tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66094748692413293532012-02-03T23:11:29.452+08:00With a click, we are connected in the cyber world. With a click, we find people of the same interests and concerns in the global village. Let's join hands to achieve our goals and realize our dreams.Sherry Lihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096832993761514407noreply@blogger.comBlogger4681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609474869241329353.post-51490462576823499782012-02-01T23:45:00.012+08:002012-02-02T17:32:50.259+08:00

I didn't scream on the surgical bed this time. I knew how much it hurt from my first experience in 2004. I held my breath when the surgeon injected a local anesthetic into the kissing corn on my left foot Tuesday afternoon. It took less than 15 minutes to remove the tiny soft corn and sew up the lesion with two stitches. Dr. Tsai was pleased with his esthetic work and ordered a biopsy of my

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I'm yet to be 60, three more years to go, before I reach the age of Hua-ja, a cycle of sixty years in traditional Chinese reckoning.Oh, my God! I was in shock when I stepped on the digital weight at the pharmacy this morning. It read 60.1. Just in one month without overseeing my weight by stepping on the weight on daily basis, my weight soars up beyond 60. I knew I was putting on weight for the

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Po-tzu is full of foreign brides, mainly from Vietnam, a few from China and Indonesia. Brides from China assimilate into the local community easily because of the language. Brides from Vietnam often gather in a small group to chat at a local Vietnamese beauty salon. I assume they share their experiences about housekeeping and children education.I visited a beauty shop in Pu-tzu to have manicure

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Except for breakfast, Eni asked me what to prepare for lunch and for dinner everyday during the Chinese New Year holidays. It is challenging to feed six adults with traditional Chinese New Year dishes for a week (my father-in-law lives on liquid preparation, Eni is Muslim). It's tempting and exciting to invent new year dishes with ingredients from the vegetable garden in the front yard.The first

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At 8:30 in the morning, I waited in line with my husband and our Indonesian maid Eni in front of Pei-tien Temple to collect red envelops from the government officials. I asked the policemen who kept the order, how big red envelop I could get, NT$200, NT$20, NT$10? He didn't know and I was curious!The moment I received the red envelop from Ms. Chang Hwa-Kuan, Chia-yi County Magistrate, I opened it

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The first day of Year of Dragon falls upon the World Freedom Day in Taiwan. On January 23rd, 1954, 22,000 ex-communist war prisoners of the Korean War (1950–1953) arrived at Keelung harbor. The Republic of China (ROC) government honored these soldiers to fight communist expansion worldwide by declaring January 23 the World Freedom Day.After the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943), the Red Scare (

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I don't know skiing, I don't know skating, I don't know surfing. I attempted the snake board on Chinese New Year Eve. My little distant niece was excited to show off her newly bought snake board. She showed us how to propel the snake board in any direction by standing her feet on the board. She moved her feet in and out on the snake board, the LED lighting on two wheels beneath the board flashed

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I like Chinese New Year! What a treat it is to leave behind the hustle and bustle city life in Taipei for a week of New Year holidays to embrace the farm life in sunny southern Taiwan. On my way home from Taipei to Chia-yi on the highway, I thought of the old days visiting friends afar for Christmas in the US. After marrying my husband from Po-tzu, a small town in Chia-yi county, for 26 years, I

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We held a celebration luncheon at Bi Luo Chun in Hsin-tien at noon, Teacher Wu and five students. Wu was very pleased with the New Year Concert and invited us for a gathering at her favorite teahouse. I brought the prototype concert DVD made by Daniel Wu. Everybody was eager to receive a copy of the concert DVD. As Wu insisted on paying for the meal, five of us gave her a red envelope in return.I

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Daniel Wu and I spent more than one hour at Starbucks Cafe' this afternoon, talking about producing the DVD of New Year Concert of early Chinese Jazz songs, including the contents, the delivery, the opening, the closing, and the acknowledgement. I was eager to produce a quality DVD both entertaining and

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According to the Central Election Commission, the presidential election voter rate for 2012 was 74%, the lowest voter turnout since Taiwan's first direct presidential elections in 1996.I was not eager to vote, because I was disappointed with President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT). I could not trust Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP). I saw no future for

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It was a shock to know that a few singers complained about the cost sharing of New Year Concert held at Cardinal Tien Hospital yesterday morning. They should have said it earlier, and I would have arranged other singers to replace them. None is irreplaceable these days! You can't have your cake and eat it too!I knew it would happen, therefore I made it clear more than once that all singers paid

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going

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I'm getting excited about the coming concert of Chinese classic songs at Cardinal Tien Hospital in Hsin-tien Wednesday morning, January 11th. Why is that? I'm one of the singers and I'm the person in charge of the whole event, from arranging the program to making the accompanying powerpoint presentation.Starting from August last year, I began the weekly singing class at Lady of Providence

