Spiritual study

I don't know how to speak 靈修 in English. Maybe it's spiritual study.

It's psalm 34:1~11 today.

I take a lot from these verses.

Air Force

According to the two articles before, there must be a reason why I took the HSR.

Right! It's the sortition of military service.

After the physical examination, I am divided to General A of the physical position. It means I have to draw from 210 general soldier, including army, navy, and air force. Total is 210, and 10 marines, 17 submarines, 19 air forces, and the others are army.

Reading till this paragraph, if you've read the title, I believe you know what my division (or arm) is. Most people say it's a "easy" service. I don't know, maybe. Actually, I wished a little bit to draw the marine lots. I want myself trained.

HSR on the way

8:20 pm
There were only two speakers in the journal club, but the latter one seemed not very familiar with what he said and read so he usually stunned and stopped by some cases like vocabularies, spellings, such of obviously unprepared phenomena. Finally this class finished at 8:20 pm. I quickly handled my stuffs and Jhong-Dao took me to the HSR station in Taoyuan. I really appreciated him. I arrived at HSR, Taoyuan at 9 pm, and took my tickets soon. The people stood in the ticket are quite awesome. The man before me bought tickets in Taiwanese, and I used English. I was wondering if he can speak Japanese as well.
The train departure at 9:40 pm. I thought there were very few people taking it, but I was wrong. Not crowded, but neither only me. Generally, neglecting the high price, HSR is quite nice and comfortable, though a little bit noisy. Maybe it’s because I was in the first carriage, the forth carriage is more silent in my backward trip.

10:20 pm
The last train arrived at Taichung in 10:20 pm, and fortunately, there remained the last bus leaving for Tsaotun. Lucky me~ But when I took a look back and forth, a chanson played in my mind. “Only you~~~~” Oh, it’s only me in the huge coach. I bet the driver damned me when the bus started off.

Friday, March 30, HSR

2:25 pm
The delayed bus.
Few people head for HSR, Taichung. If you want to take the bus, you have to tell them 30 minutes early. After all, I arrived at HSR, Taichung at 4pm. I’m so lucky!

4:29 pm
The train is departure.
I have to say that the attendant is so handsome!!! Strong, tall, nice-looking, and very gentle. I already had a coffee and brownie in the Starbucks at HSR, Taichung, otherwise I definitely buy something from him.

6 pm
The train arrived at HRS, Taoyuan at 5:09 pm. I jumped in the bus leaving for Jhongli, looking forward the dinner at PizzaHut with everyone tonight. It’s another story to say, haha.

HSR on the way - from the very beginning

Since HSR started it transport service, there has been many voices debating against or supporting.
I think as a Taiwanese, I couldn't miss the moment to witness the progress of our country.

How come the sub-title is “from the very beginning”? Mentioned about my first trip of HSR, I must described it from the service of ticket reservation system by telephone. I think the drama script is the best way to describe.

Me (M in abbr. below): (dialing) 4066-5678.

Service (S in abbr. below): All assistants are busy, please hold on. (Music)

after 3 minutes

S: (Advertisement for 30 seconds) For Chinese service , please press 1. For Taiwanese service, please....

M: (pressing 1)

S: All assistants are busy, please hold on. (Music)

Then just like you throw a stone into a sea. No body answers anymore. So I handed up the phone and re-dial.

M: (dialing) 4066-5678

S: All assistants are busy, please hold on. (Music)

after 3 minutes

S: For Chinese service, please press 1. For....

M: (pressing 3, Englis service)

S: Thank you for calling. For train schedule, please press 1. For requesting the assistant service, please press 9.

M: (pressing 9)

after a moment

S: (after a moment) 台灣高鐵公司你好，請問有什麼可以為你服務的嗎？（This is HSR Taiwan. What can I do for you? (in Chinese）

M: (astonished) ㄜ...我要訂票。（rhh, I wanna make a reservation. (in Chinese）

S: 不好意思先生可以麻煩你大聲一點嗎？（Excuse me. Could you speak louder, sir? (in Chinese）

M: I WANT TO MAKE A RESERVATION! (in English, and as well below)

S: Sorry my English is not very well. I’ll transfer this call to another assistant.

My jaw was falling down to the ground.

after a moment

S: Hello! My name is Michael! May I help you?

M: Yes. I would like to make a reservation....

After a “negotiation” with the assistant, I finally booked my ticket toward Taichung at 9:40 pm at Thursday. I thought there were a foreign assistant for the English service, but just a Taiwanese in not very good English (because he usually cannot recognise the numbers). I called again afterwards for changed my ticket from one way trip to round trip (fortunately I did it at Thursday cause I heard the announcement said there is no ticket left when I was waiting for leaving Taichung.).

Run~

I've looking forward the Nike + iPod Sport Kit for a long time.
Since I bought my MacBook and my sister's iPod nano, I've been thinking about the possibility of jogging with this fabulous invention.

I can't waiting to try it!!!

But there's one more thing to do, that is, how to fix it on my shoes?
I think it will be a simple problem to be solved.

Don't worry~

I can't fall in love with you.

You know?
You're just a good looking friend.
Every time, EVERY TIME, it's me who knock you on the MSN; it's me who try to talk to you the first.
Do you really care about me?

Now I realize why he was so hurt when our relationship became unbalance.

Mutual understanding is essential to friendship.
It's harsh to me. your absent-minded, insouciant
Where am I in your heart? WHERE AM I?
just a ordinary friend? a passing traveler? a guest? or a stranger?
But if you're just a friend with nice face, how come I cannot take you common, like other friends.
I wish it's just a fascination.
but how come this fascination endure so long time and never end?
how come I'm so suffered.

to love a person who shouldn't love.

the seminar

woo~~~ the seminar is finished today.
Although I have lots of experience about presentation, every time it's my turn I am still nervous.
Maybe because of not well-prepared....

The title of my presentation is "The N-terminal arm of small heat shock protein is important of both chaperone activity and substrate specificity", and it comes Vierling's publish again.

My boss told my if I don't make it on iPCR, I have to change a method, like 5' RACE.
But actually, I think I didn't work hard enough for this gene searching.
However, if I kept doing it, I don't think it's will be a good idea on the financial share.