I listen to music, especially soft type of music, soft pop, soft piano love song, soft EDM, to name a few, to reduce stress. I love music, I’m a huge aficionado of music, I suppose. I enjoy listening to music, and immersing myself in the melodious music world. Also, going outside and strolling around, then feeling the gentle touch of the breeze on my face is another good idea to relieve stress for me. Sometimes, I just ease stress by binge-watching series or anime the whole day! Apart from these, there’s an nice idea I’m keen on best and I do it commonly to minimize stress the most that is workout/ training! I’m a fitness enthusiast/ bodybuilding fanatic, all I can feel when I’m working out/ training is absolutely not stressful, but is thoroughly delightful. Every time I train myself, I can forget everything unpleasant, and I feel more confident after finish of training every time. Doing exercise or training yourself is really the most healthiest and great activity for ones life. : )

Exercise for writing skills - 2 • Something interesting and special about my culture - Taiwan receipt lottery/ uniform invoice lottery: In Taiwan, there’s one intriguing thing concerning the stuff you get after buying something - receipt. Yes, the receipt, and everyone knows what the receipt is, but you could get a chance of winning money with your receipt in Taiwan. It’s just like the lottery; If you match the digits of the published winning numbers, you win money. The rules of Taiwan receipt lottery: • match the last three digits of any sets of the First Prize winning numbers, you win NT$200. - Sixth Prize • match the last four digits from any of the First Prize winning numbers, you win NT$1000. - Fifth Prize • match the last five digits from any of the First Prize winning numbers, you win NT$4000. - Fourth Prize • match the last six digits from any of the First Prize winning numbers, you win NT$10,000. - Third Prize • match the last seven digits from any of the First Prize winning numbers, you win NT$40,000. - Second Prize • First Prize: NT$200,000 for matching all the digits from any sets of the First Prize winning numbers in the right order. (three sets of winning numbers in usual) • Grand Prize: NT$2 million for matching all the digits from the Grand Prize winning number in the right order. (only one set of winning number) • Special Prize: NT$10 million for matching all the digits from the Special Prize winning number in the right order. (only one set of winning number) • Additional Sixth Prize: NT$200 for matching the last three digits of the Additional Sixth Prize winning numbers. Besides, a winner has to claim his/ her prize in three months. I’m not sure whether a receipt in other countries has the same or similar function; however, in here (Taiwan), one of the functions of a receipt is checking whether you hit the jackpot! It’s sort of fascinating and exciting. : )

Exercise for writing skills: 2 - Lunch I’m having my healthy, simple, and scrumptious lunch now. There are several kinds of stuff on my plate - a chunk of poached chicken breast, a hunk of cut pan-fired chicken thigh cutlet, a lovely omelette, and a piece of delicious cranberry multi-grain bread/ toast which is one of the main source for carbohydrate intake. It’s such a satisfying meal. Besides, I like to taking a window seat close to the corner of the wall, and enjoy my meal with browsing pedestrians walking outside the window and passing by. It’s one of my pleasures when I’m having my lunch; I assume it’s some kind of delightful time to me. Additionally, there is another thing I’d like to say that is coffee fragrance! Yeah, the coffee fragrance, I do love the smell of it. I can easily smell unmistakable coffee fragrance in the air when I’m having my lunch in the store I frequent. It really makes me feel cosy and feel a trace of tranquility and peace generated from within.

Hi, there. I’ve posted an writing concerning the convenience store for this topic, but I still got quite a few interesting things about my culture to say. haha : ) Regarding the convenience store in Taiwan for this topic I’ve posted here, there is another most important point I forgot to say that most of the stores are all with 24 hours operations. I’d like to introduce a few of the others to you. • a special wrapping up culture: In Taiwan, people usually wrap up the leftovers at the restaurant, especially on the occasion of a dinner party for family gathering. If there are the leftovers left on the table, people, especially the elders in the family, will ask the waiter/ waitress to wrap the most of leftovers up. To the elders’ mind, they consider leaving food up on your plate as an awful action of wasting food. • a few rubbish bins on the street: To keep the street clean, and avoid cockroaches, mosquitos, or other little things living with the rubbish, there are just a few ribbish bins you can see and find on the street. If you got some rubbishes on you hand to throw away/ get rid of, you’ll have to get to the MRT Station or a convenience store nearing you the most. • rubbish truck playing ‘A Maiden’s Prayer’: In Taiwan, all the of the rubbish trucks drive around the street playing ‘A Maiden’s Prayer’, but the trucks play ‘Für Elise’ in the past. It’s sort of intriguing. I’d like to say both of the songs are the famous songs, and should be used in the occasion or the way matching the song’s manner; I mean at least not for the rubbish. Lol I can hardly conceive the song to go with the rubbish truck. (It’s kind of beyond my imagination. XD)

Hello, I’m Lan from Taiwan, an island country right beside China and below Japan. When it comes to what something intriguing is about my culture, I’ve got to say there’s more than one to say. There are quite a lot of fascinating things about my culture, and I’ll pick out one to introduce. • Convenience store run everywhere - In Taiwan, you can find a convenience store easily, they’re run all over the streets. Besides, all of them sell a wide diverse range of items and services; moreover, there is one ATM installed in each convenience store. I’ve glimpsed research about ‘convenience store density’ somewhere before, and it says Taiwan convenience store highly density tops world, by the way. You can come by most of the stuff you want at the store. About the services they server, Aww.., I bet you can barely conceive it, it’ll thoroughly beyond your imagination. They offer miscellaneous service, like applying a pay as you go prepaid card, helping the disadvantaged/ underprivileged with donating food and fundamental supplies (you purchase, the store prepare and deliver food and supplies), sending or picking up packages/ parcels, preordering kinds of items, ordering types of tickets (HSR, concert, exhibition, etc.), ordering and picking up a packet of masks, printing something from your mobile device, scanning something into your USB, topping up your iPASS Card/ Easy Card, buying a variety of gift cards, paying kinds of the bill, and other useful services. If the weather is a bit cold, and you are in need of some scarf or other, go to the store. If you want some stationeries, go to the store. If you are just having a snack attack, go to the store. You can get hold of all kinds of items you can image there, even an appliance! In general, people in Taiwan just take few minutes to get to a store and take another few minutes to obtain what they want. The convenience store in Taiwan is really a ‘convenience’ store - immensely convenient.

Exercise for writing skills: 1 - Convenience Store The convenience store I frequent was having a sale from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. yesterday, all of the Chinese New Year Gift Boxes were 30% off for clearance, and some Sheng Xiang Zhen goods buy one, get one free, like ‘Dr, Q Konnyaku Jelly’, ‘Chocolaty Ferratelle’, ‘Strawberry Ferratelle’, ‘Honey Palmier’, ‘Milky Sandwich Biscuits’, ‘Peanuts with green onion & garlic’, and ‘Peanuts with stir-fried anchovies’. Besides, consumers can get one chance to draw a lucky draw for every $300 purchase. It’s quite a bargain, so I bought a few Gift Boxes, two packet of Dr. Q Konnyaku Jelly, and a packet of Peanuts with stir-fried anchovies with further reductions from the result of the lucky draw I drew. Additionally, membership of the store can earn double points with every purchase every weekend; thanks to this, I earned many points yesterday. I do enjoy buying stuff at a convenience store in Taiwan, it frequently has a special offer on a lot of items, and regularly provide special activities for the membership of it. On the top of that, the convenience store in Taiwan sell a huge diversity range of items, and they are ran all over the street, which means people can buy most of things they want at a store, and just, perhaps, takes them a few minutes walk from their house to the store; with that, it is really without doubt the ‘convenience’ store.