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The glorious and magnificent 100th year of ROC is coming to an end! On New Year's Eve, there is a long list of people I wish to express my gratitude and thankfulness. I shall hum Auld Lang Syne to them wherever they are, when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve in Taipei. Thank you with kisses and hugs! And wish you a prosperous and happy new year!Should old acquaintance be forgot, and

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The first lesson of ten to learn Habanera from Bizet in Flamenco fell on the last week at Falla Flamenco Arts Studio this afternoon. I was happy that I made it back to the flamenco dance school in October and performed four parts of sevillanas at Falla Flamenco Xmas Party. Starting from the first of October, I decided to perform Habanera, not knowing how to articulate the lyrics in French in

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We had a joyful Christmas Day. Toastmasters Bill Wan, Nate Alvarez, Libby Chung and her husband, Director Daniel Ingi Petursson from Iceland were guests of honor at Christmas dinner table at Jimmy's house on Christmas Day.Jimmy prepared a full table of dishes, from grilled fish, roast chicken, stir-fried grounded pork, hot pot, sesame buns, lettuce, pickles. We ate, drank, and talked about

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It has been the third year in a row Toastmaster Yoshihito Watanabe lead a group of Marathon runners Toastmasters from District 76 to join the annual Fubon Taipei Marathon Sunday morning, December 18th. There were eight Toastmasters this year, including 渡辺（吉）さん（赤羽）、齊藤（赤羽）、安部さん（武蔵小杉）、豊満さん（輝）、渡辺（友）さん（響）、小堀さん（築波）、酒井さん（輝）、酒井愛里さん. As usual, Japanese Toastmasters flew in Friday evening, to have the

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What would have been a better thing to do on a chilly winter night than perform a Russian Dance? If you picture us running here and there, jumping ups and downs with a full house of Toastmasters and friends, plus four full tables of pizza, fried chicken, fresh tropical fruits, wine, vodka, beverage by the fireplace, we had it all at Division H X'mas Party Saturday evening.Division H Governor

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I got up early to have my hair curled at a beauty parlor in the neighborhood this morning for two big events, the year end concert of classic Chinese songs at Fu-der Nursing Home in the afternoon, and Division H Xmas Party in Tam-shui in the evening.The year end concert was a warm up concert for the coming New Year concert at the Cardinal Tien Hospital in January. I arrived at Fu-der Nursing Home

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I'm curious about people, their mindsets and their behaviors. Everyday I enjoy observing people around me. The Toastmasters provides a great arena for me to observe enthusiastic people with different learning styles.We were a group of eight Toastmasters of Grand Toastmasters Club. We met to rehearse the Russian Folk Dance Kalinka this evening. When Toastmaster Piao Piao arrived at the Exit 5 of

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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. --Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997Who is reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson? I bet there are millions of them in the world. President Gina Cheng of Grand Toastmaster Club has a copy in English on her shelf. President Shen, the tenant of my penthouse, has a copy in Chinese on the dinner table. Like

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What an adventure I made this evening! I finally made it to Toastmaster Bill Wan's show at Somebody Cafe' in Xi-men District. To my surprise, my brother Jimmy accepted my invitation to go along. Jimmy never attends any social functions with me. I guess Jimmy and Bill must be connected in some way. Bill was invited to Jimmy's place for dinner for a couple of times when Bill was D67 Chorus member

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I'd like to start with a confession of mine in 2011. I know I'm not young, I mean my body. Everyday I look at the mirror in the morning, I see a face full of wrinkles and dullness. I want to do something fast and quick, to let a plastic surgeon bring back my youth, even it's superficially and artificially. Anyway, beauty is only skin deep.Lydia hosted a sumptuous dinner party for Golden Ladies at

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Grand had the first club meeting at the new meeting venue this evening. President Gina found the new venue two months ago, with a good location near MRT station and a reasonable rent. We moved because we wanted to contain the room rental expenditure. We moved with an aim to recruit more new members. It was a big move for Grand, we changed the meeting venue, we changed the meeting time, from

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Japanese are grateful people. After the 311 earthquake, every Japanese I met in Taipei thanked Taiwan for being a generous country to donate over 20 billion Japanese yen to the victims in Japan. Taiwan and Japan are neighbors. Neighbors come to the rescue faster than the relatives at far in the global village.The Annual Japanese Festival in Taiwan takes place in December at the Shingkong

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Be Russia the biggest country in the world (Russia: 17,075,200 km2; Canada: 9,984,670 km2; United States: 9,631,418 km2; China: 9,596,960 km2; Brazil: 8,511,965 km2), I've never beeen there. I don't know if I'll have the opportunity to visit Russia or to study the Russian language in my life.The first time I thought of learning the Russian language, it was when I accompanied Government officials

