expect spewing. But he had a little fever. He told me he had a bad sleep. He waked up frequently and had to breathe deeply to get more oxygen.
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<br />The next morning, we knew all members of our group had different kinds of altitude disease symptoms. Almost were dizzy,headache,some of were diarrhoea. And we all took some cold medicines during the midnight. We all thought the night was too longer to pass. One of us had gone to see a doctor at midnight and felt better. We still thought the symptoms were common. We could adapt it after 2 or 3 days. We could stand the symptoms. <span style="color:#cc33cc;">It proved that it was a right decision to see a doctor later.</span>
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<br /></span>In the third day, everybody felt better and my husband felt worse. He wanted to see a doctor after dinner. I certainly companied him to go to clinic although I felt better just can’t sleep well. After taking our temperature, we all got fever and I was more serious. Because my temperature was higher than my husband. It surprised me. So I had to be cured, too. Even I didn’t feel uncomfortable. <span style="color:#cc33cc;">The doctor gave me an injection and the other big drop</span>. I lay on the bed with covering my coat and heavy bedquilt. I took the mask to breathe oxygen from a big bottle. The big bottle was as high as me. The doctor injected medicine into the drop two times. After 3 hours, we all sweated and had lower temperature. We could leave. <span style="color:#cc33cc;">It cost 300 RMB each one</span>. <span style="color:#cc33cc;">The doctor noticed us that we couldn’t take a bath especially wash head till back to </span><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Taiwan.</span> He gave us 3 days medicines. How an amazing medicine! There are 13 pills in each unit. But we still took it after meals and didn’t take a bath till leave Tibet.
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<br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">It is an unforgettable and unique experience though I had to stand the altitude disease. But it is really worth. I strongly recommend everyone can visit Tibet one day in your life. It must impress you. Trust me, you can do it. </span>
<br />irishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448034114076800210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-50784605890469623072009-11-25T07:38:00.000-08:002009-11-25T07:38:34.151-08:002012!? We talk about this movie last week. Someone say good and someone don’t. I went to see this movie last week too. But today I’m not going to talk about movie itself, I just want to talk about the something change in our home or our planet. Everyone mention global-warming these day. But does anyone really care about our planet? We still drive cars and take airplane and eat “meat”. Maybe it is hard to change in such short time. But I think we should do something good for our earth. Not just save fuel or reduce carbon dioxide. This is not enough for our planet in these circumstances. We do too many thinks that is obey nature rules. Such as, we find the petroleum fuel and nuclear energy. I’m not going criticize anything we find or invent today. I just want to let everyone know any convenient stuff that we have need to pay. Even if just a tap-water. We need to pay it. So we should appreciate everything we get today, and do more.<br />
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NickSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-58260076613928822822009-11-23T20:14:00.000-08:002009-11-29T16:26:59.065-08:00In Memory of Black Bat Squadron:The Air Force 34th Squadron (by Vivien)About 40 years ago, during the Cold War, the Taiwan Government wanted to get the support from The USA. On the other side, The USA government starved for the information of China and Russia. For this reason, ROC Air Force and the CIA established a special Ops Squadron, the 34th Squadron, to conduct electronic reconnaissance mission. The unit use Black Bat as the emblem, therefore the 34th Squadron was also known as Black Bat Squadron. You can see the emblem as below: The wings of the bat breaking through the red iron curtain represent the harsh difficulty of the mission. The Big Dipper is used to signify navigation, the 3 large stars and 4 small stars represent the 34th squadron. The reason for choosing the bat as the symbol for the squadron was that bats navigate by means of sonar at night, which is rather similar to the radar electronic detection work of the squadron.<br />
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When they carried out these tough and danger mission, the aircrafts must flied very low and was very easily caught by the spotlight or radar of enemy. As soon as you be found, you must be died because thousands of weapons would aimed at you at once! According to the official statistics recently year, there are 15 aircrafts crashed and 148 soldiers died, that is 2/3 personnel of the Squadron, between 1952 and 1972. But at that time, these brave guys were invisible and all the missions were denied by the government. So many young wives and their children lost their beloved without knowing the truth.<br />
