Monthly Archives: April 2023

April 29, 2023 · 5:25 am

Unwilling to Ask for Help & Not Wanting to Seek Out Assistance, the Experts Stated: Isolation in the Commonality of the Tragedies of Caretaking

Observations, how those who fell through the cracks, aren’t, covered by the long-term care programs that the government had, set up, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

In February of this year, there was a tragedy of three members of the family becoming dried up corpses, the over eighty elderly mother was in charge of taking care of her two sons in their fifties, and her own, demented husband, by the time they were found, the mother and the two sons had been dead awhile.

The secretary of the Family Caretaker Foundation, Chen believed, that a lot of the “8050 Families”, when they are finally noted, the help came, too, late, and these families, don’t dare ask for help, and secondly, didn’t know who to turn to for assistance, thirdly, even if they expressed their needs, their needs may still be, overlooked.  She’d believed, that there are two things that needed to get resolved, for the aging parents who are caretakers to be willing to seek out help from outside.

First, the loosening of the beliefs of society.  Currently, the elderly population feels ashamed, that it’s nothing they want the outside world to know, unwilling to tell their troubles to anyone else.  Chen stressed, that in the past dozens of years, the over a hundred tragedies in caretaking, there are the varied troubles, but all shared one thing—isolation, the “willingness to disclose” thus, became, the very first step, to open the traditional families’ needs.

Chen added, currently, the long-term care resources is by the willingness and the families’ needs, by applications, but, a lot of the families that are in need of assistance, for the time being, are rejected, Chen reminded, that a lot of the families that’s struck my tragedies, they didn’t have the desires to get the resources of long-term care first, and these are the families that are, in more need of cares and concerns the most.

Secondly, the society need to have enough resources to resolve the problems.  There’s a multitude of causes of the eighty-fifty dilemma, if it’s about the caretakers’ life and the burdens of the caretakers, maybe, Long-Term Care 2.0 can offer some help.  But, there are those who are, locked in, unemployed, those matters of helping the middle age group to get their self-confidence back to get themselves out there to get work again, this is entire foreign to the long-term care programs, and, the cases needed to be seen as unique, to devise the individual needs.

Chen stressed, the “Eighty-Fifty” devised by Japan, is the generalized beliefs of analyzing a lot of cases, and the situations, and what happens to the families, the policies that came forth from the analyses, the government in Taiwan isn’t as systematic, nor the accumulations of the data collected, and it’s difficult for the country to set up as well a rounded program of aid, but this problem is happening in the country right now, and the government need to center itself on this matter.

So, this is due to how there’s not enough emotional, social, and economical support for the caretakers, that these tragedies of murder, suicide keeps on happening and this is still due to how we’re living longer by the years here, and, as we live longer, our health conditions are going to get worse and worse, and that, is nothing we have control over, and, the government still lacked a good plan to prevent these sorts of tragedies, despite how it’d boasted about how Long-Term Care 2.0 is set up to help the families in need in this country.

4 Comments

Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Cost of Living, Government, Policies, & Politics, Legislature, Observations, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Trends, Wake Up Calls, White Picket Fence

Tagged as

April 29, 2023 · 5:07 am

The Taiwanese “8050” Trend, the Elderly Parents Became the Caretakers

On social welfare, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

With the Eighty Year-Old Taking Care of Their Own Children in Their Fifties, the Families are Closed-in, Plus the Pandemic, Causing More Hardships on the Special Needs Families

The woman in charge of the Dali Borough of Taoyuan, Chen started visiting the local homes to give out the quick scan kits, and that was when she’d discovered that there are many special needs families, like the ninety-one elderly woman, Tseng was caring for her own seventy-five-year-old son who had a stroke; there was a low income family she’d visited, with the daughter being mildly mentally retarded, caring for her own father in his sixties, alone on her own, the two live in a small suite; and there are two more, with the middle age adult children at home, agile and able-bodied, but refused to work, relying on their parents’ selling the recycle materials to keep them.

