One More Day

One more day, can you change your mistakes in the past?
If your life is going to over, do you want one more day?

Charlie was a professional baseball player. But, he could not play baseball anymore on account of injuries. After that, he became perverse and disagreeable. He abandoned himself to despair and was inflicted to alcoholism. His wife and daughter then left him. When he found that he wasn’t invited to his daughter’s wedding. He fell apart. He decided to commit a suicide.
He met his mother again in a mysterious condition. He came to his hometown and spent a whole day with his mother. This day was normal. But, this day was different, too. Because that his mother revealed the secret.
Why his father left them when he was a little child? This question had remained a scar in his mind for several years. He was blank. The answer appeared and covered the sky like clouds. In some place between this life and next life, He understood his mother again and found out what his mother had sacrificed for him.
Charlie tried hard to remember the tender from his mother on that day and repaired his life which he thought was broken to pieces. Charlie revived again.
‘’Home’’ only needs to be understood, accepted, and then love.

When you grow older, you may think yourself mature enough and cannot stand your mother nagging all the time. You start to argue with your mother. Your mother still loves you though.
But, until one day, when you finally want to get along with your mother, there maybe is no chance.
The writer makes the readers believe that the one makes mistakes deserve to be forgiven, especially forgive their selves. This book will help you review relationships with your family. If you have a family, please cherish them carefully. If you have ever lost and suffered, don’t give up, time will tell.

Orz Boyz

Slow down, and let the courage of childhood catch up with you.

Orz Boyz talks about two mischievous boys who always lie to their classmates, teachers and family. As a result, they have the nick names, Liar No.1 and Liar No.2. In order to get into the imaginary “Unusual Dimension Space”(異次元), where children don't need to do homework and most importantly, children can grow up becoming adults, Liar No.1 and No.2 make troubles all the time. In addition, they believe that as long as they play the water slide one hundred times, they can walk into the entrance to the Unusual Dimension Space.

In fact, the Unusual Dimension Space symbolizes the aspiration of children for adult's world while saying good-bye to the childhood means the cost children have to pay and lose something. When watching this movie, the innocence of these two boys who try hard to achieve the dream makes me laugh. Their abundant imagination is really make us feel “Orz.”

However, this movie still has something serious to tell us. Liar No.1 and No.2 come from incomplete family; No.1's father has mental disorder and No.2 is raised by his grandmother. They are always regarded as abandoned children who no one loves. Moreover, No.2's uncle throws his daughter to his mother and goes away, which talks about the value of our society. In the childhood of these children, their parents don't participate in at all.

In the movie, Liar No.2 has asked the girl who loses her mother why she wears a smile all the time even though she just goes through the pain of her mother's death. She says her mother had told her that “as long as you remember to smile, you won't be afraid.” As a matter of fact, I think Liar No.1 and No.2 maybe want to grow up as soon as possible, but they must have struggled in their mind. During the process of growing up, they have to lose something, such as no more Unusual Dimension, no more innocence and even no more dreams.


Do you still remember your childhood and have the dream like the one in your childhood? Do you also eager to become an adult when you were a child. Orz Boyz is really a good movie that makes us to think about something. Try it, if you have not seen it yet. : )

If I Had Only 24 Hours to Live

I would like to ask myself a tough question these days since I am the coming assistant of "Exploration of Career" course in NTHU College—what would I do if I had only 24 hours to live? It is an interesting and thought-provoking question. Of course, I would be a little sad to learn I had only 24 hours left. But, I would also be grateful for knowing this, because I could end my life in a good way.
First on my list would be saying good-bye. I believe farewells are important and we should not be afraid to past away. I would say so long to my good friends; say adios to my dear teachers and bid my relatives adieu. I would be sure to tell them all how much they mean to me; I would stress how much please I have had with them. Then, I would wave good-bye and wish them all the best.
Next, I would visit some of my favorite places. I would say good-bye to the beautiful world, too. I would enjoy it splendor one last time. In the morning, I would climb a mountain, enjoying the sunrise. In the afternoon, I would swim in a crystal-clear river. In the evening, I would lie on the beach as the sun sank below the horizon. Additionally, I would also visit some meaningful places near my home. I would go back to the neighborhood where I grew up.
Last of all, spending most of the time with my family is a top priority. They are the most significant people in my life. Therefore, I would want to be surrounded by them when I go. We could go out and see some sights together; we could enjoy the last meal together as well. But most of all, I would like just to be with them at home. I would tell each one of them how essential they are! I would thank every one of them, telling them how much I love them. And I would stay with them until my time was up.
Certainly, I would like to live more than another 24 hours. Thinking about this question has not been easy. In fact, it has been quite saddening. However, by considering it I have learned a lot. It can remind me of precious things in life, letting me cherish these thing as if there were no tomorrow. I have realized who the special people are in my life; I now know what matters most to me in this world.

