Author: foxsilong

I am passionate and enthusiastic, willing and hardworking. Once I set my mind on something, I will definitely give out everything I got. This is why I am standing in this country 6000 miles away from my homeland. Sometimes, however, I do beat myself up when I did not perform as well as I expected. When depression hits, I always tell myself, "Don't let today's grief become tomorrow's shadow." I'm a very honest person, but people often say I'm---brutally honest. My life is full of imagination and creativity. I love writing and paintings.

Augusta’s WGAC Radio: The Voice of the Garden City for Seventy Years

by foxsilong, posted in Diary

*Written on 5/4/2012*

This semester, spring 2012, I am in COMP 4950, also known as the Book Editing and Production course.
Dr. Van Tuyll, everyone admits, is the best instructor for this subject. When I signed up for this course, I was expecting to edit blocks of paragraphs, design layouts, and read like crazy. However, never would I have thought that the text we edit was going to be published into an actual book.
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

by foxsilong, posted in Diary, Short Story

*Written on 4/23/2012*

Never had I ever imagined that Cupid would also include me into his shooting range.

Like I mentioned, I was a Tom Boy. I acted like a boy; I dressed like a boy; I treated myself like a boy, and I even look like a boy: Short bold cut, tan skin, and extremely fit. Growing up, I hung out with male friends than female friends a whole lot more often. It’s still the same way nowadays; besides, what other girls enjoy riding bikes with bunch of stray dogs and roll around in the dirt? Even with such close distance hanging out with men, I didn’t even have the slightest idea about romantically dating a man until college.

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Somewhere, Anywhere, and Nowhere

by foxsilong, posted in Diary, Short Story

*Written on 4/16/2012*
I’m pretty sure at this point you guys know my experience with flying. If there are ranks in experience, I can say that I’m a senior flyer. My flying experience is heavy: Airlines from Delta, U.S. Air Ways, American, United, Continental, AirTran, to China Airline, All Nippon Airways, Eva, Melanesian Airline, and Korean Airline. I’ve been in 1 hour flights and 18 hour flights, small aircraft from CRJ to large Boeing 777, and all the cities I’ve been through including Tokyo, Taipei, Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Charlotte, Louisville, Atlanta, Huston Washington D.C., New York City, Rochester, Memphis, I mean, you name it, I’ve been it!
I started my first flight when I was 3, and second flight being 8, third flight being 12, and then after 14 through 20, which I am now, I fly internationally every year. After sophomore year in college, I started travel domestically.

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My diagnosis

by foxsilong, posted in Diary

11700840_10101388028676329_3066355778848949771_nWhen I was born, I had no visible deficiencies or any kind of life threatening diseases. I was, for all intents and purposes, a normal kid. A few years after I was born, my mother was pregnant with fraternal twins who later became my brothers.

Shortly after their birth, one of the twins began to exhibit weird behavior and was constantly crying in pain. It turned my brother David had diabetes, type 1. If it wasn’t for the keen eye of a nurse that had seen this behavior before, we might have lost him then because neither of my parent knew anything about type 1 diabetes. A year later my other Brother Joel developed the same disease.

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I Get Knocked Down, but I Get Up Again

by foxsilong, posted in Diary

*Written on 4/16/2012*

This title of the blog is the name of a song, and I’m sure you guys have heard of it. And oh yes, I have been knocked down flat o the floor. It’s been a while since I posted any blogs. I had been sick for a while, and later I got into some depression.

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National Health Insurance in Taiwan

by foxsilong, posted in Uncategorized

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National Healthcare in the U.S. has always been a heated debate nationwide. Despite countless reforms, the United States is still perceived as expensive and inaccessible to a lot of people; even those who are insured under the national healthcare face great limitations in their healthcare options.

Before Obamacare was officially implemented, I was a junior in college who constantly heard objections to any form of national healthcare from my peers. To me the question wasn’t “why should we have a national healthcare?” but more “why did it take so long for us to have a national healthcare?”

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SABR 2930: Model United Nations 2012 (Part 3)

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Even though we sounded a lot like rivals to each each other during class, when we arrived in Marriott Marquis in New York City, we were a big family. I was thrilled with how knowledgeable my professors and fellow classmates were in this field. We were able to travel together on flights, trains, buses as a single group. Together, we toured some of the most famous sites in the U.S. Moreover, we shared food, hotel rooms, televisions, and interests. The enthusiasm from both students and professors reminded me that I was not alone, and I could always get help and help others.

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SABR 2930: Model United Nations 2012 (Part 2)

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*Written in  4/19/2012*

As I returned from my trip, slowly unpacking my belongings, I was definitely fighting to keep my eyes opened. Before I fell into a deep sleep, I tried to recall all of the lessons from throughout the semester.  I hope that I will remember all of it, as detailed as I can. Let me take some time to reconcile all the hardship that we had to go through before the trip to NYC.

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