旅行咖募集測驗

快來測驗是不適合跟我一起旅行吧~
可是不一定準喔
好玩就好

frustrated and streesful

Today, this is the first time I skipped one class of the BME course.
I don't really want to but I have to, project took me a long time to finish that.
The presentation class in the afternoon, based on our request, Hason (my tutor) gave up having us doing "Starbucks" presentation. Instead, he said he is streeful and told us some role models he met in his life.

One is a dean of his department at buiness school, the characteristic of him is "Efficient", "Immune from sleep" "Always replys mail whinin 2 hours no matter what time".I know what he tried to imply that we were not good student and not suitable for business study. This is the first point that frustrated me.

Then, we got the assessment of our mid-trem case study writing and presenting, then I found that me and our group got very low grades. I know I am not really good enough and can't manage English very well, but scores shouldn't be like that. "Introspection" it's the first word on the top of my head. If I learnt not enough? I felt upset today not only for the lack of sleep but also the low score. I just started having dounts about my ability. That's the second big thing that frustrated me.
Not mention to the housing chaos, I feel sorry for the everyone who planed to live wtih me. This also because I found something that beyond my ability so I need to make a choice.

Anyway, I gonna contiuning fighting for my projcet and I hope I could make it before deadline. Bless me.

The story of how to cause Finacial Crisis

Today we just saw this vedio in the class. It's easy but clear explaination will give you basic understanding of the incident. Learn it~

文章分享 History Never Ends -- I Hate to Bother You

昨天早上我們的Tutor寄了一篇文章與我們分享

他總是提醒我們要看 flip side of things, 而且反對主流媒體 (尤其是美國) 的 propaganda

卻永遠對我們說 Don't get me wrong. 他還是永遠支持語言學習與學習商業知識

只是因為他太喜歡"人"所以無法忘懷一些道德面與被人忽視的意見

造成縱使他是MBA畢業卻有著 "Anti-Brand"的反骨

先進國家使用"3C"控制著世界, 侵蝕弱勢國家與文化

• Culture -- 從 clothes開始, Jeans, T-shirt...
• Currency -- Control the economic power
• Communication -- Language

也許我們班比較特別 (謠傳的高分群),

剛開始我也比較沒辦法接受一個Pakistani是我們的tutor

But I have to confess, he is the best. 當別人在語言學習的時候

我們學的是thought-provoking, inspiration, out-side thinking的 skill

Anyway, 先貼這文章給大家分享

來源:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23262.htm

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History Never Ends

I Hate to Bother You

By Eduardo Galeano

August 13, 2009 "Counterpunch" -- I’d like to share with you some questions--some flies that keep buzzing in my head.

Is justice right side up?

Has world justice been frozen in an upside-down position?

The shoe-thrower of Iraq, the man who hurled his shoes at Bush, was condemned to three years in prison. Doesn’t he deserve, instead, a medal?

Who is the terrorist? The hurler of shoes or their recipient? Is not the real terrorist the serial killer who, lying, fabricated the Iraq war, massacred a multitude, and legalized and ordered torture?

Who are the guilty ones--the people of Atenco, in Mexico, the indigenous Mapuches of Chile, the Kekchies of Guatemala, the landless peasants of Brazil—all being accused of the crime of terrorism for defending their right to their own land? If the earth is sacred, even if the law does not say so, aren’t its defenders sacred too?

According to Foreign Policy Magazine, Somalia is the most dangerous place in the world. But who are the pirates? The starving people who attack ships or the speculators of Wall Street who spent years attacking the world and who are now rewarded with many millions of dollars for their pains?

Why does the world reward its ransackers?

Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman? Wal-Mart, the most powerful corporation on earth, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. Why do these corporations violate, with criminal impunity, international law? Is it because in this contemporary world of ours, work is valued as lower than trash and workers' rights are valued even less?

Who are the righteous and who are the villains? If international justice really exists, why are the powerful never judged? The masterminds of the worst butcheries are never sent to prison. Is it because it is these butchers themselves who hold the prison keys?

What makes the five nations with veto power in the United Nations inviolable? Is it of a divine origin, that veto power of theirs? Can you trust those who profit from war to guard the peace?

Is it fair that world peace is in the hands of the very five nations who are also the world’s main producers of weapons? Without implying any disrespect to the drug runners, couldn’t we refer to this arrangement as yet another example of organized crime?

