Japanese cuisine restaurant - 三味食堂

There is a very famous Japanese cuisine restaurant in Taipei. Its name is 三味食堂. What makes this eatery stand out from the crowd is its food portion is very large. A Nigiri Sushi(握壽司) can be made like a spoon. A Sashimi is three times than other Japanese cuisine restaurants’ food. The most important thing is that price is cheaper than other Japanese cuisine restaurants. Usually the restaurant has not yet begun operating, the queue out of the restaurant extended all the way to the street corner. The restaurant's business is grea so that do not accept the appointment. I have been there twice, and I feel very good. I would like to share this Japanese cuisine restaurant for you. Maybe we can go together one day.

Have men in Taiwan changed in the past 20 years?

In Chinese trandition, the notion that men are breadwinners, and women are housekeepers is very common. People think that men who work to make money is very hard, and they should not to share the housework. As time passed, more and more women went to work. They are very hard, too. The past 20 years, the mindset of the people has been changed. People think that the role of the husband is changing dramatically. The modern men are not shy to do the work women do and in fact these days men can cook and clean as well as any woman can. There is no line of demarcation anymore between a man's work and a woman's work any more. A man would share the housework with his wife. Doing housework will add to his relationship with his wife and family.

Tung Blossom Festival

This year, we took a little trip to join the Tung Blossom Festival. From the website, we know that the Tung tree has very different stages in its appearance throughout the four seasons. Around April or May the flowers will blossom, and are a beautiful snow white; in summer, green leaves sprout from the branches; in autumn all the leaves turn yellow and blow away with the wind; and during the winter tung tree looks withered and dead.

One day, we went to Chengtian Buddhist Temple. After we parked our car, we took a walk on hiking trails into the mountains. So many Tung Blossoms were on the trees. After wind blew, the white blossoms have dropped. Although we sweated, but to see such a beautiful flower make me feel everything is worth.

Referencing:
http://tung.hakka.gov.tw/0000024/article-0000024

Little Rose

On a sunny Sunday, we went out to the Bay to Neiwan（內灣）and Miaoli（苗栗）. Neiwan（內灣） is a facinating place locatedat Hsinchu county（新竹縣）. Because of the great weather, many visitors went to Neiwan. There were so many cars there so that we almost can not find a parking space. When we parked our car and walked through the street, we saw a cute little girl wearing a Mickey Mouse ears headband. Her name is Rose (Ciao-Ciao 喬喬). Her smile is so warm that people can feel happy. I took some pictures of her, but I didn’t took a picture with her. What a pity!

Paper Dictionary or Electronic Dictionary

A dictionary is an appropriate tool for every student. There is a big argument on the use of either paper dictionaries or electronic ones. Each of the two types serves the different functions to help us learning English. A electronic dictionary is easier to use than the paper one. It is also slim and light. But, it’s more expensive. On the other hand, we can refer to a paper dictionarywhen example sentences are needed and for similar words. Especially when we use an English-English dictionary, we can get many examples. If we can’t figure out how to pronounce a particular vocabulary from a paper dictionary, we can use an electronic dictionary for the proper pronunciation. If we can combined with two good learning tools, we’ll be able to learn English very well.

The effects of CSBI

        What is reading? Analyzing and translating the paragraphs into Chinese is reading. Just guessing the meaning of the paragraphs is also reading. That is because we focus on different targets. Most of us always think that we should know the meaning of every word, and we can translate the paragraphs. In fact, we don’t need to know the meaning of every word. 

Gregory Liu taught us the reading skills in the past year. When we get an article, we should see the picture or the introduction first. We can know the background by our self. Then, just reading! We don’t need know every word, but we have better to mark the words we don’t understand. After that, we guess! We can guess the meaning of a word from its context. 

After Gregory Liu taught us the reading skills, I learned to use the method. Now, I can use context clues to guess the meaning. Although I don’t know every word, I am not afraid anymore.

How does reading strategy instruction influence my attitudes towards reading? Reading strategies are both important and helpful to enhance our comprehension. Recent studies have validated that appropriately implementing reading strategies with cooperative learning might enhance learners’ reading comprehension and form favorable attitudes toward reading.

I agree with “changes of students’ attitudes toward reading” and “use context clues” before reading. I think this is the best way I got. Now, I get fun from reading, then I will read more and more.

Reflections of viewing The Avengers

I can say that I waited a long time for this movie. It is the most impressive superhero film ever produced.

The basics of the story are that the evil Asgardian Loki has arrived on Earth, intent on conquering humanity. Facing an unprecedented threat, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury puts the long-gestating Avengers Initiative into action, gathering together the likes of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk to defend the planet. Of course, they are fighting in the beginning. Then, they learn to co-work.  

Although the film is almost 2.5 hours, I really enjoyed every moment of the movie and I recommend you to watch it in the movies. I look forward to watching it again on DVD or on TV.

A birthday party

We held a birthday party on May 12th. That was a grand party in our school. We had nine groups that prepared different English shows for the party. No unexpected, we got the No.1. Everyone made a self-introduction before the show. That was a special experience. We could practice our English Speaking. There were pizzas and many sodas. After the birthday party, we took many pictures near our classroom. Everyone had a great time on that day. I hoped that we will another party in the future.