My Experience of Countryside in Meinung

I went to Meinung to experience the rural life with NTHU College during my spring break. To be honest, the motivation of joining this camp is not clear at all for me. Maybe I just want to find the feeling of friendliness like my hometown, Wuchi.

Ride a bicycle wandering the whole Meinung Town and try to discover anything interesting or surprising. Not about looking around all the scenic spots only, but trying to experience the beauty of Meinung with heart by yourself. From the famous specialty, paper umbrella to traditional Hakka buildings, I can see the combination of art and culture and especially the Hakka cultural transmission.

Our most important learning lesson in Meinung is experiencing the rural work on the farmland. I was assigned to the field of chili, planted by Mr. Chiou. In the beginning, Mr. Chiou was so shy to chat with us and just showed us how to pick chili. Then, our team started to pick chili silently as well with a bucket, walking through the whole farmland. As a result, we’ve done the work quickly and also solved the work we had to do the next day. At this moment, Mr. Chiou said he would take us to go to karaoke in his house the next day, but this proposal was declined by our teacher.(ˊ︿ˋ)

The next day, Mr. Chiou took us to his friend’s house and helped them pick the mulberries. At the first sight, we all thought we could finish the work as soon as yesterday because there was only “one” mulberry tree. However, the number of the mulberries was too big to pick them all in a short time. Later, we also helped the picking work in the chili field again. This time, we started to talk to Mr. Chiou naturally and realize some facts about his rural work from the conversation.

It’s hard to find that farmers’ helplessness unless we begin to walk into their life by ourselves. Although Mr. Chiou told us his worry about these plants, which influence his life tremendously, we can still find his optimistic attitude toward life. I’m glad I have the chance to experience the rural work with these farmers and learn a lot from them. In addition, I indeed like the slow pace of Meinung, not the slow of time, but the feeling of relax in heart. Let’s walk into the countryside together to experience the slow dance of rural towns.

Linguistics or Literature?

Now is April and after two months, we'll finish the first year in the university. As an FLL student, we have to choose what we want to major, lingistics or literature. After the midterms of the two area, I foun that it's a difficult decision to me. Why is it so difficult? The main reason is that I'm not really into FLL.
To me, linguistics is a subject that I have to memorize a lot. I should have good logical thinking and good ability of memorize lots of difinitions. Although I don't really like to remember those things, I still can try hard to memorize. Besides, literature is a subject that I have to read a lot and think more. I should have many ideas about a text. It's so difficult to me! I envy many classmates that they can have lots of different ideas after reading a text. When I wrote my midterm paper, I spent much time thinking what I should write, however; I still wrote a few. I think that I should consider more and find what I fit in.
By the way, we got an e-mail from FLL office. It talks about the lack of teachers. It's not a good phenomenon to a department. I hope FLL can find more teachers in the future.

10 promises to my dog

Ten promises to the dog:

1. Please give me a little time to let me understand your request.
2. "Trust me!" It is important for me.
3. You must remember that no matter how you treat me, I'll never forget.
4. When you blame me for my false, lazy, or stubborn, please think if something bothers me, whether I don't acquire my food I deserve, maybe I have not run under the sun for a long time, or my heart is already too weak and too old.
5. Please talk to me once in a while. Although I can not realize what you talk about, I can understand it is you voice accompanies me.
6. When you punish me, please remember that I have the sharp teeth can snap your bone. I just choose not to bite you.
7. When I am old, please take care of me well. Because you also will be old.
8. Dont' angry at me too long and please don't lock me in the cage in order to punish me. You have your work, your entertainment, and your friends, but you is the only one I own.
9. Before you take me home, remember my life is just about ten to fifteen years. Your desertion will be the worst pain for me.
10. When I need to go through the hardest things, please don't say" I can not tolerate to see him painful." or" Let me absent!" I want you to know everything can become easier to accept as long as you accompany me.

