tattoo

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there are countless kinds of tattoo designs, and here are some tribal tattoos i'm interested in, find it. i'm thinking about add a tribal tattoo not only with an important meaning but also elegance.

i'm gonna hit my 30 years of age, i've found simplicity and sincerity are basic but crucial elements to live out this life. with simplicity, everything can be worked out no matter how difficult; with sincerity, for me, i can always be frank to myself, to others yes of course. before problems of any kind, i admit it, and then with the very same attempt shall i find a way out.

therefore the simplicity of the contour is what i want.

(the idea of covering my body with portrait, skull, ghost just makes me shudder, let alone somebody's name)

christmas eve

i can barely recall how i spent through the last year's christmas. but yesterday was quite good. because of relocation i didn't spend my christmas in taipei. me and colleagues decided to have some finer seafood in tai zhong, and we did. stuff like barbequed oyster, duck tongues, fried rice, chopped steak and sushi were just perfectly delicious! one of my favourite part was dip sliced fish completely in the sauce and put it in mouth and then enjoy the feeling of chest-bursting open when the spicy taste was waving in! mmm....beautiful!

after that we went to town and all enjoyed the finest ever massage. my masseur gave me a very good pressing and patting on my shoulder and head, followed by feet-massaging which was the main part of all. when my feet were being pressed some parts felt sore some felt nothing and a little part was painful. according to the masseur, my kidneys are alright, my liver is not in the bad condition though, the bearable sore feeling reminds me to be aware of it. the most interesting part was the place indicating sexual organ. normal is pain which means either overused or underused. and if you don't feel any pain, well, a little bit abnormal he said!

silence

LIFE IS SHORT

I spent my last weekend in San-Yi as i was going to visit my uni classmate Jia-Wei who was diagonsed of liver tumor and seemed to be in his late state. Sadly, at his 31, he passed away on saturday morning, many of us weren't able to be there with him.

It had been shocking since the news was told. Two months ago Kun-Da had just chatted with him on the msn, no one had expected this would happen today and eventually it happened so fast. I could say I do not consider death should be taken seriously as none of us can escape from this, it's just the matter of time anyway; however, i start to think, if I were him, how would I feel? Nervous? Relaxed? Miserable? I'm wondering.

His farewell is held on the 25th of December, and I will be there.

SKY

Yesterday then I had time being on my bike around the place where I have been working. I hit a place called The Tunnel of Vineyard, the air was fresh and the place was wide with mountain and green. I stopped my bike and spent some time there thinking about something I couldn't really understand. With the case of Jia-Wei, I start thinking what I really want to do. Am I really happy with my current situation? There are things I would like to try, am I dare enough to go for it now?

I told some friends that my wishful funeral is like the one in the movie "Vanilla Sky", it is like a museum which can bring positiveness and peace to comers. Now, am I going to add some items on the introduction about me, Eugene Huang or Yuan-Chun Huang?

guts coming out

haha! this absolutely doesn't mean what the title says and of course it doesn't mean me, or i wouldn't be here blogging.

but almost, ya, when the chain of my motorbike broke the rear tire got stuck and bike was skidding, making an ugly scary high noise, and back to sliding. it was geared in, i didn't pull the clutch, and i instantly knew what happened.

"darn!" i said.

before the instance i was on my way to a coffee shop, i planned to have some reading after a cheerful dinner with my funny dynamic colleagues, but the idea was changed so i just made a turnaround and headed back to the accomodation.

and then..."bang!!!!!" everything happened too fast, breaking, skidding, noise, they were just in a heart beat or two. everybody on the road was looking at me, i was sure they were scared. i made a phone call to one of the colleagues Bing and as soon as he shouted "what!? your chain's off!? see, i told you~ never ride while car is aside. now you no cool as you thought anymore ya!?" the other four were laughing so loud that it was noisy even over the phone. but they would come back for me after they spared more room in the car which was full at the moment. and this was when i found a motorbike dealer nearby where i had it repaired. thank God.

before long the car arrived. i was quite surprised that actually just one of them left, and the other four were in the car together coming for me. man, now i was a bit touched. though Xi said "don't overly joy, we were coming to laugh at you, muahahahahahaha", i was still delighted. where else can i find a bunch of such nice guys!?


chain off, looked as if gut came out


twisted. that was not just it, the chain also hit the nuts fastening hub and rear gear, even the left adjusting bolt was snapped. the boss said i was fortunate because if the chain kept going, it would damage the front gear as well. and luckily the rocker arm was left unharmed.

