Dinner

When English think about their dinner, it is very likely first that he or she will think about chicken or beef or pork or fish, and finally decide one.
Chinese possible just decide what kind of food they would like to have, such as Sichuan food which is famous for hot, Hunan food which is famous for sour and hot etc, then they order a table of food and share it.
Not sure how strong influence this habit is. I do like have some snacks in store and have different food every dinner.
Really need learn from English habit: simple food and hard work.
Maybe we pay too much attention to food.

Are u sure?

Normally people do some nice things to others, the others accept it and say thanks.In this country, I found people like to say: are u sure.Today I give seat to a pregnant lady who came in the train and standed by me. She asked me: are you sure? I said sure.I also remember my first day in my new job. When my manager insisted on pay for the lunch as a company lunch, the other colleague said: are you sure?People want do some nice thing, he or she must already make the decision. No need with that doubt attitude any more.

Red tea and black tea

'Cha' means tea in Chinese.

Like wine, these teas differ subtly in flavor and aroma depending on where they were grown and how long they have aged. Since originating in China an unfathomable 4,000 years ago, tea has evolved into some 15,000 known varieties. Depending on how it is processed, tea falls loosely into six categories: white, yellow, green, oolong, red (known as black tea in the West), and black tea.

We were told that red tea should be translated into balck tea in English. I think it will give English people a wrong impression about China red tea. It is totally different with India black tea.

First it will not looks like some powder melting in the water when you make tea. That process makes me feel black tea here like some poisions.

As the name implies, brewed black tea ranges from reddish brown to black in color. One of its unique characteristics is that it mellows with age and grows richer and deeper in flavor. Vintage teas are superlative, boasting flavors and aromas that conjure up the same adjectives used to describe fine wine or whiskey.

The sun never sets Empire

Now most of them already mostly evolved into the Commonwealth of nations, British influence even now remains strong throughout the world: in economic practive, legal and govermental systems, militarily, society, sports, and the english language itself.

Beijing duck and Water boiling fish

Beijing Roast Duck or Peking Duck as it was once referred to. The specialty of Beijing. Slices of mainly roast duck skin with plum sauce, spring onion strips and little pancakes. It is a traditional Beijing dish, now it was introduced into England by Hongkong people, you can easily find it in Chinese buffe and easy for u to hear it from English friends. I notice a lot of English realy enjoy it. The little difference is Beijing duck in Beijing is more oily, but the duck meat here is a little dry.

What do I want English to experice is Water boiling fish. It really test their taste system.
Whole fish sliced and boiled in a very spicy oil and water mix with red chillis. Chillis are usually fished out of the soup mixture at your table before you start eating.

Cook tips:

1,Fresh fish, about 1.5 kg

2,Cut it into slices

3,Combine fish slices with spices for 15 minutes

4,Prepare various spices

5,First cook the fish head and bone with spices, then and the slices into the boiling pot. Finally fry the chillis with oil and mix them together.

Eyes protection

The new job make me exciting in mind but tired in eyes.
It seems I must restart my good habits again: playing table tennis three times a week.
The problem is no time during the weekdays, the reasonable chance is in Monday and Saturday. Force myself go to play it at least once a week.
The most important thing about table tennis is never take you eyes off the ball. That kind of eyes activity is very helpful to eyes protection. I spent 7 years in university and facing computer everyday after graduating from University without the damage of eyes. Table tennis is helpful to that.

North star

One friend mentioned the North star to me.
What did come in my mind inmediately is a little funny.That make me remembered my time in my father's open toliet.
My parents get a big garden with a open ceiling toliet there. When I was young, I feared to go to toliet by myself. Normally mum accompanied me. She standed outside and talked some good stories about heaven and stars. The north star was the most common topic because of the seven stars really exactly make the shape of a ladle.
Even after I grew up, I still remember that, I always look up at it when I was in the toliet. Dreaming place! The sky was full of stars!
The difference is now I watched it in Enland.

