About the Tattoo

One of my friends told me that he went to make a tattoo. He told me the reason that he want to record one turning point of his life and he thought the tattoo could give him power to face any difficulty. The tattoo is a pair of wings which is like the wings of the eagle. It symbols that he want to fly higher and higher in his own sky and take off at this moment. He also wrote a story of himself and sent it to me to keep it because we knew each other for more than ten years and keep in touch never break off. My friend has a miserable childhood and hardly life. Until now, he finally has a steady life and a good job. In order to celebrate the born-again, he made the tattoo. I hope he could live better and remember the feelings at that moment.

In past, the old men always thought the tattoo symbolized “bad guys”. They could not receive the behavior of tattoo. Because the skin is given by our parents, we could not hurt it especially deliberate. But now the tattoo is more common in the present age.
So nowadays, many teenagers like to make tattoos on their skin. By the way, I will never do that but I don’t disagree that. Just for one reason, I am afraid of pain. Some people think that is just for fun. Others think that is a record of their life. And some think that is art. No matter the reason they make the tattoo, only one thing they have to know is that the tattoo can not disappear and follow them forever. They have to response for their decision and have no chance of regret.

But there are some taboos of tattoo. If you want to make a tattoo, you have to know that. First one is not making the dragon on your backside. Because in Taiwanese pronounce, it sounds like confounded. Second one is not making the joss on anywhere because it is very impious. Third one is not tattooing on your face. It is not lucky for you. Last one is that never tattoo for others.

The Common Happiness

I think the common happiness is get together with family. But it becomes more difficult for me. Because there are too many things cause that I can not go home. I really miss my family too much.
Since I have moved to Taichung, I seldom went home. Every time I felt sad or helpless, I thought home is the only place where I can stay. But I always had no time to go home. Today, I want to through everything and get together with my family. But there are still a lot of things I have to do. I feel so down. I called my mom, brother, and sister because I just want to hear them. It made me feel better and give me more power.
No matter close friends or boyfriend, they never replace my family. Being growth, I love my family more and more. When I met difficult things and something sad, they supported me without any reason. When I felt happy, they shared my feelings. Even we met only little times a years, we still knew each other. We concerned about each other all the time and encourage each other. I think it is the most common happiness in my life. I love you, my family. Thank you, my family.

Keep beauty

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now
Keep Beauty
Being a girl, being beautiful is a dream of all girls, of course I am. After entering college, I have more time to focus on my appearance.
When I was one and second grade in my college, I always go on a diet, but I always can not control me mouth. Every time after my part time job, I had been very hungry and went to have a night snack. It was really a terrible action for my increasing weight. In the other way, I was too lazy to make up every day. because I was too tired. Day after day, I not only became fat and fat but also had no spirit. It always made me unhappy but had no ways. One of my friends told me that you look so dispirited and like sick. And I got a nickname as “obaasann”. Even I thought that was just a joke. But I still wanted to become beauty.
Finally now I succeed and become thinner than before. And keep make up every day let me look more powerful and have more confidence. I was really doing it hard for a long time. Eat food at the right time especially night snack and not too much. Exercise before went to bed. Drink water more and more. These are everyone knows who want to go on a diet but very difficult to carry out. I spent almost one year to do it, and finally lose 8 kilogram. My best friend told me that obaasann is not obaasann anymore.
A good look is not only very important for oneself but for others. A good look can help one make a good first impression to another and increase one’s relationship. These are my experiences in the process from ugly to beauty. Maybe you can not believe it, but it is really a truth in this society.
I hope I can keep my beauty and make it better. And thanks my best friend to inspire me to persevere.

Test Anxiety

In Taiwan, no matter students or adult face many kind of test. Such as college boards, examination of language, or interview of candidate. In this kind of situation, some people may have test anxiety, especially students.
In Taiwan, the school education always focuses on credentialism. The purpose of school is to enter the higher and best school. In this situation, students become the test machine. Students only study for test and test for high grade, then get good job and higher status.
In the process of school life, students spend much time to prepare the uncounted tests. But it leads to some students have serious test anxiety. What is test anxiety? Most of students may not notice this problem but they have it.
Test anxiety is a psychological condition in which a person experiences distress before, during, or after an exam that this anxiety causes poor performance.
The kind of distress may be sleepless, excessive feelings of fear, uncontrollable, feelings of helpless and even physiological condition. And the most important reason may be no confidence.
If students have these feelings or conditions before, during or after test, they may have test anxiety. But what cause test anxiety? In Taiwan, our education course and parents’ request even social value cause these problems.
How to deal with test anxiety is very important for these students. The first one is that they have to know that what is test anxiety, then face the situation by themselves.
The following tips are for reducing test anxiety.
1. Prepare the test more before.
2. Not be late for the test.
3. Calm down yourself before test.
4. Read through the test once very quickly.
5. Start from the easiest question.
6. Breathe deeply if you feel nervous or uncomfortable.
7. Check your teat one more time after finishing it.
These can help you reducing test anxiety. But the most important is to build your confidence and take easy for the test. Pass a test is important but not means it is the most important thing in your life.
參考資料: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_anxiety

The child prodigy : Australia's whiz kid

I saw this article from the global village magazine. I t talked about the child prodigy about the Australia's whiz kid, Terence Tao. He was the first Australian to win the Fields Medal, the world’s highest award in mathematics. All of the people who know him are calling him a “child prodigy”. Not only because he won the award but since his childhood. In his childhood, he knew the alphabetical and numerical order when he was mot quite two years old. And he studied in the regular school only for few weeks then turned to the private school for the gifted. When he was 9years old, he was the level of university math. Now he is 23 years old and teaches at UCLA for math faculty.
After reading this article, I thought Terence Tao was really a legend. Not only because his intellect but his ability to solve the problem.
And the most important thing is that child prodigies may be excluded by his peers when they were little children. And they might think their peers dull. How could Terence Tao endure the kind of situation in his growing.
We could see some news about the intelligent students who could not endure the stress from other’s focus. Some might skip grade because their smart but their mental might not get the same level. So they could solve the problem of the class but they could not handle the social relationship.
It is very important to balance their brainpower and mental power by themselves. Because of that many people are paying attention on their achievement and giving the high expectation.

It was really a special night

Yesterday my friends and I went to a pub to relax. The last time I went to the pub was more than one year. It was all free for anything and only opened to three universities in Taichung. So I thought it was okay to went there for fun. Because it was not a good place after all.
But it wad really a special night that I could not forget it. We drunk some special wine, played games, and danced together. All of us needed to relax ourselves because we were tired of the full schedual of schoolwork.
I loved the feeling that chating with good friends, drinking some wine, and dancing with happy music. Forgot everything was on going, just had fun at the moment. It was a good way to promote ourselves to have more power for next. I thought I could do the things better after a fling.
Are you tired? Maybe you need some relaxation. Having a good rest is for walking further.