Phnom Penh Restaurant

It's been long time since I saw them, Wako, Mika, and Shiori. Their English were all improving. So this time I could enjoy a lot talking with them. We ordered two kind of noodles (金邊湯粄條) , a fried rice (潮州炒飯), spring rolls (越南春捲), and very delicious fried chicken. In fact every dish was great.

They said I looked tired and had a lot of wrinkles on my face. QQ
But Shiori was still so smily and beautiful, her major was cosme so maybe she knew how to remove wrinkles.

At last, on the way to home, we met a Japanese friend, Shun, in Stadium Chinatown Skytrain. They started to speak Japanese.......

Btw, before I came here, actually was just after I finished hiking, preparing to take SeaBus to go back to downtown, I met Masaki's roommate on the SeaBus, having a long talk. Very happy to talk with him in such an coincident chance and great day. I'm looking forward to seeing hime and my friends in his apartment next week.

Event - Cypress Mt

Cypress Mountain. A place which is full of marvels, natures, creatures and dangers.

I made a big mistake. I underestimated the difficulty of Cypress Mt. I guessed that the total distance is around 18 km so I just needed 8 hours to finish it but that was totally wrong.

Actually, I spent 5 hours and arrived on the halfway. That's a ski resort. As soon as I asked some pessengers near here about where I should go in order to reach West Van, it sounded like not very clear. And so was the sign of the Baden Powell Trail for visitors.

Baden Powell Trail is the main trail connects the entrances in North Van and West Van. I just followed this sign on the posts or trees. I doubted whether I was on the right way on occasion until this sign appeared. I went adventure a lot by sixth sense and luckily it's correct in the most of time. Sometimes I asked pessengers.

Blue Gential Lake. Full of leaves of lotus (荷花). I once wondered I should enter the branch from main trail or not cus it will take me some time. But I still gave it a try. Just 300 m, not a big deal. And it's really beautiful.

The reason I doubted I was on the wrong way was just like the picture shown above. How come the road in front of me was like a road ? Like a trail, Baden Powell Trail ?

Again, I can go left and right, but the sign pointed me to go straight. Can you believe that ? I could know what I'll meet later. Maybe there were some snakes or bears, lurking behind the trees.

Even though it's a liitle bit scared for me to come here alone, I still really liked here cus it's very nature place with fresh air, full of flourish plants and creatures.

My trip ended here. Cus I was not sure where to go and I had trouble to check Apple Map on my iPhone (iOS6 sucked, btw). Here came a very nice couple, Canadian husband and Philippine wife, Brian and Feli respectively, gave me a ride from here back to North Van. Brian seemed that wanted to convince me stop keeping going in order to protect me from getting trouble especially I wasn't familiar with this mountain. I accepted his advice and came back to downtown safely. I appreciated them a lot.

If I have a chance, I still wanna go again with some friends and to finish the other part of the trail.

---

Cypress Mountain.

Any crazy guy wanna go adventure with me on this Saturday ?

Member: Male only
Distance: around 20km a day (includes walking and hiking)
Time: start at 7 am
Duration: at least 11 hours (includes transportation and hiking)
Date: 29th Sep (this Saturday)
Food and water is necessary.

http://goo.gl/hZC06

[Lyrics] All That I'm Living For - Evanescence

All That I'm Living For - Evanescence


I can feel the night beginning.
我可以感覺到夜幕的降臨
Separate me from the living.
將我與生命隔開
Understanding me,
懂我
After all I've seen.
在我看到以後
Piecing every thought together,
將每一個想法連接
Find the words to make me better.
找到讓我更好的詞
If I only knew how to pull myself apart.
如果我只知道批評自己

All that I'm living for,
所有我為了而活的
All that I'm dying for,
所有我為了而死的
All that I can't ignore alone at night.
所有我為了而在夜裡無法略過孤單的
All that I'm wanted for,
所有我想得到的
Although I wanted more.
雖然我想要更多
Lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
鎖上最後一閂開着的門，我的鬼魂向我逼近
I believe that dreams are sacred.
我相信夢是神聖的
Take my darkest fears and play them
拿走我最深的恐懼然後遊戲他們
Like a lullaby,
像是催眠曲
Like a reason why,
像是個理由為什麼
Like a play of my obsessions,
像是我捆擾的劇本
Make me understand the lesson,
讓我懂得那課程
So I'll find myself,
然後我會找到自己
So I won't be lost again.
然後我不會再次迷失

