<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801</id><updated>2012-02-17T11:24:22.447+08:00</updated><category term='Friends 友'/><category term='TVs 電視'/><category term='Books 書'/><category term='Music 音樂'/><category term='Skin Deep 花想容'/><category term='雜'/><category term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category term='Taipei 台北'/><category term='What I think 我想的'/><category term='Notes 雜記'/><category term='Food 食為天'/><category term='For your information 有用的'/><category term='Family 家'/><category term='Movies 電影'/><category term='For your entertainment 有趣的'/><category term='Experience 我的經驗'/><category term='USA 美國'/><category term='Animals 動物'/><category term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Chia's</title><subtitle type='html'>I think ...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>94</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-2969266987307390081</id><published>2010-05-24T10:35:00.018+08:00</published><updated>2010-05-24T16:43:32.229+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>新聞怎麼看? -- 真正的烏茲別克</title><content type='html'>最近台灣新聞說, 有幾名富商醫師藥師非法引進烏茲別克女子, 以人工受孕方式產下數名子女, 並且辯稱是為了"優生學"云云.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;先姑且不論這整件事有多荒謬可笑好了, 後續的新聞發展更是令人不知應該吐血還是噴飯, 媒體一窩蜂在那金髮碧眼的烏茲別克人, 整件事匪夷所思到了極點, 不過這還真是符合台灣媒體一向偏離重點不求事實只求收視的商業性格. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;其實我覺得這件事除了是個煽情的八卦社會事件, 新聞價值真的是很低, 但是這種撩動人性低俗慾望的新聞或節目似乎是全球所趨, 所以這種所謂新聞也會沒必要的燒個媒體幾天. 然後更厲害的是台灣媒體(抑或台灣社會?)注意的重點永遠跟我想的不一樣, 所謂持續追蹤也是不求事實的人云亦云, 害我老是以為我是住在另一個平行的宇宙.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我老公是土生土長在烏茲別克的俄羅斯人, 所以我認為有以正視聽之責. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;首先理組出身的我要用我那爛爛的地理歷史大略介紹一下烏茲別克. 烏茲別克, 在中亞, 是全球維二的內陸內陸國之一, 就是說它鄰近一圈的國家都已經是內陸國. 它是大絲路必經之地(我老公老家地址就是絲路XX號, 真是酷斃了~), 幾個有名的大城市都是因為是絲路上的主要綠洲而成千年歷史文化古城. 之前屬於蘇聯統治, 俄共瓦解後, 是獨立出來的十五(?)個共和國之一. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;居住的人以烏茲別克人為主, 另外有其他回教遊牧民族, 還有因為之前在蘇聯統治下大量移入的俄羅斯人, 另有一些北韓移民. 烏茲別克人是中亞回教游牧民族的一支, 烏茲別克語是屬於突厥語族, 但是現存的烏茲別克語是完全用俄語拼音而成, 俄語因為全球使用量較多, 所以依然是烏茲別克的主要語言(當地有俄語或是烏茲別克語的學校可以選擇, 大部分人選擇俄語學校.). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;至於現今的政經文化社會情勢, 跟其他那些從蘇聯手中獨立出來的國家一樣糟, 在實質上並不是自由民主的國家. 蘇聯時期是以共產制度對每一個所屬的地區做地域性的統治, 比如亞塞拜然就是產油還有偶而在007電影中出現一下, 烏克蘭就是核廠加拼命種小麥, 烏茲別克就是出很多棉花這樣, 所以每個地方都有某一種"工廠", 卻沒有完整的架構. 當時蘇聯解體是很突然的事, 基本上就是葉爾欽跟克林頓同意好了, 然後製造人為的飢荒物資荒, 搞的各地地方勢力突起各搶資源而獨立. 所以之後各地的領導者統治者基本上都是全國當地最有錢有勢的家族, 也是擁有當地最大"工廠"的人, 有些中亞國家其領袖擁有全國90%的財產. 這些統治者不但是每每以幾近100%的"選票"連選得連任的天長地久當下去, 還可以傳位於其子嗣, 傳的當然不僅是總統的位置還有全國最大的企業. 失勢後還可以躲在歐美等地靠著以前污出來的和現在跟俄國黑社會掛勾的錢繼續過著比自己國家人民好上太多的日子, 必要時還可以搞個什麼聯合國的工作做做(因為我們就認識這樣的人). 所以俄共解體的好名掛給葉爾欽和柯林頓, 柯林頓離職演說提到這個時, 還給他全場起立鼓掌三分鐘, 殊不知雖然沒有了共產也有了獨立, 這些地方的人民卻過著另一種爛日子, 更糟的是因為表面上換上了民主自由的幌子, 所以國際也就睜一隻眼閉一隻眼的不會有人去管. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;另外附帶一提一個很蠢的事: 烏茲別克不是製造烏茲槍的地方, 雖然這是我這個白痴台灣人多年前問出口的問題, 笑壞了一堆各色俄國人和各種斯坦來的回教徒後, 他們有點不屑的說那是以色列的啦, 不過沒有俄製的什麼AK47之類好就是. 嗯, 現在如果有台灣人跟他們說"金髮碧眼的烏茲別克人"不知會不會引起更多訕笑.               &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;中亞那一拖拉庫的"斯坦"我幾乎都有認識的, 連想成為斯坦而沒成為斯坦的韃鉭我也有認識的, 車臣的沒有就是. 他們大多是阿拉伯, 突厥和一些蒙古混合的民族, 深色髮深色眼深膚色居多, 長相就是中東中亞到東亞的長相. 我不知道為什麼目前看過的只有韃鉭人中有一些很像白人的, 但是怎麼樣也不到金髮碧眼的地步, 差的很遠. 突厥後裔的應該是要到土耳其才有金髮碧眼的可能, 中間隔過去的亞塞拜然啦, 亞美尼亞啦都還是深髮色深膚色的回教遊牧民族, 直到土耳其這個跟基督教文化交錯的地方才有金髮碧眼的. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;從新聞的圖片看來, 那些所謂烏茲別克"籍"的代理孕母都像是白種的俄羅斯人. 不過俄羅斯人其實是以褐髮綠眼為大宗, 再加上歷史上他們被蒙古統治非常久, 久到將近九成的俄羅斯人是有蒙古血統的. 我老公一天到晚宣稱他是成吉思汗的後裔, 只是我都懶的理他. 所以其實俄國人非常好認, 基本上就是臉比較寬的白人, 不像德裔英裔的白人臉窄到我看著他們說話都會變鬥雞眼. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;另外就是俄國人有"老毛子"或"大鼻子"這種刻板印象, 我還跟我老公討論過, 他說可能因為古代時俄國男子都是留大鬍子這樣吧, 不過基本上他們跟其他白人一樣毛, 但是黑海那附近的中東/中亞人應該是更毛的. 至於大鼻子, 其實應該是指俄裔猶太人, 猶太人很多都有醒目的大鼻子, 甚至現在有流行猶太家庭給女兒的成年禮就是整小鼻子, 加上猶太人外移的早又多, 這種錯誤移植的印象就好像外國人常以為華人官方語言是粵語一樣. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;至於那些怪怪富商醫師藥師, 首先我不知道為什麼"金髮碧眼"就等同於"優生學", 這是哪門子的觀念? 三K黨還是新納粹? 有種就真的去拐個那些自認為高人一等的亞利安人來生啊, 我個人猜測他們弄得到手的其實是變相的烏克蘭郵購新娘或妓女, 烏克蘭娼妓問題十分嚴重, 基本上整個東歐前共產國家的黑道娼妓問題都非常嚴重, 像美東這裡最大宗的脫衣舞孃都是拿著所謂學生簽證的東歐女子, 他們是由目前全世界最強大的黑道俄國黑手黨管轄. 我想美國其他地方大概也差不多, 只不過我的田野調查消息來源只限於此. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;整個新聞事件就像數年前有仲介推銷烏克蘭新娘一樣, 打出娶烏克蘭新娘可以教小孩英文的招牌, 現在是娶金髮碧眼的烏茲別克人. 烏茲別克籍的俄羅斯人都很少金髮碧眼了, 更別提沒有金髮碧眼的烏茲別克族; 烏克蘭是俄語加烏克蘭語國家, 娶來教英文? 牛頭不對馬嘴, 大牙都笑掉到國際上了, 要崇洋媚外也有點基本知識常識吧? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;還有就是為什麼混血比較好? 當然基因型太相近如近親結婚會提高遺傳疾病的機率, 所以一般來說各國都有明訂不准近親通婚的規定, 當然也是有一對德國兄妹生了一堆已經死了或是身懷多重重病需要社會負擔的小孩, 然後要求德國改法律的這種人, 不過那是另一個議題. 不過只要不是近親,也不是混到外國就好吧? 混血的真的不是每個都好看的, 當然更不是每個都特別怎麼樣, 或許以後隨著越來越多難以界定種族的混血人種產生, 就不會那麼物以稀為貴的少見多怪了吧.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;希望以後沒有這麼瞎的新聞(不可能), 更沒有這種這麼瞎的緣由和後續報導(更不可能).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-2969266987307390081?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/2969266987307390081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=2969266987307390081' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2969266987307390081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2969266987307390081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html' title='新聞怎麼看? -- 真正的烏茲別克'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5712649670784014212</id><published>2010-05-22T21:35:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-05-24T17:53:47.580+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>拋不開的身外之物還是煞風景的個性?</title><content type='html'>這種事當然不能一股腦怪在身為優秀牡羊座這個原因身上, 但是我這種三分鐘熱度每一分鐘都很熱但是每一分鐘熱的都不一樣的濫情性格, 加上興趣實在太多又好管閒事而且自以為是的麻煩個性, 我有時候煩惱的事還真不是一般(這兩個字可以自行替換成髒話)的無聊.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;多年前跟一個好友看了藍色珊瑚礁的第二集以後, 有鑒於迷人的海島景色和更迷人的男主角肌肉後, 好友讚嘆聲中希望嚐試這樣的生活, 我贊同之餘卻在煩惱那我的隱形眼鏡怎麼辦...? 當然我這種腦袋想的嘴巴就算還沒說也寫在臉上的人, 立刻遭到美夢被潑醒的好友超級大白眼, 可是我是真的這樣煩惱的, 即使現在想起來還是會這樣擔心. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;之後有一段時間很熱衷於維多利亞時期的英國文學, 在另一個同有此好(不同的是金牛座的她是長期支持者, 不像我這種半路插一下花又跑掉的...)的好友說她想回歸那樣的生活時, 我這次吞下了我的問題而跑去圖書館查詢有關維多利亞時期馬桶跟廁所的資料. 後來發現最好的情況有冲"沙"馬桶, 我想還是算了.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;然後看看武俠小說, 在決定兵器應該是劍比較酷時, 我又開始上網找尋中國古代什麼時候開始有肥皂的資料, 我會注意每一個洗手沐浴的章節, 然後暗自擔心肥皂的問題(我很有進步喔, 我沒說要洗髮精跟沐浴乳). 雖然背後還是會擔心牙膏牙刷, 防曬跟衛生棉等問題, 但是基於懷疑行走江湖背個小包袱還有什麼都能往懷理塞的不可能性下, 我還是決定要先找到肥皂比較重要. 目前只查到古埃及廚師因為不小心把油倒進草木灰而意外製成肥皂的故事, 還是不知道當個江湖兒女有沒有肥皂可用.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;之前在嬌生皮膚實驗室打工時, 同事兼好友無意間提到一些植物天然的防曬功效, 雖然係數不高但是聊勝於無, 心想要好好記下來, 不是因為我是植物系畢業的, 而是擔心萬一我不小心穿越時空回到古代的時候可以用上. 就好像我有蒐集一些縮小物品的習慣, 以免哪天遇到小人國的可以給他們用.(好, 再說下去大概以為我瘋了).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我就在想這是因為我有一大堆拋不開的身外之物? 還是其實就是我這種煞風景的個性? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我還買了一件肚兜, 想要研究這玩意兒怎麼當成維多利亞還沒有秘密時的秘密穿, 手笨拙如我當然是穿了跟沒穿一樣. 我還算來算去, 想說如果回到古代, 我只能接受宋朝以前不用包小腳的年代或是清朝的旗女踩花盆鞋之類的, 大金大遼西夏契丹可能也行, 只不過男子的薙髮有些實在是超過我可以不爆笑的範圍. 再加上我的穿衣風格好像只有唐朝可以接受, 可是我又完全不能畫個蛾黛眉或是櫻桃小嘴這種自己會笑死的妝. 還真是沒時代去咧.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;所以基本上我只能乖乖的待在現代, 和我一大堆拋不開的身外之物, 以及無聊的煞風景性格一起, 繼續擔心這些不是問題的問題.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5712649670784014212?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5712649670784014212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5712649670784014212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5712649670784014212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5712649670784014212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_22.html' title='拋不開的身外之物還是煞風景的個性?'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-2144281587898623229</id><published>2010-01-23T13:10:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T13:44:37.132+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your entertainment 有趣的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><title type='text'>星星公主大推薦</title><content type='html'>大學時, 我跟我最要好的學姊之一不知怎麼的突然很熱衷星座占星學, 兩個人還會查天文曆幾何學一般手繪星座盤. 當時兩人還很自豪的自封星星公主. 不過術業有專攻, 我們這種業餘的就頂多分析一下個性而已, 算命預測當然是不可能. 現在學姊即將是兩個孩子的媽, 不像我這種高中以後就沒啥長進什麼都沒有的怪咖還會偶爾玩一下這些虛擬的東西. 以前買星座書還有附贈軟體算星座盤的(看我年代多久遠...), 現在網路上一堆.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;基於以前自以為是星星公主, 我來推薦以下幾個我覺得最有用最實用還有最準(?)的網站好了. 我通常任何檢索中文英文網站都會查, 但是不知道為什麼, 我覺得好的占星星座網站(西方占星, 不包括中式卜卦抽籤紫微八卦等)都是英文的, 免費資源多, 講的也比較深入.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. 算星座盤的好站(需加入會員,免費):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astro.com/"&gt;http://www.astro.com/&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. 綜合好站(需加入會員,免費):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tarot.com/"&gt;http://www.tarot.com/ &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. 我覺得最準的星座預測: (不需加入會員, 免費):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astrologyzone.com/"&gt;http://www.astrologyzone.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-2144281587898623229?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/2144281587898623229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=2144281587898623229' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2144281587898623229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2144281587898623229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_23.html' title='星星公主大推薦'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-3170290580895928178</id><published>2010-01-21T14:02:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T14:39:31.633+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Experience 我的經驗'/><title type='text'>H1N1疫苗</title><content type='html'>台灣很多人認為美國的月亮比較圓, 即使人在台灣是看不到美國的月亮的. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我的H1N1疫苗是在美國打的, 因為我人在這裡沒得選擇. 那我來報告一下我是怎麼打的參考一下好了. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;去年十一月, 我們的家庭醫師那有疫苗, 一劑要十幾塊美金, 我打電話問清楚並約診約一週後. 我跟我先生到了現場, 表格都填完護士都打電話去問我們的保險公司有幾付差額後, 才跟我們說我們不符規定不能打(當時因為全美國缺疫苗, 要有一定程度以上保險的老弱婦孺才可以打). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;十二月, 我先生服務的學校開始有給員工及家屬打免費的, 我們跑去學校一個禮堂排隊. 當天正在融雪, 到處一片泥濘, 大家在禮堂內髒濕的腳印和厚重的冬衣間拿到一張表格, 基本上就問了四個問題左右: 有沒有對蛋過敏? 有沒有對疫苗過敏過? 填一填簽個名也只是讓施打的一方免責(標準美國作業程序). 一個老老的護士一面嚷嚷叫大家袖子捲不上去的就從領口拉, 一面就打起疫苗來了. 沒有手套, 沒有消毒, 更沒有什麼坐在那觀察三十分鐘(真正的對疫苗有反應是這三十分鐘內). 打完給你一張小卡片手寫的打的那一批序號(出事了是廠商的事, 又一個美國標準作業程序), 其他注意事項選項一概空白, 我到現在也不知道我打的是哪一家的疫苗或是需不需要打第二劑. 然後就各自"請不要擋到別人"快滾出禮堂這樣. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;施打後三天內, 被注射的手臂有肌肉酸痛, 但這是廢話, 打了一針啊. 施打一週內, 我有疲累和嗜睡的傾向,但更可能的是天氣太冷跟自己懶惰的藉口. 我先生這個之前打流感疫苗有感冒症狀的人這次完全沒感覺, 手臂上的點都找不到, 當然可能因為白人皮膚上點太多. 我這個打流感疫苗沒感覺的, 手臂上有兩個紅點, 一個我知道是針孔(因為我打針抽血都是盯著看的), 一個我就不知道是不是sympathetic針孔了. 我跟我先生還認真討論不會是我打了兩針, 他沒打到云云; 雖然是不可能, 但是當時的情況之混亂可想而知.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最近電視上看到可以去一些連鎖藥局施打, 需不需要保險我不清楚, 但是一劑美東的廣告是18美金.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-3170290580895928178?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/3170290580895928178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=3170290580895928178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3170290580895928178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3170290580895928178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/01/h1n1.html' title='H1N1疫苗'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-3713578013349592618</id><published>2010-01-19T18:34:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T19:57:30.039+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>情非得以之生存之道</title><content type='html'>台灣的立法院又打架了, 但是我終於了解這是情非得以之生存之道. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這是非常丟臉的事, 國會殿堂需要打架; 更丟臉的是, 這居然是沒有辦法的事.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;衛道人士或許又要譴責暴力, 但是現實跟事實是, 台灣的國會需要打架, 因為台灣有全世界最沒用的在野黨, 一個只會癱瘓議事卻提不出任何有效異意的在野黨. 民進黨靠癱瘓議事,法案無法通過造成國民黨即使是多數也無法有效執政的假象; 民進黨靠喧鬧肇事(造勢?)譁眾取寵永遠在搞沒有真才實料的選舉一般繼續集台灣之最差存在著. 我常常在想民進黨的入黨標準不知如何? 為什麼可以這麼容易就把台灣之最差都給集結起來? 當然不是說不是民進黨的就是好的, 這世界上壞人多的是, 只是為什麼民進黨展現的永遠是人性之最險惡最卑鄙最丟臉呢?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不論是秀才遇到兵有理說不清, 或是忍無可忍的情非得以之生存之道, 如果打回去是唯一的爛方法, 那打回去就是唯一的爛方法. 這是第一次看到國民黨終於打了架而沒在道歉的, 國民黨的振奮不僅僅是因為他們戰略運用成功讓立法院可以做出點事來, 不僅僅是他們吐了口怨氣. 我覺得這代表了一些微妙的轉變, 這是一種無奈的黑色喜劇下台灣看見的曙光. 曙光不是國民黨黨徽也不是說國民黨, 而是終於有人願意堅持對的有理的事. 我生為台灣人, 一直覺得台灣是全世界最好的地方, 尤其出國多年更是無時無刻不在心中暗自竊喜還好我是在台灣長大的台灣人. 但是台灣有一個很弔詭的現象, 很多對的有理的事沒有人敢堅持或大聲說出實話, 很多敢說出實話堅持對的有理的事的人卻會被冠上扭曲的所謂"不厚道"的帽子. 我不希望說這是孔孟儒家思想的關係, 因為孔子認為最大的不道德就是鄉愿, 所以我認為這是後世後人栽贓在儒家思想上的不公平. 台灣是一個人情味很濃的地方, 這本是好事, 可是法理情這個順序不能因此而顛倒. 厚道是好事, 但是過度的濫用和扭曲所謂的假厚道只是對台灣的不厚道. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;之前扁一家當道時, 很多人說上樑不正下樑歪. 我倒覺得扁一家不是因, 是果, 是台灣長期以來姑息養奸的果. 走出台灣的家門看看, 到處有多少違法或不合理的事? 我們被教育: 這不關我們的事, 說別人是不厚道的事, ... , 連所謂的高EQ都是一問三不知說不出個是非所以然的時候, 我們要怎麼樣期待台灣會往正確的路走下去? 如果沒有是非對錯, 什麼是道德? 如果沒有人堅持對的有理的事, 怎麼才能進步? 我認為, 人類的進步是靠很多鷄婆而堅持的人, 願意去管願意去做願意去改進. 理想化可以不只是理想化如果我們願意堅持下去. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;打架不是好事, 但是戰爭有時都是不得已的手段了, 打架, 真的只是情非得以之生存之道.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-3713578013349592618?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/3713578013349592618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=3713578013349592618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3713578013349592618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3713578013349592618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title='情非得以之生存之道'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-9082964988348096406</id><published>2010-01-02T22:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T15:53:53.096+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TVs 電視'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>近期偶像劇影評:2009秋冬</title><content type='html'>台灣自從多年前本土劇當道, 連續劇幾乎都是本土劇之後, 就只剩下偶像劇給我看. 回台灣是會陪家人看看韓劇日劇, 但是絕大部分時間都是在美國靠YouTube看電視的我無法用韓文日文搜尋, 所以還是愛用國貨,支持國片的選擇台灣的偶像劇(理由一堆,明明是因為愛看帥哥...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;鑒於老爸是搞電影電視, 老媽以前在媒體, 我來寫些影評好了. 近期有三部偶像劇廝殺, "下一站,幸福","海派甜心", 和"桃花小妹", 本來最期待的是瞿友寧導演的"桃花小妹", 看過一輪後反倒是我原本根本不知道的"下一站,幸福"大大勝出."下一站,幸福"在台灣的電視收視率很高, YouTube上也是人氣強強滾, 任何一個上傳者一周都有將近十萬觀眾, 對我來說也是收視第一, 其他兩部倒像是陪榜的, 幸好其他兩部目前看來都是輕鬆喜劇, 變成我看完"下一站,幸福"後因為太揪心的心情調劑品.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;對瞿友寧導演的作品一直很有好感跟信心, 再加上汪東城終於剪了個適合他的帥氣髮型(所以目前汪東城終於坐穩我的帥哥排行榜, 不過不是前三名, 哈哈), 所以"桃花小妹"即使有無好感的王心凌我也是看了. 看了之後, 除了確定汪東城是帥並且演戲有進步, 黃靖倫意外的適合丑角, 還有瞿友寧導演的團隊在家居佈置,飲食精緻度,以及小細節小橋段的用心細膩度依然保持很高的水準外, 其實蠻失望的, 我不知道是因為劇情是改編漫畫(不要再改編自漫畫了, 這樣太浪費一個好的製作團隊!), 或是瞿導看起來是太好好先生, 除了黃靖倫跟一點點藍鈞天, 這部戲大部分的角色都沒有"住進"自己的角色裡, 更遑論創造出一個活生生的人物角色了. 尤其我不知道王心凌是被要求表現成這樣還是這是她的詮釋方式(因為我之前完全沒看過她的戲), 也不知道是拖還是裝, 讓人看著就有些無名火起, 整個一個靠思考--如果這個角色給林依晨演等等才看的下去. 我對王心凌無惡意, 桃花這個角色能發揮的是有限, 但是總不能看一部她主演主唱的戲然後結論只是她是會唱歌的. 再加上幾集下來, 雖然汪東城很帥, 但是這個男主角史朗的個性實在是溫吞水, 而牡羊座加武曲獨坐的我真的很受不了男生不乾脆, 還感情上不乾脆, 所以整部戲在我心中就跟實際收視率一樣一路滑到第三名.(*這篇文章被我"照慣例"拖了幾週, 現在對這部戲已經是看不看都無所謂了..., 真的蠻難過這是瞿友寧導演的作品.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第二名的導演我將不會提他的名字, 雖然他在業界應該算有名, 但是因為一來他跟我的親友有過節, 二來我知道過節的細節, 而這讓我是看不起他的, 三來我很不欣賞他的風格, 所以我不想提他的名字. 我看過他的幾部作品, 基本上如果不是因為演員, 我是不會看的. 我覺得他的作品從劇本,運鏡到細節都粗糙無比, 比如在這部作品中有女配角一對著女配角二說話, 完全叫錯名字還可以繼續拍還播出來! 這樣的品管還能當所謂有名的導演也是台灣奇蹟之一了. 唯一就是他的人脈廣吧, 所以總可以卡司堅強, 再加上他很明顯的是刻意討好大陸市場, 大陸市場大, 所以...很有市場吧. 劇本通常喜歡用很多男女主角互相對上的繞句, 再加上每集開始和每段廣告後都有大量重疊, 所以劇情不是拖只是很沒有料的重複呈現一些為該劇發明的繞句情境... 羅志祥是他的愛將之一, 我認為羅志祥是很棒的全方位藝人,也夠帥,再加上他本來就有的特殊搞笑功能, 所以靠他可以撐起非常單薄的劇本. 我認為他的表演不俗(籃球火有入圍就可以證明), 但是我想如果他想再深耕演戲這一塊, 比如想得獎的話, 最好跟其他導演合作. 楊丞琳本身可愛又有戲, 再加上本劇這種"惡女"形象的, 台灣偶像劇演藝圈應該是無人能出其右. 所以劇本再爛, 細節再粗糙, 兩位主角還是撐的起來. 不過這部戲我也是有一搭沒一搭的隨便看看就好, 除了覺得羅志祥有進步, 楊丞琳對"傻女","惡女"這兩種角色真是沒人搶的過她之外, 再一次證明看兩部戲就知道這個導演所有的技倆.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第一名對我來說是完全的意外, 三立之前的超夯戲劇因為我不特別喜歡主角所以都沒看. 本劇年輕的金鐘女導演陳慧翎, 一開始我還一直把她跟大愛的製作人陳慧玲搞混(大概都有大愛背景關係吧, 再加上又都是優質戲劇型的人). F4我是最近才比較有機會看他們的東西, 越看就越發現他們當時會這麼天團不是沒有道理的. 這部戲播了好幾集之後, 我才無意間看到. 剛開始從劇名到主角都沒有激起我太多的動力. 吳建豪我只看過他的一部電影, 是我們家那個老外因為想看亞洲動作片無意間租的, 劇情細節我也忘了, 只記得男主角是吳建豪, 女主角是韓星, 當時我跟我老公看完的結論是: 怎麼男主角比女主角還要年輕漂亮? 安以軒我只在略看過十分鐘的鬥魚中驚鴻一瞥, 當時的印象是: 好漂亮的眼睛跟嘴唇! 這樣新鮮但是不熟悉的組合, 我一直到某一天真的很無聊才:好吧, 看一下好了...結果就是一直從第一集看到當時播的集數, 無法停止, 欲罷不能, 之後成為忠實觀眾, 每看一集都一方面很興奮, 一方面又無法忍受又得等一星期... 又想趕快看完, 又擔心它播完要怎麼辦... 劇情已經很揪心還不夠, 還要像吃辣一樣上癮跟自虐~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;整部戲劇力萬鈞, 劇本強, 幾乎沒有一句廢話或是不重要的話, 劇情更是少見的一點都不拖, 卻又是不浮誇不鬼扯的環環相連, 絲絲入扣. 我不知道是不是原創劇本, 但是寫劇本的人創意和考證真是少見的用功. 我的猜測是一群日韓劇都看過很多同時非常無法忍受拖戲又非常想寫出完美劇本的輕熟女, 呵呵. 導演的手法也很新穎, 她的運鏡選切角度有很多像是電影的手法, 敘事清楚中夾雜層層疊疊的隱喻呼應, 在在顯現出年輕導演的創新,女導演的細膩和金鐘導演的魄力. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;製作團隊對家居佈置有一定的水準(我覺得桃花的團隊居家佈置更強), 飲食展現需要再加強(這點瞿導的團隊又贏了, 食物應該是偶像劇團隊中無人能敵的最強~), 髮妝都不錯(我喜歡吳建豪的短髮, 剪的好貼!), 但是服裝我真的有點意見, 男主角的衣服大概很多是自己的所以還不錯, 男配角的衣服就有點需要再加強, 女主角跟女配角的衣服我就真的很... 從一開始女配角的短褲到後來女主角的罩衫, 服裝似乎太不現代或是說太想要夢幻還是什麼的? 為什麼老是要把安以軒包在一個很奇怪的罩衫內? 現在現實生活(尤其一個需要從早到晚工作的單親媽媽)中有人這樣穿嗎? 我個人覺得服裝是這個團對最弱的一環. 當然啦, 一部收視率超高的戲, 這麼多眼睛看, 難免大家來找碴, 所以連wiki都有這部戲出錯的條列了, 其中尤以日期最多, 所以可能製作團隊的算術也得加強, 要不然搞的YouTube上都有人為什麼時候上的床吵起來了, 這像話嗎?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;女主角安以軒不愧為在大陸的台灣一姐, 穩健不誇張的演技處處展露大將之風. 聽說梁慕橙這個角色原本是考慮韓星(拜託別再搞這種組合了, 配音就掉了一半以上的精神了, 有必要嗎?), 後來又要從安以軒跟陳怡蓉中選一名. 我雖然對陳怡蓉也因為親友跟她的一些接觸而無好感, 但是我必須承認她的孫一美是很棒的. 可是..."下一站, 幸福"是偶像劇好嗎? 梁慕橙應該是一個像瓊瑤小說女主角式的美女吧! 我知道以上選角的消息後一直在那好加在, 還好是選安以軒啊, 要不然戲砸了我又看不下去的話, 怎麼能發現原來吳建豪好性感咧?! 陳怡蓉對上許瑋甯的話, 網友也不用吵男主角該選誰了吧? (要是那樣我也選許瑋甯啊...). 我至今覺得這樣的選角比較非常奇怪, 似乎是蘋果比橘子, 兩個完全不同型的演員在比. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;女配角許瑋甯真的是進步非常多, 終於讓人不是只注意到她的混血背景. 當然, 這個不具殺傷力如天使般好人的女二, 角色本身為她加分不少, 但是許瑋甯在戲份並不太重的情況下, 也能讓她的何以茜展現捨我其誰演的魅力, 小橋段拿捏的恰到好處, 非常不容易. 演男配角花拓也的吳慷仁應該對很多人來說是新人(至少對我來說啦), 雖然有人說他有點一號表情我有些認同, 但是相信在上週他對女主角的告白戲之後, 這個亮眼的男二絶對是讓人不注意也難. 吳慷仁的自然man應該可以在一堆偶像劇花美男裡走出一條不同的路.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;可愛到不行的戲精神童小小彬(溫玄燁--酷斃了, 跟康熙皇帝"同名"啊~), 真的是非常的一鳴驚人. 小時後看著小彬彬, 現在看著小小彬, 父子如同一個模子刻印出來的, 年紀這麼小就這麼會演戲居然也會遺傳! 我很好奇他們家繼續一代傳一代, 會不會代代出天才神童童星(還都長一樣!)呢? 真是太神奇了!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;所有演員中, 飾演男主角任光晞的吳建豪Van Ness Wu最讓我刮目相看(對對對, 因為他又帥又肌肉,所以我偏心...). 以前對吳建豪的印象就是F4中的一員, 加上言承旭和周渝民常常在當男主角的強力壓境(而我又沒看過他們絕大部分的作品, 包括成名作流星系列...), 實在是很不熟, 完全在我的帥哥排行榜外(這點我真的是要佩服當初選F4的評審, 他們會這麼紅不是沒道理的, 幾乎讓我每看一個的作品每撿一個到我的帥哥排行榜中...). 這部戲, 吳建豪自己說是第一次擔任台灣偶像劇的男主角, 結果不僅是可能是收視一哥, 打破阮經天的紀錄(這讓我想到阮經天前幾年還是花樣中的客串角色, 電視收視一哥後現在是電影第一男主角.)讓全部觀眾重新發現吳建豪(啊, 不要跟我搶!), 我預測, 除非年中有其他強手出現, 吳建豪很可能會以此劇一舉拿下金鐘獎最佳男主角, 成為票房和得獎的雙保證, 除了殺出F4中收視最佳, 也會意外成為第一個拿下獎項的F4. 這大概會讓當了好多年男主角的F2以上感到很遺憾, 尤其我本來也非常看好周渝民的痞子英雄(我覺得應該是痞子得的, 不過那是另一個話題.) 我一向喜歡臉清秀身材肌肉的男生, 居然這麼晚才發現吳建豪! 再加上他有一種天生的性感魅力, 我相信跨入三十歲而越來越man的他, 能歌能舞現在又能演, 再加上雙語的優勢, 非常有操作的空間.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;結論: 強力推薦"下一站, 幸福", 難得一見的優質偶像劇, 清新卻又豐厚, 絶對會讓人感到幸福滿滿. 其他兩部, 除非有特殊原因, 不看也罷了.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-9082964988348096406?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/9082964988348096406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=9082964988348096406' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/9082964988348096406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/9082964988348096406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009.html' title='近期偶像劇影評:2009秋冬'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-4822175318538392105</id><published>2010-01-01T13:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T14:06:32.462+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='雜'/><title type='text'>2010</title><content type='html'>去年(2009)年初, 本來立志要一天一篇網誌, 所以亂寫了幾篇. 沒想到去年開年沒幾天人生就不一樣...去年一年真是糟透了, 所以再回首要努力寫網誌時又是一年...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;希望今年以後, 都好好寫網誌.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-4822175318538392105?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/4822175318538392105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=4822175318538392105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/4822175318538392105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/4822175318538392105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010.html' title='2010'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5536332811880377502</id><published>2009-11-10T18:58:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T19:27:41.596+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food 食為天'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>新聞怎麼看? -- 孕婦與生魚片</title><content type='html'>最近有個一閃而過的新聞: 先生體恤懷孕的老婆, 所以兩人吃壽司大餐, 結果發現裡面有一隻看起來像是蟲的異物, 但是業者說是螺肉的邊云云. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;當然, 不管那是個什麼, 有噁心圖片的爆點, 媒體不會放過. 但是這個新聞的重點是, 懷孕的婦女不應該吃生魚片! &lt;strong&gt;生魚片或是任何未煮全熟的食物, 對孕婦來說都是不適合的, 包括不是全熟的牛排甚至一些起司&lt;/strong&gt;. 因為未煮全熟的食物, 有病菌甚或寄生蟲的隱憂, 平常對免疫系統正常的成人或許影響不大, 但是懷孕中的婦女本身可能因為免疫力下降等需要注意不說, 還要擔心胎兒感染的問題等, 所以不建議攝取這些高危險的食物. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;奇怪的是, 一天到晚有明星名人說懷孕時去吃生魚片的事, 也沒人出來說個話, 搞的積非成是變成是該做甚至進補的事了. 拜託一下, 這個社會需要基礎生物學, 甚或基礎科學, 就像學基礎數學讓人搞的清楚數字不會被騙一樣, 學基礎生物也是必須的.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5536332811880377502?