Jessie’s eyes are closing, but there’s something keeping her awake: her students. They are going to play a game in Las Verges in an hour. She’s not sure if she can survive until now. Anyway, before that, she probably wants to finish finish her post for the day. Another task from this book will change your life:

Day 9 As any peasant worth his salt will tell you, the early morning is the best part of the day, so set the alarm for 5 o’clock and rise and shine.

Do something before breakfast today:

Watch the sunrise.

Gossip about your neighbors with the garbagemen.

Go for a five-mile run.

Call a friend and express surprise they’re not up yet.

Find out what’s on TV at this hour.

Click morning dew off a leaf.

Milk a cow.

Wow, so she had to get up at 5 o’clock this morning. Hmm, there’s no way she could do that. She usually gets up around noon if she doesn’t have to teach in the morning. So, there’s no surprise she got up at 8:10 in a panic cause she needed to get out of her house to catch the bus and the MRT in 20 minutes. She hurried out with eating breakfast, not like she did the day before, getting up at 7.30 and enjoyed her breakfast at home.

On her way to work, she’s wondering what she could do before breakfast. She read the book and got some ideas. However, she realized that she didn’t bring a book with her, nor did she bring her earbuds. She couldn’t read or listen to music on the busy MRT. What could she do? Well, she realized one thing. She could think and not many people do that. People are always busy doing things. They go to school, go to work, go home, go somewhere to have fun, go somewhere to make a living. On their way to where they want to be, they read, they listen to music, they play games, they watch videos. How much time do they stop and think? Jessie wondered.

Perhaps the writer of the book wasn’t just mess people around. Perhaps the writer wants people to think in a different way ? Everyone lives their daily boring routine day in day out. People who read this book and start to follow the instructions probably are desperate for a change. Well, a lot of people don’t like stable life because it could be boring and a lot of time, it is. However, you do have to pay for an exciting life. There’s definitely a price. It’s not too bad to have an ordinary life, Jessie thinks. It’s just how you make an ordinary life interesting.

Jessie has been feeling quite good for a while, which worries her sometimes. She knows herself well. Her life doesn’t go smoothly like this and should she say her moods don’t go on like that from her experience observing herself over all these years. Well, one thing she does well now is that she tries not too worry about things too much before they happen. Deal with it when it comes.

This morning, she was standing on the busy rush hour MRT, and decided not to struggle. So she did nothing. She went to work, taught for two hours and then ate her breakfast around 12 p.m. That’s it. Not too bad. At least she made some money before her breakfast. Haha. Good enough for her 🙂

Well, it seems like the game still has a long way to come and she’s ready for bed cause she has a class in the morning. She wonders if her students for tomorrow’s class are watching the same game now. haha. She’s just listening and writing at the same time cause other teams are play the game, not her students. Anyway, she has to finish this here. She’s not sure why she writes this way. probably wanted to be consistent with the chinese version. she’s too lazy to type all the capital letters here and there. it’s diary, talking nonsense diary. perhaps someone reading this will say it looks like it was written by a kindergarten kid. it doesn’t matter. she’s just practicing and as she always says to her students: practice makes perfect. well, if not, makes it better 🙂  good night

After I started to use “This Book Will Change Your Life", I had to disable the Facebook sharing connection, so it doesn’t share every post automatically to all my Facebook friends. Why? Because of adult content. This phrase adult content can have different meanings. When I was in a seminar a couple of years ago, the speaker said what she was going to say  was adult content and she meant that’s for “adults", well, for teaching adults, to make it clear. But of course we all know but when she tried to explain, everyone laughed. Cause adult content can also mean something including nudity, for example. Actually I googled a bit and found there are different ideas about that. With common sense, things like pornographic videos and photos, nudity, sexual talks, swearing, violence, drugs are considered adult content. And before you watch a TV show, well, not in Taiwan, sometimes you see a warning spoken in a very quick voice: the following program contains coarse language and nudity, viewer discretion is advised.  Every time I saw that I laughed and didn’t really find much “adult content" in it. Perhaps we are so used to it and don’t even notice. Programs like Sex and the City will definitely have that said at the very beginning.

Anyways, that’s not the point. Today’s task is a bit silly and it’s definitely adult content. Day 7: Masturbate at 13.56 to the following fantasy: Men: Two blondes. Doing it. Together.  Women: a story which is too long for me to write down.

If you don’t understand, please don’t ask me. Not going to answer this kind of question. Personally I think the writer of the book is trying to make fun of people and of course there will be some people just try their best to do everything written on the book. I typed in the key words and found there are a lot of people following this book and put them on their blogs. Wow! Not sure if there’s something like this in Chinese. Perhaps there will be a book written in Chinese soon 🙂 Anyhow, here’s a blog I found and with today’s title masturbate at 13.56. However, if you are under 18, don’t click the link, or at least don’t tell your parents you see this on my blog 😉 十八禁的圖片  I actually think the picture is beautiful.

