Since I don't really eat meat besides fish and chicken, this website is useful!
Information for Vegetarians Travelling to China
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Which of these songs is most poetic to you?
I've recently been obsessed with http://www.songmeanings.net/
Anyways, here are a few tunes from www.youtube.com that have always struck a chord with me. (However cheesy they seem to be!) What strikes your cords?
"Collide" by Howie Day
"Far Away" by Nickelback (with clips from Pride and Prejudice)
"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
"I Never Had A Dream Come True" by S Club 7
"The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henly (clips from Gilmore Girls)
"White Flag" by Dido (With clips from Smallville--"Lana still loves Clark")
"A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos
"Raspberry Swirl" by Tori Amos
"She Will be loved" by Maroon V
"Cool" by Gwen Stefani
"Taxi Ride" by Tori Amos
"Amber" by 311
"LoveSong" by The Cure
"Ice Dance" in Edward Scissorhands
"Take Me As I Am" from Jekyll and Hyde"(ironically, the clips are from another one of my favorite musicals, "The Phantom of the Opera")
"Somebody" by Depeche Mode
"The Reason" by Hoobastank (you didn't think I would leave this one out, did you? haha...)
Anyways, here are a few tunes from www.youtube.com that have always struck a chord with me. (However cheesy they seem to be!) What strikes your cords?
"Collide" by Howie Day
"Far Away" by Nickelback (with clips from Pride and Prejudice)
"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
"I Never Had A Dream Come True" by S Club 7
"The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henly (clips from Gilmore Girls)
"White Flag" by Dido (With clips from Smallville--"Lana still loves Clark")
"A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos
"Raspberry Swirl" by Tori Amos
"She Will be loved" by Maroon V
"Cool" by Gwen Stefani
"Taxi Ride" by Tori Amos
"Amber" by 311
"LoveSong" by The Cure
"Ice Dance" in Edward Scissorhands
"Take Me As I Am" from Jekyll and Hyde"(ironically, the clips are from another one of my favorite musicals, "The Phantom of the Opera")
"Somebody" by Depeche Mode
"The Reason" by Hoobastank (you didn't think I would leave this one out, did you? haha...)
Monday, August 27, 2007
The Perfect Iced Mocha recipe?
(So the secret is to freeze the coffee ahead of time?)
INGREDIENTS
* 1 1/2 cups cold coffee
* 2 cups milk
* 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
* 1/4 cup white sugar
DIRECTIONS
1. Pour coffee into ice cube tray. Freeze until solid, or overnight.
2. In a blender, combine coffee ice cubes, milk, chocolate syrup and sugar. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Iced-Mochas/Detail.aspx
INGREDIENTS
* 1 1/2 cups cold coffee
* 2 cups milk
* 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
* 1/4 cup white sugar
DIRECTIONS
1. Pour coffee into ice cube tray. Freeze until solid, or overnight.
2. In a blender, combine coffee ice cubes, milk, chocolate syrup and sugar. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Iced-Mochas/Detail.aspx
Sunday, August 26, 2007
“Dance Like No One Is Watching”by Tania Tyler
“ Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” --- Satchel Paige
What a great philosophy to travel through life’s journey with! It was interesting to receive this quote in an email this week as I have told many people “you just need to dance as though no one is watching.” This statement can be taken literally – go out dancing and just let your spirit soar, enjoy yourself, have fun – or, figuratively – dance through life and just let your spirit soar, enjoy yourself, have fun … does it really matter what other’s think? I’m not talking about throwing away all responsibilities (we do live in a real world), but rather about taking time to be or explore who we are. Work on finding a balance. Be true to yourself, don’t live your life to please others. Live to please yourself and others will be pleased. Emotions are infectious; why not spread happiness, joy and love?
Take the time to watch a seagull in flight. Some days, depending on the weather, they appear to just float, soar and really enjoy themselves. Watch again on a windy day, they have to work a little harder to get where they’re going. Notice how when the weather gets stormy, they land and just hang out for a while. Here’s a quote from “ Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach: “Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in the trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird.” Next time you get to a stormy day, read this book again as an adult. Everyday brings something new; learn to notice something new each day. Life will always be filled with challenges, make the best of them. Enjoy life, be happy. Go with the flow.
As we learn to “work like you don’t need money”, our jobs become less of a burden or struggle. Isn’t life more pleasurable when you are doing something you enjoy rather than something you “have to”? Look upon work as something rewarding. Money isn’t everything. Take pride in your tasks, be the best you can at what you do. Smile more. Try this for a couple of days; watch your job transform into something more enjoyable. Chances are, more money will also come your way. Just imagine the difference in tips for a waiter/waitress who smiles and makes their job more enjoyable compared to the person that really doesn’t want to be there. Or the possible job promotions when you put your best foot forward.