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It was Grand Toastmasters Club's last beaujolais evening (the annual beaujolais evening falls on the third Thursday in November). From December, Grand will hold the biweekly meeting on the first and third Wednesdays at Chung-cheng Community Center. The joint meeting of Grand and Excellence TMCs was significant (same meeting venue, different time slots, the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays for Excellence, the

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Toastmaster Mark Hunter made a strong impression on the full house of Toastmasters when he maneuvered his wheelchair to the auditorium on the 9th floor of McKay Hospital. When he gave us his business card, his smile radiated. The front side of the card stated the name with a photo, the other side was A Sink Full of Green Tomatoes--the title of the champion speech of Mark Hunter in 2009.From an

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It's the 146th birthday of Dr. Sun Yat-sen today. I got up early to join a group of 1500 people to sing "National Anthem 國歌", "Our National Father 我們國父", "Plum Blossom 梅花", "Ode of the Republic of China 中華民國頌", to show our respect and love to our national father. President Ma Ying-jeou also joined the 1000 people singing event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Repulic of

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I knew when and where I was at 11:11 this morning. I was at Hsin-tien district office of New Taipei City with my music teacher and a classmate of the singing class of the classic songs in the 20's. We were looking for a venue for our year-end concert!I knew something nice was about to happen. In the afternoon, I received a check of NT$300 dollars from New Taipei City Government to reimburse the

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While Toastmaster Lily Lin and I were having a coffee break at 85C after the singing class this afternoon, we were invited to have our bodies measured by a sales lady from Triumph. I was curious about what shape I was, I invited Lily to get on the pink truck of Triumph across the street to have our bodies mesured! I was S, among YSIOA.YSIOA, the 5 identified body shapes, give recommendation on

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The theme of YWCA Toastmasters Club's first meeting in November was stereotype. A week before, Toastmaster of Evening Kendrick Hu asked me about the stereotype that others thought of me, how others perceived me, whether the stereotype was true or not, and why. I responded that the stereotype of me was A GOLDEN LADY! It's true, because I'm over 50's and I have gold mine in me!Upon the invitation

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It was a big day for Lydia. It was a big day for Harry. It was a big day for golden ladies Toastmasters. Our beloved Lydia celebrated her 60th birthday at her mansion this evening.CARMEN : PRESENTATIONHugues and Sherry are standing by the door before the performance.(MC Michelle) 接下來請大家欣賞中華民國演講會友全球首演的歌劇卡門!Hugues and Sherry walk hand in hand from the gate to stage.(Sherry) Mesdames, Messieurs,

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今晚參加喜洋洋中文國際演講會第324次的例會，除了與我的法文老師 Hugues一起預演卡門外，還有機會演練中文的幽默演講，真是獲益良多。九月底才應可芸會友之邀到傑人會嘗試中文的幽默演講，今天再度上場，心安不少，感到自己的國語也說得比較流暢。看來以後，我得常到中文會去串門子，與大家一起切磋琢磨口語表達能力，讓自己的母語能更上一層樓！ 感謝秀如會長特別準備的生日蛋糕，為十月、十一月及十二月的會友慶生！我四十四年十月九日生，上個月剛滿五十六！很高興能與中文會友一起過生日！ 原訂於中場休息時間預演卡門，秀如會長建議我們唱開場，雖然唱的是七零八落，但是有機會能在喜洋洋預演，也為明晚的正式登台暖了身。接著我順勢穿著佛朗明哥的舞衣，演講「老年過動健忘症」，這種機會是千載也難逢。今晚有機會見識到施新瑠演講「雞同鴨講」，真是讓我刮目相看。新瑠會友曾擔任日本東京演講會的會長，我是日本京都演講會的創會會長，

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President Gina Cheng has exerted her every effort to make Grand Toastmasters Club a fun place to learn and to grow for members and guests. She invited her aunt Toastmaster Janice Chang from the US to deliver a keynote speech "A Tiger Mom's Reflection" at Grand Toastmasters Club this evening!Toastmaster Janice was born in Taiwan in 1949. After she continued her advanced studies in the US, she

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Hugues and I had the second rehearsal of Carmen for two hours this morning. In less than one week, Hugues manifested his determination to perform "Toreador, en garde" to the best of his ability. He remembered the entire lyrics by heart, he sang with power and passion. His debut French opera will wow the full house of guests at Lydia's birthday party Saturday evening, November 5th. In order to

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The cross strait peace agreement proposed by President Ma has been a heated issue recently. As a citizen of Taiwan, I’m obliged to know more about the bilateral talks between Taiwan and China in the past and their impacts to people at both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the future. I was excited to deliver Project 2 speech The Successful Negotiator at Taipei Metro Toastmasters Club Thursday noon,

