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Recently.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:11:52 +0700

Every time when I said, 'I have no time to "write" something on my blog.' It always happened to be the lame excuse. So, why bother to explain the reason of me, lack of managing blog.

I've done many things recently. I started a Fan page of JenLin Photography on Facebook. So far, it's like 180 people became my fan. I passed the TOEFL English exam in 89 of 120 without prepared. I am planning to learn Fashion Merchant and Design next spring. And I already got accepted. The tuition is extremely cheap and the education system is top 3 in Kansas. I have a part-timed job in Lawrence, working in the restaurant. Besides, I ENJOY my life here. Meeting new people, Partying, Drinking, and Having Fun. Sounds worthless? C'est la vie, c'est la vie! Why don't we have some more fun when life is so short?

Go Gorilla!

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:55:57 +0700

Shoots during the football game in Pitts. last weekend.

After Back to Taiwan

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:07:15 +0700

I got back home for almost a month till today. Was busy hanging out with my family especially mum, dad and sis. It's like I am spending all my time be with them as much as I can cuz most of the time I am not around them. Sometimes I feel funny about it. Some of my friends staying at home but I guess they only come back home for sleep and regular chatting with friends or hang out with friends but their parents. But I've been riding bike with my dad and hiking with my parents and we went out for dinner and short trip so many times. I know they feel well while I am around them and I am glad I do get the chance to do so.
Family are the best after all! :)

喜帖和喪帖

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:34:38 +0700

今天在奶奶家看到一封喪禮邀請函，而我這兩個月收到了兩封喜帖。

看出來了吧！
年齡的差距！

About my new blog.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:14 +0700

Haven't get time to write any stuff here cuz recently I am making another website about my China Experience.

The Website is here; http://chinashock.weebly.com

One week before, I finally landed to island of Taiwan, the weather was pretty humid, that makes me sneezed a lot. But overall it's happy to see my family in the end.

Nothing related to May.

Sun, 03 May 2009 11:11:04 +0700

So now I really got bored for some reason...Life is fine but always feel some part of me are empty. Why empty?

It's funny I haven't engaged in a serious relationship for 2years. What's my problem? Bcuz I've been moving around? Or I just have problem with commitment? It's funny how I realize human beings always being in the mode called "Unsatisfied". We always want to pursue the happiness. But why we always trying to pursue something we probably won't be able to have in the end. And we spent all our life pursuing the "thing" that we can only have it after we died and we only realize that right before we died but we already dying. How regret the feeling we are possibly going to have. Unfortunately we can't interview those died ppl, otherwise we may have some clue about the way to enjoy our life.
Talk about the unsatisfied again. Like right now I am working my butt on the job for over 6months and I hate it! I want to quit my job so badly but I clearly sure once I quit I would like to get a job or engage in something again. And sometimes I am lonely being single, but I know I get commitment problem and I always expect BF things, and I have the fairytale in mind which is no cool. So yeah, I am still in the endless circle of life. Ugh! I hate it...

The Business Card that I just made.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:46:22 +0700

So its the end of April now. Time past so fast that it looks like its flying! Flying!
These days I got some visitors from Taiwan, so I was extremely busy as I was bring them around Beijing city. Hot Pot of Lamb, Peking Duck, Night Life, etc. Life is getting fun and prosper. And I have to work extra 2 months then I can leave. I "can" leave, I know I am too weak to say no to my boss. But what can I do?
Anyway, today I am actually not busy so I made my own special business card for photography career.

Just a Note.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:31:02 +0700

I told my boss I am going to quit my job days ago, because of this non-stop work only gets my nerves. I don't have enough rest and don't have the mood to work out. Things are out of control for some reason. However, for celebrated the apartment got renewed, me and my flatmates hold a warm-up party at our place and celebrated with bunch friends. We lighted some candles and I made my first time special Tequila cocktail! Can't believe because everyone seem to love it a lot. I made entire four huge bowls and its all gone even the whole new bottle of Vodka turned empty in the end. And we were talking and hanging around and I was actually quite busy as a host, had to taking care of everything. Most of us up till 3am in the morning which I think its very success in the end. : )

Oh, and my job. My boss told me he doesn't want me to go, he will try to sort things out.
But all I want is to have more breaks.

轉載自台客網(Jackie) 七年級生還是草莓族嗎?

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:14:36 +0700

轉載自台客網 Jackie 的文章

曾幾何時，想到七年級大學生，不耐壓的 ”草莓族“ 似乎是唯一的代名詞。草莓族被冠以的特質：

1.無法承受壓力：包括經濟壓力、生活壓力、責任壓力、工作壓力，他們比普通人的承壓指數低五倍。所以，常常在面臨壓力的時候，以逃避責任為方式而躲避，因此，常換工作，常常換異性朋友、常缺錢。

2.喜歡花錢寵自己：個人主義緊張的草莓族，對於自己「辛辛苦苦」賺來的錢，一定要花在自己身上，才覺得對得起自己，而且花到光光為止，因為不僅要買最好的、最流行的，而且自己要非常喜歡才行。一般沒有特色的服飾，適無法動搖他們的心，無論多麼便宜都沒有用。

3.認為自己是獨一無二的：無論是服裝、造型、配件、髮色、搭配，都是由自己一手打理，絕對沒有雷同的造型出現，因為這樣才「個人」。

    之前又看到有關七年級生等於草莓族的新聞報導，心中有些感觸。因為之前重感冒的原因，所以拖到現在才把想法寫出來。其實七年級生之所以被稱為草莓族是因為大部份的七年級生都太脆弱、太容易受到打擊，就像草莓一樣，輕輕一捏就爛了。我在學校讀書或在社會上工作，都會遇到很多不同年齡層的人，四五六七年級都有，也時常跟父母、師長以及朋友討論我對於“七年級生 = 草莓族”的看法，也覺得在替七年生貼上“草莓族”的標籤前，有些事是需要思考一下的。