The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival that is one of the three major Chinese holidays is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Rice Dumplings and Dragon Boat racing has become an important activity to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat racing! Dragon boats are long canoes that are painted in bright colors – to look like dragons - and feature a dragon’s head at the bow and a dragon’s curved tail at the stern. The winner of the Dragon Boat racing is the first team to grab a flag hung at the end of the course. I like the Rice Dumplings made by my grandmother. Every Dragon Boat Festival, we do the Rice Dumplings together. That is a very good memory.

Flying Lanterns

Flying Lanterns, also known as Sky Lanterns, is a special, fa special mous and popular activity in Taiwan. It has already been held for many years. It was held in every Chinese New Year. Except Taiwanese, it also attracted a lot of foreigners. Many tourists can fly the sky lanterns in Taipei County during the Chinese New Year.

All people can write down their wishes on the Flying Lanterns. There are many kinds of color of the Flying Lanterns we can choose. The different colors represent different wishes. People can choose the color to write their wishes.

I have already joined this activity on Lantern Festival. If you have never joined this special activity, I recommend you to try it in next Chinese New Year.

Earthquake

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake shook Taiwan yesterday. The epicenter was located in HsinChu. Recently, there were many earthquakes in Taiwan. That is a very bad news. People didn’t forget the 921 Earthquake that was a terrible experience so that people are very afraid of earthquakes. Most people would prepare a package to flee when the earthquake happened. Earthquake fled package would contain the documents, money, food, some essential tools. It can help us to save our life outside. We may be unable to avoid natural disasters, but we should be careful not to become the culprit of damage to the environment. We have only one planet. If it is destroyed, we have no place to live.

New Communication

Communication has evolved greatly since the beginning. Now, people are able to communicate faster and easier than before. People can communicate by using Internet. Facebook is a website that you can set up an account and communicate with others on it.

After you setting up your Facebook account, you can add friends and fill out your personal information. Then, you can upload your pictures and messages, even your diary. More and more people have the Smart phone, you can notice the messages from Facebook anytime.

There are also many games on Facebook, they attract many people to play them. Facebook becomes a new famous communication website. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload photos, post links and videos, and know more about the people they meet.

Marriage

Some people say that marriage is a gamble; some say that is a commitment. For me, I think it is a promise. Marriage does not depend on whether you have good times or bad times together.

In the future, I will do my best in my marriage. I maybe feel depressed and discouraged on marriage, but I will make a happy marriage by doing my best. To select a good husband is important. I will choose my husband based not only on appearance but also on character. I will tolerate her weaknesses and appreciate her strength. I will show more love for him than he shows for me. Marriage may be is a gamble, but we still have a good dream.

The transportation systems of Taiwan

The transportation systems of Taiwan have changed people’s life. The rapid development of mass transportation has gradually shortened the distance between the city and the countryside. People can travel across the cities all in one day. Except train, we can travel across the cities all in one day by high-speed rail. With high-speed rail, we can travel from northern Taiwan to southern Taiwan and back in half a day.

With the full implementation of the high-speed rail, it is predicted that Taoyuan and Hsinchu can provide housing alternatives for people employed in Taipei. It is called "One-day Living Circle". People who can’t buy a house in Taipei can buy a house in these places. It is another good choice to have a cheaper house. The transportation systems of Taiwan make our life more convenient.

Online Shopping Changes Our Life

      In recent years, with the progress of science and technology, the development of Internet changes our shopping habits. Online shopping becomes more and more common. The way of trade has changed from face to face transactions to online shopping. Traditional shopping is that people buy products in real stores. Online shopping is through the Internet. They both serve transactions, but they are very different. Online shopping attracts people because it has many advantages.

       Because of busy working, more and more people don’t have enough free time to buy products in the real stores. The first advantage of online shopping is convenience. The busy people can buy anything at home. They just only need to click the mouse, spend several minutes and then finish the transactions.

Second advantage of online shopping is gaining information of the products very easily and fast. Through Internet, people can search the information of the products. They can compare different products on the same time. Usually, we can search cheaper products online.

The last advantage of online shopping is receiving the product. Online shopping products are sent through door to door delivery. All we need to do is just surf on the Internet, click all the products that you want and pay money with your bank account or credit card. Then, the products will be sent through door to door delivery. More and more sellers provide 24 hours of arrival promise. It’s very convenient. 

Online shopping changes our life. We can buy anything anytime at home online. Making good use of online shopping that can make our lives more convenient and easier.

Time Managing

        Everyone in the world has twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. We can spend time depend on our choices freely. Most of us are very busy everyday, because there are many works that we have to do. If we want to spend time very efficiently, we have to find a way to finish all our responsibilities in managing our time and schedule. There are some useful ways that we can try to manage our time and schedule below.

First of all, know your prime time and set daily goals. Some people like to work in the early morning and some like to work at night. To find what time you can work efficiently. We should always start important port of work at this time. We can write down the goals, and just make sure we finish them on time.

Second, be organized. We can use calendars to help us to prepare a list of to do things for each day or week. When we manage the works, we can finish them in a higher quality.

The last, use the 80-20 rule. Find which activities make up our most productive 20%. Use our 80% of the time to do the most 20% important things in one day. That will make us more efficiently.

        In conclusion, we can enhance productivity and manage time effectively by using the above strategies for time management. We can manage our time and have enough time!