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There are 3,000 to 6,000 languages in the world, not to mention various codes of signals. When I visited the Evergreen Maritime Museum yesterday morning, I was amazed at the colorful signal flags for the ships to communicate with each other at sea.The system of international maritime signal flags is one system of flag signals representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from

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I was happy, I placed at both Division H Humorous Speech and Evalation Contests Saturday afternoon, October 22nd! I was the first runner-up of evaluation contest and the second runner-up of the humorous speech contest.A joy shared is a joy doubled. I am grateful to my Toastmasters family members behind me to give me support and encouragement! They are the cheerleader group from Grand Toastmasters

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On the eve of ROC 100, Grand toastmasters Club members held a celebration party at my brother Jimmy's place. Among 8 party goers, four were Grand's ladies presidents, three past presidents and one incumbent president. Yvan invited her mother and her brother to join our gathering. Yvan's mother is also called Sherry, 11 years senior to me.It was an entertaining and educational celebration party,

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Being funny is not easy. For the past month, I've been working hard on my humorous speech for the contest this afternoon. I hope I can be funnier each day, I hope I can bring more laughter to people around me.I was the first runner up for Area H1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests 2011. I was excited with another chance to hone my public speaking skills at Division H Humorous Speech and

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I have neither an i-phone nor an i-pod in hand (I love to have them, but they are just too expensive), I admire Steve Jobs, his spirit, his enthusiasm, and his public speaking skills. The commencement speech delivered to to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005 was inspiring. He talked about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.On October 5, 2011, Apple posted an obituary: "Apple

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I won both in-house humorous speech and evaluation contests at Grand Toastmasters Club this evening. For the humorous speech contest, there were only two contestants, Incumbent Presient Gina Cheng and Me. For the evaluation contest, there were five contestants, Tina Liang, Victor Chu, Jimmy Wu, Jimmy Chang, and me. The test speaker is Nailing Liu, she delivered a humorous speech to compare top

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I saw Bizert's Carmen at Opera National de Paris in Bastille in July 1993. After I left the post as the secretary geneneral of Taiwan Pharmaceutical Industry Association in April 1993, I gave myself a present--a vacation in Europe. Where in Europe? Of course, it was none other than France. I studied French diligently at home for three months before I embarked upon my journey to France. I joined a

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He who hesitates ... is lost.To my surprise, I received a email from Harry and Lydia early this morning, inviting me to be the MC of Lydia's 60th birthday party. They made my day by giving me the honor. I had a sound reason to buy another fancy party costume! Let's keep the birthday ball running! "I think Sherry needs at least six costumes for your birthday party," Toastmaster Trini Ding joked

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I felt like being transcended back to Chia-yi in the 60's when I showed the dinner guests to MRT Dapingling station Saturday evening, October 1st. I remember vividly, when I was ten years old, my parents gave me a big birthday party. I was allowed to sit between them at the head table to welcome family and friends. I was the birthday star. I was the happiest person in the world.I was born on the

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I spend a lot of time studying English every day with a wishful thinking that I can become a writer some day. I read a lot, extensively and intensively. I write a lot, extensively and intensively. I speak a lot, extensively and intensively. But there is still a long way for me to publish a book, if there is any. To be honest,as a non-native speaker of English, I feel as much frustrated using

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When Toastmaster Caroline Kiang asked me to deliver a demo speech at 傑人會, a 6 months old Chinese-speaking Toastmaters Club, I said Yes without any hesitation. It was the first time I delivered a humorous speech for 5-7 minutes, I was happy I made it this evening.Caroline, Toastmaster Kate Hsu, and I met for dinner at a small family restaurant near the meeting venue before 6PM. After dinner, we

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After Division A Advanced Manual Training on the last evening of August, I was all lifted up to work on the Interpersonal Communication Manual. Tonight, I completed the project 1 Conversing with Ease to my satisfaction. I wanted to thank Toastmaster Lester Lin for being my individual Evaluator, President Naomi Kao for being my role player. Toastmaster Gordon Brook gave a friendly remark before I

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Birds of a feature get together. Among ten golden ladies Toastmasters, the blood types are either O or B. All golden ladies birthdays fall on the second half of the year. Isn’t the statistical data intriguing? Are Toastmasters of natures or nurtures?Toastmaster Trini Ding brought up the blood type issue yesterday, when she was in Tainan to accompany for her mother for the weekend. When she looked

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I received the Toastmaster Magazine September 2011 in my mailbox this morning. It had a layout quite different from those issues in the past six decades. It spoke out the new brand that would precede us in the Toastmasters International from now on!In the viewpoint, the newly elected International President Michael Notaro talked about building a better brand at Toastmasters: a place where leaders

