Ashita no kioku/ The Memories of Tomorrow

Masayuki Saeki is a famous supervisor in an advertisement company. He is hardworking and respected by his officers and co-workers. He can devote himself in his work with the support of his wife, Emiko will be married very soon with an unborn baby. Happiness seems surrounding him all around. Until one day, due to the long headache, he goes to the doctor, and he amazingly knows that his health has faded away gradually. He can't not remember his co-workers, the street he passes everyday. He can't even remember the meeting time that which was decided one minute ago.

The theme of the book is describing a man who is disabled by Alzheimer's Disease and the interaction between he and his co-workers, friends and family members. In the movie, the memory of Saeki and Emiko in the youth appears again and again. In the novel, detailed information of Alzheimer is described like becoming forgetful, but the disease can't be cured. When a man suffers Alzheimer, he can't live over five to seven years.

When Saeki is told by his doctor, he can't believe the serious consequence. In the movie, Saeki even wants to jump out of the hospital building to end his life, but the doctor and Emiko succeed encourging him to face the reality. Emiko says "I will be with you forever." The words are not the love dialogue between elder couple. From the moment, the destiny of the couple is determined. They will walk together in the long life.

I'm wondering why the movie is so popular among the audience. The reason is that the plots in the movie may become reality among our life. Not only the patient of Alzhemier, the range can enlarge to all families which have elder people. In the seventies, the health problems will be serious. When our parents' health problem have been worse or they may even pass away very soon, how will we feel and what will we think. Will we regret that we haven't treated them well enpugh and how can we accompany them to the rest of their life. When the day come one day, how can we face it?

Joyeux Noel/ Merry Christmas

Joyeux Noel was a forgotten history in Christmas Eve in 1914. The authority of French even wanted to concel this thing until some missionaries spread this story gradually.










The director of this movie wanted to make a film about World War I. When he read "Battle of Flanders and Artois", he found a chapter named "Amazing Winter in 1914." In the winter, armies of German, Frence, and British had a ferious battle in the boundry of Frence. All of the three sides suffered great lost. On the battlefield, all soldiers seem to devote themselves for the battle, but actually they were pretty tired and exhausted with the coming of Christams.





At that time, a German tenor with his girlfriend coming to the frontline sang a touchful song "I'm dreaming of home" for all the soldiers. At this moment, not only German soldiers were touched but also the Frence and British soldiers. They all sang the same song and played instruments together. They shared their food and their missing of their family. Perhaps their language were different, but the enthusiasm and sincerity eased their distance and warmed their heart.

However, the reality couldn't be so perfect. After the touching Christmas Eve, the war continued for four years and the commanders were punished. However, the hope of enging war and sympathy of peace were revealed thoroughly in the Christmas Eve.

Joyeux Noel showed he value of peace. The director hoped that this movie not only inspired the people of the three countries, but also the everyone of the world. This forgotten history, the most warming, shortest and peaceful Christmas Eve.

In the groups of our daily life, not only the class or the club. All of us devoted ourselves to achieve the same goal and complete the same thing. However, as we know, it's impossible for everything to be done perfectly. Perhaps may occurred misunderstanding or some conflicts. At this time, we can see the originality of our behaviors is to achieve the same thing smoothly and completely. Only through the mutual understanding, mutual trust and mutual hope, we can receive the most precious accomplishment.

This is the song that they sang "I'm Dreaming of Home"

I hear the mountain birds

The sound of river singing

A soug I've often heard

It flows through me now

So clear and so loud

I stand where I am

And forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

It's carried in the air

The breeze of every morning

I see the land so fair

My heart opens wide

There's sadness inside

I stand where I am

And forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

This is no foreign sky

I see no foreign light

But far away am I

From some peaceful land

I'm longing to stand

A hand in my hand

forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

Diarios de motocicleta/ The Motorcycle Daries

I heard of this movie before, but I hadn't seen this film until my assignments of essay writing. This film describes the early life of Che Guevara,a famous revolutionist in Latin America.


The theme depicts a journey before he was engaged in revolution, which had a great impact on his view toward the life and become his originality of his idea to have revolution for people in Latin America. We can see in the beginning of the film: Che wanted to achieve a great goals with his innocent enthusiasm. However, he suffered several obstacles, like motorcycle breaking, unkind people, terrible weather, etc. He visited Machu Picchu to think about theie ancient civilization. Che stopped by a village of Leprosy and had sincere communication with the patients there. This movie is not only about the travel, but also an inspiration to encourage the youth to go outside and broadern their horizon. Che was born in a small happy family, he left the medical school to adventure with his closed friend Alberto Granado. If he chose to finish his diploma first, he might become restricted to the real life, and he would become a popular doctor on his hometown instead of a historical revolutionist. This movie encourages the youth to see more things. Even though the equipments is very old and insufficient, the main point is the passion to overcome every obstacles to deal with every unpredictable accident along the road. Looking the personality of Che, we can see that he has great enthusiasm, courage and perseverance. When he lived in the village of Leprosy, he swam across the river to the patients, this behavior can represent that he is willing to overcome any obstacles, and he certainly achieved revolutionary stories in his later life.