Now, the tough part – “love like you’ve never been hurt”. Everyone is unique, every relationship is unique. Give that person every opportunity; don’t compare them or limit the relationship because of fears from the past. Learn from the past. Release yourself from the past. Live the present moment. Don’t look back and don’t look forward. What you have is right now. It’s guaranteed that if you expect to be hurt, you’ll find it. Openness, understanding and honesty are important aspects to any relationship; they reduce expectations and allow us to “see it as it is”. People change, they grow. Love involves allowing the other to grow, to be who they are – to accept the possibility that you don’t walk the same path anymore. Love may not last forever but if you enjoy every minute you have of it and can look back without regrets … we are all here to live life to it’s fullest, to learn from it’s lessons. Everyone has something to share, be it good or bad. It is up to us to determine how fully we experience living.
So, now let’s tie this philosophy to a health column. By living our lives more in tune with our natural spirit, we add more balance into our lives, our bodies are more at ease – not dis-ease. Stress levels reduce. With a reduction of stress, blood pressures reduce, sleep routines become more restful, digestion problems subside, tension headaches disappear; anxiety, nervousness, and depression reduce … the possibilities are endless. Take the time to enjoy life.
Time waits for no one …
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away.” – Henry David Thoreau
What a great philosophy to travel through life’s journey with! It was interesting to receive this quote in an email this week as I have told many people “you just need to dance as though no one is watching.” This statement can be taken literally – go out dancing and just let your spirit soar, enjoy yourself, have fun – or, figuratively – dance through life and just let your spirit soar, enjoy yourself, have fun … does it really matter what other’s think? I’m not talking about throwing away all responsibilities (we do live in a real world), but rather about taking time to be or explore who we are. Work on finding a balance. Be true to yourself, don’t live your life to please others. Live to please yourself and others will be pleased. Emotions are infectious; why not spread happiness, joy and love?
Take the time to watch a seagull in flight. Some days, depending on the weather, they appear to just float, soar and really enjoy themselves. Watch again on a windy day, they have to work a little harder to get where they’re going. Notice how when the weather gets stormy, they land and just hang out for a while. Here’s a quote from “ Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach: “Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in the trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird.” Next time you get to a stormy day, read this book again as an adult. Everyday brings something new; learn to notice something new each day. Life will always be filled with challenges, make the best of them. Enjoy life, be happy. Go with the flow.
As we learn to “work like you don’t need money”, our jobs become less of a burden or struggle. Isn’t life more pleasurable when you are doing something you enjoy rather than something you “have to”? Look upon work as something rewarding. Money isn’t everything. Take pride in your tasks, be the best you can at what you do. Smile more. Try this for a couple of days; watch your job transform into something more enjoyable. Chances are, more money will also come your way. Just imagine the difference in tips for a waiter/waitress who smiles and makes their job more enjoyable compared to the person that really doesn’t want to be there. Or the possible job promotions when you put your best foot forward.
Now, the tough part – “love like you’ve never been hurt”. Everyone is unique, every relationship is unique. Give that person every opportunity; don’t compare them or limit the relationship because of fears from the past. Learn from the past. Release yourself from the past. Live the present moment. Don’t look back and don’t look forward. What you have is right now. It’s guaranteed that if you expect to be hurt, you’ll find it. Openness, understanding and honesty are important aspects to any relationship; they reduce expectations and allow us to “see it as it is”. People change, they grow. Love involves allowing the other to grow, to be who they are – to accept the possibility that you don’t walk the same path anymore. Love may not last forever but if you enjoy every minute you have of it and can look back without regrets … we are all here to live life to it’s fullest, to learn from it’s lessons. Everyone has something to share, be it good or bad. It is up to us to determine how fully we experience living.
So, now let’s tie this philosophy to a health column. By living our lives more in tune with our natural spirit, we add more balance into our lives, our bodies are more at ease – not dis-ease. Stress levels reduce. With a reduction of stress, blood pressures reduce, sleep routines become more restful, digestion problems subside, tension headaches disappear; anxiety, nervousness, and depression reduce … the possibilities are endless. Take the time to enjoy life.
Time waits for no one …
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away.” – Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Eating Right
Subject: Eating right
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my yearly physical.
My blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I'd gained some weight,
and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said eating right doesn't have to be complicated and it would
solve my physical problems. He said just think in colors; Fill your plate
with bright colors; greens, yellows, reds, etc.
I went right home and ate an entire bowl of M&M's and sure enough, I
felt better immediately. I never knew eating right could be so easy.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my yearly physical.
My blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I'd gained some weight,
and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said eating right doesn't have to be complicated and it would
solve my physical problems. He said just think in colors; Fill your plate
with bright colors; greens, yellows, reds, etc.