In Taiwan, the “Eighty-Fifty Trend” is nothing unique, almost all the frontline workers in the local communities, whether they be people in charge of the boroughs, the head chair of a community, or the long-term care service organizations all told, that they all see these sorts of problems, but, “we keep everything about our families private”, and the scales of the modern day families becoming more nuclear, causing these families to get discovered, only when there are the news reports on the living means.

Chen found that when there are the families with the needs, she would make the scheduled visits to deliver the foods, the rice, and other resources these families may need, care about how they are doing, carry on in conversations with the members of these families, to keep them from going off into the deep end.  And the kindhearted neighbors would also, give these families their homegrown vegetables to show that they’d cared.  Chen had gotten the registry of the special needs families in her area from before, hoping, that as the person in charge of her borough, she could, do more, but, due to the invasion of private, she was, denied the roster, she’d believed, that most of the locals are helpful enough, that maybe the social services and set up a set of legal, regulation abiding means, working together with the social workers, to help those in charge of the local boroughs know, if there are the families in need of help in the localities, and are willing to accept the help from the outside.

And so, this, is how the people in charge of these local boroughs are, reaching out, but, the families that needed the assistance, may not be willing to receive the assistance that they are in need of, due to, problems in their ego, or, they feel ashamed, of needing assistance from the outside world, and, for whatever reasons there may be, by not getting the help they needed, it will only, cause more tragedies to occur in the local communities, and, no matter how hard these individuals in charge of the local boroughs wanted to assist, they can’t!

Leave a comment

Filed under Awareness, Cost of Living, Issues of the Society, Life, Observations, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Social Awareness, Social Issues, STUCK in a Cookie Jar, Trends, White Picket Fence

Tagged as ,

April 29, 2023 · 4:48 am

The Visits of Tsai to the U.S. vs. Yoon’s Visit

The president here, still, STRUTS across, the “runway”, and she’s, taking this country, to HELL here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The South Korean President, Yoon visited the U.S., other than conferencing with Biden, sang the songs, the enterprises of both countries had also, signed the memos of cooperation together with each other.  Of them, included the tens of billion dollars U.S. joint ventures, the American and Korean enterprises will work together to develop the batteries of the electric operated cars, the robots, and the hydrogen powered enterprises.  And Netflix announced its investment of $250 billion to produce the Korean films.

Seeing Yoon’s visit to the U.S., it’d reminded me of how the president, Tsai’s passing through U.S. border at the start of this month, the two interacted, so diversely then.  Tsai’s visit to the U.S., she’d done all she could, to set up the meetings with the American higher up government officials, but wasn’t able to; the only highlight of her trip, was she got to see the speaker of the House, McCarthy.  But, this meeting, caused Communist China to retaliate using the military drills, and it’d, made the originally on its way tourism between China and Taiwan to halt.

the U.S. government’s setting up the grand banquets as the president of South Korea visited…photo from UDN.com

And, we can’t ignore, that the time Tsai spent in the U.S., all of her activities are related to politics, we see no considerations of the country’s economics; like the conversations the U.S. President shared with the President of South Korean, on investments.  And, do we, attribute this, to how oppressive the Chinese government was toward us too?  Or, should it be attributed to Tsai’s means of diplomacy, the not enough attention put in by the international trades department, or, could it be, how Tsai could actually care LESS about the economic developments of this, country altogether?

We’d had encounters of the country’s, signing the business deals with U.S. like South Korea had with U.S. from before, the former vice president, Hsiao’s smiling to lead the groups to negotiate in business ventures with the U.S., lost count of how many times.  And, as Hsiao was relieved of his post as the vice president, he’d gone to sit down to converse with the then, secretary of state, Kerry too.  And all of these, under Tsai, became, nonexistent, with the results of, angering Beijing, but not added anything to the improvement of Taiwan’s economy.

Who has the mind to care about the people of Taiwan, and of the economy here, no need to compare, is there?

