Happy Birthday Jesus

Ho ho ho~~~Happy belated Christmas~~

I had a series of activities to celebrate Christmas since begining of December, but this is what I did on 12/24 and 12/25:
I spent my Christmas Eve with my dear friend Sharon, going back to Meilun to see my old mates and went to visit a second hand bookstore(時光二手書店) . Spend my Christmas rainy night with Patty and had dinner with Debbie and her room mate together. Patty and I then visited another decent second hand bookstore in Hualien down town called "舊書鋪子"a famous Chinese writer's old place (楊牧故居) now transformed into a lovely second hand bookstore. Patty and I then later went to have a drink(紅豆湯&燒仙草) next door and she told me what she knew about Jesus and I told the complete verion of the birth of Jesus according to Bible in great delight =) Not much things were going on in Hualien on Christmas day. But a serene night was good enough for Jesus and I.

Here's one clip for you my friend. Merry Christmas :o)
Where ever you are, what ever you do, Jesus Christ is in your heart with you.

Cheers
Charity

Concert night 12/4 花蓮9803雷鬼Red-I 樂團表演

December 06, 2009

The consuming fire of Your love has once again captured my heart, rescued my soul. My life has a purpose because of Your unconditional love. Your love makes me whole. I shall never repress my real self and just be real honest with You to be honest with others. My life has been a mess without You in the past two months, and now it will never be the same. For now I have You in my heart that I am in You and You are in me. Oh my God, this Love how can it be…

Friday evening has officially become a concert night for Sharon and I now that we had two concerts and will probably go to a cello concert next Friday night and will likely to continue this pattern till holidays separate us.

December 4 Friday evening, Sharon and I went to get some free dinner with the class teacher and other ten second year classmates. Then went to my place for a little rest and headed off to 9803 coffee shop with great anticipation that our English English teacher seized every chance he’d got in his classes to adversities about it. Red-I reggae music. I invited Debby to come along, and surprisingly she said she’d love to go. Sharon and I arrived there on time nine in the evening, not many people there yet. We took the front seats (again) Rock n Roll area搖滾區(because of Sharon really) next to the window. Both of us had a cup of hot latte in our hands and talked along to catch up our former life stories in delight when suddenly a big penguin grinned at us through the windows. It was our English English teacher. (use your imagination, doesn’t he look like a penguin with his hair cut and his attitude?) Our entertaining penguin with a not-so-heavy-sexy British accent called his dear colleague Mister Green to come along and checked ‘us’ out. And they probably said something like this:

“Hey they are my students! Sharon and Charity!” bragged the penguin. “Charity!” exclaimed Mr Green, taking another gulp of his Taiwan beer. More grinning.

Well the penguin was probably feeling proud that he’d talked into two of his students to come while his mate didn’t seem to have any yet. The two teachers gave us a great laugh. It was hilarious to see two English teachers having their beer in their hands, chatting with the vocalist Patrick of Red-I and doing nothing really. Debby got here just in time for the performance and had a lovely creamy drink with little alcohol in it, which she drank it all within three songs.

The performance was really nice. Though the place was not big, pretty cozy, I really liked it. One vocal, a bass, two guitars, a drum. Simple and pure Reggae. The offbeat rhyme, similar to jazz with a little aboriginal flavor mixed. Very nice. Patrick the singer had a vocal voice with personality and simply special and absolutely suitable for Reggae music. One thing three of us really liked is that the band would interact with its audience and makes it more fun than just to listen to the music. And that is something can only do in a small cozy concert. All in all, we really enjoyed it. 200 NT is definitely worth it.

Seeing Red-I playing the songs made me think of Alison and thought about would she going to live a life like them. I soon realized she’s not going to be like them wandering about with lots of cigarettes, alcohol, and all that. Because she knows the purpose of life in Christ and she will not and cannot compromise in those material satisfaction. She’s going to be a very decent international jazz singer. I just know it. I miss you my friend. Miraculously, Alison rang me the next day and updated me the news and talked about her career and stuff. I was just thinking of her and so God made her call. I’m thinking to go back to Taipei this weekend now. =D

Dearest hear the whisper of the wind,

Life can be so beautiful…

Charity

Thanksgiving Holiday 2

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我的感恩節回家節暨東華校慶暨東華國際文化節一個星期為期七天的假期(台北五天花蓮兩天)愉快的結束了=) My 5 day break in Taipei, the thanksgiving holiday, National Dong Hwa university international festival, has finally come to an end.

11/21 全家好不容易團圓了… For the first time after three months, my whole family gathered together to celebrate dad’s birthday. Ever since I gone for university, and my sister Maranatha to a private junior high which required students to live in a dorm, we seldom have times to really just gather up and eat a meal. I used to think that having meals together with your family is the most normal thing to do in life, but I didn’t realise how hard it can be, to have a simple happy life, till I go for university, apart far from home. I love my mom and my dad. Though mom hasn’t changed much with her gossiping phone calls and dad’s love for us to buy too much food and mom would complain about the leftovers, I love them forever. My sisters Gloria and Maranatha went to have some supper滷味 after the youth service Saturday evening(11/21). I thought that this day would never happen, but it actually did. Three of us, in a cosy store, eating noodles with chopsticks, catching up like friends! The scene I’d always dreamed of actually came true. We were just talking about junior high school, high school, and of course university life. No fights, no arguments, no “I’ll tell MOM!.” Just awesome. Maranatha accompanied me to the night market later in the evening, I just felt like going(I was on my holiday!) and she said she’d love to go with me. We bought nothing really, some more snacks, and a pair of shoes lol! (Don’t tell mom!) White guy spotted that evening: 10 Ten. Oh what’s more, The day I hung out with Alison(11/18三)to have breakfast in IKEA and spent the night in Eslite bookstore, white ladies spotted: 6, white guy spotted that day: 22. Which is quite scary, and most of the guys I saw were young, around 30 I suppose, which makes it even more scary. When did white foreigners occupy the Taipei City when I’m gone?