Those who clamor, everywhere, for the death penalty are strangely silent about the owners of the world. Even worse, these clamorers forever complain about knife-wielding murderers, yet say nothing about missile-wielding arch-murderers.

And one asks oneself: Given that these self-righteous world owners are so enamored of killing, why pray don’t they try to aim their murderous proclivities at social injustice? Is it a just a world when, every minute, three million dollars are wasted on the military, while at the same time fifteen children perish from hunger or curable disease? Against whom is the so-called international community armed to the teeth? Against poverty or against the poor?

Why don’t the champions of capital punishment direct their ire at the values of the consumer society, values which pose a daily threat to public safety? Or doesn’t, perhaps, the constant bombardment of advertising constitute an invitation to crime? Doesn’t that bombardment numb millions and millions of unemployed or poorly paid youth, endlessly teaching them the lie that “to be = to have,” that life derives its meaning from ownership of such things as cars or brand name shoes? Own, own, they keep saying, implying that he who has nothing is, himself, nothing.

Why isn’t the death penalty applied to death itself? The world is organized in the service of death. Isn’t it true that the military industrial complex manufactures death and devours the greater part of our resources as well as a good part of our energies? Yet the owners of the world only condemn violence when it is exercised by others. To extraterrestrials, if they existed, such monopoly of violence would appear inexplicable. It likewise appears insupportable to earth dwellers who, against all the available evidence, hope for survival: we humans are the only animals who specialize in mutual extermination, and who have developed a technology of destruction that is annihilating, coincidentally, our planet and all its inhabitants.

This technology sustains itself on fear. It is the fear of enemies that justifies the squandering of resources by the military and police. And speaking about implementing the death penalty, why don’t we pass a death sentence on fear itself? Would it not behoove us to end this universal dictatorship of the professional scaremongers? The sowers of panic condemn us to loneliness, keeping solidarity outside our reach: falsely teaching us that we live in a dog-eat-dog world, that he who can must crush his fellows, that danger is lurking behind every neighbor. Watch out, they keep saying, be careful, this neighbor will steal from you, that other one will rape you, that baby carriage hides a Muslim bomb, and that woman who is watching you--that innocent-looking neighbor of yours—will surely infect you with swine flu.

In this upside-down world, they are making us afraid of even the most elementary acts of justice and common sense. When President Evo Morales started to re-build Bolivia, so that his country with its indigenous majority will no longer feel shame facing a mirror, his actions provoked panic. Morales’ challenge was indeed catastrophic from the traditional standpoint of the racist order, whose beneficiaries felt that theirs was the only possible option for Bolivia. It was Evo, they felt, who ushered in chaos and violence, and this alleged crime justified efforts to blow up national unity and break Bolivia into pieces. And when President Correa of Ecuador refused to pay the illegitimate debts of his country, the news caused terror in the financial world and Ecuador was threatened with dire punishment, for daring to set such a bad example. If the military dictatorships and roguish politicians have always been pampered by international banks, have we not already conditioned ourselves to accept it as our inevitable fate that the people must pay for the club that hits them and for the greed the plunders them?

But, have common sense and justice always been divorced from each other?

Were not common sense and justice meant to walk hand in hand, intimately linked?

Aren’t common sense, and also justice, in accord with the feminist slogan which states that if we, men, had to go through pregnancy, abortion would have been free. Why not legalize the right to have an abortion? Is it because abortion will then cease being the sole privilege of the women who can afford it and of the physicians who can charge for it?

The same thing is observed with another scandalous case of denial of justice and common sense: why aren’t drugs legal? Is this not, like abortion, a public health issue? And the very same country that counts in its population more drug addicts than any other country in the world, what moral authority does it have to condemn its drug suppliers? And why don’t the mass media, in their dedication to the war against the scourge of drugs, ever divulge that it is Afghanistan which single-handedly satisfies just about all the heroin consumed in the world? Who rules Afghanistan? Is it not militarily occupied by a messianic country which conferred upon itself the mission of saving us all?

Why aren’t drugs legalized once and for all? Is it because they provide the best pretext for military invasions, in addition to providing the juiciest profits to the large banks who, in the darkness of night, serve as money-laundering centers?

Nowadays the world is sad because fewer vehicles are sold. One of the consequences of the global crisis is a decline of the otherwise prosperous car industry. Had we some shred of common sense, a mere fragment of a sense of justice, would we not celebrate this good news?