I went right home and ate an entire bowl of M&M's and sure enough, I
felt better immediately. I never knew eating right could be so easy.
Looking beyond the surface...
Hello everybody!
I am back in Beijing, ChinaL now! The flight was boring but I was able to watch 4 episodes of "Supernatural" on my portable DVD player before the battery ran out of juice! Its a bit quiet and lonely here by myself after all the people and activities I have done these past five weeks in California! But, I'm looking forward to a new school year with more experience of how to prepare for courses and the things that makes classroom teaching more successful and those things to avoid or not forget to do! Such as write everything on the board as you say it but don't put students with other students that will put them down. Almost have to be a coach as a teacher and pay attention to how students interact with each other.
Anyhow, I just wanted to comment on the fact that the school is trying really hard to "look good" for the upcoming evaluation in October 2007. But don't they realize that "looking good" will never work if what's beyond the surface is less than perfect, decaying even? If the teaching strategies and courses aren't organized, if the tree roots are growing over underground pipes, if people get short term release but not long term? I agree that one should "live for the moment" but to a certain extent!!! You can't just chop down trees to make the alley more beautiful and replant them later. You gotta think beyond the here and now....and look past the surface level. And just because one looks a certain way....of a certain color, dress, physical size...that doesn't mean that you should treat them based on your assumptions of them! "Oh, you're Chinese-looking...so you can't be from America. When did you emmigrate to America?" That's the dilemma of minority-Americans whose parents were from a different country but whose generation were born and raised in America...I don't identify myself as "Chinese" by nationality but yet I am not exactly viewed as "American" here either. The identity dilemma of someone not only of mixed cultures...but of three different nationalities....
Oh, another point. I was bored and...uhmmm...eavesdropping on another person's conversation while waiting to board the plane at the airport. The lady commented to another lady, "Americans aren't so rich as they seem. There may even a bigger percentage of Chinese richer than rich Americans. They [Americans] like to spend more so they seem richer while we [Chinese] tend to save money and don't spend it. Americans have their problems just like us." The other lady replied "Well, China is also a bigger country than America so you have to think about the ratio of population if you were to compare China to the US in terms of poverty and economy." Interesting. I'm glad that they were able to open their eyes to the fact that America is not the glamourized Beverly Hills 90210 lifestyle that disillusion its foreign viewers. Anyways, its human nature to have pride for our ancestry, religion, family, jobs, accomplishments and our hometowns. Its only natural. I would find one a little bit odd if they didn't have pride for any of the above!
I am back in Beijing, ChinaL now! The flight was boring but I was able to watch 4 episodes of "Supernatural" on my portable DVD player before the battery ran out of juice! Its a bit quiet and lonely here by myself after all the people and activities I have done these past five weeks in California! But, I'm looking forward to a new school year with more experience of how to prepare for courses and the things that makes classroom teaching more successful and those things to avoid or not forget to do! Such as write everything on the board as you say it but don't put students with other students that will put them down. Almost have to be a coach as a teacher and pay attention to how students interact with each other.
Anyhow, I just wanted to comment on the fact that the school is trying really hard to "look good" for the upcoming evaluation in October 2007. But don't they realize that "looking good" will never work if what's beyond the surface is less than perfect, decaying even? If the teaching strategies and courses aren't organized, if the tree roots are growing over underground pipes, if people get short term release but not long term? I agree that one should "live for the moment" but to a certain extent!!! You can't just chop down trees to make the alley more beautiful and replant them later. You gotta think beyond the here and now....and look past the surface level. And just because one looks a certain way....of a certain color, dress, physical size...that doesn't mean that you should treat them based on your assumptions of them! "Oh, you're Chinese-looking...so you can't be from America. When did you emmigrate to America?" That's the dilemma of minority-Americans whose parents were from a different country but whose generation were born and raised in America...I don't identify myself as "Chinese" by nationality but yet I am not exactly viewed as "American" here either. The identity dilemma of someone not only of mixed cultures...but of three different nationalities....
Oh, another point. I was bored and...uhmmm...eavesdropping on another person's conversation while waiting to board the plane at the airport. The lady commented to another lady, "Americans aren't so rich as they seem. There may even a bigger percentage of Chinese richer than rich Americans. They [Americans] like to spend more so they seem richer while we [Chinese] tend to save money and don't spend it. Americans have their problems just like us." The other lady replied "Well, China is also a bigger country than America so you have to think about the ratio of population if you were to compare China to the US in terms of poverty and economy." Interesting. I'm glad that they were able to open their eyes to the fact that America is not the glamourized Beverly Hills 90210 lifestyle that disillusion its foreign viewers. Anyways, its human nature to have pride for our ancestry, religion, family, jobs, accomplishments and our hometowns. Its only natural. I would find one a little bit odd if they didn't have pride for any of the above!
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