    如果你覺得七年級生無法接受壓力和挫折，那你覺得七年級生應該是怎樣子的呢？你覺得七年級生應該有四年級生的歷練，五年級生的圓融，六年生的自信？然而你確忽略了七年級生吸取新知識的神速、跳脫框框的思考模式及令人驚嘆的創意。

    常常聽到老一輩的長輩們說：「我在你這年紀，早就.........」老一輩的長輩們很早就踏入社會工作賺錢養家，現在的七年級生不是還在校園讀書就是剛踏入社會，如果七年級生也像老一輩的長輩們一樣，很早就踏入社會，相信現在二十歲左右的我們面對壓力和挫折也會見怪不怪。但從另一個角度來看，七年級生如果只想工作，而沒有讀大學的打算是不是又會被貼上“沒前途”和 “不上進”的標籤？

    草莓爛了......之後呢？你們覺得七年級生好像草莓一樣，輕輕一捏就爛了，但你有等一等觀察草莓後來的發展嗎？七年級生對壓力和批評也許反應很大，但我們能讓自己走出陰霾後，變得比以前更好，所以我覺得七年級生並不是全部都是草莓，而是海綿。我們一直吸收和用自己的一套方式處理種種的壓力和挫折，剛吸收時你會看到海綿的顏色變深了，但過一陣子，海綿看起來還是原來的海綿，也許你會問吸收的東西到哪裡了？有些蒸發了，有些還留在海綿裡，所以看起來跟以前沒兩樣的海綿，其實多了一些內涵和經驗，別因為你們沒看到就當做它不存。總而言之，我想說畢竟挫折容忍度高，勤奮的七年級生，比比皆是！所以請別用自己的標準衡量別人，更別期望每個人都跟自己一樣”也“請別以偏概全的認為七年級生 = 草莓族”。

From Sep to Mar - What I've know about Beijing, China.

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:34:49 +0700

So...it's March! Almost 6 months since the first day I stepped on Mainland China.
Guess it's time for me to write some comments about what I've know about China. What is my China experience? Right, more than what I expected.

One thing I had never expect before is the huge culture shock.
I had some hard time because of those terrible attitudes from some of local people. Like I mentioned earlier, there are always advantages and disadvantages to live in Beijing, I think Beijing is quiet an internationally city with lots of opportunities and a very unique combinations of western and oriental culture. And its a big city full of ancient Chinese culture which is impressive.
But somehow people here don't have nice personality and good working attitude. It's like you have to be mean to people to gain their "repect", otherwise people will just treat you like shit.

Somehow modern China society are too complicated with no boundary, some people are totally selfish and rude. They don't care about others, they just care about how to take more money from your pocket even in a bad way, thats very scary for me, sometimes I really don't know who will I be able to trust over here.

Lasttime when I had this complain, my British boss Robert told me about one thing; he said that, one good thing about stay in China is he learned the most in his life by the experience that he had in China.
"Once you can survive in China, you can pretty much survive in anywhere of this world except Africa." He said.

For some reason, life in China is not as easy as in the States for me, it actually force me to grow faster. It's bizzard but it's ture. After seeing those greedy, aggressive or self-irrgant people around (Including people from everywhere, Mainlander, Taiwanese, Westerner, etc.) I need to build and hold my own values and be aware of those values I disagree with may influence my own values.
Because of that, I think last year in US was too easy and comfortable. But I think this year in China could be a big challange for me and shape myself become more tuff and indepandent.

In many parts, China is almost another world. Like the culture in US is a "Welcome Culture." US culture is open to everyone from everywhere, in some points, that means US has NO original culture, people said it's "Immigrant Culture". Every outlander can step in easily without changing too much. But take Europe as an example, the culture is not that easy for the "outsider" to survive in a short time because Europe has so called "the European culture" which may defend those outsiders' own tradition and take years to absurb or get used to it.

What about China?
For me, China is an unusual country. It's completely different than those western countries, or those "westernize" countries. China is a growing place mix with different race, bizzard political system and unsteady economical situations. It's mixed but messy. In this land, people have to be greedy, because the government have no ability to protect every single person in this country. Imagine this the one and only Communist government have to taking care billions of citizen and millions of foreigner in the same time. Furthermore, the gap between wealthy and poor is dramaticaly huge. 10% people own 90% wealth and vise versa. It's not hard to imagine people have to fight for their life, struggling by how much they can save per month. Because, if you are poor, you are poor. There is no better welfare system to help you.

I've asked many of my "outlander" friends, except those crazy martial art fan, super Chinese culture fan or Asian fan. They confessed the life in China is not the best. They came here becuase of the business, either they got better offer than in their own country or they were major in Chinese language. At least that prove I am not insant to have the feeling in my mind.

However, there is still many parts of Beijing that I like. For example, 9 of 10 days are blue-sky sunny day; over centuries ancient palace just right in the town; Chinese love me as their long-lost Taiwanese lil sister, Many cheap, fake, easy-damaged DVD and free online movie watching website, no trouble to carry or drink whatever alcohol bottle on the street and one time metro ticket only cost 2RMB (which is 30cent usd, the bus only cost 6cent usd) etc....

Far as I know, this is Beijing, China, the place I am staying right now.