When I saw these promises, my mind went down and down. Ten promises to the dog is not hard to do, but there are many people in the world can not accomplish such a little thing. They buy it, just because it is cute. But they do not consider the responsibility of life. When they tire of taking care of them, the one thing they do is to abandon them just like the garbage to be throw out. Every time I see the cute stray dog, I feel sorrow and angry--how can their host desert them?

In Taiwan, there are many cute dogs be abandon and euthanasia at the end. Few people want to adopt a stray dog, but so many want to pay a lot of money to buying a dog. This fact always make me feel sad.

If everyone can think of dogs as their family member, there will not have stray dog on the street. If everyone can take the responsibility of dogs for granted, we will not see any stray dogs at every corner.

I hope one day the world will not have astray dogs, and all dogs have good hosts and happy life.

After Sweet Rain, There is Sunny Day

Sweet Rain, it is a novel written by a Japanese writer, Kotaro Isaka. Kotaro Isaka is a young star of recent Japanese writers, who is knowledgeable in many aspects, such as science, art, history and music. In his novels, readers can usually see his sharp and impressive perception on human beings. The amazing characters and original plots created in his novel are his feature. Plots may be a consecutive arson events happens in a city which always accompanied with mysterious words daubed on the wall, or a story between three professional killers. The characters can be a scarecrow who has the ability to talk, or a god of death, such as Chiba in Sweet Rain.

People's image of god of death is like a skeleton in black cape with a big scaring sickle. But this image doesn't fit to Chiba. In Sweet Rain, god of death is a jod, they work under an organization. When they get the message sent by the department of imformation, it is time for them to work. The content of work is to observe an assigned human for seven days, on the eighth day the god of death will decide whether his target shall die or not. In order to make the observation work easier to do, the department of imformation will tell the god of death how their outlooking is like this time. It is helpful when they need to approach their targets.

Chiba is one of the god of death, the one among them who is enthusiastic at music. He considers music as the greatest invention of human. The love of music makes him different from his colleague. However, there is a special thing always comes with him. That is, he has never seen a sunny day. When he is on his work, it is always raining. As a god of death who has a totally different thinking logic than human, he doesn't care much about that.

In the novel, there are seven people in his investigation. (In the movie which adapts from the novel, he meets three people). We see the variety of human lives. Every person has their own life story and living philosophy. Through the eyes of Chiba, whose thought will not be affected by emotion, we can observe humanity transparently.

Since I am only a 19 year old student, I don't think I have the qualification to talk about the true meaning of human life. But I did get some thoughts after watching this movie and then reading the novel last year, that was -no matter what difficulty you encounter in your life, face it! Every person's life story is fascinating. If you don't keep going, you will never know which way your own story will go to and how will it develope. In the end, Chiba sees a beautiful sunny day scene beside the sea. It seems saying to us: after sweet rain, there is sunny day!

Crazy April!

Almost all of the mid-term exams occur in April. In addition to these horrible mid-term exams I have to do some presentation in April as well. It’s quite troubling to prepare both mid-term exams and presentations at the same time. All of our classmates study so hard in order to survive in this crazy April.

Every time I check my schedule book which is filled with marks of exams, quizzes, and presentations, my heart sinks. I had mid-term exam of Introduction to Linguistic on Monday. Though I’m interested in Introduction to Linguistic, it still annoyed me a lot to memorize abundant definitions. Besides, there were some parts left for us to study on our own because of our lack of time in class. I almost spent all of my weekend on it. Then, here came the extremely awful Tuesday. I was asked to give a prepared speech in Listening and Speaking class and after that I had a three hours mid-term exam of Introduction to Western Literature. I was totally exhausted on Tuesday. To my great disappointment, that was not the end of mid-term exams. I still have to strive for the coming quizzes, mid-terms, and presentations in the following weeks.

All that I want now is to pass all the exams and keep a general level in my presentations! For fear of landing myself into troubles again, I have make up mind to prepare the final exams which fall on June from May.

A song that I really need at this moment [2]

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http://mymedia.yam.com/m/2481054

This band is called McFly and this is my favorite song, "I'll be OK". Everytime when I am really upset and down I will listen to this song repeatedly. It could always cheer me up when I was a 12th grade student. Even now I am still listening.

These days, or maybe this semester, everything has changed. Everything that I liked I loved has changed a lot. I thought I could handle them well. At least in last semester I did. But now, I have lost a lot that I thought was all in my grasp. The story is too long and it is also not appropriate to talk about it here. I just want to yell and cry and let go every terrible thing.