All that I'm living for,
所有我為了而活的
All that I'm dying for,
所有我為了而死的
All that I can't ignore alone at night.
所有我為了而在夜裡無法略過孤單的
All that I'm wanted for,
所有我想得到的
Although I wanted more.
雖然我要的更多
Lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
鎖上最後一扇開啟的門, 我的鬼魂在逼近我
Guess I thought I'd have to change the world
只為能讓你看到我
to make you see me,
猜測着我想去改變這世界
To be the one.
成為這一個
I could have run forever,
我永遠奔跑
But how far would I have come
但多遠我才能回來
Without mourning your love?
不需要為你的愛悲傷

All that I'm living for,
所有我為了而活的
All that I'm dying for,
所有我為了而死的
All that I can't ignore alone at night.
所有我為了而在夜裡無法略過孤單的
All that I'm wanted for,
所有我想得到的
Although I wanted more.
雖然我要的更多
Lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
鎖上最後一扇開啟的門, 我的鬼魂在逼近我
Should it hurt to love you?
愛你應該被傷嗎
Should I feel like I do?
應該感覺到我自己
Should I lock the last open door,
我應該關上最後的門嗎
My ghosts are gaining on me.
我的鬼魂在逼近我

Pancake Mix Powder

I ate breakfast with Mency. She also taught me how to make pancake by pancake mix powder, aka 鬆餅粉. Remember to buy this kind of products noticing with the words "add water only" on the packing. The preparation was put some water and powder together, stirring them. Put a little bit oil on fried pan. Fry it. You may be curious when should you make a turn and fried another side. The hint was wait for some bubbles appeared on the top.

We shared our food and drink, talking about cruise, Las Vegas...and so on. But I hope I could understand more. My English was still poor. ><

Anyway, she was a so nice home mother. ^O^

[Lyrics] The last song I'm wasting on you - Evanescence

The last song I'm wasting on you - Evanescence

Sparkling grey
閃閃發光的灰色
The my own veins
是我的血管
Any more than a whisper
任何的一句耳語
Any sudden movement of my heart
我心靈任何的猛然的跳動
And I know, I know I'll have to watch them pass away
我知道 我不得不看著他們離開
Just get through this day
度過這樣的一天
Give up your way, you could be anything
放棄你的路 你可以是一切
Give up my way, and lose myself, not today
放棄我的路 迷失我自己 不過不是今天
That's too much guilt to pay
因為有太多罪要贖
Sickened in the sun
在陽光裡你透露出病態
You dare tell me you love me
大膽地說你愛我
But you held me down and screamed you wanted me to die
但你壓制着我 並尖叫着要我去地獄
Honey you know, you know i'd never hurt you that way
親愛的你知道 你知道我從不會那樣傷害你
You're just so pretty in your pain
痛苦之中的你仍是如此美麗
Give up my way, and I could be anything
放棄我的路 我可以是一切
I'll make my own way
我會開拓出我自己的路
Without your senseless hate... hate... hate... hate
沒有你愚蠢的怨恨 怨恨 怨恨 怨恨

So run, run, run
所以你逃吧 逃吧 逃吧
And hate me, if it feels good
並且恨我 如果那會讓你好過
I can't hear your screams anymore
我不能再聽見你哭叫聲
You lied to me
你對我說謊
But I'm older now
但我已長大了
And I'm not buying, baby
我將不再買帳
Demanding my response
請依據我回應出的需求
Don't bother breaking the door down
不要打擾我把門弄壞
I found my way out
因為我找到了我的出路

And you'll never hurt me again
而你不能再傷害到我

Kitchen Helper

I'm kitchen helper of this gorgeous fried rice for our dinner. I offered the most condiment and have them ready and put in a plate so Mency could cook seamlessly and easily.

Mency put Olive oil and garlic in the fried pan in the very start. As the pan got very heat after firing and then put the cooked rice and light salty soy oil in. As soon as the rice got color changed and medium heated, and then put the carrot, black beans and green onions in, and keep frying. In the very end, put lettuces and a cooked egg in and just fried for a while. Voila! Here came a delicious meal.

Mency also offered not only garlic peppers and green onions but also BBQ cooked chicken from SAFEWAY and a watermelon. Minjae contributed her very spicy and salty cooked chicken from SuperStore. How a nice dish and roommates it would be.

After dinner I went to Tim Horton's, keeping reading my novel until 12 am. I felt chilly outside on the way home but I was so satisfied with today.

