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Learning different languages is always interesting to me. I’ve learnt in total four languages so far including my native languages Chinese, Taiwanese, and English and Japanese. As a Taiwanese we’re asked to learn English when we’re elementary students. It’s been a major part of our compulsory education in Taiwan. And I think it’s the same case in most of the countries because English is an universal language. However, I started seriously learning English when I just graduated from college since by the time I finally realized how important it is. Many jobs require us to be able to speak English fluently, and if we don’t have such skill, then there would be simply a limitation on finding a job or a difficulty on when we want to get a promotion from work. Which equals to say no to piles of money if we don’t face this fact(English skill is necessary). Moreover , I was also fond of watching movies, series and talkshows from western countries, and sometimes, I wouldn’t understand what they were talking about if there was no Chinese subtitles. And lastly, I wanted to make friends with different backgrounds in terms of culture, nationality. If I’m capable of communicating with people all over the world using an universal language, at least language wouldn’t be a major stone in my way to travel around the world and make friends. All reasons came together which made me decided to learn English with my strong will and full concentration. As I’ve already spent many years on learning English(now I’m 30), which surprisingly comes with some advantages I didn’t expect in the first place—We can always absorb the first hand information, and by using different language instead of our native language, we’re more likely to be logical instead of being emotional. So I’m still learning English pretty much everyday, and I really enjoy it! Hopefully people who find it difficult can find their own reasons and motivations on learning languages and surely they will enjoy it too!

January 13, 2021

I start off my day normally by having an English speaking lessons at 11 in the morning for nearly an hour with my friend who is a Filipino/ professional online teacher. And he currently lives in Philippine. We share the same time zone so there’s no major difference in our daily schedule. Since I’m an entrepreneur running my own company so that I can have certain control of my daily schedule, so as my online teacher whose main job is not a typical 9-5 in which he has certain freedom to arrange his daily schedule as well. During the lessons we both tend to talk about what interesting things happened in the day before. And then we’d either find one online news/article to have a discussion or he’d correct my English dairy if we don’t have too much to talk about. After the lessons I’d start my English learning for around 1.5 hours by reading an article on Economist and watch 1-2 videos from TED. And then I’d start writing something about my random thought or dairy in English with my computer. Normally it would be almost 13:30 by finishing things I mentioned above. And then I’d start working by checking my to-do-list and dive into it for the next 8 hours. In which there are many phone calls, meetings and boring tasks in it so I’m not gonna describe them one by one. When it comes to around 18:00, I’d start having my first meal in the day. I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for a while, so that’s why I’d wait it so long to have the first meal. I tend to eat healthy during the week days and just be relaxed on weekends. After I finish that meal, I’d finish a day by going to the gym with my buddy James who used to be a personal trainer. And recently he has planned to attend a men’s physique contest in the 3rd quarter of 2021 so he has this strict and tight training and eating schedule for it. And I’d just follow whatever he does to keep it up. This’s a part where I love the most because I consider working out is a good way to release my pressure from work.

January 12, 2021

I come from a single parent family. There’re 4 members in my family including my parents, older brother, and me. My parent divorced since when I was a little child with pretty much no awareness, I mean I don’t even recall they were being together at all. And my mother raised me by her own ever since. I remember she used to work a lot to pay all the bills such as our living costs and my tuition fee, but still during the weekend she’d take me to the theater to watch movies because she was kind of a movie buff. We lived in my grandparents’ house, I remember my grandfather used to hate me a little bit because I was not a good kid. I didn’t listen to them, I did whatever I want, and I didn’t share food. On the other hand my cousins were quite an opposite of me, they were cute, innocent, and they listened to them. As for my grandmother, she treated me better, she would tolerate my then-behaviors more, even though she also liked my cousins more, but I don’t blame her. I only met my brother once in six months during my childhood for around 10 consecutive year, because he lived with my father, whom my mother did not like, which was the reason why I didn’t catch my brother quite a lot. One of the bad sides we must face when our parents get divorced. And my brother is 7 years older than me, so he used to think that I was childish, we weren’t on the same page due to the huge gap in our ages. Things became better when I turned 23 when I started my mandatory military service for my country, I remember he came to the train station where we were supposed to be sent to the military to pep me up. So during my childhood I was more closed with my cousins, with whom we used to play around together, I remember we’d play LEGO, Nintendo, and basketball. By saying cousins, I mean my younger male cousin. We used to hate our little female cousin because she was a girl, and we were boys, that is what children do, there was no logical reason we did that.

January 11, 2021

Merry Christmas Have had never been alone during the Christmas since I could remember. I was either spent time with my girlfriend or with my family.

Though it kinda gives me an opportunity to observe people walking around on the street, holding someone’s hand, looked like they were really happy. I was sitting there, and every once in a while I could notice a couple nearby exchanging their gifts and cards. They were reading the card with a smile on their faces, surprised by the gifts prepared by their lovers. All of a sudden I felt really great, I was really happy for them. It might be one of the best Christmas I have had in my life.

Merry Christmas:)

December 24, 2018

Merry Christmas Have had never been alone during the Christmas since I could remember. I was either spent time with my girlfriend or with my family.

Well, it's different tonight, though it kinda gives me an opportunity to observe people walking around on the street, holding someone’s hand, looked like they were really happy.

I was sitting there, and every once in a while I could notice a couple nearby exchanging their gifts and cards, they were reading the cards with a smile on their faces, surprised by the gifts prepared by their lovers. And All of a sudden I felt great, I was really happy for them. It might be one of the best Christmas I have had in my life.

