星期日, 10月 28, 2007

The "interesting" fraud I met

Two days ago, I walked on 34th street and 7th AVE.

Suddenly one guy bumped on me and his glasses was dropped on the ground.

Then he picked up his glasses and showed me that a slide of his glasses was cracked.

You know what happened then, he asked me to pay him some money.

I told him I'm very sorry but I'm also really a poor student, he said so is him.

Then, I also dropped my glasses on the ground and said,
"See, mine is fine. Maybe you stepped on that after we bumped together "

"But yours is made by plastic and mine is by glass, That's why mine is broken, and that is very expansive. ", he said.

"But I'm really poor.. I really don't have money.... so...... how about paying you a lunch for my sorry?", I said.

The guy seemed finding that it's not easy to let me take my money out.

So he gave up and gave me a hug and said, "That's OK, Thank you very much!", and left politely.

After that I told my classmate what happened, and my classmate said, "Don't you know him? He is very famous around here!"

That is, that guy is a professional fraud!


I think why he didn't insist on asking me give him money is that even though I knew he might deceive me, I still showed my sorry and sincerity to him instead of anger and discrimination.

It's an incident or a surprise? who knows?

But what I can sure is that it was really a very impressive experience for me!

星期日, 10月 21, 2007

I'll begin to post my blog in English

Yesterday I surfed on internet to see one of my favorite web -- Oikos living web.
It's a forum for the fans of Mac in Taiwan.
A new member called sector40 is from England.
He have just been in Taiwan to learn Chinese for 11 months.
But he can write Chinese very well !
http://www.oikos.com.tw/v4/viewtopic.php?pid=317381#p317381

I also visited his blog.
Almost all of the articles were written about Mac.
The contents in blog is so rich that amazing me a lot.
The most important point, all of them are written in Chinese!
http://sector40.net/

What I felt from his blog was that even though a little words a day.
The effect of practicing the language that you are learning every day can be accumulated an incredible succession!
It's really a big inspiration for me!

If any of you find my faults of diction in English.
Correct me directly please.
I'll thank you very much for doing me such a big favor!



Steve

星期四, 10月 11, 2007

iphone讓我交了不少朋友

因為iphone的緣故
我交了不少外國朋友
有些請教我破解的方法
有些在地鐵的路上和我聊天
讓我有機會多了解別人的故事

一次在bryant park
一個西哈舞者看到我在研究破解
走過來秀出他的iphone
非常好奇我是怎麼做到的
我們就聊了起來
交換意見
聊的非常開心
我寄了網頁給他教他如何安裝第三方軟體
他寄給我他表演的兩張票
邀請我去觀賞
就這樣多了一個yoyo西哈朋友

在地鐵禮
我在同步化我iphone和itune的音樂
旁邊一位老先生拿出他的手機
問我他手跡裡面的照片可不可以也這樣傳到電腦裡
我們就這樣聊了起來
原來照片裡面是他的弟弟
兩週前才過世
原本普通的一張照片
成了少數僅存的回憶
我教他使用cable或者使用網路傳輸
雖然是簡單的一個動作
我卻覺得我做了一件有意義的事
後來我們又天南地北的聊
聊科技
聊對人的影響
聊現實社會中科技對人的好處和壞處
我們兩個彼此都學到一些東習和價值
就在這短短的一段地鐵路上

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