The last day I spent in Taipei was nice. I had this idea that I should spend time with my little brother who is seven now on my last day in Taipei and so we went for a little walk to grab a cup of milktea 五十嵐! My favourite. And went to a local bookstore to hang out and just doing nothing. That’s what I like to do, sadly, hang out with myself or friends in a bookstore, browsing books or just standing and doing nothing. We were just looking at things and browsing some DVDs and talking like kids, I mean I was talking like kids, he’s seven. And as we walked back home, we bumped into Moses and Allen. What a surprise! So I decided to invite them to my home and catch up a little. I was doing countdown actually, countdown the hours I still had before catching the train to Hualien. In the last hour in Taipei, I was talking to my two dearest friends, which makes a perfect end for my Taipei holiday. Dad gave me a ride to the train station, and here I was in Hualien Meilun with my the other dearest old freshmen classmates Vivian and Nancy, we had supper at the 自強night market 棺材板~ 太好吃了!! 大土豆紅豆湯真好喝! I guess Taiwanese like to catch up by having supper! Delicious. Having gossip about our dear old mates and talking about life in Dong Hwa and life in Meilun. Very nice. I love my holiday! My thanksgiving holiday friends visited number: approx. 5. Families, church old friends, Enchi, Jennifer, Alison, Moses, and Allen. Bookstores visited times: 4. Readings during the holiday: The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Have a little Faith(read first part Spring standing at the second floor in Eslite bookstore), and The Uninvited a ghost story play. School will start tomorrow and I cannot complain. School must start because I’ve decided to make my English right and know English the language and the culture as much as I can in four years. And after the break, I know I’ve had a very pleasant rest and am ready for the challenges ahead. I enjoyed my holiday and this is what I thankful for. I’m thankful for my thanksgiving holiday! Thank you thanksgiving! Another thing I done for my own pleasure, I sent a message to Adam to wish him a happy thanksgiving on Friday 11/27 and it makes me feel good. It don’t matter if he’s gonna reply me or not, I just wanted to write him a thanksgiving note and it feels right and I have no regrets.

Happy thanksgiving! Wheather you celebrate it or not ;D

Cheers,

Yahsin

Thanksgiving Holiday 1

November 23, 2009 Monday
Thanksgiving Holiday
It’s dad’s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Dad.

I’ve gone back to Taipei for 26 hours now and is enjoying in the most pleasant way and looking forward to the rest. A break I’ve always planned to give myself after the intensive, stressful, oppressed two week midterm has finally carried out thanks to the series of activities for the school international cultural festival. I’m giving myself a 5 day break by not attending the activities in order to stay in Taipei as long as possible. Leaving all the responsibilities and school work in Hualien, I came back to Taipei with one bag with not much in it and a relief heart. Though Taipei city is noisy and crowded as usual, I have enjoyed my ‘thanksgiving holiday’ I called it anyway.

My thanksgiving holiday starts by the time I finished my last midterm test (my horrible chemistry test) last Friday morning, and will probably end by the first class (French Class Friday afternoon) I’ll take when I’m back in Hualien. So an approximately one week time to relax and recharge by doing nothing particular ;D
Since I’m still having my thanksgiving holiday in Taipei, four days to go, I’ll report the first half of my holiday.

Last Friday evening was a laugh. Sharon, Patty and I went to a concert on Friday evening. 東華大學演藝廳11/20(五)晚上七點 台北愛樂室內樂坊《三弦主義+海角七號 = 十分音樂》演奏會: 大提琴家呂超倫，旅日小提琴家李商宇，法國楓丹白露國際吉他大賽銀賞得主蔡世鴻所組成的跨界三重奏 Oh dear, it was hilarious! Seriously, I’ve never, ever, ‘watched’ a concert like this before. Yes, watched. There were three professional musicians: a violin guy with personality hair style, a modest guitar player, and an absolute entertaining cellist. Their musical skills were no doubt professional, but the real drama was carefully hidden between the three masters’ facial expressions and the movements and most important, in the conversation between the lines and only the front seat sensitive audience would really know what was going on. Because of the unusual combination: violin, guitar, and a cello, they have to write their own pieces or rearrange written works so that three of them can have something to play. In doing so, according to Mr. Cellist, they sort of improvise music pieces, even on stage. And that was so true! Their performance was obviously improvising most of the time, and cellist seemed to be the naughtiest boy among the three, that he constantly forced the other two to improvise by not following the rehearsal deal. To give you a better picture, imagine an animation cartoon: the violin a talented gentleman, the guitar a shy lady, and the cellist a decent young man with many things to brag. It was interesting to see the conflict and the drama between the three. Like when the cellist wanted the guitar to play out loud, and made a nasty face when the violin was doing his long solo or the times when cello wanted to take the lead and go first when violin was supposed to be the leader. To put it simply, cello was the one that caused the performance so incredibly dramatic and unbelievably entertaining!

