Dear Bliss members,

 

We learned a lot last Saturday about urban renewal, such as the general and narrow meaning of it, how urban renewal proceeds, and the benefits of renewal offered by government. We also play games to design our own home and city of ideal. Diana is now working in the related department of Kaohsiung city government and she’s really an expert in this field. If you guys have any problem regarding urban renewal, she no doubt could help you with it. Please refer to the following photo link:

http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/HotUrbanRenewalInTaipeiByDianaMay22nd#

 

Thanks Sanli, Ellen, Stephanie, Joe, Fox, Barkley, Vicky, Joseph, Angela for your participation.

 

Next week, our friend Hank is going to lead us playing a very interesting game- Billion high school quiz, similar to the TV show nowadays popular in Taiwan . Of course, the most important part of the game is the PRIZE, right? Hank prepared BIG prizes for winners!! Prizes:西堤牛排禮券兩張, 大潤發禮券兩張!!!

 

Please refer to the following message from Hank.

 

 

2010 05 29 Bliss course

Topic : Billion high school quiz

 

Hardware requirement of the game

1. PC x1

2. wireless keyboard and wireless mouse

3. dice x3 and a bowl

 

software:

power point and excel

Host's assistant: Operate the PC to count score for every player on excel data sheet

      

Playing rules:

Introduction:

This game is a clone of TV show "million elementary school", however there are some modifications.  There 4 playing groups in the game. They are host, player, partner, nice guy and bad guy (small people).  The game rules designed by host is to make every attendant joint the activity and interact with the other BLISS member without any idle time.  This game is not only test your knowledge but also check your popularity and your lucky.   

 

Host:  As the TV show you watched, the host is today's Bliss host who is respond to make thegame goes smoothly.  For this reason, the host will have a short and small talk with every game player.  Before playing the game, host will have a LDS (in Taiwanese, a short interview with the player) to make everyone aware of the player's knowledge background, working experience and so on.

 

Partner: Co player is like the elementary school student in the TV show. Although we just have a real elementary school student whose name is , "灌強" , he is very welcome to join us as a partner. J the partner is elected from one of the attendants.  While player is looking for his or her co player everyone should yell "choose me! choose me!", like the elementary school students in the TV show.  The partner have only one thing to do, that is to show his or her answer to the player.  The partner can only last two questions for a player, but can be every players' partner if he or she is always selected.  It means, after answering two questions correctly, the player have to select a new partner. 

 

good guy: the number of good guy group is around half of the attendants who are the player's angles, helping the player to answer whenever the player call help by raising " good guy" card.  At this moment good guy people have to held a group meeting to provide a conclusion, a choice you make to the player. The final answer is as the reference of the player.  The player can refer partner's and good guy group's answers, but the final decision is made by the player.  

 

bad guy: The aim of bad guy group is to make the player out as soon as possible.  There are two ways to make he or her out.   First, whenever the player is pondering to choose the answer, guys have to make him make the wrong answer by saying " are you sure?" or give wrong or true messages to the player to make the player failed.  The second way is to give the player a “tough” question whenever the player draw the dice number of bad guy fields or questions.

 

Player:  everyone have one opportunity to play as player, besides the one who get the highest score win the reward.  At the beginning , host will arrange the play order for everyone.  When the player go to the stain, he should make a short introduction to himself and LDS with host, then choose a co player.  After that, it is time to draw dice to take the quiz from test base.

    The number ( from 1 to 6) on the upper side of a decide after drawing is the quiz fields you are to answer.

one: Math from elementary to junior high school level

two: Society , including history  and geography

three: Science; covers physics, chemistry. Environment

four: common sense which includes

five and six: get in a trouble but is also a challenge, The bad group will prepare a quiz in 5 minutes

for you.

Player can see the co player's answer if he is not confidence with his or her answer.  By the way, player have 2 times to call help from good guy group, which means he can raise the card to call good guy group for help.  The good group should make a final decision within 5 minutes to player.  The co player can only last two questions periods, which means player should choose another new one as his or her co player. 

The question should be more tough because the player can score 3 points without calling help.  If the player call help he can only score one point.  

 

After draw the first dice to choose fields of question, the player should draw three dice at the same time then read the sum of three dice number.  The number is the question index.  There are 1/3 questions are issued by bad guy groups.

