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雖然覺得講到星巴克就太俗套了, 但是我還是忍不住要推薦淡水河邊的那家分店. 注意喔~ 我這裡指的不是捷運淡水總站旁邊的那一家喔. 而是從淡水渡船頭沿著淡水河往出海口的方向走, 和中華電信背對背,和7-11肩併肩. 它的店面正對著淡水河,對岸就是八里和觀音山. 店裡整面牆的落地窗,可以把淡水河口的美景盡收眼底. 下午的西曬很嚴重,坐在店裡還要戴墨鏡... 但是太陽下山的時候就美極了, 在這裡看到的夕陽是躲到觀音山的背後的. 晚霞會因為氣候的變化而呈現不同的色彩. 我常常就因此望著美景發呆, 心裡讚嘆著...太美了...然後一股幸福感就油然而生.... 晚上還可以坐在它的露台,吹著海風, 欣賞點綴著燈飾的船隻在河面上穿梭... 強烈推薦!!!  

早上出門搭捷運時,一進捷運站就看到有個人有點面熟... 居然是我弟弟在加拿大的同學Wayne.... 因為我沒化妝就出門了.....當時覺得真糗!!!   這件事就讓我想到我那個很重形象的妹妹說過的一句話: 妳永遠都不知道妳在什麼時候會遇到誰?! 所以致力於保持形象的我妹妹就連到門口倒垃圾都要換衣服...   在國外是不用提著垃圾等垃圾車來的, 而是固定每個禮拜幾的早上會有垃圾車來家門口收垃圾. 所以我們的工作就只是前一天晚上把垃圾桶搬到車庫出口的馬路邊, 隔天再把空的垃圾桶收回來就好了. 記得有一次半夜我跟我妹妹一人提一桶垃圾要拿到車道口放. 我走在前面,我妹妹跟在後面.... 走到一半,隱約聽到有車子開過來的聲音... 我妹妹馬上躲到樹叢後面, 我在前面還搞不清楚狀況,但也見狀回頭跟著她躲起來. 兩個人就抱著跟我們蹲下來一般高的垃圾桶躲在樹叢後.... 我還壓低音量的問妹妹發生什麼事了? 為什麼我們要躲起來?? 結果我妹居然說: 因為我們穿著睡衣啊! 如果被我朋友看到怎麼辦?? 我聽了差點沒昏倒!! 又氣又好笑... 好笑的是,三更半夜的,又是在山上的住宅區. 誰要看妳啊!? 氣的是....我居然還跟著她一起躲!!!! 活脫脫的就像港片的某個場景.... 一個嫌犯被警察抓去一個黑黑暗暗的小房間偵訊, 警察突然開啟檯燈照著嫌犯的臉, 嫌犯被突如其來的亮光嚇得用雙手遮住雙眼....還要拼命的解釋說: 不是我! 真的不是我!!   我妹妹常常嘮叨...說我太邋遢...害她很丟臉...... 天知道是不是她太龜毛?! 雖然我曾經穿著睡衣就開車去朋友家看錄影帶... 但那也是因為我們是住在西溫的同一個社區, 又是在半夜的時候,從我家車庫開車出來,五分鐘的車程, 再直接把車開進朋友家的車庫罷了...... 結果我妹知道這件事之後, 還怪我怎麼穿著睡衣開她的車出去. 要是在路上被她的朋友看到,還以為車上的那個人是她哩! 真是#%!@(*#^&   這次遇到Wayne的事情被她知道了, 她又是一付: 妳看吧! 我說的沒錯吧!! 的不屑表情... 不過我也不甘示弱的回她: 哼! 至少我還有畫眉毛!!!    

According to the custom, everyone should stay up all night on New Year's Eve and wait for the New Year to arrive. After Midnight, as bringing the New Year, we congratulated to each other and gave red envelopes to grandmom and parents (we are not kids to receive red envelopes from the elders anymore... ). It was late but we were still very excited to celebrate the New Year. So someone suggest us to visit a temple. It seems an auspice of luck to visit a temple in the very beginning of a year. Although I've celebrated the new year for such many years, I'd never visited a temple to pray for good luck in the coming year. Actually, I even don't know how to do it. When we arrive the Taipei Xingtian Temple, we were surprised at the crowd all over and around the temple. Uh.... That's the atmosphere of the New Year!! After a prayer, we all got a peace charm with the god's blessings. 

It's hard to get our family members together for the Chinese New Year since we children had been away from home for years. My sister has been stay in Canada and unable to join the family reunion beacuse schools in Canada don't have holidays for the Chinese New Year. Since my sister finally finished her study this semester, we are very happy that we can have a family reunion dinner on this Chinese New Year's Eve. Just because of limited oppertunities to get the family together, we couldn't find any portrait of our family except one. Which was taken at the last moment before we went to bed, the day before my sister left to CA last time. We were too rush to take a picture so that we were still in pajamas.  This time we held the chance to grab photos in the reunion. But my father was still in pajamas..... ah!!

經過了一段時間遊蕩在各餐廳,速食店,還有咖啡館. 我一邊唸書準備考試,偶爾抬頭瀏覽窗外的景色,再順便關心一下坐在我周圍其他座位來來去去形形色色的顧客. 我發現唸書可以不需要埋頭苦幹,也不一定要振筆疾書; 我可以有著貴婦人般享受下午茶的悠閒,也可以當自己是出國遊玩的旅人,只是把每個國家,每個觀光景點,變成各個不同的小店家,店家裡的不同座位... 結果我每天的讀書計畫不是今天我該完成哪個章節,而是今天我要去哪一家店探險. 如果發掘到一家好店,那這天我的好心情將會大大提高我的讀書效率,我要用功讀書的目的也達到了. 所以誰說不能邊玩邊讀書呢?? PS. 淡水的夕陽真的很美.坐在河邊的咖啡館裡看書,每每忍不住抬頭起來看看夕陽還有滿天彩霞,以及照映在河上的潾潾波光;有一種奢侈的幸福感.

It's been a long time not updating my space since someone told me to write in English..... But everytime I was trying to write something, my brain felt dizzy and headachy. It must be the side effects of my medicine for colds.... OK~ OK~~ I know that's a very bad excuse for my laziness. And I'll try not to be too lazy from "next year", which means the Chinese Year of "Rooster" in a few days.

本來25號要去花蓮玩之前, 還有點擔心病了一個多月還沒好的感冒 會不會因此又加重. 沒想到不但沒有加重反而還好多了, 還被朋友取笑說我只要有得玩, 精神都來了.   兩個月前才剛辦過一次畢業旅行去墾丁, 這次是第二次畢業旅行了, 大家玩的開心, 相約5月份要再辦一次旅遊去澎湖. 隨著工程的結束, 公司裡的人也走的差不多了, 到時候的澎湖之旅大概已經變成校友會的旅行了吧, 也不知道那時候還有多少人可以成行...?   ps. 一月底二月初還有愛美麗小姐的咖啡店要開幕. 到時候大家又要相約一起去鬧場了吧!