2009年6月28日 星期日

Influence

Looking up the phrase “influence on something or somebody” in a dictionary, it defined the effect that somebody or something has on the way a person thinks or behaves or on the way that something works or develops. Influence changes with mainly four elements: conformity, liking, authority and benefit. These four elements are totally different but they’re inseparable from each other.
There’s a idiom said: “Public clamor can confound right with wrong.” Human always think what the most people think is just the right thing. It’s a phenomenon called “conformity”. When a person was driving on a highway and saw all the other cars head an opposite direction to ours, the person would be confused and think if the direction is right. In addition, when watching a TV show, the show always add a lot of noise of laughing so the audience would feel the show is fun, too.
To a certain extent, everyone’s liking has something to do with influence, and that’s why the advertising companies usually ask those famous movie stars who are deeply loved by audience to be endorsers of their products in TV commercials. Customers always listen to what their idols’ recommendations. For example, Michael Jordan’s sports appliances are always hot and popular in the sports stores because he’s authoritative and widely loved by basketball fans.
Next, authority is a tremendous element which determines the influence. In the human society, even in a democratic country, there are still classes between each people. For example, parents to kids; teachers to students; bosses to employee. It’s an invariable rule that people listen to those who are in a higher position. Employees dare not disobey the bosses’ order and students dare not disobey their teachers because no one would like to be fired or flunked.
At last, how much benefit can be obtained also makes differences of how hard the influence is. The more benefit can be gotten, the more influential those things are and people would be more willing to go for it just like children love to go to 7-11 to buy Kinder Chocolate which contains interesting toys in it, and they buy Kinder chocolate mainly not for chocolate, but for the toys.
As long as more than two people are situated at the same space, there’s the existence of influence, and those who get the power to influent others, they’re in the advantageous position, so most people in the human society spend their whole life to be more affecting, but to be the affected. How to use influence well is important because it can be used in a good way but also in an evil way. With great power comes great responsibility. It’s also a duty to make others do things right.

Argumentation

What Should Students Wear?
It’s easy to see people wearing uniforms everywhere when we walk on the streets. They could be McDonald’s clerks, insurance company’s employees and students. It’s always a controversial issue especially for students that students should wear uniforms or leisure wears to school. In Taiwan, students are supposed to wear uniforms. However, as time goes by, some students doubt why they must wear uniforms but not their own leisure wear.
It’s quite a pity for the students who have pretty clothes in their closet. They’re forced to wear the same uniforms as other students. “Why not wear leisure wears to school?” they ask. Students should have the right to choose what they want to wear. Compared with uniforms, it’s much more variable and it looks livelier to wear leisure wears, because students can match up their clothes colors by themselves and cultivate their sense of beauty. However, I think they focus on a wrong point, because the most important duty for student is going to school and concentrate on their studies. They should not spend too much time worrying what they wear and hesitating in front of their mirrors.
There is another advantage of wearing leisure wears to school: students don’t have to face the problem of wearing too light or too heavy when the season changes, and there won’t be any problem about the uniform’s size. Nevertheless, there are some advantages of wearing uniforms that can’t be substituted by wearing leisure wears. That’s why uniform means everybody’s the same. Uniforms can unite students as a group. It provides student with the chance to learn to live in a group.
Uniform is a symbol of school. With uniforms, school can be a much safer place because it’s much easier to recognize strangers in the school and thus ensure the security of students. If there was any student who met accidents outside the school, through the uniform of the student, people can inform the school sooner and the school can help the student much sooner. The much safer schools are, the more willing students are to go to school.
It’s human’s nature to compare each other’s appearance no matter when and where you are. If students wear leisure wears to school, it would be easy for students to recognize whose family is rich and whose is poor, and no doubt the schools would become a place for students to compete with each other, and then may become discrimination and break the friendship between students. With uniforms, there won’t be this problem anymore. Students’ parents won’t suffer from the demands from children to buy expensive clothes or accessories, and school can spend more time on teaching instead of students’ appearance.
To sum up, uniform plays an important role for students in the adolescence from many aspects. It can unite students together, share their honor together and dress the same, and make them feel they’re united together. Wearing uniforms, is the first step to learn to live in a group.

