2009/12/25

The Ways to Lose Weight – Part 1

There is no fast way for losing weight. The only reliable and effective way to become slim is to practice a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet. If you already have a weight problem, the best way to lose it is to make positive lifestyle changes. Maybe you can consider these four ways when you want to lose weight. First, you can do to lose weight is to start avoiding foods that are fried. As most people prefer to eat sugary snacks and fast food. However, stop to order fried foods when you eat out and try to reduce to make fried foods at home. Because there are a lot of calories and fat in these foods will undermine your weight loss schedule.

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2009/11/13

Korean Food

Through a success in Korean dramas, Korean food is extremely popular these years in Taiwan. I also enjoy Korean foods a lot. When people think of Korean food, they might firstly think of kimchi (femented spicy cabbage), which is a tranditional Korean food. Rice and kimchi are the staples of their diet, a table is incomplete without them. Furthermore, such as bibimbap, cold buckwheat noodles, kimchi dumpling and Korean pancake are popular dishes. My favorite Korean food is bibimbap, which is served as a bowl of warm white rice with a variety of vegetables and tastes on top. It is good for your health and yummy. I will definitely travel Korea for tasting the local food in the future.

Shopping

Shopping is an activity that is necessary in our lives. We can go to a big department store, a mall, or an outdoor market to buy what we want. Especially, most women are crazy about an annual sale of department stores, and I am one of them. A department store has different sections where allow you to buy everything. During the annual sale, there will be special discounts and some free gifts offered. Also, you can go to some outlets that sell outdated goods, or even you can go to the stands on roadsides to get some bargaining clothes. Besides these, online shopping is also a convenient way to shop. You can spend less to get the same goods than the market prices most of the time. However, do remember staying calm while you are shopping, otherwise, you might lose control and then spend too much money on shopping.

A Change in My Life

My life has been changed since I decided to return to school and to be a student again at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology. About three months ago, I used to watch Korean dramas and used to surf Internet every night before going to sleep. I always enjoy doing nothing much but being relax on weekends. But now, I suddenly feel the weekend approaches soon because I have no enough time to prepare my assignments. On the weekend, I have to get up earlier than the working days, which means no more sleep late. Sadly, I do not have time to watch my favorite television program, and I cannot do whatever I want. However, I must stick to my original plan whatever the difficulties may be.

My Best Friend

My best friend is one of my classmates. Her name is Jessie and we have known each other for many years. I would say she is a very considerate and sensible girl. In school, she can help me a lot when I am puzzled about the difficult homework, and she always replies to my questions patiently. After school, even our lives become very busy, we still make time to contact each other. We are interested in shopping, going to the movie, and traveling. Mostly, we like going to shopping for relieve stress on examinations. She, deserved to be mentioned, has a very kind personality and a sense of sweet humor. She always cheers me up and comforts me when I am upset. It is fun to be with her. I am lucky to know her and hope that our friendship will last forever.