Thanks to Sharon’s clever choice that we were sitting in the very front second row of the ‘rock and roll’ area where we could clearly see the drama: the acting motions and hear the drama: the conversation with the lines of the melody between the three. Perhaps the most impressive sensual one would be when the guitarist made a circle with his instrument while playing the music, the turn you see at Ballet performance, and followed by the cellist, a big turn with the huge cello, and the violin ended it with a funny awkward turn with the little violin on the neck! It’s absolutely the most dramatic, entertaining, and pleasant performance I’ve ever watched. Not to mention the encore pieces, with the talented music skills and the genius rearrangements of the pieces, a little improvise as a flavour, just brilliant. Brilliant. Sharon and I were trying hard to hold ourselves not to ‘lol’! but failed. It was just too fun to watch, as if it were a mime talk show secretly going on. They sure did have a sense of humour. I couldn’t get my eyes off the stage. If they ever have another performance in the campus, I’ll definitely invite everyone I know to go to the concert! C’est Genial!


The three of us gone home with delightful spirits and decided to continue this pleasant atmosphere by the plan to go to 七星潭 beach for the sun rise the next morning. We headed off to the beach around 05:00 ish from Dong Hwa Main campus to Meilun campus. It took us 40 minutes to get to the beach by our little scooters, faily fast. It was still dark enough to see the stars when we set off, but by the time we arrived there, the sky began to light little by little. I think I should ask Sharon for the pics and so that you guys can have some idea of what’s it like to see the sun rise there. The way the light hits the cloud, as a silver line they say, and slowly but fast enough to hit the sky, making a little pink and orange colour, then moves to the sea shore, the Pacific ocean, the stones, and finally the land. We were lucky to catch and see the sun rise around 06:00 and had a beautiful rainbow accompanied us to be even more romantic. Words can hardly describe the amazing feeling we’ve experienced. People think of sun rise as a new start, we love sun rise like it’s something holy or sacred in a way that nobody can ever describe enough for the sake of its holiness and mystery. It is the most amazing gift that God has given His children to appreciate the master piece of The consuming love.

So a new start began.



Charity

The A+ effects

My my.. I haven't got this feeling of 'happy' for a long while.

I had two classes today: Modern English Critical Thinking and English Speaking Class

In the morning, the professor of critical thinking class gave our midterm test sheets back and talked about the grading. There were two parts of this test, one was vocabulary test to match the words and phrases we learnt during the first half of this semester, another part was essay question. I was pretty surprised that I didn't make any mistakes in the first part. To be honest, I wasn't being a 'hard working' student when professor asked us to look up the important words we don't understand. I was being very lazy(無可救藥的懶惰) and didn't bother to look up any word! I even made up this excuse that looking up words in a dictionary wouldn't do much help but only slow you down on your reading progress. I thought it would be more important to finish the reading assignment and guess the words' meaning by the context and thus lead to the final goal of knowing the thesis of the article. In fact, a third of my answers for the first part vocabulary test were done by guessing. I was only guessing around when having my major test!

Now I'm not encouraging you to not to look up in a dictionary, don't get me wrong. Either electronic dictionary, online dictionary, or the heavy dictionary on the self, all of them are very useful when learning a foreign language. What I’m saying here is that sometimes and very often, looking up words constantly would kill the pleasure of reading. And like I said, it would only slow you down and there would be no more fun, then you wouldn’t want to read any further. So before you look up the word, try to guess the meaning by the context first. Is it an adjective or a verb? If you still can’t figure it out, see if it’s an important key word to know. Is it going to affect your understanding of the plot or logic? Read, guess, and think. From my experience, usually the words you look up in the dictionary won’t stay in your brain for too long; on the contrary, the words you read so many times that you eventually figure out the meaning, those are the words that stay in your mind forever.

I think I’m a little off subject.

Anyway, I was surprised. But that wasn’t just it. I thought the professor might not be conscious enough when grading my essay. I got 39 out of 40 for my essay. Shocking. Perhaps I should type out my essay and let you be the judge. ‘Well done’ was his comment. Well done? My Writing Class teacher thought my writing on the darn IELTS test was okay and tolerable. I was pretty discouraged by the disastrous IELTS writing practice and thought my English writing would be forever tolerable. But this gave me a little hope and confidence. I’ve always enjoyed this class the most. Modern English Class has been a comfort and that it reminds me the reason why I transferred. We would talk about issues and share our thoughts and the opinions on an issue, sometimes we would even have a little debate, which I thought was really cool. I like throwing out different thoughts when everybody seems to flow in one thought. I even wrote that global warming may be a swindle at the bottom of the paper after discussing about the consequences of global warming in my essay. From Critical thoughts to Skeptical, Innovative, Interesting, Weird, and finally crazy. lol People who think too much may become crazy in the end.

Another A+(100 out of 100) for my English Speaking and listening test was fairly easy. We had our listening test based upon a lecture, which obviously much slower than a real life lecture in an English speaking country and had some blanks to fill in the vocabulary. Again, I was only guessing the words I wasn’t sure (most of them I knew the meaning already) Well, perhaps guessing the meaning is a useful way when taking tests, so it’d be worthy to learn it, eh? Read the sentence, see if you recongnise the prefix or the root of the word and etc.

I don’t know what you would feel if you have two A+ s in one day. Maybe you would go have a feast with a bunch of friends or go to KTV and sing until morning. Well, I’m kind of a milder one that I couldn’t help but smile to everyone. And when classmates asked me about my weird phenomenon of high nineties, like “goodness, how in the world did you got this score for your essay!?” I was very pleased to tell them that they did a good job, too. I was just being bold enough to give strong (sometimes ridiculous) opinion and specific examples to a certain issue.

