Bliss English Club

The meeting of Nov.21 is the very last meeting of 2015.In the end of a year is time to review ourself 
and think about the next step. we can gain something from painful experience.we should learn how to control your feelings(emotion).
Basically, sense of guilty, pressure, tireness, loneliness, bitter.... would make you out of control your emotion) easily drive you nuts or make you lose your temper. Barkely shared some message about how to deal with depression.

用餐形式：buffet吃到飽、喝到撐…

TSMC?
Real estate?
Democracy?
Or,
Can you say how Taiwan become the greatest country in the world?
We spent average 96 minutes to watch TV every day, what we saw in the end?
Do TV broadcasting feed us is what we need? Or all they consider is only rate?
We are always talking about professional, but what is the profession as a news 
Anchor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA

On 10/31 meeting, Kutt shared some basic knowledge of colors to all of us.

At the bigining, Kurt asked us to discuss what's the imagination when you think of color? Then Kurt
explained what's color-Color is the way describe light determine by the nature of the light reflect from
an object, we can'e see color when there is no light source.

Why we define RGB(red/green/blue) are primary colors?Because primary colors are sets of colors
that can be combined to make other colors. And what's secondary colors?The answer is Cyan(G+B),
Yellow(R+G) and Magenta(B+R). The color "white" is a combination of all colors.

Kurt let us understand"pixel", pixel means the number of bits used to represent each pixel in
RGB color. Most of the digital cameras used 5 megapixels or greater. The higher megapixel value,
the better quality of a picture. How many pixels do I need?It depends on what you are doing with the
picture. On a computer or ordinary photos only need 72 pixels, but professional printing need 300 pixels.

We learned fundamental knowledge about color and camera color solution from Kurt's meeting.

But how could we identity the material is grow up without pesticide?
How could we judge the can or deli food from super market is real" food" not poisoned San Francisco is the pioneer of agriculture city in U.S, people take the organic like their life style, not only seeking a stamp
*They are going to the farm market on the weekend to support "Fridley planting framer ".
*They visited “Shed” shopping and learning to support near mile food , in this modern place, you can have bunch in the morning , take cooking class or” hand work” in the afternoon ,packing weekend food before you go ,over80% product are from natural framing *They make appointment with “Art farm” to know how they growing the vegetable and fruit and experience farm lunch,   all of experience are unexpected.

People in here have implement 90 organic food in daily life? We may not need follow organic life,
But we can from eating option to protect our environment and health management.

14:00_14:00 warm up
14:15_15:00 The weekend life style in SF
                   The biggest farm market in down town
                   The most modern farm in Sonoma
                   The most beautiful farm in Half Moon Bay
15:00_15:30 Identify food and foodstuff
15:30_15:45 flower  arranging experience &Break
16:00_17:00 you can find natural planting farm in Taiwan ,

You can see the most beautiful view in Taiwan is farmer

Thanks Sheena for leading us to think about Taiwan’s population moves from ‘aging’ to ‘aged’ on Oct. 24th.
Through the article, we understand facing these structural changes in the country’s population, the government realized that it would soon have to tackle issues related to a population with greater numbers of old people, such as rising demand for facilities serving seniors in urban areas. Sheena also introduced the simple dietary therapy and exercises to face aging mentally and physically.

Please refer to the attachments and website below for further information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idZvAqH6Pc(陳亮恭：逆齡生活新思維，破除你的迷思)

How to develop a great financial habit is an important issue for personal life when you plan to get married, buy a house, travelling, or retirement. 

However, no matter what investment you have, the first step is to save your money regularly, isn’t it??

Host:Peter

Participant:Jeff, Daniel Yang, Ken, Kevin Huang, Kevin Chen, Annie, Ting, Stanley, Cherry

New member: Simon, Ethan, Carol, Heather

Meeting Photos of Last Meeting: https://goo.gl/photos/WnLZVmim4KE6uQuj9

Coming soon:"Greek Mythology in Art" by Annie on 10/17

Plato once said in “the Symposium” that according to Greek mythology, human were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into separable beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their halves. Do you agree with what he said? Before the human beings search for their love, the Olympians had already demonstrated us the intrigue and multi-formed love scenarios

In the romantic autumn breeze, the topic may refresh us from daily boredom.This afternoon we will sit back and learn the Greek Mythology in Art. Maybe it will help revive your dates with potential Mr. or Mrs. Right on starry nights or in art galleries.