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5536332811880377502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5536332811880377502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5536332811880377502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5536332811880377502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html' title='新聞怎麼看? -- 孕婦與生魚片'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-225669134907444072</id><published>2009-09-27T22:29:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T01:09:48.982+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music 音樂'/><title type='text'>Nessun Dorma 公主徹夜未眠</title><content type='html'>最近"IL DIVO" 到我的戶籍地表演, 基於好奇, 我上網搜尋了關鍵字"IL DIVO" + "Nessun Dorma", 居然沒有!!! 連Michael Bolton 都唱過了, 這個四個團員中有兩個男高音的新男子美聲團體居然沒有唱過!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*研究了一下, 覺得IL DIVO 只是一個行銷手法很高明的團體, 找幾個外型聲音俱佳的輕熟男, 認真正經的把一些名曲唱一唱--所謂的結合古典與流行, 中間夾雜一些各自的歐洲語言--所謂的跨國際異國情調, 再加上每張都很GQ的宣傳照, 就有了一個新的進階版精緻版男子團體. 但是也只是一個男子團體而已. 要不是因為這樣的搜尋讓我想寫一篇我的最愛之一, 還真的覺得不應該把他們放進Nessun Dorma/Pavarotti 的版面裏. 好吧, 就當是演唱會的熱身團體吧!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;對我來說, 沒唱過Nessun Dorma 的男高音都不是我想聽的男高音, 但是問題是除了Pavarotti 唱的版本, 我又聽不下去. 我第一次聽到的Nessun Dorma 就是Pavarotti 的版本, 那種快感跟感動, 每一次聽都跟第一次聽一樣, 幾近ecstasy的狂愛. 生日時同學送我全版Turandot(當然是1972: Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta 的版本), 我另有單片Pavarotti 的Nessun Dorma; 我住宿舍時因為美國室友很吵, 我全天候放這個, 放到我的印度室友特地來問我什麼這麼好聽, 也要去買.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;聽其他大部分的男高音唱Nessun Dorma, 擔心大於享受; 就像聽Pavarotti 會興奮的尖叫, 聽別的男高音會失望的尖叫. 三大男高音已是到目前天下無敵, Plácido Domingo 和José Carreras 都可以唱的很好, 但是就是don't hit the spot. 之前有看過, 說Carreras 是抒情男高音, Domingo 是最適合演出整本歌劇的英雄式男高音, 而Pvarotti 是華麗式男高音. 與其說Carreras 轉折處的略哭腔, 和Domingo 金屬共鳴性太重是我不喜歡的部分, 不如說Pavarotti 的聲音太完美, 跟Nessun Dorma 天人合一的天作之合大概再難以出其右.     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不連結了, 只要搜尋Pavarotti 就會有個Nessun Dorma 的連接選項; 這是Pavarotti 的歌, Giacomo Puccini 寫了以後, 就是為了等這一個不世出的天才. 而我們, 很幸運的都等到了.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-225669134907444072?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/225669134907444072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=225669134907444072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/225669134907444072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/225669134907444072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/09/nessun-dorma.html' title='Nessun Dorma 公主徹夜未眠'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-7353586825074059754</id><published>2009-09-05T20:00:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T00:26:18.515+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>2009 Deaflympics in Taipei !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.2009deaflympics.org/"&gt;2009 Deaflympics in Taipei&lt;/a&gt; ! First time in Asia, Taipei welcome you !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2009deaflympics.org/"&gt;http://www.2009deaflympics.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/02f9cXhsJ3o&amp;hl=zh_TW&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/02f9cXhsJ3o&amp;hl=zh_TW&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_a0hOVPQSgg&amp;hl=zh_TW&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_a0hOVPQSgg&amp;hl=zh_TW&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SqJuVHLlQOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/0X4zZmc6Crw/s1600-h/logo-s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 70px; height: 70px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SqJuVHLlQOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/0X4zZmc6Crw/s320/logo-s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377982214017728738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-7353586825074059754?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/7353586825074059754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=7353586825074059754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7353586825074059754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7353586825074059754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-deaflympics-in-taipei.html' title='2009 Deaflympics in Taipei !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SqJuVHLlQOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/0X4zZmc6Crw/s72-c/logo-s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-8528573635971070032</id><published>2009-09-01T09:01:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T07:16:45.556+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>旅程中又一次的旅行</title><content type='html'>在這半個地球間繞來繞去,又回到美國.過去的三週內我坐了五次飛機,兩次火車,兩次客運,無數次的公車,捷運和計程車.雖然詭異如我喜歡機場跟醫院(但卻是最怕分離),也要大喊旅行好累啊!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;回到台灣變成最合理卻又有些弔詭成分的事,我明明是回家,卻又總是每天很忙碌很緊湊的排很多行程,有些人把我當外人,有些人把我當怪人.這也就算了,反正我從小就被認為是國外生的,國外長的,混血的,少數民族的,這個的,那個的;名字是不是外文翻的或是是不是藝名甚至中文很好都被問過,從台灣的所謂外省人到在美國的真正外國人,我這個永遠的outsider非我族類又帶著一個真的老外到處亂跑,不知道要感嘆自己好怪還是要感觸台灣人真是太沒見過世面了!? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;其實這次真正的感嘆和感觸是好多我認識的人我不認識了,其實人有變化應該是正常的,像我這種永遠不變的死硬脾氣才是不正常吧!只是有些人,變了好多,突然間友誼變成客套,真心變成客氣,以往的交集和理想抵不過現實生活,雖然理想和現實哪一個比較真實不知道,但是這一切讓我很有失落感.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-8528573635971070032?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/8528573635971070032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=8528573635971070032' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8528573635971070032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8528573635971070032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html' title='旅程中又一次的旅行'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-1555138144765718436</id><published>2009-08-17T17:04:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T15:57:38.759+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Typhoon Morakot</title><content type='html'>Typhoon Morakot has severely damaged southern Taiwan. Do not worry, me and everyone I know are fine, and all my itinerary will be in the unaffected areas in Taiwan. In the past 10 days, many sad stories and many touching scenes have demonstrated the reality of mother nature and human nature. I feel the pain for all the victims and their families, I also feel very sad for this happening in Taiwan, but most of all, I really worry about the future for Taiwanese and any other human being on earth considering the unpredictable rebound force of global warming. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning, there was also a magnitude 6.5 earthquake in Taiwan; we were waken up by earthquake in Japan, and now in Taiwan. Nature will always win, unless human can live harmonically with nature, we will always lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will it become for all of us ? I do not know, I just hope I can do more for Taiwan, for earth and for human beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 64 countries and 12 international organizations have provided helps and assistance, thank you all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information about Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan, please check &lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/archive/"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?uri=%2F2%2Fhi%2Fasia-pacific%2F8202821.stm&amp;scope=all&amp;go=toolbar&amp;q=taiwan"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;, these are two English newspapers from Taiwan:&lt;br /&gt;China Post: &lt;a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/"&gt;http://www.chinapost.com.tw/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taipei Times: &lt;a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/"&gt;http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-1555138144765718436?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/1555138144765718436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=1555138144765718436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1555138144765718436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1555138144765718436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/08/typhoon-morakot.html' title='Typhoon Morakot'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-7949338132648808429</id><published>2009-06-22T13:02:00.027+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T17:01:15.396+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>In the end, what is important ?</title><content type='html'>If in the end, nothing you can bring it away with you, not a dime you've earned, not a dime you've spent, not even our-physical-selves, then, what is important ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've seen those questions, in philosophy, in psychology, in conversations or just in our wildest dreams, questions stated that if there is only certain amount of time left, so on and so forth, what will we do ? There will be tons of answers featuring similar results -- spending time with our families, finally doing that thing we always want to do ...--, but I'm sure nothing will really change until we're really facing this question ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately most of my friends are in no hurry to think about this question, and surprisingly many of my acquaintances have never even encountered some one's else end of life. In a way, no one dies in dignity because of the physical body; but in another way, everyone dies in dignity because no one can touch your soul in a spiritual world -- if there is one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've read several books about life after life and/or life in between lives. Reference links for your interests (authors of the books I read):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiritualregression.org/"&gt;http://www.spiritualregression.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brianweiss.com/"&gt;http://www.brianweiss.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientific background (especially for a hardcore Darwinist, genetics-based biologist I would like to be) has trained us to look away from all these "not-scientifically-proven(as we call it, that's an easy one.)" whatever that we don't want to (and/or can't) deal with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, com'on, I'm sure every current living soul would like it to be true, otherwise if we just ... die, then what is this all about ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really appreciate my experience, although I wish my family members would never leave me. In the end, what is important ? I think probably only the lives you've truly touched. In the end, who will be really sad over losing you ? Who will really appreciate you ? Who really knows you ? Who really loves you ? I know it sounds corny when we don't need to think about it, but believe me, in the end, life is just like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I think probably I'll be like -- Cr*p ! None of the after-life thing is true ... [silent]...after I die, but I don't know, we don't know. So let's separate "life" into 3 parts: first part, life in living -- mostly referred to "now" and drifting back and forth in the past and future in our brains (I'm really interested in this "time-traveling" in our minds/brains, hopefully I'll be able to narrate my thoughts about it comprehensibly); second, before death and death itself; and third, life after death (hopefully there is one), and hopefully these 3 parts are connected into a circle by birth/re-birth, so I get to be ... not near-sighted ? No, so I get to be LIVE again ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But whatever it is, I just want to be with people I really love and care. Down to the bottom, life is always the same, no matter where you are(ok, I admit I just want to be in Taiwan ...), who you are, and what you are. Life is just living, everyone is just trying to get by for living. Additionally if we can do something good for the earth, the world and the human being -- at least try to be less harmful and more useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appreciate life, if you don't, I wish there is a mechanism that people who want to commit suicide can give their lives to those who are fighting for it. But don't think too glamerous about it (especially about other people's life), down to the bottom, everyone is the same; down to the end, nothing is really important but those you love and those who love you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-7949338132648808429?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/7949338132648808429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=7949338132648808429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7949338132648808429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7949338132648808429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-end-what-is-important.html' title='In the end, what is important ?'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-6000760982541164751</id><published>2009-06-21T15:00:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T13:20:19.631+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>瘦奶奶百日, 我三個月前的email. 100th day after my grandmom's repose, my email to re-post.</title><content type='html'>不好意思, 一直沒有聯絡. 我的另一個外婆, 瘦奶奶, 已於三月十四日過世. 我在不到三個月的時間內失去了我的兩個外婆, 加上十四年前過世的外公, 我最重要最愛的三個人都已經不在這個世上. 瘦奶奶最後一個月受了很多的苦, 但是她撐著到我農曆生日的那一天. 這次整件事都很奇怪, 我想胖奶奶,瘦奶奶兩個親姊妹一輩子九十年的朝夕相處, 這樣的緣分誰也捨不下誰吧. 我很痛很痛, 人生跟世界對我來說再也不一樣了. 但是大家不要擔心, 我還是會一樣的, 我現在唯一的希望就是能把他們都生回來, 或是有一天我可以跟他們三個人生生世世永永遠在一起, 我只要他們三個, 我們再也不要分開. 希望大家一起幫我想願, 並獻一柱心香.&lt;br /&gt;我會於三月三十日回台北一趟, 待到四月二日. 我已先辦休學, 還沒有定回程機票的時間, 大概會待到四月下旬. 謝謝大家的支持及幫助.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sorry for not keeping in touch, my "thin" grandma passed away on March, 14th. I've lost both of my grandmas on my mother side in less than 3 months, together with my grandpa on my mother side who passed away 14 years ago, I've lost all three most important, most beloved persons for me in the world. Thin grandma suffered a tremendous deal in her last month, but she waited until my birthday in Chinese Lunar calendar. The whole thing is very strange, many things I can't explain; both of my grandmas on my mother side are blood sisters who have lived together side by side for 90 years, I think the special affinity and connection in between them have made them inseparable. This is extremely painful for me; the whole world and the rest of my life will never be the same for me any more. But please do not worry about me, I am still the same, my all and only hopes are that they will come back as my children in the future, so I can have another chance to protect them, to take care of them; and/or I can join them one day, and be with all three of them forever; they are all I want, and we will never separate any more. I hope you can wish this for me, and pray for all three of them.&lt;br /&gt;I'll be in Taipei from March 30th~April 2nd, and then back to Taichung. I've left my school and I have not booked the return date, most likely I'll be back to the US in late April.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you very much for all your helps and supports.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-6000760982541164751?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/6000760982541164751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/6000760982541164751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/06/email-100th-day-after-my-grandmoms.html' title='瘦奶奶百日, 我三個月前的email. 100th day after my grandmom&apos;s repose, my email to re-post.'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5335465345713727428</id><published>2009-01-13T12:12:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T13:11:46.494+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>人</title><content type='html'>有命理師說我之前都不是人,這輩子才是,但是之前是什麼不能說.我想是的,我一直都很高興當人,當我自己.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我在想,當有一天不想當自己的時候,是不是就是老了?當有一天,覺得自己完全被打敗,知道當人的無能為力,發現無處可躲藏時,是不是就是老了?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我是獨生女,表堂親都不熟,沒有同輩在旁邊的借鏡,很多事都是自己想像摸索.再加上我腦袋跟身體有嚴重秒差到我必須提醒自己這是我自己,基本上就是想的比做的多很多.從小到大,每個人知道我是獨生子女時的下一個問題都是:妳會不會寂寞/無聊?我真的從來都沒有這樣覺得過,就想我無法想像腦袋放空一樣,我無法放空,也不覺得需要放空,任何睡眠小憩我都會作夢.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在某種程度上,我覺得我的內心跟高中時沒什麼兩樣,但是這是可怕的,朋友同學都與時俱進的活在當下,我的內外在世界卻像是越來越分離.人真的不好當,即使只是要當一個平凡無味至極的人也不容易.人生果然是一種歷練的過程,以前我不相信無奈跟無常,原來,只有這是真的.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5335465345713727428?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5335465345713727428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5335465345713727428' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5335465345713727428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5335465345713727428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_13.html' title='人'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-1335992459879071119</id><published>2009-01-02T06:19:00.010+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T15:55:13.656+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TVs 電視'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><title type='text'>帥哥加偶像劇</title><content type='html'>我喜歡帥哥,也喜歡偶像劇(跟我看足球(soccer,絶對不是美式足球)的原因差不多,為了看帥哥而看-熟女症候群?);不過我的所謂帥哥標準常被詌譙,我選擇看的偶像劇也是完全看主角是誰,男女主角都必須是沒有反感以上才看.對啦,對啦,就是一個有奇怪標準又挑剔的熟女啦~(我上週買酒時還被查年齡耶~唉,還是以實際年齡自己算熟女好了).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;前兩天一直吵我在MSN工作的好友:怎麼在live.com建立我喜歡的帥哥名單?好友被我煩到自己加了劉德華在她的音樂清單上.我很不好意思啊,一來為了這麼無聊的事煩她,二來,原來我...是這麼善變的人,小學時因為當時流行的港劇有喜歡過港星,但是多年來我的帥哥名單已經換過不知N次了,年齡層還越換越小(喔,天啊~)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;對了,之前有一次在從台灣飛美國的飛機上,有人跟我換座位之後,我旁邊坐了一個高高瘦瘦黑黑的台灣女生,看起來不是裝模作樣之流,第一件事就是用娃娃音告訴我她是七年級生(後來我幫她填入境資料後發現不是...)還有手上的小包包是名牌還有價錢多少...無奈旅程很長,雖然我說的任何事她都會回應:啊,妳們那個時候就這樣啊~(請自行配上娃娃音)-不是廢話嗎,都是六年級生~,我還是老實的回答我喜歡的男明星是...然後被說:啊,你都喜歡這麼小的喔~!(請再自行配上娃娃音),搞的我真的是只差老娘兩字沒出口.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;算了算了,重點是要推薦帥哥跟偶像劇.只略推兩名帥哥,其他很多陪榜的,因為我的腦袋每次做任何種的測試都跟男生比較像-第一眼沒感覺就是沒感覺,女生有的日久生情對我來說不可能,再加上牡羊座的三分鐘熱度,能推的就這樣囉,說過我是奇怪又挑剔加上"啊,都喜歡這麼小的喔~"熟女.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joesfamily.com.tw/"&gt;鄭元暢&lt;/a&gt;,1982年6月19日生,身高188公分.&lt;br /&gt;我覺得鄭元暢是個綜合條件非常棒的帥哥,有自己的想法而且一直不斷的進步;被說娘還會自嘲這樣沒人跟他搶娘派代表...不怕被說娘才是真的不娘吧,日益成熟的他越來越有男人味囉,我相信他的智慧會幫助他越來越棒!(還真的沒看過不聰明的雙子座-列為希望我小孩是這個星座之一).&lt;br /&gt;加分重點(剛剛有說過我的腦袋怎麼測都是比較像男生的,所以請包涵"肉慾橫流"的部分~):&lt;br /&gt;鄭元暢自己也自嘲身材像放大的小男孩,不過其實他的身型是很棒的,高或是比例不用我說,重點是他的肩膀夠寬, 最重要的重點來了-屁.股.大!對對對,我喜歡屁股大的男生!XD哈哈哈!沒屁股的男生可能比致命的細腿還...致命吧.還有小綜不會唱歌的低音也很棒,因為...我覺得不會唱歌跟低音都很棒,就這樣.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihuge.net/"&gt;胡歌&lt;/a&gt;,1982年9月20日生,身高185公分.&lt;br /&gt;嗯,雖然處女座是我最害怕的星座,但是這個生日快要天秤座了,所以不扣分XD.之前經歷重大車禍及多次手術的胡歌也是越來越成熟了,其實我想不管有沒有疤或是兩眼有沒有平均,他都是很帥的.常常跟台灣演員合作的他雖然在武俠梁祝中演反派(變成跟我同姓喔XD),基本上我覺得他是一個開朗憨厚的大男孩,希望最帥的郭靖可以早日跟大家見面,跟黃曉明一樣來台灣Long Stay啦!&lt;br /&gt;加分重點(對啦,肉慾橫流啦~):&lt;br /&gt;胡歌的下巴線條有亞洲男星少有的陽剛味,再加上之前他養傷期間的照片鬍子也很帥;陸媒曾經評論說他的眼神有一種澄澈純淨,即使經歷生死交關依然不變.還有他爽朗的笑容跟會唱歌(咦!?剛不說喜歡鄭元暢不會唱歌嗎?對啊,我就是喜歡鄭元暢不會唱歌的低音還有胡歌會唱歌的中音啊,怎樣啦,兩個人的聲音都很MAN,不行喔!?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;陪榜人數一直會變,不要自以為是的帥哥跟不要裝模作樣的美女都賞心悅目,熟女只能希望生的出帥哥美女囉~&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-1335992459879071119?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/1335992459879071119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=1335992459879071119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1335992459879071119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1335992459879071119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_02.html' title='帥哥加偶像劇'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-8461452039868481331</id><published>2009-01-01T01:01:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T14:16:21.165+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>2009</title><content type='html'>2008 在世人有太多好的期待卻有太多壞的發生中結束了. 2009 似乎在沒有任何期待中不得不的到了.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在我沒有出生之前,科學家警告大家冰河期早該到了;2008的諾貝爾和平獎卻是給了現今大概最重要的議題-全球暖化,我看完紀錄片,只覺得我一心想作癌症研究結果再沒幾年地球卻可能因暖化而毀滅...最近又有科學研究說適度的暖化延緩了冰河期的發生,同時也會減低冰河時期對寒溫帶國家帶來的衝擊.這應該是最重要的議題,但是金融風暴帶來的海嘯襲捲全球,沒有人會注意這個.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我在這次金融風暴始作俑者的美國.這裡,很多店關了,連掛著"Unlike others, we're here to stay."的店也關了;很多房屋在賣,隨便去逛個街,遇到的陌生人告訴我他們失去了貸款中的房子;很多從成立以來就沒打過折的牌子都在一波波的打折,我每天一開email,都是促銷的信件,從來不打折的牌子變成一天寄七封emails告訴我他們在折扣.油價從漲到很多老美因為開美國車而一個月的油錢相當於房租到跌到幾乎是十年前的油價(然後老美又以為他們贏了);這一切只是開始.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2008 的諾貝爾經濟獎給了一個Princeton的經濟學教授&lt;a href="http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/"&gt;Paul Krugman&lt;/a&gt;,因為他數年前準確的預測了這一次的金融風暴(只是他也說他沒想到會發生的這麼快這麼嚴重),但是就像聖誕夜過世的政治學者&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington"&gt;Samuel P. Huntington&lt;/a&gt;曾經準確的預測了911恐怖攻擊;這些人跟每天可以看到的美國人差太遠了,再出幾個這樣的人,出幾個這樣的理論,美國還是會萬劫不負的往下走下去,只有八十一歲的Samuel Huntington1跟其他絕大多數的老美一樣在安養院過世是美國的現實.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;歐巴馬的出現既不代表種族主義的結束,更不代表美國有了救贖.