Bliss English Club

Hello all bliss members,

I hope you all had wonderful new year holidays. Did you go out with your family or friends, or just stay home because of the bad weather?  Did you miss friends in Bliss after three week’s break? This weekend, our education manager, Stephanie, will be our host. She’ll talk about star signs. Don’t hesitate to join us, and say some blessing words to all the friends in bliss.

The following is from Stephanie.

Best Regards,

Mengta

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Dear My Bliss Friends ,

新春愉快

    I will talk about Star Signs on this weekend . I will divide three parts . First of all , We know there are 12 Star Signs in a year. As follow : 1. Aries 白羊座　2. Taurus 金年座　3. Gemini  雙子座　4. Cancer 巨蟹座
5. Leo 獅子座  6. Virgo 處女座  7. Libra 天枰座  8. Scoripio 天蝎座　9. Sagittarius 射手座　10. Capricorn 魔羯座　11.Aquarius  水瓶座　12. Pisces 雙魚座　. Pls repare and think about any idea for this Star Signs . We will discuss advantage and disadvantage for this Star Signs.  and also pls choice one for opinion. Which one Star Signs you don't like ? Why ?
   Then , We have some quiz for you ( Including Society & life , Math, Nature, Health, English, The arts   )
  Finally , I will introduce Chinese proverb for you . Do you know how to say 三百六十行, 行行出狀元　in English ?

Invite you    
Stephanie 　

2:00 -3:20 talk about Star Signs
3:20- 3:35 break time
3:35- 4:20 Quiz time
4:20 -5:00 Chinese proverb and play role play  

Dear blissers,

Yesterday Barkley brought us a nice afternoon. We recognized some precious animals and plants, such as Taiwan black bear, butterflies and orchids.  We also learned a useful skill about the action we should take while running into a bear in the wilds.  In the second half of the meeting, we grouped into to 4 teams to discuss about two topics:

a)   Wet land community design

b)   Some useful ways to protect environment

We also learned a lot of vocabularies. Thanks Barkley for providing the following import ones. I believe they’re very useful to you.

1.the equator 赤道

2.the tropics / the torrid zone 熱帶

3.the temperate zone 溫帶

4.the frigid zone 寒帶

5.latitude 緯度

6.tropic of cancer 北廻歸線

7.tropic of capricorn 南廻歸線

8.coral 珊瑚

9.emerald 綠寶石

10.wilderness 荒野

11.wetland 濕地

12.the kidney 腎臟

13.flood control 防洪

14.ground water recharge 補充地下水

15.coastal protection 保護海案

16.poison 毒物

17.properties 資產

18.gene pool 基因庫

19.habitat 居民

20.endangered species 瀕臨絕種物種

21.recreation 休閒

22.atmospheric equilibrium 氣候調節

23.shrimp 蝦

24.shellfish 貝

25.purify clarify 淨化

26.birding 賞鳥

27.glacier 冰河

28.small leaf edelweiss 玉山薄雪草

29.common selfheal 夏枯草

30.crystal orchid 水晶蘭

31.photosynthesis 光合作用

32.altitude 海拔

33.jurassic period 侏儸紀

34.salmon / sakura masu 鮭魚 櫻花鉤吻鮭

35.adopt 認領(養)

Thanks Kurt, Nelly, Stanley, Catherine, Angel, Angela, David, Stephanie, Ellen, Karl, Sam, Sylvia and Fox for your participation. The following is the meeting ‘s photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/Jan30thLifeAndMindMapByBarkley#

For the next 3 weeks, 2/6, 2/13 and 2/20, there’s NO meeting because of the Chinese Lunar New Year.  Wish you guys all have nice holidays and vacations.

Sincerely,

Mengta

Dear all bliss members,

Last week, Owen held an auction for us. He introduced the types of auction including English auction, Dutch auction, Sealed first - price auction, Vickrey auction, All-pay auction, buyout auction, and combinational auction.  I believe all you guys had lots of fun and learned how to bid and ask price in an auction. Do you get what you like? Do you sell out your unused ones?  Don’t worry, prepare for it, we’ll hold another auction for you later this year.

Thanks Ellen, ㄍㄨㄢˋ強, Nelly, Nelly’s sister, Stephanie, Joe, Fox, Barkley, Karen, Joy for your participation.  The following is the photo link:  http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/Jun16AucationByOwen#

It's my honor, again, to host the meeting for Blissers. This time, I am going to share some techniques about knowing people. It's not quite necessary to learn mind reading or through talking with a person to know him well. In the first part we may acquire some general/advanced knowledges to quickily understand what a person feel by his gesture, body language, or expression. After that, each attendee will have a chance to practice those skills by means of interesting team activities.

In the 2nd half, we'll have some case studies about the famous Holmes' deduction approaches to observe the profile of strangers and get to know things in stunning detail.

