Wind City's Marathon

I went to Hsinchu to join Marathon last Sun and also had a lot of funs there. My chief counseling officer in the army asked me to join this Marathon, i said yes reluctantly because I was toooooo busy in my life.

I remember that day, i woke up at 4:30 am and ate a little bit and then went to the racing place with my officer. I saw a lot of active guys when we arrived there and they played a loudly music. Wow, it is the scene before the marathon, it was soooooooooo great and i liked it very much.

We started at the early morning, 6:00am, the air was clean and fresh and the wind was very cool. The wether in the morning was very good for a jog. I really enjoyed the jog when i ran to the lake b/c the air is perfectly fresh. However, i began to feel the pain in my left leg but i really didn't wanna give up but i finally stop to walk to the end, it was damn pain! I spent 3hr running for about 17km, and i didn't finish the whole marathon. My officer spent 4:30hr running the whole distance, 42.195km, and his sock was all wet when he finished it. "It is a hard race today!" he said. The first runner spent about 3:00 running the whole Marathon.

Marathon, it is a great activity and i will join it when i have time. Also, i saw a lot of special people there. "You can learn sth different and special from them." My officer said it to me.

Dec 17th is the ING Marathon, i will go to join it. I like Marathon!!!!

The best table topic speaker

Q: what will you do when tomorrow will be the end of the world?
A:I will be very happy, why? Cos' we can die together and no one will cry for someone who die before us. Also, i will email to my family and my friends, tell them to take care of themselves, and i will go to enjoy my last time on the earth!

NTU TMC

I was so glad to visit this top club in the first university in Taiwan last Fri. But i was sooooooo nervous during their meeting b/c their are the top of the top students in Taiwan. Every time i came here, i always have this feeling, very stressful b/c they are the elite in our country.

I was very impressed by their great english ability, especially the TM(the host of the meeting on that day, we call it TM), harry. Listening to his speaking, it is like listening to the ICRT DJ's talk, his words is sooooooooo beautiful and very confident. The meeting is good b/c there are a lot of great guys supporting this club, they are not only young but also friendly, passion, smart and diligent. But i was late to the meeting for one hour due to the traffic jam and missed a lot of great parts, it is too bad. >< Next time i will be there earlier.

I also went to their second round in M, it was soooo laidback and less stress. I had a great time there and talked a lot to Vivien(their vice president) and other guys. It seemed that i was back to my school life again, i was very happy at that time. Guess what? They thought i was a foreigner b/c i kept speaking english to them and i also look like a foreigner. But actually i am the native Taiwanese. I got a mission to come here, it is to show our Yzu TMC's passion and professional, and i did make it and also got vivien's card, i was kind of proud of this......

TMC tradition, hmmm....what exactly is it? Uncle Jack, one of our TMC experienced members said that to me, most of clubs have lost the tradition of toastmasters now, and it is too bad that we don't have the truly spirit of toastmasters and we don't follow the rules seriously now. What we do is just for fun now. The same situation also happened to our airborne now, a lot of old soldiers always complain about it. Hmmm....it is a big question to me. What on earth the traditional of TMC is? Can we make a balance between these two pionts, the tradition and the fashion? I am thinking about those Qs now.......................

Writing Practice

In order to write correctly the important is practice. It have helped me a lot to write mails, at least a mail a day.

It is better to have a native English speaker pen pal; he or she can help you if you ask him questions about your doubts in your writing.

It is important to study grammar too, there are many sites on Internet about grammar, but I prefer a printed book grammar.

I have learned that you should be not afraid to commit mistakes; one should learn from our own mistakes, the important is to keep practicing and some day we will write as a native English speaker.

So, don't be shy and start writing and posting your comments in this blog.