Meetup

Meetup with the organizer Busy and Jennifer, Natsumi, Heidy, Hiro, Hector. We had a great time talking in the BG Urban Cafe and Art Gallery.

I ordered hot chocolate in BG Urban Cafe. That taste was very rich. Later on we went to Vancouver Art Gallery. Today was Tuesday so I payed $2 for donation. It's very cheap only on Tuesday, otherwise I have to pay around $15 on the other days. However, we could talk very often cus we were taking a look at the paintings, sculptures, and other kind of arts.

Today was too crowded. Cus this is last week to display Matisse's arts here. On the other hands, it'll change to other topic or artist in next Month.

"It is often necessary to put your work back on the anvil twenty times and then begin over again until you are satisfied." -Matisse

Update Data to MySQL After Submitting by Form (Yii + Extjs4)

I couldn't find a good way to load the data from back-end to front-end when first loading in my updating page.

But I still got it done and it's almost 2 am. I must be crazy...

controller.php

 public function actionMyController()  
 {  
      $today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");  
      $returnOut = 0;  
      $count = 0;  
      $json = array();  
      $command = Yii::app()->db->createCommand('CALL my_SP (  
           :v_date_posted,  
           :v_reason,  
           :v_keywords);            
      $command->bindParam('v_date_posted', $today);  
      $command->bindParam('v_reason', $_POST['UIReason']);  
      $command->bindParam('v_keywords', $_POST['UIKeywords']);                      
      $count = $command->execute();       
      if ($count === 1) {  
           $json = array(  
                'success' => true,  
                'data' => array(  
                     'count' => $count,  
                     'Msg' => ''  
                )  
           );                 
      } else{  
           $json = array(  
                'success' => false,  
                'Data' => array(  
                     'count' => 0,  
                     'Msg' => 'error'  
                )  
           );                 
      }  
      echo json_encode($json);  
 }  

front-end.js

 function xFieldToArray(v, record){   
       return v.indexOf(',') > 0 ? v.split(',') : v.indexOf(' ') > 0 ? v.split(' ') : v;   
 }   
 function xFieldToDate(v, record){   
       return v ? new Date(v) : '';   
 }   
 var mainFields = [   
       {name: 'date', mapping: 'UIDate', convert: xFieldToDate},   
       {name: 'reason', mapping: 'UIReason', convert: xFieldToArray},   
       {name: 'keywords', mapping: 'UIKeywords'}   
 ];   
  Ext.define('Form.model.Record', {   
       extend: 'Ext.data.Model',   
       fields: mainFields   
 });   
 myStore = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {   
       id:'storeRecord',   
       model: 'Form.model.Record',    
       autoLoad: false,   
       proxy: {   
            type: 'ajax',   
            url : '/myApp/index.php?r=myPage/myController&id=1608,    
            reader: {   
                  type: 'json',   
                  root: 'data',   
                  successProperty: 'success'   
            }   
       },   
       listeners: {   
            load: function (records) {   
                  var jsonObj = {};   
                  var fields = records.getAt(0).fields;   
                  // transfer name to mapping in each field of form   
                  for( var key in fields.map )   
                          jsonObj[ fields.map[key].mapping ] = fields.map[key].convert ? fields.map[key].convert(records.getAt(0).raw[key]) : records.getAt(0).raw[key];   
                  myformPanel.getForm().setValues(jsonObj);   
            }   
       }      
 });   

Actually, I wanna load data in this way, but unfortunately this only works when the container supports store and dataIndex mapping from store to column, such as GridPanel.

 myStore = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {  
      ...,  
      listeners: {  
           load: function (records) {  
                //set the default value after the store loads  
                myformPanel.getForm().loadRecord(records.getAt(0));  
           }  
      }       
 }  

There is another way but still a little bit tiresome.

 myformPanel.on  
 ({  
      actioncomplete: function(form, action)  
      {  
           if (action.type == 'load')  
           {       
                // mapping and assign data from Json to UI  
                var data = action.result.data;  
                Ext.getCmp('UIKeywords').setValue(data.keywords);  
                Ext.getCmp('UIReason').setValue(data.reason);  
                Ext.getCmp('UIDate').setValue(data.date);  
           }  
      }  
 });  
 myformPanel.getForm().load({url: 'myController.php'});       

Spaghetti

My first spaghetti cuisine. It's so delicious.

But my home mother helped me too much. The steps are almost the same as Christine's who is my Taiwanese friend. I was so lucky that Mency taught me and also had so many ingredients like olive oil，pepper, oregano, garlic for me to use. I really appreciated all of their helps.