-馬大師在此預言先.這跟馬英九的出現不代表台灣藍綠對立的結束是一樣的.每個地方都有其自己的背景文化習性環境,尤其在這民主的時代,領導者甚或整個政府對人民的影響是有限的,誰當選,選民都是一樣的.歐巴馬的四大政策方向不差,但是每一個都需要動輒上千億的美金,&lt;a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/"&gt;美國的國債&lt;/a&gt;已經高到要換新的電子表版了(因為位數不夠...),長久以來的宗教背景,教育文化甚而最令人的詬病的醫藥保險都不會有實質上的改變的.所有"Yes, We can."的政見我都敢說"No, they can NOT.".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;談論美國,只是希望我的家-台灣要有與時俱進的國際觀,跳脫出美國是最大買主的既有思維,要創造出品質上無可取代的產品,並且繼續向全面性的高科技島發展.台灣有自己的問題,可是對我來說台灣是世界上最好的地方,我希望,新的一年,台灣人能更珍惜台灣的一切,讓正義公理昭彰,法理情順序建立,並且關心更多真正重要的事.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;至於自己,我希望家人親友平安健康,幸福快樂;我自己能更有能力做我該做的事.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-8461452039868481331?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/8461452039868481331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=8461452039868481331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8461452039868481331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8461452039868481331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2009/01/2009.html' title='2009'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-512161683177469959</id><published>2008-12-27T19:09:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T18:54:13.852+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your entertainment 有趣的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>Burger King has issued a ~ Perfume "Flame" !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SVqsnUFA7BI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oaqmuIa-iWk/s1600-h/494c48a6a37bf.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SVqsnUFA7BI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oaqmuIa-iWk/s320/494c48a6a37bf.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285726904077315090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is probably the most creative and funny perfume ever existed -- can you imagine Burger King has issued a perfume ??? -- "with a hint of flame-broiled meat" ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.firemeetsdesire.com/"&gt;http://www.firemeetsdesire.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is too funny ~ So this body spray users will smell like walking burgers ? &lt;br /&gt;What will the rival McDonald's do ? Issue a new cosmetic line inspired by fries ? Then I guess KFC will need to do a handbag with chicken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't stop laughing after knowing this, and I've checked the reviews -- yup, there are reviews, that means there are people who have already bought and tried this ! The reviews are not bad (imagine that !), and they are as funny as the product itself. The ad said that guys who use this BK body spray will become irresistible to plump girls, therefore there are reviewers thanking BK for food and possible sex. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's next ? Who shall be the spokes model for this most American perfume ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-512161683177469959?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/512161683177469959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=512161683177469959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/512161683177469959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/512161683177469959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2008/12/burger-king-has-issued-perfume-flame.html' title='Burger King has issued a ~ Perfume &quot;Flame&quot; !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EN9Wv-Iz7e8/SVqsnUFA7BI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oaqmuIa-iWk/s72-c/494c48a6a37bf.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-4978422035757010787</id><published>2008-12-25T20:24:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:52:20.527+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music 音樂'/><title type='text'>鄒女在唱歌~</title><content type='html'>來自阿里山的鄒族,是&lt;a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E5%8E%9F%E4%BD%8F%E6%B0%91"&gt;台灣原住民&lt;/a&gt;十四(快十五了)族中的一個不算太大的族.鄒族就是那首"阿里山的姑娘美如水,阿里山的少年壯如山..."中的阿里山原住民,也是宏碁前幾年得到國際廣告大獎中(&lt;a href="http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1Q1JCZCS4"&gt;http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1Q1JCZCS4&lt;/a&gt;)生活在神秘山林中的美麗族群. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;鄒族出美女,舉凡演藝圈的湯蘭花,田麗,高慧君,高蕾雅,安欽雲都是.鄒族的五個勇敢女生出了一張母語創作專輯:"&lt;strong&gt;鄒女在唱歌&lt;/strong&gt;",以鄒族語言向大家介紹部落的創作.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;鄒女在唱歌:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://chougirls.pixnet.net/blog"&gt;http://chougirls.pixnet.net/blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;白芷.雅達烏尤安娜(高慧君):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ice-kao/"&gt;http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ice-kao/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-4978422035757010787?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/4978422035757010787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=4978422035757010787' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/4978422035757010787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/4978422035757010787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_25.html' title='鄒女在唱歌~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-22150335108830328</id><published>2008-12-23T12:23:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:58:03.883+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals 動物'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>貓熊在台北!Pandas in Taipei!</title><content type='html'>貓熊來了! 貓熊來了! 貓熊來了! Pandas in Taipei Zoo, Pandas in Taipei Zoo, Pandas in Taipei Zoo ! 讓我再說一遍,貓熊來了! Let me say that again, Two cute pandas are in the Taipei Zoo !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zoo.gov.tw/panda/"&gt;http://www.zoo.gov.tw/panda/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;自從親眼在&lt;a href="http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/default.cfm?cam=LP1"&gt;華盛頓DC動物園&lt;/a&gt;見過&lt;strong&gt;添添&lt;/strong&gt;和&lt;strong&gt;美香&lt;/strong&gt;後,我成了超級無敵霹靂瘋狂貓熊大粉絲,一種從小到大隻都超級像玩具的動物,真的是太可愛了! 我曾經收集近千張的貓熊圖檔,可惜都隨我舊電腦的被偷而沒了;研究過非常多的貓熊網站,台灣還有美國動物園的貓熊live panda cams都可以在我的所有網誌連結上.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;之前看過大陸網友半開玩笑說台灣喜歡不一樣,大陸叫(大)熊貓,台灣卻叫貓熊?據我看過的資料,其實是因為民國初年當時在大陸展出貓熊,可是因為當時推行中文橫寫,所以掛了個布條寫著"熊貓",不過當時推行的中文橫寫可是要由右到左唸的(可能為了表示不是洋化,跟歐美語系不一樣吧),所以其實是"貓熊"的意思,可是中文橫寫還右到左誰知道到底是怎樣唸呢?所以就以訛傳訛的成了貓熊,熊貓傻傻分不清楚這樣.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;至於貓熊的英文名字Panda,據說是比較可能來自尼泊爾語,因為早期其實不只中國大陸,尼迫爾甚而附近其他地方也是有貓熊的,但是後來僅存於中國大陸境內.中文古代似乎稱貓熊為貘,貔貅(招財吉祥物耶,跟招財貓一樣,所以變成貓熊?!~開玩笑啦XD).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;至於分類上其實一直很有爭議,是熊?是浣熊?是...什麼?早期貓熊的分類一直被認為跟浣熊接近(不能都有黑眼圈就這樣吧~)而跟熊遠.近來分子遺傳研究結果把貓熊自成一科,不過應該是跟熊比較近,而跟浣熊遠.有學者認為四川跟秦嶺的貓熊應該分成兩個亞種.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;來台灣的這兩隻,團團和圓圓(其實我覺得不要考慮政治意義-貓熊這麼可愛,人家只有黑白沒有別的顏色好嗎?不要什麼都政治啦~!這兩個名字真的很適合貓熊啊,&lt;strong&gt;圓圓兩團&lt;/strong&gt;在那裡XD,太爆笑啦!),我看了一下檔案,哇!團團圓圓可都是系出名門,很有來頭啊!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;先說&lt;strong&gt;團團&lt;/strong&gt;,團團的媽媽是&lt;strong&gt;華美&lt;/strong&gt;,華美是第一隻在美國(&lt;a href="http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html"&gt;聖地牙哥&lt;/a&gt;)順利以人工授孕方式生下成長的貓熊,也是第一隻在美國長大的小貓熊,華美的名字顯示出她的特殊意義和身世;而華美的媽媽,&lt;strong&gt;白雲&lt;/strong&gt;,也很有名,她是大陸第一隻在人工飼養下以人工授孕方式出生的貓熊.白雲在美國聖地牙哥動物園生養了一男三女(長女華美-(爸爸是&lt;strong&gt;石石&lt;/strong&gt;,今年在大陸以高齡過世),然後是兒子&lt;strong&gt;美生&lt;/strong&gt;,女兒&lt;strong&gt;蘇琳&lt;/strong&gt;,女兒&lt;strong&gt;珍珍&lt;/strong&gt;-(爸爸都是&lt;strong&gt;高高&lt;/strong&gt;)).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;圓圓&lt;/strong&gt;的媽媽是&lt;strong&gt;雷雷&lt;/strong&gt;,是大陸有名的斷掌英雄貓熊媽媽,雷雷本來是野生貓熊,因為誤觸捕獸器而被夾斷一隻手掌,被救後就變成人工飼養在保育中心.雷雷聽說是貓熊美女,所以雖然斷掌卻異性緣頗佳,以一隻手生養了很多隻貓熊寶寶,還自行開發出用一隻手就能抱小貓熊的技術(我有看過影片,很令人驚歎).圓圓的祖母是&lt;strong&gt;白雪&lt;/strong&gt;(是的,團團的外婆是白雲,圓圓的祖母是白雪),是一隻有褐色毛的秦嶺亞種貓熊,她是在一場大雪中被救的野生貓熊,多次跑掉又自己回來保育中心就醫的紀錄.所以圓圓小名是"黃毛丫頭"還真是貼切,因為家傳有褐髮基因嘛.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;本來還要畫祖譜的,但是我想看的人已經夠三條線了,所以就先這樣.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;希望團團圓圓喜歡台北,喜歡台灣,早生貴熊喔!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-22150335108830328?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/22150335108830328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=22150335108830328' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='html'>今天是冬至.雖然我不是太喜歡冬天的人(尤其在美國),但是比較喜歡夏天的我覺得冬至是比夏至棒的.因為冬至有最長的黑夜-之後每一天白天都一天一天的變長,讓人充滿了期待,像是週末的開始或是快要放假的時候.夏至雖然有最長的白天,之後黑夜卻會一天一天變長,好像週末或是假期的結束,有點傷感又亂沒意思的.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;依然是冬天的冬至,熱熱香香的酒釀湯圓,陪我期待每一天更多的陽光.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-58994949393307888?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/58994949393307888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=58994949393307888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/58994949393307888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/58994949393307888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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/&gt;當下拉起來自四川的友人直奔餅攤旁,很高興的跟友人解說還有跟老闆扯淡.老闆黑黑胖胖圓圓的,頭上還綁了台灣日式餐廳很喜歡綁的那種藍印花頭巾,驕傲的說明他設計的商標-希望以後全美都有他女兒肖像的加盟車輪餅店...,大概聊的太高興所以緩慢而且忘東忘西的做著他的車輪餅.整個車輪餅的烤架是很認真的,就像台灣夜市的那種,大概一如早期的蒙古烤肉爐到後來的珍珠奶茶吸管是台灣空運來的一樣,不過老闆看來是半路出師,不像台灣夜市攤販那種俐落迅速簡潔有力再複雜的點法都不會搞錯那樣.不過在這個沒有多少台灣人也沒什麼好吃東西的地方有任何車輪餅我已經快偷笑了.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;老闆告訴我他剛賣掉台北杭州南路附近一戶公寓,地段多好多方便云云.我問老闆怎麼不會想回台灣?(因為我想回去,所以逢台灣人必問此題以玆我回不去但是也騷擾你的爛目的),老闆說:"&lt;strong&gt;我在台灣沒有人脈啊,你知道的,台灣做什麼都要有人脈,我回去要做什麼?&lt;/strong&gt;" ... 我這種話太多的居然也會語塞-我心裡想:所以在美國不用人脈也可以賣車輪餅是這個意思嗎?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這世界上有人的地方都一樣,有人脈是可能比較好,比較好做事的;連美國本地人沒幾個的高科技學術界也是這樣,學術界多的是家族或是師徒關係因而雨露均霑的情況,科學界要做實驗的更是像古代的學徒制,就像是義大利黑幫電影那樣,有家族之分更是有地盤之隔,不在這個體系內"沒有人脈關係"的即使好好做乖乖做也很難分一杯羹.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不知道老闆是對車輪餅是有什麼理想抱負或是百無聊賴想出的生活工具?我想說,老闆,&lt;strong&gt;我想在哪裡都不需要人脈賣車輪餅的&lt;/strong&gt;;之前我一個表哥說在美國開計程車也比在台灣強;我想說,真的不是這樣的,&lt;strong&gt;職業不分貴賤,但是地方分好壞,家也分自己的跟別人的.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-6076757555906818876?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/6076757555906818876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=6076757555906818876' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/6076757555906818876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/6076757555906818876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_21.html' title='紅豆餅的人脈關係'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-4098213445798661062</id><published>2008-12-13T05:48:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:59:37.073+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>爽</title><content type='html'>高中時,穿綠衣的高中女生大概有很多無謂的矜持,所以學姊說女生說"爽"有些不雅,還公訂用"暢"來代替.那個流行做班徽班包的年代,本班還做了金銀兩色的"暢"字別針,現在大概可以送給當時還是小朋友的鄭元暢.(不小心有些透露年齡...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;但是爽是爽,這個字就像老美一定要用可樂"hit the spot"一樣,別的字還真爽不起來.瞧這字一堆人大喇喇晾在那,爽的很.暢又不一樣,全部弄通清楚了,寬心快意去.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今天的新聞看了爽,但是還不夠暢.我也想弄一本這個驚天動地的起訴書,這是台灣最大的恥辱,也希望是台灣最大的重生.這一家人加親友像癌症毒瘤一大串一樣,全部關多久是一回事,能不能把錢都追回給國庫又是一回事,但是即使是這樣,過去八年(甚而更久)台灣喪失了多少寶貴的東西?失去了多少重要的關鍵時機?社會價值,道德觀念,法理公義,乃至每一個真正讓台灣更好更棒的時機等,許許多多是沒有辦法追回來的,是沒有人可以還給我們的;更有很多既得利益卻走在法理道德邊緣的人早就不知道涼快到哪裡去了,其他所有人,每一個台灣人卻要承擔所有的後果.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這一家不是因,是果,台灣社會多年來主流鄉愿的結果,台灣社會永遠情理法而不是應有的法理情的結果.台灣人引以為傲的善良和熱情,被完全的錯誤運用,我們每一個人的鄉愿縱容了這一家的成長茁壯,每一個人的濫情放任了這一家的囂張跋扈;我們丟掉真理和價值,只因為我們以為不指出錯誤就是善良,假裝沒看到違法就是和氣.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我家在台北市刑事警察總局附近,但是到處看看,其實違章建築,違規停車,亂積垃圾,路霸甚至虐待動物...等都有,但是大家都是鄰居,所以有些違法都十幾二十幾年了,而且...華人的阿Q精神...好像都是很小的事嘛,所以台灣哪裡不是這樣?任何有意見的人,好聽是雞婆(是的,雞婆算好聽了),難聽就是不合群,不寬容,甚至不善良(所以違法的沒有不善良,告發的倒是不善良了);主流價值如此,連選個藝人都要所謂EQ高,說穿了就是逆來順受最好什麼都笑笑沒有任何意見最好.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;於是這個也沒關係,那個也不關我們的事...我無法計算這樣多久會造就這份起訴書加之後書類上的所有被告,但是希望我覺得是世界上最好地方的台灣再也不要有這種苦果了.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-4098213445798661062?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/4098213445798661062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=4098213445798661062' 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think 我想的'/><title type='text'>旅美不小也不簡</title><content type='html'>想想自從一年前電腦被偷,終於可以打中文後一直懶惰沒寫東西.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今天我在之前Bobbi Brown有史以來第一次的FF Sale訂的東西到了,UPS卻沒按門鈴,我上網track東西說已經在一小時以前送了,放在我門口一小時我再去看早就被偷了,厲害的是我大概還知道是誰偷的.打電話去UPS,BB,還有信用卡的客服,都要一至兩週後才能開始調查,標準美國作業模式,一週後送貨員會記得什麼?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;很火,因為這件事表示不是罪犯而是一般人做的;但是不驚訝,因為同樣的事其實不是第一次發生.之前回台灣前朋友上網買知名品牌童裝寄我美國的住址託我帶回,想想美金一百多的童裝包裹不小吧,也是就憑空消失,想當然爾箱子上的牌名一看就知道是哪一類東西,所以也是被"一般人"偷走了.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;看到這,想必大家以為我住什麼爛區或是美國經濟有多糟,我住的還算好區,而且這種事不是現在經濟爛了才發生.不過我也習慣了,反正我在美國就是一個衰,遇過的壞人壞事我在台灣住了兩倍以上的時間都沒遇過.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這讓我想起以前一個同事.一個德裔美國中年女子,她是個很夢幻同時每天這裡痛那裡好像不能呼吸的女子,可是她是一個很大的醫學實驗室加儀器中心的總管,所以常常出包,這個忘那個今天頭痛不能做,搞的實驗室的研究員一天到晚得催她.她每次跟我吃午餐都像個高中女生一樣討論談戀愛的事;有一天大概又被研究員催她該做的事,所以她問我:妳覺不覺得中國人(因為她們實驗室就跟其他世界各國的實驗室一樣當然很多老中)因為不是基督徒,所以很野蠻?我當場差點沒昏倒;眼前這個快半百的基督徒,自己帶著兩個女兒在紐約市租房子,老二有嚴重身心障礙無法自理,老大本來要上大學了,因為夢幻的媽媽跟小她十歲以上的印度男友懷孕了,離婚的前夫腦瘤無法多支援經濟,所以老大得延後入學.然後這樣口口聲聲以宗教為名的人跟我說怎樣是barbarian(野蠻),uncivilized(不文明)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5037605452950492747</id><published>2008-03-21T12:00:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:02:39.507+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Taiwan, we are ready to change.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s7ydvuqsDnY&amp;hl=zh_TW"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s7ydvuqsDnY&amp;hl=zh_TW" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" 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Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-4224037853501804981</id><published>2008-03-20T12:00:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:03:05.393+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>It's a matter of morals.</title><content type='html'>In 2 days, my Taiwan will have a chance to be better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 8 years, my Taiwan has become much worse in almost every aspect, and my Taiwan has lost many (too many) values -- materially and immaterially.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's to a level that I don't understand why there are supporters for the DPP. The differences in between the 2 major parties in Taiwan are not just policies, abilities, but a matter of morals, the most basic fundamental morals. Honestly, even debates such as the Darwinism/evolution and the "intelligence design" in the US elections are still on the same horizon of the moral scale. Even debates for the Independence or union in Taiwan can be on the same moral scale. But as the government is in Taiwan now, a party as DPP is, and a candidate as Hsieh is, it's a matter of morals. I analyzed and translated only a fraction of the news in Taiwan to my husband, who is a Russian and never is able to vote; as more and more ridiculous as I feel about those news during the translation, my husband always asks lots of questions, and he always asks me, why a candidate as Hsieh can be a candidate ? I don't know how to answer that question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I even start to have doubts in my friends who support the DPP; I could understand and accept that some of my friends support the DPP 8 years ago, and even 4 years ago; but now ? I felt very bad when I realize that I still have friends supporting the DPP now, because I don't want to doubt my friends, especially don't want to doubt my friends' morals and integrity; but now, I really have doubts with my DPP-supporting friends; as bad as I feel, as long as I've known you, and as much as I cherish you as friends, maybe I was wrong about your consciences, integrity and senses.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-4224037853501804981?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/4224037853501804981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=4224037853501804981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text'>台北6日</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;沈寧&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　浙江嘉興人。一九四七年生於南京，後居上海。一九五三年隨父母遷北京，讀小學和中學。一九六六年大陸文革浩劫，高二停學。一九六九年到陝北山村落戶，接受勞動改造。。一九七七年秋，大陸恢復高考入學制度，考入西安西北大學中文系，畢業後，分配至陝西省電視台電視劇部工作，參加電視劇編劇及拍攝制作。一九八三年夏赴美國愛荷華大學自費深造，學習東亞文化學、大眾傳播學、教育學。一九八六年夏獲東亞文化學碩士，應聘至舊金山任教。一九九０年後，在多家美國公司任職，曾任美國之音廣播電台新聞主播，亦於美國聯邦空軍軍官學院任文職教官。工作之餘，勤於寫作。除在中美港台各地華文報刊發表多種文字之外，近年出版書藉包括：《嗩吶煙塵》《美國十五年》（中國經濟出版社），《戰爭地帶》（中國華僑出版社），《商業眼》（光明日報出版社），《點擊美國中小學教育》（湖北人民出版社），《教官筆記》（中國電影出版社），《A Different View》（美國 Writers Club Press）。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;台北6日&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;【聯合報╱沈寧】 2008.01.21 03:49 am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;人在海外，只通過報紙和電視發布的點滴去認識台灣，結果是負面的，以為台灣政府業績不彰，官員品格拙劣，台灣人素質低下，文明缺乏，社會混亂，令人覺得恐怖，乃至若干年前有機會在台北謀得一份很好的工作，也推掉了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最近去了一次台北，發現過去多年的印象，至少百分之八十都錯了。台灣政府確實業績不彰，官員品格確實低下，但僅此而已，就我個人所見，台灣人（至少是台北人）的素質文明，已達到就中國人而言的最高度。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我是第一次去台灣，希望親身了解真實的台灣社會和台灣人，所以推辭了接待單位的盛情，爭取更多個人單獨活動的機會。台北之美，固然依賴台北飯店之眾多，夜市之繁榮，小吃之豐富，飯菜之精美，但更加吸引著我的，卻是台北的人，普通市民們。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;走出中正機場，立刻體驗台灣人敬業樂業的精神。我找到長榮公車櫃檯，買票坐車到台北。從桃園到台北，一小時路程，票價135元新台幣，折合4.5美元（設以30:1計），實在便宜，美國丹佛這樣公車，要貴一到兩倍。我對台北毫無所知，詢問去下榻旅館在哪站下車，他們拿出汽車路線圖，指給我看，並用紅筆勾出下車站名。我又問在台灣怎麼打公用電話，他們詳細告訴我，講解幾種價格，告訴我省錢竅門，給我換了幾枚硬幣，說是還有十分鐘開車，我可以先在候車室打兩通電話，指給我用哪架電話機。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在台北期間，我因故換過兩家旅館，沒有來得及告訴妻子更新電話號碼，怕她打來找不到，跟前台服務員一講，他不僅在本旅館電腦上做紀錄，以便所有服務員接到找我的電話，都能轉給我，而且分別打電話到我原先住過的兩家旅館，請那兩處的前台做好紀錄，凡有美國來電找沈先生，便將電話轉過來。那兩邊的服務員，也都很樂意地答應下來。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;事情都是小事情，但我看出大意義。他們既沒有板了面孔，愛理不理，也沒有「堆滿笑容」，為賺你的錢而忍痛做出「笑模樣」，或者臉上帶「笑」卻心不在焉。我所見到的台北服務員們，臉上總是很和氣，很真誠，也很認真，似乎那樣做很自然，很平常，讓我覺得自己並不比別人低賤，也不比別人高貴，所以很舒服。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我住在忠孝東路和復興南路的交點，是台北鬧區的中心，每日從早到晚，車水馬龍，熱鬧非常。早晨上班高峰，捷運（地鐵）忠孝復興站裡人湧如潮。但擠在人群中，隨眾進退，發現台北人雖然匆忙，卻曉得禮讓，頗有君子風。即使在捷運車站裡，人滿為患，卻似乎並不喧鬧。那是我在任何中國人聚集之地，從來沒有體會到過的。公車上，飯館裡，就算西門町那樣的熱鬧地方，包括年輕人在內的台北人，也都懂得儘量保持安靜。我從經驗總結：喧鬧與文明成反比。喧鬧之地，必是文明低落之處。喧鬧度越高，文明度越低。而凡文明之地，自然不見喧鬧。由此可知，台北人的文明程度實在相當高了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;此言不虛，有例為證。在台北乘捷運，站內上下自動扶梯，所有乘客都自覺站在右側，空出左半邊，讓趕路人走。我從未見到一個人，站在左半邊，即使整條扶梯左側都空著。最可愛那些中學生，也如此守規矩。中學生本來是最調皮的一群，喜歡結夥說笑走路，可一上扶梯，便都自覺站在右側，絕不為說笑方便，擠在左側擋路。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;捷運車廂內，靠門處安排博愛座，即老幼病殘專座。我每天乘幾次捷運，經常看見那博愛座都空著，許多乘客站在旁邊，卻都不坐。上下學時，很多中學生乘車，也都站在博愛座前聊天，絕不占座位，特別有規矩。一次我見到有人抱個孩子上車，立刻有四五人同時站起讓座，令人感動。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;捷運車站月台，每個車門前地面，都畫了斜斜的排隊線，我發現不論多麼擁擠的時刻，所有乘客都會自覺依線排隊，絕不亂擠，而且永遠先下後上，絕無搶先之舉。我在台北六天，街道上，商店裡，公車上，飯店裡，無論何處，從未見到一處有人發生爭執，臉紅脖子粗，更別說罵架甚至鬥毆。中國人聚集的市面，能做到如此，實在是讓我感嘆萬分。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;台北是個大城市，馬路上行人多，汽車更多。自行車極少見，但輕便摩托車成千上萬，大街小巷，隨處可見，上下班時可說震耳欲聾。但我發現，市內交通亂中有序。十字路口，每遇紅燈，大群摩托車都會停下，而且全部停在停車線後面，幾乎看不到有人搶出白線，停在斑馬線上。左轉摩托車，也都會停在專設的左轉區內，規規矩矩。行人過馬路，從不亂竄，都走斑馬線，遵守燈標。所以雖然車多，還是很有安全感。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我相信，這是台北全民崇尚推廣文明五十年的成果。上世紀後半段時間，當有些地方把野蠻落後當作光榮來崇拜的時候，台北社會開始對三代人進行不屈不撓的文明教育，已見碩果櫐纍。現在台灣實施九年義務教育，所有青少年都起碼國中畢業，進一步建設文明社會，更有雄厚基礎。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;因為時間關係，我沒有到重慶南路的書店街去逛，只在瞻仰國父紀念館的路上，順便去了誠品書店，覺得真舒服極了。台灣出版書籍，講究紙張裝幀，所以擺到架上總是很好看，毫無簡陋之嫌。書店之大，之整齊，之華貴，顯示著書世界的壯美。裡面人並不少，但極安靜，絕無擁擠雜亂之感。我走了走，買了一套自己多年前出版的《嗩吶煙塵》，當晚要送人，又買了一批音樂唱片，價格都比在美國便宜一半，真想多買，苦於無法攜帶太多行李。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我星期天在台北故宮博物院參觀，看到許多家長帶領七八歲的孩子，細緻觀看各種展物，低聲地講解，耐心地回答孩子的問題。我看到孩子們驚喜的眼睛，景仰的神情，家長的笑容，非常感動。我想，那些家長肯定都受過高等教育，並且希望下一代也具備深厚的文化素養。這樣的孩子，長大之後，當然會成為文明的人。由此可知，不論有人怎樣地企圖切斷歷史，中國文化將永遠代代承傳，綿延不絕。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我向台北的友人們談到這些，讚嘆不已。他們則幾乎一致表示，我選了個不幸的時刻，來到混亂的台北。十年之前的台灣，遠比現在好得多，到處是欣欣向榮，愉悅和諧，人與人之間充滿親切和溫暖。這八年來，台灣被挑起族群仇恨，社會分裂，經濟衰退。我對台北的讚美，倒使台北的朋友們十分感慨，想起過去的美好年代，似乎已是很遙遠的事了。兩個台灣影視界的朋友，跟我吃兩次飯，嘆了幾次：實在懷念過去上學讀書的歲月，雖然生活不那麼富足，但真是和平快樂，無憂無慮。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我到台北的第二天，是台灣政府拆除中正紀念堂牌樓上「大中至正」四個字的日子，所以我一早趕到現場，拍照留念。在報紙上讀，或電視上看，紀念堂前好像萬眾擁擠，衝突頻頻，混亂不堪。實際上，當時在場的不過三五十人而已，警察護衛和新聞記者及工人人數，倒比聚集的市民還要多些。媒體，特別是電視，實在過度誇張，不光誤導民心，而且給台灣人的品格素質抹黑，確是不該。台北人根本不是那樣子的，那天星期五，幾乎所有台北人都在正常上班，很少人願意去參加這個政治鬧劇。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;也在中正紀念堂前，我看見綠營的人排隊呼口號，也看見有人高舉青天白日旗示威。一個婦女靜坐地上，舉著一本雜誌，向路人講解紀念堂的建設。兩三隊警察都背著手，站在旁邊看。聽見一個警官指示部下，見此種種，只要民眾不發生肢體衝撞，警察不得干涉，公民有表示自己觀點的權利。