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President Gina Cheng had had insomnia for the past two weeks, worrying about the coming welcoming party & orientation training at her place Saturday noon, September 10th. It must have been more than two months since she started engineering the luncheon menu. Carol Wang, one of her longtime friends, provided her elegant and exquisite Spode dinnerware for the gathering two weeks in advance.Gina

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墨流轉，詩逸揚；歌清亮，曲繞樑~When Toastmaster Kate invited to see the Cross-Strait Mid-Autumn Concert at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, I started planning what to put on to look like a connaiseur of fashion and Chinese Opera.Cross-Strait Mid-Autumn Concert 2011 was a huge musical program organized by Fu-kien Television Group (福建省廣播影視集團). It was the sixth year in a row since 2004. This year featured the mix and

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Division A Advanced Manual Training was held at Taipei Metro Tower this evening. It was one of the best training I had had in years in D67, in terms of the contents of the training and the heavy weight speakers. On top of that, the venue was a nice and clean cafeteria on the 7th floor of state-of-the-art Taipei Metro Tower, not to mention the admission fee of NT$50, with plenty refreshments and

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My penthouse was re-opened to public with a new nickname "Green House Red Room" last weekend. As two walls were big windows, the house was bright like a green house. And my wishful thinking of a lot of reading of the Toastmaster magazines prompted me to call the penthouse Red (Read) room, and I might even paint one wall in red. Six golden ladies Toastmasters came to the Red Room slumber party

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I paid my annual due in August without a second thought, regardless of the increment of the annual fee from US$54 to US$72, knowing that District 67 will receive 25 percent of every due dollar World Headquarters receives from clubs within the district. Now District 67 has a budget of NT$396,385 to serve 3,300 members 2011-12, including district and club officers training, judges training, manuals

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It was the second Saturday evening in a row, Golden Ladies (GL) enjoyed an ecstatic night at Toastmaster Kate Hsu's cozy apartment. Over the Indonesian dinner to celebrate Gina's birthday this evening, we had a full course of laughter as always, while taking many snapshots. I brought every GL a chunk of turmeric root to try out the authentic Indonesian turmeric rice at home. Learning by doing is

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My husband has every reason to worry about me, a sexy, passionate, confident Toastmaster in public, also at home, in the past! But now, I smile more often to him and I fight less often with him. I take orders in stead of giving orders. There is a change in my behaviors. "Oh, my god. It is already 7 o'clock. I'll definitely be late for my 7:30 appointment with golden ladies," I thought. I jumped

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Eight golden ladies (Irene, Kate, Linda, Lydia, Michelle, Pamela, Sherry, Trini) joined Peter Wee's clogging dance workshop from 2:30PM till 5:30PM Saturday afternoon, August 13th. We learned four easy intermediate clogging dances, including 1)Spanish Lady – Basic +3; 2) Headphones – Ezy Int; 3)Born This Way – Ezy Int; 4)Jimmy – Ezy Int. It was Peter's third annual workshop in Taiwan. I joined

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Toastmaster Kate Hsu invited golden ladies to see the Borrowing the Plantain Fan at Taipei EYE, only Lydia and I could make it this evening. It was an exciting and entertaining show full of martial arts scenes. After the show, we had a couple of photos taken with the leading actors, Monkey King and the Princess Iron Fan, to conclude a joyful and pleasant Chinese Opera evening. Journey to the

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Grand Toastmasters Club has something to be proud of, being the first Toastmasters club in District 67 to hold a wedding ceremony for Toastmasters Joel Wright and Erin Ke with a great success Saturday, August 6th. Toastmaster Jimmy Wu was the Officiant, Toastmaster Steve Wang was the Master of Wedding Ceremony, Toastmaster Carrie Chiang was the Maid of Honor. Joel & Erin's wedding party was one

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Lady 恰恰, Lydia, 平常成天在外面跳恰恰, 一回到在家裡對 Harry 就很恰! 八月八月欣逢 Harry 六十甲子華誕, Lydia 特邀轟動舞林、驚動萬教的 Golden Ladies Toastmasters 姊妹掏, 表演 Poker Face 為 Dearest Harry 暖壽表愛意! (照片由左到右) Lady 大大, Michelle, 天下女人我最大! Lady 辣辣, Sherry, 身材香艷又火辣! Lady 趴趴, Pamela, 世界各國走趴趴! Lady 踏踏, Jennie, 成天到處教踢踏! Lady 聒聒, Trini, 演講會友最會聒! Lady 花花, Irene, 口袋有錢就會花! Lady 嗲嗲, Kate, 一唱平劇鐵定嗲! Lady 哈哈, Linda, 博君哈哈一笑啦! 攝影師 Lady 發發, Virginia,