Merry Christmas:)

December 24, 2018

Movie Venom This is not a typical Marvel character, instead, it's more like Deadpool kind of antihero. Venom is like a kind of alien that come from outer space, so basically there are more than one Venom existing, sounds like a Kryptonian who is Superman on earth, right?

They are brought to the earth by a team of scientists who want to learn from them how to survive in the space and if human can do the same if we became symbiotic with Venom. And after a series of failures on immoral, illigal human testing, Eddie Brock as a reporter played by Tom Hardy sneaks in the laboratory for investigating crimes accidentally gets attacked by Venom, luckily he doesn't die, instead, he becomes symbiotic with it. So there it is, a born of superhero!

As a whole, I liked it. It's funny, thrilling, and unique. Unlike those common MCU Marvel movies that we have been binge-watching. In fact, I do think that it doesn't need to depend on those MCU hero due to its special personality and power, which set Venom apart.

Apart from its rebel, bad-ass personality, Venom gets this strange ability and appearance from which it can transform its body into different shapes like ejecting bullets from everywhere of its body, transforming its hands into axes as weapons..etc. In return, it needs to eat alive creatures to..according to the statement it says, fuel itself. And of course, that includes humans. That's why this movie is rated R.

Anyway, go watch it if you are interested. Enjoy watching and maybe you would want to recommend it to your friends as well.

December 5, 2018

Memento I have heard about this movie for several times before but never had a chance to watch it. I did have watched it a little bit on television but stopped right away because my friend told me that was an edited version, which the movie's timeline has been edited into the chronological order(The original is ordered backwards chronologically)

Finally I found and watched it on iTunes yesterday and I liked it so much. It is an intriguing movie that not just because the backwards timeline, but it stimulates us to think and try to gather clues to figure out the story. Since it starts from the end of the story, you would think that what is the point if we knew the ending first. But that is the interesting part about this movie that the more you watch, the more twisted this story you would find out.

*Spoiler Alert*

The story is about a man Leonard who has this condition of short term memory loss caused by a murderer who sneaked his house and attacked him. Leonard's wife has even been rapped and killed after he fainted out. Since then he has not been able to create new memories because the attact hit on his head was quite serious. But he still wants to revenge by himself with this condition, so he has to write notes and even simply tatoos himself to remind him how many clues he has found out.

Like I said it starts from the ending, which he kills the murderer. But as this head spinning movie goes back in time to reveal every puzzle he has found and the people he has met, you would start feeling as confused as him.

I really recommend it to you if you are a big fan of suspenseful and complicated movies that can provoke you to think and try to resolve the riddles as the protagonists do in the movie.

December 5, 2018

Staying late I'm quite sleepy now since yesterday I was staying late for watching a footage I found on YouTube via my iPhone till 2AM, And I woke up at 7AM for my daily English speakin lesson. So I only took 5-hour sleep and it felt so bad that I had to wake up. Beside, I have already been lacked of sleep for a few days.

Taking a plenty of sleep is def important, it plays a big part of being healthy. When you lack of sleep, it affects you in many ways such as your thinking ability, productivity, emotional control..etc.

But nowadays people have this smart phones that distract us from being focus, or doing something that's supposed to do for us. In this case some of us would want to check our social media accounts or browse instagram to see what others are up to before we go to sleep. And we are not just affected by spending too much time using smartphones but by being stimulated by the light from the screen, it makes us hard to sleep even we are feeling tired.

So now I've decided to build up this habit of turn off my phone 30minutes before I go to sleep in order to both getting enough sleep and the quality of it.

December 2, 2018

Movie-Memento I have heard about this movie for several times before but never had a chance to watch it. I did have watched it a little bit on television but stopped right away because my friend told me that was an edited version, which the movie's timeline has been edited into the chronological order(The original is ordered backwards chronologically)

*Spoiler Alert*

I really recommend it to you if you are a big fan of suspenseful and complicated movies that can provoke you to think and try to resolve the riddles as the protagonists do in the movie.

December 1, 2018

Cold Shower I've been taking cold shower since this summer because I heard it could improve my health in many ways. For instance, it improves my blood circulation, relieves my stress, refines my skin and hair..etc. It sounds worth doing it since there are simply so many benefits.

It was quite easy at first as it was at the peak of summer in which the temperatures were around 33-38 degrees Celsius. I could simply take cold shower for several times in a day, no sweat.

But it's getting difficult now as the winter has just come and due to the which the temperatures drop to about 15 degrees Celsius, which is not that low yet but I already felt it was like experiencing a torture.

In general, the first I would do in a day is taking a cold shower. I would go straight into the bathroom with my sleepy status after I just wake up, and open the cold water and drop on my body. It's always painful and exciting, which I would feel like I am being pulled out from my unawake body and I would start breathing rapidly because my body is trying to adopt that low temperature from the water. I have to say it's a faster way to wake myself up compared with just having a cup of black coffee.

I'm going to see what extent that I can endure, for which I can also learn how to keep challenging myself everyday because it seems to me that it's something you can't really get used to. It won't be like in a day you can finally say 「Alright, it can't bother me anymore.」

Instead, it always stimulates us mentally and physically, and we just have to make ourselves to go through in it until we temporarily adopt it, and in return, we earn those benefits simultaneously.

November 29, 2018