Wednesday, February 18, 2009

25 Random Things about Me

Below is a note I posted in my facebook. It took me a lot of time but it's fun! 

Rule: Once you've been tagged you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you it's because I want to know more about you.

To do this, go to "Notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner) then click publish.


1. My favorite color is purple.

2. In a city, even though it usually takes more time, I prefer bus rather than tube.

3. I didn't take neither joint high school entrance exam nor joint college entrance exam while most of students in Taiwan had to at that time.

4. My all-time favorite disney animation is "The Little Mermaid". The original ending of the tale is too hard for me. Thank disney for giving the story a happy ending! I like the film so much that I once wanted to name myself "Ariel".

5. I am the firstborn of my family. My sis is two and half years younger than me. Now we live together but sometimes, we still have fights. My bro is almost twelve years younger than me. We share the same birth animal, rooster.

6. I like most of the vegetables. Here are some of my favors: aubergine (it's purple!), bell pepper, bitter melon, taro and oyster mushroom (杏鮑菇). Yet there are some i don't eat: garlic chives (韭菜), enokitake (金針菇) and jelly fungus (木耳). I don't like carrot either.

7. My favorite animal is monkey! When i was little, i did hope i can be one year older so that i can have monkey as my birth animal.

8. My family lived in Mucha (木柵) when I was still very little and my grandparents will take me to the zoo when then came visit us. In the zoo, i would ask my grandparents to buy ice cream for the elephants, but actually, I was the one that ate all ice cream!

9. I didn't have too many male classmates. Had 4 male classmates at first and second grades in elementary school and had 3 for the rest of the years. I went to girl high school for 6 years. And in college, there were around 12 (more or less) male classmates in our department.

10. I got sunstroke twice.

11. I have tendency of motion sickness, including carsickness, seasickness and airsickness.

12. I haven't seen the trilogy of Lord of Rings, neither the films nor the books.

13. Music, book and film that changed my way of thinking: Igor Stravinski's "The Firebird" & "The Rite Of Spring", Italo Calvino's "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler", Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima mon amour".

14. I like reading detective novels.

15. I've had a fear of dogs since i was little. In order to cure my dog phobia, my mother kept a dog as our family pet at my third grade in elementary school. As a result, I didn't fear our dog but i still have fear of other dogs.

16. I hate any mint-flavored stuff. One christmas, i received a box of mint-flavored chocolate from my mum as christmas gift...

17. I've been keeping my chinese name for all occasions for some years. But i did have an english name used in college and high school, Claire. Also, I had a spanish name, Claudia. We needed to have one when we took spanish course in college.

18. If I can have a magic skill, I want to become invisible!

19. I don't have any body piercing.

20. I have never dyed my hair.

21. I think being punctual is a basic courtesy.

22. I think I'm a shy person and sometimes I do feel uncomfortable with people standing too close to me.

23. My favorite time among a day is morning, my favorite day among a week is friday and my favorite season among a year is autumn.

24. I know it's bad but I always leave things to last minutes.

25. I hope one day I can make a trip to outer space.


Sunday, February 08, 2009

@ Berlin

來柏林總是有些儀式性的事情非做不可

吃豬腳-吃了,一如以往總是太大吃不完
看電影跟明星-今年到現在看的電影不是很多,但看了The Reader已經覺得很值得,而且也看到Kate Winslet本人,很美很親民,嗚嗚電影很好哭,希望Kate可以拿最佳女主角,如果Kate真的拿到女主角,那Nicole Kidman也做了好事一件(大家對她都太苛刻了,她的電影賣不好,她錯的成份明明就比較少!)
吃冰淇淋-開心果口味的冰淇淋真是太讚了
購物-我買了影展的兒童T啦!等到之後比較清閒的時候就要去Zara看看有沒有什麼便宜可撿

據說明天會下雪,可以不要嗎?我真的很害怕下了雪地會很滑我會走不好~我想要有太陽,今年真是太冷了(天氣跟市場都是……)

今天晚上打算去看Rage,有扮演女裝癖的Jude Law,雖然他一直都不是我的菜。


關於The Reader想多說一點,可以在柏林這個城市看到這部電影有很特別的意義。二次世界大戰對世界上任何一個角落的人來說都是一件很沈痛的事情,對這個城市來說更是。而且在這場戰爭之下,所謂的加害者其實可能跟被害者一樣是很無力的,或是不得已必須在那個當下做出一些事情。但是關於被害者的故事我們看得比較多,很少有機會去看到所謂加害者的故事。很難得有這個機會看到這樣一個故事讓我有機會去思考一些東西,心情上有點受到震撼。柏林真的是一個很特別的城市,這裡有很美麗悠久的文化,柏林影展跟柏林愛樂都是讓在地人感到驕傲的文化指標,但他也是一個悲傷的地方,到現在都還是一個破產的城市,經濟上的發展也因為東西德的分裂無法與其他德國城市相比。但也可能就是這樣美麗與傷痛並存,讓這個地方有著更深邃的迷人之處。



Tuesday, February 03, 2009

@ HK Airport

因為等機的時間太長了,加上帶著的包包把手之處居然快要斷掉了(便宜的韓國貨用不久……)。所以就不小心在香港機場敗家了,是一個有好多外袋的包包,希望它可以像它的主人一樣勇猛耐操,呵呵。雖然現在港幣的匯率不算太好(遙想之前不到四的美好匯率啊……),就當是自己送給自己的新年禮物吧~耶。

科技實在太發達了,所以雖然照的不是很好,還是可以馬上就讓我的包包跟大家見面(笑)。


馬上進行乾坤大挪移把家當裝進新包包裡面,可以裝很多東西耶,開心開心!聽說柏林很冷,哎可不可以跳過這十天直接進行休假的部份呢(嘆氣)。



Sunday, February 01, 2009

READY-SET-GO



其實我還沒有準備好,用一句很老套的話來說,我的心還留在石垣島-美麗的沙灘、炙人的陽光、悅耳的三線、青苦瓜與石垣牛的好味,好多時間,沒有煩惱。

但就像嘉年華會的狂歡帶來之後更嚴謹的秩序與規範,新年假期結束了。即使再怎麼不情願,還是要開始準備下一個行程的打包,要向前邁進!

短袖T恤跟四角褲只好先收進衣櫃裡,偷偷期待夏天快點到來。

*有人猜的出來右下角照片的那個影子是在比什麼嗎?


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