The Land of Conjurors

Someday I'm going to head for Taichung again, and I love it. It's so exciting for me to have this trip having a banquet. I was very eager to check the bus schedule a while ago. My partner who studies Western Literature will come with me as well. Very thrilled now! I got so many things about my future and secret and would like to share those things with her. In addition to that, I hope that Taichung MRT will be soon go into operation. If I get my degree of graduate school, I might head for Taichung as soon as I can. It is the city of art, creativity and liberation for me, especially for me, who comes from Kaohsiung. By the way, I don't think Taipei is a great city even though it owns a good many resources and its variety of everything fashionable. I've been there with my partner by the end of June, and the environment was pretty messy, the building which combines the old and modern style, stood disorderly without the beauty of the city. Well, that is just my opinion. Per...

Today I went to National Sun Yet-Sen University (NSYSU) and registered for graduate school. I was quite delighted at that moment because I was lucky to have a ride by a bus on campus. Meanwhile, there were some foreigners in the university. They may have stayed in the dormitory of campus this summer vacation, and they were with me on the bus. The College of Liberal Arts is located at the deep position of the mountain. I had to handle something after getting there, and then to hand in my undergradute diploma. However, the procedure of giving my undergraduate certificate was faster than I expected. To my disappointment, there were nothing to wander around in The College of Liberal Arts as well as The Centre of Arts. Most terribly, the bus should be waited in more than thirty minutes. At that time, I doubted extremely the coming of the bus with the punctuality since the weather was too hot to wait. Others rode motorcycles or drove the car up to there. Nonetheless, I would not wal...

Today I went to NSYSU this afternoon. The beautiful landscapes leaped to my eyes. That was truly breathtaking since I've never seen such wonderful view of Kaohsiung port. Still, to be frank, the view cannot tell everything I expect. The lack of delicious foods somehow made me sad, or probably I still didn't find them out. In addition to that, the school disappointed me somewhat when it came to the "snake -like road," which means that the roads were quite crooked. So I have to get accustomed to the road as soon as possible by means of riding motorcycle. It's a bit thrilled for me to stay outside while renting the house nearby. However, it also gives a great burden for my parents to pay the rental as well. I have considered living at home and taking the MRT, but I don't think it's a good idea by doing so because doing research in university is no more like the undergraduate students' lives. There will be more time that I need the source from school or it...

Yeah, it's so hard to tell the truth now. I feel so helpless and emoitionless somehow. And I must leave Taichung, one way or another. I always felt excited while I was in Kaoshung because there was another home beyond my homwtown where I can always expect from. Now it is really over, as well as the meeting with Lucas. Yeah, no more, no more bwtween us. So soon and uninformative, which are just passed away without any voices. Ridiculous. Why do we meet at last in such ridiculous way? Who knows? What are we hiding from? The best way is to pretend nothing happen, and yeah, that's the best way you think that can work on, isn't it? Like what you said, you are open-minded for everyone's thinking and opinions, but never establish any relationship with others. Good! Very good. That means you really got your freesom in doing it, right? Everything for you seems so detached and never get close at all. What a shame. How to behave the way I am, I don't even know. Leaving Taichun...

Well, we really finished our relationship. I'm just wondering something that can last longer between us. Ha, what am I expecting? What can I really expect from him? I would like to fall in the waterfall and never get up. But it seems that I can hardly do that. Almost three years and I treat him with no sympathy in the end of the class. And yes, he will not care, will he? Ha, what a temper! Yes, I envy him who owns the ability to cast aside so many memories and so much of nostagia since I lack those traits. Still, I will miss him and all the memory in Taichung, where is the art and music of the city. English literature, oh, god, don't bring me to the sentimental way. But I really miss the class. Passera. Indeed, someone will leave, and sometimes this will gonna happen. To feel in the intoxicating moment, I wish I could immerse myself in the way it is. And will we meet again? I don't think it will be lucky. Just wish everything in Taichung can rewind so that I might ch...

I kind of feel satisfied now, but I do not know why. Perhaps I've just finished my Shakespeare exam and the most difficult task--- the paper of Contemporary Novel!!! Oh my goodness! I can't imagine that I've just finished it in three days. And these days, I was totally dried out and keenly delve into the meaning and techniques in reading postmodern novels. All of the things which contain the elements of postmodernism reveal a sense of danger and uncertainty. It sometimes makes you thrilled nontheless, to be honest. And sometimes you just wonder at the things you see that could be so experimented and owns the power of avand-guard! That's how it is. Haha. Basically, when reading the postmodern novels at first, you'll get lost in some ways. But it's a natural shock for most people who don't usually get touch with those materials. That's me, yeah~ hahaha. Well, that's when I get started reading Federman's Smiles on Washington Square . After having b...

In today's speech, Linda Alper introduces the tone of the lines in Shakespeare's dramas. At the beginning, Linda lets us vividly see the royal and noble families from Hamlet by holding the playing card. I think that was also interesting since the players seemed to feel that they were the role while holding the cards. They somehow own the sense of identification in the process even though they need not to act out the drama. And I think it's really helpful for me to get involved in the emotion and the situation of the characters more quicker than merely reading the lines. In addition to that, I had learned the iambic pentameter in sophomore, and I used to watch people recite the poems on stage. Nevertheless, I feel the words between the lines are suddenly "alive" while reading them by me with the tone and feature of iambic pentameter in front of the public. Oh, that was really amazing when reading out loud! After that, Phaedra and I came back to the seats, and we ...