Summary

Converse

Do you know converse?

Have you ever noticed in the middle of the mark, there are two words written in cursive?

Actually it's a name.

It was printed on to honor a person who had had contributed a lot to the Converse Rubber Shoe Company.

He is called --- Chuck Taylor.

He was a basketball player invested by Converse Rubber Shoe Company, and then the coach of the basketball team ---The Converse All Stars.

Guess what?

Converse all star was at first designed for basketball players!

With the help of Chuck, the Converse was able to modify the shoes and made them more suitable for the players.

Converse became the most seen shoes on the basketball court, maybe the only seen at that time before Nike appear, and they were taken over by Nike then.

This is amazing!!

The converse all star can also be called Chuck Taylor All-stars, and was evaluate from basketball shoes!

But what's more amazing is that converse was at first designed for soccer!!

Second chock haha!!

http://www.complex.com/sneakers/2013/05/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-converse-chuck-taylor-all-stars/

Kind drivers

Today, I took a bus home. At one stop an old woman got on the bus, when she was getting in, she could only walk very slow, the driver didn't drive the bus until the old lady sat down.

This made me recalled something.

Years ago, on another bus, a little boy kept yelling, crying that he want to get off the bus, because he heard that the bus's number he was on was as same as the one he had taken before.

He had had a terrible experience before.

He shouted to his father that the driver of the previous bus he had taken was mean to him.

He said that the driver purposely turned off the stop reporter when the bus was approaching his destination, so that he missed his stop.

Actually how would the driver know where he is going to get off?

I once taken another bus with same number, and its stop reporter stopped working at actually same stop the boy said.

Though I am not sure if it was the same bus that the little boy had taken, but I guess the stop reporter on both of the bus was just broken.

Why was the little boy reacting so intensely?

Because he can't see. So he thought that the driver was playing trick on him.

He kept cursing the driver on the bus we were taking.

Yelling along the way that he hate that bus.

I felt really sad.

He lost his right to see the world while he was so young.

Maybe the anger and resentment hide away his ability to sense the goodness, and his ability to believe others.

He didn't know that the driver waited him to get on the bus and sat down really patiently.

I hope this boy can find back his innocence, and feel the kindness of the world once again while he is growing up.

Outside my window

Today I am going to introduce my window.
Whenever I am tired after working a long time in front of my desk, I will raise my head and look out of my window.
I dwel in 13 floor. It has a nice field of view here.
The scenery is always beautiful when I look out.
The scenery is pretty especially at afternoon and evening.
When the sky is reden by the sunset, it feels like I am living in a different world, a marvelous world.
Sometimes I even feel like living in wonderland when the sky is gold.

This one is shot during typhoon  Megi's pass by.

This one makes me wonder how it looks like above the clouds. It just looks like the light from the heaven penetrate the clouds after a big storm.

(Last two pictures are with filter, others aren't.) 

How many Black-crowned Night-Heron can you find?

As a Taipei citizen, I used to think it is hard to see Black-crowned Night-Heron, and thought that they're rare.

But walking in NTU, I know that I was totally wrong.

I found these birds everywhere.

Just like their name, they are most active at night.

At night when walking around drunken moon lake, I even need to be careful, watch out my head, because they might appear flying very low above my head.

They once nearly crashed on my head.

When you look into the lake in the night and see something standing looking just like a bird, it's not that you are having any illusion, instead, it might possibly be a Black-crowned Night-Heron.

They often standing in the lake and looking at one direction very long time, as if they are pondering their bird lives, but they maybe are just hunting, searching for their prey.

Sometimes it's a little difficult to recognize them, because of their color.

How many Black-crowned Night-Heron can you find in pictures below?

ans:8

Guardians of the passengers

One the way to school, if need to come across some big roads, then it must be very familiar to see this kind of scene.

If you don't know what I mean, just look closer again.

