12/26 Journal

We did not bring a camp so I took out stupid sleeping pad which I stuck advertisement flyers together at home and laid it on the ground. Then, we slept on it and we became one of vagrants. It was not cold but after 30 minutes, I felt coldness from the ground. I regret not to bring a sleeping bag. As a result, I put on all my costs, and then my upper part of my body was warm. However, my legs were cold. It was hard to fall asleep so I only slept for 2 to 3 hours. After waking up, I was still tired.

The staffs started to arrange lines about 8 or 9 o’clock. Then, we stood to line up for exchanging tickets. Moreover, Vivi and I had to carry our luggage to line up. My luggage became heavier and heavier and I was exhausted by the endless ranks. I had to move and stop constantly so I could not sit down for a nap. Finally, after more than 3 hours, about 12 o’clock, I took the rock zone ticket. There were about 50 thousands people came to see the concert so my ticket number of entering Stadium was a front sequence. We could see Mayday’s performance in a close distance but not just watch the large monitors. It was worthy to sleep on the ground.

A Homemade Dessert – Pineapple Pie

A Homemade Dessert – Pineapple Pie

Recently, my mother has been interested in making desserts, like pineapple pie and cheesecake. I was surprised by her desserts. My mother said that she had some dessert recipes from the neighbor. Sometimes, she would ask us to makes dessert with her. Last month, my mother taught my sister and me how to make pineapple pies, from choosing ingredients to baking.

It was difficult to buy all the ingredients of pineapple pies or other desserts in a grocery store, because some ingredients were only available in a cooking ingredient store. In the store, besides the ingredients that my mother needed, she also bought dessert appliances. For example, pans for making pineapple pies, a food scale and an electric mixer. It all cost her three thousand dollars. Even though the appliances were expensive, for the next time, what she had to buy were only ingredients. Also, fresh ingredients are required. Once my mother used some leftover milk powder make cheesecakes. The crusts of the cakes could not mix together and some were still powders. Then, she checked the expiration date and found it was overdue. We still ate all the cheesecakes because it was a waste of food to throw them away. Luckily, our stomachs were all fine.

The ingredients of 50 pineapple pies included 175 grams of bread flour, 450 grams of cake flour, 150 grams of butter, 60 grams of sugar, 100 grams of milk powder, 100 grams of cheese powder, 2 eggs, 1 yolk, 250 grams of unsalted butter and 1 bag of pineapple filling. To make 100 pineapple pies, we need to double the weight of the ingredients. My mother had bought a food scale so my sisters and I weighted the ingredients. The weight of each ingredient should be accurate if we wanted to eat delicious pineapple pies. After the preparation of ingredients, the next step was to make the crusts of pineapple pies and it was very simple. We put all the ingredients except the filling into a big mixing bowl and mixed them into a huge pastry. The butter should be heated till it melted and cooled. The mixing step was easy but it needed some skills and strengths to mix them completely so we rolled them into a mass in turn. The pastry was the crusts of pineapple pies.

After the preparation of crusts, it was time to make pineapple pies. I took a ball of the pastry and wrapped a small ball of pineapple filling. Then, I round the filling pastry, put it into the pan and make it become square. After that, my mother baked pineapple pies. It was done when the crust became golden or even brown. The cool pineapple pies would be more delicious than hot ones. For me, the proportion between the filling and the pastry was hard to handle. As a result, some pineapple pies that I made were full of filling and some were few. There were several flavors of filling you could choose in an cooking ingredient store, so you could make orange pies or mulberry pineapple pies.

Making desserts is interesting. All my family members can join in the cooking. It is a sense of achievement to enjoy desserts which are made by our own hands. Moreover, while making, we can also chat with each other. As for my mother, she even wrapped pineapple pies as a gift for her friends. They all praised her and often share the recipes with her. To sum up, cooking for my family not only make us full but also amuse ourselves.

12/19 Journal

Last Saturday, Vivi and I went to Taipei to see Mayday’s concert, 十萬人出頭天 in 中山足球場(Zhougchan Soccer Stadium) .It was my first time to go to a real concert. I often see their lives in small place. This time, the concert was held in Stadium so it would be more lively and large.