I tried to talk to my friends, but things just cannot be OK if I don't open my mind. Things are so complicated that even I want to solve them is impossible. I know I have to overcome them by myself. No one could help me, so I listen to this song to make me feel OK and try to find some encouragement from it. I hope I'll be OK soon.

Lyrics

When everything is going wrong
And things are just a little strange
It's been so long now
You've forgotten how to smile.
And overhead the skies are clear
But it still seems to rain on you,
And your only friends all have
Better things to do.

[Chorus:]
When your down and lost
And you need a helping hand
When your down and lost
Along the way
Oh, just tell yourself
I, I'll be OK

Now things are only getting worse
And you need someone to take the blame
When your lover's gone
There's no-one to share the pain
Your sleeping with the TV on
And your lying in an empty bed
All the alcohol in the world
Could never help me to forget

[Chorus:]
When your down and lost
And you need a helping hand
When your down and lost
Along the way,
Just try a little harder
Try your best to make it
Through the day,
Oh just tell yourself
I, I'll be OK

You're not alone (you're not alone)
You're not alone (you're not alone)
You're not alone

Just tell yourself
I, I'll be OK
Oh, just tell yourself
I, I'll be OK
Won't you tell yourself, I.....

[Chorus:]
When your down and lost
And you need a helping hand
When your down and lost
Along the way,
Try a little harder
Try your best to make it
Through the day

Oh, just tell yourself
I, I'll be OK
I, I'll be OK
I, I'll be OK

Departures

Please close your eyes slightly, and let me accompany you in the last period of life.

Departures talk about the job that is to make up the dead people in order to let these people can become beautiful at the end of life. The actor, 大悟, get this job by accident. At the beginning, he is not willing to do this job and he also afraid to do it. After he himself see the ritual again and again, he gradually know the significant meaning of this job and how important role he is.

It is a good movie that let us to know this job and realize it. It also touch me when I see people cry to their dearest friends, daughters, mothers, and fathers. The most touching scene I felt is that the son use the towel to wash his mother's face, because it recalled my memory.

It also let us to think about death. I remeber one role says " Death maybe is a door that death is not terminate of life, on the other hand, death is to go next station." Despite the fact that death probably is a terrible thing to confront, we will take it easier if we take the different kind of aspect that the role tell us.

I love this movie.

As Elections Near, Tightrope Awaits in India

Not knowing what to write, I read an article in NYtimes and came up with some ideas about it. The subject of this article " As Elections Near, Tightrope Awaits in India" is the discussion about the situation related to the upcoming elections in India. I chose this one because I am interested in international news and curious about India, one of the most potential countries in 21st. The following are the summary of what I read and what I think.

In this article, the author describes many different parties' policy of the worldwide economic crisis while few of them try hard to make India as a more open economy. Their goal are the same "to keep India prospering" but their method are different. Some say they will spend on infrastructure and social welfare. Others focus on the stock market. However, no matter who to be the next leader, he will face a hard situation just as other countries' government. Interestingly, the economic crisis is not felt in across rural India, as it is in India’s globalized cities, and this is where most of the votes are.

After reading this article, I think that the elections in India has some similarities in comparison to Taiwan; for example, in an intensely competitive political environment, every party promises benefits. Nevertheless, “ to say is one thing; to do is another,” whether the government can live up to their goals is a big doubt. Besides, this article gives me another impression about India. An image of prospering democracy India rather than poor chaos India. This inspires me that the world is changing so quickly that Taiwan will be overrun if we don’t progress. Therefore, as a Taiwanese, I am supposed to always encourage myself to become better and better.

Abercrombie Boy

two are both my classmates from Italy^^ very ''Abercrombie boy''

Yesterday, I was looking through some of my pictures when i went to Boston last summer vacation.''Abercrombie Boy'' suddenly came to my mind while i was looking this picture. It is a term that was created by me and some of my friends when we traveled to Boston. Abercrombie boy refered to guys that have perfect muscles with attractive out-looking. The reason why we have this term is that there is a chain clothes shops named '' Abercrombir and Fitch'', which always have ''Abercrombie Boys'' being the clerks. Also, they hired ''Abercrombie Boys'' on weekends to stand at the front gate with their tops off to attract customer. oooooooh~ it was such a pleasant just seeing them! One of those Abercrombie boys' job is asking girls that linger their eyes on them to take picture with them. They will put their hand on girls' waist and tenderly hug them while taking the picture. I eyes were dazzling when i took pictures with them! But it was a heart-broken pity that i have that picture lost while i accidentally deleted it! i felt sooo bad for my foolishness. There got one thing that conforts me is that many of my classmates, who has the same figure like''Abercrombie Boy'', came from Italy and South America are still in my picture gallery. Everytime when i saw those pictures, my heart butterflies~~

ooh~I miss them!!! I want to see Abercrombie boys whitout their tops on street Again!!!haha

My Happy Trip to Hualien

During the spring break, I went to Hualien for three days with my friend in the church. This is a trip for me to relax and withdraw from the tense schoolwork temporarily.

