個人對城市的比較 English Curitiba in Brazil and Taipei in Taiwan Bus system: Bus system is great in Curitiba for its original purpose, but People live in Taipei will still prefer to the Metro system. Weather: Curitiba is on a plateau,so the weather here is changing rapidly. The good new is the average temperature is less than 20 degree I guess, it’s more comfortable than Taipei. Air quality and environment: Curitiba is definitely far better than Taipei in this category. Other: Other differences I think is attribute to culture, political and economic. My personal opinion so far is, for people who are in the middle or middle upper level class in the society, Curitiba has better life quality. Brasilian Portuguese (Sorry for not installing the Portuguese input) Curitiba no Brasil e Taipei no Taiwan sistema de onibus: o sistema de onibus e melhor em Curitiba para o proposito, mas as passoas vivem em Taipei ainda preferem o sistema de metro. Tempo: Curitiba fica o planalto, entao o clima ta mudando hapidamente. e’ melhor a temperatura media e 20 graus eu acho, e mais confortavel do que Taipei. Qualidade do ar e ambiente: Curitiba e definitivamente muito bom nesta categoria do que Taipei. Outros coisas: outras diferencas eu acho que e por causa de a cultura, politicas e economicas. Minha opiniao pessoal: para as pessoas que estao no nivel de classe meida ou media alta na sociedade, Curitiba tem melhor qualidade de vida.

Watching Japanese drama, some thoughts: I happen to think more about there is always a subtle effect in TV that affects us. I am talking about the storyline in the TV shows, like most movies, dramas. TV shows more or less contain certain kind of ideologies (philosophies, world views, or other synonyms) that producers like to show to the audience. They can't present a plot that contradicts what the audiences want to believe or they don’t want the audience to believe, former one is common in the democratic society, latter one may exist in the non-democratic society. For example, a movie that oath to unleash the individual right over government right perhaps will be banned in North Korean (it’s off-topic, but tricky speaking, if it's only reveal the general concept, the government might still accept for creating an illusion, as long as the means to do that are not reveal in the movie). My point is, although there are certain movies that try to explore our view, but for the sake of popularity, the story still more easily becomes best-selling if it goes along with what the audience original want to see. This kind of logic reminds me that producer want to take an advantage of our innate reflective reaction (ex. trigger our fear to catch us attention). And here, the producer tries to enhance a particular belief. However, we know there are so many beliefs in the world, whether or not the belief that every drams or movie try to impose us is right, wrong, deficit, naive, or purposeful. I guess we are the only defender of our independent thoughts. Sometimes, I guess this sounds exhausted, but gladly, it would be also become more interesting and meaningful when noticing a variety of thoughts that underlying the everyday movies and dramas.