You may not believe in this thing

He, who was accued of sex scandal, is elected to councilor of Kaoshiung

 

   For this political event, I called it a political soap drama.

   Before the election day, there was a magazine which found out some clues about this person to have sex scandal, not only because he is one of cadidates of Kaosiung Counsil, but he is the son of Taiwan's former president. And then, the news came out to public evetually. 

   During the days to the election, he and his wife strongly regarded this news as a interruption from the other party, which want to make him to lose his reputation. As a result, the campaign that he came up with are all for change people's mind about this news. The last night before the election, he choose to seek support from his grandma, which considered to the important reason that he could be elected to the counsil of Kaoshiung. 

   According to the result from Taiwan government, he is one of leading counsils who get most votes in the election of Taiwan.   

   Is it ridiculous? Politics always always come out those which are ridiculous. 


Photo from: cn-rn.com

First Month for being a TEACHER!

   After few days, it will be my first month for being a teacher!

   My first job is an after-school teacher. From monday to Friday and 4pm to 8:30pm I work at a English institution, which is located near Tainan Cultural Center, quite closed to my house.

   Actually, the main reason that I work there is that the owner of the institution provides me a course of ILTES before I start to work everyday, which makes me improve English proficiency at the same time.

   Many people are confused and always ask me that why I choose to work there even though they regard "teacher" as a nice job(Being a teacher is one of olders' favorite job as I know in Taiwan). They, in fact, always try to ask me to have a full time job. I know this is not the job for living, but before i find the suitable job, I rather stay here.

   I had been tired of the days that I had nothing to do and stayed at home a day long since I came back from Beijing to the day that i started to work in this institutionm, which took me more than a month, basically.  

A wedding is around corner!

   This weekend is the wedding of my cousin(so happy).

This photo was taken by my older cousin! In the middle was my cousin
and her husband.

   My cousin is 4 years older than me. Since she graduated from senior high school, she has started to work. For me, she is a mature girl.


   The man she gonna marry is the one introduced by one of my father's friends, who is much older than her(around 6-7 years). He comes from Minsyong, a town in Chiayi county, and works in Chimei, which is located in my hometown, Tainan. At my first time to see him from a photo of my sister, i was tollay surprised and hard to believe that my cousin is his girlfriend and is going to marry him! Maybe, there is something I can not find out from the outside( I did not interact with him). And that is the reason my cousin decides to marry him.


   In Taiwan custom, a normal wedding process is that there are two wedding banquets for both of family. One is for the husband side family and relatives, and another is for wife side. Most of wedding are usually arranged on the weekend, enabling guests are availble to attend wedding banquet. For the husband side, one more special thing is that the previous day before wedding banquet the family of the husband needs to thank the master of God for a nice marriage with some fruit and cookies, which is quite important to the marriage in Taiwan custom. 
   
   Wedding banquet is a small part of Taiwan traditional wedding, and there are many aspects before and after wedding banquet. You may google them on the internet. Basically, in Taiwan tradition custom you will find it is not easy to marry a guy/ woman in Taiwan(if you wanna... hehe). 

Local Breakfast of Tainan

   Today I woke up at 6:30am, and went to have breakfast with my family. What we ate was the local breakfast of Tainan.You may see it in all cities of Taiwan, but actually it is common at southern Taiwan. Instead of fried bread stick and boiled dumpling(famous traditional Chinese food), people in Tainan get used to have braised pork rice, rice noodles and fish ball soup as their first meal in a day.

   Without the firnished dining space as you see the picture below, both of the restaurants are quite famous in Tainan city. One is called Baocheng, another is Atang. They are closed to each other, but what they provide are totally different.

It is the restaurant providing sheep dishes.

Traditional Pure Sheep soup with soy sause

Adopted from this blog: http://chim1237.pixnet.net/blog/post/3288188

This one providing the seafood dishes and rice with soup. 

   As the number of western breakfast store increases in Taiwan and the western lifestyle invades this small island, more and more teenagers don't have Taiwan traditional breakfast(like sth introduced above) and they prefer hamburger and fried chicken. Maybe, next time while visiting Tainan, the historical city of Taiwan, you may spend some time on this Tainan Breakfast!

【Fam.】It's a Raining Day

Now is raining.... 

Since I woke up in the morning, the weather has seemed not good.  I did not go out, instead I stayed at home for a whole day.

Because I don't get a job, I suppose to stay at home and spend less money on everything. Any expenses will be the reason my mom gets angry. Take recent situtation happened few days ago as an example, I bought my favorite green tea in family market in order to get some bonus from the AD campign. While returning to home, my mom got angry at my drink. She thought I stayed at home and drank tea all the day, which cost me much. therefore I should drink less, in her opinion....  

I didn't think it is reasonable, kinda ridiculous. After that moment, I decided the job maybe should not be located in Tainan...

【Family】A nice Sunday!

At mountain 308. Left to Right: my sister, mom, and dad.

    Today, I had a good time with my family. As my father promised few days ago, we successfully had dinner in the restaurant, which one of programs introduced on the TV.

    Nearly 5pm my father came back from my uncle's home. We got ready to restaurant after I took a shower and my parents put on some jakets. Compared to previous experience, this time we drove to Kaosiung on Taiwan Line19,  which took us less time than we expected, around 50 minutes! On the way to the restaurant, my father thought of the period during he finished a part of his military service in Kinmen and started another part at Mituo, a small town in Kaosiung. He did not mention anything about the life in this small town at all, but some pieces of the life may resonate in his mind at that moment.

   After arriving at the restaurant, we spent much time on waiting. Small restaurant was filled with briliantly excited people. The scene, no more room for one more table, revealed that the restaurant is so popular. We ordered a combination of meals, including meat, dumpling and some cakes and small dishes.


   In fact, while going back to home, we all thought the restaurant is not worthy to spend over two hours on transportation and waiting, despite its popularity on the internet. However, since my university is in Taichung and after graduation i went to Beijing for internship, there are few chances that we could dine outside together. So, In my opinion, the time we got together and had a small talk was really good. I really treasure this time.

【Family】My Dad!

(This photo was taken 4 years ago)

    After the internship in Bejing, I have stayed in Tainan, my home town, for few days. And the thing I am going to say happened in our daily ordinary family conversation. 

    My dad, over 50 years old, works in a steel factory, which established by my uncle.

    Recently, My dad always needs to work until 9 pm from 8 am, which makes him so tired after a day long work. As a result, he likes to spend the rest of his day time watching TV after his work. Today, and yesterday he went upstairs, asking my sister google some restaurants which some TV programs introduce on the show(many programs do nowaday). He found it may be a nice restaurant, and asked us whether we are willing to have dinner on this Sunday. 


    "Yes, we are willing, of course!" waving both of my hands.