Fall Addiction

It's the first time I found out Fall can be so attractive since I was born in a country where doesn't have instinctive four seasons.

I enjoy this Fall at Atlanta so much, everything is so peaceful and thankful to my eyes!

Happy Holidays :)

photographer: YuChieh Liu

I Miss You So Badly

ChiuFen, Taiwan

I miss you so badly.

The first time I got this feeling when I came to the United States.

In Mandarin, we say that is "returning home with perplexed feeling."

I will go back to have a break during this coming winter holidays,

It should be all excited, but somehow anxious.

I learned this idiom when I was very young.

I cannot totally understand it until now.

Photographer: YuChieh Liu, 2011

再見了, 阿法迪斯! Goodbye A-Hair-Deus!

Crowd Lu (盧廣仲) is one of my favorite Taiwanese singers.
He is not only a singer but also a good composer who wrote many popular songs in teenage and young adult generations in Taiwan, even China.


I translated one song of Crowd Lu's latest album which released on 15th July, 2011, called "再見了, 阿法迪斯! Goodbye A-Hair-Deus!"


I really like this song, so I translated it for fun and introduce it to some friends who don't speak Mandarin Chinese.


Actually the song is written by Crowd Lu's memory of his hair. However, it touches me in a different way since it reminds me of many lost stuff...in which include many categories...


Now, listen to it, and write me your feeling about this song below!!! 
and 
Hope you enjoy it as well   :)

English Version- Goodbye A-Hair-Deus 
(Translated by YuChieh Liu)


The horizen is too far to be seem
My hair is too long and it really needs to be cut


The scissor opened their arms
I wanna tell my lover goodbye


My hair is a little bit dark
But it can protect me from ultraviolet rays


Golden or Pink
Green is very pretty as well
But unfortunately, I cannot see you turning that ways in the future


Goodbye A-Hair-Deus goodbye
Pillow and I will be here waiting for you


However, where is my lost friend?
Is he drunk now or turning into the ocean?


Goodbye A-Hair-Deus goodbye
My regret will only have stayed for a week
Finally, it will take my devil smile and soul away 
And fly...


A-Hair-Deus goodbye
Bye bye


Chinese Version (Written by Crowd Lu 盧廣仲)


看不到地平線　頭髮太長要剪
剪刀張開雙臂　再見了心愛欸


我頭髮有點黑　阻擋好多紫外線
金色還是粉紅色　亞麻的綠色也美
可惜來不及看到你改變


再見了阿法迪斯　Goodbye
我會跟枕頭等你回來
你失去的同伴現在　會在喝酒還是變成了海


再見了阿法迪斯　Goodbye
遺憾只會維持一個禮拜
帶走我微笑邪惡的靈魂　飛
阿法迪斯　Goodbye
Bye　Bye



Photographer:  YuChieh Liu

I want MORE

I want more, the life I have now doesn't rich me enough at all.

I took a 18 hour flight from Taiwan to the U.S. 11 months ago, I was supposed to do more than just studying.

So I set up the goal for staying at the U.S.

Not only do I have to rich my resume by studying in a new field which I need it for job hunting in the future,

But I also want to create some special experience that no one in the world has the same one.

However, the BIG question is,

 

"What will be that Unique and Important experience here in the States?"

No one can answer it but myself

that's the reason that I'm going to keep chasing...   

 :) Big Smile !!

Photographer: YuChieh Liu

Something Back to Taipei City

In the early summer, I walked myself from a 24-hour bookstore back to my tiny college dorm in Taipei City.


The road I walked on with 8 lanes, it was wide in this narrow but big city.


It was almost midnight, but the city was still awake by the lights from some shops' window and road lamps.
Also, the city couldn't fall asleep by these passing cars and these  busy cabs. 


I breathed the most precious moment after being stirred all day, and thought about I would be back to my tiny dorm room.


I tried to slow my steps to reduce the time I should spend in my dorm with others,
my steps were so light, even forgetting all my assignments and tests behind...


I felt safe in this familiar city, 
I felt free to speak everything.




Photographer: charlesskai

Friends

Friends


I knew where you were
Somewhere between blue sky and golden sand.


I screamed out all my troubles 
but they swayed in my mind
until I knew you were nowhere but here.
The distance that I could talk to you through my eyes.


And......now, all these troubles deposited without a sound 
because you are my friends.






Photographer: YuChieh Liu at Hilton Head, SC

My Private Drawer

Putting some important moments in my private drawer

Open, Put them in, and Close

Sometimes I opened my private drawer to check some parts of them

Some of which are messy to organize...

Some of which are hard to remember...

Some of which are painful to regret...

So... I close my private drawer again 

And being ready to smile again.

Photograph by K.

Happy Birthday, Doris!

Yesterday, May 21st,  is one of my best friends' birthday.

"Happy Birthday, Doris!"
I said that only in my mind last night.

I always started to count down of mines on your birthday.
The things that didn't change is that,
in this year, yours still made me reminding of mines.

I miss you and these days we had spent together.
However, we haven't keep in touch for a long time.

You know why?

Becasue you had changed a lot...and I...

I think I had, too.


Photograph: YuChieh Liu

Summarizing My Recently Life in United States

My Eye

I hoped I could have had rich eyelashes when I was a teenager, 

but NOW I am trying to teach myself that appreciating what you already have.

One game

After having taken tests, 

I was ready to scream!

My laptop

Cannot get rid of it, 

one of my partner in communication and learning.

Favorite landscape

I was born in summer, 

that's why I prefer summer beaches to winter mountain.

My favorite cloth

To reduce my problems, 

I like my clothes with plain colors.