2009年6月22日 星期一

Farewell Party

2009.06.19
It's been about half an year since I joined this band "Sky Window" with Yamasaki Yusuke, Joseph, Book and Alen. Today is just a milestone of this band, because Yamajian is going back Japan, and book is going to serve in the military. We held a farewell party to say goodbye to Yamajian and to memory this band in Un In Guan near the Yi Jong Street. Practices nights and nights, countless practice in the band practicing room, it really nice to play a band with you guys. Thanks. And also thanks to all the friends always come to see our performance.

2009年6月5日 星期五

After the passionate song "X", it came another classic ballad song "Endless Rain", just like the song title, the monitor was playing rain like animation. It'was really cool, and in the end of this song, all the audience just kept chorus the lyrics "Endless Rain.. fall on my heart kokolo no kitsuni", "Let me forget.. all of the hate.. all of the sadness.." These two lyric sentence kept repeat and repeat, it was really touching and it's hard to describe the feeling of hearing over 10000 people chorus my favorite song...
And then, the last song they played: "Art of Life" The whole stage was dark, and Yoshiki's piano played sometimes sadly, beautifully, sometimes hysterically, and then the stage's light suddenly all on, and all the other members appeared and played. I'm really glad that I was there.

2009年6月4日 星期四

Next, as if they wanted to encourage us, it was "I.V."'s time, and Toshi taught us sentence by sentence of the lyric: "In the rain" "I'm calling you dear" "Find the way" " Can't you see me standing right here?" After he was sure that all of us knew how to sing the song, Yoshiki walked to the drum from his piano and started beating his drum and his drum set started to flow up again.
After I.V., an unfamiliar background music was played, and at the path stage two doll dragon appeared, and The Dragon Dance started. It was pretty fresh, and it was my first time to see such performance on X Japan's concert.
In the end of the dragon dance, the lights in the stadium suddenly shined, "Prologue(~World Anthem)" played, and Toshi and Yoshiki with a bridal veil. Ha! "Are you ready!?" Toshi yelled and then a male voice appeared to introduce the band members and the the concert continued.
"X" came out! The craziest song today, because with Yoshiki's heavy drum beat point, people started to "X Jump" - the tradition of X Japan's concert! Everytime Toshi sang the world "X", we jumped with our hands or luminous sticks crossed like "X", and it felt just like earthquaking at that time. Looked around the stadium, the scenery was really shocking because every hands I could see was crossed X. Maybe it's the only time that I can see such a glorious view.

2009年6月3日 星期三

Yoshiki, Toshi, Pata, Heath, Sugizo, and the forever Hide, all of them appeared on the stage and on the monitor, doing their play, their performance. Along the whole stadium, I could see various color of luminous sticks waves together with the rhythm. "Taiwan!!!!!" Toshi's high decibel voice broke the silence dark sky, and the infinite sky could not cover our passion.
Then, X Japan's classic song came one after one. "weekend" "silent jealousy" "Pata's solo" "drain" "Say Anything" "Tears"...and then "kurenai" began, hide started to play the prelude. I quickly took out of my own handmade red plastic ball and raised it up, and people in the stadium were soon became red, just like the song title "kurenai", and then Toshi yelled "Kurenai!!!!!" The stage explode out those silk colored ribbons...Another orgasm.
After "Kurenai", it's was a rest time, and Rosa started to sing with the dancers dancing beautifuly on the three path stages, and the came the fasion show to relieve the audience emotion. Soon, Yoshiki's drum set started to raise up and move forward fromt the stage and Yoshiki started to solo, and I can only say it must had been human's extreme of playing drums...
Finally the drum set landed down to the ground and Yoshiki exhaustedly walked to the piano and the creepy "without you" was played. Old clips of X Japan started to play on the monitor include some images of Hide, and I heard some people's sob.