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;紀念堂廣場上，成群的和平鴿，漫步在森嚴的鐵絲網前面，看到很感痛心。那情景，只在第二次世界大戰歐洲戰場的圖片上見到過。想不到居然發生在今天，在相當文明了的台北市中心，可見台灣政府確實太落後於時代了。不過，我願意相信，這只是暫時的。美國有句話說：有什麼樣的人民，就有什麼樣的政府。既然台灣人已經走入了理性和文明，他們就一定能夠選舉出理性和文明的政府，造就理性和文明的官員，建設理性和文明的社會。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在台北短短六日，對台灣社會和台灣人有了近距離的認識，並因此增加了許多信心，相信中國人還是有可能達到高度文明。所以我尊敬台灣人，愛戴台灣人。如果有機會，我願意再次到台灣去，享受一個正常，理性，文明的中國人社會。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5321014640843165029?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5321014640843165029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5321014640843165029' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5321014640843165029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5321014640843165029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2008/03/different-view-writers-club-press-6.html' title='台北6日'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-3407876112392549671</id><published>2008-01-08T14:01:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:03:58.489+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>A Proud Taiwanese, our beloved president: Chiang Ching-Kuo</title><content type='html'>Great appreciations to Pololins (&lt;a href="http://tw.youtube.com/profile?user=pololins2"&gt;http://tw.youtube.com/profile?user=pololins2&lt;/a&gt;) who uploads all these footage and allows me to embed them in my blog; and the production group and the broadcasting channel. I am very touched by this documentation, just want to share it with my friends and hopefully there will be more and more viewers for this great film. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Documentation: Chiang Ching-Kuo part 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jMyXaUrrrgI&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jMyXaUrrrgI&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Documentation: Chiang Ching-Kuo part 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMr18QYGCI8&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMr18QYGCI8&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Documentation: Chiang Ching-Kuo part 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ll8qkrdJMqQ&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ll8qkrdJMqQ&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Documentation: Chiang Ching-Kuo part 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aOXEe2ZLl8o&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aOXEe2ZLl8o&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Documentation: Chiang Ching-Kuo part 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src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5444556239500877853</id><published>2007-10-03T13:52:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:06:15.224+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music 音樂'/><title type='text'>唉，信樂團！</title><content type='html'>大概我太有破壞力了，唸過的國中改制成高中，唸過的高中百年大整修，大學系所合併，研究所州際公路改道，公司整棟大樓重建…當我瘋狂的驕傲的喜愛上一個台灣的搖滾樂團，也會有主唱出走的情況。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一個很偶然的機會讓大部分時間在半個地球外美國東岸的我發現了信樂團。這一聽非同小可，終於有一個有力道有聲音的華人歌手，還是一個台灣本土人高馬大氣勢驚人的搖滾樂團！誰知道懶惰的我還不及在我的部落格宣傳一番（為了信樂團，本來要做一個每隔一段時間一個台灣人或團體的英文介紹的～），吉他手先告假很久，隨著時間的拖長，我差點寫信給我們前校長請他拜託他兒子歸隊，結果主唱給我跑了！唉！唉！唉！我正努力跟這些死老美死老外炫耀說，比聲音，我們唱的更好，比身高，我們更高…比…本來想說哼，這些外國團算什麼，就算紐澤西的本土樂團 BON JOVI 又怎樣？我們也是主唱命名啊，還叫信SHIN，多炫！&lt;br /&gt;唉，居然這樣的黃金組合給我拆了！＠＃＄％︿＆＊OX～&lt;br /&gt;啊！沒去過我心目中的信樂團的演唱會呢！就這樣改朝換代了，唉～好像另一個最完美破滅。&lt;br /&gt;信樂團，我這樣的喜歡你，以你為榮，不能再在一起嗎？&lt;br /&gt;又一個我愛的台灣的一份子消逝中～&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.avex.com.tw/shin/"&gt;http://www.avex.com.tw/shin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.avex.com.tw/ashin/"&gt;http://www.avex.com.tw/ashin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vUULEaegiP0&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vUULEaegiP0&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5444556239500877853?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5444556239500877853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5444556239500877853' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5444556239500877853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5444556239500877853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html' title='唉，信樂團！'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-7977913407541532218</id><published>2007-06-26T02:04:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:06:52.318+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends 友'/><title type='text'>Old classmates, New-claimed friends ~</title><content type='html'>Old classmates, New-claimed friends ~&lt;br /&gt;Getting married is a whole lot of tasks itself, especially when in a place like Taiwan -- a combination of traditional Chinese and newfound Western flavors. Although we've cut out 2/3 of the typical Taiwanese wedding procedures, still, the preparation work makes me wonder if the wedding or the marriage itself is the part of the most work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Chinese traditions, once one is invited to a wedding banquet formally with the invitation card, then one needs to give money as a gift even not going to attend the banquet; therefore the often red color invitation card has a nick name "red-bomb", since whoever gets "bombed" needs to pay. So, it becomes rather hard to send the invitation or not; some people may consider being "bombed" to get certain wedding invitations; some, on the other hand, may consider being insulted not getting invited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to ask my friends as personally as I could if they could come, and only send out the invitation to those who will come to the wedding. The whole process allows me to get re-aquatinted to my old classmates, and that is a sweet-bitter very unique experience. I've been outside of Taiwan most of the time for the past 9 years, so I am really touched to see some of my friends to be so excited and helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish I can spend more time in Taiwan with my family and friends here in the future, and I wish I can spend more time with my friends anywhere in the future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-7977913407541532218?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/7977913407541532218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=7977913407541532218' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7977913407541532218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/7977913407541532218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/06/old-classmates-new-claimed-friends.html' title='Old classmates, New-claimed friends ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-865276312259954600</id><published>2007-06-11T22:12:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:08:38.511+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Experience 我的經驗'/><title type='text'>6/11, 我的婚紗經驗2</title><content type='html'>一個小動作，may cost your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;婚紗應該算是服務業吧？至少台灣把什麼業都做成服務業。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;之前在兩家婚紗店中做抉擇中時，最後因為門市小姐的一個小動作和態度，讓我做了最後決定。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一家很新的婚紗店以品味時尚著稱，我也很喜歡他們的衣服。但是很可惜，門市小姐有個小習慣，喜歡在客戶面前跟她的同事講悄悄話，甚或做一些表情。殊不知客戶除了看婚紗，也看服務啊！陪我去的媽媽和乾妹也發現了這點，大家都覺得這很讓人不舒服，總覺得她似乎在說些什麼關於我們的壞話；而這位悄悄話小姐還一直透露她的職業倦怠症，雖然她只做了一年多。就這樣，因為悄悄話和不完全的敬業，我選擇了另一家婚紗公司，一家有著很熱誠真實婚紗門市小姐的公司。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;悄悄話也許只是他個人的小習慣，但這真的不是一個好習慣，不論做人處事，待人接物，任何一行，這也許就是失去客戶或朋友的關鍵。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-865276312259954600?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/865276312259954600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=865276312259954600' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/865276312259954600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/865276312259954600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/06/611-2.html' title='6/11, 我的婚紗經驗2'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-2941550768243801105</id><published>2007-06-06T01:11:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:08:57.212+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Experience 我的經驗'/><title type='text'>6/5, 我的婚紗經驗1</title><content type='html'>好，我壞毛病又犯，總是先說不好的。&lt;br /&gt;這是我第一次看婚紗，之前做功課時也是這輩子第一次研究甚或是想到婚紗這件事的存在。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第一天就殺去所謂最有名的婚紗店之二，之前有聽說有些店家會狗眼看人低，不過還是想親身試驗。第二家去看的「茱X亞」（請自行解碼），我到現在還在想為什麼這家可以定價這麼高？首先，服務態度真的不是很好，店裡員工都是較年長的，在說明時，他們能做的說的不多，倒是先調查起客人，外請新密是誰，在哪宴客等等，而且對每個問題的答案都可以提出意見，一副我都知道的樣子。攝影我也很有疑問，店員搬來的相簿中，除了指定（額外再加錢）攝影師拍的不錯，其他的相本都是我已經看了半本多，店員提醒一句：這是XX主播，這是XX明星，我才恍然大悟（因為看不出來）。別家我是以為路人是名人，這家我是錯把名人當路人。店家並再三強調他們不喜歡用名人背書，然而卻是唯一一家我看到展示的相本中有明星客戶簽名的地方。再下來服裝，店員當場拿出三套白紗做展示，因為是同時展示給一堆新客人，所以我猜是他們家好的婚紗，樣式其實普普，都是裙襬秀一圈珠花亮片這樣，我這人還蹲下來仔細看繡的珠花亮片，ㄟ，～ 還可以看見線頭。我還因為親友推薦下特地看了某一套晚禮服，只見深藍色的很普通的亮片禮服上，露出白色的線頭補綴。等到展示完這些，初次見面的店員還會開始說他們的老闆優惠只給兩種客人，一種是在別家拍壞的，一種是很相信他們家的，從小立志當茱X亞新娘的 ... 所以基本上是要看我們的喜歡度跟信仰 ...&lt;br /&gt;ㄟ，我從小連立志當新娘都沒有，還哪家婚紗的新娘咧，再加上我平時也沒有信仰，這時要去信仰一個婚紗公司也難 ... 所以我回家就把名片給丟了（喔，對了，店員還給我們兩張說可以去幫他們推薦 ...）。我還是納悶，我去的真的是大家現在很熱門的那個茱X亞嗎？比別人高的定價卻沒有一樣讓我覺得可以及格之處。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-2941550768243801105?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/2941550768243801105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=2941550768243801105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2941550768243801105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/2941550768243801105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/06/65-1.html' title='6/5, 我的婚紗經驗1'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5717554408273941203</id><published>2007-06-04T20:44:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:25:56.907+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>6/4, Taipei, Taiwan, Home.</title><content type='html'>My plane landed in Taipei early morning local time; it's the raining season and the dense white fog outside of my windows confused me if I'm still up in the clouds. I couldn't wait to be back home; rainy, finally pulls me back to the fact that I'm in a Taiwanese airline plane for the past almost 20 hours, despise that more than 80 % of the passengers are transferring to their destinations in the South-East Asia. Once I walked out of my plane, the humidity adds on to the rainy weather, I know I'm home, that's how Taipei should be, and that's how my home should be. I'm glad, I'm home.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5717554408273941203?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5717554408273941203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5717554408273941203' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5717554408273941203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5717554408273941203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/06/64-taipei-taiwan-home.html' title='6/4, Taipei, Taiwan, Home.'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-5209989176317293358</id><published>2007-05-16T09:26:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:43:21.036+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Notes 雜記'/><title type='text'>扯扯扯</title><content type='html'>有些人事物，真的很扯。有些人把事物連起來，弄得更扯。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;多年以前，一天鄰居來我家借可收式鋁梯，因為他家在裝潢需要使用。不記得那天那鋁梯是被借走還是正在用還是怎樣，反正就是不在我家所以借不出去。鄰居就說：那我借你們餐桌的椅子好了。我跟我媽很狐疑，心想：你們家沒有餐桌椅嗎？鄰居解釋：因為我怕把我家椅子弄壞啊，所以借你們家的。 ！！！ 真的，那真的是一場多年來難得忘記的對話。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;所以了，大隱隱於市，隱於鄉，都不對，隱到哪都有不要臉的人扯來不要臉的要求。加上中國人講人情，總是說情理法（應該是法理情才是正道吧！？），情理法，情字放上面，但這可能只是人情，不是真情。說到人情，這就更難了，扯人扯事扯物一發生，我替他難為情，他還不見得要臉咧。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;扯啊！～&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-5209989176317293358?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/5209989176317293358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=5209989176317293358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5209989176317293358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/5209989176317293358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html' title='扯扯扯'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-1533779950365377264</id><published>2007-01-07T18:10:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:11:55.402+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>AMC 8</title><content type='html'>But of course, another news besides the Global Warming that you will never hear it from the US media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMC 8, the American mathematical test given for the 8th graders, the results for the 2006 has just been announced. Out of more than 147,210 students world wide (8th graders or below) who took the test, 289 students got perfect scores, and 121 of them are students in Taiwan (6 of them are 6th graders and below, one of them is a 4th grader). This has broken the record in Asia once again, but the percentage of students for perfect score is slightly less than the record set by Taiwanese students in 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e4-amc08/e4-1-8archive/2006-8a/2006-amc8Perfect.shtml"&gt;http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e4-amc08/e4-1-8archive/2006-8a/2006-amc8Perfect.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-1533779950365377264?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/1533779950365377264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=1533779950365377264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1533779950365377264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/1533779950365377264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2007/01/amc-8.html' title='AMC 8'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-3791902842548248072</id><published>2006-11-29T03:52:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:11:30.610+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>Balance and Trust</title><content type='html'>I'm in a lab. that the postdoc can't even balance the rotor of the centrifuge, and I'm in a lab. building that although I'm wearing a photo student ID, I've still been bag-checked more than 5 times in the past 3 months when I leave the building for my class or for the day. Not when I walk in, they don't care what I bring in, but they do care what I bring out, in case I stuff the ultra centrifuge or the mini-prep kit in my backpack, I'm sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It sounds weird, but I guess that's how it is, I'll always be the yellow skin foreigner with accents here, most people will still ask me how the weather is in China ? Or Taiwan, Thailand, Macao, and Hong Kong won't be too much different in any sense to anyone. I've been asked many questions, besides above, besides bag-checked, such as if Chinese were in WWII (my grandpa fought 8 years for that and 3 of his family members die from it); does Taiwan need to pay tax to China; why Chinese never EVOLVED to use forks ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've tried, for a while, I think both China and Taiwan should grant me as a culture ambassador. But I've come to realize that no one ask me to do so. I'm just a fool myself who tried to fool myself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-3791902842548248072?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/3791902842548248072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=3791902842548248072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3791902842548248072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/3791902842548248072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/11/balance-and-trust.html' title='Balance and Trust'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-8431241224924320008</id><published>2006-11-28T14:39:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:16:20.652+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>9th Thanxgiving ~</title><content type='html'>Post Thanksgiving, Pre Xmas, if you will.&lt;br /&gt;It's a time for especially Americans to prepare for the holidays and the new year. A little bit similar to the post New Year, pre Chinese New Year time in Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom thinks it's not really a benevolence to have all these holidays, because it will just make people with less feel even worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, the older I get, the less spirits I have for these holidays. Well, the Chinese New Year is still fun with all the food, but even that I don't feel too much necessary to wear brand new clothes for the first day in the Chinese New Year according to the traditions. Probably in this aspect I grew into an adult, -- it's just nice to have some days off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The funny thing is that, we always have our Xmas tree set up from the Xmas to the Chinese New Year during my growing up years back home in Taiwan. And here I am in the US, as a foreigner and as a constant traveler, family and home are terms half earth away, rental apartments and visa jobs are neither words for even temporary relieves, Xmas trees are equivalent to wishes: better not to have them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the story of the Pandora's box, when it was accidentally opened and all these negativities coming out to the human world, but one thing left, hope. Hope is maybe a more moderate word than wish, but I still can't say that since my reality costs too much to spend any on those words. I don't think I lost the ability to dream, but I think I lost the ability to believe dreams, and make them true.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-8431241224924320008?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/8431241224924320008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=8431241224924320008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8431241224924320008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/8431241224924320008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/11/9th-thanxgiving.html' title='9th Thanxgiving ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-116314411615930664</id><published>2006-11-11T00:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:44:13.095+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Made in Taiwan !</title><content type='html'>I'm made in Taiwan also !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MnXPJjDAw68"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MnXPJjDAw68" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-116314411615930664?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/116314411615930664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=116314411615930664' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116314411615930664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116314411615930664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/11/made-in-taiwan.html' title='Made in Taiwan !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-116287801952975112</id><published>2006-11-07T13:39:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:17:37.830+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>between thinking and dreaming ~</title><content type='html'>Has again been awhile to do something on my blog. &lt;br /&gt;Too busy, too lazy, too happy and/or too sad is neither way to write. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When reality becomes unbearable, imagination took over and brains re-prioritized. In the twilight zone of consciousness, fractions of the past start to collect, I start to remember things I like, people I love, dreams I want, feelings I need, and everything almost like in the past lives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think my mind is sorting and analyzing, without my knowledge. But I can feel it's important; a 31 years old unmarried woman living in a foreign country as a foreigner for more than 8 years; things learned: many, lessons learned: better never been here in the US; questioning the meanings and existances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once heard a saying: it's not the length of life that is important, but the width.&lt;br /&gt;Why ? Shouldn't it be the depth ? Shouldn't it be all dimensions ? Even dimensions beyond our recognizing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is important, and the importance is life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-116287801952975112?