Keep Good Health

In order to keep good health, we have to pay attention to our eating and drinking. When we eat or drink something, we have to see whether it is clear or not. Eating unclean food may cause us to become ill. Don’t smoke and don’t drink too much. In addition, it is better to eat nutritious food, which can provide us more energy. Moreover, we had better be temperate in eating. Overeating does us harm instead of good. Last, pay more attention to how you feel rather than how you look. If you feel fit and healthy, you're on the right track

On Time

Nowadays, time is more important than ever. Everyone has his own tight schedule, so if you are late for appointment, you will bring a lot of trouble to others. However, if we cannot go the date or cannot go on time, we must inform others in advance. Being late or fail to an appointment will inconvenience others and is very impolite. Therefore, go to the appointment on time is a modern courtesy.

Said is Much Easier Than Down

Everyone has their own dreams. In fact, there are just few people who really receive their goals. As an old saying goes, "Said is much easier than done！". Sometimes, we tend to overrate ourselves and set up a too ambitious plan for ourselves. So, when we promise others, we had better have real understanding of our abilities and then act within the limit of our abilities. In my opinion, it is blight which causes you fail if you are just say it. Once you start doing what you want to do, you will succeed someday.

Public Transportation

Everybody knows that Taipei is a big city. There are lots of people and cars with buildings around the city. When it comes to communications, public transportation in Taipei is very prosperous. Those public transportations connect different communities into a big community like combining Taipei City, Taipei County, or others county to a big Taipei Area. What public transportations we can take on anywhere in Taipei are as follows. First is taxi, when walking on the street, you can see taxi frequently. Also we can call out the taxi to where you are to pick us up. However, it is the most expensive public transportation in Taipei. Second is bus, which in Taipei is convenient. Taipei’s buses are the most convenient and most numerous. Last is Taipei Mass Rapid Transit. MRT system is faster than taxi and buses, and it can load more people once. To sum up, take by public transportations is not only can save our money, but also can protect our environment to reduce the air pollution problems.

My Favorite Fruit

Since Taiwan is in the semi-tropical zone, it produces a variety of fruits, as like bananas, guavas, pears, watermelons, and apples. One of my favorite fruit is watermelon. It is green on the outside. The edible part is inside the watermelon and has a red pinkish color. Watermelon comes in many forms. You can buy seedless, baby, and regular watermelons at your local market. The watermelon is good in summer, especially iced. It is sweet and juicy, so it is very helpful to conquer the thirst. Besides, it is inexpensive, so that watermelon is one of my favorite fruit.

Instand Noodles

Instant noodles are dried or precooked noodles fused with oil, and often sold with a packet of flavoring. It’s very easy to cook, dried noodles are usually eaten after being cooked or soaked in boiling water for 2 to 5 minutes, while precooked noodles can be reheated, or eaten straight from the packet. However, instant noodles are often criticized as being unhealthy or junk food. When you cook the instant noodles, you could add some other things, such as eggs, vegetables, or anything you want into your dish. That will make the instant noodles healthier. All in all, instant noodles have artificial preservatives. Eat less will be better. None the best.

Chinese New Year & Christmas

The time of Chinese New Year count by lunar calendar on Dec.30th. The period of Chinese New Year is a week to a month. The time of Christmas is on Dec.25th, the period of Christmas is at least a week. During the Chinese New Year, people will gather together and do a lot of activities, as like at the Chinese New Year Eve that will eat orange, fish, dumpling, bamboo…etc. which food are symbol wealth and prosperities of our life. Besides, we will pray our ancestors or go to temple to pray the gods on these period days. At the Christmas, people will eat turkey which stuffing gravy, mashed photos, sweat photos, and peas inside. And they will go to church to sing the hymn. All in all, there are a lot of different ways to celebrate Chinese New Year & Christmas between Eastern & Western.

Global Warming

What lifestyle changes could you make to reduce your own carbon footprint?

According to the reporting that now the temperature of all over the world is higher approximate 2 or 3 degrees during this hundred years than before. How should we do to reduce our own carbon footprint? I have divided it into 2 parts.

First- At the office: (a) Don’t print it in order to save your paper. Before you want to print it out, just think it again that do you really need those hard copies, or can save it on computer instead. (b) Double side print, it also can save your paper. (c) Send the message to customers thru e-mail or SMS instead of fax machine.

Second-At your life: (a) follow the three RS: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We’ve heard it before, it seems like something from a kid’s sing a song, but sometimes we lose sight of just now how much we buy. Try buying less, and reusing and fixing things when you can instead is as easy as rolling the trash bin to the curb. (b) Pay attention to packaging: try to choose the goods that keep packaging to a minimum and take reusable bags to the grocery stone. (c) Take MRT or bus instead of drive a car when you go out.

To sum up, it’s a very important lesson that how to reduce our own carbon footprint not only at the office, but also at our lifer. There’s a earth we have, we must protect it by ourselves.

English Reading Class

During my English reading class, I learned a lot of reading strategies, as like using context clues, mind mapping, summarizing the gist…and so on. The most useful to me is using context clues which are words and phrases in a sentence that help me reason out of an unfamiliar word. Besides, I also obtain a lot from the cooperative learning during this class. I can bring up my ideas or questions directly with my group members, and then we can discuss and solve the problem together. However, the disadvantage of this cooperative learning is that most of members do not have enough time to gather to discussing. To sum up, I found that I have made great progress of my reading after learning reading strategy. It helps me to read in a very efficient way and to get the maximum benefic from the reading with minimum effort.

Stinky Tofu

Stinky Tofu, or Chou Dou Fu, is a form of fermented tofu that has a strong odor. Its smell has been described as "baby poo," "hellacious" and "sharply foul". Stinky tofu is tofu that stinks and is a popular dish in Taiwan. It is made by marinating fresh tofu in brine produced by fermented ingredients, e.g., dried shrimp, Chinese herbs, or bamboo shoots. Stinky tofu is a very popular snack in East and Southeast Asia where it is easily found with no place to hide at night markets or roadside stands. Try it! You will never forget its special smell.

Morning People / Night People

Each person has his or her own circadian rhythm. Some individuals are morning people while others are night people. There are quite a few differences between morning people and night people. One difference is the sleeping time. Moring people follow the maxim of “early to bed, early to rise,” and turn in by 9:00 pm. Night people only get five or six hours of sleep a day. A second difference is the brains excitable time. Morning people's brains were most excitable at 9 a.m. This slowly decreased through the day. In contrast, for night people, whose brains were most excitable at 9 p.m. For example, morning people are ready to face the day while having a cup of coffee at the breakfast table. However, night people are often tired and cranky at the breakfast table, they feel that they function better at night and are often very productive during the evening hours. All in all, though there are differences between the morning people and the night people, we understand that sufficient sleep is very important no matter which kinds of people you are.

Tell the Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything, says “Mark Twain”. Telling the truth is a very important trait, and we should teach our children to tell the truth all the time. They can avoid misunderstandings and complications later in life if they are taught that telling the truth is always the best way to deal with situations. Truth is a virtue. When people avoid being truthful, it can lead to numerous other lies and complication.