話說最近開始減肥，發現只是少吃是不夠的，於是開始想盡辦法運動。譬如下班後就跟同事打桌球、羽球，星期六日就自己到處亂走之類的。反正目的就是要消耗卡路里就對啦！
所以艾波呢，就提議來騎腳踏車好了，路線則是環繞蘭潭一圈。我想住在嘉義的人都知道，要上去蘭潭，一定是要經過上坡的。不管是從民權路還是大雅路，都逃不過這一關。雖然我覺得這麼有「挑戰性」的路線實在不適合我這種四體不勤的人，不過想說上坡應該不會很久〈艾波也一直說過這一段，就是都下坡，很輕鬆〉。於是在星期三下班後，我們四個人就開始我們的「蘭潭健身單車行」。
雖然知道一開始就是上坡路段，但是也沒想到會騎得這麼辛苦！不一會兒就氣喘吁吁，我停在路邊休息的時候，旁邊一位也一樣在休息的小姐還跟我說：「加油！」
我覺得艾波實在挺厲害的，騎著淑女車就這樣爬上去了。當然密絲特陳人也真好，把他價值不斐的變速腳踏車給簡愛騎，我看到簡愛那台折疊腳踏車，就會忍不住一直想笑，實在是太迷你啦！不過後來密絲特陳就這樣騎著那台折疊車繞完蘭潭耶！他真是艾波的好搭檔！
- Apr 17 Thu 2008 22:26
【生活】蘭潭單車行
- Apr 08 Tue 2008 11:18
【英文】英語小故事
因為每學期都有英語說故事比賽，每次都要幫學生找，實在很麻煩。所以乾脆一次收集多一點，以後要用就有啦！
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The Lark Burying Its Father
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The Lark Burying Its Father
The Lark (according to an ancient legend) was created before the earth itself, and when her father died by a fell disease, as there was no earth, she could find for him no place of burial. She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, being in perplexity, she buried him in her own head. Hence she obtained her crest, which is popularly said to be her father's grave-hillock.
百靈鳥葬父親《伊索寓言》
據以前的傳說，百靈鳥是生於地球未形成之前的；牠父親死於一場惡病，那時因為沒有地球，牠找不到地方做墳墓。牠就停喪五天，直到第六天，牠心中慌亂，就將父親葬在牠自己的頭裡。因此，牠就得到牠的冠毛，大家都說這是牠父親的墳。
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The Legend
Long Ago, there was a bird who sang but just once in her life. From the moment she left the nest, she searched the longest leaf for a thorn tree, never resting until she found one. Then she began to sing, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. But carry away in the rapturous honor song, she impaled herself on the longest, sharpest thorn. As she was dying, she rose above her own agony to out-sing even the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird traded her life for that one song and the whole world was captured to listen! And God, in His heaven smiles~
As her very best was brought out only of the cost of great pain. Driven by the thorn, with no fear for her death to come. But when we push the thorn into our breast, We know…We understand…And still…we choose the pain of the thorn…
As her very best was brought out only of the cost of great pain. Driven by the thorn, with no fear for her death to come. But when we push the thorn into our breast, We know…We understand…And still…we choose the pain of the thorn…
傳說
傳說中，有一種鳥一生只鳴唱一次，當牠離開巢穴的那一天起，就永不停歇地尋找著世上最長的荊棘。當牠找到時，就會將自己的胸膛朝著最長最尖的刺撞去，在最深最刻苦的痛中，引亢(口部)高歌，而這樣的歌聲，超越了牠自身的痛楚，聲音無與倫比，感人肺腑，就連世人以為聲音甜美的雲雀或夜鶯都不能與之相比，刺鳥從不懼死亡的降臨，以牠的生命作為換取世上最美麗歌聲的代價，而當我們迎向最深刻的痛，我們知道我們將無所畏懼，因為，
「唯有經歷著最深沉的痛楚，才能換取最美好的事物！」
「唯有經歷著最深沉的痛楚，才能換取最美好的事物！」
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One Good Turn Deserves Another
One good turn deserves another. That's the lesson five store clerks learned recently.
