Mar 22, 2014

【英國特派員】林孟潔:服貿協議的草率令人震驚

【英國特派員】林孟潔:服貿協議的草率令人震驚──剛與馬總統會面的倫敦政經學院教授Christopher Hughes談話記要 
聽說連結被刪了 先備份
I couldn’t recall the detail of the conference I attended in Taiwan last year, but I remember that there was this big discussion about ECFA. I was quite skeptical about ECFA. Was it necessary? Why do you even need ECFA, really? Even if you look at KMT, the impact on GDP is relatively small, much smaller than predictions. And there are a lot of political arguments made about it. There are a lot political than economic I think, both sides, for and against. For the Ma administration, they had to show some progress on the cross-strait relations to get some support from Beijing. The arguments they made were that we have to compete with South Korea. This is not really an argument. If you’re competing with South Korea, it’s hopefully high-technology. Now that is already covered by WTO.

Mar 21, 2014

你問我立場 沉默地我望著天空的飛鳥而拒絕答腔

越想越生氣,我無法沉默。

今天有一位大陸同學問我說服貿到底發生甚麼事情? 我解釋到後來差點吵起來。我們等一下要主持一個學術性的小會議,還是不要討論會讓兩人吵架的事情好了。會議結束後我們討論了齒列矯正的話題。不碰政治大家都開心。

開心你個鬼...


319學生攻占立法院反黑箱審服貿

我是芝加哥的鄉民,沒辦法回去幫大家,但是也是守在網路上想要看到最新的進展。讓我從這幾天看到的情形來評論整件事情。

現在場內外好像有些不一樣的聲音,問題在哪裡?

A. 要採用讓馬政府更感到壓力的下一步嗎?
B. 學生團體的訴求和定位現在在哪裡? 達成了嗎?
C. 這股氣可以持續多久?

目前馬政府的態度很明顯,就是拖延戰術不給正面回應。拖到學生團體累了,內部出現不協調的聲音了,就可以輕鬆擊破,或是等待這股氣持續散去。事實上這些聲音已經在內部發酵...從領導同學建議包圍黨部、或是討論需不需要用到更強硬的手段,就可以看得出來。


Mar 19, 2014

Hundreds of students occupy Taiwan's Legislature to protest China pact


百餘位學生佔據台灣立法院 抗議與中國協議

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/taiwan-student-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Editor's note: Are you there? Share your images, if you can from a safe place.
(CNN) -- Hundreds of students remained barricaded in Taiwan's Legislature early Wednesday in protest of the ruling party's push for a trade pact with China, which demonstrators claim will hurt the island.
The protesters, mostly university students, entered the main assembly hall inside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Tuesday night and blocked the entrances with chairs, according to images and accounts filed from the scene with CNN iReport.


Feb 5, 2014

(Trying to) Write Like a Native Speaker! (Part I)

As an international student, I've been trying as hard as possible to write emails like native speakers. It's ..well...a painstaking process :P There are some "common combinations" of words that I don't really know how to use. Especially preposition, plural, and collocation. Well, I can still write something that people understand. But if I can I'd try to write more elegantly. 

Usually I tried to start with a draft and then send it to my friends for help. Every time  I am surprised by how different the email reads after the fine-tuning. 

Here I'm going to share some email templates. Hope that helps! 


Jan 6, 2014

最冷的新年 2014.01.05~01.06

這幾天不管是美國還是台灣的媒體,都在報導美國東北部跟中西部罕見的大雪跟低溫。昨天下午西北大學甚至發佈今天(星期一)停課的消息。這個新年從31號開始就是以瑞雪紛飛迎接2014的狀態。


Northstar Chen
1月2日在 Evanston, IL 附近
2013.12.30 Well it's cold
2013.12.31 Oh its snowing like a winter
2014.01.01 What the snow is too big I don't want to go out
2014.01.02 Holy shit snow! Stop it now!
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Dec 29, 2013

2013.Dec.23-28 New York City

2013.12.23
ORD-LGA arrived at 11:30 am
抵達位在Queens的旅館, 下大雨
隨便吃個Apple Bee 遇到休假中的政府官員 (來過台灣 XD)
沿紅線坐到The Met Opera, 觀賞歌劇Tosca
感謝白哥與博舜學長同樂

2013.12.24
自由女神像與Ellis Island
Downtown Manhattan, Wall Street, Brooklyn Bridge
韓國街吃燒肉與時代廣場, 中央車站
感謝白哥全程陪同

2013.12.25
Flushing吃港式點心
中央公園
Cafe Lalo下午茶
NYC, 華盛頓紀念公園
大眾居酒屋
感謝白哥與博舜學長同樂

2013.12.26
The Met Museum
功夫茶, 中國城, 小義大利炭烤pizza

2013.12.27
第五大道逛街
MoMA
法式餐廳
Uniqlo

2013.12.28
Murray's Bagel
第五大道南區逛街
JFK-ORD