It took about three to four hours from HsinChu to Hualien. On the way to Hualien, we kill the time by singing songs or hymns together and playing guitar. When going through the Shuhua highway, we all amazed by the spectacular view of the cost. The steep cliff along the blue seashore makes up the picturesque scenery.

Finally, we arrived at our destination. The fist day we went to Taorko National Park and took a walk in the path of Yanzihkou (燕子口) and Jiucyudong tunnel（九曲洞）. These part are the most magnificent part of the national park. At Yanzihkou, the rock cliff of Liwu River gorge seemed to touch the heaven while the torrent runs swiftly. There is also an interesting place where if you throw out a piece of paper in the air, the paper will soaring up to the sky instead of falling down to the ground. The secret to it is the rear terrain that produce a special air current which makes the paper “flying” in the sky.

The second day we went river tracing. I should have joined this exciting activity, but because of the small wound in my leg, I had no choice but to give up. Therefore, I stay at the bank of the pool watching the blue and deep pool and the sunshine reflected by surface of water, listening to the sounds of the wind passing through the leaves. I was fascinated by the peaceful and quite atmosphere around me, and felt my body relaxed in the nature.

After returning to home, thanks to the short trip to Hualien, I found myself had the power to go to work again. I think going on a journey and seeing different view is really a good way to enliven our life.

[Journal 2] Making awosome things by yourself

There is a stall just outside the 水木 book store that selling many kinds of Teddy bears and rabbits this week. Lovely Teddy bears have attracted passerby' s eyes that almost everyone would stop and take a look of them. But the thing that different from other stalls is that you can make your own Teddy bears or rabbits by your hands, and it's cheaper than the finished products if you only buy the ingredients. I am interested in doing little hand-made things by myself, so that it's impossible for me to lose such a great opportunity. I bought a big rabbit and two small Teddy bears, then my friend and I were just sitting on the chairs near to the vendor and learn how to make bears from the vendor. At such a period of crazy mid-term, doing somethings different from English really makes me feel relax and joyful. When we were sitting there, we saw many people buy the ingredients and , the most surprising to me, they almost were male! When I saw this interesting thing I felt nothing but a little strange and confused. But my friend told me that she was moved by this phenomenon for the reason that they were supposed to make hand-made Teddy bears to his girlfriend. We also met a few classmates there and had a good afternoon. I wish this stall will come again soon, and I will miss the vendor because they were passion of teaching us to sew proficiently.

Articles in Common Wealth

I read the Common Wealth 418(天下雜誌) this afternoon. I found that there were some articles connecting with our essay, successful business. These articles talked about the ability of doing market research. When a company pays more attention to the market research, it can understand what clients need and adjust the direction of its business. Take Accer and Asus for example. Asus is the first company that produce small notebooks, EeePC, and Accer is its competitor. Accer was good at market research, however; Asus is not. Therefore, Accer became the first place of selling notebooks.
Another article was about the general manager of Google in Taiwan. He pointed that users in Taiwan should not limit themselves to ".tw" website. I think he is right. I usually search infomation in traditional Chinese because I'm lazy to read English ones. After reading it, I noticed that if I want to be a person with a global perspective, I should try to look more information. It will take lots of time for me to be used to read all English information but I know it is good for me and I should give a try.

Let's twitter!!

What is Twitter? Twitter is a free service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has gained more and more users worldwide. And Twitter seems to be a link between stars and their fans, for example, President Obama has a team to help him write Twitter notes to his followers; Britney Spears has an assistant to help update content for Twitter. Recently, I found and followed my favorite NBA player-- Allen Iverson! I can not wait to see his new Twitter notes! What's more, Twitter even saved a man from Egypt who used his mobile phone to twitter the message to his followers. It seems that we can find more things to do with the help of Twitter.