So, this is still how the god DAMN president and the DDP, struts her self, across, that “runway”, angering the Chinese government, and, until the Chinese military attacks us, invade us, she is still going to, have her head up in them clouds, without a single, clue, and it’s, all for, show what this god damn bobble-head of a president is, doing!

the caption of this photo reads: “to avoid angering China, the U.S. called it, “meeting up with the popularly voted representative from Taiwan”…photo from online

Leave a comment

Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Abuse of Power, Cost of Living, Government, Policies, & Politics, Messed Up Values, Observations, Perspectives, Properties of Life, STUCK in a Cookie Jar, Wake Up Calls, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , , ,

April 28, 2023 · 4:58 am

The KMT Criticized the Five Mistakes in Policies During the Pandemic that the DDP Should Apologize to the People for

Because the government did NOT function as it was supposed to, giving us all what we are in need of, of course we all must, fend for, our own, selves, and, shit still, comes out of, all of these, politicians, mouths here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Command Center of MERS-CoV is about to get “off the tables” on May 1st, the KMT stated that for the three years running, there are the “five shortages, five messes”, lacking in the vaccines that people needed, lacking the quick scan kits, the medications, and the integrations, and there was also, the “revisions of the statistics”, the sealing of the contracts of purchase of the vaccines, the 3+11 that’s not on “record”, and the point of entry of the outbreaks being in Wanhwa, and, the Command Center became the DDP’s “election headquarters”, never gotten ahead like it stated, and that the Command Center owed us all, that, apology.

The assistant chairperson of the committee of KMT, Lin stated, that there were the shortages of the masks, the vaccines, the quick scan kits, and the treatment medications, the government did NOT get ahead, it’d, caused the situations of our lives to worsen during the outbreaks.  The final global country report in tackling the pandemic by Bloomberg last June showed that this country ranked second to last.  But, the former head of the Command Center for MERS-CoV, Chen kept dodging responsibilities, he was, not, humble enough, whenever the KMT mentioned that there’s a need for supervision or given him sound advices, he’d always either pretended to be deaf, or, evaded his responsibilities.

The spokesperson for the KMT, Yang stated, that we need to show gratitude toward the hardworking frontline paramedics for keeping us safe and protected, but, the Department of Health & Social Welfare and the Command Center are bad partners, like how the “campaign headquarters” set up by the party in power, only cared about its own political benefits, kept trying to wrapping up the fact of how the medical professionals are on the verge of collapsing, of melting down, how they’re, putting their own lives in the lines of fire, how they were, underpaid, overworked.

Yang pointed out, to NOT forget about Chen’s “classic motto”, when he was asked on the press conference, what should we do if we contracted the virus, he’d responded, “Take care of it yourselves”, Chen also said that the “general scans, micro ban lifts, ahead of the departments, I shall carry the responsibilities on my shoulders, and the revisions of the data”, at the height of the pandemic, when Chen was called by the DDP to run for mayor on the ticket, he’d also said, “the government system is, ‘freelance’.”

Yeah, and that is, how the DDP, and its, officials, still, refused to take the responsibilities for their mistakes in policies, which caused a lot of the citizens in this country to DIE off, and it still won’t man up, because, this is a party, that’s gotten used to enslaving we the people, and we the people are still, FUCKING retarded, letting them, ruin our lives, continuously.

Leave a comment

Filed under Abuse of Power, Abuser/Enabler Interaction Style, Blindly Following the "Leaders", Cost of Living, Follow the "Leader", Government, Policies, & Politics, Life, Lives Lost, Observations, Right to Life, STUCK in a Cookie Jar, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , ,

April 28, 2023 · 4:27 am

What the Command Center Did NOT, Clarify

The DDP government receive a SOLID F for its “policies of MERS-CoV” here, and the officials still think that they’d done, quite well, wow, talk about, totally, DETACHED from the realities of, things here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

With the pandemic, slowing, the Central CDC Command Center is finally about to, get relieved of its, duties.

Recalling to the over-a-thousand-days, the Command Center created numerous mottos, the “revised numbers”, “getting ahead”, “like general scans”, “blame it on the virus”, “how can the world catch up to Taiwan?”, “I’ll take full responsibilities for the 3+11 plans of quarantine”, “self-adaptation”, and the “micro ban lifts”, etc., etc., etc., all of these are, “classics”.