The concert was free as bought Mayday’s new album. As a result, there would be huge amount of fans join the concert. My friend in Tunghai University heard that some crazy fans had camped outside Stadium on Monday so Vivi and I decided to line up early. My friend said she would set up to Taipei on Friday morning and she would save seats for us. Then, after school, we took bus to Taipei. Karry were also with us because she wanted to go home. It was 2 o’clock am on Saturday while we arrived in Stadium. There were already lots of fans lined up and slept outdoors. They had surrounded Stadium ring above ring and some slept on the ground or camped just like vagrants. It really made me creepy. Moreover, it was really difficult to find my friend in huge crowd. Luckily, I still found her and her friends.

...To be countinued

12/12 Journal

After the songs, it was the time for autographing the per-ordered posters. The entire crowd scattered because some were going to line up for Mayday’s autographs and some were leaving; they just wanted to see to their live. While people were moving, according to my experience to lives, I rushed to the stage and stood there. The reason was that while Mayday were autographing, I would be the first line of the crowd so I could see and photograph them near and clearly.

It was interesting but strange to observe Mayday. Because I was so close to them, it was easy to see what they were doing, like chatting with each other, drinking water. Meanwhile, I was photographing them by my cell phone camera. However, after taking only two pictures, the battery in my cell phone was exhausted. It really disappointed me so I only photographed them by my eyes camera. I stood there and looked at them fall in faces for more than twenty minutes. It’s really freak but fans always did it. Then, finally, I decided to order Mayday’s 7th album. I was released from the purchase struggle in my mind. “Goodbye and see you guys in Taipei,” I said in a whisper. Later, I turned around but finding surprisingly that I was surrounded ring upon ring by crowd. I tried to walk back to the record store. After saying more than ten times “excuse me”, I finally reached to the store and paid for the album. I took the final glance at Mayday on the stage, and then went home.


If you want to see Chinese report and more pictures about this Mayday live, you can visit here
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/gothicverde/8217926

I have tried to post some pictures here, but unfortunately I failed.

12/05 Journal

Some songs of Mayday’s music are singing about teenagers’ hesitation on their roads. The adolescence is between childhood and adulthood. It is a conversion and transformation in my life. Sometimes, I do not know where my position now is. I am floating above the world and have no identification to myself. I said goodbye to my childhood and step into the next stage in my life. However, I cannot see the road under my foot. For me, “future” is far but near; this unclear distance makes me cannot grasp it tightly. I can also find the same feeling in Mayday’s songs so they are great accompanies to me. Although, we are all adrift in this world and do not know what to do. At least, we have each other to be with us and understand our thoughts. This is the reason that I love Mayday.

...To be continued

11/28 Journal

Needless to say that 水利 plaza was full of crowd, Mayday was hot and popular. I could only squeeze into the crowd and stand in the right side of the stage. As a result, I couldn’t see all Mayday members clearly. It took fans 30 minutes to wait for Mayday. The reason was that they were in the traffic jam that they made. When Mayday appeared on the stage, all of fans screamed and photographed them. Besides me, it seemed that everyone had a camera on hands. Finally, I still took out my bad camera of the mobile and took some bad quality pictures. After all, this kind of opportunity was precious. Mayday sang four songs: 志明與春嬌、軋車、垃圾車、出頭天. They were really amazing. The music was infecting and all of fans could sing songs with Mayday and either did I. 出頭天 was the first time Mayday performed to fans so we were lucky to hear it. The live show was truly different from CDs. You could really feel how music affects your mood. Moreover, you just could not help but sway with music. The music’s echo from sounds smashed my deep heart heavily. I was deeply moved by their music.

...To be countinued

11/21 Journal

Last month, I went to National Taichung Library to return books. Later, I walked to 一中Street where is near Library and guessed whether I order Mayday’s new album or not. The new 7th album of Mayday was 後。青春期的詩 (Poetry of The Day After…). I liked the title of the album very mush. The theme of time attracted me. What would you do to the climax of your life that passed far little by little? Recollected it or climaxed again? However, the released song 出頭天 didn’t attract me. As a result, there was a struggle in my mind. The song is ok but the title was great. Should I trust Mayday? Also, there were two types of ordered album. Every ordered album contained a concert ticket. One was the concert of 50 thousand people in Taipei and the other was the school tour. However, Mayday hadn’t release the details of school tour. While I was on the way to the record store, my mobile rang. It was my friend who liked Mayday very much. “Sophie, did you go to Mayday’s live in 水利 Plaza?” What? I totally forgot the live. After the small talk with my friend, I rushed delightfully to there to see Mayday.