     

schedule

PM 2:00 - 2:10     Self Introduction to every attendants

PM 2:10 – 2:30     Introduction game rules

PM 2:30 – 2:40     Hardware and software setup

PM 2:40 – 3:00   Rehearsal

PM 3:00 – 3:40   play game

PM 3:40 – 4:00   Break

PM 4:00 – 4:20   Discuss game rules and change rules, if necessary

PM 4:20 -5:10  Play game follow the new modified rules

PM 5:10 – 5:20   Award time for the best player, partner and “bad guy”

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Dear Bliss members,

 

Last week, Elise discussed with us a controversial topic – Death Penalty. She led us to think and discuss this issue from many different aspects. She also showed us an interesting film named “Manners of Dying” in which the last day of a prisoner was presented in several different ways. From that film, we tried to discuss the methods of execution, the last meal , the last day of the prisoner and the execution team. It’s quite a special topics and really interesting.  For this meeting, Elise visited the Taiwan alliance to End the Death Penalty and Amnesty International Taiwan in person. Thank Elise for her diligent preparation. And also thank Joey, Sanli, Ellen, ㄍㄨㄢˋ強, Iris, Tanya, Olivia, Barkley, Willy, and Stephanie for your participation.  I’d like to share with you some of the related vocabulary as follows.

 

Death penalty; death sentence, capital sentence, capital punishment 死刑

Veteran 老手

Justice正義

Swiftly敏捷地

Abolish 廢除

Baffling難解的

The minister of Justice 法務部長

Duel 抗爭

Victim受害者

Ensue接踵而來

Life sentence, life imprisonment終身監禁

Condemned被判刑的

Parole, condition release假釋

Maze混亂

The judicial police constable法警

 

 

 

This is the photo link for the meeting: http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/TheDeathPenaltyByEliseMay15th#

 

This week, as we informed two weeks ago, Diana is going to discuss with us the urban renewal(都市更新). It’s also the widely discussed topic nowadays in Taiwan , especially Taipei . Come and join us!

 

Hot Urban Renewal in Taipei ~

 

Dear Blissers,

 

There is no doubt that people argue about the real estate is over expensive especially in Taipei . Government stops slang their land for easing real estate speeding up. People start to watch out their real estate. Though urban renewal is quite popular in Taipei . A new police has been promoted that houses over 30 years old in Taipei will be given big incentive to renewal so that land owners don't have to spend any money to return back a new house and parking space.

 

But what is urban renewal, and how to protect your right when it comes to you. Don't miss your right to join this meeting.......

 

Best regards, 

 

   ~ Diana   

 

5/22 Meeting Agenda

 

02:00~02:30 Brief Self Introduction

02:30~03:30 What is urabn renewal?

03:30~03:45 Tea Break

03:45~04:45 Workshop Game

04:45~05:20 Sharing time

05:20~05:30 Summary

 

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Dear Bliss members,

 

I’ve had a good news for you. Our senior members, Owen and Nelly got their baby last Thursday. CONGRATULATION!!

 

This week our senior member, Elise, is going to discuss about one of the hottest topics these days. Come and join us, and tell us what you think about it, which side you’re on.  Thank Elise again for her kindly help in such an emergency. Please refer to the following meeting outline from Elise. 

 

 

 

The death penalty

 

Dear BLISS sisters and brothers,

 

I have been strongly for the death penalty, but now I am confused.  This issue has drwan much attention from our society and it is much more complicated than I thought.  It would be nice to listen to your ideas.  We look for no conclusion in this meeting and just let us see the death penalty from different angles together.

 

Warm regards,

 

Elise

 

** meeting outline **

14:00 ~ 14:20  The Minister of Justice Wang Chin-Fon

l   What has she done?

l   Vocabulary study

 

14:20 ~ 14:30  Self introduction

 

14:30 ~ 14:40  Vote : Are you for or against the Death Penalty?

* You are you. * You are the killer.

* One of your family is the killer.   * You are the victom’s family.

 

14:40 ~ 15:00  Why do they promote the abolishment of the death penalty?

l   Amnesty International Taiwan

l   Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty

 

15:00 ~ 15:30  What can replace the death penalty? (group discussion)

l   What is the purpose of the death penalty?

l   Life imprisonment? Strict standards of parole? Any other punishment? Nothing can replace it?

 

15:30 ~ 16:40  “Manners of Dying” www.mannersofdying.com

l   Introductions of the movie characters

l   Appreciation of some movie sections

l   Group discussion

~ The methods of execution

~ The last meal

~ The last day

~ The execution team

~ Does it take three people to inject the poison?

~ Would you mail out the video tape if you were the director of the Cantos execution facility?

l   Appreciation of the movie ending

l   The executioner – the judicial police constable

 

16:40 ~ 17:10  Debate : Are you for or against the Death Penalty?

l   Group discussion

l   Debate

 

17:10 ~ 17:20  Vote : Are you for or against the Death Penalty?

* You are you. * You are the killer.

* One of your family is the killer.   * You are the victom’s family.

