Surprise!!!

Every weekend I always wake up in the mornings without an alarm, and I usually sleep until noon. This Saturday morning, I intended to sleep as late as usual. But then at about nine thirty, my phone rang. At first, I thought it was my alarm clock that I forgot to turn off last night, so I turned it off without doubt. However, my phone kept ringing which made me gradually awake. Then, I thought of that it might be someone’s call, so I took a look at the screen of my cellphone to figure out who’s call it was. The word which appeared on m screen made me more awake was “Daddy.” I picked it up soon, and the other end of the phone passed my father’s strong and deep voice. He sounded happily and didn't appear a trace of unhappiness or impatience of my delay on answering the phone. He was surprise that I was still sleeping because getting up early is always one of the rules at home.

After 15 minutes…

When I was wondering why he called to me so early, he told me he was right downstairs of my dormitory. I jumped out of my bed with this surprising news. After I told my Dad to wait for me for a little while, I rushed to bathroom to brush my teeth and washed my face and then ran down to find him. When I walked out the front door of my dormitory, I saw him wearing the sports outfit with his bike and his cloth and face was all sweaty. He said he was riding here form home by two hours which made me very astonished. I was very happy to see him appeared unexpectedly. Then, he took out two bags full of bread and snacks. I was too touching to speak any word. In one word, parents are the people who are most concerned about their children. 

Taiwan's "democracy"

It has been chaotic when about 200 students forced their way into the legislative chamber and occupied the space on Tuesday night last week. The reason is that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus sent the cross-strait service trade agreement to a plenary session without it being screened. They are some people worried that the trade pact, which would open large parts of Taiwan’s service sector to China and vice versa, would threaten the survival of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the livelihoods of its workers, farmers and businesspeople. In my opinion, there must be pros and cons in this trade pact and I am not very understand whether this pact is good for Taiwan or not, but what made me angry is the procedure of the legislative. I feel sad and disappointed about the democracy of Taiwan and the press. Recently I want to know more about this event, so I read lots of news and watch many videos on the Net. However, I saw a video yesterday about how the press garbled what really happened on the spot. What was reported was totally different from the truth. And at the end I really don’t know which news can be believed.

The Power of Positive Thinking

After the abortion, my sister’s health became really worse. At first, she was prone to being tired. Then, there were aches in her joints. So she went to the hospital and did overall physical checkup. Last weekend, the report went out and the doctor said that my sister got the autoimmune disease. This disease is incurable. It may affect her working and daily life and she may even not be able to give birth to baby. In the beginning, we were stunned and couldn't accept that. We just couldn't believe why it was my sister to get this kind of disease. She is only 26 years old. Therefore, all of us were really sad and upset. However, my friend encouraged me with her mother’s story. When her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, the doctor said she only left few months lifespan. However, her mother remained a positive thinking and had a healthier lifestyle. And now three years passed, her mother is still healthy and lives happier than before. Therefore, I decide not to be so worried and try my best to let her feel relieved and less stressed. I keep telling her that she will be fine and ask her to think positively. Surprisingly, though she still feels pain, she gets much better and the aching also becomes less.

A Sad Weekend

It kept raining for many days, which made me a little upset for no reason. This was a sad weekend. This Friday night I was comforting my sister by phone, and both of us were crying our hearts out. This feeling was totally different from three weeks ago. I can still remember that my sister talked of her pregnant in a cheerful voice. She was so happy, and we spent a whole day talking about her baby’s sex, name, appearance, etc. Everything was so perfect, and everyone expected the baby’s birth. However, things became worse. My sister first got cold, and she couldn't take the medicine because of the baby. Therefore, she was very uncomfortable and became very weak. The good thing was that she was not getting more seriously and her condition was improving. Then, everything happened too fast to react. One night, my sister felt a great deal of pain in her abdomen and she started bleeding. She was sent to the hospital and got a bad news from the doctor. The doctor talked her that she needed to the induced abortion to keep her safe. And she is still very weak and sad until now.

228 vacation

This four days vacation is a good chance for me to go home. Actually, I live in Taipei, but I go home only once a month. Because of that, every time I go home my mom and dad are very happy. When I still lived in home before, I felt lots of limitation from my parents and I always had many chores needed to do. Certainly, we seldom talked to each other and had a lot of fights. However, everything changes after I left home and lived in dormitory. Once I went home, they would prepare bountiful food and I would share my life in school. They would ask me that whether everything went fine, did anyone cheat you bad, and did I have any worries. Then I started to complain the thing that didn't go very well. I felt warm when they are concerned about me and stood by my side. Also, I felt happy when there was someone listening to me so carefully. That's why every chance that I can go home becomes very valuable.