Friday 31 August 2007

Japanese cartoon- Naruto


This is my favorite Japanese cartoon, Naruto.



Friday 24 August 2007

Why Japanese can do it; Taiwanese can't


I do admire Japanese's idea.
1985 original version

Tuesday 21 August 2007

Ireland Exclamation Mark


About two months ago, I saw a Taiwanese writer, Brian Wu, on TV. He was talking about his new book, Ireland Exclamation Mark, then. The program host introduced him and the new book. I don’t really have a good idea about the writer. But the word, Ireland, gave rise to my interest.

Actually, Taiwanese is not really strange to Ireland because of the” River Dance” and more and more Taiwanese went there for traveling. We can see many tourists share their experiences in Ireland. But most people only talk about how to play or where to go there. I haven’t seen any people who talk about the spirit of Ireland. Brian Wu is a writer. His description must be different from the other people. I like the words that he said in the book. “The people who don’t like literature or music may not be easy to feel the spirit deep of Irish. “ I perfectly agree with him.

Monday 13 August 2007

Swimming I

Last year I joined a swimming club, and since my freestyle has been getting better and better. Seven years ago, I moved to Taipei. In order to lose weight, I joined a swimming club there. When I first joined the club, I purchased a half-year membership. Afterwards, I began to buy season memberships.

The first year in the club, I lost a lot of weight. It was amazing. My weight was from 76 kg. to 68 kg. At that time, I only could swim with breaststroke and envied the people who could swim in freestyle, but I didn’t want to pay for freestyle lessons, so I tried to learn it by myself. Little by little, I learned the basics. When I began to learn the freestyle, I realized that changing the breathing technique was still a big problem: I couldn’t do it smoothly. Now it is really much better. I can swim for a long time both in freestyle and with breaststroke.

My experience with freestyle taught me that I can learn new swimming styles, and now I am thinking about learning butterfly stroke.

Sunday 12 August 2007