 

17:20 ~ 17:30 Wraping

 

BLISS website : http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss

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Dear blissers,

 

Last week we talked about individual tax return filing and some useful skills that might save you money when you do it. Barkley, Angel, Tin, Vicky and Fox asked lots of questions in the meeting. Obviously, nobody wants to pay more tax than one should, especially when it’s harder and harder to get salary raised. Thanks for your enthusiastic participation, and this is the photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/TaxMoreOrLessByMengtaApril24th#

 

 

This Saturday is the labor day, a national holiday, we don’t have meeting this week.

 

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Dear Blissers,

Last week Barkley taught us many concepts about GIFT GIVING such as the art of giving, the dos and don’ts regarding giving, and taboos of gift giving. I believe that all of us have been giving gifts to families, friends, classmates and colleagues in our lives. Yet, did you consider carefully that it’s the right time, right things to give? Maybe not!  After Barkley’s meeting I found he’s really a thoughtful man, ha.

I learned some gift giving taboos that might be useful to you. They’re as follows.

 

n   In Mexico – No purple (violet) color.

n   White rose in Italy ~ ok, but in some place in far east it means to mourn over one’s death.

n   Don’t give a knife to western people ~ to cut off business relationship.

n   To Indian people ~ no cow-skin, cow-leather things.

n   In Britain ~ no necktie with stripe.

n   Don’t bring food to an Arabian’s home.

n   Iran, Mexico, Peru ~ no yellow things. It means to curse to dame somebody.

n   Chinese ~ don’t give handkerchief. It means to say goodbye.

n   Japanese ~ no lotus. It symbolizes funeral affairs.

 

Thanks Ellen, ㄍㄨㄢˋ, Joey, Joe, Fox, Angela, Michael Huang, Stephanie for your participation. This is the link for photos of the meeting: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/GiftGivingByBarkleyApril17th#

 

Next month, May, is the tax paying month again.  All of us need to prepare the tax return to be submitted to the tax authority and of course, need to make sure if you have enough money in your pocket to pay them off. It’s always a painful thing to pay tax, and never know where those money goes.*_*  This Saturday I’d like to share with you some tax return filing experience and hope it’s helpful to your tax return filing. If you really save some money next month when you do it, don’t forget to buy me a cup of coffee.
My meeting agenda is as follows:

 

   14:00~14:15 Introduce yourself

   14:15~14:20 Introduction

   14:20~14:40 Review some Tax terminology / Tax system

   14:40~15:40 Individual Income Tax Calculation

   15:40~15:55 Tea break

   15:55~16:20 Share your tax experience

   16:20~16:50 Group debate

   16:50~17:30 Tax saving skills

 

Best regards,

 

Mengta

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Hi Blissers,

Last week Angel shared with us the legendary story about Steve Jobs. We learned how Steve Jobs established Apple, been fired by the board of directors of Apple, and the battle between Apple and Microsoft. It’s quite interesting to know that the PC we use everyday is from Steve’s garage and the WINDOWS system we’re familiar with was stolen from Apple by Bill Gate. Thanks Fox, Elise, Joey, Joe, Ellen,ㄍㄨㄢˋ, and our new friends – Ray and Sanlie. The following is the photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/LegendarySteveJobsByAngelApril10th#

 

By the way, our old member – Mahatma wants me to say HELLO to all of you.

 

Next week our good friend – Barkley is going to talk about GIFT GIVING. The following is from Barkley.

 

Best Regards,

 

Mengta

 

 

 

Gift giving ~

To give gift means  ~  love , cares ,friendship ,bless ,apology ,business ...

 no matter what it is ,gifts changes the world since the begining of human beens ,make things different.

 

esp giving gifts in the market place nowadays ( economical valves )

how to give and rcvd is kind of art.

 

if you are sb in the market place,this gift issue is very important and useful  

100% suggest you ought come this Sat meeting w/your colleague(at least w/ 2 ha ha ... ) .

 

                   ~ Barkley 4/12/2010   

 

4/17 Meeting Agenda

 

02:00~02:30 Gift Fm/Barkley

02:30~03:30 Gift History

03:30~03:45 Tea Break

03:45~04:45 Gift Giving

04:45~05:20 Virtual Group Practice

05:20~05:30 Summary and Feed Back

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Dear all blissers,

 

Last Saturday Joey brought us a great afternoon. We shared our collections such as CDs, VCDs, scarves of various types, coins and stamps of different countries…etc.  Did it recall your old memory whenever you watch, touch or feel those collections?  I believe that all the attending members did.  Maybe next time we’ll consider hosting an auction of collections.  Thanks vicky, Joey, Ellise, Owen, Williy, Fox, Jessica, Nelly, Kethren, Partick for your participation.