Attched are the related powerpoint for reference

The following is my agenda:

2:00-2:40  Greek deities Overview by role play and Q & A

2:40-3:00 (including intermission)  Vedio watching

3:00-4:00 (including intermission)  Group study on Zeus’ affairs and art depicting

4:00-5:00 Group study on other deities’ affairs and art depicting

Meeting 地點：

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe
    地址：台北市民族西路33號4樓，圓山捷運站1號出口直走，步行約3分鐘，民族西路與玉門街交接口，一棟白色建築物.
    (進入樹樂集餐廳裡，請走樓梯上4樓)
2. 低消費用：每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

Coming soon:"How to develop Great Financial Habits?" by Peter on 9/12

We will share several important financial habits everyone should develop in order to live a debt-free life. In fact, taking control of your money is a must, especially if you want to improve your personal finances. Follow these tips for developing good financial habits that can change your entire life.

Consumer style as below recently. Is it right…?

14:00~14:30 Self-introduction
14:30~15:20 Share several important financial habits
15:20~15:40 Playing a game–Financial picture.
15:40~16:00 Break time
16:00~17:00 Analysis Financial picture and Group discussion and sharing

 

Meeting地點: 

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe

     地址：台北市民族西路33號5樓，圓山捷運站 1號出口直走, 

步行約3分鐘, 民族西路與玉門街交接口, 一棟白色建築物.

     (進入樹樂集餐廳裡, 請走樓梯上4樓)

 

2. 低消費用: 每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

New member: Amy Chen, Rola Yang

Is it possible that men and women can be best friends? Such an easy question happens every day in our daily life. Let's talk about it and express your opinions, 
maybe we can find the answer together.

Do you know that the U.S. Supreme Court rules same-sex marriage legal nationwide? It's a big news to the whole  world, but what affection it will bring to us? I don't know, so why don't we discuss it!

Meeting Agenda on 5th Sep. by Wisely

1. Warm up  
2. Best Friend or Lover  
3. The Ideal Spouse  
4. Gay Marriage  
5. Discussion-- 

Meeting地點: 

 

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe

     地址：台北市民族西路33號5樓，圓山捷運站 1號出口直走, 

步行約3分鐘, 民族西路與玉門街交接口, 一棟白色建築物.

     (進入樹樂集餐廳裡, 請走樓梯上4樓脫鞋後, 再上5樓)

 

2. 低消費用: 每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

Coming soon:"Two articles from the Economist" by Ellen on 8/22

During 8/15 meeting, we learned what’s AI .The search for intelligent machines started long before the computer was invented and it has many different strands that can make it difficult to see how it all fits together.

And we discussed what AI can do in the future, how to classify the tiers, and what special capabilityis on them.

• Tier 1:
- Mechanical pattern simulating human movement.
- Input and out following command.

• Tier 2:

- Can respond to voices, gestures, or any kind of signals.
- Active sensor and feedback with certain level of Intelligence, but still within limited pre-programmed capability.

• Tier 3:
- Limited self-cognition, thinking spontaneously without following basic order.
- Able to identify and judge all incoming information and messages and make self-decision.

Meeting Photos of Last Meeting: https://goo.gl/photos/sMNHTXpCrbdpRvA87
 

Coming soon:"Two articles from the Economist" by Ellen on 8/22

 

Hi, Blissers

Meeting地點: 

 

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe

     地址：台北市民族西路33號5樓，圓山捷運站 1號出口直走, 

步行約3分鐘, 民族西路與玉門街交接口, 一棟白色建築物.