My bag

I remember I bought it in 2003. Related to this bag, I can connect many friends with it.
It accompanies me every day in England. A lots of friends ever borrowed it, even now it is not only use it by me. I used it travel with different friends and families into a lot of place. It covered a lot of memory and afford a lot of stories in the future.
One of friend suggested me don’t bring it with me every day, because it possible make police in London think I am a suicide bomer. Lol
It is a habit now to bring it with me. My bag is part of my life.

Travel card

Pls remeber put you travel card into the gate after the guy in front of you already leave the station gate.
I have thought the machine ate my card, but after the warm hearted assistant coughtn't find it in the machine, the only possible is the guy in front of me took two cards away, because I put my card in so fast after his, two cards came out together.
Poor man! the best thing is the busy and nice day. First experience of working in England.

No Slugabed tomorrow

It isn’t a long sleep, just a part of life. Hard time, lazy time or hopeless time, the best thing is the slugabed need get up early, catch the train and transfer the right underground to start a new life.
It is easy to say it is part of life. You also should think of what happen to u-hope, despair, experience, learning from life, encourage, support, match, friends, missing of home, worries, tears, walking in wood, cycling on countryside road and wind passing by your face. Sunshine always happens after the wind and rain. Life is long long way to go, it is difficult to say which part is good or bad time. Perhaps you should always remember to cherish every minute in your hands and experience life no matter it is hard or easy.
Happy is the feeling in your heart! Positive attitude in everyday!

Forever Desperado

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out riding fences for so long now.
Oh, you're a hard one , But I know that you got your reasons.
These things that are pleasing you , Can hurt you somehow.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy, She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things , Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get
Desperado, oh, you aren't getting no younger ,Your pain and your hunger, they're driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day ,You're losing all your highs and lows.
Aren't it funny how the feeling goes away?
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you ,You better let somebody love you ,before it's too late.

To be frank, I don’t know the meaning of this lyric very well, because of the confusing about the real meaning of ‘queen’ ,’freedom’, ’snow’, ’shine’, ’light’ ,’night’ ,’love’ ‘rain’ and ‘rainbow’ in this song. The heart quake melody from eagles caught me when I first heard it.
For my understanding, This song is based on the real lives of desperado in mid-west of America in 19 century. The author would like people stop controlling their life in a pigheaded way, they should open their gates of hearts and experience true life before it is too late.
People is spiteful to desperado, but they also envy him in their heart. In the true world, who can live like a desperado without any worry to make his last bet. With more experience of life, more feeling will come out with this desperado.I don't know any desperados,except some fake ones. They pretend to be brave and fear to nothing, in fact they are timid and caring everything of the common people care.
http://user.hjenglish.com/hjmusic/bopsam_03/Desprado.mp3

Spring Festival 2007 in London

That should be the biggest Spring Festival celebration outside China. I don’t know whether English or Chinese in London or both of them who made the Spring Festival crowded in London. Look at the pictures, maybe you can see who make this festival so lively!
I did enjoy a nice day and have what I had in my hometown Spring Festival-lively streets, colourful decoration, wonderful performance.

For my understanding today, Chinese New Year is a lively festival for many English, not sure whether it is the only chance for them go walk into this kind of crowd street and square. But the children and families indeed enjoy the fantastic performance and beautiful firework. To me, it is a good chance to find out the fact that London in fact has so many people.
I am look forward to the new Chinese New year.

Spring Festival Eve

Gave a phone call to Mum and Dad, I had thought they are busy with their dumpling dinner in Spring Festival Eve, but it was wrong, only Mum in home, Dad went out to visit some more older people. The best part is I got their dinner, they will have lamb dumping today, that is a tip for me, I also would like to cook my Mr. lAMB mince dumpling.
If you get a friend to walk with u together, possible you will enjoy the views by the road and talk something, then you feel the road is long, but if you walk the same road in a rush to catch a train, you will possible find it is only a seven minutes journey. The same road with different feeling, just like the same Spring festival with very different feeling because of different environment.