...To be continued

11/14 Journal

I always turn on my MP3 player, listen to music and do everything when I am alone. My reason is that I have downloaded some new albums so I want to listen to them. I love music and I enjoy it. However, sometimes, I will be distracted by the pretty voice, especially when I am studying the subject that I have. I will put down the pen and do nohing but listen to the music for more tham ten minutes. Finally, I will sign and keep doing my work again. Listening to music sometimes procrasinates at my work. I don't want to face the work that I am doing so I turn to the music world. Free myself and sway in the melody to relax my anxious mind.

Music is also my outlet for thought. There are lots of different types of songs so I can find one that can match or cheer up my mood. It is important to get something off my chest by sharing so music is my considerate accompany. It's also the reason that people need to have radio or TV on when they are alone because they don't feel alone anymore.

11/07 Journal

The RPG started from 9o’clock to 12 o’clock. I was really sleepy because I woke up at 5 o’clock at first day and only slept 4 hours last night. As a result, Susan and I used the time to take a nap. There was no team challenge our game until 11 o’clock. It was boring to wait the team. The reason I thought was that our game was the back part of the story. However, the wind was cool and I could enjoy the beautiful scene near my side. Finally, there was a team coming, like shining knights to end our depression. The game we played was 比手畫腳. That meat I showed a food name to one of team members. He or she had to make gesture lively and his or her teammates needed to guess what food it is. I thought our questions were easy because all the teams passed the game smoothly. However, we could also end the game quickly.

After lunch time, I went to the water footway with some teammates. The water footway was that tourists could walk on the riverbed and cool themselves. The flow of water was huge because of the typhoon. Moreover, the impulsion of waterfalls was large and that made cool wind. We took off our shoes and stepped into the river. The water was cold and the wind was cool. Except that, there were many trees flourished along the river. It was really a summer resort to avoid blazing heat. We spent some time staying there. Some of us took pictures. Some tried to walk upstream but the flow of water was so strong that they might slip down and were brought away by the flow. Most of us just sat on the shore, soaked our feet in the water and let the flow take away our swelter.

In the afternoon, all of members packaged luggage and took the bus to school and back home. In this camping, in my opinion, most of our teammates were freer and idler than other teams. The reasons were that we did not need to cook dishes. The meal boxes really helped us a lot. Also, we did not have to tilt tents because we lived in the hostel. The two important thing that team of miscellaneous affairs should care very much were all be simplified so we did our work easily and happily. Next time, if the team of miscellaneous affairs’ works still so light and relaxed, I will join it immediately without consideration.

10/31 Journal

In the small hours, all the staffs had to take turn to keep watch and our team was the last shift. The bed was too comfortable to wake up but I still had to leave it. It was 4 o’clock AM. I took a short walk outside. It was still dark and stars were still shining there. I tried to recognize some constellation but it was difficult for me. I planned to observe stars later. However, it had been bright already before I noticed that. I could not see any small stars. How dull am I.

Before the breakfast arrived, my teammates could still have a nap. When we were sleeping, the freshmen and the staffs except us were taking morning exercise outside. After the breakfast, it was time for the RPG. The RPG means Roles-Playing Game. All of staffs had to play a role. There were some connections and clues with each role. The players had to find them, play games and get treasure. Susan and I were in the story of Aladdin. I was 7-11 and she was OK Market. That means we were the grocery store keepers. The players had to give us the card of water from Poseidon because we were cleaning the grocery store. Then, they could play the game from us. If they passed the game, they could get the card of food and give it to dwarfs.

...To be countinued

10/24 Journal

One of our team’s jobs was to carry meal boxes by motorcycle from the main door of Hui Sun Forest to the hostel where we lived every time and it took 20 minutes. The road was full of small rocks because of the typhoon and it was easy to slip down. At night, it became very dangerous. Some of our team carried meal boxes and some shared them. After every meal time, we had to put leftovers together and sort garbage.