 

The following is the photo link for the meeting:  http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/YOURCOLLECTIONByJoeyMarch13th#

This week our education manager, Stephanie, will be our host. The following is from her.

 

Regards,

 

Mengta

 

*****************************************************************

 

Dear My Bliss Friends ,

 

I will talk about English quiz (including Society life, math, health, nature, English, the arts).

Then I will introduce  Chinese proverb , For example know how to say 三百六十行, 行行出狀元 in English ?

 

Invite you

 

Stephanie 

15:30: 16:30  English quiz
16:30 17:15  Chinese proverb ( role play )

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Dear blissers,

 Congratulations!!   
 
Last week in Elise meeting, we have 20 peoples to join the meeting.

 がんばって (大家一起加油喔) 



Chairman
Fox

Education manager
Mengta
Stephanie






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YOUR COLLECTION

 

Dear BLISS sisters and brothers,

 

Have you ever been a big fan of something starting from your childhood? Ex.: Dolls, comics, albumn, posters, coins, baseball cards, video games, love letters from ex-bf/gf etc. If so, can you recall what makes you to start paying attention to those items?

In some cases, can you imagine that a ten cent comic book from our childhood could be worth a half million dollars today? Probably you will wish you would have saved the comics from your childhood? Anyway, what is passed is passed. You may have missed the opportunity to get rich, but don’t miss this meeting where you might see some valuable collections from other Blissers.

Favor Needed: Kindly please bring your COLLECTION to share with other Blissers.

The COLLECTION no needs to be fancy, nor expensive, nor older than you, but be something special to you or a reflection of your preference. However, if it’s too valuable and dangergous to bring over, please bring the photos (or mail to me joeychen@mail2000.com.tw for consolidation).
Thank you in advance for kind cooperation in COLLECTION preperation and selfless sharing.

Warm Regards,

 

Joey



** meeting outline **

 

14:00 ~ 14:15 “Self-Introduction & Warm-up”

14:15 ~ 14:30 “Brief of Joey’s COLLECTION” : Sit-Com

l     Story & History of my COLLECTION : Sit-Com

l     Sit-Com brief introductio in chronological order

l     Influences on me from my COLLECTION

 

14:30 ~ 16:00 “Your COLLECTIONs sharing & presentation”

l What do you bring to share/show with Blissers? (Hint & Guess)

l     Story behind the COLLECTION

l     History of the COLLECTION

l     Efforts & Costs invests on COLLECTION

l     Crazy things you have done to get them/one of them

l     Next Step/Target?

 

16:10 ~ 15:25 “Joey’s Sit-Com Reading & Watching”

l   Introduction & Reading of each Sit-Com (Friends, Seinfeld, Married with Children, etc. )

l  More Sit-Com Video clip appreciation.

  

17:25 ~ 17:30 Wrap up

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Dear BLISS sisters and brothers, In a funny way, there are two kind of people in the world : single and married. In BLISS meetings, we often say nice jokes about the married couples such as Nelly and Owen who seem to have a close and “competitive” relationship. Or Ellen and Karl who act like lovers and make us wonder who the 8-year old boy belongs to. Or Kevin and Karen who “got engaged” in 2007 BLISS Year-End Party. Or myself and my huby Joey who is a humorous guy with bark skin and curly hair like an African. ^_* We will share thoughts about your dream weddings and the real weddings of those couples. If you missed them, this Saturday would be a good opportunity (probably the only one) for you to hear their romance from their mouths and witness the actual weddings. If you are/were married and would like to share your own true experiences, welcome to contac me the latest on March 3 (some info must be edited in advance). I am looking forward to seeing you all. * Wedding photos * Documentary photos * Wedding invitations * Wedding video * Thank-you cards * Wedding rings * Wedding dress Best regards, Elise ** meeting outline ** 14:00 ~ 14:20 “Wedding” l What is wedding to you? What do you expect what to be reached in a wedding? l Vocabulary study 14:20 ~ 14:40 Love begins l How would you like to meet him/her? l How did they meet? What do they see in him/her? 14:40 ~ 15:10 Go to the next stage? l A real proposal made in front of all BLISS memebers l How would you like him/her to propose? l How did he/she propose? 15:10 ~ 15:40 The ageless beauty l Perfect photos l What are your dream photos? l Taking photos on the spot 15:40 ~ 16:20 The Dream Wedding l What is your dream wedding? 16:20 ~ 17:00 The Real Wedding l Documentary photos in the weddings & video l What were the things you remember deeply during the wedding preparation? How did they influence your wedding and/or marriage? 17:00 ~ 17:25 Do you want to get/stay married? l Which impressed you most? l What are your suggestions about weddings for single people? l How do you feel now? 17:25 ~ 17:30 Wraping

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