I felt happy today. And I feel happy this evening. Not only because of the A s I got today, but also the confidence I gained that encourages my frustrated soul. A final A+ s effect will be happening in a minute when I will have a good rest tonight and dream about going back to Taipei this weekend. With Mom and Dad, Gloria, Maranatha, Joy, and my little brother Emmanuel.

Cheers,

Yahsin

Live Right

I'm back!
I've decided to get back.
It's hard to explain but yesterday evening I got it all figured out (thanks to Mr. Don Miller) It was my first major recongition in my 19 year life. Oh dear, I was so blind. I realised that it wasn't some what a spiritual battle, but a real battle between me and myself. It was all about my problem, not God's. I can't really tell you what had happened. I was steressed, miserably unhappy, terribly gloomy. In the past two months or so, my life has been a mess. But, I have decided to pull myself together again and ready for a real life. Life without people isn't life at all. So Hi there, this is me, a soon-to-be content, stubborn, college girl is back.

Life is short, Live Right.

Cheers

Yahsin

Coffee from Bean to Cup

English Speaking Class Presentation: Coffee from Bean to Cup
(approx. 15 mins with powerpoint) November 03, 2009

Coffee from Bean to Cup

There are many people who sleep heavily through out the night and wake up groggy. Then there are other sets of people who sleep very badly, say he had a cat puked all over the house, stayed up late for no reason. Both these kinds need a coffee jolt in the morning just to get away from the feel of 'I need more sleep'.

These days we’re never far from a coffee shop. There’s one on almost every street corner. Well at least in Taipei city where I grew up.

I wonder how many of us would realize while drinking coffee that after oil it is the largest traded commodity, which means that coffee is the second-most traded product in the world. In this presentation, I’d like to talk about coffee manufacturing: From bean to cup. Understanding from cherry, bean, roasting, all the way to the cup.

But before we go any further, I’d like to share a little story about coffee that you may find it interesting. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, there was a goat herder. Mr goat herder in Eastern Africa around 300 AD, well he must have not been a good goatherd because some of his goats gone astray and ate some red berries from a bush. The goatherd thought it wasn’t a big deal, they were just eating some fruits eh? But guess what? Have you seen the movie Alvin and the chipmunks? 鼠來寶 The bad guy gives the three chipmunks some coffee to drink right? And the chipmunks are jumping and dancing and screaming non stop! So pretty much like that, the goats, well maybe not that dramatic, but the goats were very excited and hyper, as if they were on drugs, until late in the evening. So the goatherd was like ‘what is happening? Hmm, this is very strange. Wait, is that the bush that makes my goats so lively? I’d better try it myself!’ The goatherd tried the red berries himself and experienced the same effect. He then mentioned this to the monks in the nearby monastery, who from then on took coffee to stay awake during the nightly prayer gathering. The legend also records that these monks discovered by chance that the beans could be roasted and that a beverage prepared from the roasted beans not only produced the same effect, but also tasted far better. The coffee beans and the beverage made from them, were from then on regarded as a luxurious stimulant.

The legend was long long time ago, but we didn’t start planting coffee until 15 century. Now it is widely spread all over the world, cultivated in over 70 countries across the globe. As you can see, the geography of the coffee plant is in a tropical 25 degree latitude belt on both sides of the equator. About two-thirds of coffee is produced in the Latin America, others in Africa, Arabia, Java as well as Sumatra. Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico etc are the major areas where coffee is cultivated. Among all, Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer.

Now let’s get started with the coffee manufacturing. The first stage is growing and harvesting. The coffee 'tree' is in fact a type of tropical evergreen shrub. In this stage, the coffee tree produce small berries called coffee cherries. About five years after the tree is planted, and nine months after the flowers appear, the coffee cherries are ripe and can be harvested. Harvesting is mainly carried out by hand.

The second stage is the processing stage. This is when the red coffee cherries are changed into green coffee beans. During this stage, the outer fruit is removed from the coffee cherries, so only the coffee seeds, or beans, are left. The beans are then dried, sorted, and put into cloth sacks for shipping.

The next stage is the roasting stage. This is the beautiful part that coffee’s characteristic flavor and aroma develop during this roasting process. The flavor is locked within the green coffee bean until it is roasted. Heating green coffee beans sets a series of complex chemical reactions in motion that release the flavor compounds hidden within each bean. During this stage, the beans are placed in a roasting machine and heated to around 240 degrees Celsius. The length of roasting time determines the beans’ color and richness.

The final stage of coffee manufacturing is the grinding and brewing stage. This is when the whole beans are crushed into a powder and mixed with hot water to make a cup of coffee. There are different methods of grinding and brewing, depending on how strong you want the coffee to taste.

That completes the coffee-manufacturing process: growing and harvesting the coffee cherries, processing the fruit, roasting the beans, and finally, grinding and brewing the coffee.

I know very little about Hualien, not sure how many locals actually enjoy drinking coffee. I personally enjoy the flavor of it very much but never stopped and thought where it’s coming from, or how is it done? So I figured it would be nice to do a little research about it and found it quite interesting. And felt grateful realized that it takes a lot of efforts and time just to have a cup of coffee. So if you keep that in mind, you wouldn’t think 60 NT is that expensive for a cup of coffee. The last thing I want to say is that you may dislike coffee, I don’t expect everyone to like coffee, and go for other stuff. I just hope my presentation can motive you in a way to find out more about the little things in your life. Because that is the spice of life. Thank you.

