Dairy - August 10, 2019 The power of Gossip Gossip, which is the thing I always do not like to do, while recently I heard a terrible thing from my newly-met friends. Below is what it is. My friend Way and Ning who are a couple, were told that Ning(the wife) kept meeting Kuan(another male who already married over seven years) several times. After Kuan knew this, he was as mad as hell. He then rushed to Pau’s(another friend who is divorced and living with his two daughters) home who he thought is the person who spread out the disinformation. When Kuan arrived Pau’s home, he broke the door and frightened Pau’s two daughters. Pau clarified that he was not the person who spread out the disinformation, there must be someone else. Pau became furious because Kuan behave rude and he scared Pau’s daughters. After hard work, Pau found Hung(another person they know) was the person who had spread out disinformation on purpose. Hung did not like Pau and Kuan. It is lucky that they found the truth with no time. If not, Way and Ning may feel despair or hopeless to these friendship and would not willing to contact them anymore. I feel the power of gossip is very strong. It makes related people get hurt. Communication between people is interesting. We all wish to make friends who we trust and have honesty to each other, but not wish to be hurt by others on purpose. Being clever to this espect is important. We can avoid the harm which actually is not necessary.

Diary - July 01, 2019: Moving to Ilan I just moved to Ilan for two weeks. I had been working in Taipei City for around three years. I moved to Taipei since I worked there. Living in Taipei is so-so for me. Some people like to stay in Taipei because it is very convenient to go shopping, visit museums, and go to see a movie, etc. However I only do these things when I really need to do, I do not do these things to kill the time. Therefore moving to Ilan is not a very big event for me. While there are things I really need to get used to. First, the air is fresher than Taipei because the size of Ilan is bigger than Taipei and the air pollution is not as serious as Taipei; second, the neighbors are passionate, people live nearby are closer than in Taipei; third, the public transportation is not as convenient as Taipei, to go out I have to ride my scooter or drive a car; fourth, to me, the job opportunities in Ilan are less than in Taipei and the job style I can look for are relatively limited because I am an office lady. Ilan is located in Northeast of Taiwan and is famous for tourist places for relaxing. It is called Taiwan’s backyard because Ilan is beautiful and it only takes around one hour to drive from Taipei through Taipei County to Ilan County via Xueshan Tunnel. If you are interested in this do not hesitate google related information. Welcome to Taiwan, welcome to Ilan.

An earthquake on April 18 There was en earthquake on April 18. It happend during the lunch break for office people. I was in the toilet. At first I felt shaking, and I thought it will be stopped soon. After 10 seconds I began nervous. It shook longer than normal earthquake. I was ready to evacuate myself but I was at the 9th floor. I decided to hold a pillar which is the nearliest one to me. After the earthquake, I went back to my office. Everyone was talking about the earthquake. I relaxed. The earthquake last 65 seconds, I think It is not a normal earthquake, there will be aftershocks happen in near future. We will need to be carefu

Mother's Day Mother’s Day is coming. I am planning to have lunch date with my immediate family for mother’s day. Discussing with my sister, we are going to reserve a vegetarian restaurant on Sat. in mid May. We don’t have an idea to surprise my mom. All we want is to make my mom and everyone feel easy and happy. What are you going to do for Mother’s Day?

Diary - April 16, 2019: A Welsh-Corgi was chasing after a Labrado Retriever After dinner, I left a restaurant. On my way home, I saw a boy walikng his dog in front of me. It was a Welsh-Corgi. We were walking toward the same direction. “This is an outgoing dog”, I thought. This dog kept smelling around. After a while, a girl walked a Labrado Retriever and passed by. The Welsh-Corgi then ran to the Labrado Retriever no matter he was leashed with collar. “He is chasing after Labrado Retriever!” I thought. The Labrado Retriever also wagged his tail and got close to the Corgi. “They are friends now” I murmured. What a pleased view. I have a dog, which is about four years old, is Mix. He has beautiful black medium-length-hair on his head and dark grey mix black fur at the bottom of his body. He is quite silent and he seldom bark; our neighbors even didn’t know there is a dog living in an apartment until they saw my dog. He is too handsome and some people would think he is a girl. He is as timid as a mouse and easily get nervous if someone visit me is an alien to him. He likes to get close to dogs more than people. He needs to be close to a person for a long time. It would take him around one to two weeks to be familiar with a person.

Diary - April 13, 2019: Hope she will recover soon. April 13, 2019 Last evening, Frank told me that my mother in-law was not well and she was in the hospital. Later on, he sent her home and asked me not to call her yesterday, which if i want, but today. She needed to rest. Today I called her and knew what happened. She felt unwell for about ten days, which she wanted throw up and had the runs for a while, and decided to to go hospital alone to see a doctor. The doctor did some simple examination and strongly recommend her changing to Emergency Room for emergency treatment. She had to stay in bed in emergency room for intravenous injection and extra body examination. However, she refused to do further examination because she still thinks it is medical error caused by the nurses who did not urgently show up when he became faint after few days of his body examination. And after few days her husband passed away. I feel sad about my father in-law and worried about my mother in-law. Hope she will happier and recover soon.

Looking for a language exchange partner I hope to find some friends here to exchange my Mandarin/Chinese and your English.

I prefer to have a short talk at least once-2 times per week.

Just for language learning partner.

Diary - March 31: In Memory of Mr. Lai Mr. Lai was my supervisor of the department. This early January he was absent for sickness for a long time and last week we received the news that he had passed away. We do not know the exact cause for his death. All we knew was that he had received the treatment and is recovering well. The news came so suddenly and we all felt shocked. When I was interviewed in the company which afterwards became the company I have worked for around two years, he showed up and said "I will give you the offer." I was surprised at the moment because the team leader interviewed me and he did not talk much with me. My part of work is to be his secretary, I need to assist his personal things at work and tasks of my Department, for instance, answering the questions from clients and dealing with the billing. He is gentle, polite, easy-going, and calm. He always smiles. I never see him angry. When his intonation became serious, I knew that he was serious. Sometimes I feel anxious and sad whenever I think of my job. I mourn his death simutaneously I try to cheer up as better as I can. I know my bad mood will be all right. All I need to do is to relax myself. And I realized the health is the most important thing to us. Without the healthy body, we are unable to let the dream come true. I will take care of my body and have health exam when I feel unwell and I plan to have annual health exam in my life schedule after my forty-year-old birthday.

Diary - March 20 Yesterday, I got an opportunity to receive 2 clients the same company from the Netherlands. Why I say so? Because one of my colleague who is currently on a business trip and my boss didn’t want to join because another client who is important to him was not available. During our meeting, we each other introduced our law firm and also talked about the market of Patent and trademarks in Taiwan, and introduced the nationality of applicant(s) of these cases in Taiwan. Next Mr. R also introduced his law firm and also the alliance he has been joined for almost ten years. His company is in the Netherlands but he is ambitious. His goal is to share interests with the members of the alliance in Europe. Mr. V asked few questions and asked us if we could send the company profile to him. It was late after his introduction. We would like to show them our office, but many colleagues have already finished the work and then left so we gave up. I seldom accompany with my supervisor to receive client. I wonder if the client actively asks to visit us while we do not really know we will have the cooperation potential why we need to spend much time for meeting? I found the key is the relationship. He or she may introduce other potential clients in the future, therefore, to keep in touch with each other is rather important. I am not a sales manager, although I have an interest in the tasks regarding sales. Still, many things to learn if I want to start my career as a salesperson.