2009年6月2日 星期二



The sky became darker, the moon hanged on the right side sky as if it was also waiting to watch this fantastic concert. I could feel the excitement around all the stadium because people starts to play the waving audience trick and yelled "we are X !!!" And soon, the whole stadium went crazy.
7 o'clock, the familiar song "Amethyst" rang, smoke started to spray around the stage, beautifull red and blue light inlluminate the stadium, the scenes I could only see in the DVD became reality, and I was just in it! Everyone raised their luminous sticks into a shape of X and waited for them - X. A female's voice appeared " X, Japan...Japan...Japan...", and then a male's voice started to introduce the band members: Toshi, Pata, Heath, Hide and then Yoshiki. Just right at the time Yoshiki beat the drum, the firework spurted into sky and "Rusty nail" started to play... The whole stadium screamed, over 10000 people screamed together. "Finally they comes, finally I've heard their live! It's true. It's reality and I'm not dreaming!" The lengend band in the music history finally revived and backed to us.

2009年6月1日 星期一

During the time we lining up, we could see that people were getting more and more. In the beginning when I arrived the stadium, the line was only about half of the stadium, and till the afternoon, the line had prolonged more than the whole stadium, all of them came here for the same purpose of mine, they came for X Japan. Among these people, many people's costume were just fantastic. They cosplay the style of X's membersb vividly, and many people dyed their hair red because of the guitarist Hide.
At about three o'clock, we could hear some music from the inside of the stadium, they were rehearsing the concert. Those familiar songs I've listened for countless times spread out of the stadium. It was really a special experience and I sang with the music with excitement and looked forward to the performance.
At About five o'clock, the gate opened and fans started to go into the stadium. We sat at the stage's right side and located about in the middle of the stadium called the Western 1 Grandstand. The view was pretty good because we could see the monitor clearly and the whole stadium's audience and see the stage's move a little. And the tremendous logo of X was just above the stage.

2009年5月30日 星期六

It was 2009.05.30, a very impressing day in my life, which made me feel so unreal, even now. And it was also a day that I kept screaming for the whole night. It was X Japan - My favorite band in Japan's concert in Taiwan.
It was a sunny and warm day. I woke up at six o'clock and happily went to the Pan-Chaio Stadium. On the bus, the bus driver asked me if i were going to the Pan-Chiao Stadium? I wondered why did he know where I'm going, and then he told me, since yesterday there had been many people lined up in front of the stadium, and seems waiting for a concert. When I got off the bus and arrived the stadium, just like what the bus driver said, there had been a long line of people rounding half of the stadium.
I joined the line soon, and it was about eight o'clock. I matted some newspaper on the ground and waited for the concert and my friends Nep, Yuan and Papa who came with me to watch the concert together. At about 09:30, Nep arrived and joined me lining up and then Papa arrived at about noon, and Yuan came at about 04:00 when we heard the rehearsal in the stadium.

2009年4月20日 星期一

Coldplay - The Scientist
This song is a really sad song that I'm always touched by the lyrics. Everyone wants to go back to the beginning of love and restart again, however, nothing can be turned back and replay, except memory...



Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I've set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles
Coming up tails
Heads on the science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing
At numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Oh tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start

Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I’m going back to the start

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh

2009年4月13日 星期一

rain...

Yesterday was pretty an unlucky day, I was always trapped because of rain today. It was quite sunshine in the morning. The blue sky can be seen clearly and the clouds was purely white so I thought that it's impossible to rain today and I didn't brought my umbrella. However, the weather changes while I was taking the English literature class. It rained suddenly and heavily, and at that moment I know, I must would get wet today, and I did get terribly wet. Soon, the rain stopped, and it recover the sunshine till night. At night about eleven o'clock, I was hungry so I went out with my roomate A Je to buy something to eat. Before we went out, I asked him "shouldn't we bring an umbrella with us? It rained heavily this afternoon." and he responsed "That's all right~ See!It's not raining now, so don't worry~we will soon be back." I trusted him... However, at the moment we were on the half way to buy snacks, it started to rain..., and rained for a long time...