Yes, the traffic police.
We all had read some articles about appreciating the traffic polices. But as I am passing the road, I still forget about how hard they work.
One morning, I was passing the zebra crossing, and I saw a little girl without being accompanied by any adult was crossing the road, too.
That road was really dangerous at that time, because many cars are turning right at there, and when they turn right, they must pass by the road.
Another difficulty for the little girl is that the time for crossing the road is almost over.
She was so small that nobody noticed her.
But the traffic police did.
She raised her right arm to the cars to make them stop, until the little girl pass the road.
I was deeply moved on the other side of the road.
For the first time, I truly realized the importance of the traffic polices and appreciate their hard work.
What they are doing is to put their lives in risk to exchange the order of the road, and the passengers safety.
I want to say thank you to them again, and next time while I pass the road, I will be more careful, keep myself from causing any problem to them.

The guardian of the night

While everyone in the building is sleeping comfortably in their bed, there is one man stand still on the road. He is wide awake, keeping his eyes wide open, protecting the building's entrance from strangers.

He is the building's manager.

Every day, there are two managers guarding the two entrances, and if they are responsible for the night shift, then they have to stay up all night to ensure the residents' safety.

Although they are not working for free, they still deserve applause. What's behind the all night working is the sacrifices of their family time.

The picture is one of the managers standing alone but straight and still, keeping his spirit up and fulfilling his duty.

Sky full of stars?

What do you first think of when you see this picture?

Space is full of stars that are far away from us, which give us romantic imagination and fantasy.

One started to feel lonely as thinking of the Earth's position, floating alone in the space that seems to be infinite big.

This picture was taken by me in the night, after I finished the dinner.

I know as a space, this picture may seem a little weird.

Actually, I found this starry sky in my dinner.

It was a plate of Gynura's Deux Couleurs(紅鳳菜).

It was a plate of dark purple after we finished it.

When I get closer to see, the oil floating on it made it looked like a sky full of stars.

The white spots in the upper picture are actually oil drops.

It is very amazing that when we get closer to see something, we may find another world.

We are often too busy to stop and get more closer to things that seems normal, dull, useless, and trivial.

Actually the reason I moved my eyes close to the plate was just because I felt bored, and didn't want to do my homework, so I did something really meaningless to kill time.

I think maybe something different are usually found accidentally.

Red and black

During summer vacation, I've come to school to attend a summer camp.

During break time, I went to Drunken Moon Lake to have a walk for that I had nothing to do.

Walk for a while, I felt a little bit tired, so I just sat by the lake and do nothing.

When I look at the lake, A fleet of moorhen slide across the lake in front of my eye.

I felt a sudden excitement that in the corner of my eye I saw that they are babies following mother!

The babies are so tiny, maybe only a fist big or even smaller.

They are really adorable that they kept following their mother in a line.

The mother was so cool that she led her babies swam all across the lake.

It was really a cute scene.

After the school starting day, I dropped by the lake again.

This time, I met them again.

They grew bigger!!

Though they still followed behind their mother, they were more mischievous.

They didn't walk in line, instead, they walked in a random way.

But although they didn't walk in line, they still couldn't get too far from their mother.

This picture was a caught of the little family's hunting in the grass.

They are really adorable! If you have nothing to do, maybe you can drop by drunken moon lake and take a look of this pretty family.

Mysterious flying creature

I went out with my mother at afternoon for a walk a few days ago.  We walked along a sidewalk, headed for a park nearby our house. Just as we were walking, there's something kept annoying us. An unknown object kept flapping its wings flying around our feet.
It wasn't my first time to see that little creature, but it was my first time to stop and wondering what is it.

I used to went to school through this sidewalk when I was in junior high, and was used to these annoying little things. Why it’s annoying is that I was always trying hard not to accidentally step on it, and tried my best to keep my feet away from it.

I’ve never think much about it.

What made me have an idea to stop and find out what it is is that from the corner of my eye, I saw it stopped on a flower. I suddenly felt curious and want to take the chance to have a close look on it.

 It really surprised me. The little figure that kept annoying us is a little butterfly.

It was really sweet to find this. It is as big as a five dollar coin. Really cute!!!

After knowing they’re small lovely butterflies, our impatience flew away, cause we knew they’re just busy finding honey!

(Sorry the picture is blur, I couldn't focus my camera on it.)

By the way, I don't know what kind of the butterfly it is, if you recognize it, I would like to know its name! :D