One thing I spend the most time with

Any types of learning! 

Keep thinking, keep growing.

My Alarm Clock

He is terribly good at waking me up every morning.

Various strategies such as stepping on my face or whatever.

Food I always eat

These are egg tarts and Pu'er and Chrysanthemum tea, 

you can find them in Dim Sum restaurants.

BTW, you can click the pictures beyond to watch a larger size :)

The Last Memoir About...

You came to my life with sunshine
the sunshine I have never seen before
how appreciate I have to you
how many bright days you brought to me

In this field, where you and me have experienced many times in our life
maybe you hate someone who just left you without a reasonable excuse
maybe you inculpate someone who just did some mistakes or treated you bad

I didn't hate anyone who just left,and I won't
I didn't inculpate anyone who did mistakes, and I won't

I just wanna leave this sunshine no matter how hard it will be
the sunshine you gave me is so distant that I hardly reach it...

A Letter to the Blue Bird

Dear Blue Bird,

In the morning in Pinckney Island, Hilton Head, SC.

My first time to see you in person through a visitor's telescope.

You were such a brilliant blue bird, staying on a little box and taking a rest. 

So tiny that I hardly observed you.

What still remains in my eyes is the color on your feather was outstanding from the overwhelming green forest. 
Are you a real bird? I can't stop to ask myself because of your amazement.
Not being able to forget the moment that I saw you through the telescope, even though it endured just 10 seconds. 


Finally, you opened your wings and flied away.

I'm not sure weather you were happy in Pinckney Island or not. However, I'm sure I was glad to see you there!


Where could I see you again?

Take care! a passenger, blue bird.
Good Bye.

Yu Chieh




photograph: Pat & Sharon O'Toole

Mar.17th - A Daily Spectrum

RED

I am Blueberry. However, Strawberry is not an enemy.

ORANGE

Unfortunately, I need much more artificial Vitamin C these days.

BLUE

I attracted by these red words while I was taking the picture. 

After that, I suddenly realized how blue the sky was.

YELLOW

I love the branches, everyone is one branch of the same tree.

BLACK

The black shadow of me, my best friend in the world.

The mirror of me is in the second place.

When could we post together next time?

photograph: Yu Chieh Liu

Happiness

Happiness is on your own hand. 
It is not about someone who can bring it to you;
It is not about something which can make it to you;
It is not about money which can buy something to you.
It is all about just YOU.


Finally, I choose to make happiness by myself.




Photograph: Yu Chieh Liu ( 2009 @Destin, Florida )

A Nature Journal on Sixth St. at GT

Date: March 2, 2011
Weather: Sunny day in coming Spring
Description of Clouds: Brushing white on the canvas
Place: On Sixth St. at Georgia Tech campus

What do you see?

A banana is holding in my hand, a squirrel is jumping on the street, and cars are in parking lot.
The shadow of my moving hand is on the paper.
People are walking, running topless, and driving....People move a lot.

What do you hear?

Birds are singing loudly, cars' engine are passing by, and leaves are flapping each other.

What do you smell?

The grass and the mud are around me, the sunshine is on my jacket.

What are you touching/feeling with your fingers?

My fingers are sticky from holding banana, the sunshine warm my back and my right cheek.
I feel like sitting on the cold stone.

Questions?

I saw a girl and a boy who drove to school together.
"Are they a couple or just brother and sister?"

Birds were singing loudly.
"Who do these birds choose to stay at GT campus rather than other prettier places in Georgia?"

A boy asked me the direction of the #33 building on the map.
"How can I have stayed here for six months and have no idea about the direction on campus?"

Goodbye, No Matter How Wonderful You Are, or You Aren’t...

Goodbye, My humid home which is shadowed by the puzzle roads.

Goodbye, the surprises from my Mommy’s kitchen that I guessed and enjoyed a lot.

Goodbye, the school bell rang slowly from 200 meters away and reminded me of those innocent days.

Goodbye, the warm sunshine in the spring afternoon reflected on my backpack and illuminated my way.

GOODBYE! The dizzy street in the evening where you and I imagined pictures of the bright future.

Goodbye, the humid and wet summer that I did not want to stay outside more than a second.

Goodbye, the contiguous complaints came from friends about her jobs or her boyfriends.

Goodbye, the company where employees had to spend more than 10 hours a day and stayed in the cold concrete building without productivity.

Goodbye, the banal news on television which released excessive trivial things for everybody.

GOODBYE! Those people who merely care about how good school they graduated from or how wealthy or famous their family are.

Photograph:Smalllie(the sweet one), Yu Chieh Liu(the wither one)

Secrets on Weekend

My Bedroom

My cat, Berry, loves to sleep on my mattress, because he always considers that he was a human being.

Sunrise from My Window


Every morning, when I wake up, sunrise says hello to me through my window.

Shoes


Left one: 
My stupid white shoes, which my boyfriend laughs at a lot, leads me everywhere comfortably.


Right one: 
My pink flip-flop makes my toes looks so dirty, but I still love the pink one.

My Fridge


Cat's and human being's food was frozen together.

an Activity on Sunday


I went to a seafood restaurant with my friends.
We ordered two dozen fresh oysters.....it tasted really good.

on My Hand


I held a ball and Berry really wanted to play it with me.

My Desktop


Polka dots make me feel younger!! 

Something I wanna say...


Fighting! the GRE test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cinquain Poetry - Where Am I?

The cloud

Capricious, portable

Flying, staying, falling

Looking for the next stop.

Amnesia.

.

.

.

.

A baby giraffe

Naïve, destined

Crashing, strengthening, staggering.

Where is my mommy?

Overwhelming.

photograph: pierluigi.ricci