Bliss English Club

Dear Blissers,

Last Saturday we had a great weekend enjoying the meeting and dinner. Our host, Kurt, taught us lots of knowledge about camera for the first half of the meeting, and for the second half, each of us made our own camera!!  Kurt told us what aperture and shutter are, how they function, and the relationship between the two. He also showed us how photos were taken when cameras were just invented. And then, surprisingly, each of us made our own hand-made cameras!!!  If you’re interested in seeing the cameras that we made in the meeting, please have a look at our meeting photos. Here’s the web link: http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/ABCSOfPhotographyByKurtOct30th#

This week our senior member, Willy, is going to host a meeting regarding various kinds of licenses and certificates. It’s a quite unique topic, and I believe it’ll be full of fun.  Come and just us!!  The following agenda is from Willy.

Best Regards,

Mengta

A. Topic: discover your own value

B. Main Activities & Brief Description of the Content:

INTRODUCTION:

Since my kid has come to this world, Taiwanese Law allowed me to be the legal guardian or custodian of him.  Under the rule, I have to follow all kinds of business, operations and matters about him.  Until now I have collected so many documents, certificate and license.  They are including birth certificate, National healthy insurance IC card(健保卡), insurance certificate, medical certificate, diagnosis, member card for Toysrus.  In the mean time, my uncle and grandfather had passed away.  I helped family members to follow all matters.  They are including death certificate, property list, a inheritance tax, insurance certificate.  Suddenly I found that everyone in the world and society from birth to death is always happen connects with documents, certificate and license.

For examples:

Go to bank: double certificates / documents / licenses (雙證件)

Go to telephone company: double certificates / documents / licenses雙證件

Go aboard: passport, visa, property certificate

Looking for g job: resume, an autobiography

Besides, in recent years, Taiwanese people are experiencing a difficult reforming process of globalization, the competition from mainland China makes this situation worse. Although our government is trying his best to reduce unemployment rate, finding a good job is still a big challenge.  Nevertheless, there are some people who are not afraid of loosing job and are still capable of consuming expensive products.  I have managed my trading companies for 10 years, but looking 10 years ahead of my career plan,  I am not sure if I will be competitive in the job market when looking at my resume.  In order to be competitive in the job market, it is crucial to have licenses or certificate to prove our own value.

Everyone owned licenses does believe the successful formula:
Choosing target → decide to take exam → study hard → third party approved → to affirm yourself → adding salary or promotion

All reasons and stories made me to choose the topic as the meeting’s issue.  After I surveyed and studied all documents and certificates, I am going to another level and have new view for those documents – Value.  The birth certificate proved the fact of birth, but the back story is mother spent 37-40 weeks in pregnancy and careful have the baby.  The graduation certificate proved the fact you have finished the courses and passed all examinations.  But the back story is how hard you studies and borrowed money for school’s tuition.  Therefore, I decided to share the story about my diving license and the patent.

In the beginning of meeting, we need to find out the difference between license and certificate:

The definition of license:

The license means to give permission.  The noun license refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.  License may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties.  In particular a license may be issued by authorities, to allow an activity that would otherwise be forbidden.  It may require paying a fee and/or proving a capability.

The requirement may also serve to keep the authorities informed on a type of activity, and to give them the opportunity to set conditions and limitations.

The definition of certificate:

A certificate is an official document affirming a fact.  For example, a birth certificate or death certificate testifies to basic facts regarding a person's birth or death.  A certificate may also certify that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests depending on the certification.  Due to ease of production as compared to other awards like trophies or plaques, certificates are used to recognize achievements throughout many levels of society.  For example, in U.S. schools certificates of attendance are given to students who are absent less than a certain number of days of school.  A matriculating elementary or secondary school student may receive a certificate stating he/she was most improved in science, mathematics, or a language.  Certificates are often used as an inexpensive positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors in many contexts.

In the middle of meeting we will share some experiences about earning licenses / certificates with each other.  In m case, learning scuba diving is opening my view from land to sea and increasing my space from 140000000 km² to 500000000km² .  We will know the meaning of “zero gravity”, “inner cosmos” and “the pressure and floating power”.  I remember a time with the diving partners go to the South Taiwan play, the sea was very beautiful, many tropic fishes all will surround at you nearby, they will also bite you lightly, that kind of feel very particularly!  Among them, the impression is the most deep is in the bottom of sea to take a stroll!  We will sit to go to sea up the small boat central, then the announcer will explain how use their diving equipment, that is a very heavy helmet, don't need going together with of oxygen to send, the face can't is moistened, either, is a very special diving equipment!  The time of watering would be very nervous, because I will not swim, going to bottom of sea afterwards, the visibility in the water badly, but win ambiguously and still can see the huge coralline Qiao heel tropic fish, when the bottom of sea run about the sense of direction will be badly! This is an equal and special experience.

In additions, the patent is the second topic.  The civilization of People progress can be made by invent.  You have invent, you have the patent.  For some members, the idea to have the patent is too far to touch.  Now I am telling you “life is patent”.

For more understanding, I am listing my agenda to you:

0200~0220: Warm up and new friends introduction (when we have new comers)

0200~0220: introduction your job characteristic. (when we do not have new members)

0220~0240: Identify the words of license and certificate. 

0240~0300: Your value in license and certificate.

0300~0310: How do you prove yourself before they know you.

0310~0330: Willy’s license’s introduction

0330~0350: Member’s license’s introduction

0350~0410: talking about the patent.

0410~0440: Group discussion (inconvenient part in your life or work)

0440~0500: Group discussion (solutions for the inconvenient part in your life or work)

C. Special Request for Preparation: (Suggestion)

n Preview reading

n Clear mind

n Have fun as possible as you can

** Please kindly reply to this notice if you are able to join this Sat.'s activity!

It will be a great help for us to get prepared. Thanks.