(approx. 15 mins)

Charity Huang

Get out of the box

I’ll start from the beginning.

I am a transfer student from National Dong Hwa University Meilun Campus English Department to National Dong Hwa University Main Campus English Literature Department. To make it simple, I transferred from a small campus to a huge campus.

Lots of teachers and friends have asked me why I wanted to transfer. They couldn’t understand why bother transfer from English Department in Meilun to English Literature Department in Main Campus when the things students study were so alike. “Isn’t that the same thing?””Major in English?” they would ask. When encounter those questions, different people I tell different stories. Some I would say, ”Oh yeah, but here the teachers suck!”. Others I go, ”Yeah, but you know what? Here we put our focus on teaching whether we want to admit it or not. You know, Meilun campus was a former teachers college. But the Main Campus is about English Literature. And I love literature!” I am not a liar, what I said were so darn true. But I’m going to be real honest with you here on my blog. Those weren’t the motifs that really made me want to transfer.

The truth is, I don’t feel like I belong there. There’s always been a gap between us. Classmates and I. Teachers and I. The Fellowship and I. To be honest, I don’t think I belong to anywhere. I don’t even know the real reason that made me want to transfer. I guess I was just getting sick of the people there and wanted a change of everything or anything. I don’t want to see myself being like everybody else, giving in, compromise, and eventually, have no passion for life. It’s like a box, we put ourselves in a tiny little box, saying “yeah, that’s me, tiny little me,” while God made us to be a giant! Giant! We limit ourselves unintentionally when God wants us to be out of the box. So why stay in that little comfort zone?

Ok, I don’t know what I’m talking about. And nobody who’s involved in it is going to read this whole bunch of English anyway. Doesn’t matter. God knows how I feel. And that’s enough.

Yahsin

雅信 2009年九月十四日Re: 媽媽的Email

我感覺，甜蜜的靈在這裡... 雅信 RE: 羅淑芳寫「懷念可愛的阿弟仔」‏



親愛的媽媽爸爸啟慧曉是乃一主行：

親愛的上帝爸爸，為什麼我眼淚會一直流？我記得兩年前說要養寵物---一隻楓葉鼠---的時候我不是很討厭、很不想養的那個嗎？ 什麼寵物不養養一隻老鼠!? 算了，反正我不去碰他他不來干擾我，咱們倆井水不犯河水，面對家裡七位成員多了一隻鼠的事實。

兩年了，我無法想像小曉是居然已經念國中，是個少女了。如果不是因為阿弟仔，曉是不會是今天的曉是，乃一不會是今天的乃一，主行不是今天的主行。美麗的回憶如電影般一幕幕在眼前，你們開心的在客廳地板上大笑的樣子，拿了一個紙箱，把阿弟仔捧在手心上，阿弟仔跑來跑去，一會兒跑到曉是手臂上，一會兒又逗主行笑得合不攏嘴。原來家裡這位鼠成員能帶給我們這麼多歡笑，每次看爸爸又餵他雞骨頭，和媽媽吵嘴的樣子，又好氣又好笑，無不也是增添家中的娛樂效果。漸漸的，阿弟仔成為我們家的一份子，彷彿是主行的弟弟，看著牠從小baby不到一個掌心大，到後來長得一個手掌大又大又可愛，連討厭老鼠的我，都不由自主的喜歡他可愛的模樣。


為什麼，阿弟仔，你要離我們而去？姐姐我都還沒摸過你一次，為什麼我正開始喜歡你，想抱抱你的時候，你卻開始生病了。


自從咱們鼠弟弟開始生病後，我就很少往咱們家客廳的鼠區域靠近。聽起來很殘忍，好像我很冷漠。但事實是，我每次想去看他的時候，淚水在眼眶打轉，我不敢看，也不敢靠近，心裡的難過筆墨難以形容。於是我放棄了。我避開這段時光，逃開醫療現場，企圖躲開離別的過程。但現在，我發現我躲不了，終究，我得面對經過鼠地帶沒有籠子的難過，打電話沒有牠運動的聲音，大半夜沒有窸窣窸窣的呢喃。隔了一天，發現籠子不見了，問主行老鼠在哪裡，主行用食指比了比上頭，彷彿在指天花板。「在上面嗎？」我問。輕微的點頭，沒有作聲。我不甘心，不願意面對事實，到媽媽房間，又在問主行一次老鼠在哪？牠死了嗎？牠現在在哪裡？告訴我牠在哪？「在天堂。」主行趴在媽媽床上，拿著故事書，低著頭，彷彿他是大人我是小孩，大人看著小孩無理取鬧的打轉加大叫「老鼠給我回來！老鼠你快回來！老鼠為什麼你要走！」主行的低頭不理會我更難過，手裡拿著故事書，眼睛看著床的另一頭，彷彿他能看見阿弟仔的身影，這顯示他比我更難過。乃一在我們一旁竊笑我小孩般的大叫，我們三個一起又叫又笑又低頭又悲傷的想念阿弟仔。如果主行都這樣，那曉是是不是難過得哭也哭不出來了？


媽媽說得對，這似乎是阿公過世的重演。一切都發生的這麼快，時間已到，上帝的靈如輕巧的風，牽著阿弟仔的小爪，輕輕的，領著他回天家。謝謝上帝爸爸愛阿弟仔，阿弟仔在我們家的日子，是我們的幸福。可愛的sweet heart，上帝爸爸你看！阿弟仔以前和弟弟妹妹們你儂我儂的樣子，很可愛吧！我們知道祢一定會好好照顧牠的，因為牠也是祢的寶貝。

於是我哼唱著，

我感覺，甜蜜的靈在這裡...

