The beauty of Indiana

There was one day I was driving my classmates home but got lost in the middle of nowhere close to Greenwood, Indianapolis. After a while, the beautiful scenery suddenly appeared in front of me. A quiet, peaceful and relaxing ground with huge flat farm and forest. The aroma of the earth awoke me. I was enjoying the lost in the countryside.

Even though Indianapolis is a city, if it goes to the countryside, that will be a different kind of beauty. The sunshine of the afternoon makes the breeze of Indiana warm. Now I realize what is the real flat and huge ground after I saw the scenery of those great farms.

A barn with a red root is standing under the sunshine in the countryside of Indianapolis, close to the Greenwood. Crops are still underground or haven't been grown yet. But those Hoosiers' magnificent yard are already covered by green in the blue sky.

The cities I have been to or am going to

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Get Fratty for the Beer Pong

2 nights getting fratty at Bulter University, awesome!




The "Beer Pong" game is the game while you're drinking. And It is one of the fastest way to get drunk, I bet.

The game is for 2 players or 4 players by 2 teams. Each team take turns to throw the Ping Pong ball into one of the cups with beer in the opposite sides. If the ball get in one of the cup, the opposite team have to drink it. The first team who loses the cup the fastest is the loser. And then they have to drink all of the opposing cups of
beer.



"Get Fratty?"
well, it's another slang here but only for young people.
It means get crazy, get drunk, or have fun... It means pretty much

You ready to get fratty?

Fender Bender - What a bummer.

Fender is actually the Bumper of the car, the front part that will resolve impact. And about Bender, just means the action of bending of something. So, Fender Bender is just what I got on the Pennsylvania Rd, at 41 St.

Here's what happened.

I was about to go out from the back yard of home, but the street in front, which is Pennsylvania Road, were packed by many cars, so I couldn't really see the coming cars from my left hand side. I moved the card slightly forward, then I accidentally bumped into another car, which drove by a lady. My bumper, which is also named fender but for old usage, was tore off by half of it.

The lady was really nice and kind, she kept saying "don't worry" to me, said the insurance companies would take care of the rest. The police officer came and took some note.

It was a bummer, which means the trivial annoying or sad things. Fortunately, we had insurances, and nobody got hurts, so I can still keep on my happy internship in Indianapolis.

What a bummered Fender Bender.

Indianapolis, the Crossroad of American

The Monument Circle stands in the middle of the Indianapolis for those who lost their lives for the freedom of this land. It is also the center of the city, surrounding by several great corporations like WellPoint and Eli Lily.



The Monument Circle stands in the middle of the Indianapolis for those who lost their lives for the freedom of this land. It is also the center of the city, surrounding by several great corporations like WellPoint.


The view from the top floor of City Hall of Indianapolis.

In the downtown area, there are several skyscrapers, of course they are not as high as the buildings in Chicago or New York. To be honest, it is not a big city comparing to Taipei, the place I live in Taiwan. To other small towns in Indiana or other state, it is a good place though.



Buildings here are beautiful. The picture above is the United States Court, with a kind of 19 century style, built with Lime stone, which is the high quality stone from Indiana.


The Road Sign in the downtown of Indianapolis.

The pedestrian signs with LED dynamic lights may show how many seconds are there for pedestrians. I personally prefer the pedestrian signs in Taiwan, a little animated green man walking in the light, cute!





Well, yes. This is the downtown of Indianapolis. Not really busy, isn't it? It is one of the feature of the Indianapolis. The life style here is quite slow, relaxing and comfortable. Cars will always give the way to the pedestrians first, and people will greet to you if they make eye contacts with you. They say these only happens in Indiana, or other countryside in the US. In Chicago and New York City, it will be quite different.



The East side view from the City Country Hall. Besides of the downtown, it looks like that. Flat, low buildings and residential areas. Calm and peace.

The Pacers

It's not just a game, it's a show.
It's really Amazing.



Although the Pacers doesn't do very well this year, the game took place on this Wednesday was still awesome. What's more, we got the ticket for free! And it's not just a $10 seat, it's actually a $77 seat. WOW. Very close to the field. Thanks for Delavan, Piyamas's husband, who works for Simon Group, the partial owner of the Pacers! What a mess, I know.



The entertainments between each section were attractive and interesting. Sometimes we yelled for the distraction for Nicks, hoping they would not play well.

Taiwanese Flavor in Indy

Taiwan Tea House is the first and the only Taiwanese restaurant in Indianapolis. This restaurant has just been run for 2 months, owned by a Taiwanese guy, who has studied and worked for 8 years at Indianapolis. They serve many common and popular Taiwanese local food, and they are just exact the same flavor than the food in Taiwan.