Every day a strange old man came to their supermarket to buy groceries. "Once he came in wearing only one shoe," recalled one of the clerks. And although he grumbled a lot and they often had to stand there listening to him, he was a nice old man. The clerks befriended him and even helped him carry his groceries. One day when he fell ill with cancer, they even visited him in the hospital. The old man turned out to be a retired doctor. And, of course, when he died, he didn't die a pauper. He left US$70,000 in his will to thank them for their kindness.
善有善報，是五名電員最近學到的一課。
每天，一位陌生的老先生都會到她們的超級市場來買雜貨。其中一名電員回想道：有一次他進來時只穿著一支鞋子。而雖然他常發牢騷並且她們的站在那裡聽他抱怨，他仍然是個心地不壞的老先生。那幾個電員帶他像朋友一樣，甚至還幫他拿他買的雜貨。有一天他罹患了癌症，她們還到醫院探望他。那位老先生原來是一名退休的醫生。當然，他臨終時並非是個窮光蛋。他在他的遺囑中留下七萬美元來感謝她們的好心。
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Peek-ing Duck
When I was 5 years old, my father was invited to go duck hunting with some business associates. He asked them if I could come along. They reluctantly agreed.
After the appropriate amount of preparation and training, we started to the duck blind a little before 5am. It was a perfect day for duck hunting, cold and wet. After hours of waiting, ducks were sighted flying toward the blind. The other hunters waited anxiously and quietly for them to come into firing range, but the excitement got the best of me. I jumped up with my toy rifle and in true machine-gun style shouted "Bla-da-da-da-dow!"
The ducks veered off safely and no more were to be seen that day. My father and I never went duck hunting again.
After the appropriate amount of preparation and training, we started to the duck blind a little before 5am. It was a perfect day for duck hunting, cold and wet. After hours of waiting, ducks were sighted flying toward the blind. The other hunters waited anxiously and quietly for them to come into firing range, but the excitement got the best of me. I jumped up with my toy rifle and in true machine-gun style shouted "Bla-da-da-da-dow!"
The ducks veered off safely and no more were to be seen that day. My father and I never went duck hunting again.
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The Ant And The Dove（螞蟻與鴿子）
One day a little ant was walking along the bank of a stream. His foot slipped and he fell into the water. “Oh, help, help!” cried the ant. A dove was sitting on a branch of a tree over the stream and heard his cry of help. “Oh, poor ant!” said the dove. “I will help the ant.”
The dove pulled off a leaf and dropped it near the ant. “Here is a leaf. Climb on it,” said the dove. The ant climbed on it at once and floated to the bank.
A few days after this a hunter found the dove and was going to shoot her. Just then the ant passed by and said to himself, “This time I must help the dove.” The ant ran to the hunter and bit his foot hard. The hunter sprang up and missed to shoot the dove. The dove said to the ant, “Thank you very much, my little friend. You have saved my life,” and she could fly away happily.
The dove pulled off a leaf and dropped it near the ant. “Here is a leaf. Climb on it,” said the dove. The ant climbed on it at once and floated to the bank.
A few days after this a hunter found the dove and was going to shoot her. Just then the ant passed by and said to himself, “This time I must help the dove.” The ant ran to the hunter and bit his foot hard. The hunter sprang up and missed to shoot the dove. The dove said to the ant, “Thank you very much, my little friend. You have saved my life,” and she could fly away happily.