i could tell the boss was an experienced guy as he could name various kind of old but still famous bikes, and he could name quite a few parts he had modified when he was young. so i was grateful and relaxed about all this situation.


this photo was taken one week before the instance. on the back of my bike were quilt at the bottom and heater on top. after a long ride over 120km my back and arm were really sour as i had to change my riding position while carrying these stuff.

even feeling down
with me is the dream, the goal
which is from God
who understands me the most
no loneliness
which is fake
keep at it, eugene
do not give up
no compromise

Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is awesome!

a day of great success

about 2 or 3 weeks ago, i made a design change which improved a clip of japanese design for better fitting our taiwanese part.
the previous responsible engineer used the old clip (which is of japanese design) and that had proved it improper quite often already. every time we fitted our taiwanese part with the japanese clip, the problem just showed up. after a long investigation me and a well-experienced analysis engineer decided that the problem was from the clip and it was highly necessary to change its design a little bit.
but when i looked at it carefully and in more detail before revising the 3D data, i found more detailed places which required some changes as well. as it is very important to make the assembly easier enough for technicians to work on, i started brainstorming and trying to figure out which else could make the clip a better one.




the house-like one is the clip i'm talking about. the red one is the part to be fitted. when the part is put onto the clip and applied a downward force, the clip will bend inwardly and then the part will slip down and be hooked tightly.

what i change was the shape of the "roof", besides, after being put to computer aided analysis, i was very much sure that my design would be easier for technicians to work on. However, the well-experienced analysis engineer didn't agree with what i did. he thought my design would be harder for fitting in as well as easily broken. he strongly suggested me to simply use japanese design, which he thought was carefully designed and hence better than mine. i still decided to apply my idea, as i believed it would be necessary to redesign a clip which could well match our taiwanese part, instead of simply using a japanese clip. more than that, my one wouldn't be this fragile. IT WILL NOT BE BROKEN!

after 2-week long and anxious waiting, today a pack of new clips came into my hands. me and a technician tried fitting it, the technician told me my design was better! YES! thank God! this was just wonderfully perfect! nothing can be better than this, even now i'm still enjoying the great feeling of jabbing the part downward and hearing the sound "click, click, clrrrrrrrrrrik"! awesome!

after this i really believe taiwanese should be more confident of themselves. not all the japanese designs are perfect, not all the taiwanese designed stuff are of low quality. we should go our own way, just like bon jovi's new song title says "we weren't born to follow".

come back

ok, the title has nothing to do with Utada Hikaru's "Come Back To Me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moWZEY1UdRE), though it's a nice song and i like it.



the "come back" means every time i come back to taipei i just feel so at home and happy. i guess i'm getting God more and more about His arrangement of relocating me down to san-yi. all He wants me to have is the appreciation for the life and family in taipei which is really very important!

the relationship between me and church is getting better and warmer as well. not until this weekend i realised i need and wish to have spiritual brothers. there have been a few brothers at the church though, i still need some in or close to my age. Jonathan had been a perfect one, but he is not in taiwan anymore; Keith and Kieran had been too, but there are of Jehovah Witness and the religious difference makes it uneasy for me to get closer to them; unless i give up mine, which is impossible.

anyway that doesn't matter at all. let the past be the past, and i look forward to having new ones from God.



i'm not at the starbucks in Yang Ming mountain. geeee......how long has it been since my last coming here? with nora i came, but that was...in March last year, 20 months already? man!

the weather has dropped sharply today, it is freezing on the way up the mountain, but the temperature indoor is just lovely and warm enough to take my jacket off and draft this with warm hands (i draft this on paper for my blog afterwards). hot steam is so peculiarly familiar, the sounds of pouring coffee is nice as well as the greeting of the staff, and as the christmas is coming, the starbucks is of course decorated with christmas trees and fake burning charcoals (which looks quite real and pleasant), the wall in finely painted yellow and square post in earth blood red, round wood tables and cozy couches and the floor in warm colour...well, to name a few...everything here is so perfect and makes this sunday so christmas-alike. oh yes! music! i can't really figure out which music it is, but this atmosphere couldn't be this nice if there were not piano music.



it is just mid-november, i can't wait for the coming of christmas already! how did i spend my christmas last year i can't really remember. i'm shocked that it seems to have been erased from my memory port!

but that doesn't matter. what i remember is i had been regretful for not living my life well before each year's end. this time, winter is here, christmas is coming soon, and i'm gonna enjoy EVERY SINGLE DAY. also, spend some quality time with my family during new year's eve, which i didn't do well last year.

one shot before leaving. good place!

weekend

last night before calling it a day, i ditched words and said it was the crapest friday of the year.