For over three years, the command center hosted its daily press conferences, like clockwork, and the online community jokingly called these, “the Bullshits of Five”.  The pandemic is heartless, the loss of every life made us all feel sad, and yet, the command center turned these lives into, nothing but, icy cold, stats.

and, here are, the facts, on how the elected mayor of Taipei stating how Chen’s “grade report” of his role as director of the Command Center is, a solid,”F”, off of YouTube

In this quite lengthy process of pandemic, the questions of the “3+11 policy implementations”, (claimed that there was NO record of this), is Wanhwa the breakout point of entry of the pandemic, do the dead bodies get cremated within twenty-four hours of death, why do the vaccine purchases needed to be sealed for thirty years and listed as classified information, why does the Tsai government favor Medigenvac so much (that as the borders opened, the people who had the Medigenvac vaccines who wanted to travel to Japan had to pay extra to get their PCR test, because Japan didn’t approve Medigenvac vaccines), all of these are questions left, unanswered.

Looking back to the roads we took, the start of the pandemic, the shortages of vaccines, unevenly distributed, we didn’t have what we are in desperate need of, to defend ourselves against the pandemic; the chaotic data output, causing people to get upset and worried, the Command Center didn’t do a thing, to help us feel safer, more secure, nor, settled.  And I feel compelled, to offer my personal condolences to the more-than-ten-thousand lives that’s been lost.

The Command Center had finally, “served its time”, and, everything that’s happened during these times of the outbreaks, will get recorded down in, history, and continue to stay, very lucid, in the minds of, we the, people.

So, this is still how the DDP’s BULLSHITS had caused, so many lives to get, lost in the pandemic, the government was late from the very start, in the purchase orders of the vaccines that worked, then, we became reliant on other countries’ garbage vaccines from AZ, and the government spun it as wow, everybody’s giving to us (more like dumping their unwanted TRASH!), and, it’d refused to purchase the needed BioNTech vaccines from Fosun Pharma, as that’s the only AGENT in the Asian regions, delaying the shipments of vaccines, and, leaving the private sector, to do ITS work, in purchasing of the vaccines that we are in dire need off, and, not to mention, how many of those lives that were lost, that could’ve been, saved or spared, but this DDP government doesn’t give a flying FUCK (don’t pardon me) about us, and so, how do you think the “grade report” of the DDP’s helping we the people, defend against the pandemic would, “score” again???  Exactly!

Leave a comment

Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Abuse, Abuse of Power, Abuser/Enabler Interaction Style, Abusing Someone's Trust, Blindly Following the "Leaders", Government, Policies, & Politics, Lives Lost, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Right to Life, White Picket Fence, Wrongful Deaths

Tagged as ,

April 27, 2023 · 6:40 am

The Taiwanese Businessman Enticed His Younger Schoolmate Who Works in the NSA to Spy for China, Was Indicted

How easily, someone CAN and WILL, SELL out one’s own, country, because China offered him, something better, to get his son into a prestigious school, and yet, the younger schoolmate he’d, reached out to, refuse to sell this country out, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Taiwanese businessman, Hsu had lived and worked in China many years, the Chinese government got a hold of how his younger schoolmate works for the N.S.A., using Hsu’s wife, children as leverage, demanded that he came back to Taiwan to get his younger schoolmate to work as a spy for China, the patriotic younger schoolmate told him that he “shall NEVER betray his own country”, and the Kaohsiung D.A.’s Office arrested Hsu as he returned to Taiwan at the start of this year, Hsu admitted how he was told by the Chinese government to contact his younger schoolmate, he was indicted for breaking the law of national security yesterday.