My friend's Guide:
1.需要準備：cheese，butter，如果吃白醬要whip cream，吃紅醬要買紅色的pasta sauce(grocery store都有賣一整瓶的，玻璃裝的)

2.將cheese刨成一條一條的，大概要像一個拳頭那麼多，先放旁邊

3.你先炒洋蔥，蒜，白蘑菇，炒到軟先放一邊

4.再煮綠花椰菜跟蕃茄，煮一鍋水，沸騰時加入花椰菜跟蕃茄，注意不要煮太久，不燃花椰菜會變成黃色的

5.另一鍋煮義大利麵，鍋子內放一點點油，鹽巴，煮沸後加入義大利麵進去煮，大概煮10分鐘，要測試麵煮好沒可以拿一條起來試吃，應該要有軟了，不過不要太軟，因為你等一下還要再煮

6.把麵撈起來放在平底鍋，加入奶油，剛剛刨的cheese，煮好的洋蔥蘑菇，還有花椰菜跟蕃茄，把紅色的pasta sauce倒進去，中火加熱，記得要一直拌喔，不然cheese會黏住鍋底

7.這個只要煮一下就好，就是把全部的東西混合一起，加熱這樣，大概煮3-5分就好了

(要很好吃的話，需要大量的cheese跟奶油，但是會很油，不過真的很好吃，你可以試試看 ^^)

It very helps.

Magic Rice Porridge

I went to Metrotown to meet a Taiwanese couple to give them my Fido SIM card. After done, they gave me a green tea Latte of Starbucks for present. This was the second time I gave SIM card to them and got a free drink in return.

Before I met them, I ran into 2 Thai friends, Min and Mix, and a new Taiwanese friend. They came here same as my purpose, that's to buy some stuff from supermarket.

Actually, not only I wanna buy stuff, but I tried to find Doctor's Omega-3 Seal Oil for my mother. Doctor's DPA Omega-3
I visited around 10 stores, such as shoppers drug mart, London Drug, superstore, T&T, and other not famous stores in Metrotown's mall or crystal mall. Unfortunately I couldn't find this brand even though they did have omega-3 seal oil.

So I asked for help on FB and got this link, Dr. Ho's Triple Omega 3 Seal Oil. However they seemed not alike.

After home, I made my dinner and it had very nice taste and look. I ate and played guitar with my roommates in the living room. Enjoy this time very much.
Minjae was learning the new song, 'Officially missing you', and learned from Den very quickly. It's amazing.

Home Mother

( Ambleside Park )

( LightHouse Park )

I felt so scared because I have fear of height....
LightHouse Park is full of marvels. It's worthwhile to make the trip at least once. :P

I was supposed to go to Cypress Mt. but unfortunately I overslept. Mency and me got up at the same time because the fire alarm. So we ate breakfast together very leisurely and delightedly, talking about where we were gonna go later on.

This the reason we went to Ambleside Park in North Vancouver and afterwards took an adventure in LightHouse Park in West Vancouver. We talked a lot though I couldn't understand very well. But I did learn a lot from her in terms of life, especially how she got through the toughest period.

After home, we ate dinner together and played guitar with Den. How a nice day. You made my day, Mency. Thank you very much and Happy birthday to you (9/21).

Keep Meal Light

Nowadays, I have strong feeling that I got a duodenal ulcer. I don't really feel hungry and my heartbeat is a little bit faster. That is all because of my bad habit to eat food. I always ate too much and misunderstood my appetite.

So I changed the way to eat, like making rice porridge in the morn with unsweetened soy milk for my breakfast. Eat less and exercise more before I go to sleep. I hope I can get over it. I've got this disorder so many times in my life. But it's first time happened in Canada so I have to take more care.

Unfortunately I had an appointment today with my friend, Veronica, and we chose Cattle Cafe (牛仔餐廳) for our dinner. I ordered the soup made from tomato and pumpkin. So the flavor was not too strong for my stomach. Hope that helped.

She got 2 good jobs cus she was not only could speak English well but also tried hard. She did it. It's amazing that she could get income and talk with Canadians when she was working.

I thought I still ate too much so I decided to go back to my home by walk after dinner. The distance was around 4 km. I felt better after walk but it's a little bit scaring to walk in the night.

Meetup

Today was kinda busy. I had an appointment in Harrison Galleries for practicing English. This was the second time I joined the activity of the ESL Conversation Group, while the first time to see organizer, James who is a English teacher as well as a Canadian.