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/116287801952975112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=116287801952975112' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116287801952975112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116287801952975112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/11/between-thinking-and-dreaming.html' title='between thinking and dreaming ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-116053995444536981</id><published>2006-10-11T10:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:19:00.750+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Taiwan, my home.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gRu2oK0Kqc4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gRu2oK0Kqc4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-116050743580793910</id><published>2006-10-10T22:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:19:23.019+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>中華民國生日快樂！</title><content type='html'>上次小綠綠學妹們要求陳水扁不要再亂說什麼用北一女門口交錢，不要髒了北一女門口；我今天要說，陳水扁一家請不要髒了台灣，不要髒了中華民國！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今天是國慶，中華民國95歲生日，中華民國是中國人有史以來第一個完全民主自由自治正統的地方。我從小一直以身為在台灣長大的中國女生為榮，來到美國後更是每天都在想“好加在”，要是當時投胎時投到其他任何地方，我都不願意。我覺得，台灣是全世界最好的地方，我以台灣為榮！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今天，這個全世界最好的地方，卻要讓這全世界最無恥最齷齪的一家人予取予求，為什麼？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;陳水扁唯一的用處是可以捐個血做研究用，因為生物中最骯髒齷齪最卑鄙無恥的基因他都有，還是絕對顯性遺傳！一家子連姻親都是。不知道是物以類聚還是遺傳兼傳染病。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;台灣是我的家，我是台灣人，永遠都是台灣人。祝福中華民國生日快樂！早日甩掉陳水扁這不要臉的一家！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-116050743580793910?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/116050743580793910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=116050743580793910' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116050743580793910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/116050743580793910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post_10.html' title='中華民國生日快樂！'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115976804154779179</id><published>2006-10-01T22:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:33:49.459+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music 音樂'/><title type='text'>紅花雨-Red Flowers Rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w6BbF0gWizg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w6BbF0gWizg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6BbF0gWizg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6BbF0gWizg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115976804154779179?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115976804154779179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115976804154779179' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115976804154779179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115976804154779179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/10/red-flowers-rain.html' title='紅花雨-Red Flowers Rain'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115960749178340882</id><published>2006-09-30T18:30:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:20:42.470+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><title type='text'>碧海情天</title><content type='html'>不知道有沒有看過或是記不記得一齣大約十五年前的電視連續劇：「碧海情天」？&lt;br /&gt;楊佩佩製作，葉童、劉松仁主演。一個不尋常的官家女子岳瑛，跟一個小山賊天養的故事。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;記得當時，我唸高二，北一女的課業重，說看連續劇會不好意思，但是大家還是看，升旗回來前後一路上討論。之後還寫信給葉童，她也很有誠意的隔段時間就回一張有著她照片的卡片，一定是黑白個性照，一樣有著小愛心的簽名。後來出國，也就沒下文了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我的心一如碧海情天，從未變。光陰似箭，人事已非，僅以這歌詞，紀念逝去的一些歲月。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;碧海情天&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;唱：萬芳／詞：廖瑩如／曲：李宗盛 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一直在承諾天 別讓真的心改變 &lt;br /&gt;就讓完美的誓言 守著你我的一份情 &lt;br /&gt;不癡不怨 等著你給我一片天 &lt;br /&gt;怕是要的情 要的心 你不給 &lt;br /&gt;要是你懂得海 飄盪還是為靠岸 &lt;br /&gt;命運狂妄的註定 卻讓你我共這一生 &lt;br /&gt;不厭不倦 望穿了每個日日夜夜 &lt;br /&gt;盼望風停雨停過後 你會想起我 &lt;br /&gt;就像是海天沒有邊 請記得我唯一的願 &lt;br /&gt;不想情深是怨還是願 儘管只能在夢裡纏綿 &lt;br /&gt;就像海天般的相連 寧願活在你的思念 &lt;br /&gt;才知情深是怨還是願 誰負心留給世界去爭辯 &lt;br /&gt;我不再以為誓言需要天 流轉的人世你一定暸解 &lt;br /&gt;只是與你相守這個願 不改變&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;情天不老老凡人&lt;br /&gt;人生如戲戲如歌&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r93iSegfg1A"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r93iSegfg1A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115960749178340882?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115960749178340882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115960749178340882' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115960749178340882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115960749178340882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html' title='碧海情天'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115864491797646185</id><published>2006-09-19T13:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:26:35.354+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><title type='text'>《2008過後》（書摘）-- 中國時報連結</title><content type='html'>《2008過後》（書摘）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;藉由一段家族漂蕩在動盪時局裡的故事，&lt;br /&gt;深刻地描寫了在大時代下小人物的痛苦；&lt;br /&gt;家族新人逃難離散，朝北往南、各自一方，&lt;br /&gt;手足之情被迫徹底決裂，&lt;br /&gt;夫妻之愛僅存於軍艦上的短暫團聚，&lt;br /&gt;而迎向黎明，則是完全不可知的未來……&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在2008過後，&lt;br /&gt;所有的亂象、對立、分裂、惶惑，&lt;br /&gt;譜成台灣人的悲歡狂想曲，&lt;br /&gt;而命運的答案，即將揭曉……？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;2008的未來 現在已在發酵！&lt;br /&gt;95.9.19【作者李鋅銅－中時郭至楨】&lt;br /&gt;2008對所有台灣人都是一個敏感的數字，在這一年台灣與大陸都要發生許多事情。對於2008的未來，大家都非常關心。自己從小就生長在特殊的環境中，父親是大陸來台的老兵，母親是二二八的受難家屬，自己因此對於台灣藍綠對立的體會非常深。短期看來，藍綠的對決似乎沒有消除的跡象，讓人非常擔憂！...&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;文／李鋅銅（更多詳細內容，請看《2008過後》（三采文化提供）  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第一章　2009.02.26 逃難大塞車 &lt;br /&gt;2009.1.1，台灣一分為二。&lt;br /&gt;原訂續留台灣共和國的范輝安一家人，&lt;br /&gt;在中共動武期限前，決定轉往台灣聯邦，&lt;br /&gt;途中卻與共和國軍人發生衝突……。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;車過了東港，范輝安的眼神不停地向左望，幾年前他曾來過這裡。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在記憶中，只要過了一座高架橋，再向左彎，就是一條寬敞平坦的大道。大道兩側除了少見的幾棟二、三層樓房，多數都是有一樓平房。有餐廳，也有休息站，還可看到許多賣海產的大招牌。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;多年以前，只要被兒子帶著到墾丁，或是台東，這條路總是必經之路，一路上來來往往的人車，熱鬧得很；尤其是每到周末假日，或是東港的大拜拜，這裡少有不塞車的，在一面面廣告招牌旁的停車場上，大小車輛常停得滿滿的。從停車場向餐廳望去，一桌桌的食客，有的低頭猛吃，有的抬頭拿酒猛乾，此起彼落，一個比一個動作大；要不然就是斜躺在椅子上，或伸懶腰，或是手掌在肚皮上轉圈磨蹭；再不然就是張著河馬般的大口，用牙籤進進出出地剔牙，一副酒足飯飽模樣。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;范輝安從不曾在這條路上任何一家餐廳吃飯，因為這裡是東港，不遠處就是女兒范海英的婆家；因此，只要經過東港，十之八九都是到親家看女兒。有的時候，即使被兒子女兒開車帶著出遊經過這裡，若不到親家走一趟坐坐，一旦被親家知道，是說不過去的；如果只是到親家小坐，又堅持不吃飯，那也很奇怪。所以，只要是在東港吃飯，一定是在親家，從不曾在這條大路上停留。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115784639501833209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115784639501833209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/09/depose_09.html' title='Depose !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115751042795934985</id><published>2006-09-06T10:20:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:28:31.043+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>Why am I here ?</title><content type='html'>Why am I here ? That's really a good question. (You know that professors/teachers always say this when they don't know how or what to answer, and they need a term to catch the falling weight of the question.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually I ask myself the same question everyday, "why am I here ?"; I tried to ask myself quietly because of the fact that I'm still here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But being pointed out by someone else, especially someone I don't know, a fellow reader for my trivial blog (glad someone reads it), then it is not quiet any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can not run away from this question, but I just don't know what to do now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115751042795934985?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115751042795934985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115751042795934985' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115751042795934985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115751042795934985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-am-i-here.html' title='Why am I here ?'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115707800375323870</id><published>2006-09-01T10:15:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:28:46.235+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Impeaching ! and I'm not peaching !</title><content type='html'>If there is an award for shameless, such as the Nobel Prize in Shamelessness, I am sure our President Chen of Taiwan will win it consecutively until forever.&lt;br /&gt;Although I don't know how many people in Taiwan will recognize him as the "President".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been wondering why he is not in the Guinness' Record book for the most shameless organic creature in the universe and beyond? Then I've learned that the first requirement to be in the Gunnies Record book is the record should be "breakable", that means someone or something needs to be able to beat this record in the future. That's why! Since I'm sure no one can be as low as him and possibly break President Chen's shameless recordS, therefore he can't create another joke out of himself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115707800375323870?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115707800375323870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115707800375323870' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115707800375323870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115707800375323870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/08/impeaching-and-im-not-peaching.html' title='Impeaching ! and I&apos;m not peaching !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115646339692606915</id><published>2006-08-26T07:22:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:29:47.417+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>3 requirements and 1 bonus feature to fit in New York</title><content type='html'>3 requirements to be a New Yorker:&lt;br /&gt;1. (I've talked about this before in Chinese in my blog.) Let go of all the sanitation standards, if you can't tolerate filth, you can't be in New York.&lt;br /&gt;2. Being rude and accept rudeness, otherwise you can't even take any public transportation, which is almost essential in a city with the most angry drivers and the inconvenient parking.&lt;br /&gt;3. Indifference. Being indifferent is one of the trade marks of New Yorkers, there are too many things and people around to drop your jaw, but you don't want to hurt your jaw. And like any other trade marks of New Yorkers, they are so proud of it, and you don't know why they are so proud of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you have these 3 basic requirements and the preference of vanity as an add-on bonus, you won't feel as bad as I am being in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And one small trick, testing your friends to see if they like New York City or not, (preferably they've never really live there long); it's not 100 %, but a not bad indicator for vain or not.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115646339692606915?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115646339692606915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115646339692606915' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115646339692606915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115646339692606915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/08/3-requirements-and-1-bonus-feature-to.html' title='3 requirements and 1 bonus feature to fit in New York'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115646155699698368</id><published>2006-08-25T06:52:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:38:08.282+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Notes 雜記'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Experience 我的經驗'/><title type='text'>move, move, move !</title><content type='html'>There is a Chinese saying: 3 house movings equal to 1 house burning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I moved most of my things to the storage unit in the middle of June, and moved out of my cute Blueberry apartment days later; moved to the nightmare apartment on the Madison Avenue in New York city just last week, and I'm going to move back to NJ in 3 weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've come to realize this year is thrilling months ago, but didn't expect it to be so unsettling. I've tried hard to catch on to the wave of changes, but apparently I've gone too far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've thrown away lots of things from my previous apartment, in fact, 12 pieces of furniture and lamps, and other non-solid items. There are things disappearing into thin air during all these chaotic moveS (picked up by "innocent" bystanders ...). I am still living out of my 2 suitcases traveling with me to Taiwan and back to the US, first time in my life to realize people don't need too much to live on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will be the 7th time I move, in the little bit more than 8 years I've been here. Like being a foreigner for 8 years is not enough, there are always many uncertainties and "surprises" on the way. But it's ok, my home is in Taiwan, not any good or bad apartment I've been to here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115646155699698368?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115646155699698368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115646155699698368' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115646155699698368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115646155699698368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/08/move-move-move.html' title='move, move, move !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115630160223657238</id><published>2006-08-23T10:14:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:29:06.863+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>New York, New York</title><content type='html'>Flew back to the US on the 13th, in the peak time of "no liquid on board", when I am still wondering if I can put "flying 15 hours without cleansers and moisturizers" on my resume,  I've already moved to NYC just last week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was so relaxed and rested in Taiwan, that I couldn't even think and/or worry about my new student life in New York city. And soon, I've learned that this year is even funnier than I already thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The apartment, although it's on the corner of Madison Avenue and east 98th street, 1 block away from the Central Park, is a total nightmare. It's a third floor walk-up, with less than 3 meter in width (although it's a 2 bedroom-apt.), and tilted sloped floor (if you drop something, it will roll to the other side of the apartment), not to mention 5 long, office size windows facing my future lab., and oh, the emergency room entrance, the bus stop and the breakfast vendor who shows up before 3 am, also featuring rent-control neighbor who is gray haired yet lives with his parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, apparently the Mount Sinai housing people are better an advertiser than a housing provider; I was finally allowed to see my apartment after I signed the contract and started the lease; but I just moved in, didn't even bother to unpack, and decided to move out. But again, here comes another expertise of the Sinai housing people, they didn't even ask me any question and I can tell they are very good at accepting tenants' vacating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, as crazy as it sounds, I'm moving back to NJ. I thought I hate commuting, but I still underestimated my dislikeness of New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, and I thought this year is already very much fun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115630160223657238?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115630160223657238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115630160223657238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115630160223657238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115630160223657238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-york-new-york.html' title='New York, New York'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115427937099868059</id><published>2006-07-31T12:00:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:32:04.528+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>July 31</title><content type='html'>Time flies. Feel like in a blink, it's July 31, my 8th year anniversary of going to US. And this time it's also the first time in 8 year I spent my July 31 in Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like life itself, in a blink I'm 31, and look back, I don't know if I made right choices. I am who I am, and I am where I am. I can't change anything in the past, and I can't foresee anything in the future. I've always been a true to myself person, and I thank all my friends for letting me be who I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2006 has been very exciting, to a thrilling level. I am going back to school in a new place. Let's see, what life brings us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115427937099868059?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115427937099868059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115427937099868059' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115427937099868059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115427937099868059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-31.html' title='July 31'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115411771092783881</id><published>2006-07-29T03:58:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:30:41.754+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Sleeplessness in Taipei ~</title><content type='html'>Sleepless. Not because I can't, but because I don't want to. Not only because I'm counting down my vacation days at home, but also I feel I need to stay awake to think through things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While last year my biggest recreation and fun came from the panda webcams, this year is really ... thrilling. I think if life is like a giant amusement theme park, then I'm either at the roller coaster or the mirror house (or both ?). Maybe the first time in my life that things change faster than my planning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did try to sleep and let my dreams tell me. But my wishes and desires are so strong that they drive and cover everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sleep or not, I need to feel sober and clear, solid and strong.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115411771092783881?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115411771092783881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115411771092783881' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115411771092783881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115411771092783881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/07/sleeplessness-in-taipei.html' title='Sleeplessness in Taipei ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115299121875594580</id><published>2006-07-16T01:02:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:27:37.881+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>My Taiwan: part 2 (part 1 is in Chinese)</title><content type='html'>Coming back home in the summer, first time in 7 years; staying for so long, first time in ... as long as I became a forever traveler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 degree C. Summer in Taiwan is hot and humid, with occasional typhoons as surprises. Well, surprise may not be the correct word, since there is always too much forecasts than reality, but I guess it's better than the other way around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taiwan is a relatively small country, yet with oversized press, media amplifying every single thing happening on this island called "Formosa", "beautiful island" in Portuguese. Journalism is like any other thing in Taiwan, over-zealous, yet amazingly alive. Recently our president Chen and his fanily are investigated for scandals and corruptions; I think US president G. W. Bush will be very happy to know there is another president in the world with lower approving rate than him, and additional much higher impeaching rate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a way, Taiwan is somewhat strange yet familiar for me. It's like an automatic family that produces certain new members every certain time, but I don't know the new members so well. Older generations still work hard, when younger generations are still smart; but girls, boys are like their peers in our neighboring countries: Japan, Korea and China, only cares about making money to pursue brand names and cosmetic surgeries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taiwan is forever my home; after 8 years being in the States, I am truly amazed by how remarkable my home country, Taiwan, is.  