In the afternoon, our team had a free time. The freshmen were having group activities with sweat under hot sun, but we stayed in our room and took a nap or watched TV with air-condition. Then, I took a walk to a footway. It was very relaxing and comfortable. Lots of trees shaded me from the sun. The wind was cool. Everything in Mother Nature was special and unique.

At night, our team had to decorate the path of night walk. We put light sticks on the right direction to lead the freshmen go trembly through the haunted path. Later, we also walked the path. At first, I was a little afraid of walking the path because it was too dark to watch my steps. It was full of stars but with crescent. Moreover, some of staffs dressed up as ghosts. However, we were not scared by people. We were ready to scare ghost pretenders. It was really interesting to see people terrible frightened and get stunned. It was a sense of achievement of pranks.

...To be countinued

10/17 Journal

Last last weekend, the freshman camping was held by the sophomore. I was one of staffs and I chose the team of miscellaneous affairs (It is hard to translate it). The jobs included booking the tour bus, preparing meals, being keepers of room keys and equipments. The heavy preparation of the camping had been for a long time. For example, the team of activity had to think about the fames. Also, many people had to rehearsal dances and comedies in the night party for many times. However, our team did not need any practice. Should I practice keeping keys or sharing meal boxes? As a result, I was not busy for the camping preparation.

The camping was in Hui Sun Forest. It was the first time I went there so I was looking forward it. The road surface in mountains was not well because of the typhoon. We swayed with the bus to the destination. It was really hard to fall asleep. Our team’s first work was to carry all people’s luggage to rooms. I was like the porter in hotel. It was a laborious work because I had to drag luggage to take the elevator and drag them to rooms. However, I could see the rooms first. The hostel in Hui Sun Forest had done recently, so all the equipments were really new and high-class. We ordered several ten-people suites. Although the room was for ten people, it was spacious and paved with pretty woods. Each one had a mattress. There were an air conditioner and a liquid crystal television. Especially, there were two bathrooms. It was wonderful for ten girls to rake a bath. Of course, the scene was really beautiful. The green green mountains were right in front of windows and the other side of mountains was Mountain Jade.

...To be countinued

Thesis freewriting

I did not like to take exercise before, but Bedminton class lead me to a new world.

Childhood-9/30 Freewriting 1

I think the losing took a great part of frighht in my childhood. My family went to a tour in spring vacation. We went to a museum. Because of the spring vacation, the museum was filled with crowds. It was really hard to got out of people and you were stucked in it. At first, our family went closely to keep the children from missing. However, I stopped in front of the paint. It was too beautiful for me to countinue to walk. Then, I told my mother that I wanted to see the paint for a moment. She said it was ok and they would wait for me in the exit. At the result, I could take my time to see the paint. After I finished the exhibition, I went to the exit. However, I could not find my family. It really frighten me. As time went by, I ran all the exhibition but I still could not see my family. Then, I started to think sadly. If I could not find my family, should I walk home by my foot? Would I become a waif...? Finally, I saw the information desk so I decide to seek for help and be boardcasted. When I stepped, a familiar voice telled at me. That's my brother! I ran to him immediately. When I saw my parents, I really brusted into tears. The rest of the tour, I followed my parents closely. I did not want to feel despair again.

9/23 freewriting

PE class
badminton
new shoes
new racquet
gym
hot
sweat


Yesterday, I had my first badminton class. It was at thesecond floor of the gym. I had never been to the second floor. I was happy to prepare my badminton bags on Sunday and I was looking forward to the class. At the PE class, I put on my new shoes and started to warm up. Then, the teacher let us to pratice how to get familiar with a shuttlecock. For example, threw a shuttlecock high to the air and caught it. It was interesting and I thought the shuttlecock had not been my fellow. After the warm-up game, the teacher tought students the badminton strokes. For me, it was a little difficult, because I was used to the wrong strokes and now I had to learned the right one again. It led me cannot hir the shuttlecock. It really disappointed me. However, the teacher said, learn slowly but play correctly.

My New BLOG

Because of English Composition II Class, students were askes to create a blog from blogger. Then, I got the new blog. Actually, I have a Chinese blog from Wretch, but that one is full of stupid posts. Ha Ha...
For the academic reason, this blog will be more academic than the Chinese one. However, I like the address of this blog. It has some meanings. Perhaps, after the class finished, I will still post something on it.

By the way, Please NEGLECT the grammer faults. XP