I couldn't enjoy the conversation until finished. Cus I met a member of this group, a Korean whose name is SuYeon, we complained about this meet up. The same situation happened to us that there was a very talkative Chinese member grabbed all the time to practice English even though we were separated in different group.

On the way to take skystrain we talked a lot and kept talking until 29-Ave station. This coincidence changed today's feeling from terrible to wonderful.

Btw, before I went to Harrison Galleries, I visited VEC and saw some old friends, such as Min, Nin, Guil, Masaki, Takuya, Shiori, Mika, and the Korean couple, Jay Ho and Hei sung. I missed them. ^^

Mormon

I think I'm too impulsive to tell them, missionaries, that I'm willing to be baptized. But I know I'm not ready yet. My master, John, reminded me in his car like this saying, 'That is a commitment, don't do that if you don't understand very very well.' So I'm hesitated again. I won't push myself to be baptized until I'm ready.

Actually, I always feel good when I talk with missionaries either in Canada or Taiwan.

I still want to talk with them in English. However we spoke Mandarin in the most of time.

You Paint I Fire

(Iranian dessert)

This is Iranian dessert, full of sugar, but it's not something like the Timtibs in Tim Horton's. It's malt sugar, healthier one.

(Timbits, too sweet)

I ate dessert in John's studio. Today I felt very bored cus I have finished the program for the NPO company and they haven't assigned me what to do. Therefore, I went to help John earlier.

While I arrived, I had a short greeting with John and started to mill 2 buckets of very thick clay and strained them to another bucket by drill. However I made mistakes again, I made 1 bucket of clay too thin, and too thick for the other one...

Anyway, when I was done, I had a chance to drink tea and talk with Iranians, John, Alex, and Tina. For them, Sumi and me were foreigners, so they taught us how to say 'YES' in Persian. The sound was like "A-lei', and 'Na' meant 'NO'. Make your head go up  actually meant 'NO'. On the contrary, go down meant 'YES'.

The most interesting thing was if you raise your thumb, it means 'FUCK', though it's so positive meaning for my country and Japan.

Persian	English
Ha-na	Hope (Flower, light)
John	Dear (friend)
A-lei	Yes
Na	No

Prey

 

A person posted this story on the website, craigslist. He said he needed our preying for her mom's health and getting peace.

So let's do it !

Dear Heavenly Father,
.............
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rch/vol/3282644639.html

Farewell Trip

Farewell TRIP (Bowen Island)

I'm gonna leave in Oct. So the most thing I wanna do before I leave is neither eating or drinking. I wanna take more photos instead.

So I'll go to Bowen Island again on specific Saturday at 9:00 am. It's beautiful there, especially it's autumn now.

Pick one from the following options plz. I'll decide which day to go and then tell you.
Thanks ! My dear schoolmates !

I can join on 6 Oct or

0 votes

I can join on 13 Oct

I raised this voting on Facebook and hope that my friends can tell me their willing if they are interested in this beautiful place or even me. Unfortunately, nobody wants to join except for Masaki.

Shiori KawaragiEunjin KoYutong ZouJieun HanGa Young KimFujii KazukoMariko MaruyamaShunsuke SuzukiAyano TeramotoKichan James ParkToshiyuki KoikeYui Cally SanoMasato WatanabeMasaki ShibaTakuya MurasakiElims Yong Hyeon KimNaoki SekiHa-na NaTeruyuki ItoMarco BorgGukHwa MunSeon Min SinnErick NevesMarcelo De Almeida BoldrinRafael Ribeiro Da RochaGunner MYwingFábio MassarettoChristian LieblSunny ChangPa Paruedee ChoosongAimi IuraRyan ChenWanason MixBecky PaiAmin LaiKhannicha MinGask Huang-KaiPloynin NalineeAnita LinGuilherme TrevisanVivian TangChoi Hee Jon

Meetup

The second time to join Vancouver ESL Club. I talked a lot with Busy, the group's organizer, but I had to leave early cus I had an appointment with missionaries. I wanna join this activity again !

Afterwords, I went to a Mormon church and met the missionaries, Bluemel, Ross, Smith and Evan. We spoke in English and Mandarin mutually. It's amazing that Ross and Evan could speak in Chinese very well. I promise them I'll go to the church and probably get baptized in Canada.

Can I do that? Only God knows.