I wish, it will forever be the best, and we all realize that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115299121875594580?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115299121875594580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115299121875594580' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115299121875594580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115299121875594580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-taiwan-part-2-part-1-is-in-chinese.html' title='My Taiwan: part 2 (part 1 is in Chinese)'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115101409408653912</id><published>2006-06-23T05:46:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:37:55.212+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Notes 雜記'/><title type='text'>slow down ~</title><content type='html'>I've never had so slow pace for my vacation back home. This first week I've visited the Chinese medicine doctor, Western medicine doctor, and tried Acupressure. Besides that, I've been to one of the night markets and one of my favorite hot pot restaurants in such warm weather.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if I exhausted myself too much in the first part of this year, I feel much tired and much easy to get tired; therefore I just try to rest and relax, restore and rejuvenate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in a way, my first "vacation" in 8 years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115101409408653912?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115101409408653912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115101409408653912' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115101409408653912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115101409408653912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/06/slow-down_22.html' title='slow down ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115094339010650846</id><published>2006-06-22T09:41:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:37:47.726+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Experience 我的經驗'/><title type='text'>doctors, doctors</title><content type='html'>3 minutes. In 3 minutes my doctor in Taiwan solved the "puzzle" that a bunch of Cornell doctors tried for 3 months.&lt;br /&gt;This famous doctor in Taiwan equipped with a sonogram machine right next to him in the exam room, and he personally did sonogram to every patient during the chekup; a procedure patients will need to negotiate with insurance companies and schedule the appointments by themselves in US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western medicine is practiced in a different way in Taiwan, due to insurances, due to people. But I think for all the patients everywhere, being treated and cured will always be the first priority.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115094339010650846?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115094339010650846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115094339010650846' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115094339010650846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115094339010650846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/06/doctors-doctors.html' title='doctors, doctors'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-115074420701414792</id><published>2006-06-20T02:57:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:23:48.033+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>back home again ~</title><content type='html'>After 4 months and 4 days, I'm on my way back home again.&lt;br /&gt;These 4 months are almost like a series of drama, many things happened, and everything happened so fast, that I can only do the best I can to go along with it; and once things happened, it will be never the same again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm glad I'm home to restore myself after these crazy 4 months, I need to find the balance and the peace within myself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-115074420701414792?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/115074420701414792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=115074420701414792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115074420701414792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/115074420701414792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/06/back-home-again.html' title='back home again ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114974596141698486</id><published>2006-06-08T13:49:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:21:25.040+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><title type='text'>吳姊姊的迴響！</title><content type='html'>之前有人問吳姊姊的書，目前皇冠重新出版整套「吳姊姊講歷史故事」，如果有興趣的人可以參考看看。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114974596141698486?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114974596141698486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114974596141698486' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114974596141698486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114974596141698486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post.html' title='吳姊姊的迴響！'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114966485268276863</id><published>2006-06-06T18:06:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:25:44.061+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>time for changes</title><content type='html'>I can't believe I didn't say anything in my blog for almost 3 months now. It has been chaotic and busy 3 months, lots of things happened, happening, and may happen.&lt;br /&gt;I've been sick and interviewed, suddenly everything is changing in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Be careful of what you wish for ~" is an old English saying; in a way it's true, after complaining about nothing ever changed for 3 years, now that everything needs to change at the same time and related to one and another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it's time for changes, will I be prepared and ready ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114966485268276863?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114966485268276863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114966485268276863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114966485268276863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114966485268276863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/06/time-for-changes.html' title='time for changes'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114247917161123238</id><published>2006-03-16T10:55:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:21:05.100+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>civilization &amp; barbarism, illness &amp; wellbeing ...</title><content type='html'>When I was in the senior high school, there were 4 of us very good friends, one of us immigrated to the US after one year in our school. I still remember that the rest, 3, of us were reading Pam's letters from US, Pam said that she was going to be more "civilized" to fit in in the US. We never really knew what did she mean by being "more civilized". I still don't know. Now that I myself have been in the US for almost 8 years, I still don't know what does that mean, it is more "civilized" here ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm recently being physically ill for a while, and the whole experience makes me wonder what is civilized. I am a biologist working at a top hospital; there might be the best, newest technologies in the US, but the whole health system makes none of these is public available or accessible. Any basic medical assistance needs to be considered if it is covered by the insurance policy. Patients need to do everything by themselves, check with the insurance companies, make all the appointments, get tests done and get medications ... and in between, there is lots of waiting time, basically, patients will be dead or cured before any meaningful and effective diagnoses and treatments arrived. Literally I've been culture-shock everyday by the barbaric civilization of the medical system in the US. I think it's beyond my imagination -ly brutal and barbaric, I can't imagine being seriously sick and being here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114247917161123238?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114247917161123238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114247917161123238' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114247917161123238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114247917161123238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/03/civilization-barbarism-illness.html' title='civilization &amp; barbarism, illness &amp; wellbeing ...'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114119190213465398</id><published>2006-03-01T13:26:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:20:13.297+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>三月 March</title><content type='html'>三月了。正在思考要不要大張旗鼓的宣傳一下我的月份。三月是好的，新的一年剛開始沒多久，春天又將到來，人們充滿希望。天氣依然在變化，但是是正向的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March. Not sure if I'm going to advertise "my month" again as usual, but I am reminding everyone : it's March, and it's my month. March is good, it's not too far away from the beginning of the year, and it's going to be spring soon, everyone is full of hopes. The weather is still changing, but it's going to be better.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114119190213465398?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114119190213465398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114119190213465398' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114119190213465398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114119190213465398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/03/march.html' title='三月 March'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114118014147663978</id><published>2006-03-01T10:10:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T18:51:56.112+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your entertainment 有趣的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><title type='text'>Calculating Time</title><content type='html'>Found an interesting website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html"&gt;http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One can calculate the exact time duration in between two dates. So, one can know how long he or sho has been on this planet, or how long he or she has been wasting time on something (and/or someone ?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found this website on the 2771 days of my being here in US, that equals to 7 years, 7 months and 1 day. Interesting combination. I guess everything happens for a reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what now ? It's time for ~ ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114118014147663978?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114118014147663978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114118014147663978' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114118014147663978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114118014147663978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/calculating-time_28.html' title='Calculating Time'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-114039014003431702</id><published>2006-02-20T02:53:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:16:53.976+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><title type='text'>吳姊姊講歷史故事</title><content type='html'>親愛的朋友，&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不知道您有沒有看過"吳姊姊講歷史故事"這套書？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我從小讀這套書長大，這幾年因緣際會認識了作者吳涵碧姊姊，&lt;br /&gt;吳姊姊希望我幫他收集一些讀者的迴響，&lt;br /&gt;所以您如果有唸過這套書，麻煩您留一句話作為迴響，&lt;br /&gt;直接寄給我就可以，我收集給吳姊姊，&lt;br /&gt;希望大小讀者跟我一起義務相助，讓這套平凡中見偉大的書長長久久！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;謝謝！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;馬嘉&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-114039014003431702?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/114039014003431702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=114039014003431702' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114039014003431702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/114039014003431702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post.html' title='吳姊姊講歷史故事'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113990844905551062</id><published>2006-02-14T16:38:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:16:01.411+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>又來到美國～</title><content type='html'>又再度來到美國。迎接我的是世紀大風雪。在西雅圖轉機時，長榮地勤是一問三不知，等到我又要重新登機時，才知道紐華克機場（紐約三大機場之一）關閉，有可能得在西雅圖過夜。當時心裡只擔心行李中冷凍冷藏的部分，從台北到西雅圖因為飛機又吵又滿完全沒睡的我，只想就轉頭飛回台北。後來雖然遲誤，依然在半夜一點半又到了冰雪滿地的紐澤西。後來知道，我傍晚六點二十剛上飛機，中正機場七點就大火；而我的航班如果早一點或是晚一點，都有可能進不了美東這個暴風雪之區。不知道算不算是幸運，不過真的也是很巧。&lt;br /&gt;又再度來到美國，每次的來回，好像生命的輪迴；在美國時，覺得之前在台灣的日子像是上輩子；又再度到了美國之後，覺得之前在美國的日子是上輩子。半夜想到電腦忘記關，起來關電腦時，發現大家都在MSN上，就心裡很納悶：怎麼大家都半夜不睡覺啊？還在想說是不是因為是情人節的原因，很久以後才恍然大悟！啊！台灣是白天啊！去年回美時，就被朋友說半個心沒回來，這次大概是整個心都沒回來。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113990844905551062?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113990844905551062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113990844905551062' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113990844905551062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113990844905551062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post_113990844905551062.html' title='又來到美國～'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113987191021742105</id><published>2006-02-14T06:56:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:15:35.252+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>back to us ...</title><content type='html'>Back to NJ, US. My flight was pretty eventful, in a sense. I left Taiwan CKS airport at 6:20 pm on Feb. 12 local time, then the airport was closed due to the biggest fire in 27 years for 3 hours since 7 pm. I learned how big the snow storm was and the Newark airport was closed at my stop in Seattle, re-entered my plane without knowing if we were going to fly out that day. Finally I made it to NJ, but it was already 1:30 am. The biggest fire and the biggest snow storm, what a day I chose to fly !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113987191021742105?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113987191021742105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113987191021742105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113987191021742105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113987191021742105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/back-to-us.html' title='back to us ...'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113986492627868287</id><published>2006-02-10T03:36:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:15:12.879+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food 食為天'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>the Chef behind the movie "eat, drink, men and women"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/mom,%20me%20&amp;%20chef.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/mom%2C%20me%20%26%20chef.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/dad%20&amp;%20chef%201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/dad%20%26%20chef%201.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/me%20&amp;%20chef%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/me%20%26%20chef%202.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real chef behind the movie "eat, drink, men and women" is my dad's friend, and Chef Chang is also the chef for the President in Taiwan. We had dinner at one of his restaurant today, it was absolutely delicious ! His cooking style actually fuses solid traditional Chinese cooking trainings and all sorts of international flvors together, just like Taiwan, blened well with old traditions and new cultures. As the pictures of food that day ... well, once the food was on the table, everyone was busy eating, espcially me; I realized that I should have taken pictures much later after we ate and packed some extra food as gifts from the chef.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113986492627868287?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113986492627868287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113986492627868287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113986492627868287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113986492627868287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/chef-behind-movie-eat-drink-men-and.html' title='the Chef behind the movie &quot;eat, drink, men and women&quot;'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113915626525823862</id><published>2006-02-06T00:04:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:14:46.392+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Taipei 101</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/dad%20&amp;%20me%202.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/dad%20%26%20me%202.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world. It's simply too tall so you can see it almost from every corner in Taipei. It has light shows, this one on it shows 2006 and the word "Spring" in Chinese, which symbolizes the Chinese New Year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113915626525823862?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113915626525823862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113915626525823862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113915626525823862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113915626525823862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/taipei-101.html' title='Taipei 101'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113908155930102757</id><published>2006-02-05T03:06:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:14:21.526+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Bus in Taipei</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/Taipei%20Bus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/Taipei%20Bus.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the time I take subways and my dad's car to travel around in Taipei, but I was going somewhere only the bus can reach the other day, so I took the chance to take the bus and found that there are LCD TVs in the bus ! Actually, for the long distance-cross cities buses, most of them are equipped with large individual arm-chairs with personal TV which you can watch TV or play games. oh, and they provide water and snacks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113908155930102757?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113908155930102757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113908155930102757' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113908155930102757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113908155930102757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/bus-in-taipei.html' title='Bus in Taipei'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113907873545888388</id><published>2006-02-05T02:04:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:13:50.178+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends 友'/><title type='text'>my godsons and their moms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/Mei&amp;Ruth2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/Mei%26Ruth2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From left to right, Mei, Mei's second son (my first godson), Ruth, and Ruth's first son (my second godson). Both Mei and Ruth are my college classmates.