Would you like to be a chef?

    To be a chef is my dream from I was a child, because I really like eating. I used to think how can I adjust the flavor that the dishes I was eating. Because of this reason I thought I could be a good chef if I cooked by myself. I tried to do something to proof I could be a good chef. I started to cook when I studied in university. At first I


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Basketball position

Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. Especially the U.S. is the root of Basketball history and has the highest level basketball association which is called "NBA". So, most of famous basketball players are from the U.S., such Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Lebron James, Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O'neal. They are known as excellent players in the world, but can you distinguish them in the court when they are playing and what skills they are good at? It is hard for most people, but don't worry let this article to tell you the basic knowledge of basketball players.
First of all you have to know there has five positions for players in a team, point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. But mainly it can be distinguished from three positions, guard, forward and center. Each of them plays different role and needs different skills in the court. And we can use our body parts to simple explain the difference. Guard is like our brain, forward is like four limbs and center is like our trunk.
Guard is a launcher in the offense and a first line of defense. As a brain in a team, they have to be smart and calm in any situation. Comparing to other players, usually they are shorter and more agile. Because their stature is their weakness, in order to overcome this, they usually are good at dribbling and shooting. Their main attack measures are using their speed and good dribbling to confuse rival's defense formulation and find a good shooting opportunity to get an easy play for themselves or teammates. In a defensive way they have to disturb and steal rival guard's passing in order to ruin rival's offensive tempo. The representative personages in this position are Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.
Forward is a terminator in the offense and a stopper in the defense. their physical ability is the best in a team, they are not the tallest but they jump the highest, they are not the most agile but they run the fastest. Because of their physical ability, usually they are an arrow of scores and most of them are the highest score player in a team. They can score everywhere no matter inside or outside, they like to challenge the defender and defeat them. On the other hand they also have to defense the rival like them and it is hard to be perfect in anything, so some of them are good at defense and some of them are good at offense. The representative personages in this position are Lebron James and Scottie Pippen.
Center is a giant in the court. They are always the biggest, tallest and strongest in a team, their main job is to cover their teammates, bombing of the basket, protect the rebound and to be the last line of defense. unlike other position using their physical ability or basketball skills, center is a real warrior, they actually use their body to against the rival in order to protect the paint area. They usually stand near the basket, so when they have an opportunity, they like to slam dunk and audience like that too. As a defender they have to defense and give a big block to the rival who passed his teammates and try to score in the paint area. Like forward, they usually have two types of player, defense and offense. The representative personages in this position are Shaquille O'neal and Dwight Howard.
From the beginning to 1980's center is the main role in a team, having a good center is a necessary requirement for a team who wants to chase a championship. But in 80's when Michael Jordan came out, he changed everything, he was the only one who could get many champions without a good center. And nowadays forward is getting important than before when Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant these kind of players came out. Nobody knows which position is going to takeover next generation, but we just have to know it will be a good game and enjoy this exciting game is enough.

A trick!!

    Four years ago, I went to Taipei by my motorcycle as usual. I had saw a movie at that night, after the movie I wanted to ride my motor to my friend's house. I could not find my helmet at that time, and it is illegal to ride a motor without a helmet in Taiwan. I was very angry and unfortunately a cob just stood at the corner, so I would be fined if I rode my motor. Finally, I decided to walk to my friend's house and bought a new helmet to take my motor.
    I had woke up in the next day and bought a fashion new helmet for this unhappy experience. But I was very angry when I stood at the place that my motor should be parked there. It was disappeared, I thought maybe I memorized the wrong place. I started to walk around the area that near there, however I still could not find my motor. Then I realized maybe it was a trick, they had stolen my helmet in order to let me to left my motor away. Then they would have a whole night to steal it without pressure, how smart they are and how stupid I am.
    I had gone to the police station and told police my event. That was my first time to go to there, I was a little nervous. After I had told Cobs my event the they started asking me questions, such as where did I park my motor? When did I find it was disappeared? Did I notice someone followed me yesterday? I mentioned them everything I had remembered, and few minutes later they told me they would connect with me if they find my car. From their tone, I felt it seemed a common thing for them, so I thought they would not do their best for this.
   After that I had gone back to my school, because I had a presentation in that day. I was so tired and disappointed in that day. It looked everything against me, and I did not know how to tell my parents about this experience.
   

Terrible visa problem!!