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Life is a banquet! Bon appetit! ~Jo Shih, China Toastmasters Club~ When Jo extended her invitation to G-Girls for brunch at her mansion Saturday morning, July 23rd, my mouth began watering. It was my second time to venture to her kitchen, and the first or the third time for other G-Girls to experience the savory and tasty adventure. Jo's philosophy in life, "Life is a banquet! Bon appetit!",

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The Hohaiyan Gongliao Rock Festival started in 2000. I made it to the 12th annual festival on Fulong Beach this year for the first time with two golden ladies Toastmasters. The 2011 New Taipei City Hohaiyan Gongliao Rock Festival was a comprehensive upgrade 5.0 with the "Insistence" of a dream, a whole new living attitude towards rock music! Rock is it for all, young and old, you and me. I shall

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It was a relaxing Saturday afternoon concert at the GuoGuang Opera House (國光劇場), featuring many talented performing artists on a typhoon day. Taiwan Music Center organized a free concert to music lovers and connoisseurs of the folk art of talking and singing in the past century in Taiwan.The Millennium Concert of Legacy (傳唱千古情音樂會) was divided into three parts, Voice of Formosa(寶島之聲), Theatrical

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In order to break a leg at China Toastmasters Club's 26th Anniversary Party, golden ladies have been practicing cha cha diligently for the past week. This evening, we stood tall on stage, wowed the audience with our performance. In the admiring eyes of a full house of Toastmasters and friends, we won the reputation as the Taiwanese version of Spicy Girls.To be honest, the reason why I was eager

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I didn't really know how excited Eliza Doolittle was when she spoke to the Edison cylinder phonograph at Professor Henry Higgins’s studio till today. I knew it now, because of the experiment with Edison cylinder phonograph at the Central Libray this afternoon, June 12th.After I sent the mp3 of my voice on an antique Edison cylinder phonograph to golden ladies toastmasters, Toastmaster Trini Ding

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Toastmaster Jonathan Borock called me at 4:30PM, Monday, May 23rd, when he arrived in Taipei after the 2nd United Asian Debating Championship 2011 in Macao. In less than an hour, we met at the lobby of his hotel in Ximen. For the following 5 and 1/2 hours, we had a pleasant Angry Birds Debate strolling around the Ximen District, purchasing five mascots of colorful angry birds and three green evil

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At last, Trini announced her house warming party after three months interior decoration. Every golden lady was eager to see her brand new love nest. I was the first one to arrive at 11 o'clock Saturay, May 21st. While waiting for Trini to pick up Irene, I took it easy to powerder myself at the lobby. Then three of us walked to Building H through the central park in the middle of the apartment

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One of my New Year's Resolutions of Year 2011 was to make acquaintance with 100 strangers. After the Regensburger Domspatzen Concert Tour in Taiwan, I added 60 Germans on my roster. Even before the end of the fist half of year 2011, I reached my goal in making friends and acquaintaces of one hundred! Hooray!The 60 Germans are no ordinary people, they are gifted with beautiful voices. Whenever the

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It was an experience to live with 60 Germans for a dozen of nights in Taiwan! Did I speak any German during the Regensburger Domspatzen Concert Tour in Taiwan, from April 28th till May 10th?The answer was yes and no. Whenever I uttered the words in German, the little boys looked up at me with their puzzled eyes full of question marks. Immediately I switched into English. They still looked up at

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All good things come to an end. Today we left the Hotel Tayih Landis where we stayed for six nights straight. All staff members gathered at the lobby to say goodbye to us, they saw us off in front of the hotel until our charter buses departed. I started missing the hotel the night before our departure, the ambience, the food, the service and the flower arrangement at the lobby. I shall definitely

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I was all dressed up in my Bavarian costume for the morning Mass at the St. Josef Church on the second Sunday of Easter. The Octave Day of Easter is known as St. Thomas Sunday, because of the story "Doubting Thomas" in the Gospel(John 20:19-29). St. Joseph Church in located within a walking distance from Tayih Landis Hotel in Tainan. In an old church, we had a special blingual Mass in Mandarin

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The Domspatzen means the sparrows of the cathedral in German. Today, the sparrows from the St. Peter Cathedral in Regensburg flew to Chia-yi Performing Arts Center (PAC) to give their first workshop and first concert in Taiwan. Being a native of Chia-yi, I was excited that I finally got to visit the Chia-yi PAC since its completion in 2005.We arrived at Hsin-kang Incense Artistic Culture Garden