All right, enough about this. Nothing too too adult content here. Sorry if that disappointed you. haha.  Have to go to bed soon cause I have an early class tomorrow. Sweet dreams.

Mass social experiment. Cut out and stick this sign ( a big red out of order sign) on any item of public infrastructure you might encounter today, including, but not limited to: elevators, garbage trucks, cranes, phone booths, toilets, ventilation units, escalators, entrances to subway stations. The aim is to achieve comprehensive social breakdown across the US.

Well, I wonder how many people really dare to do this. Not me. I’m a chicken. Another thing is that I don’t think it’s common to put a sign on a broken machine in Taiwan. Well, perhaps on a copy machine or a vending machine. Hmm, elevator too. It might be funny to play a trick but it might also get you into trouble if you get caught. Thought about doing that at home, just for experiment’s sake. Too bad, I was out today and no one was at home when I got home, so I just gave up. I’m not  too adventurous, I have to admit.

And I thought of one bad example given by a teacher at one of the ETA seminars. A lot of time, Asians or Taiwanese use “bad" to mean “out of order" or “broken". For Taiwanese at least, 壞 is the same word for bad and out of order. However in English the meanings could be quite different. If you say the TV is bad, it means the quality is bad. If you say the TV is out of order or broken, it means it doesn’t work. In Chinese, I guess we say it in different ways too. 電視不好/電視很差。電視壞了。 Anyways, students just like to make up their own grammar or vocabulary even though it doesn’t make sense.

Not sure what I’m talking about. Too tired, I guess. On Sunday night, I’m often quite sentimental. Not sure why. I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. Well, it means I don’t have to go to classes but I do prepare a lot and always get very busy on Monday. I don’t have so called Monday Blue, I have Monday  Busy, haha. I invented this. A lot of things in my mind but couldn’t find the right words to put them down. It’s just like this and perhaps because I’m writing in English. Haven’t done this for quite a while and it kind of limited my ability to express myself, I guess. Or perhaps my mind is blank now?

Can’t think in English, not sure if I can think in Chinese. Probably not much difference. Was reading Haruki Murakami’s book toady and he said one thing about learning language or expressing yourself in a foreign language: try to figure out what you want to say and express yourself in plain simple language. That’s exactly what I think about communicating in a second/foreign language. Get the meaning crossed! Instead of using big words, express your idea with simple words, paraphrase if it’s complicated.

Read another book about how some famous Japanese designers created their work, some stories about the creating process. Pretty impressive and got some very good ideas. This is bad and I’ll have to stop here before it gets worse, haha. I like tomorrow’s instruction. Well, that’ll be tomorrow’s. My writing is getting pretty bad though it’s never great. Anyway, just for practice’s sake, I try to write in English every other day and of course in Chinese when I write post related to English learning. And I really want to pick up my Japanese, so I was talking to myself in Japanese earlier. That’s probably why I’m all confused now, haha. One more thing, I want to put some more effort on my French too! Too greedy! This is probably one of my biggest problem. Anyway, time for bed and hopefully I’ll be able to get up early and do a lot of things I hope to get done! Good night 🙂

That’s today’s task. Well, tomorrow’s, as a matter of fact. Cause I’m kind of writing a day ahead.  So difficult to throw away things you like. If you don’t like them, you wouldn’t have them in the first place. If you like them, how can you throw them away. Hmm, it’s a dilemma. I’ll see if I can find something I like and throw it away. Might be difficult but it would also be interesting to see what I decided to throw away by the end of the day. Haha.

So my task today is to gaze at someone and guess who did I do this to? Haha, good guess. Myself! I was on the bus on my way home. Suddenly this came to me and I looked at the reflection on the bus window and then I gazed at myself. I’m sure this will be and probably have to be the person who I love the most the rest of my life.

My eyes are closing. So tired today that I could feel that I was getting cramps from my calves cause I was just too tired. Totally exhausted and need to go to bed right away. Not the early bird type but I meant to got up early and made myself some breakfast: toast and latte. Couldn’t believe I got up early(7.30) to make myself some nice breakfast. And then do the cleanup. Left at 8.15, went to work, came back from work, arrived at 1 p.m. Then made some lunch and then made some brownies then prep a bit, write the post about common mistake. too many thens…haha that’s what called journal. Anyway left home at 5.30 again, went to work, finally came back at 11 p.m.  Time for bed and tomorrow is another day 🙂

P.S.: Sometimes I feel sorry for people who subscribe my blog cause I talked nonsense a lot of time. Well, it’s just like junk mail. You could just leave it there if you don’t like…And hopefully, sometimes they might find something useful 🙂