The fifty-two-year-old Taiwanese businessman, went to China in 2001 to work, held the higher up position of manager in an enterprise in Jiangsu.  The D.A. found, that the Chinese National Security Department wanted to infiltrate the higher up officials of Taiwan’s National Security Offices, but can’t find a chance, until the intel showed, that Hsu is the older schoolmate of the enterprise’s higher level manager, and they’d planned to get Hsu to become a bridge to get the N.S.A. employee to spill the intelligences.

In July of 2015, Hsu entered into China and registered for the temporary stay, immediately, he got “asked” into a “small room” by the N.S.A. agents in China, and, they’d shown him the intel of Hsu’s younger schoolmate’s unit of work, his position, and his name, hoping that Hsu could help, and used Hsu’s wife and children as leverage, claimed that if Hsu assisted them in contacting his younger schoolmate, then, Hsu’s child will get to attend the school that he wanted his child to go to.

During August of the following year, before Hsu returned from China, the intelligence went to Hsu again, reminded him to NOT forget to contact his younger schoolmate.  As Hsu returned, he’d gone to his reunion, and got into contact with his younger schoolmate, and as they shared a cigarette, he’d told him he was taken into custody by the Chinese government, and told him what happened in how the Chinese officials threatened his families, and told, that China hoped that he could work for them, toward the goals of “one unified China”.

As he’d finished, his younger schoolmate turned him down, demanded that Hsu tell the Chinese government: “I will NEVER betray my own country”, to have them stop trying to persuade him to.  As Hsu was turned down, he’d not given up, continued to contact the younger schoolmate repeatedly, but, he wouldn’t take his calls, until the pandemic, Hsu had, stopped contacting.  The National Securities discovered what had happened, and, as Hsu entered back to Taiwan in January, they’d, arrested him.

In the investigations, Hsu admitted that he was told by the Chinese officials to contact his younger schoolmate, but he’d only hoped that the younger schoolmate could help him out, that even if he’d failed to convince him, and returned back to China, the national securities department in China won’t go after him.

The district attorneys believed, that if Hsu was afraid of retaliation, he only needed to lie to the N.S.A. officials from China, he’d not needed to prod about where his younger schoolmate worked, and asked his position at work, after considering all the facts, Hsu had been instructed by China, to start up an organization here on Taiwan, they prosecuted him based off of the espionage laws yesterday.

So, this is how easy, someone CAN, sell out one’s own, country, because the other side offered a better deal, there’s more money, and his kids would be well taken care of, going to that number one academy, and yet, he’d, failed in attempting to get his younger schoolmate to turn on the country, and now he’s charged with, espionage!

Leave a comment

Filed under Immoral Behaviors, Issues of Morality, Knowing the Law and Breaking It, Messed Up Values, Observations, On the Wrong Side of the Law, STUCK in a Cookie Jar, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , , ,

April 27, 2023 · 6:15 am

The Morality of Euthanasia, Using the Medical Professionals’, Hands Shue: Euthanasia Should NOT Be Advocated by the Department of Health & Welfare

If the agency that’s responsible for all things medical isn’t, MAN enough, to HANDLE this “debate”, then, who do WE the people have, to count on, on these sorts of, matters, huh???   How this DDP government, still, pushes, that BUCK, around, refusing to, TAKE the responsibilities for WHAT we the people, voted them into office for her…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The National Treasure Level Sculptor, Chu because he was fed up with the illnesses, the pains, was suspected of not being able to withstand the trials of his physical conditions anymore, committed suicide on the twenty-second of this month, this shocked all the artistic and literary industries here, and all around, the world as well, which struck up the debate of, “euthanasia”, again, toward this, the head of Department of Health Sanitary & Welfares, Shue stated at the legislature, “the debate of euthanasia should NOT be based off of being ill too long and wanted it all to end”, besides, to persuade the physicians to euthanize the patients, “would cause the ethics of physicians to come into conflict with what they’d been trained to do”, that it should NOT be pushed forth by the Department of Sanitation Welfares.

from before, when the vaccines we needed, can’t get here, on time…photo from online

The legislator, Weng mentioned in the committee discussions yesterday, how these cases of being ill too long, with patients taking their own lives keep on recurring; the legislator, Chiu also pointed out, that the country had already implemented the “hospice medical treatment regulations”, “the right to decide of the patients themselves”, stressing that the laws are respectful of the will of the patients, in protecting them in having an easy death, that you can set a living will up with the medical hospitals for it, but on the means of “accelerating deaths, assisting suicide”, comparing to other countries, we would need to get a wider spectrum of professional opinions, and would have to continue the discussion on the matter with the society.