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- Apr 04 Fri 2008 10:25
【網路信件】佛桌上開出的花朵
佛桌上開出的花朵 ◎葉傾城
朝陽升起之前，廟前山門外凝滿露珠的春草裡，跪著一個人：「師父，請原諒我。」
他是某城風流的浪子，２０年前曾是廟裡的小沙彌，極得方丈喜愛。
方丈將畢生所學全數教授，希望他能成為出色的佛門弟子。他卻在一夜間動了凡心，偷下山去，五光十色的城市迷住了他的眼目，從此花街柳巷，他只管放浪形骸。
- Mar 28 Fri 2008 22:42
【好玩】來自北極的信
去年聖誕節的時候，週六輔導就讓一年級的學生嘗試寫信給聖誕老人，因為我之前聽說寫去會有回信。於是我就上網查了好幾個信件住址，讓學生自由選擇，看他們想寄給住在哪裡的聖誕老人。
其實本來以為寄這種國際郵件可能郵資不低，可是沒想到只要１７元喔！而且有一個學生真的收到回信了！
其實聖誕老人挺聰明的，會直接把地址剪下來，這樣就不怕寫錯國字囉！
這是信封的外貌。從North pole Hoh Oho, Canada寄來的。
這是信封的外貌。從North pole Hoh Oho, Canada寄來的。
- Mar 25 Tue 2008 21:00
【生活】緊張忙碌又刺激的週末
上星期六，是眾所周知的總統大選。我還是照樣被派去同一個地方、做同一個工作的選務人員，所以一樣的無聊。
每隔幾分鐘就看一下時間，期待開票時間的到來，尤其我還要趕車去桃園參加安吉拉的訂婚，更是覺得度日如年哪！
不過也是有些好笑的事啦！
譬如有個阿嬤帶著一個小孫女來投票，投完票阿嬤要拉著孫女走了，但是孫女不知道在看什麼東西，一直拉著阿嬤不讓她走。結果阿嬤就使出常用的一招：「你看你看，警察來了喔！」〈每個投票所都會有警察在旁邊待命。〉
孫女瞥了一眼阿嬤指的方向，然後說：「沒有啦！警察沒有來啦！」
沒想到這個小孫女這麼聰明，知道阿嬤只是在騙她‧‧‧
- Mar 20 Thu 2008 10:37
【校園】多事之「春」
最近不知道為什麼，學生接連發生事情。
一件是我們班的「正義」，一件是艾波班的「萬人迷」。
我們班的正義，星期日不知道怎麼跟他爸發生衝突，結果放話說要搬出家門，要自力更生，不再跟他爸同住一個屋簷下。他媽媽晚上就很緊張打電話給我，要我幫她找小孩。後來跟我們班幾個小鬼聯絡後，確定正義跑到一個他校的同學家住。
知道這消息後，我跟正義媽總算安心點。
- Feb 19 Tue 2008 22:32
【 小遊戲】名字大作戰
基本上呢，這是個很簡單的小遊戲。
只要輸入你的名字跟對方的名字，就可以知道誰擁有最強的戰鬥力，鹿死誰手啦！
名字大作戰 http://mygamespocket.com/game_play.php?game_index=500
﹝哇哈哈哈哈！到目前我可是打遍天下無敵手喔！﹞
- Feb 10 Sun 2008 17:07
【心理測驗】※輪迴轉世測驗※
※輪迴轉世測驗※
從下列問題當中,選出較接近自己的答案。
不要考慮太多，以直覺回答。
1.你喜歡的音樂或旋律為何？
A.流暢柔和親切的音樂
B.流行的好聽音樂
C.激烈、節奏感強的音樂
2.你喜歡的色彩為何?