啟示錄21:4


爸爸媽媽妹妹們還有弟弟跟阿弟仔
我愛你們！

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懷念可愛的阿弟仔我們可愛的寵物鼠阿弟仔在2009 9/12星期六下午三點多蒙主恩召離開我們了，上帝非常愛我們，祂不想讓阿弟仔生病很辛苦，所以要牠去更美的地方，上帝不忍心讓我們看到牠一直掉身上美麗的毛，所以到主那裡去好得無比。


今天9/12星期六上午約十一點，我和文華阿姨在電話交談時，突然看見阿弟仔整個倒下去，我就覺得很不對，趕緊請小孩幫牠換木屑，曉是把阿弟仔抱在手掌心一直撫摸牠，我快換衣服騎車帶曉是要把阿弟仔送到良醫動物醫院，請醫生幫忙看牠是不是已經很危險了？在騎車的路上，我似乎又看到二年前我的爸爸被我和妹妹緊急送醫院的畫面，所以我在機車上哭了，我想這回阿弟仔是真的不行了，這些日子我也感受到阿弟仔真的生病了。

到了醫院謝醫生很認真的用聽診器聽牠的心跳，非常認真的聽，仔細的檢查發現他的腹部化膿了，脫水了，營養不良了，醫生一直抖動他的頭部，看他是不是可以拱起身體縮緊身子，打了營養針，吃了消炎藥，再仔細檢查，有好一點，可是身子一直的倒下去，我的女兒曉是一直用關愛的眼神看著他，整個弄好了醫生開了優點和消炎藥說回去慢慢照著做，我們和醫生分享故事繪本「阿弟仔失蹤記」，也請問醫生萬一救不回來要如何處理，他告訴我們隨便丟棄或埋葬都不環保，應該送去吳興街600巷109號動物衛生檢驗所請他們幫忙焚化才是好的。

回家的路上曉是她擔心我怎麼照顧阿弟仔，我已經心裡有數了，我覺得不會太久了。

騎車回家的路上，我彷彿又看見曉是在醫院看阿弟仔的表情，深深感受到曉是真的是阿弟仔的主人，她非常的有愛心，我被醫生和曉是的愛感動了。

回家我們照醫生的指示要照光，怕失溫，沒多久曉是和啟慧一起餵阿弟仔喝奶，可是他一直不清醒，勉強餵了一點奶，讓牠休息，過了一會兒我們發現他都不動了，真的完全不動了。我和文華阿姨和啟慧分別為阿弟仔禱告了，電話給動物衛生檢驗所，才知道下午五點他們就下班了，曉是在房間哭了好一會兒，我們一起再禱告以後，主行和我們三人分別送他去動物衛生檢驗所。到了檢驗所裡面的工作人員拿一個塑膠袋讓我們裝阿弟仔，我們三個人又作了一個禱告就離開了。回到家把阿弟仔的東西全部清裡完了。我再電話給良醫動物醫院的醫生謝謝他的幫助，晚上主行在澆花，走到平常我們放阿弟仔的地方，他突然問我，媽媽老鼠甚麼時候可以回家，我說他不會回來了，那他去哪裡，我說他去天堂了，天堂是不是很遠，他用手比了一下上面，我說對，到房間我們二人一起禱告，他說是不是燒掉了，我說這樣比較環保，我流淚的禱告，他的生命雖然微小，神看他何等的寶貴。

安靜的想了一下，眼淚不停的流，心中存著感謝的心，阿弟仔知道曉是會回來看他、關心他，9/10星期四曉是才提醒我要幫他擦藥，我和先生都努力的做了。9/11星期五曉是還餵牠吃東西，和阿弟仔互動的很好，我想他希望曉是陪他最後一個路程。


7/31星期六我們第一次帶他去看醫生，醫生說他身上的毛好漂亮，說寵物鼠的平均壽命是二年，他已經是年齡大了，我們是2007 10月養阿弟仔，所以醫生說他已經是高壽了，我想阿弟仔不希望我們看到他的毛一直的脫落，所以他到主那裡去是好的。這回我有一個很深的感受是生命，我們一共帶阿弟仔去醫院四次，不論他的生命多微小，就是生命。他是一隻楓葉鼠，俗名是布丁鼠，雖然很微小，牠在我們家帶來歡笑，曉是、乃一、主行有許多回帶他去公園玩，他也很愛乾淨，不小心跑出來都跑到鋼琴那裡躲起來，牠的樣子很逗趣可愛，身體好的時候很好動，半夜都聽到他在運動，我們外出旅遊他都幫忙我們看家。他來到世界上雖然才二年很短暫，這二年有價值，他成為我們家的一份子，他讓我們學習尊重生命，上帝創造他是好的、是有意義的人生，曉是每次一回家都很關心他，和牠一起玩，我覺得曉是好有愛，神的應許不論有多少在基督裡都是是的，都是阿們的。神確確實實要把萬物萬有在基督裡合而為一了。