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Last Sunday, I accompanied my grandfather, who is a member of Black Bat Squadron, to attend the opening ceremony of Black Bat Squadron Memorial Hall. The mayor of Hsinchu City and Ministry of National Defense hosted this ceremony. They also invited the surviving members of Black bats or other casualties’ matrons to share their stories. At the end, all the heroes included my grandfather was invited to walk onto the stage to be honored by everybody and sang the Air Force Song together. In the grey and rainy day, these old soldiers either stood with sticks or set on the wheelchairs but their song was still loud and clear. After so many years, they finally got the pride that they should be deserved long time ago.<br />
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At this moment, the tears came to my eyes. The only sentence floating on my mind is “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-67968306412218170042009-11-23T09:56:00.000-08:002009-11-23T09:56:04.954-08:00Shaolai Trial(梢來步道)-----Ann<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Last weekend, I went to the shaolai trial(梢來步道), which is located in the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Major Snow Mountain Forest Amusement Park, with some of my colleagues. The total length of this trial is 15.5km. However, most of us are beginners of mountain-climbing, we just climbed up for 2.6km to an observatory then returned.</span><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> When I was packing my stuff into my bag, one of my colleagues said the temperature would be 10 degrees Celsius. So, I wear 3 clothes on me, one of my clothes was a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">woolen sweater, and that was really killing me. "HOT" and barely could breath were the only two things I could feel. The trial was covered with some rocks and roots were exposed made me more difficult to climb.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Although this trip was almost killing me, I'm still looking forward to the next trip.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Here is the website, introduces this trial. Click and see it. </span><a href="http://www1.forest.gov.tw/NationalTrailSystem_En/TR_G_07.htm"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www1.forest.gov.tw/NationalTrailSystem_En/TR_G_07.htm</span></a></span></span></div>SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-25355153354259440722009-11-18T17:13:00.000-08:002009-11-18T17:17:30.500-08:00Care about the animals who lives on earth as same as us -RebeccaWhen I was university student, I had been to Phuket Island for my graduated trip. That is group travel by travel agent, but the members are all my classmates.<br />
When we arrived in Phuket, there was a schedule to riding Elephant, but all of us didn't think too much, just got on the Elephant then walk around for few minutes.<br />
Then we said bye bye, we even didn't turn back to see them again.<br />
But now, I saw the video about the way they training Elephant, It’s a heartache.<br />
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Blow is the video and blog about the news<br />
<a href="http://blog.xuite.net/bestwill/thai/16754414#trackBack_header">http://blog.xuite.net/bestwill/thai/16754414#trackBack_header</a><br />
<a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/yahoo-0915222622/article?mid=16011">http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/yahoo-0915222622/article?mid=16011</a><br />
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I didn't mean that the tourists are all cruel, just because they didn't know the truth, or didn't have good educated about how to love animals, I think we lack of this in Taiwan's education.<br />
The animals will be tortured worse in the country which has worse economic problems. <br />
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Sometimes it makes me hate the human being.<br />
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Humanity overuse the resources of earth, cause the menace to other animals, then we said loudly that they need to work for us for its own survival. It is Ridiculous!!!<br />
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But it still has bright side of mankind. I found a website is coming from a farm which protects elephants as blow:<br />
<a href="http://www.pataraelephantfarm.com/">http://www.pataraelephantfarm.com/</a><br />
In this farm we also can close to the elephant instead of riding them, or watching them play tricks.<br />
I found a man who put on his blog about the experience in this farm, the blog site is as blow<br />
<a href="http://tsenghsuehyen.pixnet.net/blog/post/27064287/1#comment-30179168">http://tsenghsuehyen.pixnet.net/blog/post/27064287/1#comment-30179168</a><br />
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I wrote an e-mail to the farm, and they returned back so quickly as blow:<br />