but the crapest friday was then followed by an extremely relaxing saturday, which was today. things like not getting up until nearly 10am, lying-in and watching the series "House" on the sofa had proved it an awesome weekend. oh man, i had been lying in there for like......5 hours! what a lazy crap, eugene!

at 3pm i went throw rubbish away and then set off for starbucks where i planned to study GRE. but just one street to the starbucks, while the traffic light was in red, a girl came to me asking for money. she said she had upset stomach and asked if i could lend her some money for clinic. i replied her i didn't have any cash with me and then left. within 2 minutes i stepped in the starbucks and put myself in the queue, looking at cakes and thinking about what to grab.

just when i was wondering if the girl's gonna show up, there she was! she asked the staff for washroom and then went up the stairs. oh well...it didn't feel good to me. i started picturing scene like "the cake and latte are gonna come into a part of me and then 'ah ha there you are', the girl came to me and asked me 'did you just tell me you had no cash'? and then i replied 'oh well, what makes you think i will take out money to a girl i have never met? you think i'm stupid? do you look so?'"

man...the scene wasn't pleasant at all, i wouldn't be able to concentrate on my study if i decided to stay here...then i made up my mind and left for a kentucky fried chicken nearby which served coffee as well, and which was then my study place. thoguh i had been horribly noisy, especially the screaming of kids made me panic, i became adapted sometime after, completely sinking into new vocabularies. just when today's part was gonna be done, i heard a girl sitting beside me telling her friend to reach her to this phone instead of the other because of the undone payment. heard of this, i thought of the ya-tai number and felt pleased about making the right decision of cancelling the contract. it would be unbearable to keep having that phone, either the reason of bill or the other.

as soon as the part was done, i stepped out of the KFC and was thrilled by a board written some characters. i took a picture after the board holder's permission and then left. it was an ads board which happened to have my name on it. the same stuff also appeared in a 7-11 shop, and i think probably i will start collecting some pictures like this. cool!

Cool Brick

friends know that i love riding motorcycle, every week i ride motorcycle down to San Yi and don't feel tired at all. but last tuesday was just crazy because monday morning i rode down as usual and then was told i would have a meeting with a local supplier back near my home. as that day's work was so hectic that i forgot to register a working car...one spanish class i had to go that night, and no bus at all as well, motorcycle was my only choice. tuesday early morning i rode back to taipei and then participated in the Bible study. and then i had to ride back again that very same night! it wasn't until then i started feeling really exhausted...man it was just so horrible!

but one thing good was that i found a cool brick car at a 7-11 and it just cost NT99, really really cheap! it reminded of my LEGO so much, so i bought it.

by pulling backward the car can be wound up and run when let go.

the assembly quality was not quite good. there were gaps and loosen parts and i remembered i didn't like it at all when i was a little LEGO player and i would try to robust it by rearranging and putting some more bricks. not until then i found actually i had what it takes to be an engineer since very young! haha!

but it's a cool car anyway, see!




side view

front view

top view

isometric view



will put a video later!

Oath Breaker

picture from the website of HarperCollins Childrens
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Kids/BookDetail.aspx?isbn13=9780060728373&BDMode=3

(reach http://www.torak.info/ for more)

The fifth book of Wolf Brother series is Oath Breaker, which is my favorite one so far. Diffenret from the previous ones, Oath Breaker is well flavoured so that, as i believe, it makes readers feel more like the people in the story, or feel being a part of it. For me i feel i am sometimes like Torak, like a lone wolf with special gift, searching for certainty and longing for a partner who is always there for him. Renn is a clever girl who is gifted with Magecraft and hunting skills and at the same time growing wiser and wiser. It is so good to see that she and Torak are going to a different stage. I truly wish they would be together in the next and final book "Ghost Hunter" (expecting! lol!!!) Wolf is a true loyal family, and Fin-Kedinn reminds me of so much about John Newman, who had been not just my guide and special friend, sometimes in some way he was even like a father. When the story of Oath Breaker was going to end, the conversation of Fin-Kedinn and Torak was just so touched.