謝謝主這樣愛我們！謝謝主要得著我們！謝謝主讓我們把握每一分鐘！
我們永遠懷念這位可愛的阿弟仔！

Doulos: 忠僕號在基隆~Keelung 5/24日

先大概記一下
等照片檔案到手 再一次傳上來
過了快兩個月 都快忘了做了什麼事了..
5/24日
早上家裡司琴 中午和Adam共五人台北101 下午Alex帶爸爸張奶奶黃奶奶許凡tour 傍晚盈恩車子開去瑞芳火車站結果錯過火車等了快一個小時去宜蘭1st Base church(Adam US) 搭夜車回花蓮
5/25一
一大早第一節課presentation15滿分
5/26二 下午16:40到基隆 和小i和小i媽媽五點船會合 farewell party
5/27三 居然完全忘了發生什麼事 得靠照片記起來了..
5/28四端午節全家早餐Harmen/ prayer night
5/29五relax. Alex and Robert called pm10:00
5/30六ARi八斗子
5/31日AMSBJ象山

Doulos: 忠僕號在基隆~Keelung 5/23六=Rober! 葉老師 Sunny Alan+ Dorothy Jennifer tours! =

Doulos: 忠僕號在基隆 Keelung

5/23六=Rober! 葉老師 Sunny Alan+ Dorothy Jennifer tours! =





(L)親愛的葉老師、昱翰、昱衡：

很感動你們來忠僕號上給我和Robert帶導覽...


小i...隔了半年沒見面
那天在船上餐廳相見的時候...真的很感動
我們整個尖叫記得嗎?船上吃飯的同仁們整個都回頭看我們相認耶><
我整個都快哭了.. 你也是吧...
很想念你。。
這次船上的重逢真的是一生一次的經驗與回憶
我們永遠都不會忘記對吧?

更高興的是
你和我最好的朋友李芃
也能變成好朋友
這幾天在基隆船上的生活
能和你們一起哭一起笑
一起發神經 一起超忙碌
真得好幸福 很感動..

在基隆港志工的這幾天
如果不是有你們一起分享
絕對不會這麼精采
對嗎?
xoxoXO!

Tour guides!

The second tour of the day for Jennifer.

Thanks Robert!

小i, you are so cute><

PJ!

New Captain!

We just luve the ice cream!!!

Big bro Leonard, Gun new stepper from Tailand, and the best translator on borad Alison~

The only reason that would have Adam look like 'this' was

because of the "Let's talk in English" programme... lol

小i(Dorothy) gave her last a tour with me and Jennifer.

Always meet friends during the tour~~

Lucky kids.. They came to the programme without tickets and without any acquaintances just because that they met the right person named Jennifer and that right person know this crazie girl called Charity that they got in.

They even told me that they used this special "method" for I-night as well!

Guess that's God's will lo~

小i~

Doulos keeps on sailing after Hualien: 5/13三Jacky & Tony tour, Keelung: 5/17日tour guide, 5/19二Classes, 5/22五中文系公演

DOULOS
Last day in Hualien.

5/13 Wed. Daniel Mombartz gave a tour for my classmates Jacky and Tony.
I was so touched that Jacky is willing to fly with his motobike from the far far away Dong Hwa Main Campus just to have a tour..

And Tony, the talented classmate from my Meilun campus, came with me just wanted to make more friends from different countries..=]

Daniel, thanks for the tour and the sharing.

Like I told you last night.. I like your stories the most..

your testimonies Can and Will! affect so many lives...

Shine~ you are so cute =]

miss you and luv you so much!

I remember we first met that we were heading for dining room to have dinner that night. And even after giving tour for one week, I still couldn't fine my way to the dining! (well I pretended that I knew lol) We had so much happy and funny moments in dining room and book shop. It was so nice to meet you that night! What's more, you introduced me to Daniel Mombartz, the funniest guy on the ship!

Daniel, just so you know..don't tell Taiwanese girls "you're so cute" unless you have a thing for her LOL~ Shine was flattered when you tell her, "you're so cute," ;) haha she really likes you~

And the most interesting thing during the tour(am11:45~pm14:00) was that Jacky is not christian, but that he acted like one, he looked like one, he even talked as if he knew exactly what Bible is about!(or maybe he does!?) Tony told me about it as well! He said that he thinks Jacky is so interesting that he is not a chirstian but he acted like he is, and that he is not ABC he grew up in Taipei, but he sounded like he is =D

"Charity, this is great!" said Jacky when we were about to leave, "I really enjoyed it a lot." I felt that even one phone call invitation, one asking somebody to be the host, one hundred NT buying them bubble latte..it was all worth it.

5/13 pm23:00 Wednesday evening

I was leaning against the fence when the ship was about leave..

God is good. He's good. Thank You Lord..

5/17 Sun. =Tour Guide in Keelung=

I've met so many people when I was the translator and tour guide in Hualien harbour. And now, God wants me to meet even more people in Keelung!

Christiane Duwe!!

omg..You are the sweetest girl on the ship!!!

you were the first person who gave me a heart shaped chocolate with your hand writing on a postcard.. I was like "what? this is for me, Trajan?" lol

PJ!

I have to confess that I used to not so like Korean guys..(not sure why, perhaps is it because of Rain? lol) But when we first met at tour guide deck section, you were such an enthusiatic funny guy that I couldn't help myself but laugh =D "Opening! Opening please go this way~ Taking pics! Fun Games! AIR CONDITIONING!" It was really a laugh lol

People are CRAZY!

OHH YA CRAZY ABOUT GOD><

cept knowing more cremember friends on the ship, I also met many local friends like Jeff and Lin from Keelung. (Lin and I went to same high school oh ya Keelung Girls Senior High~)

I got know them was because of PJ's Taiwanese face! lol local people see this face, and can't help want to talk to him. PJ, if you don't talk, you are Taiwanese. =)

Jeff first talked to PJ to ask some questions about the ship and wanted to know more about the infos about how to join the crew! Though Jeff and Lin are non christian, they are very euthusiatic about the volunteer programme on Doulos. I encouraged them to go to my church or the churches in Keelung(Dorothy and Ivy)

God is an amazing God.