Fu

Fu means happiness and good luck in Chinese. It is a character pasted on the wall or door in Chinese families to express people’s wishes for the coming new year.
“upside down” and “come” have the same pronunciation in Chinese which is “dao”, so Chinese past Fu upside down. The “reversed fu” is homophonic with “fu comes”, both being pronounced as “fu dao”, which means the happiness and good luck and fortune come!

Noodle and hot pot

What kind of Chinese food I am missing very much in this country, the answer is Chinese noodle and hot pot. Even when I am writing the dishes names here, I feel I get a watering mouth.

Life in Hong Kong

Is Hongkong a compact place? The answer is definitely No.
In fact you can find a lots of open place in Konglong and new territory, even in Hongkong island you also can enjoy the forever mysterious mountain footbaths. Because of the special geography condition, the best activities are around mountain and water.
Hiking in Hongkong island is my most favorite sport in Hongkong, especially in the light rain day, the mountain’s silence will surprise you. You can hear the pats of rain on the leaves clearly, you also can control you step freely, normally in this kind of weather not many people on the mountain, it belong to you.

Football and Fighting

Football is't fighting, but it is easy for us to connect them together every weekend.

This time is the fight between China Olimpic team and London QPR. Newspapers and TV chanals begun the showing their opinion about"bad behaviour" China team after it happened.

After some calm thinking we will know what really happened.Who is really bad behaviour team!

Look at this pic, this assist coach went into the play groud and directly attacked Chinese player, what surprise is their performance before BBC, they said: very very bad for this kind of thing happen. He successful did it to let people trust that he and his team is really "innocent".

One of Chinese player's lower jaw bone was seriously crushed, it isn't possible beated by hand, it should be attached by feet when he fell down.

The best thing is people begine to realise what really happened now. The reasonable result should come out, white is white and black should be black.

The Importance of Your Body's pH Balance(2)

People vary, but for most,the ideal diet is 75 percent alkalizing and 25 percent acidifying foods by volume.

ALKALIZING FOODS
VEGETABLES
Garlic Asparagus Fermented Veggies Watercress Beets Broccoli Brussel sprouts Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chard Chlorella Collard Greens Cucumber Eggplant Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Dulce Dandelions Edible Flowers Onions Parsnips (high glycemic)Peas Peppers Pumpkin Rutabaga Sea Veggies Spirulina Sprouts Squashes Alfalfa Barley Grass Wheat Grass Wild Greens Nightshade Veggies
FRUITS
Apple Apricot Avocado Banana (high glycemic)
Cantaloupe Cherries CurrantsDates/FigsGrapes Grapefruit Lime Honeydew Melon Nectarine Orange Lemon PeachPear Pineapple All Berries Tangerin Tomato Tropical Fruits Watermelon
PROTEIN
Eggs Whey Protein Powder Cottage CheeseChicken BreastYogurt Almonds ChestnutsTofu (fermented) Flax Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Tempeh (fermented) Squash Seeds Sunflower Seeds Millet Sprouted SeedsNuts
OTHER
Apple Cider VinegarBee PollenLecithin GranulesProbiotic CulturesGreen JuicesVeggies JuicesFresh Fruit JuiceOrganic Milk(unpasteurized)Mineral WaterAlkaline Antioxidant WaterGreen TeaHerbal TeaDandelion TeaGinseng TeaBanchi TeaKombucha
SWEETENERS Stevia
SPICES/SEASONINGS
Cinnamon Curry Ginger Mustard Chili PepperSea SaltMiso TamariAll Herbs
ORIENTAL VEGETABLES
MaitakeDaikonDandelion RootShitakeKombuReishiNoriUmeboshiWakameSea Veggies