The filmmaker in France, Jean Luc Godard, the senior sports cast, Fu, both chose to head to Switzerland to get euthanized.  And there are three kinds of euthanasia: “proactive euthanasia”, with the physicians injecting the patient with lethal medications to speed up the process of death, “passive euthanasia”, the physicians’ removing the life support systems, and, “assisted suicide”.

Chiu used the Netherlands that set up the laws to allow for the individuals to carry out one’s own euthanasia, the patients must be willing, and the applications of euthanasia needed to be reviewed over carefully, and the conditions of the patients unable to withstand any more pains from ones’ illnesses, and there’s no way for the conditions to improve in the futures, and, there’s the need for second opinions from other medical professionals, and the qualifications, the procedures, all went through the debating, discussion process by the medical professionals, the legal and ethics, “this country needs to continue discussing this matter.”

when the government does NOT allow us to DIE with OUR dignities still INTACT! Photo from online

Shue told, that it’s awful, that the master sculptor, Chu had taken his own life, but the point of euthanasia is in “getting someone else to help to end one’s own life”, and if the medical professionals should do it, it’s, debatable, and, this goes against the Hippocratic Oath the medical professionals had taken, even if laws passes to allow for euthanasia, there would be no physicians, willing to implement.  On the perspectives of the Department of Health & Welfare, it’s “quite odd” to persuade the medical professionals to break the rules of ethics; in comparing, the patients’ rights act, with the choices of hospice and painless treatments, it can resolve the conflicts with the law, and ethics, at least, it would, rule out, “passively doing nothing to offer the resuscitation measures.”

And so, this is how the Department of Health & Welfare, still passed this HOT potato to someone else, evading ITS, responsibilities, and, this IS the government branch that sets up all the rules for treatment measures, and, because it can’t handle this “debatable” and “ethical” issue, it’d, passed it, around, giving US, that run-around still, and how do we expect this god damn government that can’t even get all the needed vaccines (remember how we were taking the unwanted HANDOUTS from other countries, when the shipments were, late again, because the Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations, DELAYED its, response as the pandemic, started, what???  Three years ago was it???

So this is still, SHIT!

Leave a comment

Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Awareness, Euthanasia, Healthcare Problems, News Stories, Observations, Right to Die, STUCK in a Cookie Jar, The Right to Choose How One Will Die, Wake Up Calls, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , , , ,

April 27, 2023 · 5:45 am

The TMSC Protected Taiwan, But Taiwan Does NOT Protect TMSC

How Tsai and the DDP, still, SOLD this country’s “assets” out, for, SCRAPS, and this is still, SHIT!!!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Because of the global economic downturn, the first quarter of earnings of TMSC didn’t, live up to the expectations for the very first time.  Especially in March, it’d dropped 10.9-percent, at an annual rate of 15.4-percent, and it’s, a downward, slide.  The C.E.O., Liu of TMSC stated he can’t accept the restrictions of assistance of the Chip Act by the U.S., setting the limitations for TMSC, claimed that he needed to discuss it with the U.S. Business Department, then, he will, file for the applications.  Recently, the stock prices of TMSC here, dropped to below $500, and the total worth of the company lost a total of thirteen billion dollars N.T., causing the entire stock market here to slide down also.