2:00 ~ 2:30 - Warm-up activities (including Apple Mac mini Demo)

2:30 ~ 3:00 - Introduction of techniques to know people quickily

3:00 ~ 3:30 - Group guess game on body language

3:30 ~ 3:40 -  10 min break

3:40 ~ 4:10 - Introduction of Sherlock Homes' famous cases of knowing strangers by deduction

4:10 ~ 4:40 - One-on-one game for individual analysis by deduction

4:40 ~ 5:00 - 10 min break

5:00 ~ 5:30 -  Group deduction game

Let's have some good lessons to see through a man's thought ahead of knowing them further. The sooner you know people well, the less time you need for deeper acquaintance. 

Best Regards,

Patrick

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Chairman
Fox

Education manager
Mengta
Stephanie

Meeting Place:
牯嶺街小劇場地址 : 台北市中正區牯嶺街 5 巷 2 號 2F
公車： 1 路公車【牯嶺街小劇場站】
捷運：中正紀念堂站－南門市場出口，沿南海路往重慶南路方向第二個路口左轉，步行約五分鐘到達。
MAP: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss&article_id=12141864
WEBSITE: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss
Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ilovebliss.taipei%40gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Taipei

Dear all bliss members,

Last week our host, Michael Tsai, bring us a great lesson about American Idioms. We learned the types of Idioms – Fixed type and Wild-card type, and many interesting Idioms with illustrations. We also debated on the pro and cons of rekindling on old flame. I believe that all the attended learned a lot in this meeting. I’d like to summarize the idioms and share with you as follows:

Thanks Jay, Tracy, Joy, Fox, Nelly, Barkley, Karl, Angela, Stephanie and Owen for your participation.  The following is the photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/Jun10AmericanIdiomsByByMichael#

DEAR BLISSERS :

MY OLD FRIENDS GOOD FRIENDS AND NEW FRIENDS

I AM SO HAPPY TO BE THE HOST IN THE BEGINING OF YEAR 2010

I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE YOU THE FOLLOWING TWO TOPICS

~ THAT I BELIEVE ARE BOTH VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US

WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT ? GUESS ??? YOU'LL SEE IN MY MEETING

WISH TO SEE YOU THEN.

TOPIC: 1.WHERE IS LIFE BEGIN ?

   2.MIND MAP OF YOUR LIFE .   

MEETING AGENDA

02:00 ~ 03:30   WHERE IS LIFE BEGIN ?

03:30 ~ 03:45  TEA TIME

03:45 ~ 05:15  MIND MAP OF YOUR LIFE .

--
Chairman
Fox

Education manager
Mengta
Stephanie

Meeting Place:
牯嶺街小劇場地址 : 台北市中正區牯嶺街 5 巷 2 號 2F
公車： 1 路公車【牯嶺街小劇場站】
捷運：中正紀念堂站－南門市場出口，沿南海路往重慶南路方向第二個路口左轉，步行約五分鐘到達

Dear Blissers,

Dear Blissers,

Here comes the Year End Party of this year!!!!!! Our theme is Bling-Bling Dancing Party.

There will be many beauties and handsome guys, and we will play games and dance together. Besides, you can have a great dinner and enjoy the live shows.

All you have to do is dress well and come to have a great night!!

What are you waiting for? Please come to join us!!

More information:

★  Date: 12/19 Saturday

★  Time: 18:00

★  Place: 典藏咖啡館(當代店) ARTCO DE CAFÉ
(台北市中山區長安西路39號 / 02-25508535/ http://tinyurl.com/yg86o4h)

★  Dress Code: Nice clothes suit with the dance.
(and with bling bling stuff)

* Notice: no jeans, no slippers

And would you please sign up and order the meal before 12/10. You can use the following website.

http://tinyurl.com/yk74cze

 

If you have any question, please call Julie (0933046066) or Rita (0919947969).

Hope to see you there!! Bye~

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Chairman
Julie
Rita

Education manager
Sylvia
Kurt

Meeting Place:
牯嶺街小劇場地址 : 台北市中正區牯嶺街 5 巷 2 號 2F
公車： 1 路公車【牯嶺街小劇場站】
捷運：中正紀念堂站－南門市場出口，沿南海路往重慶南路方向第二個路口左轉，步行約五分鐘到達。
MAP: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss&article_id=12141864
WEBSITE: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss
Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ilovebliss.taipei%40gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Taipei

Dear all bliss members,



Last week, Patrick gave us an interesting Bliss auction. In this

meeting, we have learned some types of auction, such as English

auction and Dutch auction.

We also practice the flow of the auction process. Thank for Patrick's

host and also thank Angela, Fox, Joey, Karen, Philippe, and Stephanie

for your participation.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/Nov14AuctionByPatrick



Next week, our Canada friend, Mark, would like to discuss abortion with us.

Abortion has a long history and has been induced by various methods

including herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, physical

trauma and other traditional methods.

Mostly, the therapeutic performs abortion for the following reason:

1. save the life of the pregnant woman

2. preserve the woman's physical or mental health

3. terminate pregnancy that would result in a child born with a

congenital disorder

4. selectively reduce the number of fetuses to lessen health risks

associated with multiple pregnancy

Although abortion has been debated for a long time, there is still no

specific answers to this question.