Corn Soup and Chicken Drum

當你孤單你會想起誰....
..
..
玉米濃湯!
好喝!


My favorite soup. It's very easy to make. I put 2 eggs, 1 can of corn with creme, some sausages and 1 chicken broth cube into water, boiling them.

It's good but why the shells of corns are hard ?

I talked with my roommate, Dan, in the meantime. He said he wanna go to Brazil to visit his female friend and is applying for visiting visa. I envy him cus I don't know when I can go there in my life to visit my good friend in Sao Paulo, Yuri, or go to Mexico to visit Dany in Guadalajara.

Later on, I met Mireya and I gave my chicken drum to her. She was so surprised that I cooked by microwave. It's definitely delicious because of Mency's help !

Thanks for Mency's help and made my chicken drum so delicious. However I had no idea how I can cook it after marinaded. Hence, guess what, I put it in the microwave and it's so nice look and taste.

Hahaha, I did good job !

What Do You Want To Be ?

While I was working in the studio 'You Paint I Fire', an adorable and curious Iranian girl who is in the third grade in elementary school asked me 'what do you want to be?'
「Well, good question!」I replied.
「....」I can't tell.

To be honest, this question has been very difficult for me to answer for a long time. Even now I have no idea. It's ironic that an adult over 30 like me couldn't answer such an easy question. Shame on myself. ><

Another bad news. That was, my older sister in Taiwan asked me for buying omega-3 food for mom cus her eyes got age-related degeneration and thus made her eyes very dry. I was so worried about that and asked my friend to buy some healthcare food including either omega-3 or lutin.


Btw, if you got age-related degeneration on the eyes and made your eyes very dry. Except for eating healthcare food including omega-3. What else should you do ?

Hope God bless my mom.

Thai Dinner

I went to a Thai friend's apartment and had a dinner with 4 Thais and 1 Brazilian. I brought chips and a bubble tea for them and they cooked for me. The meal was very simple but delicious. My friend, Min, just put pork, cabbages, mushrooms, radishes, black peppers, rice noodles and then boil them in the water. Before eating, they put a special Thai sauce, sweet and spicy, in the soup and mixed with noodles. It became a very Thai style food. I liked spicy food but the Brazilian guy was suffering from the spice...

After I left my friend's apartment, I went to a bookstore and a coffee shop to keep studying English. The last, on my way home, I passed the Robson Square and I saw a very cute animal, skunk.

Just watched it. I didn't wanna try to scare it or I would get irremovable bad small...

Arepa

I like Arepa so much ! Remember ? It's Venezuelan food, and put with impressive stuff inside, thanks for my sister, Mereya's sharing. ^o^

Before I ate, there were 2 Mormon missionaries, Smith and Bluemel, came to my house and talked with me. Actually I've known sth about Mormonism in Taiwan and almost got baptized. However I still felt very questionable so that I wasn't ready to do that. Anyway, they tried to review the story of God, Jesus Chris, prophets, and Joseph Smith who made the 'Book of Mormon' published in March 1830.

Golden Ears Provincial Park

North Beach Trail in Golden Ears Provincial Park

Finally, the color of maple tree's leaves are changing. How beautiful Canada will be in the next month ? I just can't wait !

I enjoyed this time much more than last week cus I entered more beautiful places in this park, such as the another side of Alouette Lake and a tremendous and cozy campground, having picnic here. Also I walked in a very simple but beautiful trail, North Beach Trail. When my friend and I finished all those activities, it was almost 5 pm so we've gotta go. Even I really wanna try another trail, Lower Falls Trail, but we couldn't cus we need 1 hour to finish this trail and just one way.

On the way we went back to Vancouver, we ate Taiwanese food in 'The One Restaurant'(美味關係) in Metrotown. It's good taste but the air conditioner was too powerful and made the food cool very fast...

Today's most scaring thing. The spider !

I hate the spider, especially on my pillow!

Aki Japanese Restaurant

On the way to a Japanese restaurant, I saw a real set of filming near Burrard Station. In which there were 2 polices riding horses. A machine creating the smog made the city very foggy and the street was in the mess n cars were on fire...

My roommate, Cody, said the polices were searching the zombies bla bla bla. I forgot the actor's name and movie's name. It's cool, wasn't it?

The restaurant was famous so we waited for a while until 9 pm. We gave up another restaurant cus I had to wait for 1 hour and then it would be 9 pm. It's just the same time to eat. =.-
Anyway, here was more safe and higher class. So I spent more than $25 to eat and have 2 cups of plum wines. Taste was good.