Could anyone deny that a decline in the number of automobiles is good for nature, seeing that she will end up with a bit less poison in her veins? Could anyone deny the value of this decline in car numbers to pedestrians, seeing that fewer of them will die?

Here’s how Lewis Carroll’s queen explained to Alice how justice is dispensed in a looking-glass world:

“There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”

In El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero found that justice, like a snake, only bites barefoot people. He died of gunshot wounds, for proclaiming that in his country the dispossessed were condemned from the very start, on the day of their birth.

Couldn’t the outcome of the recent elections in El Salvador be viewed, in some ways, as a homage to Archbishop Romero and to the thousands who, like him, died fighting for right-side-up justice in this reign of injustice?

At times the narratives of History end badly, but she, History itself, never ends. When she says goodbye, she only says: I’ll be back.

Translation from Spanish for CounterPunch: Dr. Moti Nissani

Among his other achievements, in 1971, Eduardo Galeano wrote The Open Veins of Latin America and, in 1976, escaped death at the hands of CIA-financed Argentine death squads.

[分享資訊]英國幾家低價安全的網上訂機票

不好意思都沒更新網誌...在這邊的生活其實說不上好,瞎忙 & life struggle & assignment& homework 佔去我們美好的生命, 之後再來說明~以下為本文
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隨著航空公司改革政策的發展，現在網上訂票已經成為最經濟最實惠的一種訂票方式。大家都知道，網上的成本低，現在不關是航空公司，還是部分仲介都開展了網上訂票，網上的比店裡的票要便宜很多！！

下面推薦一些航空公司和訂票仲介：

1。AIRFRANCE
法國航空公司，票價非常有競爭力

2。KLM
荷蘭皇家航空公司，很多人來英國都座這個過來的吧，呵呵，也有很多便宜特價票！

3。Virgin Atlantic
維珍航空，不用說大家都知道維珍集團的實力。維珍航空的服務非常好！飛機條件也都很好！

4。Singapore Airline
新加坡航空公司，五星級航空公司！號稱全球服務最好的航空公司之一，就是路途有點繞。但是服務超爽！

5。StarTravel
英國最有名的網上訂票仲介之一，有很多便宜的機票！比較各個航空公司的票。推薦！

6。Ebooker
英國一家著名的訂票網站，全球機票，酒店，比較各個航空公司的價格。

7。Thomas Cook
不用說了大家都知道，大街上到處都是，英國最大的也是170多年歷史的仲介了，機票，酒店，值得信賴，網上的訂票比店裡便宜！

8。Going Place
英國一家著名的訂票仲介機構，全球機票，酒店，假日安排，實力雄厚，值得信賴。

9。Wegolo
一家比較各大航空公司價格的訂票網站，有很多便宜票。


短程和歐洲航線比較便宜的訂票網：

1。FLYBE
有很多便宜的英國和歐洲機票，有名的廉航之一，值得推薦！

2。AIRsouthwest
英國西南部的一家航空公司，有一些不錯的英國和歐洲航線票。

3。Avro
英國和歐洲航線有不錯的票價。

4。SnowJet
一家小航空公司，有一些英國和歐洲便宜票。



集酒店，訂票，假日設計與一體的旅遊公司：

1。Airtour
英國的名牌集合訂票，旅遊與一體的網站之一。

2。Comos
名牌訂票旅遊仲介網站之一。

3。Comos Tour
Comos中的旅遊項目。

4。Holiday Extra
幫你制定假日計畫，訂票，等等。

5。MyTravel
有名的訂票，旅遊綜合網站。

6。XL holidays
XL公司推出的假日旅遊部分。

7。YourTravel
一家比較有名的訂票和旅遊仲介網站。

介紹台灣的影片

找了兩個比較有代表性的
我覺得應該對大家都不錯用, 如果要介紹给外國人的話




這一個是談工業的, 不過見仁見智

Homesaty

大概介紹一下現在的地方
Cardiff雖是Wales最大的城市, 但我們看來真的不算是很熱鬧的地方
其他的地方就不用說了
Pondpridd典型的威爾斯的山上小城鎮, 大概需要開車四十分鐘
且都是上上下下的路

今天算是再學校的第一天, 非常的累
逛完了整個學校之外, 就是不停的認識大家
陪他們做一些簡單的活動
不過下個星期就是重頭戲了
要跟這個算是國高中合一(11years-18years)的學生們介紹我們的國家了
我大概想到一些東西, 下一篇在來介紹