Last year, due to the territorial politics, TMSC went to the U.S. to set up its, production plants, first, to reduce the risks, secondly, the U.S. offered great incentives to the company.  And yet, as TMSC put more funds in, the American government refused to increase the incentives, and stated that the company needed to offer up its specific operating procedures, that the company must share its extra earnings with the U.S. government, etc., etc., etc.  By this way, the U.S., had set the company up, while TMSC, got trapped, and is now, finding all of this, hard for it, to, swallow.

the manufacturing plant, being, built in, Arizona, was it??? Photo from online

What was ironic was, the Tsai government boasted that “the relations of Taiwan and U.S. is the best in forty years’ history”, but, the government had, handed TMSC on a silver platter to the, U.S., using the “great mountain that’s kept us safe” as a bargaining, chip.  And now, the time came, for our government to deal with the U.S., the Tsai government fell, silent, and handed the problems, back to TMSC to deal on its, own.  Comparing, Samsung isn’t that hotheaded toward the Chips Act, the South Korean government demanded to negotiate with the U.S. on this; and, in this visit to the U.S., the South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the execs of Samsung and SK group were companying.  Comparing the two, the Tsai government seemed, too, weakened.

To this, the “beliefs of TMSC being the bargaining chip” came out clearly.  The reality being, TMSC is, doing all it can, to protect this country, but the country doesn’t do it enough, justice by doing the same for it!

This is still, an ABUSER/ENABLER relationship that this DDP government led by Tsai had, gotten in, with the U.S. in the matter of, selling TMSC out, and now, every single high-tech trade secrets are in U.S.’s grasps, surely, the U.S. is going to, KICK this country to the C-U-R-B, because???  The U.S. had not been anything BUT, opportunistic, and, continuing in taking advantage of how Tsai and the DDP feel the desperate need, to SUCK up to it, and now, we will suffer, the CONSEQUENCES!

Leave a comment

Filed under Abuse, Abuse of Power, Fate, Government, Policies, & Politics, Observations, Perspectives, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , ,

April 27, 2023 · 3:35 am

The Plastic Flowers that Withered Away

Just because they’re made of plastic, that does NOT mean that they don’t have, “life”…translated…

1.

From my friend, I’d learned, that not far from where I live, there’s, a wholesales place for the vases, the gardening tools, and the artificial flowers.

I’d selected a sunny weekend morn, come to this larger than what I’d imagined, “Super Floral Market”.

The huge warehouse style wooden structure of the building, with the high ceiling, and the wooden shelves that greeted me as I walked in, had a ton of gardening supplies and horticultural products, in the mildly dimmed lighting, it’d felt, like the storage room of Hogwarts from Harry Potter.

Maybe because it was a morning on the weekends, there’s not that many shoppers.

And, while I was looking around in the artificial flowers section, there was another customer there, she looked, quite young, with a backpack on her back, hair tied back to a ponytail, like me, she was, concentrated, on making her selections.

What’s weird was, she’d stayed put in front of one species of artificial flower, lifted up the stems to look for a long, long, long time.  Then, putting it down, carefully, selected another stem, out from, another container, looked at it, examined it, carefully, then, put it back down, again.

She’d repeated this movement several, times on end.  In the end, I’d, passed her by, with my own, selections, and wondered to myself: doesn’t she know, that all the plastic flowers are, exactly, the, same?

like the real flowers that would, wither, away! Photo from online

2.

Since I’d started making the floral arrangements using the artificial flowers, I’d come to know, that there were, so many, restrictions and limitations to the use of, artificial flowers in flora arrangements.

For instance, the offerings on the shrines needed to be, fresh flowers. While, in the especially humid environment like Taiwan, the dried flowers are easily, molded or become, taken over by the insects.

And, due to the International Writer Convention in Idaho I attended back in 2016, I had the opportunity to visit the major cities of the U.S.  One of the itinerary was visiting the local cemetery in New Orleans.

how everything eventually loses its, colors over time…photo from online

What’s unique of this, collective burial, was the structured set up of the stone coffins, with the orderliness about it, and, there were the marble sculptures of fairies, or angels, to add more poeticism to this, southern-style cemetery.

While I, at a certain tombstone, saw a bundle of plastic flower with the colors faded from the exposures to the sun and the rain.

Is this, unique, to the city of New Orleans in funeral?  Using the plastic flowers to commemorate the, dead.  I’d started, questioning.