    Two months ago, I planned to go to Canada for Niagara Falls. The most  magnificent and beautiful waterfall in the world. I was very excited about that, and everything is prepared well for this gripping trip.
In order to ensure that I can back to America after the trip, I went to ask Harzem about my I-20. But suddenly everything was changed, Harzem looked at me with eyes that full of doubt. And then he asked me "When did you come to America?" "December, 1, 2012" I said. At that moment from his eyes contact and tone, I felt something bad would happen around me.
    As expected, Harzem told me that in the I-20 system that showed my inbound date is in September. It meant I got a serious trouble with my visa. "You did not go to school within two months after you had arrived America and absolutely your I-20 had been canceled. So you could not leave America before this problem has been solved, otherwise you would be sent back to your country by the immigration when you come back to America from another country. He told me slowly and seriously.
    I thought it was impossible, then I showed my passport to him. He said he would do his best to help me to solve this problem. I was so disappointed and angry at that time, and all negative emotions came out. That was not my fault, I did not do anything wrong but I still got a trouble and that is a serious trouble. But after that I thought I was lucky, because if I did not ask Harzem and just went to Canada, I would be sent back to my country without any excuse. Anyway this is the worst thing that I have ever had in America.

Culture

   Nowadays travel around the world is very easy, just take a plane you can go to everywhere you want. Therefore to face many people form many different countries with different cultures is inevitable. Culture is the way behavior and belief that is rooted in someone's life when they were born. It can be related with religions, weather, food, politics, history and anything you will face in the life. To judge a culture is not good and impolite, maybe sometimes you encounter a culture and you think it is unreasonable in another country. But you have to learn to respect, because this is the way that they have lived for hundred years and they are used to live with it.

   The most important culture in my country is Chinese New Year. It is the biggest festival for us, and we celebrate this depend on lunar calender instead of official calender. That is the reason why we celebrate it in different days in different years. The main goal of this festival is to gather your relatives together not just your family member. We usually have a sumptuous meal at the night before the festival, and all relatives come back and eat together, that is the best thing for me every year. In addition people will wear new clothes, all stores will be closed, and people spend all these days with relative that maybe you could not see them in a year. You share your story and play games with each other. By the way children can get money in red envelopes from older people. That is the best thing for children and can be a nightmare for older people.

Change in Diet

Change in Diet

        Do your parents or grandparents used to eat the same food as you? Do their eating habits as same as you? The world has been changed a lot recently. When many advanced machine and theory has been discovered, we know much more knowledge than old people. And In the past, people used to cook by themselves and eat the local food, but now everything is different. Young generation like to taste different kinds of food, Such as Western, Middle East and Asian food or fast food.

In addition modern family is not like to cook by themselves and prefer to eat outside. All these kinds of changes has been happened around us and of course our Diet is not the same anymore.

        The knowledge of food has been changed, now people has a different thinking of food. That is because people discovered many things that they did not know in the past. For example, in my country people used to eat white rice, they thought white rice is delicious, soft. Now, more and more people choose to eat brown rice as their main food. That is because some researchers proved that brown rice has more nutrition than white rice. I remember my mother told me that in the past white rice is for the rich and brown rice is for the poor, but now it is opposite. Further more people use less oil and sugar for eating. This kind of change helps people to eat healthier.

        When you are travelling you can find Macdonald is everywhere in every country. That is a trend now in the world, businessman like to extend famous store to other countries, then they can earn much money. Our diet has been changed by this trend a lot, these kind of food have almost the same flavor in every country. So that when you get used to eat these food, you are hard to get rid of it. But most of these are not healthy, therefore many experts think that the reason why there is so many obesity today. And they want government build some rules to restrict these food in order to protect people.

        People are busy nowadays, most families are double income. Both of parents have to work, that means they do not have time to prepare food for the family. I remember when I was young, my family cooked every day. We ate the food that is cooked by parents or grandparents, they know what you need. Everything is  fresh and is prepared for your health.. But today when you eat outside, restaurants are just want to make the food is tasted delicious and looks beautiful, they do not care about the quality of ingredients that they use. The most important thing for them is to attract you to get into their restaurant.

        In conclusion, our diet has been changed rapidly, and we cannot control it. Good things and bad things are happened together. People have to consider about this issue seriously, it can help us to get into a bright future or led us to the end of the world. People have to be taught the right sense and knowledge of eating and government have to support people to stop eating fast food too much. And the most important is you have to stick your mind to choose the right food in your diet.

Similar or very different?

    Adam is my partner who is from Brazil, I knew him two weeks ago and we had dinner together with our host family that because they are good friends. Kind and polite is the first version that he gave me and fortunately we are classmates now. He is younger than me and still study in college also he want to go to graduated school after he finish after college. But I already finished my studying one year ago, now I am just learning English in the America. That's the first thing that we are different.

    Both of us are easygoing and optimistic people and can sometimes be shy. We both think a friend is someone who loves you. we like seeing a movie in our leisure time, but we have totally different preferences. His favorite novel and movie is Lord of the Rings, but honestly for me that is the most boring movie that I have ever seen. I couldn't keep awake more than ten minutes when I was seeing that. Haha, sorry Adam. By the way we still have the same preference in movie which is Iron Man 3. Neither of us has ever seen that, but we would both like to do this one day. In the other way we have similar tastes in music, we like listening the music that can let us feel relax.