台灣，不要再吵了

我已經在加拿大4個多月了，都30幾歲的人，為何還要辭掉工作，跟爸媽借錢，來到這裡？

大學同屆的同學，兒時的玩伴，乃至於後來工作認識的新舊同事，很多事業都蒸蒸日上，運氣好的，卡位早的，有天分的，有人緣的，忍功一流的(極重要)，都踩著或半踩著管理職的位置，特休從7天邁向10天，然後繼續追加，考慮年資的分紅制度也讓他們生活越來越穩定，不需要汲汲營營找工作或人生的第二春之類的。 畢竟資深的員工遲早會走，站穩腳步，等待時機，沒理由跟錢過不去。辭職，年資重算，特休也重設，怎麼想都像笨蛋。

但我就是笨蛋，咬我阿！

對不起，除了爸媽能咬我，剩下我自己能咬我自己，人生的路，自己決定。很高興爸媽支持我出來見世面，而且保持健康的身體讓我無後顧之憂，還借錢給我(雖然是爸媽的，但也是要還的，不過還是很汗顏自己沒存夠本)。

台灣最近在吵說打工度假的很像台勞，然後有一派反駁說外國人都不當我們是台勞，反而我們自己說自己，或說如果我們是台勞，那全世界都是傭人。說真的，我真的想說，是台勞又如何？這就是我們在國外的職業，做一些粗重的工作，屠宰，採收水果，封裝，清掃房子，洗碗工，搬運工...等不勝枚舉，的確不是很輕鬆或是上中流社會的工作。但沒語文能力，沒辦法跟外國人很流利地對話，除非本錢雄厚來純交朋友純旅遊，不然不做這些工作，想做什麼？不想挖礦？那希望你多才多藝，可以在街頭掙錢。

但我一開始就設定不工作，而是先著重在英文對話。前三個月，我到語文學校學英文，下課後，繼續與外國同學吃飯聊天，住宿也選擇室友來自不同國家的地方住，畢業後到處找志工服務的機會。繼續燒錢，有點焦慮，因為每多待一天，我都在檢視自己的英語究竟有沒有進步，但很遺憾，雖然有，但是有點慢。慶幸的是，講英文不再是很困難的事情，就跟吃飯喝水一樣，因為每天都要講，只差在如果跟本地加拿大人對話還是非常非常吃力的事情。假如我能待個一年以上，我想應該可以有一個滿意的躍進。但沒關係，我體驗到了，我將會在加拿大待將近半年，然後回台灣重新找工作，繼續加班，回到正常人的生活。鮮少人在乎你有這些經驗，能夠講一口流利的破英文？TOEIC幾分拿來參考一下。老闆跟同事依然看你的證照跟相關領域經驗，以及你工作能夠多努力。對工程師來說，就是加班罷了。

唯一能夠自豪的，就是有這一分不可抹滅的遊學經驗，天曉得這對人生會有什麼幫助，但至少「很多人沒有機會體驗。」我現在能想到的，就是老了時候，跟孫子講吧。有些很會講道理的人，會說擴展人生視野，接觸多國文化，體驗人生經驗之類的，我倒覺得有點太過粉飾，以我只待半年，可能接觸了一些些，但也不是很深，畢竟與真正的加拿大人對話時，10句有9句聽不懂，我就很難懂他們文化了...。

講到這裡，如果感覺我是想表達「出國遊學對人生並不會有太大改變」，那就錯了。我真正想表達的，是我來到這裡，是想學英文的。除了上課, 我怎麼學英文？我有個日本朋友，年輕小夥子，22歲，前3個月我們下課後幾乎每天都去不同地方繼續用英語對話，最常去的就是Tim Horton's咖啡廳，然後聊到半夜快1點，隔天繼續上課。我們有共同的目標，來到這裡，想辦法把英語學好，不然就浪費了，浪費什麼？就是時間跟錢吧。

為什麼我要學英文？

競爭力！

我們常常用亞洲四小龍或是拿我們最愛拿來比較的韓國，來看待自己國家的強弱，但很遺憾，我們慢慢走向墊底之路，而且在底部站穩腳步，不再有太大的前進，變成井底之蛙，感覺外面的世界就是這樣，天曉得人家是怎麼進步的。但我發現，韓國人真的非常非常努力，他們壓力很大，不輸台灣，投資大量金錢在英語學習上，因為他們會比較，你在國外待多久，英語能力如何，這變成好公司或好學校篩選面試者的基本條件。一旦蔚為風氣，即使韓國朋友們說很幹，說這有點病態，但還是只能照做。努力提升自己，大學暫時休學，跑去菲律賓1對1英語家教，跑來溫哥華生活...。