More and more are things that i am going to do, there will be more books to read and DVDs to watch (1 or 2 DVDs are still being left on my desk....), and yet i am of course looking forward to reading Ghost Hunter which is going to be a great hit! If the series are going onto film then i will go for all of them for sure.

bike riding

last friday i made a spur-of-the-moment decision: biking down to san-yi! the estimated distance is over 120km, muahahaha! of course i'm the man of my words, as soon as i got back home i had my bike clean and greased. gathered my bike shoes and some gear, ready for the next day's shot.

i'm not going to describe how beautiful the scene was and what i had done on the way, except for one thing...

when i was passing through the border of tong-luo and san-yi, my stomach had already been protesting for starving and asking for something to stuff it in. until then it took me about 6 hours, it was noon hot time, my energy was going to run out. i was pretty sure that if there were no restaurants or something to eat, i would pull over and stuff my mouth with leaves.....

at this very moment i saw a booth selling hard guava! hard GUAVA! when i was kid i didn't like it at all because it was too hard to start a bite, but i had never thought it became my hero on this very day! awesome! i bought three and then gulped one right away. i still needed to keep riding, better not to make myself too stuffed.



the photo taken at zhu-nan
weather crazily hot

step up

been to PAGE ONE in the afternoon, bought "oath breaker" the book of Wolf Brother series, left the bookstore with delighted heart. i love reading children's book.

i dumped the book "sex slaves" which i had been reading during the past month. it reveals countless cruel situations that are unknown by ordinary people, and that has greatly impacted my emotions too much. i felt really sad for those cheated or forced young girls, angry at male chovinism. it had been overwhelming.

"that's enough," i told myself, then threw it away, because what has been written in the book is too dreadful to withstand.

wandering on motorbike around the street, been thinking or spacing out, whatever, i was reminded of the words "sometimes you just have to let go." yes, eugene, just let go you have to.

and probably too many words are incomparable to just one action, so...no more explanation. this is what i have learned.

way back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYGomf2BEU
(referenced from "way back into love" on youtube)

remember winter of 2007 you gave me this song "way back into love". though it was freezing outside, a surge of warm flow came straight through my heart. winter of 2007, you were in taiwan, i was in london. we were far apart though, everything you did made me feel we were just so close. standing on the bridge near embankment london underground station, wind was breezing, night sky was dim, i looked down on water of River Thames, i convinced myself that i had to get a job there and wait for your coming.

now it's differnt. you're in preston, i'm in taiwan. i'm so grateful for your willing to let me back to you. this time, i will never ever let you fall. wait for me...

Stimulation

daily routine work is stable indeed, but i have no idea at all why i'm feeling so powerless and not as energetic as before working. i always think of myself as an explorer and so this kind of life is actually quite boring to me...i need something new injecting into my soul!

new vocabulary learned: fastidious

i'm a mechanical engineer responsible for some asthetic parts. if i were able to do the design in the very beginning, i believe i would be very fastidious about my parts. it's extremely important being fastidious in the first stage so as to avoid many other more unnecessary problems afterwards. so, from now on, i want to challenge myself to be a fastidious engineer, even though i have been very fastidious about my parts.

somebody is fastidious about something:
fastidious means always giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect - according to Cambridge Online Dictionary

the child's play chicken for my niece

bought at Sun Mook Lake :-)

across the sun moon lake - Sep 20th 2009

How can i not participate this fabulous activity especially swimming is my favourite one? I had been waiting for this trip since months ago, but just two days before the trip, i had gout that nearly stopped me from going for it. It was dreadfully painful, i know it must have happened due to the food i had on wednesday with Dana and her mom. On the following thursday and friday i had been too busy to remember drinking enough water, and this was the reason that caused high urine acid, and that led to gout.





i couldn't walk at all during the midnight. Even getting to toilet seemed the most difficult thing in the world, why? because my left ankle was so painful to the point that no matter i lifted it, put it down, put it sideway, it hurt and felt like something was staying inside the joint and trying to tear apart my ankle. NOTHING was comparable to this pain.

Fortunately, i tried to drink as much water as i could and the plan worked. Next day, Saturday morning, though it was painful as still, my ankle could move a little bit. I tried hard going to a clinic in Hou-Li for some pills easing pain as well as releasing urine acid. Thank God, the pills were effective and i was able to walk by the evening (sometimes stumble though). Of course my plan of swimming across Sun Moon Lake was able to remain, it was a really really great relief!

Every time i swam, 1,000 meters usually took me 25 minutes, so i supposed the Sun Moon Lake's 3,300 meters would take me about one and a half hour or even longer. But it took me just one hour and ten minutes! Surprise! i don't even know how i made it, all i remember was keep freestyling whenever there were no people ahead, and use breaststroke or "side breaststroke" , which was invented by me, to overtake other swimmers. As there were no guide cables, my swimming pattern was like zigzag, sometimes to the most left, and sometimes to the farthest right, and that made the total distance much farther than 3,300 meters. But anyway it was really a great fun and challenging. Not only was I excited before the trip, but even now same feeling remained still!

this picture was taken around noon time. i got up half past 9am, so one can see that there were just too many people involving in! crazy!

finally not many swimmers left. it was nearly 3 or 4pm.