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I woke up early to be the first at the buffet breakfast before 8 o'clock. It looked like all RD boys and staff were still in bed. They must have had a sound sleep last night. That's good, sound sleep, sound body, sound voice. Number One J.S. showed up at the breakfast, followed by his roomate Number Two P. F. When Number Three M. S. walked in, I asked him why he wore a wedding ring on his ring

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I didn't get much sleep because of my excitements! It was after midnight when I walked into my bedroom thinking of the Regensburger Domspatzen (RD) coming my way on the CI62 somewhere above the clouds in China. At ten past five, I was waiting in front of the Gu-Ting Elementary School for Ms. Joaan Chang to pick me up to welcome the world's oldest boys' choir at the Tao-yuan Airport.At seven

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It was the last day Ms. Jana Barnhill, the International President 2008-2009, was in town. I listened to her speech, "Why communication is so important and relative to career diplomats?" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).After Jana's speech, Mr. Pierre Chen, President of MOFA Toastmasters Club recommended me to see Mr. Guo-nan Chin, Section Chief, Third Section, Department of European

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What a beautiful and colorful big heart we created with all the wishes from Ms. Jana Barnhill, the International President 2008-2009; Mr. George Yen, the 2nd Vice International President; Mr. Keith Ostergard, the Region 13 Director; Mr. Mike Yang, D67 Governor, and many Toastmasters in District 67!心の物語: It is a story about the big heart and the friendship between Taiwanese and Japanese

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When D67 Governor Mike Yang asked me to organize a chorus of 100 Toastmasters to open the D67 Spring Conference Party, I said NO, simply because it was a mission impossible. But, on the second thought, who would not jump at this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase our patriotism in celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Republic of China?It was a touching moment when the

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D67 Spring Conference 2011 was around the corner! D67 Female Vocals were still not in shape, to be honest! But, there is no turning back now! We couldn't do anything else, but practice to the best of our abilities! Thirteen singers from D67 female vocals showed up at our last rehearsal at Grand Toastmasters Club Thursday evening, April 21st, including six golden ladies Toastmasters. Every singer

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Six golden ladies Toastmasters went to Kenting for a three-days vacation just one week after the Spring Scream 2011. Kenting has a lot to offer, the blue sky, the white sand beach, the nature, the culture, and most of all, the crazy and wild night pubs! What a fruitful and relaxing Spring journey 2011--Venture to the South! If you are planning for a Spring Journey in 2012. I shall say, it'll be

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各位來賓、各位女士、各位先生：我們下半場即將開始，請您陸續就座，並請您關上手機，或改為震動！ 皆様、間もなく、後半が始まります。どうぞ、お席にお戻り下さい。攜帯電話の電源を切ってください。或は、マナーモードを切り替えてください。 各位來賓，大家好、大家午安！今年欣逢中華民國建國一百年，在此與大家一同祝福中華民國國運昌隆，人民安和樂利。我是下半場的司儀名取千鶴慈，請多多指教。觀賞完上半場的精彩演出，相信大家期待下半場更精彩的演出！ 皆様、今日は。今年は中華民國が創立されて、百年になります。本日、皆様のお蔭で、盛大な發表會ができまして、心より感謝致します。私は名取千鶴慈と申します。日本新舞踴千鶴流萬華支會第五回發表會の後半の司會を擔當させていただきます。どうぞ、宜しくお願いいたします。 下半場開場舞第12首花櫻，描述滿城櫻花盛開的美景，萬紫千紅的春天來到了！

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What a happy singing gathering of D67 female vocals at Grand Toastmasters Club this evening. Ten Toastmasters singers went through two songs to be performed at D67 Spring Conference Party 2011, Saturday evening, April 23rd. Everybody was full of excitements to participate in the special singing event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China.Looking back at D67 Chorus debut

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Ask me why I stay in Toastmasters for more than two decades! Ask me why I join the speech contests year after year! I can't tell if it is a habit or an addiction! It's like drinking a glass of mixed emotions, a little adrenaline rush, a little excitement, a little reflection, a little narcissistic, a little achievement. I am loving it, standing tall, drinking to myself, TOASTing to the

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My eyes have been full of tears recently whenever I watched BS1 (Japanese satellite TV) broadcast the Northeastern Japan devastated by earthquake 311. I was so moved by many inspiring stories of the heroes and heroines of mankind facing the disasters.A senior gentleman decided to risk his life to cool down the nuclear reactor regardless his retirement in six months. A young lady announcer

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It was a successful joint Area H1 & H3 International Speech & Tabletopics Contests at the Motorola Factory in Hsin-tien Saturday afternoon, March 19th. Gina and I represented Grand Toastmasters Club to compete with another three contestants at Area H1. All three placed, Gina and I didn't make Grand proud this year. Nevertheless both Gina and I delivered better speeches than at the Grand's