The Night That I Have To Rush Home

It was PM9:45 at last tuesday. i phoned my mother asked her whether she needs my attendence in my grandmaother's 頭七. She then said '' of course! you have to come back! And you have better come back right now!''
If this conversation happened two weeks ago, i would definitely have a quarral with my mother. Yet, after my grandmother's death, i tried to be my best not to let my parents worry about things other than the funeral, and try hard to distract them from feeling sad all over the time. Then, at 9:47 packed my bag immediatly in order to catch up the High speed Railroad at 10:40. Even when i recall the situation happened at that day, i can still feel the urgent sence of feeling chasing after me.
I helled a Taxi alone on the front gate of the school. At the moment i sat down, i smelled the smell of beer. Although i am a little bit concern about it, i still ignored it in order to keep on time. Yet, the moment that the Taxi drive, the only thing i did is praying, hoping that this potentailly drunken driver may drive me safely to the station on time, and also wont do anything terrible to a single young woman that need to rush home in such late night.
On the way to the station, the driver kept singing out loud with the music coming from the radio and at the same time asking me questions that i dont want to answer, i was so scared but i pretented to be in extreme calm. The only thing that i think about at that time is hoping that the driver may not taking me to somewhere else. After fifteen minutes, i saw the station, i was so relieved at that moment. The exact moment when i step out that Taxi, i swear to myself that i will never do such a dangerous thing ever after.
i am so glad i am still here, typing my homework in front of my desk.

A creative architecture in Yilan [revised]

Huang sheng-yuan, an architect has lived in Yilan for eleven years. He has designed many architectures whose style are very different from the local buildings. In 2007, he constructed a building with abnormal shape which is now used as a government institution. He tried to bring an image of "mountain" into this building and create a sense of movement through twisted pillars and large floors. He also made use of different materials in this building so that it showed various features properly itself. What's interesting of it is that he directly made the stair handrail out of the steel bars. Though this truly achieved the specially effect he wanted, it also brought some problems to maintain. As the past works he designed, this building doesn't have walls around it. Mr. Huang made it friendly blend with surroundings. Walking into the building you will not feel bored because there are many interesting and creative designs in it.

Although this building has brought about controversy between local residents, it is still a special creation. Sometimes a designer being too modern will cause some criticism, but people's opinions and thoughts will change as time goes by. Maybe after decades this kind of modern buildings will be in fashion.

Silent dancing in the field---CHIA CHIA

I am the kind of person who like baseball, love baseball, and cannot eat, sleep or have the fun of living when there is no baseball. But I am not going to explain what makes me become a crazy fan. In this entry, I want to introduce a baseball player in Taiwan who is outstanding both on field and, more being respected, his humble mind.

Unlike Chien-Ming Wang, who is now a well-known sport star not only in Taiwan but also in the States, this man doesn't seem to have that kind of luck to show his skill and the quality of star to the world. He is Cheng-Min Peng, nicknamed CHIA CHIA. Of course, he does have the good capability for being a player, which all the baseball star should have. But what makes him so unique and respectful is his humble and smooth disposition. If you had once watched a baseball game, you should have notice that it is quite usual when a batter hit a homerun, he will do some motion and pose or sometimes shout out loud to celebrate for himself during his running to the homebase. Since hitting a homerun is of some difficulty and has the worth of celebrating, it is acceptable and common. However, when you watch CHIA CHIA's baserunning after he hits a homerun, you will never see him do any special pose, and you even can't notice any change of emotion on his face. He always lows his head and runs seriously toward the homebase. What makes him do this is that he considers those celebrating poses are humiliations to the pitcher, so he just does his right thing. After game finish, when all the players, audiences and staff left, he will bow to the baseball field, to show respect to the God of baseball.

At last, he is still a human who may have emotion sometimes. He had once hit the transformer on the wall in player restroom out of anger in August, 2005, which occured by his discontent from his performence that night. The result of that event was a fracture at his right hand, which caused him away from field for almost a year. It was since that terrible event he grew maturer and maturer psychologically. Although it was a stain in his career, it made him know the importance of tranquility and shape what a popular baseball star he is today.

New York Times

Choose one of the following to read for the mid-term exam on April 22.

1. Ghosts haunt ancient banking center.
2. Drug trade revives Peru's rebel war
3. Creatures who leap off the big
4. For 'dreamgirls,' fans adn financing

Watch out for this website for every Tuesday new articles (April 7 & 14)
http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/itempage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=381&f_SUB_ID=3731