It’s quite rare, to see, the plastic flowers that’s, grown old, and torn apart, faded out in color, by the rain, the wind, and the, sun!

As I left the cemetery, and, set foot back on the, tour bus again, I’d, thought to myself: turns out, the plastic flowers are, living too.

Just because something is made up of plastic, does NOT mean that it does NOT have spirit, everything in this world has a spirit, the rocks, and other, nonliving things too, and, this is what this writer came to understand, on his trip, to the cemetery in, New Orleans on one of his visits to the U.S.

Leave a comment

Filed under Awareness, Life, Observations, On Death & Dying, Perspectives, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, the Finality of Life

Tagged as

April 26, 2023 · 2:19 am

Independent as We Age

The right attitude, that we should keep, in observing someone else, and reflecting over the things in our own, lives…translated…

I was conversing with my neighbor opposite of me, saw our upstairs neighbor, Mei-Feng riding her bicycle out to work, looking at her, getting farther, farther, and farther away, my neighbor told me, “didn’t Mei-Feng say her son is a manager of a bank, making $100,000N.T. a month, so, why is she still working?  Cleaning the houses, working her hands to the bones?”, then, the neighbor smacked her lips, seemingly doubting, that our neighbor’s son’s working as a bank manager was, untrue.  Then, she’d, shifted the subject to her own home, two daughters, one works in a public agency, the other, a university professor, “they’re amazing, all very, good”, my neighbor claimed.

And, although I’d not responded to her comment on Mei-Feng, but I’d, started that inner dialogue of disagreeing with her.  There were, at least, TWO things she may be mistaken on: first, based off of her logic, if the children are paid a high wage, then, the parents can rely on their offspring, and not work anymore, that they should retire early, and start living their retirement.  Secondly, when the son is paid so high, and he’d still allowed his mother to work her hands to the bones, that does, NOT fit the values of filial piety at all.

Mei-Feng’s son works in a bank sure, not long ago, she’d, handed me her son’s, business card, so I can give him a call if and when I need to.  Her husband doesn’t take care of the family, for years on end, she’d raised her own three sons, by working as a janitor; sometimes, she’d shared with me happily, that the younger people where she’d worked, would give her things, treat her to beverages, calling her aunty, she was pleased, and called the ladies her good girls.

illustration from UDN.com

She’d not complained about her current line of work, she’s, enjoying herself in working.  She’d told, that in her work, she got to talk with the younger generations, staying, connected with the society, she does NOT want to retire yet.  And, although her son is highly paid, she’d wanted to become, self-reliant, to NOT rely on her son, to provide for her.

And, her beliefs were correct, there’s enormous pressures in the current world, it’s difficult for any of us to survive, even  in the closely related family dynamics, nobody wants to, rely on, anyone.

And, I was reminded how when in the off-seasons, the manager wanted a coworker to take the unpaid leaves, she was upset.  And the manager mocked her, “didn’t she say, that her husband makes million dollars per year?  Why would she mind, if I put her on unpaid, leave?”, I found the words to be, ignorant, when the husbands can make a lot of money, that’s on the husbands, as wives, women still needed to become, economically, independent.  So, I’d often told my two daughters, even if they are to marry in their futures, they need to keep their economic independence still, that way, they will have their, dignities.  And, for me, I would want to continue work as I grow older, and, I plan to retire AFTER I’m sixty-five, and, if my physical health allows, I want to part-time, to NOT rely on my children, to NOT burden them.

As for if others are as they’d told, paid really well, feeling skeptical about it, I don’t believe it’s necessary that we act like that, we should be glad, that, they have everything that they need.  No matter how old, not relying on anyone, independent, and being a self-made person, that’s what fits us, best!

And so, this is the values: not relying on anyone when we are older, continue to work, to contribute to the societies we’re, living in, not using that sour grapes mindset because someone seems to have it better than we do.

3 Comments

Filed under Attitude, Life, Observations, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Retirement, Translated Work, White Picket Fence

Tagged as , ,