A.有透明感的中間色（明朗的色調）
B.未調和的原始色彩（強烈、鮮明的色調）
C.較暗沉穩重的色彩（暗色調）
3.會吸引你想去遊覽的地方是怎麼樣的地方？
A.感覺自然美麗的地方
B.有歷史或遺跡的地方
C.有名的觀光地或最近才整理好的地方
4.你的房子中，花草及觀葉植物的生長情況為何？
A.大部分很有朝氣也很茂盛
B.不怎麼特別，或沒有植物裝飾
C.很快就枯萎、凋零了
5.「藍」這個字你有什麼感覺？
A.清爽、年輕
B.天空、海洋
C.寂寞的心、憂鬱的心情
6.在夢境中出現的人物為何？
A.多為現實生活中不曾遇見的人
B.朋有或同伴等，多是較親近的人
C.多半是沒有好感的人
7.在自己的生日或耶誕節等節日，你多半怎麼慶祝？
A.並沒有特別的感覺或期待
B.會想找一些朋友一起慶祝一下
C.這對我當然是特別的日子，會期待別人給你一個驚喜
8.你期望喜歡的異性對你的愛如何表達？
A.柔和或平緩的
B.令你心跳或輕快的
C.富變化、刺激的
9.如果你要送禮物給喜歡的異性，你會先考慮下列哪些東西？
A.他（她）有興趣的東西
B.佈置房間的東西或日用品
C小配件或衣服等隨身的東西
10.從下列選項A～C當中，彼此在對話時,你最想叫哪一種人「不要再說了」？
A.一直說別人壞話或惡意中傷別人的人
B.一直訴說自己煩惱的事或自怨自艾的人
C.一直誇耀自己的人
11.很多事情並非都如數學公式般只要計算一下就能使問題迎刃而解。
那麼，對你而言，哪一類事情常令你覺得困擾？
A.人際關係
B.自己的個性和人生道路的選擇
C.戀愛
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計分方法－Ａ：10分、Ｂ：5分、Ｃ：0分，以此計算出總分。
16分以下 ========== Ｉ 型
17～28分 ========== II 型
29～40分 ========== III型
41～52分 ========== IV 型
53～64分 ========== Ｖ 型
65～76分 ========== VI 型
77～88分 ========== VII型
89～100分 ==========VIII型
101分以上 ========== IX 型
摘自【前世今生大不同】
- Jan 31 Thu 2008 22:27
【魔獸】只是想紀念這一刻的心情
今晚去跟同事慶祝輔導課的最後一天，然後今晚也有公會卡拉團。
想當然耳，我是來不及參加了。
到了10點多上線，看看大家都在做什麼。
看到幾個團員去打戈魯爾、毒蛇，看到肥普跟肥G在幫打卡拉。
突然覺得一陣心酸。
- Jan 24 Thu 2008 22:33
【希臘神話】邱比特與賽姬〈Cupid and Psyche〉
希臘神話中，邱比特與賽姬的故事是少數以喜劇結尾的故事。最近又開始看了希臘神話，就覺得乾脆自己來整理一下吧！
賽姬（Psyche，意為「心靈」或「蝴蝶」）是國王的第三個女兒，她及兩個姊姊都貌美如花，小公主賽姬尤其美得不可方物。她的美貌使得大家將她視為女神般地愛慕與尊敬者，甚至認為她就是美的女神的化身。因此，前去祭拜愛芙洛黛蒂（Aphrodite，真正的美神【羅馬名Venus，維納斯】）的人就變得少之又少，祂的聖壇變得破舊不堪，積滿許多灰塵。這下子，便惹惱了尊貴的愛芙洛黛蒂女神。
賽姬（Psyche，意為「心靈」或「蝴蝶」）是國王的第三個女兒，她及兩個姊姊都貌美如花，小公主賽姬尤其美得不可方物。她的美貌使得大家將她視為女神般地愛慕與尊敬者，甚至認為她就是美的女神的化身。因此，前去祭拜愛芙洛黛蒂（Aphrodite，真正的美神【羅馬名Venus，維納斯】）的人就變得少之又少，祂的聖壇變得破舊不堪，積滿許多灰塵。這下子，便惹惱了尊貴的愛芙洛黛蒂女神。
畫家筆下的Psyche。
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805 (1786)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805 (1786)
The Awakening of Psyche, by Guillaume Seignac, 1870-1924
女神不僅阻止任何向賽姬求婚的人，祂還命令祂的兒子─愛洛斯（Eros，愛神【羅馬名Cupid，邱比特】）用箭去射她，要讓賽姬愛上世界上最醜陋的男子。
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