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Wei..enjoy life11/12/2007 pictures uploadedI have uploaded some pictures to my flickr.
You are welcome to have a look if you like.  9/16/2007 is man smarter than woman?Recently I have a thought: is man smarter than woman?
I see a lot of women seem working much harder than men do, but so far men are not losing any good superiority.
Although I don't like to admit my weakness, I still tend to believe that working hard can somehow supplements some awkwardness.
I still believe that my hard working is to enrich my life. 3/28/2006 Answering with more careful and listening with more cautiousDo you ask a person from a certain country some questions then consider his or her answer as a general situation in that country?
I did!!
Since studying abroad, I have been asked or heard someone being asked: "What is the situation in your coumtry?"
As we all know, even in the same country, people still have diverse opinions about the same issue. When I got this sort of question, I tried to tell them, firstly, the probable general stiuation is so and so, and, secondly, my opinion is bala-bala.....
However, I almost forget the so-called general situation is still in my opinion without any statistics, which also contains risk and bias; if I'd like to make the conversation smoothly and briefly, I always make "general" opinions and my viewpoint in balance. Moreover, people in Western countries have some difficulties to identify the differences between Taiwan and China. Therefore, many people just ask me the situation in China, and then I should tell them firstly I am from Taiwan and the situation in Taiwan and that in China are different. Afterwards, I still only tell them Taiwanese situation. BUT I cannot guarantee that people don't imagine the situation in China may be similar to that in Taiwan.
Moreover, I have some friends also from Taiwan. When we discuss some topics with other friends, some of them tend to present their own ideas in this way: "People in Taiwan think ......"!!
In my mind, I almost shout: "Wait a minute!! It is your own idea, not every Taiwanese's! At least, my point of view is fairly different from yours." To be polite, I usually only comment that, "Well.... I suppose that many people have different opinions in this issue."
NEXT time, please asnwer this sort of questions in very careful way to show personal opinion!! And listen to this kind of answer with caution as well: it may only one person's opinion NOT general idea!! 7/5/2005 My feeling about 'Make Poverty History'Threre was a march in Edinburgh on 2rd July, which is the biggest in Scotland. There were 225000 people joining this demonstration, and they made this like a festival and annoucement, in terms of my opinion.
Actually, my feeling is that these people are so kind to concern people living in the other world, which is definitly different from theirs, but they probably cannot bear the possible difficult lives if they really have to do something: what I tried to indicate was that they may have to pay more taxes and more money on buying petrol, to reduce their welfare social serives and their subsidies on inefficient farming, and to limit the consumption of their luxurious production, for exampe, to refuse selling BMW and Mercede Benz to the officials and leaders in African countries. For me, it is impossible that they would like to continue their comfortable life styles and, in the meanwhile, to help other people. If they have some doubts about these sacrifices, they have no strong positions in their appeals.
That was the reason when I passed through the march, I suddenly felt like to cry.
By the way, I felt a little disappointed that I could not see any relating activities in Taiwan. In newspapers in the UK on Sunday, I scanned through them and found they noticed every relating activity about supporting these pre G8 summit protestings, which were held in Canada, the US, the UK, Japan, South Africa and France. I was looking forward to finding something about this in Taiwan, because I supposed that this must be the great opportunity to grab attention from the whole world. Unfortunately, there were onthing; when I searched news on Taiwanese websites, I could not find anyone or any groups in Taiwan mentioning this. What I could only find was the entertainment news about the concerts in London.
Since last Saturday, I have kept hearing sirens coming and going, because there have been continuing protesting in Edinburgh more or less. For me, it is interesting to experience this. I still hope these rich countries can hope the poor countries although I do not consider that they are ready to have some scarifices. |
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