Field trip

 I visted the Craft Museum. The museum guide lady was very nice, willing to show us around and answer any of our questions. We've been introduced to the Art of Tea. There were various kinds of tea pots, as well as the other tools.  

Beacuse of the expo was about tea. The suvinior store has plenty of tea products. I bought a cup mat with a "Goblin-dog"(狗怪) on it. Taiwan is not famous for fairy-tales or elves. In fact this "Goblin-dog" is orgin from Taiwanese. It means "freak" in our language. There are other kinds of cup mats. Such as the "Belly beast"(巴豆妖), which the Taiwanese meaning is "Humgry".

I also went to visit the Provincial Consultative Council. I'm not interest in politics and modern history, I personally think this place was very boring.   

Life

  For me, life is made up of three colors - red, yellow and blue. Apart from these three raw colors, there are also two kinds of elements that compose our life, light and darkness.

  We were all born like a bucket of pure white paint. When we first bathed under the bright yellow sunshine, our skin turned red and pink. As we saw sapphires pouring down from the murky grey clouds up in the sky, a blue gloomy shadow came and shrouded us. While the muddy ground dried out by the warm sun, a splendid rainbow came out from the other side of the sky-blue sky. When we first tasted sickness, we took pills in green and purple. The experience of having friends was like eating a sweet and sour orange, which we sometimes get tired of but never get rid of. We became gravely brave to cross seven seas in seven colors for the sake of staying next to our lovers. When grey hair started coming out from our jaws, we finally realize that the Dark Knight brings darkness and nightfall at the end of the day as well as the limit line of our life-span. The aftertaste of the memories was just like tasting fruity, colorful gummy bears, as if we were still six years old. Then we all turned into the same color as the soil and joined into part of the mother Earth. Life after life, just like the sun goes up and down at the dawn and dusk, day after day.

  Life is really something, full of meanings and very interesting. Treasure your life and you may be as colorful as you like.

My winter vacation

I spent some of my time preparing for IELTS, and some of it photographing.

Talking about IELTS is pointless, so I'd like to share some of the photos I took during my vacation.

I'm not sure if it were the factories that release smoke and smog have holidays also, the air was fresh and the sky was clear when Chinese New Year. It was so easy to see the stars.

I went to the roof and took some pictures. This is one of the star signs, we call it 北斗七星 in Taiwan, but Little Dipper in the Western countries.

Looking upon the night sky reminds me of a fancy line from the many movies and novels.

''Whenever you feel homesick, look at the starry sky that we might be watching at the same time." 

This may work in the old days, but not now anymore as our technology had improve over the past few decades. We could easily travel to whatever places, even the time zones could be different. While my place is still at dawn, where you live dusk might had fallen. Not to mention to travel to the southern hemisphere, where the night sky is completely different to the north. 

Frankly, I felt contradictory when found out the facts of some beautiful quotes like this. For example, our ancestors didn't believe that mankind would one day reach the moon, so they could make a legend of a lady living up there.  

So, I guess innocent makes beautiful things.

Another photo I took was this store in front of a Mazu Temple in 北港. Really Taiwanese style, very bright, shinny and red-coloured. The traditional Taiwanese pie there are super tasty. 

This photo was taken at my grandma's place in 高美, even though she's gone, we still often go visit her/there. Gazing at the wetland and the spinning giant fans, wondering how short the distance is between the fire power plant and the wind farm. 

Mum loves to talk about how her childhood was like in this small beach village.    

Pressing the shutter is simple as, yet taking good photos is still challenging. However, I enjoy the moment when I was at present rather than watching the pictures that last eternal. I lost so many chances to take photos of breathtaking views, but I'm not regret at all. Those scenery are only beautiful in live and are still vivid in my mind.