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Dear Rebecca Chang, <br />
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Thank you for your interest in Patara Elephant Farm visit.<br />
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The trip <span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Elephant Owner For A Day"</span> is a specialized and meaningful training trip with happy elephants and their babies. It's a great day out for visitors who want to be with, learn, take care for elephants and riding them bare back as what's an elephant owner would do daily. Trip is suitable for all especially lovers, friends, and family with children.(not for those who expect to see elephant dancing and perform tricks)<br />
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As we are a small farm and our farm is self-sustainable farm focusing on elephant breeding that can be assure you that your experience at Patara Elephant Farm would be more “personalize” rather than “commercialize”. By creating wonderful and unforgettable experiences, we would need the happy elephants. We do not treat our elephants like working elephants but instead we raise them as close to the natural ways as possible.<br />
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Also at Patara Elephant Farm, each of our elephant only perform its duty at the maximum of one trip for one person per day as their good welfares are our most concern (more can be explained during the trip). We are not positioning our farm as a mass tourist attraction that is the reason why we can only accommodate 10 persons per day. On top of that, you will be able to spend more precious time with our elephants and creating quality interaction with them during the trip. Moreover our program is more personalize and specialize based on one on one. <br />
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Yes, we still have availability <span style="color: #3d85c6;">in December</span> for one day trip at this stage.<br />
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To make your reservation, please reply our email and let us know your preferred date. Please also let us know the hotel that you will be staying in so we can arrange transportation accordingly.(We can pick you up from any hotel in Chiang Mai. Our farm is actually locate within Chiang Mai. Only 29 km. form down town)<br />
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Since availability is limited at 10 persons per day, we suggest you make arrangement with us once your plan is finalized.<br />
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Cost for the trip is <span style="color: #3d85c6;">5,800 baht/person</span> including transportation, traditional Thai picnic lunch, and DVD photos of your activity. <br />
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Training is base on 1 on 1 with your own elephant. Please see more details at www.pataraelephantfarm.com<br />
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A private trip is also available at 11,000 Baht/person including also DVD movie of your trip.<br />
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We are looking forward to introducing you all to our elephant experience. <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I know the December of this year, we all have a long holiday from 12/26 to 1/1, maybe we can put this speciall trip to our travel schedule.</span>SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-9328079709418175602009-11-17T00:38:00.000-08:002009-11-23T00:10:23.899-08:00"Another Inconvenient Truth" <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">During class last week, we had discussed briefly the story about Wal-Mart Decade, explaining how truly big it is even in comparison with the other top retailers chains in the U.S. To change the subject from how much salaries for position at Wal-Mart associates may get and then discuss in shopping for organic and natural products for better life, and so forth. In addition, Simon, Cloudia and Syvin also shared their unique shopping experiences in different country or city individually.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> And we heard teacher Adam talked about the vegetarian diet solution concerning global warming. Actually, he follows a vegetarian diet not only for healthy life but for less pollution . I think, What is the link, the connection, between diet and global warming? I am wondering if it is true or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> So, after reading both of the article of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollen and a related report which the title is "Farm to Table, with Less Pollution" by The New York Times; therefore, I realized what teacher Adam said in class is the other inconvenient truth. Take a paragraph from the report for example,</span><br />
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<strong>"The trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more even than from cars, buses and airplanes. "It remained the most problematic"</strong><br />