After lunch me and Jessie scootered around the lake, and on the highest place of the road we spent sometime chatting, enjoying the breezing wind and the spetacular scene. Time frozen, it was so quiet...

What is your philosophy towards work, Eugene?

I would say,"you do not love your job because you do not get yourself involved in it; or you don't get yourself involved in your job and hence you do not love it." Once I was listening to somebody saying this and i think it does make sense. Therefore, my priority is get myself more involved in the projects i am delegated, and that usually makes the projects more interesting.

Do You Consider Yourself Successful?

Yes, i do. In my work when i receive an engineering issue i take an active role to put every responsible members together to discuss a way out, and of course make the discussion as efficient as possible because time is money, everyone has numerous issues in hands and a waste of time is not allowable. For minor issues such as signing off documents, i would phone every key member and give them a reminder "please have a sign on it and pass it to the next one thanks!", rather than just keep waiting. A British friend of mine used to tell me i can try to do things more efficiently. This does have impact on me, i always believe there must be a way to do things more efficiently, no matter how hard the situations are.

Tell Me About Yourself, Eugene

Sure. My name is Eugene. The most special things which make me proud of myself are having been an international conservation volunteer (recently i am also being involved in a training session of becoming an English tour guide of a historical site, which can greatly help foreigners understand part of Taiwan history), and some sports like swimming across Sun Moon Lake during off work time. Besides, I have good knowledge about motorcycle as I have loved to repair and modify my own scooter and motorcycle since long ago. This motivates me to collect regarding information for better knowledge. I love learning and correcting my own problems as these help better myself and make me a better one. As I love learning, mingling with people, taking challenging, i believe i'm more suited to this special position as an design engineer.

turning points

the following year is going to be my turning point

an idea of motorcycling around south america is just coming up and hopefully me and my best friend jin will be able to make this idea come true

Day 5 (8/26) Happy Painting

As soon as I got to New Heaven, I asked Dav the Muslim guy if I could do scuba diving today. He said yes but I had to finish some chapters of a manual book, then do the diving probably tomorrow. I was going to read it, but another lady in our group reckoned that they couldn’t really teach me without getting paid (it cost 9000 Bhat), so….well, just let it go~ uh~ Then I joined teachers in doing some conservation painting: bins, wood board, painted with “Save Ko Tao” and some cute or brilliant pictures. I was gonna paint Shrek holding a flag written “保護Ko Tao島” with a turtle passing by, but the Shrek turned into be an alien actually. Well, what can you say? My painting skill is not that good! But the green alien drew some scuba diverss and tourists’ attention, and they said “it’s good” and then came chatting with me, so it was not bad, haha!A British Chinese lady named Chew came join us today. She’s a real traveler. Two years ago she was out of a stable relationship, and early this year she got laid off, so this was where she started her traveling. Her parents were born in Hong Kong, but she couldn’t speak too much Cantonese because her parents and sisters all spoke English to her, which she thought was stupid. And before travelling in China, she took Chinese course one time a week, and then she spent three months in some provinces in China, she was brave! We had a long chat about each of our lives, and she said she doesn’t believe God, but she believed there is some kind of force putting everything this way. If it were not because of lay-off, if there were no end of relationship, she would probably stay where she was and could never ever manage to explore new things and become a better and braver girl. It was an excellent conversation I’ve ever had, I could see confidence in her eyes, her skin color was a beautiful dark. This is the kind of conversation I’ve loved: sharing life experiences with each other, this is not the one I can get back in Taiwan. I can never treasure it more.




The project of the day for volunteer teachers is conservation painting. In the picture were me, Sophia (up right) and Jo (down right).



"CIG BUTTS -->" said Jo.



Just make it clear, in red colour were its throat and tongue... (in comic book they are painted this way, aren't they?)




"保護Ko Tao島" for "Save Ko Tao Island" (i should have put sea turtle instead of tortoise...)



while we were painting, the other group was making something like a shelter for snappers. in the pic was Chad, he and other team members were ready to put the shelter down in the sea, tight it up with one brick on each base tip. i wanted to join, but this was not the project i did, which was really a shame.



everybody loved this sea turtle. it was brilliant!

"wear your clothes more than once" <--i like this.

mine was not coloured very well..............hahaha!! i have never done painting well~

after the painting we all people grouped together for a very nice dinner at Whitening. Matt and his girlfriend Christine were leaving the island for Manchester tomorrow, which was sad.