He was a nature rebeller to illness, bad weather and unsuitable principles, and we can see him involving serious problem. Of course, now in our country, we don't need to have revolution against the ruling authority because our laws have become sufficient and efficient enough to help us express our own opinions. However, although we can sastify our material life, the opress between hierarchy, disappearance of traditional culture and the carelessness of the social walfare. Many entrepreneurs may deliver touchful sppeches or publish their own opinions on the mass media, but there is few people like Che to get into the life of people in need. In the village of Leprosy, medical servants have to wear mittens, which may protect themselves but isolate from patients. Che refused to wear them and lived together with patients, which made them win the respect of the patients.

Now I am the member of Aborigional Service Club, we will go to aborigional tribes to do some a series of services and activities. From the past to now, I have seen many advertisements and programs saying that children in the mountains have little resources and need our help. However, at that time, like most people, I felt pity for them and donated a little money. Until now, I have known that only when I involve in their real life and lead the same life with them can I become a friend with them.

By arranging a large activitiy, this is the first time to design a large activity. I found it' s difficult to arrange every details pertty well. I also learned that if we want to take cart of others, we can't only have a kind heart, and we have to learn many kind of skills to help others.

In DFLL, I've seen that many classmates want to study abroad or take holiday working in other countries. Going to other developed countries can explore our view of gloalization but may not inspire our sympathetic emotion in our heart. I think I can also also learn something important in the aborigional tribes. The former will tell us how others live happily, while the later will tell us how we live happily.

Tunghai University

This is the last spot of my cultural journey in Taichung City, and I chose Tunghai University as my goal. Tunghai is not too far from my home , about fifteen minurtes by motorcycle. Tunghai is very attractive and charming to me. Perhaps Tunghai have not only the beautiful scenery but also the core value of te developmentof Taichung City: "Innovation."

For the one century, Christianity has played an important role and had tremendous and precious contribution to the education of China. The authority of Christinanity has established thirteen universities in Mainland. However, after the ruling of the communist, these educational institutions and systems were eliminated thoroughtly, and the education in China had paused for a very long time. In 1950, mant people who were passionately enthusiatic in education proposed a critical project to "The United Board Christian College in China, UBCCC (中國基督教大學聯合董事會). They hoped they could keep going on the spirit of educating Chimese young people and they want to establish a university which can succeed the educational affairs of Christianity in China and the great traditions of those thirteen universities were destroyed in China.

In 1952, one of the chief managers, Dr. Willian P. Fenn, came to Taiwan and discussed the establishment of a new Christian university with the authority of religion and education, and wanted to have their permission.

He thought that this university should not should not be any duplication of those thirteen in China. He said "it's a beginnign, and we will have the chance to establish a university in a new forms." The new forms mean the university should cultivate students with unique eyesight and the occupation to their whole life. It shouldn't be a factory of white-collar workers. Students should have their own awareness to their living surroungings, and avoid limiting their eyesights. This university is supposed to have the real practices of democratic conceptions of thoughts.

The circulation is not for special technical occupations and it can work on a wide range of knowledge, providing too limited sections.

There were simple but comfortable dormatories which contain five to six hundred students. All the teachers, students and workers had to live in the campus. All the staff must be full-time and believe in Christianity.

Tunghai University was permitted to set in 1953, and it was named after its position "the east of the ocean."

I parked my motorcycle outside the main gate and I walked in the campus. Walking on the road, the sunlight passed the gaps of the leaves and spread on the groung, which let me feel the connections to the nature.

There are many green trees and rivers beside the main road.

I heard that there was a Tunghai Lake in the campus, so I decided to take a look. I spent more than ten minutes to get there and expected the excellent scenery.

To my surprise, Tunghai Lake is under construction, The stones scattered on the ground. It seemed that it's not a suitable time for me to get there.

On the way to Yue-nong Rd. in the hot weather, I found a shop which sold the milk production of Tunghai University. There were shampoo, soaps and ice cream made from milk. I bought a box of milk. However, it doesn't taste any different from other place.

After passing a beautiful bridge, I lost my way.

The Luce Memorial Chapel is a Christian Chapel on the campus of Tunghai University. It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan with I. M. Pei and named in honor of Rev. Heny Luce, an American missionary in China and his father HenryLuce.

After a long walking, I rested in a coffee shop and enjoyed my delicious lunch.

A wide bounevard near the chapel.

It's an office of the school.

The Literate College in Tunghai.

The new library in Tunghai.

It's much smaller than in Chung-shing.

The forest in the back of the campus.

Tunghai University was very popular because it created many novel institutions and rules which had never been before. In the past time, Tunghai succeeded the tradition in the new land. It has to cultivtate a new body in the new spirit, so it needed many innovtaions to improve it. Taichung City is a new land, and anything in here may be not as stable as other cities. Therefore, what we need to improve ourselves is "innovation." Innovation symbolizes a unlimited possibility of the future.

I bought a historical guide book of the Tunghai University and it helped me a lot with this artical.