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113907873545888388?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113907873545888388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113907873545888388' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113907873545888388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113907873545888388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/my-godsons-and-their-moms.html' title='my godsons and their moms'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113907179062764795</id><published>2006-02-05T00:11:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:13:27.873+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends 友'/><title type='text'>The College Reunion 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/P1280689.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/P1280689.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/P1280637.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/P1280637.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been 9 years after our college graduation, and thanks to Mei, we still get together from time to time and more and more "affiliated" alumni join us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113907179062764795?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113907179062764795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113907179062764795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113907179062764795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113907179062764795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/college-reunion-2006.html' title='The College Reunion 2006'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113890845514127915</id><published>2006-02-03T03:12:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:25:09.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>The MaJong game during the Chinese New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/MJ-1-012906.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/MJ-1-012906.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chinese New Year is all about family reunion, eating and ... gambling. Every year, this is the only time I get to play the MaJong game with my grandmoms and the rest of the family. So, once I get to refresh my skills of it, then I'm on my way back to US. Actually I can only say I know a bit more than half of the whole game, I can play, but my grandmoms do the counting and calculation parts so fast that I never get to learn it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113890845514127915?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113890845514127915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113890845514127915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113890845514127915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113890845514127915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/02/majong-game-during-chinese-new-year.html' title='The MaJong game during the Chinese New Year'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113851785579627359</id><published>2006-01-29T14:48:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:24:28.725+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>Chinese New Year !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ChineseNewYear"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/ChineseNewYear%27sEveDinner012806-1.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ChineseNewYear"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/ChineseNewYear%27sEveDinner012805-2.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Chinese New Year !&lt;br /&gt;This year, grandmoms, dad, mom, me, my uncle, my cousin Jimmy, and my godfather's family celebrated the Chinese New Year together. It was much fun to have 11 persons on the table all together with lots of traditional food. &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ChineseNewYear"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Everyone ate a lot, drank a lot, and had a lot of fun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113851785579627359?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113851785579627359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113851785579627359' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113851785579627359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113851785579627359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/chinese-new-year.html' title='Chinese New Year !'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113838840452558552</id><published>2006-01-28T02:42:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:24:03.446+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>uncle is back, too ~</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/PICT0011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/PICT0011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My uncle is back from Canada, too, for the Chinese New Year. He arrived on Sunday, so my mom had a home dinner hot pot party for him and my cousin, Jimmy.&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, I nearly passed out due to my jetlag and busy schedule after taking this one picture. I even didn't get to the point to eat my dinner that day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113838840452558552?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113838840452558552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113838840452558552' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113838840452558552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113838840452558552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/uncle-is-back-too.html' title='uncle is back, too ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113829244856850558</id><published>2006-01-26T23:25:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:23:11.958+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family 家'/><title type='text'>first dinner ~</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/PICT0003.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/PICT0003.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I know, I know, I've said that I'll try very hard to post my updates on the blog ... I've been so busy in my vacation, it's almost been more hectic than my normal working life ...&lt;br /&gt;and so many unexpected things happened, like my card reader doesn't work ... anyway, finally I've put several things together to share with you some of my time here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some pictures of my first dinner in Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Jeromy's mom and my mom&lt;br /&gt;2. Dad is talking about something excitedly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/PICT0005.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/PICT0005.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113829244856850558?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113829244856850558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113829244856850558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113829244856850558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113829244856850558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/first-dinner.html' title='first dinner ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113785674006274748</id><published>2006-01-21T22:52:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:10:43.572+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taipei 台北'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>Taipei, Taiwan</title><content type='html'>I'm in Taipei, Taiwan now, safe and sound.&lt;br /&gt;The trip started with me, myself and my forever tonsil inflammation, so I equipped with all different kinds of possible over the counter medications and relievers: tablets, cough syrup, cough drops, even local anesthetic strips and throat patches. During my 19hr flight, I just tried to fileter myself with water and vitamins, amazingly I feel much better after the flight(not a common thing to say after a 19hr flight ...).&lt;br /&gt;And since my arrival, it's always a busy schedule with my "vacation", busy meeting people and busy eating. Taipei is just the way I remember for winter -- rainy and cloudy, the only thing different is that I don't feel the cold any more here after being trained all these years in US.&lt;br /&gt;Just want to report my arrival and I think I really need to go my bed now since I've not been in a bed for days ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113785674006274748?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113785674006274748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113785674006274748' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113785674006274748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113785674006274748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/taipei-taiwan_21.html' title='Taipei, Taiwan'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113643175092247002</id><published>2006-01-05T22:25:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:09:21.188+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>紐約的髒亂</title><content type='html'>紐約市是我去過最髒亂的地方。要是紐約市的緯度比現在低一點，大概是個瘟疫滿佈的地方。&lt;br /&gt;當紐約人的第一步就是必須不怕髒，必須視而不見一切，而可以到處都能坐臥跑跳，擺放東西。&lt;br /&gt;去紐約玩一下或許可以，或是如果閣下進出都是豪華加長大禮車也罷（不過總要下車吧？），如我每天使用地鐵公車的通勤一族，總是看到紐約真實的一面。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;滿地早已被採的黑黑的口香糖不說，我每天還要小心地面上剛被吐出還冒著熱氣的痰，還有空中飛翔的鴿子。真的看過鴿子群起飛舞的，就知道真的不像在電視電影上看的浪漫。地鐵的軌道像是垃圾場，每天都看到等車時對著軌道清喉嚨清鼻子的紐約客，上車後更是很多人清理口袋背包裡垃圾的時候，直接丟在車裡，反正車廂是每天用漂白水清洗的。就是因為用漂白水清洗，唸生物的可能知道我說的味道，所以整個地鐵瀰漫著被漂白水漂過的細胞死亡味。不過這已經算是地鐵裡的好味道了，隨著列車進場時颳起的風中夾雜的尿臊味才是更糟，不過我發現紐約客依然一副無動於衷的樣子，總是一付很驕傲於紐約市的樣子。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;紐約客更是無視於地面的各種情況，等著過馬路時，通常都是把隨身物品放在電線桿啦等號誌下，就是那種狗狗尿尿最髒的地方。然後你就看我一臉快昏倒的樣子，可是人家紐約客綠燈一亮又把東西貼身背著就走啦。不是每個人都能進公用女廁（比如說你是男的或是發誓不用公用廁所的人），我這通勤一族有時當然得硬著頭皮用，就看紐約名媛淑女一身名牌的進來，什麼名貴的包包都可以直接放在公廁的地上，什麼皮毛大衣還可以就搭在上面（也就是一半也在公廁地上），然後也是我不知道要驚訝於公廁的髒還是他們的勇敢下，紐約淑女又把衣物貼身穿戴上又走啦！這件事我跟非美國的外國朋友討論過，果然大家都對這件事很想不清楚。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我有沒有在街上看過老鼠？有，很多次，大的小的BABY的都看過，公園裡，路上，地鐵月台，地鐵鐵軌上都看過！有一次火車坐錯在紐華克（NEWARK，沒錯這是紐澤西）轉車，看到鐵軌理無數的小生物跑來跑去，我原本以為是蟑螂（因為數目很多又很小），後來仔細一看才知道全是老鼠！近來紐約除了鼠患外，還有臭蟲，不過當然啦，紐約客說這都是因為"第三世界"的移民帶來的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不知道是第幾世界來的我，是沒看過更髒亂的地方就是了。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113643175092247002?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113643175092247002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113643175092247002' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113643175092247002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113643175092247002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-post_05.html' title='紐約的髒亂'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113635572182057872</id><published>2006-01-04T13:32:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:02:17.683+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>布希總統跟美國人的地理</title><content type='html'>平常除了自家方圓百哩外一概不知的美國人，最近把地理從伊拉克延伸到伊朗。當然啦，不是因為伊拉克念熟了，隨便抓個美國人問問：伊拉克是屬於哪一洲？絕對大部分都答不出來的。這就是為什麼前年底發生在印度洋的南亞大海嘯時，每個美國友人都很擔心遠在太平洋的我 ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;布希總統跟美國媒體突然關心起伊朗，其實是為了如果要打伊朗而鋪路。基本上，美國雖然不是"我的一票投總統"，但是真的選出了一個非常代表美國大眾（幾使只多一個不到的百分點，也是大眾）的布希總統。布希總統每天跟我們陳水扁總統一樣很忙的把一些東西妖魔化，布希總統每天告訴他轄下神的子民：外面有多恐怖，只要踏出美國，就都是不文明的地方；世界上跟蝙蝠俠蜘蛛人漫畫一樣只有兩種人：美國人跟恐怖份子，每個美國人就好像額頭上刺了個會發亮的美國國旗一樣，走到哪都有恐怖份子虎視眈眈 ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;美國的新聞通常是這樣播的：先播地域性的，就佔了大概九成的新聞時間；比如說我在紐澤西，新聞就會把紐澤西紐約的新聞播一播，了不起談點康州跟賓州；誰家門口的聖誕節裝飾被偷都比什麼中國發神州，南韓實驗造假，德國溜冰場倒塌重要；然後主播就會說我們現在來看看紐澤西紐約以外的地方，然後就會看到電視以幾近跑馬燈速度把美國其他各州的大新聞跟世界各國更大的新聞混在一起一次報導，剩下的時間還要報通常不太準的氣象，以及最最重要的新聞＿體育新聞，體育新聞中包含的其他各州絕對比一般新聞多多了。而且國際新聞中最重要的就是那個在伊拉克傷亡的軍官士兵是紐約紐澤西人，然後新聞就把他老家照照。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;然後美國人就很高興了，今天他們伸張了正義還學了地理。伊朗總統的名字很長很難念，如果美國真的把地理課延伸到伊朗，以布希總統演說時記人名地名的情況，大概是唯一笑得出來的笑話。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113635572182057872?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113635572182057872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113635572182057872' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113635572182057872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113635572182057872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-post_04.html' title='布希總統跟美國人的地理'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113616389607789761</id><published>2006-01-02T08:08:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:05:52.493+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>新年快樂！2006</title><content type='html'>新的一年。當中國人的好處之一是，我們有兩個新年，所以有兩次自新的機會。&lt;br /&gt;小時候（哇，我可以懷舊了～），想說那我西元2000年結婚好了，因為那時我25歲，好像差不多。結果就跟大家當時都擔心的Y2K一樣，什麼也沒發生。後來擔心進入2005時會不會因為變成30歲而昏到，也並沒有，反而覺得如入無罣礙之地。結果2006，31歲，居然覺得更好，似乎更能駕馭「熟女」的自如。或者只是我一直都蠻阿Q的。？&lt;br /&gt;新年新希望是：Be Happy, Be Healthy ! 因為這真的最重要，而且絕對比聽起來有點陳腔濫調的難做。我希望，每天都充實快樂，做我真正心之嚮往！&lt;br /&gt;希望大家也有一個自己想要的新的一年！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113616389607789761?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113616389607789761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113616389607789761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113616389607789761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113616389607789761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2006/01/2006.html' title='新年快樂！2006'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113592370605077532</id><published>2005-12-30T14:08:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:57:46.929+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals 動物'/><title type='text'>Toga, the kidnapped baby penguin ~</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/r3080717392.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/r3080717392.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/r4115894412.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/200/r4115894412.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh, the baby South African Jackass Penguin, Toga, is stolen from a zoo in UK !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazonworld.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.amazonworld.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officials have raised the reward of finding Toga to £31,000.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the pictures: Toga's parents, Oscar and Kyala(up), Toga(down).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toga, where are you ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113592370605077532?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113592370605077532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113592370605077532' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113592370605077532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113592370605077532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/12/toga-kidnapped-baby-penguin.html' title='Toga, the kidnapped baby penguin ~'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113289696417170223</id><published>2005-11-25T13:28:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:36:32.137+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Notes 雜記'/><title type='text'>being sick ... again</title><content type='html'>The dates are uncanny. I was sick exactly a month ago, and now, I'm having my maybe-flu-maybe-cold routine again. So much for the flu shot that I gave it a try for the very first time this year. Well, it's more like a flu last time and more like a cold this time.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway. I hate dry and cold weather. Why do people even live in colder and dryer places ?&lt;br /&gt;There are double layers windows here and there are double-double layers(4 layers) windows in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;I miss hot and humid !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113289696417170223?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113289696417170223/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113289696417170223' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113289696417170223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113289696417170223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/11/being-sick-again.html' title='being sick ... again'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113289580729503962</id><published>2005-11-25T12:58:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:57:25.328+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals 動物'/><title type='text'>表嫂救的小狗</title><content type='html'>表嫂來信。原來好心又熱心的她救了一隻狗，希望找到善心人士收養這隻殘而不廢的乖狗狗。&lt;br /&gt;我幫他POST一下，請大家告訴大家，謝謝。&lt;br /&gt;Name:秀秀 XiouXiou&lt;br /&gt;Breed:台灣混種土狗 Mix&lt;br /&gt;Location:台北 Taipei&lt;br /&gt;Age:兩歲 2 years old&lt;br /&gt;Gender:母 female&lt;br /&gt;Description:&lt;br /&gt;秀秀是在芝山捷運站附近被民眾拾獲並送到動物之家。據民眾描述，秀秀已在路上呻吟好幾天，她攤在地上好幾天沒有進食、喝水，身上留著被車輾過的血跡，下半身混著血、尿的臭味、尾巴也壞死了。原本以為她無法承受這樣的痛苦，但一天又一天她展現了堅強的求生意志，在醫院住了將近20天的她，恢復了原本活潑、堅強的個性，即使她必須倚靠輪椅的輔助，才能自在走動，但樂觀的她好像什麼事都沒發生。秀秀很愛乾淨，不亂吠叫。她唯一需要的是有一個愛她的家庭，有個空間可以讓她帶著輪椅運動。期待你的愛給秀秀永遠的溫暖，請給她一個機會，相信你也會感染到秀秀的活力及堅毅的生命力。&lt;br /&gt;XiouXiou was rescued from the animal shelter thin, weak, and paralyzed after being hit by a car three days earlier. But her eyes were shining, showing the strong will that we all know and love her for. Although she cannot use her back legs, she loves to scoot around and explore her surroundings. She is full of life and refuses to give in to her condition. XiouXiou needs a wheelchair to get around and a little more care and attention than other dogs, but we think she deserves it. Her strong will and shining eyes will win you over, and she is guaranteed to make you appreciate life a little more. Please consider giving her the loving home she so deserves. &lt;br /&gt;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;宋小姐 sherry.sung@msa.hinet.net&lt;br /&gt;Date:&lt;br /&gt;11月16日&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113289580729503962?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113289580729503962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113289580729503962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113289580729503962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113289580729503962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post_24.html' title='表嫂救的小狗'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113244415302990500</id><published>2005-11-20T07:47:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:58:45.445+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taiwan 台灣'/><title type='text'>我的台灣之一</title><content type='html'>連上新聞網站，一則吃百萬松露的新聞就跟老人兜售車票賺取微薄差價的消息放在一起；打開報紙，一邊是名牌衣飾動輒數十數百萬評論還直稱划算，一邊是又有人為了數千數萬元全家自盡。&lt;br /&gt;這是很奇怪的，詭異的感覺需要大腦去調控才能平衡，五味雜陳是低估了，還沒分析完所有的感覺，生的氣也不知道有沒有用。&lt;br /&gt;沒錯，這是一個民主自由資本主義的社會，大家各憑本事各取所需，應該是公平競爭的，但是一段時間了，台灣的標準跟準則我越看越不懂。&lt;br /&gt;回家時，打開電視，從新聞到娛樂節目我都很疑惑，連SNG出人們的直接反應我都很驚訝。但是，不是我變了，這些年自己在美國，沒錯，因為沒有adult supervision，完全自己發展，個性中原有的一部份更被加強，但是我還是我，記憶中的台灣不是這樣的。&lt;br /&gt;就像記憶中台灣是可以說錢淹腳目的，現在也只是記憶中。&lt;br /&gt;其實我不該驚訝的，如果女星未婚生子、鑽戒值多少、胸部是不是真的的新聞，都可以蓋過台灣政治官員上行下效的貪污腐敗濫用權力早就該下台百萬次的重要性時，大家也都覺得沒問題的時候，我這流落在外的台灣人又能說什麼呢？&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113244415302990500?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113244415302990500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113244415302990500' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113244415302990500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113244415302990500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post.html' title='我的台灣之一'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113194651964720584</id><published>2005-11-14T13:05:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:56:54.458+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music 音樂'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>Enigma and all the past time</title><content type='html'>Listen to the music of Enigma. "To return to Innocence", actually the voice of Taiwan, the song of the aborigines, but still, no one knows it's from Taiwan, besides the people in Taiwan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a while that I'm "re-listening" my old CDs; it's a strange feeling, to look back and pick up something I once obsessed about, like I bought some DVDs earlier this year for my old time favorites collections; it's like reading an old diary of myself, I couldn't even recognize my own hand writing, and amazed about "oh, I once know that ?