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Time flies. It has been ten years since I served as the Charter President of Kyoto Toastmasters Club in 2001. The 10th anniversary of Kyoto Toastmasters Club will be held at the Kyoto International Community House Friday evening, April 29th. For more information, please contact Kyoko Kitamura, President of Kyoto Toastmasters Club.Federica Giusto came to Taipei for the first time Wednesday evening

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Just about when I was struggling how to introduce Taiwan and China to a group of 60 German kids from Regensburg in April with my limited German vocabulary, I came across Ina Aus China by Susanne Hornfeck.The cover page of a little girl sitting like a ballerina China doll caught my immediate attention on the new arrival shelf of the Hsin-tien Library. Without a second thought, I borrowed the book

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Among Toastmasters in District 67, Caroline Kiang is for sure one of the busiest members these days. Not only is she in charge of the opening ceremony of D67 Spring Conference 2011, she also shoulders the full responsibility to organize the gala conference party. Toastmaster Caroline Kiang is very experienced in huge party scheme. For the past three decades she has been actively in organizing big

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天蒼蒼，野茫茫，風吹草低見牛羊。The sky is very, very blue; The land is very, very vast. Over the grass that the wind blows low; One sees oxen and sheep stroll.D67 Governor Mike Yang invited Toastmaster Mayumi Hu and me for dinner at the Grassland Wind Mongolia Hot Pot Restaurant in honor of Mr. Choidorj, Head of Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei, and his beloved beautiful wife

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How much can a man achieve in two months? A man can travel around the world in two months. A man can fall in love and get married in two months. A man can acquire a foreign language in two months.For me, I want to be able to stand up and speak up in German in two months (from February 28th to April 28th). I want to cram the German language down my throat before I meet up with the Regensburg

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It was a very successful Toastmasters Demo Meeting at National Defense Medical Center (NDMC) with 25 participants (13 Toastmasters and 12 non-toastmasters) on the Lantern Festival 2011.The high quality TOASTMASTERS demo meeting at NDMC campus featured four DTMs (Distinguished Toastmasters), including Mike Yang, YS Jap, Ronald Wiplinger, Trini Ding, and many D67 Officers, including District 67

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Toastmaster Harry Fong invited a group of Toastmasters friends to join the Karaoke Party at his mansion to welcome Dragon Lee back to Taipei for Chinese New Year this evening. It was more like a family gathering, with Toastmaster Harry and his wife Lydia, Toastmaster Harrison with his wife Cecilia, lady friends of Lydia, and the Toastmasters who visitied the Bilingual Drama Toastmasters Club in

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Woolloomooloo! That's the name of the restaurant golden ladies had brunch for the Spring Wine Party 2011 today.When Pamela suggested we have brunch at Woolloomooloo Cafe', I went on line to seach for the origin of the name. As I had expected, the word had something to do with the aboriginal tribe. No wander when I first saw the word, I felt like dancing on my feet!The moment golden ladies sat

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So many things to accomplish in year 2011, I must move like a leaping rabbit to have as much done as possible after the Chinese New Year holidays.It was sunny in the south throughout the entire holiday season. I took the advantage of the good weather enjoying the countryside life with my parents-in-law. I practiced piano with my niece living next door in the morning. I taught children English and

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On behalf of the Golden Ladies Toastmasters, I attended Linda's father's funeral Sunday morning, January 30th. In order to make it to the early funeral service in the morning, I stayed at my sister's place in Tai-chung Saturday evening. Linda's big house was in the countryside in Chang-hwa. The funeral service took place in the front yard. There were a full house of people from all walks of

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Upon the recommendation of Toastmaster Virginia Lee of Legacy Toastmasters Club, I visited the Goethe-Institut Taipei Wednesday afternoon. I applied for a library card immediately, and I borrowed two books, PLANET A1 Kursbuch 1 Deutsch fur Jugendliche and Perfekt In Deutsch Ubungsgrammatik fur Jugendliche. I shall have a lot to study during the Chinese New Year holidays at my hometown in

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In order to welcome the oldest boys' choir in the world to Taipei, I embarked upon a challenging journey to study the German language. I wish I could extend the Taiwanese hospitality to 34 little boys and 20 older boys from Regensburg Domspatzen during their Taiwan Concert Tour from April 28th till May 10th.At Taipei Skal Toastmasters Club's 1st anniversary party Wednesday evening (1/19), I asked

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I delivered a speech about Toastmasters in Mongolia at Skal Taipei Toastmasters Club's first anniversary ceremony Wednesday evening, January 19th. I would not have thought of the honor to speak in front of His Excellency Markhaaj Choidorj from Mongolia and His Excellency William Tapia from Nicaragua when I joined Grand Toastmasters Club in 1986. I was glad I did. It has been one of the smartest

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