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By the way, a great sales book named "The Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat", in this shocking and powerful book, Lyman uncovers the dangerous and potentially deadly practices of the cattle and dairy industry, including the same comments as what Adam told us in class last week. Mad Cow Disease!!! <br />
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By RalphSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-51666002901390643452009-11-17T00:09:00.000-08:002009-11-17T00:09:46.562-08:00Korea Trend by Jenny LinKorea Trend.<br />
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Taiwan is flooded with Korea trend recently. So many soap operas on TV programs and it is also the guidance of fashion in Taiwan , especially in cloth, hair style and hair accessory. The Korea trend even effect the music field. From Rain to Super Junior and Wonder Girls, their songs and dance are so popular in Taiwan and even in Asia. From child to elders , many of them know and dance " sorry sorry " by Super Junior " and "Nobody " by Wonder Girls. <br />
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I wonder why, so I took a look of these MV and found these songs really attract people. Both SJ and “Wonder Girls are all young bends , with uniform dance and easy melody to catch people's eyes and ears. I think that is the main reason to makes their songs and dance so popular in the world. To reflect over this circumstance, what can we do to make Taiwan well-known in other countries? Except cuisine.<br />
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- Nobody MV<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz9LQy0rmq0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz9LQy0rmq0</a><br />
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- SORRY SORRY MV<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QA3m58DQw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QA3m58DQw</a>SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-22209666412224880732009-11-16T22:39:00.000-08:002009-11-16T22:39:29.586-08:00My Home Town-南庄 Rebecca Chang南庄 is a beautiful place to travel, even if the <span style="color: #cc0000;">old street</span> is different from the others<br />
There is seldom people when i was child,but it became a tourists area in recent years<br />
So I don't get used to the change at that time.<br />
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Many things change , more commercial there. but the view of natural still so beautiful. <br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Moutain..</span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">River...</span><span style="color: orange;">Fresh air...</span><br />
There are many home stays and coffee houses coming out, i have been there for some drink before,<br />
you can have some tea or coffee and stay outside to see the view. Excellent!!<br />
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[Store]南庄抹茶冰 <br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Made by</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">hiki-tea</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #f1c232;"><span style="color: red;">condensed milk</span> and </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="background-color: white;">small</span> rice ball </span><br />
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[Tel ] 0937-402346<br />
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[Address]苗栗縣南庄鄉文化路6號 (Kitty-corner from Old Post Office) if you guys through the old street u will not find here , it's position is higher, u need to go upstair<br />
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<span style="color: black;">This Bolg is made by the </span><span style="color: black;">tourist that had experience of eaten our Ice </span><br />
<a href="http://www.wretch.cc/blog/GODPAUL3/66469">http://www.wretch.cc/blog/GODPAUL3/66469</a><br />
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This Blog is made by my uncle<br />
<a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/uncle-ice/archive?l=f&id=32">http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/uncle-ice/archive?l=f&id=32</a><br />
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This is travel information made by Miaoli Township Office <br />
<a href="http://www.nanchuang.gov.tw/big5/d/s2.htm">http://www.nanchuang.gov.tw/big5/d/s2.htm</a><br />
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How to get there?<br />
1.Drive your car<br />
2.By train <br />