當大家都在比英語實力時，台灣的新聞在討論台勞？在討論打工度假的是非？

WTF！

好心點的話，請讓我回國之後，有好的英語學習環境，有低價的英語學習資源，不要讓我的英語學習之路斷掉，當我們普遍都能夠講英文，就像是香港、新加坡一般時，運用我們電子工業的強項以及優質的管理能力跟暗潮洶湧的創造力，一舉提升台灣整體的生活水平。吵？ 有什麼用。英語不會變好，競爭力不會變強，台勞則是年復一年增加。如果我爸媽沒有支持我出來，我可能跟我這邊的一些朋友一樣，去洗碗，想辦法生存，再從縫隙中去學英文。但如果把洗碗的時間拿去學英文，把吵架的時間拿去討論如何提升英文，說不定下次來我就是外國餐廳的Waiter了，順暢的對話，優渥的小費，真正融入在地生活。這真是夢，但至少這個夢裡面，沒人在吵架，只有歡笑。

最後分享一個我其中一個志工經驗，為了一個理念，為了讓小朋友有地方玩樂，某一間國小Champlain Heights School Annex向美國的一個非營利組織KaBoom申請建造學校的遊樂場playground。眾志工們將一個不毛之地，辛苦的挖土，搬運廢土，打地基，灌漿，組合遊樂場，建造花圃，大約花了1周的前置工作，以及2天的大量投入人力，在2012年8月25日終於完成了。這是一個很有意義的工作，志工彼此同心協力，有說有笑的把事情一步一步完成，即使非常艱辛，但最後完成時，你將知道這個遊樂場的生涯中，會服務成千上萬的小朋友，而小朋友將會上上下下跑跑跳跳地遊戲於此地，他們不會知道誰辛苦的建照他，但會用力的去使用他。而這就是這組織的目的，提供一個場所讓孩子去玩，提升他們的腦力、組織能力與領導力。

Before

After

Volunteers

人生不設限

不後悔

'You can do it as long as you make up your mind. You can do it.' - Team Hoyt

Meetup

There was a English conversation Meet up here, Harrison Galleries. This was my second time to participate and I felt better than last time cus there were more than 10 people here and they were all good English speakers to me. We never stopped talking here for 2 hours until this coffee shop closed.

I enjoyed this 'Meet up'  and made a lot of Japanese friends. See you all next time.

Afterwards, on the way I went back to the library, I ran into 2 old friends, Yutong and Eunjin, and a new Taiwanese girl. She'll attend Inlingua school with is the same school as Paul's, my friend. I can feel her aggressiveness and eagerness to study English. Hope she has a good life here.

I felt comfortable to talk with my friends Today. Not only in the coffee shop but also before the meeting, in which I went to VEC and talked with my old friends, and after the meeting, which I ran into some friends in front of the library.

It's an unbelievable and indescribable good feeling.

Wild Plums

I picked some plums and pears from the yard of my house. It's so tasty. And I ate lunch (chicken rich porridge) with my home mother, listening to her customer's love story. It'a bittersweet. In spite of their separation for a long years, they got married at their early 40s. Right now, the husband is a film director, and the wife is a lawyer. They're rich and have a sweet life.

You Paint I Fire

To my dear dear master, John,

 Thank for making my day again. (making me a day is also make senses..)   
 I always feel warm and comfortable when working with you.   
 But I have only 38 days left....and I couldn't go tmr. That means 37 days left.... omg  
   
 The music video I listened to this morn, the link is as following:   
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sihX98mAw  
   
 I will buy u a drink if u don't cry after watch.  
 Good night and good day for tmr.  
 Kevin  

Today I didn't program any code. I felt a little bit lost myself so I went to studio 2 hours earlier than before. As a result, as my expected, I felt happier cus I was doing what I'm really interested in and talked with nice guys.

Afterwards, I took a bus with my coworker, Sumi. We enjoyed our talking but...I left my iPhone's earphone on the bus. Oh my god...

The last, I arrived at bookstore in downtown after Pizza as usual. A Canadian cute girl asked me if I have charger for iPhone or not. Unfortunately, I don't have. But I will bring it with me next time. I paid $15.70 to buy a new book "WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR" before I left the bookstore.