Taiwanese Meat Ball, chewing and yummy.


The traditional Taiwanese fried rice.


All kinds of Taiwanese dishes served in the Taiwan Tea House.

Here's the contact information of Taiwan Tea house:
Address: 4040 East 82nd St., Suite C-3, Indianapolis IN 46250.
TEL: 317-598-9733

Coach Collections

The collections of luxury, also means an opportunity of gaining profits.
These bags which Charlotte bought in the Eldinberg Outlet are fancy and gorgeous.


Coach Collections, originally uploaded by Jonoson.

Jonoson in Coach, originally uploaded by Jonoson.

The combination of Coach and Jonoson is really a fantasy.

May I have your license please?

"You're speeding, sir. My speedometer showed that you got 49 miles per hours", said the police officer after he asked us to pull over on Deliware Rd.

To be honest, we were speeding but not very fast passing 30th to 35th streets and there was a police car waiting on one of the street.

He alarmed several times, then we suddenly realized that he was alarming at us and asked us to pull over.

A black police officer came, told us we were speeding and asked for Jason's license.

"We just arrived here", said Jason with his pretended broken English.

He got off the car and took out his student ID card to the cop.

"No no no, I don't want this", said the cop, "I need your license."

Several minutes passed, the cop walked back to our car from his own, said "I will give you a break, but if you speed next time, you can't be here, okay?"

After that, it was the first time I saw Jason driving so gentle and being restrict to the speed limit.

No ticket at all.

You Freakin' for a Cheap'n?

Cheap'n doesn't mean "cheap" or "inexpensive" here.
It means "happy" or "enjoyment".
If a person say "Are you cheap for that?", he actually means "Are you enjoying it?"

You dig it?


That's me in the Wal-Mart, freaking for a cheapin.

Charlotte's Birthday Party with Beef Noodle Soup

Happy birthday~

I cooked the Beef Noodle Soup for every members in my home stay and all the members in the car pool.

My home-stay parents prepared steak beef for me. I boiled the beef a little, then I fried them with sliced onions, diced garlic, gingers, tomato, and a few spring onions. After that, I poured the half fried beef with all the ingredients back to the pot with the Stewing Spice Package which I brought from Taiwan and poured some wine for cooking. I boiled them by gentle fire for about half an hour, then poured some "Soy Sauce", which was prepared by my home-stay parents. ( I believed they got everything I need, instead of stowing spice. ) Later, with boiled needles, a pot of perfect beef noodle soup were just ready. Delicious.



It's interesting because they don't have big bowl for needle soup that we usually have in Taiwan. So we were served by that kinds of dishes. They said the soup are served by that.


Also I fried some cabbage, American Cabbage. It tasted a little hard and crispier than Taiwanese cabbage.


Could that be the present for Charlotte?

Oh, we got a cake for Charlotte. April 7th is her birthday.

Children Musuem

$13.5 for each person is not quite cheap, but for a child, I will probably say, it worths it.





It's large to finish it by one day if you want to play thoroughly.



When I got on the real-size train, I could feel the shaking and sound of the train, as well as the passing scenery images on the windows. It made me feel like being in a real train. Fabulous!

Deliney is a cute girl, who is always so energetic and smart. She learned language very fast, especially curse words in Chinese, like "Pig head".



So far, the children is much more fun comparing to the museum in Taiwan. They really made a lot of interesting game rooms for children, and children actually enjoy the game and learn!

Lucky Cookie

Charlotte got her lucky cookie in Keystone mall. The lucky numbers for her are just shown on the lucky cookie paper.



Go get a lottery ticket with all the numbers on it!

Telemarketing @ Silouan Green

Silouan Green is a person, is also the name of the company which I work for as an intern in Indianapolis.

Silouan is a great guy. After surviving from air crash several years ago, he wrote a book about appreciating life and composed several songs by himself.

Silouan Green, the company, was established 7 years ago by Silouan, providing designing service including business card, web development as well as TV spot.

My supervisor, Matt Rogue, asked me to do telemarketing. I've called more than 200 calls for potential customers about the services we provide. In 40% to 50% of the calls I just gave voice mail and there are 10% of those I pretended to be one of their friend and found a solution for them. There are only 10 or so people really listened what I said and responsed. The rest of the calls were rejected by simply "not interested in" and being hang up.



There was one guy even telling me that he couldn't understand me because my broken English made it more difficult.

It was boring but challenging. I believe I will learn a lot from this job.