What a good learning place about "Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab "

Since the beginning of this week, I have made up my mind to listen to the General Listening Quizzes of Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. There are listening topics to train my hearing everyday.


For example, I listened a lesson -A University Degree today. This topic's content is that a woman applies for a college and her father reminds her about tuition, housing fees, meal plan, and a meeting with her academic advisor. While the father doesn't know that his daughter has turned her major from business administration to wildlife science because her interest. Even more, the woman has already looked through the online university catalog, and qualified for a two-year, full tuition scholarship. Moreover, she can even go on to graduate school and further her education. The father is influenced by her daughter and want to enroll in night school to get another degree.


That conversation is humorous and meaningful for me! Because it let me experience that activity is the only road to knowledge! If you want to learn more, the results depend on your attitude and activity and the ambition to get your goal.


The end of this conversation also gives me a inspiration-one is never too old to learn! As that father, he emulates his daughter to advance himself. I anticipate myself to reach that spirit-never too late to learn!!


~~For man is man and master of his fate-Tennyson~~

Happy birthday to my friend

Oh~~today is so happy!! In order to celebrate her birthday, we prepared everything including presents, cakes and card yesterday.

At lunch time, we divided the work in corporation- one of our friends bring the cake which bought yesterday and left it with a friend in dorm from the dormitory, and another took responsibility to gather others to the classroom. In addition, one was bound to take the main character away from our classroom.

Then, the cake was ready, and presents also stood by. The main role came back. It seemed that everything was all right! We began stealthily moving to outdoor with cakes, and stuck the candles "19" into the cake. But~oh~~God!! We forgot preparing the lighter!! Fortunately, we borrowed it from the shopkeeper, and lit candles, bringing it into classroom with singing "Happy birthday" song!

She was shocked at first, silently making wishes, and was touched. Afterwards, we all together ate the cake happily, and gave her card and the presents we elaborately selected: a cute pair of slippers, a lovely ornament, and a string of candies.

Though we prepared this celebration a little hard, it was worthy that we saw her laugh and experienced a wonderful birthday! Happy birthday !!

Complicated

Complicated -Avril Lavigne

Uh huh, life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
Cause life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh that's the way it is


Chill out whatcha yelling' for?
Lay back it's all been done before
And if you could only let it be
you will see
I like you the way you are
When we're drivin' in your car
and you're talking to me one on one but you've become


Somebody else round everyone else
You're watching your back like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me
Tell me


Why you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this you
And you fall and you crawl and you break
and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
and promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
no no no


You come over unannounced
dressed up like you're somethin' else
where you are and where it's at you see
you're making me
laugh out when you strike your pose
take off all your preppy clothes
you know you're not fooling anyone
when you've become


Somebody else round everyone else
Watching your back, like you can't relax
Trying to be cool you look like a fool to me
Tell me


Why you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this you
and You fall and you crawl and you break
and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
no no no


Chill out whatcha yelling for?
Lay back, it's all been done before
And if you could only let it be
You will see


Somebody else round everyone else
You're watching your back, like you can't relax
You're trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me
Tell me


chorus x2


The meaning of this song is that think things simplified!!
I share this song because we all are sometimes hypocritical, disguising our true nature, and we dare not to confront realistic life even though we may be hurt or frustrated. I hope to try to face myself honestly, let the life uncomplicated, decrease unnecessary vexation.

This is the music MV linked to YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk

"A Close Look at the iPhone"

Q1:What is iPhone ? Why it is special ?

The iPhone is a multimedia, Internet-enabled mobile phone desined and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The functions of iPhone include a camera phone and a portable media player("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and Internet survice, including e-mail, web browsing and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Q2:The 5 reasons for using iPhone

NO1. touch screen
NO2. iPod
NO3. pretty
NO4. Wi-Fi
NO5. third-party applications

Q3:The 5 reasons for not using iPhone

NO1. the price is expensive- $599
NO2. small capacity- only 8 GB
NO3. 2 year contract
NO4. battery issues
NO5. no 3G

How mysterious a day

Yesterday was an amazing day!



At 10:00a.m., my friend and I kept an appointment at National Taiwan University because yesterday was NTU 79th anniversary. We strolled the campus, watched the performance the dancing club displayed and scanned through stalls on campus. While the most important thing did not start. That is I had to watch the performance, played by the magic club of Fu Jen Catholic University at Y-17!





After finishing rambling the NTU campus, another friend of mine took me to the Y -17 to watch the show at 2:00p.m. Its theme was called "穿越時空 魔力20." Oh~~it was amazing and astonishing! The magic trick was so miraculous because the magician could conjure up flowers, cards, and CD out of thin air, even let volunteer float in the air!! And the conjurer included famous professor,Robin-with 20 years performing experiences. He is also the founded of the magic club of Fu Jen Catholic University. The splendid performance gained appreciation from the audience.



Time elapsed, and the performance ended in clapping and cheering.





Even now the show still occupy my mind, lingering wonderful image in the pit of my stomach.

And the movie of this performance is linked to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKTXtsW7rE

Unaccustomed Weather

The weather forecast has been wrong for a long time! Because it reported that last week the temperature may dropped, in fact the weather was fine. It's all sunny days!



While this time, the weather forecast is finally correct. Yesterday the temperature truly decreased. And today's temperature -how cold it is! The wind whistled,especially in Sansia.


But the unaccustomed point lie on the temperature is really low, and I truly feel cold; nevertheless the sun is shining. It makes me confused about how heavy clothes I should wear......


Think positively, the warmth the sun gives truly makes us warmer. Thanks to the rare warmth in the autumn, I feel better and can tolerate that coldness.

Recommend a nice book

Today, I finally finish reading<The Memory Keeper's Daughter> . This story describe a doctor is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. For the purpose of protecting her wife from facing such tragedy,he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

This story depicts an obvious contrast between this two families- the son alive v.s the daughter "dead" ! the doctor whose material life is sufficient but can't be candid to his families v.s the single mother who lives hardly but has a rich spiritual life.

I am touched by the dialogue the nurse talked to the doctor:" You avoid a lot of heartache but you also miss the countless joy!" The doctor's decision for his wife and son seemed to go wrong. I feel deeply sympathy for the doctor-for his torture about the lie, and his wife-for losing her daughter thus start to drink excessively and have extramarital relations to numb her sense of loss.

After finished reading, I thought if the doctor at first accepted the daughter, the ending will be great? But then I got the idea that as soon as one must encounter things, he only to know that how will he do.

For others' lives, we only can be a onlooker and don't have credentials to criticize. And whether lie of good will is right? I think not at all! This doctor lives a lie, can't be frank, and always late to say his love to his families because of sorry for them. But most important, the lie turn out to be a condemnation of one's own conscience in the end, and the one influenced much is usually himself!

This is really worthy of reading this book!!