Coming soon: YEP on 12/13 afternoon
 
Hi, Blissers,
 
On 11/29 Jessica shared her experiences of working holiday in Taiwan and Thailand. She used her specialty of cooking and working experience to win the jobs. We are reminded to describe our specialty precisely and mention several interests in resume to avoid doing the same job.
 
It’s very interesting to see Jessica’s photos of her life, working and leisure time in Tai Tung and Bangkok. To practice carving skill, we are divided into several groups to try fruit carving. Cara and Angel won the game and got the lovely gifts from Jessica. Jessica also provided us a list of working holiday websites which are very useful.
 
At the last, Jessica invited us to join her annual plans which are “Long stay in foreign country”, “Volunteering in Europe”, and “English tour guide in cultural field”. We all learned a lot and enjoyed a wonderful afternoon.
 
Participants: Angel, Angela, Alice, Alisa, Allan, Cindy, Cara, Diana, Daniel Yang, Fox, Michael H, Jessica, Jeff, Joe, Joyce, Judith, Justin, Sandy, Selina, Serina, Sophia, Yvonne
 
New Blissers: Justin Lu (here), Alice Yu (here)
 
Meeting Photos: click here
 
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Special thanks to 32 hosts of 2014 and your participation.
See you in 2015 for the whole new Bliss Meetings!

 

 

• Coming soon:  YEP on 12/13
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• On 22 Nov Uncle Ting introduced the life Muslims and hala food, talking about what is tour guide /tour leader different. We appreciated the "world and Taiwan" beauty and special pictures. He also shared the tip to have a good holiday to save time and money! The new member Sandy also shared with us her photos and exchange student life in Germany. Blissers were excited to share their unforgettable traveling memories with each other!

• Coming soon: 11/29 Jessica Yang (the last meeting of 2014!)
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• Hi Blissers, we are calling the end of year 2014 so please enjoy the last two Bliss meetings of this month. This Saturday is Uncle Ting’s Fun of Traveling and you are welcome to bring photos of your fascinating trips!
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  2014年即將到尾聲，最後兩場會議好好享受！本週六Uncle Ting的旅遊特別節目，歡迎大家攜帶自己的照片獻寶~
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• 11/22 Saturday meeting @ 2:00 - 5:30 pm:
• 伯朗咖啡(南京一店) 3樓，每人店家低消$130，無其他費用
• Add: 台北市中山區南京東路2段218號
• (建國北路交叉口，近捷運松江南京站3分鐘)  
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 Coming soon: 11/22 Uncle Ting, 11/29 Jessica Yang

“Marketing and Sales Strategies” by Clark KUO @ 2014/11/08

Our host Clark works for the Taipei government. Because of his job he meets lots of enterprises and guests everyday and therefore wants to teach us about how to make a good presentation. To begin with, Clark used powerpoint to show some key points, such as different presentation to different customer and ask probing questions. Our fellow Blisser Ellen also shared an incident in her company about how to ask important questions.

After some theories, the host divided participants into two groups for everyone to practice merchandising their product. In the practice Cara sold banana with blender free.  At last, everyone gave an example that its selling skills make people impressed. Wisely and Daniel were impressed by the convenient store 7-11’s creative marking activities that attracted so many people to spend money just for some toys. We had an educating afternoon to learn about how businessman how to make a profit from consumers.

Participants: Cara, Daniel, Ellen, Jeff, Judith, Kai, Millie, Wisely

Meeting Photos (Picasa): click here

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• Coming soon:
• 11/22 Uncle Ting, Fun of Traveling
• 11/29Jessica Yang, Fun working holiday

Coming soon:
11/08 Clark Kuo, Marketing and Sales Strategies @ Brown Coffee
11/22 Uncle Ting
11/29 Jessica Yang, Fun working holiday @ Brown Coffee
 
Dear Blissers 

Last Saturday thanks Diana for inviting Blissers and guiding us to explore the fascinating explanation: Taipei Biennial (台北雙年展) 2014 - "The Great Acceleration (劇烈加速度)" in 北美館. 

"Anthropocene人類世" means human activities (Industry revolution/ pollution) made many huge and speedy influences on our earth, it has been taken into a new geological era. Through those works of art in museum, reminded us to find the balance between modern & technological and ecosystem & environment.

Finally, Diana separated Blissers into some groups to share the most impressive art work of today and opinions on the relationship between technology and attitude.
 