2009年4月10日 星期五

This song is a song that I like very much, because its lyric and melody are really touching...
This song was introduce by my friend, and I listen to this song often when I feel down or when I need some solitude and peaceful feeling.
Mew - Comforting Sounds


I don’t feel alright
in spite of these comforting sounds
you make
I don’t feel alright
because you make promises
that you break
Into your house
why don’t we share our solitude?
Nothing is pure anymore but solitude
It’s hard to make sense
feels as if I’m sensing you
through a lens
If someone else comes
I’ll just sit here listening to the drums
Previously I never called it solitude
And probably you know
all the dirty shows I’ve put on
Blunted and exhausted like anyone
Honestly I tried to avoid it
Honestly
Back when we were kids, we would always know when to stop
And now all the good kids are
messing up
Nobody has gained or
accomplished anything

2009年4月3日 星期五

3/29

I was involved into a horrible war this morning, and I have won. X Japan, maybe the most great rock band in Japan's or even the world's music history, is coming to Taiwan on 5/30! I've listened to their albums since I was a senior high school student, and I'd love to see them so much since I was a senior high school student.

2009年3月22日 星期日

Last week, on 3/21, we had a department of foreign languages' volleyball game in Taipei Jing Mei's Shih Shin University, so the last day before we had the game, YoB, A Mor, Syau Pon and Joseph came to my home to sleep for a night. It was quiet a special experience that so many friends came to sleep in my home together. The next day, we went to Shih Shin by bus & MRT at 7:30. When we arrived, It had been 8:30. We had three games in that day, with Taipei University, Kao Hsiung Education University and Dan Jon University.

2009年3月6日 星期五

2/21-2/27

It has been about two weeks since this semester began, and I get 24 credits this semester so my schedule is quiet busy. Everythings seems good so far and I'm just about to adapt school life once more except one of my class called The Development of a Country teached by teacher Lee because most students feels bad on his class. On teacher Lee's class, I think he's not teaching us about the development of a country but just showing off his "glory" experience of studying abroad and making speeches abroad. On his first class when he just entered the classroom, he had began to show off. He said "Oh, when I woke up this morning, it was snowing~ because I was still in France and I just come back to Taiwan now." And this is just only the beginning, because during his class he's just showing off all the way. And I have heard a lot of criticism about this teacher. They said showing off is just one of his acceptable shortcomings. He's also bad tempered and he has a strange standard of giving grades to students, and no one knows how his standard is because some of those who concentrates on the class get low grades and some of the sleepers in the class get high score. I hope I would be alright on this class during this semester. The feeling is good to be able to see friends everyday, I really missed them during the winter vacation.

2009年3月2日 星期一

Vacation is always too short, and time always goes too quickly; The new semester has quietly come. I look forward to the new semester very much. I can't wait for its coming, and I also wish that the vacation would never end. In this winter vacation, there's not enough time for me to do many things. There are two three main program in my winter vacation: English camp of our department, Journey to Keelung and my grandparents' home in Chung Hwa.
This is my second time to join the working group of the English camp in our department. The last time when I became one of the members in the English camp, I was just a silly freshman who's full of passion to the activity. After a year, when I attended it this winter vacation, I found that things changed a lot: I'm not as innocent, anxious and enthusiastic as I used to, instead, I found that I've become much more steady than before, and I have could guide the freshmen just like the way the sophomores guided me before. This is my first time to really realize that I've become a sophomore.
After the English camp, Claire, Jackie, Rocio and I moved on to Claire's home in Keelung the next day. Claire's parents were quite hospitable, and Claire guided us to many famous spot in Keelung: Jyo Fen, Da Jen Mountain and Keelung Temple Night Market. In this three-day-long journey, we shared much about the funny experience in the childhood. Claire told us about the stupid things her interesting senior high school friend did in her senior high school years. In the second night, we went to a seacoast and stepped on the beach. Talked, laughed and then went back Claire's home riding scooters with the shoes taken off. The last day in Keelung, coincidentally, is near Alen's and my birthday, so we went to a bookstore to buy birthday cards. The experience of watching others writing birthday cards to me on my own face. These three days are pretty impressive.