Home媽是一個nice的人, 管理學校的圖書館
兒子和女兒都會來幫忙學校結束後的小學生課後遊戲時間
所以我也必須留在學校直到5:40以後, 才跟home媽一起回去
home爸也是一個很妙的人
非常喜歡電器用品, 不用說家裡也是無線環境
所以我也很自在的可以一直上網
有一隻可愛的小獵犬zeig
唯一可惜的是小孩子都不在家
所以回家後我都要不停的找話題跟他們聊天
還滿有趣的, 順便為我的介紹台灣做個熱身
房間裡面有DVD Player和電視
而home爸有滿滿的DVD任我挑選
這樣的生活真是太棒了
先看一下我完全紫色的房間吧 (晚間十點左右拍的)


接下來就是我二樓房間看出去的風景
相信住這樣的地方是很多台灣人一半子的夢想吧
不知道以後還有沒有這樣的機會
就先兆起來分享給大家

Arrive at UK

一早就起床桿著搭成田早上10:00的飛機
沒想到中間還發生一些小插曲像是台灣沒檢查出來不能帶上飛機的東西
在日本一直被挑剔, 連日拋隱形眼鏡和鉛筆盒裡面的修正液都一定要拿出來看
加上我必須不停穿脫的登山靴, 是有差一點點趕上
接下來16個小時的飛行真的搞的半條命快沒了
不過在日亞航上第一次看英語發音日文字幕的電影發現一點不懂的感覺都沒有
日文果然是比較好懂

買coach(長程巴士)的票時還滿糟的
買完票才發現我買的票變成cambrige了(我明明就說cardiff)
說真的, 我對我的發音還小有一點自信, 畢竟比起老中老日都好太多了
去argue的時候竟然說自我自己說的...
anyway, 反正還是安全的到達Cardiff了
不喜歡的是, 也許是港口, 濃濃的燒煤味是真的不太舒服~
不過Hostel還算真的是不錯, 所以我才能悠閒的在這邊用網路
明天可能哪都不去吧....接下來半個月的生活必須要有好拿的東西才行
先丟上這hostel附近環境的照片

Cardiff tomorrow

Volunteer project leader 跟我們提醒的事..

我覺得會比較接近這次project的狀況, 希望我們真的可以給他們有一點幫助囉

As a team we will be volunteering in a beautiful area called Beddau in Phondda Cynon Taff, working in a school with 1200 children from the age of 11-18. They also have a special needs department and it would be great to spend time in this department also, creating new ways to show how different cultures experience life. This is the second time the project has run so lets make this year as good as (if not better) than last year! This area has many problems, mostly due to the coal mining closing down causing lots of unemployment. There are few things for the children to do in their spare time, it would be great to bring our enthusiasm to this small town and help them understand new cultures whilst also learning about their own culture. The local community is very welcoming and we will be able to meet them and learn about welsh ways of life. The host of the project (K zdzieblo) is organising a fashion show which is going to be great fun! We can also go visit the out of school clubs and join in with sports activities.

留學生活第一po

今天非常的忙碌...
不過總算出門了
從爸媽身邊離開這麼久
真的有點想哭的感覺

雖然限重只有20
跟check in小姐說了一下要出國
馬上他就說還可以再加, 硬是湊到了25kg
接下來塞滿的電腦背包可以不計
剩下的手提行李塞到滿, 我想我也不用再需要台灣補給了吧

到東京...總有點陌生又熟悉的感覺
在飛機上跟旁邊日本先生聊天, 很有趣
原來他也算是個鐵道迷, 特別來台灣坐普快車的 (我從來不知道這麼慢又過隧道空氣不好的火車還有人專程來坐)
而且他在電力公司上班 (很神奇, 我才知道日本的電力公司除了是私營的不說..還分了9個地區9家公司, 還有14座核能發電廠, 電費還有那種用越多越便宜的方案...)

anyway, 接下來就來到要投宿的日航 (JAL) 旅館, (無料!!)
所以現在才可以自由自在的在房間打msn
而且可以借到轉接插頭, 真是不錯
以下就是旅館的內裝

還有我最愛的免治馬桶耶~真是好的開始
其實還有發現日本人細心的地方
譬如說電梯裡面有橫檔可以給人坐著休息之類的
接著兩個日本超好朋友特地打電話進來...講到好累
希望以後都可以繼續把網誌寫下去