If you are interested in this topic, please join this meeting.



Outline:

1.0 Introduction - Only one question (5 min.)

2.0 Scientific Argument lecture (10 min.)

2.1 Scientific Argument video 1 (5 min.) --- DVD

2.2 Scientific Argument video 2 (5 min.) --- DVD

3.0 Philosophical Argument lecture (15 min.)

4.0 Feminist Argument lecture (20 min.)

5.0 Prophetic Activism video (15 min.) --- DVD

6.0 Discussion (flexible)



-- 

Chairman

Julie

Rita



Education manager

Sylvia

Kurt



Meeting Place:

牯嶺街小劇場地址 : 台北市中正區牯嶺街 5 巷 2 號 2F

公車： 1 路公車【牯嶺街小劇場站】

捷運：中正紀念堂站－南門市場出口，沿南海路往重慶南路方向第二個路口左轉，步行約五分鐘到達。

MAP: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss&article_id=12141864

WEBSITE: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ilovebliss

Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ilovebliss.taipei%40gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Taipei

Hi friends!

If you are a guest and don't know what Bliss is, then you must read this!
Bliss is a wonderful and cool place running since 1997 that you can learn English, make friends, and have fun. 
You can meet all kinds of friends from many industries, and you won't regret the time you spending here. 

When-
Every Saturday
Meetings in 中山公民會館:2:00-5:00PM (We don't have meeting during national holidays, please check our meeting calendar)
Meetings in Brown Coffee:2:00~5:30PM
Cost-
Come on, no charge. Why should we pay for learning English?
The only thing you need to pay is the drink or dessert in Brown Coffee.(Mininum:NT$130)
If we hold meetings in 中山公民會館,then each person needs to share the rent.(NT$70~100/person)
How to Join-
Just check our meeting notice or meeting calendar and come to our meeting place directly.
How it work-
We speak English during meeting time. (Of course, out of the meeting at dinner time, we speak Chinese)
A host, who is the volunteer coming from members, will tell us his/her topic 4 days before the meeting.
A meeting topic could be any subject, from Astronomy, product innovation, literature, to art.
A meeting could be any form that designed by the host: group discussion, writing, watching movie, having game, debate, personal presentation.......etc.
It's fun because we can always learn from others expertise and experiences during all kinds of meeting.
Also have fun-  Quarterly Outings and year-end-party -
Yes, we not only learn but also pay very hard.  We go out together every quarter-- mountain climbing, BBQ, eating, .....just have fun!!  Join us right away!

 2013 Bliss staff-  Vicky/Serina/Yvonne/Kevin/Millie/Judith
* If you want to contact Bliss staff, please leave message and we will reply

哈囉!
如果你剛好拜訪這裡，好奇Bliss是什麼鬼東西，那你真的來對地方了
Bliss自1997年成立至現在，是一個超酷的地方，可以學英文、交朋友、還有享受美好的週末時光
來這裡可以認識各行各業的朋友和專家，每個都身懷絕技，你絕對不會後悔來過這裡
時間-
每週六
若在伯朗咖啡:2:00-5:30 (我們在國定假日及前後可能會沒有meeting，請看我們的行事曆)
若在中山公民會館2:00~5:00
收費-
夠囉?! 誰說學英文要花錢? 我們不收入會費，你唯一要付的錢就是在伯朗咖啡的消費額(低消130元)
若在中山會館meeting,則每人只需分攤場租(約$70~100/人)
如何加入-
只要看我們的meeting notice或是meeting calendar，上面都會有時間和地址，直接到meeting的地方和大家見面囉!
運作方式-
我們在meeting中都說英文，當然平常晚上吃飯是說中文的
我們會邀請一個member來當本週的host，我們會在四天前email和blog上通知大家本週meeting的主題
meeting的主題可以從天文、產品創新、時事、到文學藝術
host會決定meeting的形式，可以是小組討論、寫作、看電影、玩遊戲、辯論、或是個人報告
真的很好玩，因為我們永遠可以從其他人學到他們的專業及經驗
玩翻天- 每季出去走透透和年終聖誕趴梯!
沒錯，我們不但學習也玩的狠用力，每季我們會一起出去瘋，爬山、烤肉、吃東西....就是要玩....
現在就來加入我們吧!!

Bliss history:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtjWtV4UbopHdFlraFp2VGNRRVZtejlUcGxUNlhLX1E#gid=0


2013年 MEETING PLACE  (以當次meeting notice為準)

中山公民會館 每人入場費$70~100(分攤場租)
Address:台北市中山北路二段128號2F
捷運民權西路站1號出口，中山北路方向步行約5分鐘，右轉步行約3分鐘至本館。
OR
伯朗咖啡(南京一店) 每人低消$130，無其他費用。
Address: 台北市 中山區 南京東路二段218號 (建國北路口)
WEBSITE: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ ilovebliss
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ilovebliss.taipei@gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Taipei

2013 Bliss幹部- Vicky/Serina/Yvonne/Kevin/Millie/Judith 如果你有任何問題請留言,我們會盡快回覆.