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess being 30 years old gives myself some history to be "discovered" again, by myself. Looking back, every period of time, I have my zealous favorites to enjoy alone or share with friends, chapter by chapter, and as daily life progresses and time goes, each chapter closes or opens, and integrates into life, my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Re-open an old chapter also brought up the linkage of past time, which I can't believe it's already past, and long ago. I guess in a way, I change, since my chapters keep on changing, but, in another way, I don't change, because once I look back, I'm still the same person, shockingly the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes you feel time has pushed you in the back, or dragged you in the front; but sometimes like this, you feel time just filters you through and passes, and you, are still there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113194651964720584?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113194651964720584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113194651964720584' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113194651964720584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113194651964720584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/11/enigma-and-all-past-time.html' title='Enigma and all the past time'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113071109600977442</id><published>2005-10-31T06:04:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:56:10.787+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>消失的1小時</title><content type='html'>今天有25小時。夏令時間結束，恢復到真正的時間，其實是跟台灣差13個小時的。時鐘在星期天凌晨2時要往回撥1小時，所以兩點又突然是一點了，實際上是多了一個小時，但是感覺上是一個小時消失了，時間蒸發。突然間，今天的時間寬裕很多，因為那奇怪的一小時。其實我想，夏令冬令時間的執行，有一個其他的意義：今天是25小時，所以當然是夏天開始時有一個23小時的一天；那天突然時間很匆促，一下就往前了一個小時。但是那是表示夏天開始了，所以並不會太介意吧。今天雖然多了一小時，但是是冬天的開始了；北美東北部的冬天除了下大雪時被困在家裡放暴風雪假那幾個小時的悠閒，（之前要準備之後要挖車），並不是好玩的。日照時間很短，大部分的上班族都是頂著黑夜出門，頂著黑夜回家；冷，乾，所有的東西都像永凍層中的展示品，隔著一層薄冰。鄉下的紐澤西一片死寂，都市的紐約一片蕭瑟。所有的東西只有灰黑枯黃或冰凍的死白。所以我想25小時的今天是冬天來臨前最後一個treat吧。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113071109600977442?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113071109600977442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113071109600977442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113071109600977442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113071109600977442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/10/1.html' title='消失的1小時'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113029738978378977</id><published>2005-10-26T11:18:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T04:36:20.597+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Notes 雜記'/><title type='text'>being sick</title><content type='html'>It's been almost 2 years now that I've not been so sick. Although it's just my forever always sore throat+fever routine. Still, any illness/sickness makes you worship health and wellbeing.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I've been complaining too much, so my throat tries to tell me to stop. And the fever may erase some not so good memories ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully it's not the bird flu. Wait, if I pass the flu on to my birds, does that mean then they'll have the bird flu ? It's really confusing ... but I guess here goes my scheduled flu shot ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113029738978378977?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113029738978378977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113029738978378977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113029738978378977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113029738978378977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/10/being-sick.html' title='being sick'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-113021835460033144</id><published>2005-10-25T13:20:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:55:28.135+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>冰箱</title><content type='html'>我想，冰箱是一個很能表現出一個人真實一面的地方，打開一個人的冰箱，可以看見這個人，以及這個人現在的生活狀況。Bridget Jones' Diary 這部電影裡，有一幕要表示單身女郎狂吃洩憤的情境，只見女主角翻冰箱倒櫥櫃，能吃的都吃了。我卻只深深記得他打開冰箱時，空空如也只有一塊發霉的乳酪。有時候，從人的想望中，更能看到一個人。你的冰箱有什麼呢？&lt;br /&gt;我這又要冬天，今天紐澤西有下雪的地方了。今年雪來得早，我得塞塞我的冰箱。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-113021835460033144?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/113021835460033144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=113021835460033144' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113021835460033144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/113021835460033144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/10/blog-post_25.html' title='冰箱'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112884893666742682</id><published>2005-10-09T16:51:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:54:54.244+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I think 我想的'/><title type='text'>雨天</title><content type='html'>這幾天台灣下雨，我這也是。算是很大的雨了，這裡四季分明，大概因為會下雪吧，大雨的機會不多，每次氣象預報說的振振有詞的所謂豪大雨，我都心想真是沒見過下雨是吧？不過這兩天的雨真是不小，也好，下大雪的機會少些。&lt;br /&gt;不知道是不是因為小時候被鞦韆打到過頭的緣故，我總是記不住人臉，對於背景的一切卻是歷歷在目。我記得所有時刻中的天氣，當時的溫度，光線，空氣的味道和風的速度；就好像我是拍戲時的場記，每一部電影對我的連接都是背景。大雨連結了我對台北的記憶；灰濛濛的天空加上下雨的不便，小小一段撐著傘到車的過程，恍然間我似乎是那個穿著制服背著書包要趕去學校的學生，在台北的又一個雨天裡，記得制服的裙襬因為雨濕而不知是冷是熱，混雜著木頭課桌椅搭著雨傘的味道，教室裡打亮的白色日光燈管，大家茫然的準備又一個晨間小考，而雨天的濕冷，讓人不知季節，雨天的灰濛，讓人不知晨昏。下雨總是給我一種時光錯亂的感覺，因此而感到有些恐懼；變天般的大雨彷彿時光隧道，擔心雨停後發現自己身在另一個時空；雷陣雨可以像是世界末日的前後，而我，總是想像自己是提劍而行的戰士，即將出征，因而擔心自己準備好了嗎？&lt;br /&gt;就這樣，任何剎那的場景都會令我駐足，我抬頭，很疑惑，不知身在何處。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112884893666742682?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112884893666742682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112884893666742682' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112884893666742682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112884893666742682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/10/blog-post_09.html' title='雨天'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112768557548578766</id><published>2005-09-26T05:56:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:49:02.949+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skin Deep 花想容'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><title type='text'>花想容</title><content type='html'>最近有皮膚科醫師翻譯了Paula Begoun 的美容聖經一書（The Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty）。&lt;br /&gt;使得被點名的天價品牌不停的解釋我為什麼這麼貴。不過也不過一個月，就跟其他在台灣任何不公不義不平不法的事一樣，沒事。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;其實我一直都想不通啊，台灣的薪水所得比美國低，可是全世界的名牌或不是名牌的所謂名牌，都來小小的台灣爭取市場（都來崇尚名牌的東亞搶市場），不論限量、預購、限定版、紀念版，都可以被搶購一空。相對的來說，美國的薪水所得比較高，生活費也都不比台灣貴多少，排隊搶名牌沒見過，排隊搶便宜打折減價貨倒是每年都還有人因此受傷。打開台灣的報紙，一邊在介紹所謂的精品名牌貨，一個動輒上萬的鑰匙圈，附註的評論是很划算；但是報紙的另一頭，可能又有一對夫妻帶著孩子為了同樣的金額自盡。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;嗯，扯遠了。不過我提這本書，是因為我也有話要說。&lt;br /&gt;首先先聲明，我沒有用過這些天價品，也沒有去研究他的製程或成分，因為我覺得這樣離譜的價位，實在也不需要去研究了。整型手術應該還是最有效的美容方法，一個比整型手術都貴的保養品，應該是不合理的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我之前在嬌生Johnson &amp; Johnson 的消費者產品公司Consumer Products Company工作過，我所在的組是Pre-clinical Pharmacology，因為隸屬於Skin Biology group 之下，所以我們做的前臨床研究當然都是針對皮膚，說穿了，就是研究化妝保養品啦！嬌生旗下其實有不少的化妝保養品公司，包括嬌生古早以來的嬰幼兒用品，可伶可俐Clean &amp;amp; Clear，露得清Neutrogena，還有台灣沒上市的Aveeno和ROC等產品。實際上，化妝保養品的世界，牌子很多，但是其實都是屬於幾個大集團，像是美商的嬌生，寶橋，雅詩蘭黛集團，或是法國的歐萊雅集團，還有Coty, LVMH等。我剛說的這些集團大概就包括了市場上八成的牌子。這些大集團四處買一些牌子或公司，收入旗下後，這些公司跟牌子也是可能有一部份自己原有的研究團隊仍然運作，但是集團手下的各公司是互通有無的。好，說清楚些，像是我之前的工作，這個組不屬於嬌生手下任何一個牌子，但是我們做的東西如果任何一個集團中的牌子有興趣，都會來跟我們「買」；同時，如果有一個好的成分出現，所有集團中的牌子也都會試著運用在自己的產品中。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;天價，高價，任何價的產品，都喜歡強調自己的產品是經過千錘百鍊、測試過上百上千種成分，最新科技加上古老智慧加上獨家特殊配方，集日月之精華、人文之薈萃 … 嗯，好，你知道我的意思啦～ 那我之前的工作不是就像在鍊仙丹一樣了嗎？連我現在的工作，癌症研究都不是這樣，皮膚保養的研究當然也不是那樣。我當時的工作，就是做細胞實驗測試各種成分，看看這個成分是不是有我們要的效果。我半年測試了兩三百種成分，但是因為我做太快，所以後來變成沒什麼新東西給我測。這些成分，有天然萃取物，也有化學合成物，產自世界各地；有些是跟原料公司、實驗室買，有些是自己找公司合成，當然，也有些是因為熱心的同事在蜜月旅行中，遠從地球的另一端帶回來的當地獨家產物（這樣不知有沒有算是極盡心血之作，或是他老婆應該發飆）。然後就由我們組做各式各樣的實驗，有可能有用的就會被轉到其他組做其他的實驗。如果好不容易，有一個成分有效，公司就會重金把這個成分的專利權買下，這樣就等於是獨佔了。然後，因為專利金這些東西很貴，公司會在專利期限內一直用、死命用、拼命用、濫用這個成分；像是那時嬌生剛專利了一個成分，之後我們每天都在試著把這個加到這個舊產品試試看、那個舊產品試試看，然後又是一個新產品。我同事說，他再聽到那個成分的名字都想吐。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有的有效成分是很貴，而且可能全球就一家公司，一個地方有。可是，每個公司都是做生意的，有成本等考量，絕對不是上窮碧落下黃泉的只要有效都買來用在產品內。以實驗來說，只有兩種公司，一種是做動物實驗，一種是不做。不做的那個也只是把別人發表在期刊中以動物實驗證實的成分直接拿來用罷了，然後最終產物不經任何動物實驗（因此是無法得知其安全性及有效性）。這行也是有期刊的，所以成分跟製程的獨特處，不是天價公司的公關經理說說就是的。尤其我不瞭解的是，依照天價公司的說法，他們經過十二年的努力，終於開發出這唯一的天價產品，然後銷售至今。我的腦海中，不禁浮現這樣的畫面：一群科學家窮畢生之力創造出這一且唯一的仙丹，然後至此公司就把他們給開除，因為就從此就賣這仙丹，可以完全關閉研究部門了。嗯～不知道那些科學家現在在幹嘛。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這是美容聖經原作者的網站：&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cosmeticscop.com/&lt;a href="http://www.cosmeticscop.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112768557548578766?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112768557548578766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112768557548578766' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112768557548578766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112768557548578766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/09/blog-post_25.html' title='花想容'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112649416206938300</id><published>2005-09-12T10:43:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:47:52.077+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movies 電影'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><title type='text'>李安與無間道</title><content type='html'>李安 Ang Lee 又得獎了，我覺得很高興。&lt;br /&gt;說實話，多年前，一開始會去特別注意李安的電影，主要是因為我很好奇為什麼很多外國朋友對他的電影念茲在茲，稱讚又難忘，而且不管他的電影名稱幾乎都是中文直譯，依然可以朗朗上口。&lt;br /&gt;我因此看了一些他的電影，包括冰風暴(The Ice Storm)。 李安的電影，平實自然，真切的讓人會心一笑。很多電影只求廣度，李安本人的素養和氣質，讓他的電影很有深度。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;記得我是在美國看的「臥虎藏龍（Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon）」。我直到進場時，都很納悶怎麼用英文演武俠小說？喔，對了，還有一個紀錄，這是我第一也唯一一次在美國買了票進場發現沒有位子了，原來觀眾太多，工作人員因此臨時進來說再開一個廳，結果兩邊都擠到滿。我還記得，電影一開始，第一幕是楊紫瓊和周潤發坐在一個中式客廳，兩人一放下蓋碗茶，就開始說中文，國語。我當時因為沒在吃飯，所以沒噴飯，有沒有噴爆米花就不記得了。我一方面想，哇，真酷，直接講國語（尤其對照我之前的疑惑）；一方面，因為一個大馬姑娘和一個香港小生一臉正經的說著濃濃廣東音的國語 ... 一本正經的喔！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;幾年後，我也在美國看了張藝謀的 「英雄」。當然，臥虎藏龍也有竹林飛來飛去一戰，英雄則是每一幕大家一起換一個顏色；跟「大紅燈龍高高掛」耍典型中國印象而英雄則是耍所有的所謂東亞元素一樣，這跟紐約市SOHO區著名的珠江百貨沒什麼差別，沒錯，好處是有點宣揚中華文化--至少是典型印象那一部份，但是都好像是為了唬唬老外，賺賺外差。李安的竹林是因為他多年對武俠小說的夢想，不是因為為了耍酷而弄給別人看的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;就像香港電影「無間道」，匯集了 香港電影中向來特有的黑道/警察文化，它沒有去拍一部美式好萊塢或是歐洲文藝片，也沒有為了得獎或什麼去刻意強調或煽動，就是認真、自我的拍出一部香港電影 。所以，我想，一個人，只要忠於自己，忠於自己真正的夢想，忠於自己真正的天賦跟喜好，都是可以發光發亮，進而照耀別人的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;另外，台灣一天到晚說要走出去。 我在美國看半天，也只有李安跟近來的王建民能讓媒體左一句台灣來的右一句台灣的。幾乎每個看過「飲食男女（Eat, Drink, Men and Women）」的外國朋友，都問我：台灣的食物真的是這樣嗎？每次我回答YES時那些老外的表情，好像此生有缺憾一般，然後都會由衷說一句：喔，我真想去台灣！ 我從來不能想像對一個不是自己的國家這樣的想望，但是李安的電影辦到了。忠於自己，忠於自己的一切。李安向來打著我來自台灣的旗幟，卻也不是刻意證明什麼，不需要去爭辯誰是台客，什麼是台客，台客是什麼意思，他自然的展現自己，展現台灣對他這個人的刻畫，別人自然也能尊重。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;喔，順便介紹一個網站：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/"&gt;http://www.imdb.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;對查電影電視的資料很不錯。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112649416206938300?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112649416206938300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112649416206938300' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112649416206938300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112649416206938300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/09/blog-post_11.html' title='李安與無間道'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112606867144169240</id><published>2005-09-07T12:35:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T18:52:19.492+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='For your information 有用的'/><title type='text'>Blog</title><content type='html'>I finally started to blog, and finally started to spread around the news that I'm blogging.&lt;br /&gt;Got pretty many feedbacks emails; wow~ guess I better keep working on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is rather confusing though, since I start both my webblog and my MSN space around the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My webblog is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://chiama.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://chiama.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;, which I don't know if I have chosen the best server and interface, but I guess it's a start.&lt;br /&gt;I'll write most of it on this one, and I'll try to write in both Chinese and English, so all my friends will get equal share of annoying from me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I also use MSN messenger and MSN space,&lt;br /&gt;the email address I use for it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:podzorova@hotmail.com"&gt;podzorova@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and this is my MSN space:&lt;a href="http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/marciachiama/"&gt;http://spaces.msn.com/members/marciachiama/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;, which I'll use it more for links and photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112606867144169240?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112606867144169240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112606867144169240' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112606867144169240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112606867144169240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/09/blog.html' title='Blog'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112595804652230373</id><published>2005-09-06T05:45:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:45:25.069+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>颶風和淹水的美國</title><content type='html'>新聞就不用我說了，大家都看到紐澳良在KATRINA都沒直接撲上的情況下就成了明天過後。&lt;br /&gt;檢討也不用我說了，我檢討也沒有用。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不過有兩點事情我想說一說。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第一是，很多人對這件災害本身的驚訝度可能不及因為它是發生在美國那樣的令人掉下巴。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;美國自己的參眾議員、軍警部隊、新聞媒體、甚至受災民眾，自己也說些這種事以為只會在「第三世界」才看的到的破爛。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;是的，美國還是一個很喜歡用「第三世界」這種字眼的國家，這個定義不明，充滿歧視，不知所云的詞，用在很多一輩子只活在自家方圓一百哩內，以為其他所有國家都是in the millde of the pacific ocean的老美口中，我實在不知要說什麼，大概因為美國人真的地理太爛，所以很需要這樣一個詞吧。然而，在美國七年，在所謂的世界之都--紐約工作兩年，在認識一堆各式各樣種族國籍的人後，我知道這世界上有好有不好的國家社會，但是，誰去定義誰是第幾世界？如果美國是第一世界，那也太讓人失望了吧！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在學校時，我這喜歡收集垃圾郵件的人在保健室拿了一堆保健資料，其中有有關出國旅遊的注意事項。手冊中叫學生打一堆預防針（美國人自認是非疫區，所以小朋友打的預防針比我們少。），還要帶一堆防止上吐下瀉的藥之類的，最好到了當地什麼都買美國出口貨，當地的食物最好都要小心云云。反正是你看了直覺只要踏出這個國家，到處都是不文明不衛生的，到處都是「第三世界」。是的，學校的手冊都直接用這個詞用了八百遍。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這次的事件，是天災，更是人禍。專家早已預言可能的傷害，但是什麼也沒做，結果果然如此。那，這跟第幾世界沒有關係吧？！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;台灣是什麼都扯的上是不是愛台灣，好像一祭出這絕招，大家都沒什麼話好說。美國的絕招則是有關恐怖份子，恐怖主義，一說是為了反恐，大家都shut up。所以近年來222個演練或準備中只有2個跟颶風有點關係--萬一恐怖攻擊跟颶風同時發生時的計畫。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第二是，有關種族歧視的問題。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;美國一直是有種族歧視的，只是依地區不同程度有多嚴重罷了。尤其是美國的中西部、南部，南北戰爭教了老美要團結，但是種族歧視只是多少的問題。整件災害，一開始是跟種族沒有關係的，但是現在，隨時可能引爆成所謂的歧視，端看執政者，煽動者怎麼操縱。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112595804652230373?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112595804652230373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>來美國的第八個勞動節～</title><content type='html'>今天是九月的第一個星期一，美國的勞動節。&lt;br /&gt;雖然我一直都不太確定勞動節的定義以及跟我的關係，不論是台灣的五一勞動節或是這裡的；尤其美國的勞動節是國定假日，大家都放，每次我都覺得是因為大家都受不了了，找個藉口喘一口氣，在這即將又要面臨的嚴酷冬天之前。&lt;br /&gt;但是能在九月突然放個假也好；九月是有一點怪的，除非你要開學。暑假跟夏天都好像在結束中，可是即使在我處的溫帶位置也還不能算是秋天，然後又不能像年初轉換天氣時那樣充滿新的一年的期待，所以有點青黃不接的尷尬。&lt;br /&gt;過了八個勞動節，我還是很不適應的。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112594784289022820?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112594784289022820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112594784289022820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112594784289022820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112594784289022820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/09/blog-post_05.html' title='來美國的第八個勞動節～'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112537363174865408</id><published>2005-08-30T10:44:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:47:09.397+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What I like 我喜歡的'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books 書'/><title type='text'>I've read the book, "Good Luck".</title><content type='html'>I've red the book, "Good Luck (La buena suerte)", by Alex Rovira and Fernando Trias de Bes.&lt;br /&gt;I love this book, and I also think it's not a coincidence that I've encountered this book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week ago, I happened to talk to several of my friends, both on line and by phones; and within one hour, 2 of my friends, totally not related, recommended me the same book (one in Chinese and the other in English, actually.). I was a bit, shocked. Think, "what a coincidence!" So I think I might as well read it then and I'm really glad I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Good Luck", a book with just a simple, fairy-tale like story, yet it's like a brook, suddenly provides the fresh running water and open air for your soul. It's refreshing, it's touching, it's meaningful, and it's so real and true. You can feel the good intention behind each word from the authors. There are so many to-do, to-know, and how-to books, but none of them is like this, with a genuine benevolence and helping nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish you will be as happy as I am now after reading this book.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112537363174865408?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112537363174865408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112537363174865408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112537363174865408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112537363174865408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/08/ive-read-book-good-luck.html' title='I&apos;ve read the book, &quot;Good Luck&quot;.'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15063801.post-112529358660308936</id><published>2005-08-29T12:49:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T03:43:52.858+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA 美國'/><title type='text'>來美國七年～</title><content type='html'>來美國七年了。從23歲到30歲，應該是很重要的一段時間。&lt;br /&gt;我從來時的沒住過外面，不會煮飯，不會開車；到今天的全部自己來，必要時還可以擺桌請客，雖然辛苦，可是我很感激我能夠成為一個完整的成人，一個可以完全自我生活的人。&lt;br /&gt;回首這七年，經過，做過很多自己都驚訝怎麼撐過來的事；遇過，看過更多奇奇怪怪的人；而我，依然在摸索自己的路，總是擔心自己做錯了選擇或是自己努力的不夠。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;美國。我對美國其實是很淡然的感覺，也許有人認為在美國好像很好或是什麼的。是有一些正面的，像是這裡居住空間大（除非你住紐約市），像是這裡薪水跟物價比比較像樣，像是這裡生技產業是真的可以稱之為產業，像是這裡當社會上有一個問題出現時，解決方法比較不會讓我想不通。但是，這個社會再合理，畢竟不是我的家，更何況美國也是有很多很多不好的地方。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;台灣，永遠是我心中最好的地方，永遠是我的家。但是出來七年，一年回去一次，有時覺得陌生，有時覺得不瞭解。我這個從小就被大家覺得不知從哪來的人，在美國是外國人，回家也被當異類，每個人都覺得我非我族類，我自己也莫名其妙。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;所以，我依然是遊子，希望有一天回家。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15063801-112529358660308936?l=chiama.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/feeds/112529358660308936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15063801&amp;postID=112529358660308936' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112529358660308936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15063801/posts/default/112529358660308936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chiama.blogspot.com/2005/08/blog-post.html' title='來美國七年～'/><author><name>Chia Ma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451430708112981496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/837/1383/1600/ma137.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