Stop in 竹南 train station and there is a bus station to 南庄 just outside thereSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-53272257682579585112009-11-16T07:40:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:13:47.541-08:00On supermarkets<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYrJthcQOTNr0ZA4GUwl5HPD_n0BZgQ0qmgls8ziQmv0Nftx4fPq0mqi2-fygXmjCcfCZ8h4Q0i_ZPgSvvUehzUNfUo0L1WH89L4z9jISnAh3I0MwoGJ_XyfWtwOaLwxIhjzxwe163MQ6/s1600/1111773988.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404734126182952402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYrJthcQOTNr0ZA4GUwl5HPD_n0BZgQ0qmgls8ziQmv0Nftx4fPq0mqi2-fygXmjCcfCZ8h4Q0i_ZPgSvvUehzUNfUo0L1WH89L4z9jISnAh3I0MwoGJ_XyfWtwOaLwxIhjzxwe163MQ6/s320/1111773988.jpg" /></a><br /><div>It's late at night. I want to go to bed, but I still need to finish my English homework. It has been a while since I wrote my last essay on anything. Argh, it's so hard to come up with something interesting! Since we are still in the subject of supermarkets, I decide to share my obsession about supermarkets. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I love supermarkets! I enjoy going to all kinds of supermarkets and convenient stores. I do not cook and I am not a shopaholic. There are mainly two reasons. First of all, I love supermarkets around the world because a traveller can get a rough idea about the local life simply by a trip to the local supermarket. In the supermarkets, a person will find the food which the local people eat and use; therefore, it's a quick way to know a place.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Secondly, I love supermakets because one can kill time in those places just by checking the new stuffs out. It's always nice to stay in a supermarket while waiting for a friend or classmate. I am always happy to find new products from the shelves although I would not necessarily buy those new products. The fun is not about shopping. It would be more about enjoying the novelty in the daily life.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Supermarkets are definitely on my to-do list while travelling abroad. I can get familiar with the local life and enjoy finding new things there. I would recommend you to do the same next time when you travel.</div>克勞蒂亞.油膩膩http://www.blogger.com/profile/16722760412279811780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-32193353844266635942009-11-14T19:49:00.000-08:002009-11-14T19:49:59.049-08:00Crying in asian groceryAfter I lived in Australia around one month in 2005, Betty, my homestay's mom, took me to a shopping center. She thought I might want to buy some Chinese food, so she led me to an asian grocery and I could buy some snacks from Taiwan. It is a warm thought. So I just looked around and bought some snacks in that shop. Suddenly, I found there were 4 shelves filled up many kinds of instant noodles, including Japanese, Thailand, Korean and Taiwanese that I had often eaten in Taiwan before I came to Australia. Uncontrollably, the tear welled up in my eyes. I didn't know why I wanted to cry at that time? It may becuase I miss Taiwanese food too muah lo. <br />
It took me around 30 minutes to choose which one I should buy, becuase I didn't have too much money to buy another one.<br />
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By SimonSYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-35336993832459915212009-11-13T01:10:00.000-08:002009-11-13T01:15:44.518-08:00Share with you my Tibet travel photosThere are too many photos.<br />Please choose your interesting item.<br /><br /><a href="http://photo.pchome.com.tw/ki_casa">http://photo.pchome.com.tw/ki_casa</a>irishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448034114076800210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-58914465878129879912009-11-13T01:03:00.000-08:002009-11-13T01:10:32.458-08:00Organic food infornation<p>Two books introduce where to buy healthy food.</p><p>只買好東西:食材達人朱慧芳採購秘訣大公開</p><a href="http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010414771">http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010414771</a><br /><br />只買好東西2吃穿用的幸福學:綠色採買達人朱慧芳帶你放心買安心吃<br /><a href="http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010446937#detail">http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010446937#detail</a><br /><br />Two farms sell organic vegetables.<br />三隻小豬有機vs迴善有機農場<br /><a href="http://tw.user.bid.yahoo.com/tw/show/auctions?userID=aine03038&u=:aine03038">http://tw.user.bid.yahoo.com/tw/show/auctions?userID=aine03038&u=:aine03038</a><br /><br />健福有機農場037-228-745部落格<br /><a href="http://jforganic.blogspot.com/">http://jforganic.blogspot.com/</a>irishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448034114076800210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-11418185421184401972009-11-12T21:49:00.000-08:002009-11-12T22:06:38.119-08:00How to login with your own accountstep1: use <a href="mailto:symenglish@gmail.com">symenglish@gmail.com</a> to login<br /><br />step2:you can see『設定』『權限』,click it<br /><br />step3:add the writer , key in your own account and invite it<br /><br />step4:you will get a invitation mail ,confirm it,then you can login in with your own account<br /><br />Try it!irishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448034114076800210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474885831650480928.post-92062780854157933142009-11-12T00:27:00.000-08:002009-11-12T00:53:44.215-08:00Questions about our class blog~Iris<div>Q1:Could we login and use the same account at the sametime?
<br />Q2:Can we use personal account to login this blog?SYM English Classhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751350879973277123noreply@blogger.com1