     (進入樹樂集餐廳裡, 請走樓梯上4樓脫鞋後, 再上5樓)

 

2. 低消費用: 每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

Coming soon:"How to Make a Mind" by Patrick on 8/15
Review of Last Meeting

Meeting Photos of Last Meeting: https://goo.gl/photos/vjM9yJAQRsct69Kj8

 

 

Coming soon:"How to Make a Mind" by Patrick on 8/15
Dear Blissers,

When you read the topic “How to Make a Mind,” you may interpret that this is some meeting about the mind/spirit encouragement, life enlightenment, or some psychological or mental therapy…The answer is absolutely NOT TRUE. You may go to some somewhere like 張老師 for mental or spiritual sheltering, but certainly not in my meeting.

Wonder if you ever learned “Turing test”? 

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Alan Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine that is designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXx-PpEBR7k

Yes! Smart as you are may already guess out what the meeting topic is about - that’s right - the Artificial Intelligence (AI). What I am going to talk about is not only AI, but also the futuristic vision and the life with Home Robots we are going to treat as our everyday life partner, just like TV, Freezer, Radio, PC, in the very near future.

There are many people day that 2015 will be a revolutionary booming year of the Robot industry, spanning from Industrial 4.0 to Home appliance.

Here with the agenda for this meeting:

2:00 ~ 2:30: warm up with casual discussion and personal instruction
2:30 ~ 3:00: The TED Talk by Ray Kurzweil 
3:00 ~ 3:10: Short break
3:10 ~ 4:00: Article reading and discussion
4:00~ 4:10: Short Break
4:10 ~ 4:40: Interesting movie clips about the latest Robot movies
4: 50 ~ 5:30: Group game/discussion

 

Meeting地點: 

 

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe

     地址：台北市民族西路33號5樓，圓山捷運站 1號出口直走, 

步行約3分鐘, 民族西路與玉門街交接口, 一棟白色建築物.

     (進入樹樂集餐廳裡, 請走樓梯上4樓脫鞋後, 再上5樓)

 

2. 低消費用: 每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

Review of Last Meeting
In the meeting on7/4, host vivian gave us an opportunity to know more about"stage play".
First, she instroduced the types of play including:comedy、modern drama、opera、musical theatre,tragedy,pantomine(默劇) and farce(笑鬧劇). She showed some video clips as illustration of each type.

Vivian even participated in performing a stage play『communicating doors』in university. This play is a bit of ridiculous and confusing. The communicating doors are in a hotel room, and they allow some characters to travel through time, returning to the same hotel room twenty years ago. 

But not everybody gets transported to the same era, so that only some guys witness a criminal case.
After watching the"communicating doors", we had further dicussions: what have you done that makes you regretted? What would you do to make yourself better if you could go back in time?

At the end, Jeff offered a kind advice to everyone: don't be regretful about something since it's  hard to know how good it is if you really do what you want do do. We should learn lessons from experiences to create a better life.

Host：Vivian
Participant：Daniel Yang, Ellen, Jeff, Kevin , Jessica, Janice

Meeting Photos of Last Meeting: https://goo.gl/photos/b1u45Dq6TUuYt4D5A

 

 

Coming soon:"Gaining wisdom through 6 interesting interviews" by Angel on 7/18

Dear Blissers,

We often remember successful people and legends and treat them as our idols. However, we forgot that ultimate success comes from learning and growing from failures and mistakes. Through interviews, we can explore people’s wisdom, creativity, philosophy of live. 

Six great personal interviews (including Alibaba-Jack Ma) will be shared with you on Jul.18. Let’s see what you can learn from these interviews. I am sure you will be obsessed with the testimonies of these celebrities.  Don’t miss it!

Agenda-

2:00-2:10 - Opening and introduction 
2:10-2:40 - Definition of Interview and learn tips to conduct an good interview 
2:40-3:00 - Watch videos 
3:00-3:30 - Group discussion  
3:40-4:10 - Share 4 interviews and role play game 
4:10-5:00 - Practice  

7/18 Meeting地點: 

 

1. 樹樂集 Treellage Life Cafe

     地址：台北市民族西路33號5樓，圓山捷運站 1號出口直走, 

步行約3分鐘, 民族西路與玉門街交接口, 一棟白色建築物.

     (進入樹樂集餐廳裡, 請走樓梯上4樓脫鞋後, 再上5樓)

 

2. 低消費用: 每人下午茶費用, 約200出頭.