So, that's basically how I meet my friends.

First you know this guy/girl

You started to get to know each other.

Then you have meals together.

Then this guy/girl introduce you to more friends.

One friend link to another.

People introduce me their friends, while I introduce my friends to them, too.

And that is the cycle of makeing friends.

This is what I believe in,

you can find and make close friends anywhere with a sincere heart..

我相信 有一顆真誠的心 哪裡都交得到好朋友..

Honesty and truthworthy and of course..

being crazy! lol

Crazy about people, and crazy about God.

Etna..5/18Mon.Happy B-Day~

Went back to Hualien that Sunday evening..

early class on Mon><>

5/19 Tue. Children's Literature

Melissa from Indonesia(left)(DOU Robert's friend), girl from Malay(right)

oh ya Children's Literature~

Vivian(left in white) and Nancy(right in yellow)

oh you are so cute~~

5/22 Fri. Drama Performance

(Chinese Literature Department)

thought-provoking performance...

Director! Debby(left with flowers) from my church~

and other friends from my Hualien Spiritual Bread Church.

The minister Peter and his cute kid~

After the performance...Cathy and Nancy(having traditional Chinese supper next to our campus ~(breakfast have this also))

supper before midnight =D

oh that's university life~~

hehe =)

Cheers,

Charity

Doulos: 5/11一:classes+dinner on board, 5/12二: tour guide+outing+farewell

5/11Mon =full classes at uni + dinner on board=

teacher Guy from US..(Listening and Speaking class)

sometimes I think he stays(or lives) in Taiwan so long(11yrs!) that he's become one of us..lol
great TESOL teacher lo~

Vivian! intense talk after seperating for one long weekend..

two days were like two years for us! lol

we just didn't bother having Chinese class that morningXD

sorry=x talking sometimes is more important than learning how to write Chinese articles =D

went back to Doulos after ten hours school that day..

For me, dinning room is the place I can have a rest and talk to Katherine and every other friends

Katherine~~ it was my pleasure talking and sharing the testimonies about giving tours that night.. God is an amazing God. and He's going to do the same thing to you, too! And Even MORE! more than you desire. like you said, first year is the tough year for newcomers. You are very brave to take action to join the crew after visiting the ship as a visitor! though you're only 19, I believe God will use you in an amazing way and surpise you everytime you pray.

5/12 Tue =tour guide + outing + farewell=

Actually, I was off duty on Tuesday. But, since my friends asked me to be the tour guide for them, I couldn't find any reason to say no!NO! I said YES!

And that's the moment when God takes over all the work.

Astrid, the girl in purple, was born in a Christian family, but I guess her parents are not really committed Christian, that Astird barelyknows about Bible stories or about Christianity.. and this girl in black with red skirt, she got baptized before she really know about the concept of having a relationship with God.. and the guy name's Alfie. He's accepeted Jesus Christ when he had a prayer with a friend of mine back in the campus fellowship. I got this feeling that he longs for the relationship with God, but there are the knowledge and the theories and all the informations that kept him having a little distance from truely believing God.. the other girl in pink was born in a traditional religion(sth like buddhism) she came the ship cuz they are good friends and guess she's curious about the ship=D

Anyways, we spent appro. one hour for the tour. I enjoyed very much but just that I was very tired and just couldn't help myself but look not 100% excited.. in fact, I was about to fall asleep><

Fortunately, my dear big brother saved me. Hewww...lol

Leonard! Thank you for being their host to let them have lunch with you and talked about lots of things about Bible, which I've always wanted to tell them about in the past few months, esp. the smallest girl in black.. Thank you bro~

You are the MAN!HA!LOL

Best Friends ForEVER!

Nancy, Doris, Vivian, Katherine, Mike, and me.

after having lunch, we went back to my campus to have teacher Guy's Children's Literature, and then back to the ship to find Emma, who invited Vivian and I to go out with some crewmembers in the afternoon.

Vivian.. you bring out the best in me..

北濱公園the park where you can have a walk along the beach with the fascinating view of the great Pacific.. and play the volleyball if you like..=)

We met a nice friendly couple when we were wondering who could help us take a pic.. Soon we noticed that they talked like Christian and at the same time they also noticed the uniform I was wearing.. They are the parents of one of our local two weeks volunteer! David and Frank! lol What a coincidence~

Vivian and I came back first to be at the farewell party.

oh,

and here's Chris(left) the STEPper from Korea.

oO hey Chris, consider Emma, she's your secret admirer lol!

Vivian, you look like 13 year old child!

Etna..

Farewell party.. with Vivian, Alan.

I asked Dainel Mombartz to share his stories and talked about salvation to Vivi and Alan. Danke..

we were off to the nightmarket after the party and the sharing, I talked more about the testimonies I had had during the two weeks.. "Life is more than just having good grades and success in your career"I said, "Life is much more than that..""That God wants us to have an abundant life" "Abundant life in Him.." And I thank God that He soften Alan's heart that he said to me before we aparted, "yes, life means much more than all that.." said a boy once only believe himself..even at little crowed nightmarket..God is Everywhere!

please help me find out who took the pics and not sending them to me! if you have the pics..or you'd like to share with the pics with me, PLEASE! send the pics to my hotmail:only4u06@hotmail.com

THANK YOU! deperately need those pics..

Love,

Charity