Crazy weather!

Yesterday my sister told me that the weather in India is cool now and because of the sudden changes in weather, people are getting sick very quickly. My mom is one of them who got sick because of the change in weather. I wish my mom gets well soon and hope no one in my family gets sick.

When talking about the weather, the weather in Taiwan is quite strange too. It's cold in the morning and at night but hot in the afternoon. In this case, most people got sick too. Last few weeks I chatted with my aunt from Canada. She told me that this year they had snow fall quite early unlike last year they had snow fall after Christmas. They didn't have a white Christmas last year. How I wish I could see snow as soon as possible! My friends told me that it's really fun to build snow-man and play snowball fighting. Hope the day comes when I could build a snow-man myself and play snowball fighting with my friends too!

Memories!!

Today I was feeling down and so I decided to look at all the photos of me and my friends, me and my family, and all. When I saw the photos, I try to recall when and where we took that photo. I remember every details of it because I do have a strong memory remembering every events in my life, be it happy or sad. When I saw my granny photos, I started to miss her so much and I would ask myself if she is dead or still alive. I still can’t believe that my granny is no more because she is always in my heart and I would always love and cherish the moments we spend together. She taught me many things in life and at times when I had any problems, I would ask her for help and she would help me solve my problems. Photos help us remember many things that had happened in our lives.

Things I did today!!

Nowadays I just have too many things to write in my blog but when I started to write, nothing comes into my mind. There are just way too much things that are personal. Excluding those personal things, I have nothing much to write because my life is just to attend classes, work part-time and do my studies and homework. I am now trying to recall what I did today.


This morning I didn't buy breakfast from the breakfast shop since I got two slices of bread left that I bought on Saturday. I just applied some peanut butter on the toast and then put it inside the toaster to toast it, so for breakfast I ate peanut butter toast. I saved some 15NT$ -25NT$ this way. I've got class at eight in the morning till ten and then went back to the dorm till I went to buy lunch in our school canteen. After lunch had some fruits and then were ready to attend class from 1-3 p.m. and then came back to the dorm again and went to sleep. I was feeling so sleepy in class already and so went to sleep till I was woken by my roomies when she closed the door of our room.


When I woke up, I used the computer for a while and then went to the school canteen again to buy my dinner. After having my dinner, I went to have my bath and then I played some words and math games on the internet and then went to wash my clothes and then last but not the least I am writing this blog about what I did today.

Went to Tainan with al the overseas and foreign students of Yuntech!

        This year the university organizes a trip to Tainan for both the overseas as well as international students. There are four buses since the number of students had increased a lot from last year. We started our journey from our university to Tainan at 8:15 a.m. Our first destination is Eternal Golden Castle. While on our way to the Eternal Golden Castle we passed through Tainan's city hall. We have a guide telling us the history and all in English since there are many students who don't understand Chinese. At around 11 a.m. we went to a restaurant in Tainan to have our lunch.

         At lunch time, we talk to students from different countries and then at 12:10, we started off to our second destination, Anping Fort and then at around 2 o'clock, we headed to our third destination to see the black-faced spoonbill. Frankly speaking, I didn't see any birds there since it's quite far from where we stopped and then I don't have a binocular with me and people with binocular said they can't see the bird properly because it's really too far. We left for our last destination that is the Chiku salt mountain. I climbed one of the salt mountains and it was really not easy to climb because the wind was blowing heavily and I feel like I would be blown away any time. I even had a taste of the salty grapes popsicles. It taste good but it was melting very fast because of the heavy blowing wind. Jenny Wang, a woman in charge of the overseas and international students gave me an egg that is cooked by putting into a wok full of warm salt. It tasted good and then after that we headed back to Douliu to our university, we even have dinner ready for us to take back to our dorm because by the time we reached our university its already 6:30.

      I enjoyed my visit to Tainan and am really dead tired now and so I need to hit the bed soon. Hope to visit more of other places in Tainan!



 

Driving me nuts!

I don't know why I chose to study Japanese when I have not much liking for it. Now I really regret having chose Japanese. There are some 100 alphabets altogether with the full form and short form. I have never felt so difficult learning Indian language, but Japanese is really driving me nuts! I guess maybe it's also because the teacher is teaching quite fast that we (not I) can't follow it. She thinks that we are English majors and so we should learn more than other majors and so she is teaching like an express train. Every time it's because of Japanese that I can't sleep well the night before and when I try to concentrate studying it, nothing goes inside my head. I really don't know what to do now. I guess the only way out is to study it as many time as possible.

Visited the Chinese Medicine doctor!

        Lately I have been having lots of problems relating to my health and so I decided to visit a Chinese herbs medicine doctor that one of our teachers introduced me to. I didn't know that I got edema. I went there with complains of headache and sleeping disorder. So the doctor prescribed a week herbs powder for me, It was so bitter that every time when I eat the medicine, I feel like vomiting. I have to finish eating one week medicine first then I have to go back again. It's for my health that I am eating all those bitter herbs powder. I guess no one likes to eat bitter medicine unless they are no other way out to help improve the condition of my health. It cost only 90NT$ if you have a health insurance card and if you show your student identity card to them. If we are not students and we have health insurance card then it will cost us 190NT$.

Got my salary!

        I am very happy today since I got my salary for the month of November. Time sure flies and this month is my third month working in Doors English. Though it is a bit far from the university, I would still like to work there. I've been acquainted with the working situation there and the teachers as well as the students are quite friendly and so there is not much pressure working there. I've always wanted to experience how it feels like to do part-time job and this semester I finally found a job I like doing. I would like to let everyone knows how it feels like doing things that you like. Do what you think is right, always follow what you heart says. That's all I can say!

Bought two pieces of clothes

    Today Ellie called me up and asked me to go to the train station to pick her up at around 7:45 p.m. I said ok to her and I reached the train station earlier and was looking around and then I thought of looking at some clothing stores and then when I went in, I saw that the woolen clothes are on sale. The woolen clothes costing 450NT$ is selling for 250NT$ only and so I decided to buy two woolen clothes since I feel very cold this winter.

    When I told my mom that I bought two woolen clothes for 250NT$ each, she said I bought it quite cheap. Whenever I didn't think of buying any clothes, I would land up buying it and when I really want to buy it, I can't find any suitable clothes that I like.

Cooked hakka food today!

     Today is Saturday and so I don't have much work to do and so thought of cooking my lunch and dinner myself. I went to the market and bought some mushrooms and some meatballs and a tofu. When I came back to the university, I washed approximately one a half cup of Thai rice that I bought earlier in big packet. When I kept the rice soaked in water, I quickly cut the meatballs, mushrooms and tofu into small pieces so that it would be easy to cook. Actually the hakka mushroom rice is not cooked with tofu and meatballs.

      When I am at home in India, I use chicken pieces marinated with soy-sauce, salt and corn starch and is then fried first. I didn't buy chicken pieces here and so I bought some meatballs that are already cooked and add them to the mushroom rice and since I like to eat tofu, so I add that to it too. I ate mushroom rice for lunch and dinner that day. It not only helped me save some money but also eat healthily