Participants: Annie, Anteia, Barkley, Cara, Danial Yang, Diana, Joe, Ellen Huang, Sharon Chang, Yvonne
Meeting Photos: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101726755048448689917/albums/6075178039789448833

Our lovely old bone, Barkley, is our host on 18 Oct. First, he let participants learn some emotional vocabularies and pick one emotional word to share their experience recently. Most blissers pick “anger” this word to share their experience. Next stage, Barkley use the story that small David fight huge Golia as an example to teach us the key to deal with emotional. The most important part is become the master of your emotional in 3 easy step. They are wait, observe and communicate. Feelings are temporary. With these 3 tools, you could through it safely. The last part, Barkley share an article that teach us how to build up hope. Because hope brings the power and direction make you happy without negative motion.

Last but not the least, we all thank Allen for allowing Blissers to use his sweet house as our meeting venue.

Participants: Anne, Angel, Barkley, Barkley’s wife, Cara, Daniel Yang, Ellen, Kai, Sharon, Wisely

MeetingPhotos (Picasa):

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101726755048448689917/albums/6072673094777513873

• Coming soon: 10/25 Diana, 11/1 Kurt, 11/8 Clark
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• Hi Blissers, on 10/4 Kevin Ting shared with us the insight of Cloud Computing, which is internet-based computing where large groups of remote servers are networked to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources. Kevin also suggested some tips for setting proper username and password for the cloud account. He played an interesting video about Google Cloud Platform. The participants played three games for English practice about invention time of various electronic devices.
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Coming soon: 9/27 Sharon & Sanli, 10/4 Kevin, 10/18 Clark, 10/25 Dianna

Dear Blissers,

On 13th September our dear hostess Annie had everyone shared their favorite Taiwanese food or snack. She distributed cards showing a famous Taiwanese food/snack and encouraged Blissers to introduce the food to the other. She also brought many snacks as souvenirs and shared with us. Blissers watched an interesting video about gift-giving taboos. For example in local practices a clock is not a good gift. We were given a card of different taboo gifts and learned to explain the reason. Congratulates to Sharon for winning the best participant of the meeting!

Coming soon: 9/13 Annie, 9/27 Sharon & Sanli, 10/4 Kevin

Last Saturday the new hostess Sherry introduced acupuncture (針灸) and its scientific research. Even though from anatomy and physiology there is no solid evidence to prove the location of acupuncture points (穴位), we used our fingers to press some acupuncture opinions and found Hegu (合谷穴) and Inner Gate point.

Sherry also shared with   us a detailed picture about the hand acupressure (穴道按摩) points. Acupressure on the hand points may increase circulation, release symptoms, reduce muscle tension and stiffness, strengthen resistance to disease and promote wellness.

Finally everyone talked about their best way to relieve stress like eating snacks, shopping and exercising. Cliff taught the EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) manual, a form of psychological acupressure by tapping face acupuncture points. Allen raised a question about whether finding the root of stress is important and how to deal with it. Thanks to Sherry for an educating and interesting meeting!

Participants: Allen, Angela, Alisa, Ashow, Anne, Cliff Kuo, Daniel Yang, Ellen, Jeff, Janice, Kevin Huang, Sherry Cheng, Vicki Lin, Wisely, 韶芸

New Blisser: Sherry Cheng (click here), Vicki Lin (click here)

Meeting Photos (Picasa):  Click here

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8/30 Saturday meeting @ 2:00 - 5:30 pm:

伯朗咖啡(南京一店) 2樓，每人店家低消$130，無其他費用。

Add: 台北市中山區南京東路2段218號 (建國北路口，捷運松江南京站)

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“The Truth” by Charles Chang @ 8/30

To talk about this topic, let us become open minded, and share your idea of Truth. In fact, we all surrounded with truths, and more ideas come from religion, from education system, cultures, families, friends etc. It will be fun but also thoughtful, please share and let us know your idea about those truths.

Agenda:

14:00~15:00  Self-introduction with 5 truths in your life
15:00~16:00  The idea of Truth, and ultimate Truth.
16:00~17:30  If, the “truth” is true? Or not?

Coming soon: 8/30 Charles, 9/13 TBC, 9/27 Sharon & Sanli, 10/4 Kevin

Because of her passion in charity, Doris dedicated 1 year in volunteering at Downham Market, UK. Through her introduction, we had a basic understanding of how to join international volunteer program (through ICYE, CSV) and the requirements we need to meet. Doris had to work 5 days a week and involved in several programs (charity shops, gardening, riding healing, dog walking) to help people with physical and mental disabilities. Doris acted as peer, tutor and mentor for her service users and helped them in empathy, supervision and company. It’s very interesting to know the actual volunteering life through Doris’s presentation.

There is no Bliss Meeting on August 2 & 9. The next meeting is on August 16 and Doris will host a meeting for the very first time.  

本週六(8/2) 及下週六(8/9) 會議暫停，下次Bliss會議是8/16是Doris第一次當主持人，請大家多多捧場！