ACIDIFYING FOODS
FATS & OILS
Avocado OilCanola OilCorn OilHemp Seed OilFlax OilLardOlive OilSafflower OilSesame OilSunflower Oil
FRUITS Cranberries
GRAINS
Rice CakesWheat CakesAmaranthBarleyBuckwheatCornOats (rolled)QuinoiRice (all)RyeSpeltKamutWheatHemp Seed FlourDAIRYCheese, CowCheese, GoatCheese, ProcessedCheese, SheepMilkButter
NUTS & BUTTERS
CashewsBrazil NutsPeanutsPeanut ButterPecansTahiniWalnuts
ANIMALPROTEIN
BeefCarpClamsFishLambLobsterMusselsOysterPorkRabbitSalmonShrimpScallopsTunaTurkeyVenison
PASTA (WHITE)
NoodlesMacaroniSpaghettiOTHERDistilled VinegarWheat GermPotatoes
DRUGS & CHEMICALS
ChemicalsDrugs, MedicinalDrugs, PsychedelicPesticidesHerbicides
ALCOHOL
BeerSpiritsHard LiquorWine
BEANS & LEGUMES
Black BeansChick PeasGreen PeasKidney BeansLentilsLima BeansPinto BeansRed BeansSoy BeansSoy MilkWhite BeansRice MilkAlmond Milk

The Importance of Your Body's pH Balance(1)

Our bodies are alkaline by design and acid by function. Maintaining proper alkalinity is essential for life, health, and vitality. Simply put - an imbalance of alkalinity creates a condition favorable to the growth of bacteria, yeast and other unwanted organisms. the maintenance of an alkaline pH in our tissues and cells is critical to cellular health.
The human body is very intelligent. As we become more and more acidic the body starts to set up defense mechanisms to keep the damaging acid from entering our vital organs. It is known that acid gets stored in fat cells. After all, if the acid does come into contact with an organ the acid has a chance to eat holes in the tissue. This may cause the cells to mutate. The oxygen level drops in this acidic environment and calcium begins to be depleted. So as a defense mechanism, your body may actually make fat to protect you from your overly-acidic self. Those fat cells and cellulite deposits may actually be packing up the acid and trying to keep it a safe distance from your organs. The fat may be saving your vital organs from damage. Many people have found that a return to a healthy inner biological terrain helps them to lose excess fat.
One of the first warning signs of an acidic biological terrain is calcium deposits. So if calcium deposits are forming, we know our inner biological terrain is too acidic. Our dietary intake of calcium is not keeping up with the calcium buffering needed and we are actively pulling calcium from our bones and teeth. It all works like a little train, from the bones to the fluids and cells, to the blood. As our biological terrain becomes acidic, our pH level drops.
There are many ways to keep your body's biological terrain at a healthy alkaline environment. These include:
1,eating alkalizing foods including lots of green foods and super foods
2,limiting our intake of phosphates which bind to calcium and prevent its absorption. Dietary phosphates are commonly found in all carbonated drinks, and in all animal protein.
3,Adding dietary calcium in the form of supplementation is generally difficult because of our body's inability to absorb and assimilate most forms of commonly available calcium. The best calcium supplement, which is 95% absorbable by the human body is ionic coral calcium.
This all takes time. It is not easy to reverse acidity once we become too acidic. The extreme importance of cellular environment has been mostly overlooked in the past, but has recently been recognized.

About English Writting

In last centure of UK, there is a trend about English writting:plain writting.
I quite appraciate this suggestion, especially in government and techinical reports.People would like to read some simple and friendly writing rather than some beautiful writting.
For technical report, the most important thing is let reader understand what you will deliver to them easily. some basic suggestion about technical writting:

• writing in plain english;
• Use active verbs rather than passive verbs;
• Keep your average sentence between 10 and 2 0 words.

Chinese new year

Time flies! So many beautiful memories in mind about Spring Festival:
Walking along the street with sisters during the spring eve showing our beautiful lantern, Visiting to older people on first day of Chinese new year and following visits to and from relatives, Beautiful fireworks,
Delicious dumpling from Mum's hands,
Ya sui qian(money given to children as a Spring Festival gift ),
Playing kite with nephews during this long holiday...

More missing family when every traditional festival comes! It seems it is an other spring festival outside hometown this year, just hope the bright moon can cross the thousands miles and send best withes to relatives and friends. Happy spring festival and Good health and luck for the 2007! Happy spring festival to my friends in England!

Celebrate new bloger

It is very happy to hear this from a friend.Hope I can publish my story and let my friend know what happen to me here