 

Coming soon:"The Stage Play" by Vivian on 7/4

Iris's meeting on 6/27 showed us "Joseph: King of Dreams" by DreamWorks Animation.
It is great to  watch a musical animated movie that's not only just a movie but also with profound massage.

The moral of story is "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."

Thanks for the participants on that day for their valuable feedback.

We had many deep and meaningful discussions with each other such as "if you are feeling life is tough recently, it means you're going up".
This topic cheered us up  and inspired me after meeting.

In the end of the meeting, we sang the song from the movie together.
There are some pictures below to share with other Blissers who was not available for this meeting.

 

Agenda

2:00-2:20 Greeting and Introduction
2:20-3:20 What is Stage Play?

3:20-3:40 Communicating Doors
3:40-4:00 My First Ridiculous Stage Play.
4:00-4:15 Break Time
4:15-5:00 What will you do if you can back to the time that you are regret?

 

Location: 伯朗咖啡(南京一店)2樓，每人店家低消$130，無其他費用

Address: 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)

Coming soon:"The Story of Joseph" by Iris on 6/27

We really appreciate the opportunity to learn the experience of working-holiday in Australia by Claire last Saturday.

In order to watch her budget, she made her own meal with simple and cheap food.
Since it is not safe for Asian tourists there, she bought a car with her friends. Therefore, they could travel wherever they want  to and ensure their safety even travel in unsafe area.
Furthermore, she discussed deeply the difference between working without permission (黑工) and working with visa (白工). When working without visa, this is illegal but you do not need to pay tax. However, when you work with a working holiday visa (WHV), you need to pay tax, and the tax rate has been increased over years according to the new regulations.

She also introduced the concept of the second WHV (二簽), and how will the new income-tax regulation affect the future WHV holders.
Finally, she shared the beauty of Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve.

Host：Claire Yen
Participant：Angel, Annie, Barkley, Daniel Yang, Ellen, Jeff, Kevin Cheng, Selina, Sharon Chang, and Sharon Wu.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100599086110098594636/albums/6163225371560969601

Coming soon:"Simple Life in West Australia" by Claire on 6/6

 

Homework- to create a new start-up (innovation+inspiration)

※  What is the industry you are going to build
※  Why do you think it can run well
※  What is niche of the start-up
※  What kind of challenge do you think you will face
※  What is your product or service
※  What kind of partner do you need to accomplish it
※  How to maintain the competitiveness
※  How to collect the  fund if you do not have enough money?-- 

Review of Last Meeting

The main theme of The Little Prince is the importance of looking beneath the surface to find the real truth and meaning of a thing. The little prince also relates his journey to earth, stopping on the way at different asteroids on which grown-ups (a king, a businessman, and a conceited man), appear to him very strangely because of their resolved application to things that are only quantifiable and have no ultimate purpose. He speaks of the time he spent with the fox, learning the art of taming and rites, which turns what is common into a unique relationship. The fox teaches the Prince to see with one’s heart instead of just with one’s eyes. Unfortunately, most adults have difficulty doing this. The story points out how grown-ups can never see the real meaning of a drawing; instead, they look at the surface, failing to probe a deeper meaning.

 

Host: Yvonne

Participants: Kevin, Daniel Yang, Annie, Wisely, Cara, Judith, Selina, Cherry

 

Meeting Photos of Last Meeting: https://plus.google.com/photos/100599086110098594636/albums/6148368341270721633

 

Comimng soon:"He's just not into you" by Kevin on 5/16

 

This week meeting's topic will be "He's just not into you". It is a self-improvement book written by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo that was published in 2004 and later adapted into a film by the same name in 2009. It was a New York Times bestseller and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.


Agenda:

14:00~14:30 Warm up
14:30~15:45 Synopsis of the book and movie cases discussion
15:45~16:00 Break time
16:00~17:00 group discussion 
17:00~17:30 Q&A

Review of Last Meeting

The Witcher is a video game based on the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
The main character was originally a human, a child-surprise, who destined to become a witcher. He is fatalist, but he try to keep neutrality and fight with the destiny.